There’s some interesting game play happening in the Big Brother 11 house despite its rather lethargic pace. The alliance of four has split up, with Jeff backdooring Russell. Interestingly, he was convinced to do this by the minority alliance, who plan to nominate/vote him out next week. You know, if they can win a challenge…. continue reading

The Big Brother 11 house has lost its second crazy person in less than a week, as Lydia was voted out by a vote of 3 to 1. Her post-Chima eviction meltdown provided great entertainment Thursday, much more than Chima’s actual expulsion. Jordan won the live POV competition and didn’t use it, sending Lydia to… continue reading

Thanks to the (satirical) behind-the-scenes video below, we now know where Big Brother‘s challenges come from: a drug-addled monkey. That’s according to KCS Cougar’s hysterical animated take on the show, which EW’s Popwatch introduced me to. KCS Cougar has also offered other satirical reality show videos: the cast of NYC Prep, the Real Housewives of… continue reading

Chima Simone has done what few Big Brother houseguests have done: apologized for her actions, particularly her repeated use of the term “terrorist” to refer to Russell, who is of Lebanese descent. Chima, who has been posting to Twitter regularly, sent an e.mail message to Hollyscoop that says that while her “sentiments concerning [Russell’s] behavior… continue reading

Chima’s tame exit on Tuesday’s Big Brother 11 was nothing–nothing!–compared to Lydia’s epic meltdown and delusion version of reality, so it’s fantastic that Chima left but Lydia is still in the house, at least where our entertainment is concerned. I’m worried about her mental health, though, because something’s just not right. While The Friendship flipped… continue reading

Previewing tonight’s episode of Big Brother 11 on The Early Show Monday morning, Julie Chen said that we’ll see why she was expelled, although Chima insists she quit. “You will see why, basically, our back was up against the wall and we had to expel her from the game. You will see her behavior that… continue reading

Chima Simone insists she quit Big Brother 11 and wasn’t removed from the house as CBS insists. In a long and actually coherent e.mail message sent to an Examiner blogger, Chima explains her departure, saying she wouldn’t have been expelled for just destroying her wireless mic. Instead, she says she “lost faith in the show,”… continue reading

That Big Brother‘s editors ignored the weekend drama on Sunday’s episode isn’t a surprise, considering that it happened post-nomination ceremony, and the formula holds that Sunday’s episode ends at the nomination ceremony. While it’d be utterly tragic for actual reality to interrupt that pre-planned narrative arc, at least the episode set the groundwork for the… continue reading

Although several houseguests said on the live feeds that Chima Simone quit the game, CBS said today that she was removed from Big Brother 11 for violating their rules. CBS released a statement Saturday that said: “Chima has been evicted by the producers from the Big Brother house for violating the rules. She will not… continue reading

Update: CBS says Chima was removed from the competition for violating the rules. Chima Simone apparently quit Big Brother 11 overnight, following her nomination for eviction by new HOH Michele. While she was calm and quiet after having her own HOH power stripped away on Thursday’s eviction episode, she didn’t take it well, freaking out… continue reading

The coup d’etat has finally been played on Big Brother, and although producers pre-taped Thursday’s typically live episode, there was zero drama related to that except for a few gasps. Chima did not have a meltdown and was particularly silent after having her work be undone by Jeff, who nominated Natalie and Jessie because they’d… continue reading

On Tuesday’s episode of Big Brother 11, Chima and Russell were shown fighting once again, and this time Chima repeatedly called Russell “a terrorist,” which she insisted was because he is “terrorizing everybody,” not because of his Lebanese descent, which Russell seemed to think was the case, since he called her “the true racist.” Perhaps… continue reading

Big Brother 11 houseguest Lydia’s bio says “she used to be a nanny for a high profile couple,” and that couple was Paul McCartney and Heather Mills. That’s Jezebel’s conclusion from Lydia’s defensiveness about Heather Mills criticism on the live feeds, never mind paparrazi photos of Lydia with the couple’s kid and Lydia and Heather… continue reading

Thursday’s live Big Brother 11 eviction will be pre-taped, not live. The live studio audience is being told to arrive at 11:30 a.m. PT, not the usual 3:30, which is 90 minutes prior to the live show’s start. In other words, producers are giving themselves between four and five hours to tape and edit the… continue reading

Big Brother 11‘s ratings are increasing after losing viewers earlier this season, although it was gaining 18- to 34-year-olds. Ronnie’s eviction drew more viewers. Week to week, the live eviction show increased 10 percent among viewers 18 to 49, and was up four percent in viewers, with 240,000 more people watching. That makes it this… continue reading

Big Brother 11 has lost its greatest self-proclaimed schemer ever, as Ronnie was evicted by a close 4 to 3 vote, and now we don’t have to watch him make that muppet face any more. Ronnie was always a better player in his mind than he was on the show, although he was clearly affected… continue reading

Monday’s trio of verbal and even physical confrontations in the Big Brother 11 house have been condensed into a nearly four-minute video that highlights the way the houseguests are extremely fond of repeating the exact same phrases over and over again. That, or they’re too stupid to say something different. A lot of it is… continue reading