By a vote of five to two, Dick Donato defeated his daughter Daniele to win Big Brother 8. Only Jameka and Jen voted for Daniele. Although I’ve not hidden my disdain for Dick’s unacceptable abusive behavior, he played the game exceptionally well. To be a gigantic asshole and not only end up in the final …
Big Brother 8
Big Brother 8 executive producer Allison Grodner has previously admitted to making up the show’s rules as they go along, and now she says that Dick Donato’s coded letter from his son did not violate the show’s rules. Hey, at least she’s honest. Entertainment Weekly reports in its Sept. 21 issue that “producers don’t think …
Estranged father and daughter Dick and Daniele’s victory over every other Big Brother 8 houseguest on Thursday night’s show resulted in the show’s highest ratings for the season. With 8.89 million viewers, the show “delivered the largest audience of the summer on any night,” CBS said in a press release. The episode had the season’s …
Julie Chen opened the quasi-penultimate episode of Big Brother 8 with a question nearly identical to the one she asked Tuesday: “Who would have thought Dick and Daniele, the estranged father and daughter, would make it to the home stretch?” Here’s a better question, lazy, repetitive script writers: Who would have thought that the man …
At the start of Big Brother 8‘s third-to-last episode, Julie Chen read off her script, “Who would have guessed 74 days ago that estranged father and daughter Dick and Daniele would be united as a pair in the final four?” I don’t know; maybe the producers who were so desperate for this storyline they’ve done …
After Thursday’s smoochy couple-elimination episode of Big Brother 8, the houseguests played another HOH competition, Jameka’s first in a long while. However, she lost to Zach, but at least she didn’t cry about it. Daniele again demonstrated why despite winning competitions and being a smart player, she’s never going to be as beloved as Janelle: …
In its recap of last night’s double-eviction episode of Big Brother 8, Entertainment Weekly reports on Jameka’s disqualification from the POV game. Julie Chen informed Jameka that she’d been disqualified because a blue ball ended up in her tube, which was supposed to be filled with green balls only. EW’s Lynette Rice reports, “I checked …