Last bid for infamy as Big Brother bows out

FOR a television show that is being put out to pasture, it was apt that one of the people auditioning for the final season of Big Brother yesterday arrived dressed as a cow.

Bovine antics were fairly popular yesterday as Big Brother hopefuls headed to the RDS in Dublin in a bid to secure a spot in the 11th and final season of a TV phenomenon.

Auditions began at 8.30am and continued into yesterday evening although the steady stream of people hoping to make it into the Big Brother House – and thereby establish themselves as the centrepiece of Channel 4’s summer season – was not quite the torrent of years gone by. In fact, some of those auditioning said they were there for two reasons: unemployment, or boredom.