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| 3 July 2001 |
| 3 July 2002 Welcome to the Cruel World By Ashleigh Wilson DESPITE the hype, the 15 aspiring nobodies of Big Brother 2 have failed to excite celebrity agent Harry M.Miller, who admitted yesterday he'd watched no more than 15 minutes of the current series. Mr Miller - who snapped up last year's Big Brother winner, Ben Williams, and Sara-Marie Fedele, who came third - said he had no plans to chase any of the latest cast. "To be honest with you, I've only seen a tiny bit of the current series," Mr Miller said. "My general view is that the three winners last year were Sara-Marie, Ben and (runner-up) Blair (McDonough), and I think they are clear winners and I don't see anybody coming near them." Like Ben last year, the winner of series two was the quiet, reliable Aussie bloke of the house. Peter Corbett, a 23-year old IT consultant, also gained the sympathy vote by revealing during the series he remembered the "exact moment" his parents had passed away, leaving the real-life big brother to look after his two siblings. By his own admission yesterday, Corbett - who walked away with the $250,000 prize on Monday night after 85 days inside the house - was "a little bit dull". "I just sit back and enjoy, more of the introvert I guess," he said. Big Brother spokesman David Brown confirmed last night that Corbett had not yet been signed by any celebrity agent. The finale was comfortably the nation's most-watched program on Monday night, but attracted a much smaller audience than the same episode last year. In the five mainland state capitals, the show was watched by an average audience of 2.302 million. That made the program the most-watched non-sporting program of the year, but was about 480,000 fewer viewers than the 2.789 million who watched a year ago. With plans already in progress for Big Brother 3, Fusion Strategy media analyst Steve Allen said next year's series could be successful if it did not promise too much. "If they sell it on hype, they're going to fail," he said. Article from The Australian |