Let me just tell you that the ITALIAN version of this show called Grande Fratello was the hottest thing you've ever seen in your life. While BigBrother 1 was failing in the ratings here in the US around 2001, Grande Fratello's final episodes were so big that the finale if I recall was the #1 highest program to ever aire in Italian History. Why? This dude, a Roman guy (yeah, cliche situation) hit on this female lifeguard from Naples -- he *(#()!!(( the ##((@! out of her one night -- all of a sudden, the guys in Italy idolized the guy and the girls all in the country wanted him. Then, he dumped the girl. Then there was a rumor she might be pregnant. All of sudden, over night, his last name became a word of Italian pop culture. It generally meant something like a guy that f@s em and leaves in. In the end, it was down to him, the girl, and another girl. And you know who won ... the girl that he f@ked and left. You have no idea - she was everyone in the press for a week unlike anything you've seen here in ages.