Kyle and Jackie on BigBrother
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rdfreakEver since I found out Kyle and Jackie were replacing Gretel on BigBrother, I felt quite disappointed. Not that I'm biast, but seriously, Gretel suits BigBrother too well now. She was fun and entertaining. Kyle and Jackie will just make it too much their own.
(artical I snagged from the forums)
NW talks to Big Brother's new hosts, Kyle and Jackie O about controversial housemates, tourturing contestants, and pulling stunts.
Are you excited to be working together on TV?
Kyle Sandilands Well, yeah, thank God Channel Ten was the first TV station to realise maybe they should put us on TV together.
Jackie O Because we've always been on different shows, haven't we?
Kyle That's right. And even the first day I started on Australian Idol it just wasn't the same comfort feeling. On the radio, I know if I get into trouble,
Jackie will just pick it up and carry it. So that's the thing we've always missed on these other shows.
Jackie O We'll be comfortable on the stage together.
Kyle Saying that now, we'll probably be s**tting ourselves on Big Brother first night — it'll be the petrified look and
pretends to panic
, "Cut to the break, argh, we're live!"
Jackie O Laughs So not smooth like Gretel
Killeen.
So, what will you be doing that's different? How are you going to put the Kyle and Jackie O stamp on things?
Jackie O When the housemates get evicted we'll interview them just like we would on the radio, asking them anything and everything.
Kyle Yeah, none of those stupid questions, you know, those 10 questions they used to have, where no-one would ever answer anything and they never went
anywhere.
Jackie O We want anything that's controversial. I'm sure Network Ten might want to sweep it under the carpet but we generally like to highlight those controversial
moments.
Kyle Like that clown with the refugee thing with the mouth tape. . I would have ripped that straight off his face. And if he didn't answer, throw him into
the crowd and let them do whatever they pleased with him, because that p**sed me off. Twenty minutes of watching that dork sit there with his stupid mission
statement.
Jackie O I still haven't seen that episode. It's hard to handle a situation like that.
Kyle Not really,
Gretel
didn't do anything. No-one did anything — the producers, the host, no-one.
Jackie O Yeah, but you can't make him speak.
Kyle Well, you can rip the tape off his face, at least get a laugh out of that. Just torture him.
You're going to be torturing the contestants?
Kyle Yeah! No! Oh, one other big thing, you know when they used to cross to the house and Gretel used to say, "Quiet as a mouse, don't say anything"? Well,
I want the total opposite. If we cross to the house and someone hates someone, I want to encourage booing and hissing and spitting. You know how they have
all these stupid rules where they don't want people to know whether someone's liked or disliked and they don't want to let anyone in the house know anything
that's going on?
Jackie O We don't think it's a bad thing for them to know if they're popular or unpopular.
Kyle The first year in it was great. No-one knew what was going on in news and current affairs. But now people have watched it for eight years and they
know how to "play the game" — which is the most hated phrase on earth, in my mind — and I don't want them to be able to play us.
Jackie O
We want them
to be a nervous wreck by the end of it.
Kyle Absolutely — or a total lunatic.
_Do you think it's going to be hard to follow, though, if it's constantly chopping and changing? _
Kyle No, no. Well, I don't think so. We don't want the "in and out" viewers. If you're going to come in and out well you may as well stay out. We just
want people to follow it much more diligently than they may have in the past. So hopefully we can take that predictable feeling of Big Brother and turn
it back around so it is totally unpredictable each week.
_Do you want to have different kinds of people from the people we've had in previous years? _
Jackie O Yeah, we definitely want to shake up the age groups, the cultures. I think in the past we've come to know what to expect of the housemates. And
fans of the show really do want some diversity. I mean, as a fan, I've been wanting that for a few years now.
Kyle There will still be the good-looking 20-somethings in there — they'll still be in there ...
Jackie O But we want to throw in a few different ones.
Kyle Instead of having a "token gay", there'll be a little bit more. There might be a really old person or there might be someone blind. We want extremes
in there as well as the good-looking 20-somethings. It has to be a real community. I want it to be like the people you might have in a street, but living
in one house. So you've got your different ethnic groups, and you've got your different age groups — just a bit more variety.
