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BB11 Channel 4's last Big Brother series started June 2010. Josie Gibson was the winner. All the gossip about the Big Brother 11 house, series and housemates here!
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Old 09-05-2010, 02:50 PM #1
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Default whats the point of the guinea pigs?
i mean why do they even go in?
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I think its to get the camera angles right and stuff?
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Was wondering this just now too.

Does anyone know how long they be in there and how many of them there is?
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I thought it was just to test the house and tasks or whatever see what works and what doesnt?
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Just to set up the house make sure it all works with the camera and mic placements etc theyll probably make it less climbable after last year too
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As others have said, its to test the camera angles and microphones, tasks and that. For the guinea pigs, its like they are housemates. Was'nt Dale from BB9 a guinea pig?
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dale from bb9 was a sex god idk about guinea pig
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dale from bb9 was a sex god idk about guinea pig
What I would do to him
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saying that i just googled him and on most of the pics he has a really goofy expression looks kinda special needs
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Imogen was a guinea pig from BB7.

The camera angles in BB10 were awful, especially on launch night.
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one set live in the house for a day so that they can check camera angles and microphone placements. there is no interaction with big brother, they just use the house

another set live there for 5 days, and there is a dress rehearsal of an eviction. this time it's much more like a mini series, with BB talking to the housemates, and then testing out the tasks.

I know that before BB3, the changed the sofas 3 times because they weren't comfy enough/ didn't look right on camera.

In BB6, the housemates all came out in rashes on their legs when they sat on the sofas, so they replaced them with the orange ones!
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Imogen was a guinea pig from BB7.

The camera angles in BB10 were awful, especially on launch night.
I remember in the bb10 kitchen.. the camera angles were a bit out of place. lol
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saying that i just googled him and on most of the pics he has a really goofy expression looks kinda special needs
Its kinda cute. I still would
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just to make sure everything works
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Its kinda cute. I still would
everybody would lol
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I remember in the bb10 kitchen.. the camera angles were a bit out of place. lol
I know, there were like only two camera angles in there, I so agreeee!
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Wait so some people that are guinea pigs before a season starts end up being on the actual show? So they already see the house and meet people who might be on it?
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I'd love to be guinea pig, it would make my day.
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I remember in the bb10 kitchen.. the camera angles were a bit out of place. lol
Yeah that's right, hate the when HM's were sitting in the kitchen cause you couldn't see them all, when they were all talking, it did my head in, & TBH i hated BB10 kitchen anyway, i thought it was horrible.
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Yeah its basically for all the reasons you've all already said above. Not all guinea pigs ultimately become genuine housemates on later series' but its certainly an advantage.
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Yeah its basically for all the reasons you've all already said above. Not all guinea pigs ultimately become genuine housemates on later series' but its certainly an advantage.
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How do you get to become one though?
I think you get asked? if they think they are not sure if you should go in or not? god knows..
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Wait so some people that are guinea pigs before a season starts end up being on the actual show? So they already see the house and meet people who might be on it?
Well I heard something like.. Sylvia and Stuart from bb9 were guinea pigs before going into the house so they must have seen the house before hand? unless I miss heard something.. because I heard something like Sylvia and Stuart met before and shagged a few weeks before going onto BB.. :S
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How do you get to become one though?
Some guinea pigs are chosen from people who auditioned but didn't quite make it.
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