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Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Hot! My Interview With Marcellas Reynolds of Big Brother

Hey hey everybody! I have a surprise for you. OK, well it's not a suprise anymore if you already read the title of this post.

Today I interviewed Marcellas Reynolds, a contestant from Big Brother 3 and currently co-hosting House Calls with Gretchen Massey! Talk about making a girl's day. Scratch that. MONTH!

I hope you enjoy it. I sure did! Please feel free to leave me your comments and let me know what you think because, well you know me, I just want to know. :)

Thank you Marcellas!

Hi there Marcellas! Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to do this interview with me for the Silly Hamsters blog. How are you doing? Getting enough beauty sleep lately?

I'm so good right now. I'm just so excited and happy about my life. My career is going well, my family is happy and healthy, I've got a great crew of friends! "The H.C." is a blast. I leap out of bed each day to go to work! As far as sleep; no! I've got the deepest bags under my eyes ever! Yikes. But these HG's are crazy! I don't wanna miss a moment!

Before I get to any other questions, I have to say that my favorite challenge with you on Big Brother 3 was the one with the gnomes. I know you came back on Big Brother 4 to give the houseguests instructions for a food challenge that involved gnomes. How many gnomes do you have at home?

There is only one gnome in my life. Boo. All others pale by comparison!

I'm a huge fan of Big Brother (obviously!) and House Calls. What's an average day of yours like during the weekdays while Big Brother is on and you're doing House Calls?

Gosh! My day starts @ 6:30. I get up, check the feeds and read updates @ several sites. I'm @ the gym by 7 and back home @ 8. Check the feeds and updates again, then in the shower. Check the feeds again then off to the studio. We have a 9 a.m. production meeting where we talk about the previous nights events and decide topics for that day. 10 a.m., showtime! Production meeting for 30 minutes after. Gretchen and I usually go shopping, have coffee or hang for a bit and then back home and back to the feeds! I check the boards to see what people thought of the show as soon as I get home.

You mention on House Calls a couple of times a week being glued to the feeds. How many hours per day are you usually able to spend watching the live feeds or do you mostly watch during the weekends?

I spend anywhere from 3 to 5 hours a day on the feeds. Sometimes more, sometimes less. I take House Calls and Big Brother very seriously. For 3 months this is my life.

Now on to the silly hamsters of Big Brother 6. Do you have a favorite hamster so far and what made you their favorite?

I don't have a fave. That makes this an interesting season as there is no clear cut person to cheer for. I like Kaysar and Janelle. I'd be happy if either of them won! I also think Rachel and Howie are playing a good game. Sarah I like but I'm sorta indifferent about. She needs to do something!

Do you have a hamster you really dislike in the Big Brother house this year? If so, what happened to cause you not to like them very much in the house?

Eric is one of the worst HG's in Big Brother History. Right up there with Will season 1, Josh season 3 and Cowboy from season 5. I don't think they are bad people I just don't like their level of game play. Eric's use of racial epithets as a firefighter and father shocks me. The way he's levelled charges of sexual harassment @ Michael I think was unwarranted and unprofessional. Unprofessional because he brings up that he's a firefighter and he's seen abuse before. That was a gross thing to say about someone.

Is there any one hamster in particular that you have come to completely view in a different light (either positive or negative) between the start of the show and now?

Eric and Ivette. I liked them both when I interviewed them. Now not so much. They seem to think they are these moral paragons and they have both said racist, horrid things. I hope they don't mean them.

How do you think Big Brother's Summer of Secrets is turning out this year? Is there anything in particular you would like to see happen?

I like this season better than 5. These players lack the charisma of Holly, Jase, Lori & Diane but I love how cutthroat they are. They are here to play! I like that! I'd like to see Michael come back and get a fair shot. He didn't deserve what he got.

Here's a light-hearted question for ya now. Do you have any idea what the combination to the safes are and what might be in them? What would you like to be in the safes?

I have no idea what's going on with the safes! I hope it's a cash prize! Like the HG that figures it out wins a prize! A car or a trip! I'd love it also if it forwarded the game. Changed it. Open the safe and win immunity in the game!

Speaking of the safes, does it bother you as much as it does me that they just give up on trying to open them? I just don't understand it personally.

Yes it does. IF I were there those safes would be open by now. I'd be trying to fashion a blowtorch out of lighters!

Do you think that a houseguest, or houseguests, might be re-introduced to the house this season? If so, how far down the line would you like to see that happen?

I know just as much as everyone else but something is up! I can tell! It'll happen after 4 players are gone like BB3.

Of course I have to ask you this question. Who would you like to see win Big Brother 6?

Janelle, Sarah or Kaysar.

And finally, do you have any upcoming appearances or special events scheduled that you would like us to know about? Any more photo shoots for magazine covers in the works? (Check out his cover for IN Los Angeles magazine!)

I've got so much going on! I'm in the "2006 Sexiest Men Of Reality Calendar". I shot a pilot as host for a make-over show on BET. I am sitting on a contract to host events and do celeb interviews for another channel (can't say until it's signed). I'm contracted to CBS until "The H.C." ends in September. The 1st episode I shot of "How Do I Look?" for the Style Channel airs on August 22nd! I go out on auditions almost everyday. I'm busy and blessed! Big Brother changed my life!

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