A few weeks ago, Big Brother 10 winner, Dan Gheesling, was giving out tips on how to send in your audition tape and today he is answering two frequently asked questions regarding what to wear and when to arrive at an open casting call.
What do I wear to an Open Casting Call? And what time should I get there? What to wear: Wear what you would normally wear for a night out on the town – but make sure it is unique to you. If you normally go out for the night in a pinstripe suit and fedora – wear it.
If you have never worn a fedora in your life now is not the time to start. Use your unique style in your clothing, it is another way to express yourself and stand out during the auditions, just make sure it is authentic!
(At my auditions I simply wore a black button up shirt, nice pear of jeans, and black shoes. This is what I normally wear out – not to mention I felt the most comfortable and confident in it!)
When to get there: Be prepared to wait for a while no matter what time you get there. Don’t give yourself a time limit (“I will be in and out of here in an hour”) because it will just freak you out if you have somewhere to be after.
You want to remove all external distractions from your audition, time commitment being a huge one. Remove it so you can focus on the one thing that matters: the audition.
Prepare to wait for at least a few hours during your open call. If there ends up being no line, or if it goes by fast, you will be more than covered.
You can view more of Dan’s auditioning tips and tricks, including a behind the scenes look at an open casting call at his website.
The show kicks off the 6th leg of the race with first place team Art & JJ departing first. They discover that they will be flying to Baku, Azerbaijan, then they will head to Temple Ateshgah, where they will search for their next clue.
All teams are on the same flight to Baku, and Dave and Rachel make it to a taxi first. At the Temple of Ateshgah, Dave & Rachel find a door that says Open at Sunrise. All teams meet up and wait until dawn for the clue box.
Fast Forward Spoilers!!
Joey and Danny are fist to the clue and are offered a Fast Forward. In this fast forward, teams will travel to a roadside hay market where they will unload and re-stack 150 hay bales. Rachel & Dave also decide to take the fast forward.
Both teams are facing off to see who completes the Fast Forward first, with Joey and Danny emerging ahead.
Rachel is really struggling to keep up with Joey & Danny, as Dave keeps dumping bales on her.
However, despite her struggling, Rachel & Dave complete the Fast Forward first and head to the finish line! Joey & Dave will now have to head to the Occupational Training International and join the rest of the teams.
Other teams receive a route marker where they will have to head to Occupational Training International, where they will search the grounds for their next clue.
Road Block SPOILERS!
Bopper and Mark arrive at the Road Block first: What goes down, must come up. This roadblock will have teams strapped into a mock helicopter training, where they will have to escape from an underwater crash simulator and swim to their next clue.
Brenchel arrives in 4th place, with Brendon performing the task.
Bopper, JJ and Jamie are in the first run, JJ gets the clue first, then Jamie, then Bopper. Teams must now make their way to Toghrul Kararakh Carpet Shop where they will find their next clue.
Brendon is next, while Vanessa is waiting. She is visibly more nervous and scared than anyone else, however she passes the road block and they are in 6th place.
Joey and Danny finally arrive!
Detour Spoilers!
Bopper & Mark, Art & JJ, Nary & Jamie and Brenchel all arrive at the carpet shop at the same time and come to the next detour: Apples and Oil.
In Apples, teams must rummage through over 1 tonne of apples, searching for one specific apple marked with a flag. Once they find it, they will exchange it for a clue.
In Oil, they must clean a man using a metal shoe horn and then clean using sponges. Once their bather is clean, they will get their next clue.
Brenchel, Bopper & Mark and Art & JJ choose Oil. Nary & Jamie and Ralph and Vanessa pick Apples.
Art and JJ enjoy cleaning their man and finish first and head to the pit stop. Bopper and Mark finish soon after, followed by Rachel and Brendon.
Joey and Danny finally arrive and pick Apples.
Nary and Jamie find their apple and head to the pit stop.
Vanessa and Ralph finish but cannot find their taxi driver. In the mean time, Joey & Danny have caught up and found their apple.
