Big Brother UK 2006: The Kit-Kat Question..

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You may, or you may not, have idly speculated about participating in the media festival that is each year's Big Brother TV programme. A short cut to faboulous riches and fame, for a very short time. The money runs dry quite quickly, the fame takes a longer time to dissipate.

Any road up, you buy a kit-kat. You're a bit peckish. But, oh my! there's a golden ticket in it. Now what do you do?

1) Accept that fate has chosen you for 'great' things, so you register your interest and set in motion the process where you win through the eligibility stages and face off against the other participants and go for it?

2) Decide you will have no part in this and consider your options of either:
a) Give it to a friend (or heck, an ILXor, is that the same thing?) or relative
b) Flog it to a tabloid who are offering 'the biggest' sums of money (quote: The Sun)
c) E-bay auction it.

3) Vacillate about it and run out of time.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 May 2006 07:57 (nineteen years ago)

is this question hyperthetical?

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 15 May 2006 08:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. I have not got one. And neither have you, theatre!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 May 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

i would enjoy a behind the scenes, chocolate factory-esque tour. wouldn't want to participate in any way though. so probably 2b or c.

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 15 May 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

woe: no-one loves my kit-kat question!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 May 2006 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

Where's the 4) rip it up into 24 pieces and chuck it in 24 different bins option?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 15 May 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

It's now officially available.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 May 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

I don't understand. Is kitkat offering a place on the show?

― Paul Kelly (kelly), Monday, 15 May 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

If you eat 15 kitkats in 3 minutes you get put in the house. It's harder than it looks. You're not allowed water.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 15 May 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

Big Brother is launching an amazing promotion to allow one lucky BB fan to completely by-pass the audition procedure (now well and truly over) and get into the House, 'Willy Wonka' style.

Specially-branded KitKat choccy bars will go on general sale on the launch night of Big Brother 7, with just 100 bars nationally containing a special golden ticket. Fans will have until around 10pm on the 2nd of June 2006 to call and register their ticket.

Then, all the people who've registered – remember, some tickets won't be found in time and some will probably be accidentally thrown away – will be invited to attend a special live show a week later, taking with them their suitcase and toothbrush.

Davina will pick the lucky 'contestant' at random and this person will enter the house immediately and is eligible to win. In fact, Endemol pulled a similar stunt in Brazil where a late entrant went-on to win the show.

The only caveat is that all ticket holders, who must be over 18, will be subject to background checks before being invited to take part in the live show. This is just to make sure that they're not axe-murderers or whatever!

All potential housemates are checked in this way and previous auditionees or even previous contestants could, in theory, get on the show if they are picked by Davina.

A show insider said, "Millions of die-hard fans would pay the earth to get a chance to be on the show". Actually, around 25,000 people auditioned for Big Brother this year, but we know what he means.

Expect there to be a buying frenzy at your local supermarket when the bars go on sale later this month, especially as Channel 4 bosses accept that some tickets will inevitably end-up on ebay.

Tickets, which cannot be transferred once registered, are expected to sell for up to £10,000. So, if you're really desperate to get on BB7 and don't have that sort of cash lying around, you'd better get ready for a mad trolley dash on the 18th of May!

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 15 May 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

£10k for a one-in-a-hundred chance of being on Big Brother. Jesus.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 15 May 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

OMG I have a kitkat in the fridge at home!!1!1!

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 15 May 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

How much would you have to spend on kitkats to have a decent chance of finding a ticket? How many kitkats are there Out There?

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 15 May 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

I saw dozens in the shop over the road, I'm well in.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 15 May 2006 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

this promo is v clever since it's mostly scum who eat kit-kats

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 May 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

Fat scum.

― Kenneth Anger Management (noodle vague), Monday, 15 May 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

rtfa - they aren't on sale yet:

> Specially-branded KitKat choccy bars will go on general sale on the launch night of Big Brother 7

aren't more kitkats eaten than any other chocolate bar? does that mean that there's a lot of scum.

> How much would you have to spend on kitkats to have a decent chance of finding a ticket?

if only my dad was roy kinear...

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 15 May 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

are they putting them in with chunky peanut butter kitkats? these are the only ones i'm buying at the mo. after a long gap of never buying nor eating kitkats.

i would try and sell my golden ticket, somehow, if i had one.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 15 May 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

My mum likes kit kats. I hope she gets to go on BB, that would be GRATE.

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 15 May 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

I thought people had to go through all sorts of tests to make sure they're psychologically equipped to deal with being on the show. Now a Kit-Kat promotion means this is reduced to "not being an axe-murderer"?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 15 May 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

or whatever!

