Commonly used terms

• House or house - refers to the Big Brother House in Dreamworld.
  
  
• Dreamworld - an Australian theme park on the Gold Coast in the state of Queensland. It is located near the city of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland. The house is right inside the park with roller coasters and all not far away. Click here for more information and some photos of two rides.
  
  
• HMs - short for housemates - the contestants of this show.
  
  
• Big BB - refers to the Executive Producer (EP). The EPs in 2008 are Virginia Hodgson and Rory Callaghan. It was Tim Toni in 2007. From 2004 to 2006 it was Kris Noble and previously it was Peter Abbott. The EP works for SSE (also known as ESS).
  
  
• ESS - short for Endemol Southern Star, the production company in Oz for BB and other shows on Aussie TV.
  
  
• Mikey G - short for, the very funny, Mike Goldman (see onthemike.com.au). Mike has been the host of 'Up Late' since series three in 2003, crowd warm up guy at the eviction show and daily show voice over man since the first series. Since 2005 he has also hosted 'BB: Friday Night Live' which is referred to here as FNL.
  
  
• Cesspit - users of the Oz Updates forum use this word to describe the official site's forum (because of the fighting, slander and general criticism). As of early May 2004, the Cesspit was closed but BB recommended a Yahoo Group. In 2005 and 2006 the Cesspit is back.
  
  
2008


• The voices of BB this year, as seen in the first daily show, are: Aaron Lucas (returning Deputy Big Brother) and two new guys named Jonathan Coffey and Leon Murray.
  
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• BB - short for Big Brother, the show and the voices of each Deputy BB that the HMs hear. In 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007, the main voice of BB is former newspaper and television Journalist, Nick "Carrot Top" Colquhoun (also referred to here as "Ginger Meggs"). In 2005 he was joined by Rikkie Proost who worked on BB in South Africa. In 2006 both were joined by Aaron Lucas who also works as a control room, Supervising Producer - House and voice of BB.
  
  In addition to Nick Colquhoun (the main voice of BB and now a Series Producer), the names of the other Deputy Big Brother voices for 2007 are: Aaron Lucas (returning for second year), Amy Coleman and Mark Grieve.
  
  
• Gorgeous Gretel - a lady who is exquisitely beautiful, classy, intelligent, witty and, some might say, condescending toward men (which is funny but embarrassing for guys). From 2001 to 2007, she hosted the BB eviction show and a few other BB shows each week - see Gretel-Killeen.com for more.
  
  
• King Kyle - he is the host of BB along with Jackie O, from 2008 onwards.