Arrival And Elimination Spoilers!
Arrivals
1: Rachel and Dave – 2 2013 Ford Taraus
2: Art and JJ
3: Bopper and Mark 4: Rachel and Brendon
5: Nary and Jamie
6: Vanessa and Ralph ELIMINATED 7: Joey and Danny
If you follow Jun and her husband on Twitter, you’ll know that Jun has brought us along on her pregnancy journey, and today the couple welcomed their first child – Noah!
If there is some odd reason you don’t remember Jun (and major shame on you if you don’t) she won the fourth season of Big Brother *and is one of my favourite players EVER. If you don’t follow her on Twitter, nowadays Jun is happily married, living in Belgium with her husband (and now son)!
Tweet Jun and Davy your congratulations, and welcome Noah to the world!!
BB12 savior, Britney Haynes recently got married to her high school sweetheart. No, she didn’t get married to the guy she was engaged to on the show, they broke up shortly after the show ended. RealityNation has the details!
Big Brother 12?s “Favorite Houseguest” winner Britney Haynes married Nathan Godwin Sunday in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
The former houseguest has remained low key since her time on the show and had kept her wedding plans under wraps until after the fact when she tweeted the photo below of the newlyweds.
According to several reports, she moved to New York City after Big Brother and ended her relationship with Nick. According to Britney’s Twitter, Nathan was her high school sweetheart.
The newlyweds are headed to Paris for their honeymoon.
The show kicks off with Art & JJ departing first. Their clue tells them that they will now travel by train to Ehrwald, Austria, and then to Germany where they will go to Gustaf Zum Rassen where they will search for their next clue!
Some teams meet up in Ehrwald, as they’re waiting for the next train to take them into Germany, however, Art & JJ leave and arrive first to Gustaf Zum Rassen where Joey & Danny and Rachel & Dave also meet them and they come to their first detour: Fairy Tale or Champion Male.
Detour and Speed Bump SPOILERS!!
In Fairy Tale, teams will follow a trail of gingerbread and walk to a fairy tale inspired village, looking for the the witch from Hansel and Grettle. They will then have to take the gingerbread pieces from the trail and use them on the roof of a gingerbread house. Once completed, they will receive their next clue.
Champion Male will have the teams pick a bearded man and style his beard based off of a winning look.Once the world champion feels like the beard is good enough, they will receive their next clue.
The first three teams pick Champion Male.
Meanwhile, the other teams finally arrive in Germany.
Rachel and Dave are first to arrive at Champion Male.
Because Bopper and Mark arrived last in the last leg, they must now complete a Speed Bump that will reqire them to yodel. They will have to master a specific tune – and then they will get their next clue!
Vanessa and Ralph also choose Champion Male.
Art & JJ finish Champion Male first and get their clue which tells them to look for the inspiration of Sleeping Beauty’s castle, that will lead them to Neuschwanstein Castle.
Rachel and Brendon choose Fairy Tale and Kerri and Stacy follow them. Bopper and Mark quickly complete the yodel task and also pick Fairy Tale.
Rachel and Dave finish Champion Male and are now in second place.
Bopper and Mark find the basket first and are make their way through the detour. Kerri and Stacy and Rachel and Brendon finally find the gingerbread baskets and make their way.
Joey and Danny, and Vanessa and Ralph now complete the detour and make their way to the castle.
Bopper and Mark obviously find the witch first and start working on decorating their gingerbread house. The other two teams catch up.
Nary and Jamie now finish Champion Male.
Bopper and Mark and Brenchel now finish, leaving Brendon and Rachel in last place.
Art & JJ now arrive at the castle, but decide to take a horse and buggy to the top. Vanessa and Ralph, and Joey and Danny also make it there. They all decide to walk to the castle o_O
First to the clue is Art & JJ and they are told they have to drive themselves to a hockey rink called Fishockey Und Curling Rink where they will search for their next clue.
Joey and Danny and Vanessa and Ralph now found their clue and are off to the rink.
