Welcome to "Big Brother."
I'm inside one of the most sophisticated TV control rooms
ever built. Behind me, monitors, one for each camera
inside the Big Brother house.
In less than an hour, people will move in,
and their every action will be recorded by these cameras.
Believe me, there's absolutely no place to hide.
We've got cameras in the yard.
We've got cameras in both bedrooms, even this one
above the toilet.
And yup, one in the shower.
Who would want to subject themselves to all this?
We'll find out in a few minutes.
We won't miss any conversations either.
Nope.
microphones will make sure of that.
This is the audio room.
Take a look around.
It all looks like mission control in here.
The house guests will live for the next three months
with absolutely no privacy, and you'll
be able to check in on them by watching
Big Brother five nights a week.
Right now, a caravan of SUVs makes its way
from various hotels to the Big Brother house.
Each one carries a house guest.
But keep in mind, they've never met before.
complete strangers will enter,
and before it's all over, only one will remain.
What are about to see is real.
No scripts, no actors, and no second takes.
"Big Brother" is about to begin.
[theme music]
That's crowd outside the Big Brother compound.
They're waiting for the house guests to arrive.
Their friends and relatives are all anxious to see
their loved ones one last time.
We've got reporters and camera crews from all over the world
here waiting for that big moment.
Master control, where I am, is part of the compound
right next to the house.
Our reporter, Ian O'Malley is inside to give you a tour.
Hey, Ian, I can see you, but you can't see me.
Julie, the only thing I'm wondering right now, I think,
is which one of the cameras in the Big Brother house
are you seeing me on.
For safety's sake, let's just say this one.
Well, here I am in what has to be
the most unique house in the United States of America.
First and foremost, let's explain what it's all about.
We have house guests that can be seen,
that can be heard, hours a day, seven days a week,
whether they're anywhere in the interior
of the house or anywhere in the exterior
yard part of the house.
Visually, it could be a camera, like my new-found friend
here, a remote control camera.
The ones that really interest me, though, are the ones
that you're on when you don't know you're
on them, like you behind the two-way mirror glass.
House guests I have no idea when they're on camera.
So whenever you see one of these two-way mirror glass, which
you'll see all over the house, then always say to yourself,
could be a camera operator behind there.
We'll get to the details on that in a little while.
Well, the whole premise behind "Big Brother"
is getting back to basics.
And we're looking here at the kitchen,
and this is pretty much your standard kitchen,
but at the same time, nobody's going to confuse
it with a chef's kitchen.
I mean, look at the size of the stove.
We have house guests.
It's a small four burner stove.
You have you sink, your counter space, a fridge here
that's about the size of your standard New
York City apartment.
Audio wise, we have microphones, and one of them
here is above the dining room table.
But around these parts, we kind of feel that "better
safe than sorry" is our motto.
So that being the case, we ask each and every one of our house
guests to wear one of these.
From the moment they wake up in the morning to the moment
they go to bed at night, they have to put
on a wireless microphone.
The only place they're not required
to wear this wireless microphone is in the shower.
JULIE: Right.
No microphones in the shower, Ian.
But as we showed everyone earlier,
there are cameras in the bathroom.
And I think now is a good time to explain to everyone why.
Hey.
It's now or never.
You know, that seems to be the number one question.
You know, let's end the mystery.
Is there a camera in the bathroom?
Is there a camera in the shower?
Well, there is actually cameras in the bathroom and the shower.
I'll explain.
Hey, briefly here, before we get to that,
let me just show you the front door here.
This is really a one-way door.
This is where the guests enter.
But keep in mind, they're not coming to prison, folks.
They can voluntarily leave whenever they want.
The thing is, when they walk out, they can't walk back in.
Three months from now, somebody is going to walk out the door
half a million bucks richer.
Wouldn't that be sweet?
All right.
So without further ado, we are entering the bathroom.
Now if there's any sanctuary in your house
where you want a little bit of space, you want your downtime,
it's the bathroom.
The first thing I see here is some two-way mirror glass.
You know what that means.
Camera operator, sure.
You know, some of the folks are going
to be shaving in the morning, the ladies
putting a little bit of makeup.
This is not a solo effort.
This is most likely in front of the entire country.
Let's head to the bathroom stall.
Is there a camera in here?
