[someotherguy]

Yeah I submitted a video just like everyone else, I just set it to private and deleted it once I had my callback. During our debrief after the dry-run, we were told that some of us will be future housemates so please apply again and don't stay in touch with each other outside of Big Brother.

I won't go into great detail, but in that small group of 10 I definitely was the odd-one-out in the group in terms of personality and up-bringing, resulting in slight alienation and 6 out of a possible 9 nominations. (A mirror of what happened to me in the final stage group audition). I was called into the diary room 6 times (not including my many self-motivated visits), 3 times more than anyone else (i counted), in fact more astute housemates noticed this and were mentioning how they think big brother "liked me". So I consider myself to have done well (or not depending on how you look at it) during my time in the house.

I honestly was not going to apply again this year, until they asked me to do the dry run and implied I had a serious chance, so it would've been a great shame to not see exactly how far I could take this. If its a no again, I'll let it go and move on. But time will tell, and I figured getting fast tracked could only be a good thing.

I have a theory the senior execs may have sent instructions, such as "if so and so applies, put them through". But I don't know how this works in terms of skipping people ahead, from my experience, they need housemates to have applied as a formality, but then again for all I know, some of my housemates from the dry run could've already been contacted and asked to do the show, who knows. My intitial reaction to the call back though was "They've seen me in the house, if I wasn't what they're looking for, why would they call back at all?"