Rachel and Dave, Nary and Jamie bought tickets to a tour and are now touring the castle, confused, only to discover that they are at the wrong castle. This allows Bopper & Mark and Brenchel to catch up, however Bopper and Mark also go to the wrong castle.
Brenchel takes advantage f Rachel & Dave/Nary&Jamie’s mistake, pushing them into 5th and Bopper and Mark into last, still at the wrong castle, while Nary and Jamie are on their way to the right castle.
Meanwhile, Art and JJ now arrive at the roadblock.
Roadblock SPOILERS!!
In this roadblock, teams must curl their gnome onto the bullseye. Once they do, they will get their next clue.
They quickly finish and are on their way to the pit stop, a 200 year old working dairy farm called Landhannes Farm, where the last time to check in will be eliminated.
Joey and Danny, Vanessa and Ralph finish quickly.
Nary and Jamie, Rachel and Dave and Brenchel are all trying at the same time. Rachel and Dave finish first, then Brenchel, leaving Nary and Jamie behind.
Bopper and Mark now arrive and pass Nary and Jamie. Kerri and Stacy are there, racing against the other team.
Kerri and Stacy now pass Nary and Jamie, however, they finish quickly after. Nary and Jamie are confident that they can beat Kerri and Stacy.
Arrival and Elimination SPOILERS!
1: Art and JJ – Trip for 2 to Thailand.
2: Joey and Danny
3: Vanessa and Ralph
4: Rachel and Dave 5: Brendon and Rachel
6: Bopper and Mark
7: Nary and Jamie ELIMINATED: Kerri and Stacy
Okay okay, auditioning for Big Brother is now easier than ever, and a tutorial video of what to do is pretty… useless because it’s so easy… but it’s Dan!
And even tho he’s hopped on the “former Big Brother personality trying to get you on a reality show” bandwagon, which is kind of annoying btw, we’re going to post this because we hope it will encourage you to actually audition!
The fourth episode is under way, and first place team Art and JJ kick off the leg off by finding out that they will be flying to Turin, Italy – when they land, they will drive themselves to the Lingotto building where they were find their next clue.
Art & JJ discover that no flights leave until tomorrow morning, so they decide to leave. Bopper & Mark head to the airport, while all the other teams head to the travel agency. Once Bopper & Mark arrive at the airport, Art & JJ inform them that they have to go to the travel agency first.
Everyone gets on the same flight, except for Bopper & Mark.
Once the first flight arrives, Art & JJ arrive first, quickly followed by Brendon and Rachel. Art and JJ are first to the box and receive a fast forward. One team member will have to fly a model helicopter and land it on their partners head, who will be wearing a model of the Lingotto helicopter pad.
Road Block SPOILERS!
Brendon and Rachel are first to start the Road Block, with the Guidos right behind.
In this road block, teams will have to rapel 120 feet down the Lingotto building, grabbing a clue on the way down. If they fail to grab the clue in the 2 minute time span, they must start again.
Rachel quickly grabs the clue and finishes first and receives the next clue. Teams must now navigate themselves to Museo Nazionale Dell’automobile. Once they they ust park using the Ford Focus’ auto-park feature, then head inside the museum and search for the 1916 Tin Lizzy car for their next clue.
Bopper and Mark finally land in Italy.
Vanessa is trying to repel. Art and JJ are still struggling with the FastForward. Rachel and Dave are arguing about if they should try the FastForward.
Vanessa’s time runs out and she has to start again. Jamie’s time runs out and she has to start again.While the other two are retarting, Rachel zooms past and is now in third place.
Vanessa and Jamie finally finish.
Shortly after Art & JJ complete the FastForward.
Stacy and Kerri are now at the repel. Stacy easily gets the clue and moves on.
Bopper and Mark arrive sometime later and get their clue.
Despite arriving second, the Guidos complete parking their car first and are inside the museum. Meanwhile, Rachel and Brendon are having a meltdown because Brendon was talking negatively to her.