[laughing]
I'm so pleased to meet you.
You know, I know what's going on in your mind right now,
because it's the exact same thing that went through my mind
the first time I walked in here.
You know, I said to the bosses, are we going
to put this camera on the air?
And they said, no, absolutely not, unless our house guests
start to use this as their own private little conference
center.
If that does happen, then all bets are off, my friend.
Off we go to the shower stall.
You know, I don't know about you, but come the morning,
I mean, I practically live in my shower.
The time is unlimited.
Well, I'm afraid-- hello--
our house guests don't have that luxury.
You see, they have a two hour allotment of hot water
every day, and that has to be used
within a two hour time period.
So if you do the math of the full house,
that's minutes per day per house guest.
So if somebody sleeps late, out of luck.
If somebody goes over their time limit, let the fireworks begin.
All right.
So we go from personal space in the bathroom area
to a personal space in the bedroom area.
I'm going to show you a bedroom coming up
that I can promise you, my friend,
you have never, ever seen before in your life.
Stick around for that.
It's back to you, Julie.
Whoa, that's wild.
Thanks, Ian.
And we'll find out all about it, when "Big Brother" continues.
Who's behind the tinted windows of those vehicles?
They're the men and women America will be watching
for the next three months.
Meet them when we come back.
JULIE: The caravan is making its way
through the streets of Los Angeles, on its way
to the "Big Brother" house.
So I know you've been waiting.
It's one of the best kept secrets in America.
Who is going to live in the Big Brother house?
The first three you're about to meet
are a Midwest father of three, an athlete from Long Island,
and we begin with a beauty queen with a . grade average.
If I were to describe myself, I would say
that I'm a very loving person.
I love life.
I love to live it to its fullest.
Hey, Chris.
Hey, Jamie.
My job is great.
I work for a dot com company.
It's really exciting, but it's very
high tech, so I send and receive between and a day.
The user name is free shop--
The most tangible things that I'm probably going to miss
are just all the conveniences, like my cell phone, my
computer, and lattes every day.
I think if she doesn't have coffee,
or they're don't allow to have coffee in the house.
I think she'll grumpy.
She I'm not worried about Jamie not having coffee.
I'm worried about the other nine people
if Jamie doesn't have her coffee.
It's going to be tough.
Like, even if they have drip coffee,
it's not the same as a latte.
You know what I mean?
I think the fact that I appeared on "Baywatch"
shows a different side to me.
I was in my junior year, working really hard to keep my .,
and I wanted to do something crazy, so I auditioned.
So, Yeah.
Show's a wild side.
[giggles]
The first runner up is Laura Regal--
[cheering]
I currently hold the title of Miss Washington, USA, .
I see nothing wrong with being both Miss Washington, USA
and being a house guest on "Big Brother."
Being on "Big Brother," I'll miss a lot of my duties
as Miss Washington, all the community service and things
like that.
And if I had to give up my title,
I would, but I don't feel that I should.
I am single.
So in terms of getting involved romantically
with somebody in the house, I can't see it happening.
But at the same time, I think that it's very difficult
to predict how anyone's going to react living
in this isolated container, completely
away from the real world.
This is your life.
Truly live every single moment of it.
And most importantly, appreciate and be grateful
for every single moment of it.
Thank you.
This doesn't happen to average working people.
Answering an ad in a newspaper, sending a tape off, actually
getting a call from Hollywood, California to actually come out
and maybe try out for a TV show?
Does that happen?
No.
But it did to me.
Let's golf.
I try to be the best father, husband, or provider.
OK.
Our first hole in one for the day.
The one thing I'm going to miss is coming home and not
having dinner with my family.
But I'm not going to miss cooking.
I have a very physically demanding job.
Anybody who is a roofer works extremely hard for their money.
It is extremely hard on your body,
and the older that you do get, the worser it gets on you.
My most significant relationship is, of course,
with my wife, Teresa.
We've been married years.
It's had its highs, and it's had its lows.
But I can't think of it getting any higher than it
can be at this point right now.
When George applied for the show,
I just thought he was going through one of his crazy ideas
again.
[laughing]
While he's in the house, we will celebrate our rd anniversary,
and that probably would be the most difficult thing,
because when you're celebrating the anniversary,
hopefully you're with the person you're married with.
