GenQ - For the not so straight individual

Little Brother: What the hells? it been like since you've gotten out?

Rob: Ahhh? (pause) it's weird, actually I've sort of been sitting back and I went from sitting in my lounge room looking at my TV to now jumping into it, living it and now jumping back out. And the whirl wind afterward is just incredible, like I haven't had a moment to scratch myself. I've had countless interviews, questioning? it's just endless. But you know I'm going to ride it and enjoy it for what it's worth.

Little Brother: For myself watching so long now, this is sixth season now - I ask myself how bizarre that eviction Sunday must be. You're basically sitting around all day, then you have the live cross, literally someone is outed straight away and then you go out on stage and stuff. Is there anyway to prepare yourself for that? Like how do you mentally deal with that, sitting there having nothing and then literally going out to a crowd like that? To be catapulted out there within an hour seems pretty full on.

Rob: When it comes up to nominations and (faced) with leaving ? you've got seven days or six days where your mind plays endless tricks on you. And that ticks over and over, you got through a range of emotions ? you hit a denial stage, and then an anger stage and you can't look at anyone in the face. And you battle in your own mind, your mind is your biggest strength and it's also your biggest weakness. The only way to prep yourself, I'm finding for this now is, is you say to yourself yes I'm going to go this week and I'm okay with that. Then on a freak of nature that you don't go, then you turn around and you're grateful. Because if you're sitting there saying, ?Oh I'm going, I'm going?, and then you do go, you'll go through an extremely quick devastating range of emotions which will actually put you in a comfortable situation. So prep yourself to go and I think you won't battle within yourself then.

Little Brother: So watching the housemates before you went into the house - Michael was the insider and I think Camilla and Anna were going a bit crazy at that stage. Was it really odd going in at the time that you did, especially when Michael was only just outed as the insider? But just to see these people from a television point of view and then actually meeting them in real life.

Rob: You think, well I'm going to have heaps of fun in here ? party, party, party ? and all the rest of it, by all means this year has not been set-up to be a holiday. When I crept in, the ninja, the naughty ninja, sort of dragging me down that little hallway and then escorting me into the lounge room and sitting me down. I've been told and briefed that their actually inside there (the diary room) and to keep really quiet, blah, blah. And I'm like ?oh okay? and you don't think much of it. But then to see them walking out of that diary room, with this look like they have just had a death, on their face and I thought, ?Well I can love you's too!?. Jamie's face was like (says with a convincing Jamie tone), ?Whoa man? and I'm like ?Hi!? and then Anna started with questions and everyone was yelling. Because it's only been 3 weeks - but 3 weeks with absolutely no outside stimulation and early intruders in the house put everyone on their back foot. So I take that as a compliment, but I also used that to my advantage.

Little Brother: Watching David on the show and then seeing how popular he got quite fast, then of coarse the media analysing him coming out on TV, lots of unanswered questions, whether he had a boyfriend on the inside/outside, parent knew/or didn't know, stuff like that, did you feel a little that perhaps the outside world would automatically push you guys together?

Rob: I have to say now that there was no pressure what so ever from the producers or anyone from behind the scenes of the show for me and Dave to actually hook-up. I did get a huge amount of pressure from my mother though! She's like, ?You make sure bring that boy home to me!?. And I'm going, ?Mum, there's no way I'm getting (on) a dirty farm, driving a tractor and getting all dust in my hair, to then only to go and bath in mosquito ridden bloody damn water?. Like no. I love Dave to death and he's a very good friend and we will remain very good friends for a very very long time but umm no. Between me and Dave nothing of that sought.

Little Brother: For a lot of us after David told the housemates that he was gay, and knowing that there wasn't another gay guy in there at the time, we wondered if there'd be any intruders and wondered if one of them would be gay. Do you think you might have been put in there to comfort David perhaps?

Rob: As an emotional blanket?

Little Brother: Yep

Rob: I'd like to think that I have many skills, but an emotional blanket is definitely an interesting thing to have on a resume. By all means, I'd like to think that I got in (to the Big Brother house) on my own accord. Regardless if Dave was in there, I would have been through anyway. I wish I did go in as an original housemate, I would have liked to have that big hooray going into the house and that little extra bit of? sort of? (pauses)

Little Brother: I guess almost like the full experience?

Rob: Yeah, the full experience by all means. But I'm no way regretting my 5 weeks, because I'll never forget something like this.

Little Brother: Trust me, it was amazing watching Jade, then Danielle go, then thinking wait a minute, this other guy is actually an intruder and he's still in the house. Because we all know how hard it has been for intruders in the past to gain a fan-based audience, and not be voted out at the earliest shot. I had to remind myself that you were put in there later after the first bunch had gone in.

Rob: The biggest compliment was that I thought I would've gone consecutively as the third housemate to be evicted because I was an intruder. But they (housemates) didn't vote (nominate) for me, well I obviously got voted but not enough to put me up (for public vote). But that was when I knew that I was accepted fully as an intruder so I thank them very much for that but by all means my obsessive compulsive cleaning disorder, or my standard of living was not to their (liking), they were threatened by it and I think that's why a lot of them got so many strikes because of it. And then my bitching quality! And I'm like, everyone knows that I'm a hairdresser and I'm gay like (whispers) that's a double f-----g wammy, like you're gonna get it, you know?

Little Brother: I think actually you said it and it sparked quite a bit of a conversation within other gay Big Brother fans ? David as the good Samaritan to the gay community. What's he trying to do in the house? Is he trying to be that ultimate gay role model for the community?

