Dear @Danthebbfan:
I won’t go into too much detail as to “why” I make my choices for fear that this blog will turn into a novel.
I have so many fav and non-favs, this will be fun to have to choose just one of each from each season.
So I’ve decided to choose a set of least fav/fav THEN (while I was watching) and NOW.
PLEASE BEAR IN MIND: My choices are strictly personal and therefore based on superficial criteria (the best kind sometimes). This my blog and I can judge if I want to. Yeah-yuh!
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Season 1: Um…yeah…this is Twilight Zone territory for me so I’m gonna let it go.
If anyone else wants to jump in here feel free! Seriously, did anyone out there watch Season 1?
But I WILL say, that I watched the “movie” Eddie McGee was in (“The Angel”) and thought he was pretty good even if the storyline is bizarre. AND, he is clearly down with the Asians. Well, the Chinese.
I’ve included the movie below, it’s just over seven minutes yet the last minute+ is all credits. Interesting.
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Season 2: Good season, but CBS still hadn’t worked out all the kinks (understatement).

THEN
Least Favorite: Kent Blackwelder
Favorite: Monica Bailey
It’s amazing to see “where” people are now in their lives after this season…I still love Monica, but…my new fav has changed.
Least Favorite: Krista Stegall
Favorite: Nicole Nilson
Clearly my least fav has changed as well, for several reasons. My new fav Nicole is one of the realest and sanest people to come out of Season 2. Trust me.
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Season 3: The season that popped my Big Brother cherry, more or less. I think when I saw Marcellas get booted the way he did I realized “I could totally win a show like this”. Poor Marcellas.

THEN
Least Favorite: Amy Crew
Favorite: Danielle Reyes
I have always said and always will say that Daniele got cheated out of winning this season. She is one of the most hardcore woman to have played this game and she GETS IT.

NOW
Least Favorite: Tonya Paoni
Favorite: Danielle Reyes
I never liked Tonya on the show, but I like her even less/the least now. Even TMZ agrees…loser.
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Season 4: I will refrain from choosing myself as my favorite person.
Forever Least Favorite: Alison Irwin. It probably served me right having to stay in that house with her until the very last day, when she lost to me, I disliked her so much. And I never ever got the whole “my last name spelled backwards is winner” thing she used to say all the time. Um, no, it does not. Your last name spelled backwards is “N-I-W-R-I”. And because I am that OCD I googled “NIWRI” just to see what would happen and I stumbled upon www.niwri.com which has nothing to do with Ali and actually led me to nothing. After wasting 37 seconds on the site I STILL don’t know what the company actually does. NIWRI blows, and they can now thank me for the twelve or so extra hits they’ll get on their website.
Forever Favorite:: Jack Owens. I CANNOT say enough about this man because I adore him (and his family) so much.

I still have the t-shirt he lent me during the “Steel Cage Match” competition because he MAILED IT TO ME after the show.
Sigh. I love him.
Let’s all relive the moment I peed in the cage…about three and half minutes into the video below…
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Season 5: I was still pretty traumatized from my own season but I watched. It’s funny though, I watched it from a different perspective because I now knew what it was really like to be in that house.
Least Favorite: Holly King
Favorite: Marvin Latimer
And then I realized Holly was annoying but harmless therefore…
Least Favorite: Jase Wirey
Favorite: Marvin Latimer
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Season 6: One of my favorite seasons actually. So much drama but it all worked somehow.
Least Favorite: Eric “Cappy” Littman
Favorite: Kaysar Ridha
And like Season 2, I changed my mind completely on my fav/least fav after the season was over…
Least Favorite: Maggie Ausburn
Favorite: Janelle Pierzina
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Season 7: AKA “All-Stars” although we know not all of them are “stars”…
Least Favorite: Erika Landin (Yes, even more so than Alison.)
Favorite: Janelle Pierzina
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Season 8: This season was bizarre, even “dark” if that makes any sense to you all. It had less of a “summer fun” feel to show than usual. It was different. But I appreciate different…
Least Favorite: Jen “Red Unitard” Johnson
Favorite: Evel (YES it’s Evel not “Evil”) Dick Donato
I kinda like Jen now (for the show itself). Infuriatingly annoying but interesting. She tried to pull of BB2 Danielle’s villainous role but it didn’t quite work. Nice try though.
Least Favorite: Amber Siyavus
Favorite: Evel Dick Donato
I guess her anti-semitic “slurs” (yes, they were “bad” but I have heard worse really) in the house were nothing compared to what she had planned after the show. If Amber cried that much when she was on the show, I can’t imagine how much she’s crying now that she’s on the lam (I’ve always wanted to say that…”on the lam”…).
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Season 9: This season should have ended Big Brother’s life. I’m surprised it didn’t. “Retards”.