My teenage daughter is really concerned
that her dad might embarrass her immensely on television.
[groaning]
And he might do that, too.
[laughing]
He's already instructed me to buy
pair of different underwear, because he
doesn't want to get boring.
One of the most quirkiest things
I've done here at the house, it's below zero, I'm bored.
OK, once again, I don't like to be bored.
OK.
I strip down to my underwear, I go outside,
I lay down on the diving board with all the snow,
and my kids take a picture.
Everybody who knows George knows that's George.
If America can get a thrill at looking at an overweight guy
walking around in his underwear, that's hairy, have at it,
because I don't care.
[laughing]
My name is Eddie.
I live in Commack, New York.
I lost my leg to cancer when I was .
My whole family was there when I was sick.
Even afterwards, my mom and I, we've grown real close.
He was really sick.
I mean, he almost died.
I can't tell you how many times that kid
has been at death's door.
But he's been doing good ever since.
He's been doing really well.
My little brother, he is definitely key to my existence.
If you want to say, without him, I don't know what I'd do.
Honestly.
Some people have a right-hand man.
He's like my left leg, so.
Heh.
My family and my friends, they take no pity.
They break my chops harder than anybody.
Heh.
Get off him.
At the moment, I'm broadcasting
major and a theater minor at the University of Texas
at Arlington, down on a full athletic scholarship
granted by the NCAA for wheelchair basketball.
I am faithful to my girlfriend.
We've been going out for nine months now.
She's a good girl, but kind of question
on how the long distance relationship's going to go,
and I can't promise anything to her,
and I can't promise anything in the house.
So, three months is a long time.
All right, ready?
What it would take for me to quit the Big Brother
house would probably be two bouncers about apiece,
and they'd have to drag me out.
I know he's going to win.
Go Eddie.
Go Eddie.
I can't wait. - I mean, I'm not going to quit.
I have the stamina.
I'm doing all right.
I'm here with Eddie's friends and family.
Monica flew all the way in from Germany to see her man off.
Are you sad?
Well, I'm excited.
He says that you guys have been exclusive for nine months.
Is it going to stay that way when he goes in the house?
Well, we hope so.
I hope so.
And Mom Denise, you think Eddie's going to win this.
Oh, you better believe it.
Why are you so convinced?
Because I have a lot of faith in my son.
And if you had a word of advice for the other house
guests?
All right.
Sorry, guys.
I'm going to talk to George's family now.
George's family is from Rockford, Illinois.
Come on forward.
Now, Jessica, you're years old.
Yeah.
This is kind of embarrassing for you
to see your dad go into this house on national television.
Why?
Yeah, it's kind of nerve-wracking,
because I know he's going to tell our embarrassing stories,
but it's worth it if he comes home with $,.
So then it's OK.
Yeah, I'll forgive him.
Great, thanks.
And we'll be right back.
Coming up, "Big Brother" around the world.
Your first chance to see what could happen inside the house.
[non-english speech]
When "Big Brother" continues.
While is the debut of "Big Brother" in the USA,
the show has already rocked several countries in Europe.
It started in Holland, and recently
expanded to Germany and Spain.
We thought you might be curious to see how it looked in Europe.
This will give you an idea of the range
of emotions we are all in for.
[shouting]
[laughing]
[non-english speech]
[music playing]
Shh.
[rock music]
[cheering]
So put strangers in a house, and who
knows what could happen?
And whatever does happen, you'll see it.
And now Ian's in the bedroom with some more
tricks of the trade.
Well, thank you very much, Julie.
Here I am inside what is one of two identical bedrooms
in the Big Brother house.
And when you look at it, you really
couldn't get a farther reach from
a typical American bedroom.
First of all, we have ourselves five beds here.
Now there's five men and five women that are
the Big Brother house guests.
Now "Big Brother" doesn't allocate sleeping space.
The house guests had to do that themselves,
so this can be pretty interesting
when they enter the house, and so and so says,
I want to sleep here, and you sleep there.
We'll have to see for ourselves a little bit later.
We have your two-way mirrors around the room.
We have your microphones hanging down.
A rule that we always have to keep in mind in the Big Brother
house is the lights have to be on hours
a day, seven days a week.
Now we want to make things challenging for our house
guests, but at the same time, we don't
want to make things cruel.
