Bear with me if the cast pics are posted elsewhere. THIS IS MY VERY FIRST SCREEN CAPTURE..I'm so excited!

Maggie Ausburn, 26
Las Vegas, NV 
Single 
Emergency Room Nurse 

Beau Beasley, 25 
Pembroke Pines, FL 
Single 
Personal Shopper

Ivette Corredero, 25 
Miami Beach, FL 
Single 
Waitress 

Michael Donnellan, 28 
Orange County, CA 
Single
Artist 

Ashlea Evans, 22 
Plantation, FL 
Single 
Fashion Design Student 

Howie Gordon, 34 
Chicago, IL
Single 
Meteorology Student 

Sarah Hrejsa, 22 
Chicago, IL 
Single 
Retail Manager 

April Lewis, 30 
Dallas, TX
Newlywed 
Pharmaceutical Sales Rep.

Eric Littmann, 36 
Boston, MA 
Married Dad 
Firefighter 

Janelle Pierzina, 25
Miami Beach, FL
Single 
VIP Cocktail Waitress

Rachel Plencner, 33 
Parker, CO 
Single 
Horse Breeder 

James Rhine, 29
Atlanta, GA
Single
Loss Prevention Manager

Kaysar Ridha, 24 
Irvine, CA 
Single 
Graphic Designer 

Jennifer Vasquez, 27
Plano, TX
Single
Arena Football League Dancer

Big Brother Twist Revealed! 


From Variety:

"Competition skein's jackpot being increased to $1 mil

By JOSEF ADALIAN

CBS summer staple "Big Brother" is getting a million-dollar facelift for 2005 -- in more ways than one.

In addition to the skein's new digs (Daily Variety, May 6), exec producers Arnold Shapiro and Allison Grodner have engineered a twist to the game that could result in the contest winner walking away with $1 million. That's double the game's usual $500,000 jackpot.

Getting the coin won't be easy, however.

As part of their annual effort to reinvent the game of "Big Brother," producers have come up with a scheme in which every cast member of "Big Brother 6" will walk into the house with a ready-made alliance -- a best friend, co-worker or significant other.

However, each pair of players will be told they're the only two participants coming into the house with a partner -- even though there will actually be seven teams of two playing the game. Teams also will be told to keep their alliances secret -- at least if they want to win the big money.

"The incentive is (for partners) to get to the end of the game sitting side by side," said Grodner. "If they do, the winner will get $1 million and the second-place person will get $250,000. It's in their best interests to keep it a secret."

If a twosome doesn't make it to the finals, winner will get the usual $500,000, while the runner-up will snag a measly $50,000.

Viewers won't find out which players are partnered until the season's third episode (skein returns July 7). But Shapiro and Grodner already are expecting plenty of what latter calls "soap opera stories" to emerge from a house in which everyone already knows someone.

"These are people who already like each other, but the question is, will (the friendships) last until the end when money's involved?" Grodner said.

Producers are planning myriad mini-twists throughout the season as part of what they're calling "the summer of secrets."

"Every year we do something exotic," Shapiro said. "Last year it was a 'twin twist,' the year before it was the 'ex' factor. This year, there are a number of secrets involving the cast, involving the new house and involving the game. And like an onion, they'll be peeled away week after week throughout the summer."

One early twist will come early in the game when houseguests discover there are only 10 beds for the 14 of them. That's because the new two-story house contains a secret bedroom.

There also have been rumblings that producers might allow each week's "head of household" to maintain a blog, likely via CBS.com-- a first for a network reality show. But the Eye declined to confirm speculation about Web content related to the show, which has traditionally included a pay-per-view Web feed component.

Extreme makeover of the "Big Brother" house includes a second-level master suite (complete with balcony and private bathroom); a full-sized gym; and a new studio for host Julie Chen.

New digs were created by set designer Scott Storey ("Surreal Life"), who was charged with making the house "a character in the show," Grodner said.

Shapiro also credited "technical genius" Gene Crow for making sure the new house's control rooms and edit bays worked. "The fact that we're getting a signal (to CBS Television City) is a credit to him," he said.

New house boasts five extra cameras (for a total of 47) and 10 new mics (for a total of 76).

