The Glasgow round of the Big Brother auditions 2010 brought all the wannabe housemates out of the woodwork, and stv.tv caught up with some of them.
Fans of the show had travelled not just from Scotland but from as far away as down south, to be in with a shot of being on the last ever series of the programme.
One of them was 25-year-old Kaddicus Metallicus, who used to live in Neston on the Wirral, but moved to St Andrew’s five years ago.
Kaddicus, who changed her name by deed poll, decided dressing up in a homemade medieval-inspired gown would help get her noticed.
“On my application I emphasised my medieval history views. I did a medieval history degree, and I do medieval history re-enactment, so I do medieval re-enactment fighting with swords and axes and shield, and I also do feasting, so I dress up and do nine and 12-course feasts,” she explained.
Another potential contestant who was hoping to catch the eye of Big Brother was Arlie, who was donning a costume made out of crisp packets.
“I’m addicted to crisps, it’s not even a joke, I’m lost without crisps,” she told stv.tv’s Gill Harvey. “If I’ve not got crisps, and I know I’ve not crisps, I think about it constantly until I get a packed of crisps. I eat about six packets a day. It’s good though because I don’t put it on anywhere.”
When asked how she’d cope without her usual dose, in the food-rationed house, she said: “I know if there was anything I could do for a packet of crisps when I was in there I would do it.
“I love to get naked, so if it meant that I ran round the garden or the house naked for half an hour for a packet of crisps, I would do that anyway without the crisps, but with crisps it would be even better.”
Also auditioning was Amanda from Manchester, who had travelled up to take part in the Glasgow round of auditions. Amanda, who lists her career as a professional dominatrix, said that she’d like to break free from her current life: “I’d like to be able to think that I’ve got more independence, I’d like to think that I’d like to try and see if I’m liked by people, that would be interesting to know,” she said.
“At the moment everybody knows me as a dominatrix, all my friends, all my family, and I’d like to just be known as Amanda, instead of Mistress Elina, that would be very interesting for me.”
And Stuart from the Scottish Borders, who describes himself as ‘wacky’, turned up in a nappy and rollerskates, in a tribute to the Evian adverts.
Explaining why he thinks he’d be the ideal housemate for the final series of Big Brother, he said: “I’d be doing games, all sorts, the whole through and having a laugh, making people laugh, and joking around falling about. That’s what we want to have, top entertainment where people tune in 24/7.”
If he got on the show and won, he says he'd donate half the money to the army charity Help the Heroes, and use the other half to expand his rollerskating discos, which he runs to get kids off the streets.
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