I mean, we're really pretty nice guys
and gals around these parts.
So that being the case, the bedrooms are the only places
that have one of these.
It's called a light switch.
So we're not asking our guest to sleep in fluorescent lights.
We're asking them to sleep in these.
Fire 'em up, g*ng.
Now I can't see the hand in front of my face,
but you should seeing me in glorious black and white
or, actually, it's a really lovely shade of green.
These are infrared cameras.
So we have infrared night vision number one, which
I should be pointing towards, and I can swing around here
into the general direction.
This should be infrared night vision number two.
All right. Enough of the bedroom.
I really want to show you about these two-way mirrors.
So if I can escape here without too much bodily harm,
I'm going to take you behind the scenes.
Hold on. You got to check this out.
You're going to love it.
All right.
Now I'm going to show you something the house
guests will never see.
We can kind of call it a backstage pass
to behind the scenes of "Big Brother."
We've been talking a lot about these two-way mirrors.
You're going to see them everywhere.
They are all over the house.
They are all over the place outside.
It's very simple.
You see a two-way mirror, you say to yourself,
well, there could very well be a camera
operator behind one of them.
That's indeed the case now.
So identify yourself, silent rogue, and turn the light on.
Hey, it's our camera guy, Scoop.
How you doing, Scoop?
Scoop and his compadres work in an area
called the Camera Corridor, and it's pretty much
what it sounds like.
It's literally a corridor that surrounds
the entire house through the bedrooms, living
area, outside in the yard.
Any time, day or night, two-way mirror, it's Scoop,
or is probably one of his buddies behind it.
Turn the light out, Scoop.
Thanks a lot, and sweet dreams.
All right.
Time to talk about some of the concepts and rules of "Big
Brother." there's really no such thing as finding
out the exact time, because watches
and clocks aren't allowed.
There's absolutely no contact whatsoever
with the outside world.
So think of a lot of the things that, really,
we take for granted in our daily life, like our computer.
I mean, there's no surfing the net here.
No television, no phones, no cell
phones, no beeper, no radio, no Walkman,
no newspaper, no magazines.
I think you're kind of getting the point.
Remember when your mother said to you when you were a kid,
she goes, you know, you've got to learn
how to entertain yourself?
If I had $ for every time I heard that, I'd be a rich man.
Well, our house guests, I think, are going to learn to bringing
that to a whole new level.
Well, we've been talking about the privacy
issue, how the house guests really don't
have a chance to get away.
Well, actually, they do have a chance
to spend some quality time alone away,
from their fellow house guests.
It's a special room.
I think you're going to want to check it out,
and I'll show you that coming up shortly.
It's back to you, Julie.
Thanks, Ian.
Now it's time to take the wraps off another three house guests.
Let's go.
Come on.
Let's go, come on.
I have a dog, and he's a pit bull.
And I love to take him to the beach
sometimes, run him on the beach.
He's a girl magnet.
Girls love to come up and say, oh, you know,
let me see your beautiful dog.
Will he bite me?
No, he won't bite you.
Josh has always been a ladies' man.
I mean, girls have always liked him.
On the show, when the girls start seeing him,
they'll tune in every week to watch him.
I'm foot , pounds.
I'm a civil engineering student at [inaudible],, a senior.
I've been told that I have lips like Donald Duck or Daffy Duck,
because my mouth tends to extend a little bit,
and I think that's because I smile so much.
[inaudible] tennis.
You want to beat me at tennis?
To be honest with you, the person
I'm going to miss the most is going to be my little niece.
I love her.
I love to play with her.
I've been told that, you know, Josh, you're
such like a little boy sometimes.
A little boy that never grew up.
I have that Peter Pan syndrome.
Maybe I had to grow up so fast that I'm still searching
for that little kid that's within me,
and I want to have that chance to never grow up.
My mother died when I was years old,
and I was probably closer to her at the time
than anyone in my life.
The loss of his mother effected him quite a bit.
He didn't want to speak about it too much,
and it took him quite a while to get over it,
and I think at times he still thinks about it quite a bit.
With me, it's almost like she never
died because she's still here.
She's still in my heart, and that's
where I'm going to keep her.
[chattering]
There's definitely two things that I want to bring.
A pair of work gloves.
And the other thing?