While both teams are searching for the car, Rachel & Dave, Vanessa & Ralph and Nary & Jamie all arrive at the museum.
Brenchel finds the car first and sees a penny inside the box. They must now figure out that the building on the penny is the Mole Antoelianna. Once there, they will ride the elevator to the top and get their next clue.
Brendon and Rachel are super confused and are trying to put their penny into some sort of machine. Joey and Danny find it, followed by Rachel and Dave, Vanessa and Ralph.
Rachel and Dave figure out that they need to head to the building first, while Brenchel are still inside the museum looking for what to do and continue to fight.
Finally, they clue in that they need to go to the building but have no idea where it is.
Kerri and Stacy now arrive and the museum.
Meanwhile, Art & JJ arrive at the pit stop.
Detour SPOILERS!!
Danny and Joey get to the building first and are on their way to the top. Once they get their clue, they come to a detour: Clean that Statue or Name that Salami.
In Clean that Statue, teams will have to learn how to prestinely clean a statue, once done, they will get their next clue. In Name that Salami, they will taste 14 salamai’s and then travel to a a meat vendor and name each of the 14 salami’s.
Danny & Joey, Rachel & Dave, Vanessa & Ralph pick Clean that Statue. Brenchel picks salami.
Bopper and Mark quickly catch up to Nary and Jamie.
Brendon and Rachel arrive at the Salami task before the other teams arrive at Clean That Statue.
Rachel and Dave continue to fight.
Nary and Jamie now arrive at Clean That Statue.
Kerri and Stacy arrive at the clue box and decide they are going to do the Salami task.
Brendon and Rachel guess 5 salami’s correctly, but get one wrong and have to go back.
Rachel and Dave finish the statue task and get their clue which tells them to head to Piazza Castello. Last team to check in may be eliminated.
Brenchel heads back to the meat vendor but gets it wrong and heads back.
Joey and Danny now finish the statue task, followed by Vanessa and Ralph.
Kerri and Stacy now catch up to Brenchel. Rachel now has another meltdown because she can no longer taste.
Nary and Jamie now finish the Statue task
Rachel and Brendon now finish Taste Your Salami, same with Kerri and Stacy.
Arrivals and Elimination SPOILERS!
1: Art & JJ – $5,000 each
2: Rachel & Dave
3: Joey and Danny
4: Vanessa and Ralph
5: Nary and Jamie 6: Brendon and Rachel
7: Kerri & Stacy NON – ELIMINATION 8: Bopper & Mark – Art and JJ now give Bopper 10k so he can help his daughter.
Episode 3 starts off with Rachel and Dave departing first. They discover that they will now fly to Asuncion, Paraguay where they will take a taxi to an equipment store and search for their next clue. Art and JJ decide that they are going to partner up with Rachel and Dave to dominate the race.
All teams meet up at the airport, where Art & JJ and Rachel & Dave are on an earlier flight due to being placed on standby. Nary & Jamie and Bopper & Mark also catch an earlier flight. All other teams are two hours behind.
The first four teams arrive at the equipment store and search to find their clue. Art and JJ find it first and they are faced with a Detour: Stacked Up or Strung Out.
Detour: Stacked Up or Strung Out SPOILERS!!
Teams will head to Paraguay’s favourite fruit market or head to play their favourite instrument to be Stacked Up or Strung out. In Stacked up, teams will have to drive to the largest market in Paraguay, stacking watermelons in a 10×10 pyramid.
In strung out, teams will head to an auditorium and learn about a harp, the national instrument of Paraguay. Here, they will have to attach all 38 strings to their instrument. When the harp is ready for tuning, they will be handed their next clue.
Art & JJ , Bopper & Mark, Nary & Jamie and Rachel & Dave pick Stacked Up.
The latter teams finally arrive at the clue. Everyone picks Stacked Up except for the twins.
While the other teams are heading to the detour, Art & JJ finish first. They find out they will head to Plaza de la Demograacia.