THEN
Least Favorite: Adam, Alex, Allison, Amanda, Chelsia, Jacob, James, Jen, Joshuah, Matt, Natalie, Neil, Parker, Ryan, Sharon, Sheila, Chenbot, Moonves, CBS and anyone affiliated with CBS aka responsible for putting this season on (I don’t care how last-minute it was)
Least Favorite: Jen, Adam, Matt, TBD
(don’t ask why I chose this specific silhouette, I just did)
I realize Jen didn’t BREAK THE LAW like Adam and Matt, but , she is among my least favs for Season 9.
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Season 10: This season was a little odd for me, maybe because it followed such a season of trash? I feel like some of this season’s HGs were casting leftovers from Season 9.
Least Favorite: April Dowling
Favorite: Dan Gheesling
Btw was anyone else surprised when April and Ollie started doing each other (a lot)?!?
Least Favorite: April Dowling
Favorite: Renny Martin
Renny grew on me, even AFTER the season was over…she doesn’t give a Big Brother fuck and I love her.
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Season 11: I really really enjoyed this season. Maybe because there more people I LIKED than there were people I disliked. And I didn’t have that Season 9 and 10.
Least Favorite: Natalie Martinez
Favorite: Jeff Schroeder
Jeff replaced my all-time BB crush Roddy Mancuso this summer. I so lusted after Jeff this season…and I really shouldn’t be using past tense. I still find him pretty hot (second only to my husband of course).
Least Favorite: Chima Simone
Favorite: Jeff Schroeder
I can’t stand quitters. You can call it a thousand different things, but what Chima ultimately did was QUIT. I mean, who quits Big Brother?! Survivor I understand…
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Season 12: Ahhhh, our last season before we get our next season of Big Brother on! BB12 was not perfect (thank goodness we got plenty of entertainment from Brenchel) but it was a made-for-tv season!
Least Favorite: Matt Hoffman
Favorite: Ragan Fox
Matt rubbed me (not literally) the wrong way for whatever reason, I thought he was trying to force “I am cool” on us while he was on the show and I was NOT buying it. He rubs me a little better now though.
Least Favorite: Rachel Reilly aka Brenchel
Favorite: Britney Haynes
I kinda appreciate Britney’s entertaining me during the season and then the fact that she returned to her real life unlike, ahem, some Big Brother monsters…tacky, tacky, tacky Brenchel…
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I feel like I just carried a baby for 9 months and popped it out here. My first Big Brother baby.
Thanks for making me work so hard @Danthebbfan:
Always dishing, Jun















Quirkydude on May 15, 2011 at 4:19 pm said:
Great stuff, Jun. Thanks!
Richardfromno on May 15, 2011 at 4:54 pm said:
I watched BB1! My favorite from that season was Eddie, and my least favorite was Karen!
Richardfromno on May 15, 2011 at 5:02 pm said:
Wow! I had never seen The Angel before! Creepy and Eddie was actually good in it! What a concept!
Jun Song on May 15, 2011 at 5:10 pm said:
Thanks Kevin aka Quirkydude!
OMG Richard, you actually WATCHED Season1?! Hahaha, I love it.
Yeah, The Angel isn’t half-bad huh?
MarluvsBB on May 15, 2011 at 8:28 pm said:
I loved Renny and still do! Agree on season 9… only season I ever skipped once the hg’s were introduced. Horrible season. Only saw last couple of episodes of season 1. Brit was my fav from last season. I thought it was hilarious how the boys thought they would all be famous (Enzo, how’s that movie career workin’ for ya?) and she burst their bubble and told them no one would even remember them after six months tops… haha
socalimari on May 15, 2011 at 8:34 pm said:
I so agree with you about Matt BB12. I always thought he was walking around the house thinking, “Cool, I am on tv.” He never looked comfortable or natural being in the house.
Dan on May 16, 2011 at 2:26 am said:
Thanks Jun, that was a great read. We have many similar favorites and least favorites.
Lezbionic on May 16, 2011 at 5:02 pm said:
I have watched EVERY season & have fond memories if season 1…loved Eddie. Although the format has changed…the premise is the same & it twas that season that gave me the desire…aka serious yearn…to do this.
So agree on season 9. That is the bastard child without a doubt. Gross season.
Love ur insight…u rock!!
Janice on May 22, 2011 at 4:35 am said:
Hell to the yes about Jeff being HOT ! He has the looks, heart, humor and personality. I certainly can understand your lusting after him because I feel the same way. I also always say that Jeff was actually a man in the BB house and most of those guys in the past have proven to be boys.
Chrystal Billings Howard on July 29, 2011 at 8:35 pm said:
I watched season 1 (I was on mat leave and it was on EVERY day during the week!!) Not many memorable characters tho – Fav: Chicken George (how can it not be lol) Least Fav: Believe it or not would have to be one-legged Eddie… IMO he played up the one leg thing too much…
The game is much better now – back then America voted on evictions and this really put a damper on DRs… as you can imagine. However they did have to “earn” grocery money for the week, and making the potato clock was interesting (at least back then…)
Katie on August 24, 2011 at 7:11 am said:
I don’t understand why everybody/anybody likes Jeff. He’s a homophobic bully. I just can’t get behind somebody who thinks that way. I find him disgusting.
Angelo on September 8, 2011 at 11:28 pm said:
Very Nice, But did you know that I went to High School with Jeff. Yes, Ridgewood High School in Norridge.
Angelo on September 9, 2011 at 4:41 pm said:
Sorry again, I read your blog and notice about Jeff. Yeah I just said it but yes I went to High School with Jeff.
Geoff on October 22, 2011 at 6:02 am said:
Hey Jun,
Having finished season 13, who would you say were your favorite and least favorite from this past summer?
Anonymous on June 18, 2012 at 7:32 pm said:
Season one was a completely different dynamic. It was interesting, the different rules and all. There was much more closeness, like family, since there wasn’t as much cutthroat, since America ultimately made the decisions. Maybe at times boring, but watching several seasons of nominate-evict format, it was an interesting thing.
xwiseguyx on June 22, 2012 at 9:50 pm said:
I’ll have to agree with the other person – Jeff Schroeder was mainly called out on his true character when he said he was appalled that a teacher at a school would be gay, which he seemed to think was the same as being a pedophile. “I don’t think it’s the right thing to have a little kid’s book and have the headmaster that you’re locked away with in a magical land be gay” he said. “I don’t think that’s the right thing to do.” I’m ashamed that this guy lived so close to me… grrrrrrr.