Probably a box of condoms, because who
knows what's going to happen on the thing.
There might be someone that I'm really attracted to.
But you know what?
You never know.
And if that happens?
That's great. Ready to go, boy.
Come on. Let's go.
My name is Cassandra.
I live in New York.
I'm a communications specialist for the United
Nations Development Program.
[non-english speech]
My work is very, very challenging and rewarding.
But I needed something exciting in my life.
I've got to try this.
I've got to see if I can do it.
I love living in New York.
I have lived overseas for about years
before moving back to New York.
I love to shop.
I just really enjoy bumping around
in shops in New York City, because there
are so many great little corners to find beautiful things.
What do you think? Do you like it?
I love that?
I began the process of doing dreadlocks
because I wanted to simplify my life,
to get back in touch with who I am.
Locked hair does require maintenance,
so I have to learn how to do that.
And some of the viewers might see me some days with head
wraps, because I'm not--
I haven't figured out yet how to handle my locks.
[chattering]
I have a lot of friends that I love to death
and who are very supportive to me in my life,
and I'm definitely going to miss them.
I'm going to be one of the house mates of Big Brother.
[speaking french]
[laughing]
I wouldn't have guessed it in a million years.
However, when I think of when she was a child,
she would make up her mind to do something,
and nothing will stop her.
I think she's out of her mind, frankly.
I really do.
Every time the little voice comes into my head saying,
you need to walk out the door, or these people are crazy,
or whatever it is, I hope there'll
be another voice that just says to me,
you did this voluntarily.
You went through all of those-- jumped through all those hoops
to get to this point.
Don't give it up now.
Just hang in there.
[laughing]
I suppose we ought to say congratulations.
[laughing]
What do I do?
I do lots of things.
One of my favorite things to do, one
thing that is spiritual for me as well, is using my body.
My vehicle for that the past three years
has been doing triathlons.
It makes me feel like I'm really living.
I have a significant other, and his name is Ben.
We have a lot of fun together.
I know, we can amuse ourselves doing pretty much nothing.
He's just got a pure heart, and he inspires me.
He inspires me to be a better person.
[laughing]
But I'm not as simple as I appear to be,
because I'm an entertainer in a gentlemen's club.
I don't know what to call it-- if it's exotic dancing.
I'm not remotely exotic.
Now I consider my occupation as a writer,
because I'm writing about it.
But my income is still generated from that.
The only way I would get involved with something
in the house is if I meet someone
who totally kicks a*s over Ben.
I think that's what Ben's a little afraid of.
Well, it's over, if she hooks up in the house.
It's over.
If that's what she wants, that's what she's doing.
I mean, you know?
I don't know how I'm going to react,
if this is going to bring out the worst of me
or the best of me.
I have no idea.
Don't go away.
We've got a lot more coming up.
Still ahead, you'll meet the other house
guests, the chickens, when "Big Brother" continues.
JULIE: The "Big Brother" caravan is almost here.
And when it arrives, total strangers
will begin another journey.
No one knows what it will be like to live together
under these circumstances.
We'll get our first clues in the process of elimination.
Every other week, one of the house guests
must leave the house.
We call this getting banished, and it takes two steps.
First, the house guests nominate two of their own
to leave the house.
Then, it's up to you, the audience.
You'll decide by a telephone vote which one can stay
and which one must go.
That's how it works until it's down to the last three
house guests.
And once again, you decide who wins a $, prize.
The nominations all take place in the so-called Red Room.
And that's where we find Ian.
That's right, Julie.
This is the only soundproof room in the house,
and this could very well be the most
significant room in the house.
This is where house guests come to get some privacy, really
from their fellow house guests, and not
necessarily from "Big Brother."
The house guests are required to come in here each and every day
to emote, to talk about their feelings,
their experiences here at "Big Brother."
Some are positive, some are negative.
And I can guarantee you one thing--
they'll always be interesting.
Well, as we have time, I want to show you the backyard.
You got to see the chicken coops.
So if you'll would be kind enough to follow me,
we got a lot more to see.
Come this way.
OK.
I think we've pretty much covered
everything inside the house, and it's
time to go outside the house.
We're not really expecting our house guests
to spend the entire time inside, but at the same time,
it's no contact whatsoever with the outside world.
