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No Big Brother brawl as producers deny social media rumours

Big Brother producer denies social media rumours about intruder Justynn supposedly being forcibly removed. "There's not a shred of truth in it."

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2013-09-29_1816Social media conspiracy rumours today speculating about housemate Justynn being removed from Big Brother house have been denied by producers.

#BBAU and #Justynn have been trending on Twitter as fans theorise that Intruder Justynn was removed following a supposed violent altercation with Ed.

But Executive Producer Alex Mavroidakis has denied anything of the kind. While Big Brother rumours are an everyday occurrence, family members have expressed concern, causing him to respond.

“Nobody involved with the show started or fuelled this ridiculous story, and since it became more than just your run of the mill rumour, I’ve responded,” he told TV Tonight.

“If I had to debunk every falsehood tweeted, posted, written about Big Brother then there would be no show at all because it would take up my entire day.

“We would never use the health or the well-being of a housemate to promote the show. I’d like to think if you look back to last year with the terrible Josh incident when we actually switched the cameras off I’d like to think people believe the duty of the housemates comes first always.

“If an incident like this had actually occurred we would obviously act accordingly: remove the person from the house and then let everybody know it had happened. But the fact of the matter is it hasn’t happened.

“There’s not a shred of truth in it.”

Rumours began after the official website stopped updating on the two Intruders.

However it’s understood one Intruder has been formally evicted in a filmed sequence and Big Brother isn’t mentioning either Intruder on the website in order to keep the element of surprise for Monday’s show.

Tomorrow night’s Live show includes two female Intruders also entering the house.

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  8. Big Brother Australia and Justynn were blowing up on Twitter all day, so Nine would have to be pretty pleased with that. The Monday show might get a nice little boost with all this speculation.

    Things seemed to have calmed down on Twitter and there is much a consensus about which intruder has been evicted.

  9. @timmydownawell I agree. To have one intruder sitting on his own in hiding for days on end doesn’t seem feasible. It seems like a plan b. Also on the few video feeds shown on the website, the housemates spirits were decidedly low.

  10. If the story is this innocent why didn’t the producers quell the mounting frenzy on social media earlier. Surely admitting that the eviction was not live is a lesser evil than fanning the flames. For my part, I do believe that something occurred to rush an eviction. Justynn’s aggression was so obvious my daughter was scared for the housemates’ safety. As was I.

  11. Monday’s show is an “Intruder Eviction” special, according to Nine’s own promo, so why would you evict one days in advance of that show and then “hide” the remainig intruder so as to not spoil the show on Monday? Why not keep them both in all weekend and evict them on Monday during the eviction show (that people have presumably paid to go to)? It really doesn’t make sense, so it’s no wonder there is so much speculation that something occurred in there.

  12. Just to add, this is Channel 9’s resonse to social media users asking about the incident. It makes it sound like hiding the updates are intentional.

    “You’ve noticed that both Intruders have disappeared from the Official Site’s Live Feed? All will be revealed on tomorrow night’s Live Intruder Special at 7.00pm!”

  13. Its certainly suspicious that the updates have disappeared given that (in my opinion) the intruders seemed to have taken over the show and website/social media updates last week

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