The 14 cast members are a particularly young lot: 10 are under 30, and the oldest is just 36.                    I CREDIT BB5BBQ FOR THIS LATE NIGHT BREAKINGNEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Dont know if everyone has seen the tour of the big brother house that was shown on ET but i am including the link to it hope yall enjoy
http://welovebigbrother.com/videos/804p.htm

 

link to site: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/bigbrother6/

[b]
  There is alink about who they think is the couples!!!! 
http://www.realitytvcalendar.com/recaps/bb...t+by+Big+Sister

Found This
RealityBBQ.com has a exclusive video of the Houseguests and Tour. 
Just click on the link above, the video link's on the front page, but you may need to install the Divx Player so you can get the Divx code to play the video.  Here's the link to the player 
http://download.divx.com/divx/DivXPlay.exe

Also when you click the link it will try to play the video in your web browser, you may want to copy the link and play it directly in your real player or Windows Media Player.

Hi everyone,

I recorded the new BB6 commerical which was put out locally in New Orleans. Go to the link below and you have to download the commerical. There is a bit of a movie commerical before the bb6 commerical, sorry I didn't have time to edit it out. I hope everyone enjoys!

http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1LVTM9P...MH3M13OPO6LDVBU


Laggie

First let me say that I got the age of the oldest player this year wrong... He's 36 not 38...
Now just for fun I went back and did some stat's from season 2 through 6... I didn't do season 1 cause I couldn't find anything on it... Here is a break down and the average ages each season... You will see that each year the cast has gotton younger and younger...

BB 2
Autumn- 28
Bunky- 36
Hardy- 31
Justin- 26
Ken- 46
Krista- 28
Mike- 30
Monica- 40
Nicole- 31
Shannon- 29
Sheryl- 43
Will- 28                  Average age 33

BB3
Amy- 23
Chiara- 25
Danielle- 30
Eric- 27
Gerry- 51
Jason- 25
Josh- 28
Lisa- 26
Lori- 37
Marcellas- 34
Roddy- 30
Tonya- 35        Average age 30.91


BB4
Alison- 22
Amanda- 25
Dana- 28
David- 21
Erika- 33
Jack- 58
Jee- 23
Jun- 27
Juston- 22
Michelle- 19
Nathan- 23
Robert- 33
Scott- 33        Average age 28.23


BB5
Adria- 30
Natalie- 30
Diane- 22
Drew- 22
Holly- 27
Jase- 28
Jennifer- 21
Karen- 30
Lori- 26
Marvin- 36
Michael- 23
Mike- 41
Scott- 25
Will- 26        Average age 27.64

BB 6
April- 30
Ashlea- 22
Beau- 25
Eric- 36
Howie- 34
Ivette- 25
James- 29
Janeele- 25
Jennifer- 27
Kaysar- 24
Maggie- 26
Michael- 28
Rachel- 33
Sarah- 22              Average age 27.57

The average age of a BB house guest is 29.85
There wasn't as big a difference as I thought between this year and last year, but you can see this is still the youngest by average... The oldest cast member so far was Jack at 58 and the youngest was Michelle at 19 and they were on the same season BB4... I just thought it was interesting to see these stats... 

I tallied the names (if I missed some I appoligize) and the results are....

Blue Rose--3--James,  April,  Rachel

blondies_fan--2--Rachel,  April

CeCimom--2--Sarah,  Michael

Mouse--2--James,  Jen(nifer)

Dreigha--2--James,  Maggie

Rebekah--2--Jen(nifer),  Sara(h)

Numfar--1--Jennifer

ScottishTXn--1--Mike(Michael)

Capthilts--1--Michael

smoore,  Adam.b, and Rubthorn missed completely


Great Job all

http://www.bigbrotherlink.com/news/data/up...ages/floor1.jpg


http://www.bigbrotherlink.com/news/data/up...ages/floor2.jpg


whoo hoo, i answered my own post.  do i win a prize?

If the HGs are correct, the way it's expected to go is that Ali uses the PoV on herself. That forces Robert to nominate Erika. Ali has the sole vote. Ali is expected to vote out Erika because Erika has no enemies on the jury. Although Ali herself has said that she'd come in second place to anyone, she keeps talking about going up with someone she has a better chance against. Based on DR scenes from the last two TV shows, she feels these people are Robert and Jun. But remember: Ali changes her mind a lot.