Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition Plus
Template:Airing Template:Big Brother housemates Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition Plus is the second edition of Pinoy Big Brother for adolescents 16 to 19 years. It was premiered on Easter Sunday, March 23, 2008[1], and it is expected to run until some time in May of the same year, when second season of Pinoy Dream Academy is scheduled to begin.
Toni Gonzaga returns as primetime host; this is also the first Teen Edition that she would be hosting. Mariel Rodriguez, the previous Teen Edition primetime host, also returns to host the late afternoon edition, Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition Plus Über. Bianca Gonzalez once again hosts the show's Update skits after being the regular host of Über in the second Celebrity Edition; she once hosted the Update slot back in the second regular season. Luis Manzano makes his return to the show as Gonzaga's alternate host/co-host in the primetime edition; he appeared previously as co-host in a live airing of first Celebrity Edition.
This time, the prizes offered for the winner are a laptop, an LCD TV set, kitchen appliances, a business showcase, a condominium, and one million pesos.
On March 4, 2008, local news on ABS-CBN reported that Big Brother had already sent 30 Dream Keys along with special instructions in a sealed envelope. The instructions told the receiver that they must go to the final casting call in Manila without public information. From these thirty who answered the casting call, fourteen were chosen to enter the house.
A special primer called The BIGginning was aired on March 16, 2008. It showed the selection process used to choose the fourteen official housemates. While their faces were blurred to withhold their identities, a few of them were eventually shown and their names revealed as Big Brother told them of their rejection through his Big Red Phone.
There are several reasons the word "Plus" is added to the edition name. One, as has been already stated, is Luis's return to the show. The second reason is the two housemates added to the announced twelve, both connected to the storied Ateneo-La Salle rivalry. The third is the secret rooms Luis revealed during the opening night of the edition. These rooms are being occupied by the Housemates' Guardians, who are also the fourth reason.
Unlike Pinoy Ako and Sikat ang Pinoy, both of which were rehashed, the original Kabataang Pinoy by Itchyworms is used for this season without any alterations. A remixed version of the song (which combines its beat with those of Crank That and Smack That to name a few) was used throughout the opening night.
House theme
The primer also revealed the new look of the House interior, which Manzano describes as having a "funky, modern Moroccan" design with more elegant and colorful furnishings. Also, the "garden" is now dominated by a large swimming pool. Furthermore, the new housemates enter the House area through the facade instead of the Eviction Hall as housemates in the second regular edition and the second Celebrity Edition did.
Also, what used to be the activity area is now a part of the House called a "Plus Base." It has additional bedrooms, a garden, and a jacuzzi; it is currently being occupied by the Guardians. Conversely, part of the Eviction Hall has been renovated into the new activity area.
Housemates
A total of fourteen housemates entered the house on Day 1, which was March 23, 2008. Twelve were announced to come in, but two were added because of the connection of their schools. The housemates are ordered here according to their entry into the House.
Ejay
Ejay Falcon (born November 21, 1989) from Pola, Oriental Mindoro. According to his profile, he is said to have fair skin and during his first visit to Manila had trouble with technological gadgets and even elevators. His biological father is actually French. He was also in Manila to find his mother, only to find out she had another family. Also according to his profile, he prefers living a rural life in the province rather than a cosmopolitan one many like him opt to.
Kevin
Kevin Brendan Garcia-Flood (born February 21, 1990) is an 18-year-old Filipino-Irish from Madrid, Spain. He is a product of a broken family, he is also an able equestrian rider, and has also worked to make ends meet. Mentioned by his father, Kevin is uncircumcised
Nicole
Nicole Kim Uysiuseng (born August 18, 1990) is a 17-year-old Filipino-Chinese girl from Cebu. At home, she lived a sheltered life, being a pampered girl and a good sister to her three younger brothers. She is however not very fashionable and not so much sociable, as she does not have many friends. She aims to change that perception during her stay in the House.
Linda
Linda Backlund (born November 21,1991) is a 16 year old from Iriga City. A half-Swede, she intially had a luxurious life until her Swedish father left her and her family behind. To supplement her family income, she frequently joins beauty contests and bikini competitions.
Nan
Arnann Jay "Nan" Clenuar (born July 3 1990) is a 17-year-old jokester from Davao. He is profiled as frequent prankster who does not take life seriously because he would become insane if he does. But his comedic antics are equalled with his kindness towards his mother.