_That sounds good. What about sex in the house? _
Kyle Yeah, we want much more sex, heaps of sex.
_Do you think you're going to get that with really diverse housemates? _
Jackie O You never can predict what you'll get in the Big Brother house. I'm sure every year they've expected sex because they're throwing a bunch of 20-somethings
in there who are all single — most of them, anyway — and they're all hot. But it doesn't necessarily work out that way. I mean you cannot predict what
will happen in that house and that's the beauty of it. I'm personally more interested in how people handle conflict.
Kyle And bitchiness.
What makes you so sure viewers still want controversy?
Jackie O We're not looking to cause problems for the sake of causing problems but the reality is that people watch Big Brother as a soap opera. They tune
in every day to see the developments and, without conflict, there is no real drama. The last thing anybody wants to watch is a bunch of wishy-washy people
just sitting around being nice to each other.
Are you going to be doing any stunts like you've been doing on the radio?
Jackie O Obviously we'll incorporate the radio quite a bit with it and be doing a few things here and there, but it's one of those things where we'll just
see what happens and where it takes us. Sounds like it's all getting a little experimental ...
Kyle There's no long-term plan with it, so each week, depending on what's happened in the house, if we don't like what's happening or if it feels like
a boring week then we'll just come up with an idea to flip it. Rather than in the past where they'd go, "Alright, week one we'll do this and week two we'll
do that." We don't want to do that. We want to run it the same way we run the radio show, so we'll feel like doing something different one day and it'll
just happen. And really the good thing is, it's live, so even if they want us to do something we don't like, what are they going to do once it's been said
live?
Jackie O That's the part we enjoy most — not knowing what's going to happen and taking it sideways.
Kyle Some of the best things we've ever done on the radio have been, like, 30 seconds before the ad break finishes we just say, "Do you want to do such
and such?" And we just look at each other and say, "Yeah, let's do it and see what happens."
Kyle is just too crude. Plus, i don't like change. I mean, he does make me laugh at times but .. damn! .. Jackie actually made a lot of sense in that article though; she's a pretty sensible gal most of the time.
til next time, RdFreak
(artical I snagged from the forums)
NW talks to Big Brother's new hosts, Kyle and Jackie O about controversial housemates, tourturing contestants, and pulling stunts.
Are you excited to be working together on TV?
Kyle Sandilands Well, yeah, thank God Channel Ten was the first TV station to realise maybe they should put us on TV together.
Jackie O Because we've always been on different shows, haven't we?
Kyle That's right. And even the first day I started on Australian Idol it just wasn't the same comfort feeling. On the radio, I know if I get into trouble,
Jackie will just pick it up and carry it. So that's the thing we've always missed on these other shows.
Jackie O We'll be comfortable on the stage together.
Kyle Saying that now, we'll probably be s**tting ourselves on Big Brother first night — it'll be the petrified look and
pretends to panic
, "Cut to the break, argh, we're live!"
Jackie O Laughs So not smooth like Gretel
Killeen.
So, what will you be doing that's different? How are you going to put the Kyle and Jackie O stamp on things?
Jackie O When the housemates get evicted we'll interview them just like we would on the radio, asking them anything and everything.
Kyle Yeah, none of those stupid questions, you know, those 10 questions they used to have, where no-one would ever answer anything and they never went
anywhere.
Jackie O We want anything that's controversial. I'm sure Network Ten might want to sweep it under the carpet but we generally like to highlight those controversial
moments.
Kyle Like that clown with the refugee thing with the mouth tape. . I would have ripped that straight off his face. And if he didn't answer, throw him into
the crowd and let them do whatever they pleased with him, because that p**sed me off. Twenty minutes of watching that dork sit there with his stupid mission
statement.
Jackie O I still haven't seen that episode. It's hard to handle a situation like that.
Kyle Not really,
Gretel
didn't do anything. No-one did anything — the producers, the host, no-one.
Jackie O Yeah, but you can't make him speak.
Kyle Well, you can rip the tape off his face, at least get a laugh out of that. Just torture him.
