Open auditions for Big Brother

MultiChoice Zimbabwe public relations and publicity manager, Liz Dziva, said the deadline for paper entries is this Sunday and entrants will be interviewed as part of the selection process at planned and programmed interview sessions.
“So this year, in addition to paper entries, we will also have open audition days. This way, if you submitted a paper entry, your entry has already been evaluated and successful candidates will be called and seen first at audition venues,” she said. “But those people who didn’t do a paper entry will have one last chance to enter when our selection team is in the participating countries. They simply need to arrive at the audition venue on the relevant days, which will be publicised in advance.”
Dziva said so far the response has been overwhelming with more than 5 000 entries already received adding that M-Net still prefers interested people to each submit a written entry.
“The producers are delighted with the response to this year’s call for entries and, although we knew there would be strong, the scale of this interest has been phenomenal . . . (however), there were always people who left applications too late to enter, but arrived at audition venues pleading for a chance to try out.
“There is still some time to submit your applications. These paper entries get priority with our selection teams, who read through them in detail and are able to spend time working through the information.”
Auditions will be held at the Meikles Hotel in the capital on March 4 and 6.
To submit a written entry, one can visit www.mnet             africa.com/bigbrother and co-mplete the entry form online, or one can download an entry form from the website, complete it and e-mail it back to bba@endemol.co.za.
Entrants must be 21 or older, English speaking, have a valid passport and are citizens of any one of the 14 participating countries: Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
They should be tolerant of views and lifestyle choices other than their own and must have the social flexibility to live in close proximity with others.