Alex
Alex Esmoso Anselmuccio (born March 4, 1990) is an 18-year-old soccer player from Milan, Italy. His parents are an unemployed Italian father and a Filipina mother who had worked for 28 years as a domestic helper. To better enhance his soccer skills, he even had his feet operated because he was flatfooted. He aims to have a job in his mother's homeland to help his family.
Rona
Rona Marie Libby (born November 7, 1991) from Dumaguete. She is profiled as a "prisoner's daughter" as her father has been in prison for four years for an unspecified crime. Despite this, she and her siblings have excelled in many activities, both in academics and in extra-curricular ones. She aims to have her father released from his incarceration.
Jieriel
Jieriel Papa (born August 30, 1991) is 16 from in Davao. She relates that she was once a chubby child, but she has managed to have a slim figure due to an "after-six diet." She is also profiled as a "Daddy's Girl" to her stepfather, as her biological father has left her family when she was very young.
Jolas
Elyzar "Jolas" Paguia (born April 24, 1989) is an 18-year-old basketball player from Bulacan. Unsurprisingly, he stands 6' 4" (193 cm) tall. He and his father have dreams of the former being in the professional league, but these dreams were almost imperiled when they had spats with each other. Upon Jolas' entry, this conflict appears to be resolved.
Beauty
Christine Marie "Beauty" Gonzalez (born May 28, 1991) is 16 from Dumaguete. Having lived a pampered life, she is used to being served, leading to an aggressive and rebellious attitude, one which she has started to change upon her entry into the House.
Valerie
Valerie Weignmann (born November 22, 1989) is 18 years of age from Wiesbaden, Germany. She is profiled as a "Daddy's Girl" currently trying to re-establish her ties with her Filipina mother since the death of her German father. Although she has lived most of her life in Germany, she has a great Filipina sensibility, visiting her mother's country very often. Regardless of her German tradition and heritage, she also has a good command of the Tagalog language and has plans to enter Philippine showbiz.
Priscilla
Priscilla Navidad (born May 28, 1990) is a 17-year-old beauty queen from Davao. She is a hearing-impaired person who communicates through lip reading. According to her profile, she had to undergo surgery at age two, but eventually lost her hearing when she was eleven. Furthermore, her father died when she was six. Despite these obstacles, she was able to win several pageant titles, including the Miss Teen Mindanao title in 2007. To facilitate communication with her alone, Big Brother granted her request of showing his lips to her while talking under the condition that she cannot describe them to her fellow housemates. In a similar rein, viewers can only see a dim or blurred image of the lips to keep his identity vague.
Robi
Robert Marion "Robi" Domingo (born September 27, 1989) is an 18-year-old Atenean from Quezon City. He is profiled as a good boy who is not very adept at wooing girls. He is one of the two Plus housemates connected to his school's storied rivalry with De La Salle University.
Josef
Marc Josef Elizalde (born September 8, 1991) is a 16-year-old Lasallite from Mandaluyong. He is profiled as a complete opposite of Robi: a rebellious boy who is also a virtual chick magnet. He is one of the two Plus housemates connected to the storied rivalry between his school's parent institution and Ateneo de Manila University.
Guardians
On Day 7, fourteen adults entered the House and, in a similar rein to the Big Mother concept of the Greek version, these "Guardians" (as the program calls them) are in the House to watch over the Housemates. Their entry also aims to have viewers know the Housemates better through the Guardians. These Guardians will be in the House for a limited time; but if one Housemate's Guardian willingly decides to leave the House or is forced out of the House, a Forced Eviction will be imposed on that Housemate. If the Housemate is evicted, the Housemate's Guardian also gets evicted.
Of the fourteen Guardians, twelve are parents, one is a close relative and another is a good acquaintance. They are listed below in order of their introduction:
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Chronology of important events
This section lists important events and occurences of violations and excluding the usual nomination and eviction nights. In this case, Day 1 is March 23, 2008.
Week 1
- Day 1: The housemates entered the House one after the other. They were then welcomed by Big Brother, who gave them four points which actually summed up the official House rules.
