Pinoy Big Brother 2 is the Most Controversial Season Ever
July 1, 2007 by cd
“Pinoy Big Brother” Season 2 has to be the most controversial edition in the history of ABS-CBN’s hit reality show so far.
Aside from catching the attention of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board, it was only in Season 2 that the show’s producers faced allegations that text votes were rigged in order to favor one contestant.
E-mails and text messages swamped ABS-CBN when housemates Wendy, Bea,and Gee-Ann were fighting.
Wendy was allowed to return to the Big Brother House last May, despite having been booted out two weeks earlier. She was allowed to return after the public voted her to be one of two “balik-bahay” housemates–the other “balik-bahay” housemate was Kian Kazemi.
This development spawned perceptions that Wendy–who is a beauty titlist from Navotas–is Big Brother’s “favorite” housemate, a claim that the show’s producers have denied.
Even though Wendy, Bea and Gee-Ann, eventually made peace, quite a number of PBB viewers continued the clamor for Wendy’s eviction.
In the last three eviction nights, the people had expected Wendy to be the unlucky housemate, but ABS-CBN Interactive, which receives and tallies the text votes, said she had actually beaten Ronel “Nel’ Rapiz, Bruce Angelo Quebral and Elmo “Bodie” Cruz in the text voting when each of the three men left the house.
Recently an e-mail which contains a “confirmation” by an alleged PBB staff member of the tampering of the results of the text voting started circulating on the Internet. This prompted Lauenti Dyogi, PBB director and ABS-CBN business unit head; and Paolo Pineda, managing director of ABS-CBN Interactive, to come forward and deny the claims in the controversial e-mail.
Who would forget Dionne Dennia Monsanto, her feelings for Ezekiel Joshua “Zeke” Dimaguila and the eyebrow-raising “sunblock incident” that threatened her stay inside the house?
Or the forced eviction of Maricris Dizon who in the middle of her emotional outburst threatened to hurt Bea?
A policeman’s son, Nel, meanwhile, had to shrug off rumors that he is gay.
Source: ABS CBN News
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