After the break, Rachel and Dave are struggling – Dave wants to use their express pass. Nary and Jamie switch Detours, same with Mark and Bopper. Just as they’re leaving, other teams are starting to arrive.
Rachel and Brendon get into an argument with Vanessa, so they decide to switch tasks to take on Strung Out.
Other teams start arriving at Strung out, Dave and Rachel use their express pass.
Despite arriving later than the other teams, Brendon and Rachel complete Strung Out and are currently in third place. Bopper and Mark finish next.
Joey and Danny are now finished Stacked up. Vanessa and Ralph are fighting about going onto Strung Out.
Kerri and Stacy are now finished Strung Out, leaving Elliot and Andrew behind who now wondering if they should complete Stacked Up. However, they go back to complete Strung Out.
Hours later, Elliot and Andrew finally finish Strung Out – while Vanessa and Ralph are still at Stacked Up.
Roadblock details and SPOILERS!!
Art and JJ arrive at the road block first. They learn that they will learn the Bottle Dance, where they will have to learn the dance, while balancing a bottle on their head. If all bottles are broken, teams will receive a 2 hour penalty.
Art quickly masters the task and they make their way on foot to Escalinta de Antequera, the last team to check in may be eliminated.
Rachel and Dave are next to perform the Bottle Dance. Dave quickly burns through all the bottles and have to take a 2 hour time penalty.
Rachel & Brendon and Bopper & Mark now arrive at Bottle Dance. Rachel and Mark decide they will be doing the dance. Joey and Danny, Nary and Jamie and Kerri and Stacy are also there. Rachel is the first to finish, followed by Joey. Next is Bopper and Mark, then Nary and Jamie – lastly Kerri and Stacy.
Joey and Andrew are now at the task, and Vanessa & Ralph finally arrive.
Arrival and Elimination SPOILERS!!!
1: Art and JJ – 5 night Bahama trip 2: Brendon and Rachel (Rachel and Dave are still on their penalty)
3: Joey and Danny
4: Bopper and Mark
5: Nary and Jamie
6: Rachel and Dave
7: Kerri and Stacy
8: Vanessa and Ralph ELIMINATED: Elliot and Andrew
Episode two kicks off with first place team, Rachel and Dave, finding out that they will have to drive themselves to Cafayte Town Square, where a mounted postman will give them their next clue. Despite their head start, all teams catch up to each other as the town square opens later in the morning.
Once they reach the postman, they receive a detour. Teams will have to choose between Boil My Water or Light My Fire.
In boil my water, teams will have to visit one of three isolated towns and take a solar kitchen from a truck and assemble it based off of the picture provided on the box. They will then have to position the kitchen in direct sunlight, and get their kettle to boil, in order to receive their next clue.
In light my fire, teams will have to collect wood and clay by the river and transport it by donkey, one mile, to a local pottery workshop where they will have to deliver their goods and receive their next clue!
Bopper and Mark who are in first, and Nary and Jamie who are in second, quickly decide that they are going to do Boil My Water. Brendon and Rachel, in third, also choose Boil My Water.Art and JJ choose Light My Fire while Kerri and Stacy and Rachel and Dave head to Boil My Water.
Many teams arrive at Boil My Water at the same time. They have to take their crate off a truck and carry it farther up the village to get into the sun. The other site of teams are at the second location for Boil My Water. Brendon and Rachel are stuck following ‘Team Kentucky’ while other teams are busy assembling their solar kitchen.
Art and JJ are lost, unable to find the Light My Fire flag. They fail to choose what detour to take on while Brendon and Rachel and Team Kentucky are working on their solar panel kitchens. Art and JJ find out that they are 8 kilometers away from their destination and decide that they need to quickly look – if not, take on the solar panel task.
After the break, Art and JJ are still arguing and finally come to the Light My Fire location. Back at the first Boil My Water location, teams are still struggling to put their kitchens together. At the Light My Fire location, Art and JJ are quickly trying to make up time by gathering wood.