You're going to be torturing the contestants?
Kyle Yeah! No! Oh, one other big thing, you know when they used to cross to the house and Gretel used to say, "Quiet as a mouse, don't say anything"? Well,
I want the total opposite. If we cross to the house and someone hates someone, I want to encourage booing and hissing and spitting. You know how they have
all these stupid rules where they don't want people to know whether someone's liked or disliked and they don't want to let anyone in the house know anything
that's going on?
Jackie O We don't think it's a bad thing for them to know if they're popular or unpopular.
Kyle The first year in it was great. No-one knew what was going on in news and current affairs. But now people have watched it for eight years and they
know how to "play the game" — which is the most hated phrase on earth, in my mind — and I don't want them to be able to play us.
Jackie O
We want them
to be a nervous wreck by the end of it.
Kyle Absolutely — or a total lunatic.
_Do you think it's going to be hard to follow, though, if it's constantly chopping and changing? _
Kyle No, no. Well, I don't think so. We don't want the "in and out" viewers. If you're going to come in and out well you may as well stay out. We just
want people to follow it much more diligently than they may have in the past. So hopefully we can take that predictable feeling of Big Brother and turn
it back around so it is totally unpredictable each week.
_Do you want to have different kinds of people from the people we've had in previous years? _
Jackie O Yeah, we definitely want to shake up the age groups, the cultures. I think in the past we've come to know what to expect of the housemates. And
fans of the show really do want some diversity. I mean, as a fan, I've been wanting that for a few years now.
Kyle There will still be the good-looking 20-somethings in there — they'll still be in there ...
Jackie O But we want to throw in a few different ones.
Kyle Instead of having a "token gay", there'll be a little bit more. There might be a really old person or there might be someone blind. We want extremes
in there as well as the good-looking 20-somethings. It has to be a real community. I want it to be like the people you might have in a street, but living
in one house. So you've got your different ethnic groups, and you've got your different age groups — just a bit more variety.
_That sounds good. What about sex in the house? _
Kyle Yeah, we want much more sex, heaps of sex.
_Do you think you're going to get that with really diverse housemates? _
Jackie O You never can predict what you'll get in the Big Brother house. I'm sure every year they've expected sex because they're throwing a bunch of 20-somethings
in there who are all single — most of them, anyway — and they're all hot. But it doesn't necessarily work out that way. I mean you cannot predict what
will happen in that house and that's the beauty of it. I'm personally more interested in how people handle conflict.
Kyle And bitchiness.
What makes you so sure viewers still want controversy?
Jackie O We're not looking to cause problems for the sake of causing problems but the reality is that people watch Big Brother as a soap opera. They tune
in every day to see the developments and, without conflict, there is no real drama. The last thing anybody wants to watch is a bunch of wishy-washy people
just sitting around being nice to each other.
Are you going to be doing any stunts like you've been doing on the radio?
Jackie O Obviously we'll incorporate the radio quite a bit with it and be doing a few things here and there, but it's one of those things where we'll just
see what happens and where it takes us. Sounds like it's all getting a little experimental ...
Kyle There's no long-term plan with it, so each week, depending on what's happened in the house, if we don't like what's happening or if it feels like
a boring week then we'll just come up with an idea to flip it. Rather than in the past where they'd go, "Alright, week one we'll do this and week two we'll
do that." We don't want to do that. We want to run it the same way we run the radio show, so we'll feel like doing something different one day and it'll
just happen. And really the good thing is, it's live, so even if they want us to do something we don't like, what are they going to do once it's been said
live?
Jackie O That's the part we enjoy most — not knowing what's going to happen and taking it sideways.
Kyle Some of the best things we've ever done on the radio have been, like, 30 seconds before the ad break finishes we just say, "Do you want to do such
and such?" And we just look at each other and say, "Yeah, let's do it and see what happens."
Kyle is just too crude. Plus, i don't like change. I mean, he does make me laugh at times but .. damn! .. Jackie actually made a lot of sense in that article though; she's a pretty sensible gal most of the time.
til next time, RdFreak