Rob: I'll tell you what, I can probably say this to you because you're going to understand it. I've spoken to a lot of heterosexual magazines and ?breeder? magazines and umm..

(Little Brother laughs)

Rob: ? there's a few things you can't say because they don't get (it). Coz they go, ?Oh, that's nice!? and they have no f-----g idea what their talking about.

Little Brother: Yeah?

Rob: Let me see. Dave has good morals and ethics and tries to hold true to them. But, by all means, at the end of the day, Dave is a red blooded male and there are things he's done in his past which would very much.. ummm.. conflict with what he stands for now but I suppose you'd have to go through all that sort of stuff to be able to get to where he is today. But Dave obviously has a lot of different personalities in him like everyone else and I could only think that the right ones shine through and do him justice.

Little Brother: So when you first went in, did you feel excluded from any housemates at any stage based on sexuality?

Rob: No, definitely not on sexuality. Straight men will always put that safety barrier out, like I'm over here and I'm gonna eat my steak and you sit over there and eat your salad sort of thing, but it was fine, there was none of that. The boys had a ?chiefing? period, but their fine, that's expected. But besides that, it's gone very very well and yeah I'm missing them already. I'm sitting here and watching the hugest, biggest f-----g TV I (have) ever seen in my life and it's got 4 splits (of live streams on the screen). I'm looking at Perry she's on the bike busting her arse and Camilla's speaking her mind, Krystal's there with a bloody.. ohhh'i miss them, I miss it all!

Little Brother: What was your normal routine everyday, if there was a routine I guess?

Rob: (Laughs hysterically) Okay well we get up at the crack of dawn, we were under the impression it's like 6/6.30. Big Brother will drag our, like this is the wake-up call, umm ?This is Big Brother, aerobics will start in 3 minutes in the courtyard?. And you're like ?Oh what?!?, like between getting up in the morning, running to the toilet, trying to piss with a ?piss fat? then out (with) some aerobic clothes on and get out the front ? it's just not going to happen! And then he picks someone random out of the group to take the class. Like it just doesn't happen in 3 minutes. I mean after a feed of chickpeas the night before, every lunch there was a fart and everyone was winging, it was just... umm, routines, it was basically aerobics in the morning, you'd eat your sloppy porridge, you'd bake for the most of the day, you'd have lunch, you'd go to gym in the afternoon, have dinner and then you start throwing stuff around, playing cricket, breaking stuff, and get into trouble and finally being punished for it. Umm? yeah?

Little Brother: Well that just about covers it (laughing)! So you say that you're a bit of a bitch, so we sat down and we thought of some of the most famous TV super-bitches (Rob laughs in the background) from the nineties up to now. So what I want you to do is give them a rating out of 5 ? 5 being the best

Rob: Okay then..

Little Brother: Any questions, let me know because some of these people you might have forgotten about?

Rob: Done!

Little Brother: Okay, Amanda Woodward from Melrose place, out of 5?

Rob: Amanda Woodward, Melrose Place, is that the blonde one?

Little Brother: Yep!

Rob: Ahhh, she would be a four and a half?

Little Brother: Cool, Sami from Days Of Our Lives?

Rob: Days Of Our Lives, Sami (pauses and says sympathetically), oohh sweet nah I'm a Bold & The Beautiful girl!

Little Brother: The Bold & The Beautiful, okay, I've got one of those. Sheila from The Young & The Restless and The Bold & The Beautiful?

Rob: With the dark hair and she was the one that sent Taylor insane and stuff and she actually went to a psyche ward for a while and come back, yeah?

Little Brother: And she stole a baby and stuff!

Rob: Yeah she got 6 honey seriously?

Little Brother: Julie Cooper from The OC?

Rob: Julie Cooper... I don't watch The OC!

Little Brother: Ahh no!

Rob: I don't do The OC, sorry sweet?

Little Brother: That's alright, 3 and half maybe? ahhh?

(Both laugh hysterically)

Little Brother: Kimberly from Melrose Place?

Rob: (Continues laughing) Okay who sorry?

Little Brother: Kimberly from Melrose Place?

Rob: Melrose Place, Kimberly, Kimberly?

Little Brother: Kimberly, umm? she's now in Desperate Housewives, the?

Rob: How old do you think I am?

Little Brother: Oh well, I put these together ? how old do you think I am?

Rob: I don't know? (says cautiously) how much botox have you had?

Little Brother: Oh, not a lot. No?

(Rob laughs hysterically)

Little Brother: Not a lot?

(Continues laughing)

Little Brother: I haven't had any done, I'm actually against it?

Rob: I'll go with your judgement, I'll go with your judgement on that one!

Little Brother: Do you have any secrets for us?

Rob: Any secrets?

Little Brother: Any Big Brother secrets? Any behind the scenes stuff..

Rob: I'll tell you what?

Little Brother: C'mon any gossip!

Rob: I had a few things, I had heaps that I wanted to tell you but more importantly I had heaps that I wanted to play out. But since that, I didn't get enough ?save? votes, so I suppose a lot of people won't be able to see them.

Little Brother: Ahhh, keeping them up your sleeve?

Rob: But all I could ask is that definitely I'll be floating around the countryside doing appearances here there and everywhere. By all means pop your head in, say hi and I'll be more than happy to share a few gossips and giggles with you.

Little Brother: Look forward to it Rob. Thanks for being a great housemate and stirring it up a bit! Best wishes for the future mate.

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