'Big Brother' Premieres...
Twists revealed...
The first twist is that Michael and Jennifer are half-siblings, and Michael has figured it out, but has not revealed it yet at end of first tv show to Jennifer. The second twist is that one set of twins, either Ben and Drew, Diane and Lindsay, or Adria and Natalie during the BB5 game will both be playing the game - they'll take turns playing in the house...

1st food competition
a game was played and the houseguests won a variety of food... but then Lori had the food ball which had a key inside..... The key opened a box containing $10,000 cash..... She could choose to take the cash and everyone would eat only PB&J for the whole week. If she passed on taking the cash, the choice would go to the next HG. Lori took the cash.... Everyone eats PB&J this week!!!

Head of Household was won by Jase

'Big Brother' Goes for Colorful Casting
Any student of drama or comedy will tell you that the best stuff starts on the page. Write a bang-up script, and you're well on the way to a successful outcome. On the other hand, in reality television, a well-written script is just what you don't have at the beginning. You may hope for a certain outcome, or prepare for eventualities, but you never quite know what's going to happen. Your only hope of securing success lies at the beginning and end of the process - casting and editing. And since the best editing in the world won't make up for casting a bunch of crashing bores, you'd better get it right at the start.

On Tuesday, July 6, CBS' "Big Brother" returns for a fifth go-round with a 90-minute premiere episode. As always, it's sequestering a group of strangers in a house built on a studio lot, with 42 cameras and 62 microphones recording every word (but not, thankfully, every bodily function). Julie Chen returns as host. Three episodes air each week -- Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The Thursday edition is live (tape-delayed to the Pacific time zone) and features the live eviction of one of the houseguests. At the end of three months, the last houseguest left standing gets $500,000.

"This year," executive producer Arnold Shapiro says, "we have the most colorful cast of characters that we've ever had. Sometimes you have a really good cast, and you know they're good players, and we certainly have that. These are highly competitive, ambitious people, but just as individual characters, they're the most colorful cast we've ever had." Becoming one of the 12 or 13 people squirreled away in the "Big Brother" house is the culmination of a long process that begins with thousands of original applicants. "They fall into two categories," Shapiro says of the potential houseguests. "They fall into a category of people who are at a crossroads or things aren't on the upswing for them, so it's an adventure or a lark.

"The other category of person is somebody who does have a life or a job, they may be married, they may be working in something they like, and they really want the money. "Actually, there may be a third category. Everybody wants the money - - nobody says that's not a relevant factor. But there are other people who say, 'This is the adventure of a lifetime. This is something unique that I will look back on and really be happy that I did, no matter what the outcome.'" From these initial thousands, casting director Robyn Kass selects about 100 standouts. After a day of viewing tapes and reading questionnaires, Kass, Shapiro and his producing partner, Allison Grodner, winnow the group down by half.

The approximately 50 people left are then gathered in Los Angeles and put through a battery of background checks, psychological exams, IQ tests, medical tests and in-depth interviews. Then, says Shapiro, an "A"-reel of 12 or 13 people is assembled, accompanied by individual reels for about the same number of alternates. It's a little like jury selection, with the final judges being CBS chief Les Moonves and the network's programming executive, Nancy Tellem, along with the CBS casting department. Some who work in television or report on it might be intimidated to be interviewed by the flamboyant, confident Moonves, but, says Shapiro, that's not necessarily the case here. "I'm not sure these people know who they are," he says of Moonves and Tellem. "The Hollywood people usually do. Les doesn't introduce himself. So they know they're going into a room of mostly strangers." After this little bit of hands-on attention from the CBS brass, the final list is chosen. "The fun part of the show is the casting," Shapiro says. "The other fun part, that's a little scary, is knowing that virtually every houseguest is going to change once they're in the house for some period of time, but we don't know how. When you take a person out of the mainstream of life and isolate them like that - they only have each other. "They don't have books or magazines or writing utensils, they've only got each other. It does affect people in different ways. In some cases, like wartime, it brings out the finest in people, and in some cases it brings out the worst in people. There's no way to know.

"That's why we give psychological tests. In addition to weeding out anybody with violent tendencies -- that's the biggest reason -- we want to make sure that somebody isn't so fragile that by week six, they're going to crack up under the stress of this. We claim this is the most stressful psychological game." Along with stress for the houseguests, there's plenty for the producers-- and especially the editors. With tens of thousands of computer users viewing the live feed via the Internet -- and commenting vigorously if they see any dodgy or dishonest editing -- episodes are assembled quickly or altogether live. "Not only do we have the stress of being basically a live show," Shapiro says, "we're the longest reality show in production, at three months. 'Survivor' is 40, 44 days; 'Amazing Race' is, I think, 30 days. We're somewhere between 85 and 90 days." And just to keep it interesting, producers have now given the rotating HOHs (heads of household) monitors in the HOH bedroom to allow spying on the other houseguests. And if that wasn't enough, there's more. "We have a twist that we absolutely can't discuss," Shapiro says. "It's a risky, great twist, if we pull it off."

CBS REVEALS THE IDENTITES OF THE 13 NEW HOUSEGUESTS COMPETING IN "BIG BROTHER 5"
Fifth Installment of Series Premieres on Tuesday, July 6th With a 90-minute Broadcast on the CBS Television Network CBS announced today the identities of the 13 houseguests who will compete in BIG BROTHER 5. The show follows a group of people living together in a house outfitted with dozens of cameras and microphones recording their every move 24 hours a day. One by one, the houseguests will vote each other out of the house. At the end of three months, the last remaining houseguest will receive the grand prize of $500,000. BIG BROTHER 5 debuts with a special 90-minute broadcast on Tuesday, July 6 (8:00-9:30 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Following the premiere, BIG BROTHER 5 will be broadcast each week on Tuesdays (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT), Thursdays (8:00-9:00 PM, live ET/delayed PT) and Saturdays (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT). The Thursday broadcast will feature the live eviction of one of the houseguests. Following are the 13 houseguests who will compete in BIG BROTHER 5:

Adria Okins, 30 Married Web Designer Birmingham, Ala.; Jase Wirey, 28 Single Volunteer Firefighter Decatur, Ill.; Lori Valenti, 26 Single Yoga Instructor Boston ; Will Wikle, 26 Single Registered Nurse Tupelo, Miss.; Karen O'Neil Ganci, 30 Married Portrait Artist Saddle Brook, N.J. ; Mike Lubinski, 41 Single Dad Commercial Painter Eastpointe, Mich.; Jennifer Dedmon, 21 Single Restaurant Hostess San Antonio, Texas ; Marvin Latimer, 36 Single Mortician Conway, S.C.; Diane Henry, 22 Single Cocktail Waitress Burlington, Ky. ; Michael Ellis, 23 Engaged Dad Security Officer Durant, Okla.; Holly King, 20's Single Model Los Angeles ; Drew Daniel, 22 Single Recent College Graduate Urbana, Ohio; Scott Long, 26 Single Sales Representative Pittsburgh, Pa.