So this area is enclosed.
To my left here, we have the outdoor dining, the patio area.
This is Southern California in the summertime.
It can get real hot, so the swimming
pool's going to come in handy.
Here is one of the more important parts
of the entire Big Brother compound,
at least to the houseguests.
This is the vegetable garden.
This supplies the free vegetables,
so here's to hoping that somebody has a green thumb,
because if the vegetables die, the vegetables go
on the grocery list, and that costs money.
OK.
It's time now to meet the chickens.
Hello, ladies. How are you?
Now I know what you're thinking.
Don't think dinner, think breakfast.
These are important because they're the sole providers
of protein for house guests.
They are the egg providers.
So you've got to think to yourself, do you have
what it takes to spend three months with "Big Brother?"
Personally, no.
I don't.
But here are two more house guests who think they do.
Being in New York, you work pretty hard.
I put in a -hour day.
I actually a law clerk to a federal appellate judge.
I do have plans already what I will do
after I get out of the house.
I accepted a job as a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles.
I can't wait to try cases and to be in the courtroom.
I like to go running in the park, or even on a treadmill,
and go to the gym, and lift some weights.
And that's kind of good therapy, or it's nice, and I enjoy it.
I don't date a whole lot.
I've had a couple girlfriends while I've been here,
but nobody too serious, and nobody at the moment.
I think there's always the possibility
of getting romantically involved in the house.
I am hoping that they're going to throw
attractive people together, and at least half of them
are female.
So that would be nice.
And look, I'm single and young, so I wouldn't
pass up an opportunity.
[singing]
I think sometimes it surprises people when I tell them
I actually sing in a professional choir,
or people are sometimes taken aback by that.
But you know, it's just a nice thing that I've
got going on the side.
I don't broadcast it too much.
[singing]
I will be bringing with me a Bible.
I am a Christian, and I go to church.
I'm definitely not a Bible banger, or a fundamentalist,
or evangelizing all the time, but it's something
that's very personal to me.
So if I'm going to be in the house,
I think that a Bible would be nice to have along with me.
There's a lot of reasons why I want to do this,
one of them being it's just a nice break from my life.
It's something completely different.
I know will be hard.
There will probably be conflict, but it
also will be a vacation, just hanging
out, getting to know people.
I'm Karen.
I'm a mother of four from Columbus, Indiana,
and my favorite thing to do is to hang out with my kids.
Hey.
[inaudible] Use this paste.
Ew.
They've really been dependent upon me for everything.
That's my job.
I've been the mother.
I've been their confidant.
How much homework do you have?
A lot.
I've been you know the person that organizes their life.
You can do it.
Good job.
You look tired on that one.
Whoa.
[laughing]
I think they have to learn to be a little more independent.
Bye.
I'll see you later.
I just got [inaudible] gymnastics.
Just wanted to know if you'd run to the store for me.
Definitely, she'll be missed.
We've been married for years, and we've certainly never
been part that long before.
I don't really relish the idea at all.
I have no idea where it will lead for either one of us,
so I'm kind of in a quandary, a little bit
confused, a little bit concerned.
I need a surrogate mom.
The thing that I'm looking forward to getting away from
is just the every day tensions of life,
worrying about having somebody at a certain place
at a certain time, making sure that everybody
is taken care of.
You're sweating.
You're all red.
I'll only be taking care of myself.
It's going to be perfect.
Nobody's gonna hurt my mom.
She's gonna love it.
I thought she lost her mind.
The strategy I'm going to do is
to keep sane is just to remember my kids
and remember that this ends September ,
and I'll still have four children,
my children will still love me, and my family
will still love me.
And [inaudible] we will all get together,
and we'll have that person kicked off the show.
Nobody's going to hurt my mom.
The big moment is still ahead, when the house guests meet
each other for the first time.
And now, the final two house guests.
: to
Yeah.
There's a couple different Brittanys.
There's a work Britney, and then there's the other Brittany.
I work for a drug company, a very corporate job,
and it's so conservative.
When I am out of work, I'm just like [squeals]..
You know, I'm free.
When I come home from work, I like to dress strange .
I like to go out.
I just like to go crazy.
My parents don't like it so much,
but I think they both keep thinking it's a phase
that I've not grown out of yet.
Brittany has always been kind of a p*stol.