At the third Boil My Water location, Team Kentucky are almost finished their kitchen while Brendon and Rachel are still struggling to complete theirs. At the second location, the guido’s go over to the women to help figure out what their missing pieces go.
At the first location, Dave and Rachel are trying to boil their water.Many teams are now finished building their kitchens and are waiting for it to boil, all while Art and JJ are in the process of walking the 1 mile to deliver their wood and clay.
Bopper and Mark’s (Kentucky) kettle is the first to boil and they find out that they have to take an 18 hour bus ride to Buenos Aires , where they will go to Mercado De Hancienda De Liniers to find their next clue.
Art and JJ do end up making up time, and finish their detour in second place, while everyone else waits for their water to boil. Rachel and Dave are next to get their kettle to boil, followed by Brendon and Rachel, Dave and Cherie, Vanessa and Ralph, Elliot and Andrew, Guidos, and Kerri and Stacy. Nary and Jamie are in last place.
Bopper and Mark, JJ and Art, Rachel and Dave, Brendon and Rachel, arrive and are on the first bus. Cherie and Dave, Ralph and Vanessa, Joey and Danny, and Elliot and Andrew are on the second bus ride, and Nary and Jamie and Stacy and Kerri are on the final bus.
The second bus had some troubles, a broken window, which delays the bus, moving the last bus to depart into second place.
The first bus arrives on time and the teams race over to a set of taxi’s awaiting their arrival. Rachel and Dave arrive at the clue box first and discover that they are faced with a Road Block titled “Where’s the Beef.”
In this road block, the teams will head to the largest cattle market in the world. When the auctioneer calls out the total weight of the cattle in one of the carrel, teams must quickly count the number of cattle and calculate the average weight before the auctioneer moves onto the next carrel. If they can achieve the right number in time, they will receive their next clue.
Dave tells Rachel that she should be the one to preform the task. Brendon and Rachel arrive in second place but they are completely going the wrong direction. Art and JJ end up getting to the clue box before Brenchel.
Rachel decides that she will be doing the road block.
Dave’s Rachel tries her first guess, but it was incorrect so she has to go back. She quickly starts working with JJ to do the math. Mark is also there now and he’s easily collecting the information, but he gives the wrong nuber. Rachel is now starting to meltdown as she doesn’t know what she is doing.
Kerri and Stacy and Nary and Jamie are next to arrive while the third bus is still suffering from the set back – being delayed roughly 2 hours.
JJ and Rachel work together and both receive their clue at the same time. Mark and Rachel (Brenchel) are still trying to figure out.
Rachel starts crying under the pressure. Brendon is trying to get her not to stress out. Brendon and Bopper tell Mark and Rachel to work together.
Nary and Jamie now arrive with Kerri and Stacy.
Mark and Rachel are now working together and both get their clue.
Rachel is still melting down because their taxi left.
Kerri and Stacy finish, quickly followed by Nary and Jamie.
The last bus finally arrives and Vanessa and Ralph finish first. Followed by Joey and Danny, and Elliot and Andrew.
The clowns are last to finish.
After completing the road block, teams must make their way to the famous El Gomero. The last team to check in may be eliminated.
First to the mat:
1 – Rachel and Dave: a trip for two to Grenada
2 – Art and JJ
3 – Bopper and Mark 4 – Rachel and Brendon
5 – Kerri and Stacy
6 – Nary and Jamie
7 – Vanessa and Ralph
8 – Joey and Danny
9 – Elliot and Andrew LAST PLACE: Dave and Cherie eliminated
Fans of the couple who follow them on Twitter are aware that the pair went over seas this February with Build A City to help build a city in Phnom Penh Cambodia.
Now that they are back stateside, Jeff took some time to upload pictures of their trip to his Facebook page.!
We’ve uploaded some of our favourites and some they posted exclusively to Twitter (including Jeff eating fried tarantula) but head to Jeff’s Facebook to view all 109 pictures!
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