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 15 May 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

I thought people had to go through all sorts of tests to make sure they're psychologically equipped to deal with being on the show.

if by psychologically equipped you mean 'utterly deranged attention-seeker' then yes those tests were working a treat. i think Endemol are just thinking 'oh sod it, nobody out there among the GBP can be as wacko as some of the people we've already had on'.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 15 May 2006 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

Careful steve, don't want to get accused of snobbery.

― Kenneth Anger Management (noodle vague), Monday, 15 May 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

it would be a delicious irony (*scoffs kit-kat*)

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 15 May 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmm, irony

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 15 May 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

chunky peanut butter irony

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 May 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

lol duplicate thread

― the confusing situation Enrique currently endures (Enrique), Monday, 15 May 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

identikitkat thread.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 May 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

OMG I have a kitkat in the fridge at home!!1!1!

and! and! what happened? are you going on the telly?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 15 May 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Basically, the question in a nutshell is: To what extent do you let fate dictate your life?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

OOh, then carve "4REAL" into my arm and rub the blood all over the camera lenses.

Yes, that sounds like a good plan. Now, to the confectioner!

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Scum no longer eat KitKats since the foil element is no more, thus sending the dragon-chasing demographic into other markets.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

OMG I have a kitkat in the fridge at home!!1!1!

and! and! what happened? are you going on the telly?

I gave half of it to Sarah! So we're going to take it in turns to go on the telly! She'd better not get me evicted...

― Swiss Ra (Mark C), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

Also Nestle now own KitKat, so middle class hippie scum don't buy them ever, either.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Don't two-finger KitKats from multipacks still have foil?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

The one I ate last night did, yes. Which means I'm not middle class hippy scum (hooray!) but I might be a smackhead (boo!)

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

I'd have thought suzy would be familiar w/ the two fingers but maybe not

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

I would use the golden ticket in a collage, or draw pictures of robots all over it.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'd go on the show, then try to bring it down from within. Maybe stage a dirty protest in the diary room, or just sit on the sofa and shout FUCK every five seconds so they have to bleep out every word spoken by everyone inside.
OOh, then carve "4REAL" into my arm and rub the blood all over the camera lenses.
Yes, that sounds like a good plan. Now, to the confectioner!
-- Hello Sunshine (fiver_the_bunn...) (webmail), Today 2:35 PM. (later) (link)

Well, it didn't work for Kitten.

hang about..

Kitten..
KitKat..

Hmm....

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

When do they go on sale?

Not that I want one or owt...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

launch night apparently

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

HI DERE

i find it hard to read this thread properly, all i see is Kit Kat Kit Kat Kit Kat Kit Kat

― teh_kit has 21 friends (g-kit), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

you can't buy this kind of free advertising.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

You think they didn't buy it?

har.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not 4 SAEL

― teh_kit has 21 friends (g-kit), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

oh noes we've gone all viral

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BIG-BROTHER-GOLDEN-TICKET-FOUND-FIRST-ON-EBAY_W0QQitemZ6631078220QQcategoryZ16071QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

It's at £10,000 already

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

now it's over £20,000. madness.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

£30,000 now. Bidder is called "hankypanky" hmm

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

DO NOT BID IF U HAVE LESS THAN 5 FEEDBACK!!

£70,000 now! (but the bidder(s) have less than five feedback points onoes)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

Current bid: £100,100.00

Blimey, it's like the German inflation post WW1 !

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

Intentional spoiling. As it should be. Note the lack of photo of the ticket...

― Crimea River (Mark C), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

a )Wouldn't it be great if the headlining news story in a couple of weeks time was "Big Brother wanabee turns out to be axe murderer"
b) Don't the police kind of run checks like this all the time. Whenever there is , like, an axe murderer. Do you really think a C4 researcher is going to uncover something the police didn't?

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

The ad for KitKat / golden ticket. The old man w/flat cap. Classic.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

FOUND 10 MINUTES AGO

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

the person who bid £150,000, their last item sold on ebay was 900+ pics of his mates ex girlfriend

NSFW!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

10 million now!

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

£ten million, bid by Laffytaffy.

Assuming the auction's legit, why are these mentalists screwing up the auction? It's not like they're attacking nasty ticket touts, is it?

Unless they are Ndml insiders.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

silly

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

Unless they are Ndml insiders no, they are all now in the house of course

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

Ndml wouldn't mind the ebaying, it's all generating interest, shirley?

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

That auction has been cancelled.

And now, cue pathetic ebay auctions....
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BIG-BROTHER-GOLDEN-TICKET-FROM-KIT-KAT_W0QQitemZ4464019980QQcategoryZ38174QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Big-Brother-Kit-Kat-Golden-Ticket_W0QQitemZ9138780364QQcategoryZ80024QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 May 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

who has time to do this sort of thing?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 19 May 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

don't answer that...