- Day 2: Alex and Josef committed the same violation in two separate times: Alex whispered something to Jolas during a daily task and Josef doing the same to Kevin while everyone was inside the boys' bedroom. The two were punished by having them talk in a shouting manner. Wanting to partake on Josef's punishment, Robi was allowed by Big Brother to do so by acting as Josef's "echo."
- Day 3: Beauty and Robi committed a violation by mouthing of words after the lip reading activity. Their punishment would be meted out in a later time.
- Day 4: Ejay said during his daily confession that he already knows his true identity – that he is an adopted child, and his biological father is French. However, his surrogate father does not know the matter.
- Day 7: Because of the various violations committed during the week, the housemates had to form and even hold a giant red styrofoam egg together (reminiscent of Humpty Dumpty). Later, unbeknownst to the Housemates, who were having a chat with host Toni, the Guardians entered the House in groups. Once in the Plus Base, the Guardians were greeted by Big Brother and were given a few reminders.
Week 2
- Day 8: Alex had made his decision to undergo circumcision during his stay in the House. This came exactly a week after he unwittingly included the Filipino word supot (uncircumcised) in his vocabulary of Filipino words, and then revealed that he did not go through the informal Filipino rite of passage because it is not a common practice among Italian men. Later, Ejay told the truth about his identity to his foster father Erning; the two, though, vowed to each other that the filial love the have would not change.
- Day 9: A special graduation ceremony was held for Robi, Jieriel, and Rona in the activity area, attended by their parents, their fellow housemates, and the principals of their respective schools, as well as host Bianca and first Teen Edition second placer Mikee Lee. This was made possible because the Guardians completed the other housemates' secret sacrifice (wire 1,500 notebooks), in which they were not able to finish on time.[2]
- Day 10: As part of April Fools' Day, Alex, Jolas, and Nicole managed to fool their fellow housemates by having Alex pretending to cry. But after Jolas and Alex were first sent to the confession room to talk to Big Brother, and then to the storage room so the two could talk about the result of the joke, Big Brother finally had Minda enter the main House area to be with her son Alex and the other housemates. Sandy and Ike were later told to follow suit. In the evening, after everybody else had fallen asleep, Josef and Beauty were given a secret task to explore the Plus Base.
- Day 11: With the other male housemates as witnesses, Alex finally had his circumsion, done by Boy, a surgeon by trade, with the assistance of Jinky, a degree holder in nursing. After the procedure, all male housemates wore long skirts (said to aerate the private parts to help heal the wounds from the operation) so Alex won't be left out among the boys.[3] Minda, Sandy, and Ike bade goodbye to the housemates and returned to the Plus Base. In the evening, on the continuation of their secret task, Josef and Beauty, as directed by Big Brother, woke up Jieriel and Kevin to accompany them to the Plus Base and back.
- Day 12: While the teen housemates were asleep, the Guardians were given the opportunity to the swimming pool for 45 minutes, to which they complied. Later, as the last part of their secret task, Beauty, Josef, Jieriel, and Kevin secretly brought clothes with them and stayed with the Guardians in the Plus Base. This was to let the four know the Guardians better for an important event to be held later in the week. Later, Priscilla and Valerie talked about Priscilla feeling good about Beauty, Josef, Jieriel, and Kevin's absence and Priscilla deciding to whom she would give her nomination points, though no names were mentioned. Their conversation put them in the list of nominees by Big Brother.
- Day 13: Josef, Kevin, Jieriel, and Beauty were made members of a Teen Council by Big Brother to decide the fate of the Guardians. After a discussion in the secret room, the Teen Council decided that Violy, Rose, and Jinky would be evicted from the House.
- Day 14: The results were announced later that evening; each of the three evicted Guardians had 100 seconds with their wards Valerie, Rona, and Priscilla respectively at the confession room before leaving the House altogether. Their exit did not affect the statuses of the teen housemates in any way. Nan, Robi, and Alex were then selected by Big Brother for a secret task; the three did not know they had been selected as the new Teen Council.
Week 3
- Day 15: Josef had his mouth closed and ribbons were wrapped around his head. This was punishment after his aunt Anna opened the decorated box while the Guardians were using the swimming pool.
- Day 17: In the evening, with the help of Big Brother and the other female housemates, Linda's father Hans, who flown in from Norway, entered the House to surprise her on his birthday. Not only did the two spent the night with each other, but also slept in the living room together.