My dad doesn't like how I dress at all.
I'm not allowed to wear the nose ring in the home.
He's like, I can't believe I have a daughter
into self-mutilation.
I think religion critical when it comes to things
that you can't control.
If you draw strength from it, then it's the best thing.
Good morning.
Good morning.
How you doing?
I'm going to miss my privacy.
I live alone, you know?
Although part of me is like, yay, I'll be with people,
part of me's like, oh, my god, I'm going to k*ll everybody.
I don't know if she'll make it to the end,
because if Brittany gets mad or someone really
is rubbing her the wrong way, she will
just point blank tell them.
She won't back off from a fight.
That's for sure.
Not having sex for three months,
it's not going to be very difficult for me.
I'm a virgin, so it's not really going to bother me.
Right away, people either like me or they hate me.
So my biggest challenge is going to be
just trying to get along with everybody, and not be so bossy.
I think I blend pretty well.
My mother always told me that my mouth was going to get
me into a world of trouble.
Well, the world seems to be a bit troubled,
and I think it was my mouth that got me into "Big Brother."
Impression is everything.
Shaving, shaving my head.
That's something I do, sometimes twice a day.
Just like your beard gets a o'clock shadow,
so does the head.
[chattering]
Plus the ladies love it.
The ladies love a bald head.
The best thing a man could ever have is a good woman.
To me, if there's a heaven, if there is a kingdom to come,
that's the women.
Sisters, I love them.
Some may call me a ladies' man, yet I have one particular woman
who is my only one.
She's woman enough so I don't have to turn my head,
at least not for long.
She's not number one.
She's the only one.
The boy was very fond of the cat,
but could not see how she would ever make a fortune.
My job is dealing directly with youth, assisting with reading,
or math, or academics.
Just to motivate children, and to build
self-esteem and confidence, it's hands-on, it's involved,
it's exchange.
Working out, it's something I do to stay on top.
I mean, constantly sharpening your mind and your body.
[grunting]
Two more, two more.
Living in the concrete jungles,
you know, it's the survival of the fittest.
Players play for it, and the suckers
pay for it, so I'm going to get mine by playing for it.
[grunting]
Hey.
I'm here with some of William's friends and family.
His girlfriend, [inaudible],, is here.
Yes.
Are you happy or are you sad that he is going
away for possibly three months?
Oh, I'm happy.
We going to make some money.
[laughing]
And I'm going to say he's going to have a lot of fun.
You know, it's a great experience for him.
And I get to see him all the time.
He's the one that should be sad.
And if he doesn't win the money?
Oh, well.
That's OK.
That's all right.
He's still my baby. Yeah.
He's still my baby.
And you'll still be waiting for him.
Yeah. OK.
Thanks, guys.
[applause]
The caravan is finally here.
It is the moment we have all been waiting for,
as SUVs make their final approach to the "Big Brother"
compound, you can just imagine the level of excitement,
the level of anxiety, the level of nervousness
that these people must be going through right now.
I'm not even going to the house, and I'm
excited and nervous for them.
In the next few moments, you will
see these strangers say goodbye to the lives they now
know and say hello to a new life.
They will say goodbye to their families and hello
to a new family, the Big Brother family.
They will laugh.
They will cry.
They will grow to love each other, and I'm sure, sometimes,
they will grow to hate each other, as any family does.
Here they are, ladies and gentlemen.
It is time to meet our house guests.
Hey, George, how you doing?
I'm Julie.
Nice to meet you.
Great to meet you.
Go ahead and walk around and follow that gentleman.
William, I'm Julie.
How you doing? - How you doing?
Pleased to meet you. - Great to meet you.
If you could go this way, please, I'll be right with you.
Hi, Curtis.
I'm Julie. - Hi, nice to meet you.
How are you?
Good.
Excited.
You can walk around that way.
Josh, how you doing?
You ready for this? I'm Julie.
All right.
Go round this way, if you could.
Eddie, my man. How are you?
I'm Julie.
Great to meet you.
If you could join the others.
There you have the first five house
guests of "Big Brother, ."
And now it's time to meet the ladies of the house.
Here we go.
Karen, I'm Julie.
How are you doing? - Oh no, I lost my mic.
Oh, no. OK.
You'll be all right. Just join the others.