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 19 May 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, who has time to spend 1/3 of their waking life on the internets.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Friday, 19 May 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

(the last one there is worth clicking...) (well, they both are in their way) (otherwise why would I have put them there?) (I mean, I have better things to do..) (.. oh hang on)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 May 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6281719935&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.co.uk%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Ffrom%3DR40%26satitle%3D6281719935%2B%26fvi%3D1

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 19 May 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

"printed this myself" ahar.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 May 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BIG-BROTHER-GOLDEN-TICKET-LOOK-HERE_W0QQitemZ6281737797QQcategoryZ35QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

and now, the person that bidded £10 million is selling all rights to the email he received confirming his bid.

We are now in hyperspace.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 May 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

dear annakw2388, you are an idiot.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 19 May 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Who wants to bid £10,000,000 for the e-mail?

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 19 May 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Friday, 19 May 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

736 views for the auction. 0 bids.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 May 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Now gone'd, again.

I at least give points to the person auctioning a can of Kit-e-kat for lateral thinking!

― mark grout (mark grout), Saturday, 20 May 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Well, last night I saw a big tub of kitkats with a sticker on the display unit about the Golden Ticket.

Wasn't bothered. I tried 'rolling' a couple but they seemed empty of all but the choc.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

I'm off to buy one, back in a sec..

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

bah!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Drum roll, keith...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

BLimey, that was quick.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

do the kitkats have any mention of BB on their wrapper? the ones in our vending machine don't. i wuz robbed.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

The ones I saw didn't.

My guess is the ones in yr vending machine are older than this past week.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

yeah thats what i thought too.

That was my first kitkat in years, i'd forgotten how nice they were.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

they are nice. it's a shame they are nestlé.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

They seem to be getting found anyway. From the BB site, apparently one *is* on e-bay now. then...

Just ask Tim from London. Or the lucky chaps and chapesses from Bristol, Surrey, and Weston Super-Mare, who'll be competing for a place in the House on live TV early next month. They're among the lucky few who've snared the first batch of special chocolate bars.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.channel4.com/bigbrother/media/news/day09/d09_nts_shoping_tim_golden.jpg
Tim. From London.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Aw. I really wanted "Tim from London" to be our 'Opkins.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Tim has a greasy forehead.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

kitkats in the local supermarket had some kind of football related thing going on this lunchtime.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

So, the lines are all closed, and the lucky finders, nominees or people who paid £900 on ebay, or Newspaper competition winners, line up.

This is the thread for the debate on the suitability / character assasination / sulking to take place.

Apparently, Ray from BB? (Irish, nice chap) was involved in some large buying/opening syndicate. But it's not him going in.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 5 June 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry to keep reviving this, but when is it happening?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure Davina said this week on the last eviction night, maybe Friday? don't quote me.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

I thought she said Monday, but I may be (in fact, it would appear that I am) wrong.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

Golden ticket winners await their fate
Day 20, 23:22 BST - by Neil Wilkes
A 50-year-old "better looking" version of Lea and a professional tennis player are among those to have won golden tickets.
In total, 56 lucky tickets were found and registered by the deadline of last Friday night. Their owners will now progress - subject to psychological screening - to the final round this Friday (June 9), where one will be randomly selected to become a housemate.
The winners include:

Professional gambler and journalist Ed Murray, whose association with Big Brother goes back to a £26,000 winning bet he made on Nadia to win BB 5 which cleared his student debts and turned him into a professional reality TV gambler!

Su Lindsey, 50, from Lichfield in Staffordshire, who claims to be an older, 'better looking' version of Lea. She is a huge BB fan who bought her ticket over Ebay for over £600.

Mohammed 'Nad' Butt, a 24-year old self-confessed playboy based in London who works for a celebrity and glamour model photo agency.

Susan Carter from Plymouth, 34, who found her Golden Ticket after buying over 10,000 KitKats - yet had to round up volunteers to eat them as she is actually allergic to chocolate.

22 year-old Matt Oakes from Coventry, who was once an internet stripper, yet also admits to being a virgin.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

10,000 kitkats @ 50p each = £5,000 http://www.gh-mathspeak.com/examples/NemethBook/Rules/Rule20/images/20_000_x_00_012.png £600 off ebay

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

What's an internet stripper?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

IS THIS THING ON!!!???

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

OK, these people quoted seem exactly like the kind of people that would apply through the normal BB processes, and not like yr random punter on the street. Therefore they should all be disqualified and some old duffer like Bad Dad from Adam and Joe or something should be the winner instead.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

where does mark buy his kitkats? 50p is a bit expensive. did pay 50p for one yesterday but that was in a tube station and was a peanut chunky.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

Remind me why we didn't all pledge to buy say 100 kitkats each and then vote on which ILXor to send into the house?

― Crimea River (Mark C), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

Because of the baybies.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

xpost well, say they are 30p or whatever. Still more than £600 off ebay.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

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