- Day 18: As part of the secret task, Alex and Robi purposely left Nan hiding in the Plus Base to be with the Guardians. Nan and Guardians were tasked to teach him nursery rhymes so he could return to the main House area, but the task was a failure. Meanwhile, Ningning and Hans were finally brought together in the main House area to talk each other, the first time to do so peacefully in three years since their separation. Later, while Ejay and Jolas were deeply sleeping in the area near the kitchen, as the boys agreed beforehand, Robi, Alex, Josef, and Kevin dragged them to the Plus Base (as tasked by Big Brother) so Nan could return to the main House area.
- Day 19: Because of the task mentioned above, Ejay and Jolas found themselves in the Plus Base with the Guardians, and thus spent their time with them. The Guardians were later joined by Ningning and Hans, who spent their night in the main House area with Linda.
- Day 20: Ejay and Jolas finally returned to the main House area after passing a bread-baking task. Their output has halved between the Guardians and the housemates.
Week 4
- Day 22: The Teen Council, now composed of original members Beauty, Josef, and Kevin, and new members Robi, Alex, Nan, Jolas, and Ejay, voted to evict Robi's father from the House. Boy was informed of his eviction minutes before the nominations were announced. Like Violy, Rose, and Jinky before him, he had his 100 seconds with his son Robi before leaving the House.
- Day 23: Seeing that the housemates were leaving their vegetable supply almost untouched, Big Brother tasked the housemates to prepare only vegetable dishes of their meals. In the evening, Linda, Valerie, Priscilla, Nicole, and Rona were placed in the Plus Base as part of a scare prank task. The scary scenery, and the scarings of both their fellow housemates and the Guardians failed to frighten the five, although Rona's fear of ghosts got the better of her. They were thus prevented to stay longer in the Plus Base and know more about its inhabitants.
- Day 24: Linda, Valerie, Priscilla, Nicole, and Rona tried to resolve the issue of the missing cup noodles, as told by Big Brother the night before. While Kevin and Beauty swore they saw Priscilla and Valerie eat the noodles, no resolution was reached, rescinding any more chances of the last five females to know more about the Plus Base. Later, the housemates gave up their meat supply after losing a game involving vegetable dishes. In the evening, Anna expressed her desire to make a voluntary exit due to medical reasons. Since her nephew's status in the House would be affected, Josef was informed about this and aunt and nephew talk about it. Josef was OK about the idea of him and his aunt leaving together at any time she wanted due to his concern. This and Linda's pending response to Big Brother's offer of an all-expenses-paid vacation with her entire family became the reasons all voting was suspended for the week. Much later, as directed by Big Brother, John asked his fellow Guardians if they would like to live in the House area; only John and Minda took the offer and stayed with the teen housemates. In turn, all female housemates except Beauty were told to move to the "other room" (the Plus Base) and solve the mystery of its inhabitants in 24 hours.
- Day 25: Second Celebrity Edition housemate Jon Avila, dressed as the title character of the upcoming show Kapitan Boom, surprised Beauty by personally giving her two packaged boxes, which later turned out to contain more vegetables for lunch and dinner.[4] Wanting to spend more time with her entire family, she decided to sacrifice her stay and take Big Brother's offer of a vacation for her entire family. Later, Kevin and John's discussion about circumcision and Kevin's refusal to undergo it became so heated, Kevin was already tinkering the idea of leaving himself. Kevin was first placed in the Plus Base with Linda, Valerie, Priscilla, Nicole, and Rona. Soon, the switch was executed, with the Guardians staying in the main House area and the teen housemates in the Plus Base.
Weekly tasks
| Task No. | Date given | Description | Result |
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| 1 | March 23, 2008 (Day 01) |
Robi and Josef must convince their fellow housemates that they are "Best Buds Forever." Part of this is to perform Quit Playing Games (With My Heart) and Crank That together.T1 (100% bet of weekly allowance) | Failed |
| 2 | March 31, 2008 (Day 09) |
Do an "algorithm dance" to the tune of One Team Kapamilya, ABS-CBN's summer tune for 2008. (50% bet of weekly allowance) | Failed |
| 3 | April 8, 2008 (Day 17) |
Tie-dye 1,000 T-shirts to be sold outside the House. These shirts should come out colorful. Sales of the T-shirts must accumulate P200,000, proceeds of which will be used for an upcoming medical mission. T2 (75% bet of weekly allowance) | Passed |
| 4 | April 14, 2008 (Day 23) |
Study a maze while being blindfolded and holding walking canes without even touching its rope borders. On Friday, three of them should be chosen; they would be dressed as the Three Blind Mice and should travel the maze and finish it in the given time. | Pending |
- Template:Fnb It is announced as both a secret task for Robi and Josef and as an "All or Nothing" weekly task.