I'll be right over there.
Hi, Cassandra. I'm Julie.
Hey.
Nice to meet you.
Great too see you.
If you would please go over by Ian.
Jordan, I'm Julie.
Nice to meet you.
You too.
If you could please join the others over there.
Thanks a lot, Jordan.
Hi, Brittany.
I'm Julie.
Nice to meet you.
If you could join the others.
Thank you so much.
And Jamie.
Julie, how are you.
Nice to meet you.
[screaming] I'm excited.
I'm excited.
You're excited.
You are definitely excited.
You all ready for this?
[cheering]
JULIE: All right, George.
I need everyone's attention for a minute.
I need each of you to take this moment
and think about what you've gotten yourselves into.
This is your chance to look at your new family.
Hi, everybody.
What's up?
[laughing]
JULIE: OK.
Time is ticking away.
Your family and friends are waiting for you.
We will help you find them, but I'm sure you'll recognize
them faster than we will.
Ladies, gentlemen, everyone.
[cheering]
Let's go down and meet your friends and family
and say goodbye.
[laughing]
George is ready.
Eddie, your folks are down on the right, OK?
[applause]
[chattering]
[cheering]
[applause]
[cheering]
JULIE: Final goodbyes, everyone.
House guests, if I could have your attention, everyone.
I need everyone to go off to the house, but don't go in yet.
Wait for me on the steps.
Go up, and wait for me on the steps, and don't go in yet.
Go ahead.
Approach your new home, but don't go inside the door
yet until we give you the final OK.
[cheering]
House guests, are you ready?
OK, you guys.
This is it.
Cassandra, since you look like you're closest to the door,
I'm going to let you open the door to your new home.
[cheering]
I love you.
[inaudible]
[laughing]
JULIE: All right.
We got to go.
Cassandra, we got to go.
We're running out of time.
Come on, guys.
This is it.
[chattering]
[cheering]
"Big Brother" has just begun.
[laughing]
[chattering]
He's cutting back down.
You got someone going back down the hallway.
You guys, everybody have a safe flight?
Everybody have an enjoyable trip?
Does anybody understand this?
[inaudible]
There it is.
I'm kind of curious.
Is there a woman's bedroom
All right.
Everybody quiet.
I'll sleep on the floor.
[laughing]
Wow.
OK.
OK.
Show me someone else.
Oh, that's not so terrible.
[chattering]
Do you feel like you're gonna faint?
Oh, I kind of felt like that for a little while.
But I was like, talking real fast.
Are you sad?
Who was out here with you?
Yeah, my family and friends.
I'm happy.
I'm just so-- you know what I mean?
It was like, the hoopla.
Yeah.
I grew up in Queens Village.
I live on Long Island now. - Oh, no way.
Yeah, in [inaudible].
What do you do up there?
Student.
Student right now.
Where?
University of Texas in Arlington.
Oh, really?
Yeah, I was going to school down in Dallas.
OK.
What are you studyig?
Broadcasting major and a theater minor minor.
Well, this is good for you.
- Yeah. - This is damn good for you.
Yeah, I'm telling you right now, all the connection I made.
Shaking hands.
Yes, how you doing?
You're going to see me in the future.
I am from "Big Brother."
Yes But honestly, it works out well.
It all happened so fast.
I didn't know.
I was packing, and they came over
and they were like, oh, you know, I gotta go.
I was like, holy crap, and I was like, trying
to get stuff together and--
[interposing voices]
Wow.
That was intense.
Tonight's show is coming to a close,
but there's one more really exciting thing that
makes "Big Brother" unique.
Not only can you see "Big Brother" five nights
a week on television, you can peek live into the house /
on our special Big Brother internet site.
Log onto the web at bigbrother.com
or on CBS's internet partner, America Online, keyword,
you guessed it, Big Brother.
You'll be able to watch four live cameras
from inside the house, and you can take part
in exclusive polls and chats.
There's also more information on the house guests.
So that's it for now.
And if you want to know what's going on in the house
right now, tune in tomorrow night at :, : central.
I'm Julie Chen.
And I'm Ian O'Malley.
Goodnight.
Good night.
America Online is CBS's internet partner.
You can get to the Big Brother website
by logging onto www.bigbrother.com,
or AOL keyword Big Brother.
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