- Template:Fnb The housemates were also divided into "Team Josef" and "Team Robi" for this task. The losing team would make an additional sacrifice for the medical mission stated. (Team Robi won over Team Josef, the latter did the sacrifice.)
Nomination History
The housemate first mentioned in each nomination gets two points, while the second gets one point.
| #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | #7 | ||||||||||
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| Challenge Winner | Kevin | Ejay | ||||||||||||||
| Eviction Day and Date |
Day 21 April 12 |
Day 28 April 19 |
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| Nomination Day and Date |
Day 15 April 6 |
Day 22 April 13 |
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| Alex | Linda Josef |
Linda Nicole |
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| Beauty | Linda Priscilla |
Linda Rona |
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| Ejay | Linda Jieriel |
Linda Kevin |
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| Jolas | Linda Josef |
Linda Kevin |
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| Josef | Nan Beauty |
Kevin Valerie |
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| Kevin | Priscilla Ejay |
Linda Priscilla |
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| Linda | Valerie Nan |
Kevin Josef |
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| Nan | Josef Beauty |
Kevin Jolas |
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| Nicole | Ejay Jieriel |
Kevin Linda |
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| Priscilla | Jieriel Beauty |
Josef Kevin |
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| Robi | Josef Linda |
Josef Kevin |
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| Rona | Jieriel Ejay |
Kevin Josef |
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| Valerie | Nicole Jieriel |
Kevin Nicole |
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| Jieriel | Valerie Josef |
Evicted (Day 21) | ||||||||||||||
| Notes | Note 1 | Note 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Up for eviction | Jieriel Josef Linda Priscilla Valerie |
Kevin Linda |
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| Saved from eviction |
Josef 47.49% Priscilla 19.98% Valerie 18.66% Linda 9.28% |
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| Evicted | Jieriel 4.59% |
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| Forced Eviction or Voluntary Exit |
none | |||||||||||||||
- Automatic Nomination (due to violation(s) committed)
- Granted Immunity (challenge winner)
Template:Fnb Kevin was granted immunity after he and his father won a challenge on Day 13. Priscilla and Valerie were automatically nominated by Big Brother when the two openly had a conversation on Day 12 about who Priscilla would nominate.
Template:Fnb Ejay was granted immunity after he and his father won a challenge on Day 22.
Nomination Totals
| Alex | Beauty | Ejay | Jieriel | Jolas | Josef | Kevin | Linda | Nan | Nicole | Priscilla | Robi | Rona | Valerie |
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| 3 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 3 | 4 | 4 (+1) | 1 | 5 (+1) |
- with Automatic Nomination/s by Big Brother due to violation/s
- Big Winner
- Runner-up
Challenge Win Totals
| Alex | Beauty | Ejay | Jieriel | Jolas | Josef | Kevin | Linda | Nan | Nicole | Priscilla | Robi | Rona | Valerie |
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| 1 | 1 |
- Housemate that is currently granted with immunity (after being challenge winner)
Guardian Eviction
| Guardian Eviction #1 |
Teen Eviction #1 |
Guardian Eviction #2 |
#3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | |
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| Eviction Day and Date |
Day 14 April 5 |
Day 21 April 12 |
Day 22 April 13 |
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| Teen Council | Beauty Jieriel Josef Kevin |
None | Alex Beauty Ejay Jolas Josef Kevin Nan Robi |
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| Evicted | Jinky Rose Violy |
Gerry | Boy |
References
- ^ Entertainment Live, March 1, 2008
- ^ Cheers to the newly grads Robi, Jieriel and Rona!, Pinoy Big Brother website
- ^ Alex, binata na! Pinoy Big Brother website
- ^ The contents of the boxes were seen by viewers on a delayed feed shown on Studio 23.