>LAST EDITED ON 08-19-05
>AT 08:26 AM (EST)
>
>Who cares if she changed her
>answer? Since when is
>reality tv fair? What other
>games can change the rules
>on a daily basis based
>on what they think it
>will do for ratings?
>That's reality tv for you.
> Ask shakes the clown
>about fairness in reality tv.
>
>
>After last night's episode, you can
>bet viewership will be up
>a bit as people tell
>their friends and regular viewers
>make sure they don't miss
>for the fear of missing
>some really good tv.
>TV Ratings is all that
>CBS wants, they know if
>the jedi lose too many
>members that interest in the
>show will wane, Watch
>next weeks HOH challenge set
>up to somehow favor Howie
>to keep the teams relatively
>even with James in the
>middle.

I totally gree. I am glad Janelle changed her answer. I can't stand half of those folks in the house. After Kaysar went home I was glad Janelle won HOH. And doesn't everyone know the producers reserve the right to do anything they want in the game. All reality shows have a blurb at the end of the credits.

You folks are very observant; I was not aware that Janelle changed her answer. This is unfair and the competition for this week's HOH should be re-done. I'd also like to see that new, horrible theme music replaced by the original music. Some things should not be changed. "Survivor" never changed the basic theme music; they just varied it each season.

This is being debated over at Bashers. Please read Nailbone's post here (that Nailbone is one smart Cowboy):

http://community.realitytvworld.com/boards/DCForumID9/754.shtml#11

If you want to venture over to the Spoilers/Live feed forum, you will see that the Maggots have complained ad infinitum to each other and the producers about this, and the producers have told them Janelle was still writing (275) on the back of the card before Julie called for the answer. In my opinion, the only mistake Janelle did was to not cross out the 300, but since she used the back of the card it didn't matter.

But of course the Maggots will always feel Janelle couldn't have possibly won on her own merit, her being a dumb bimbo and all. *snicker*

Way to go Janelle!

I have been reading these posts, and I felt I had to respond to this.

Janelle won HOH fair and square! As someone who has Digital Video Recording through satelite, and as someone who also caught the number switch, I rewound and watched this scene several times, in fear they would void her win. I wanted to be sure she did nothing wrong.

Janelle first wrote 300, but almost immediately thought better of it. When she wrote down the 300 though, she held the card up, showing the blank side of her card. All though I can't prove this part, my instincts tell me she first thought there must have been around 300 bulbs, but then realized she could not go over, so decided to bring her number below the 300. At this time she flipped her card, and started to write on the other side. She was writing the 275 as Julie stated she needed the answers, but the wrong side was now showing because she held the card up again this time when she wrote it. Just before Julie finished the sentence stating she needed an answer and that Jans card was upside down, Janelle capped her marker, and then flipped the card around. She was finished just as Julie asked for an answer. You may disagree, but I feel that she had every right to change her mind, prior to "posting" her answer. Just because the back of the card was showing when she was writing, doesn't mean she got it wrong.

As for holding her card up, making it look like she knew she was right... Well, she must have known 275 was very close, and just assumed she must have won.

Anyway, that is my take on it after watching it about 10 times!

She didn't just flip the card around. The camera cuts aways for a period of time, and then comes back and then she turns the card up to show the 275. She was not writting on the back of her card when it was 300.

Yeah, she was. I watched it over and you can see her writing.

Welcome tlc... (What?) anyway, welcome, and appreciate your putting this matter to rest. Which you certianly have done, definitively.

When she heard the answer (285) and she knew her answer was 275, Jan knew she was almost certian to win, and began to get excited.

The dramatic delay at that point was to let the Judges whisper in Chenbot 6.0's ear to confirm the winner.

Thanks again.

Janelle did not cheat! Cheating would involve Julie to call out the answer and then Janelle changes the answer according to what the answer is. This is NOT what happened! In fact, she did this before she was even told to turn it upside down. If you taped the episode then go ahead and look. She didn't write, she capped it and turned it right side up. She had the time to do this because dumbass April took 30 seconds to answer the question!

JANELL DID NOT CHEAT! THANK GOODNESS. I WAS SO HAPPY TO SEE HER WIN I JUST WISH SHE HAD THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME TO BE HOH AS THE OTHERS HAVE HAD. I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THE MAGGOTS TRYING TO SUCK UP TO HER TO SAVE THEIR BUTTS. AND SURE SHE AND HOWIE WERE A LITTLE OBNOXIOUS THE OTHER NIGHT, BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE GET THAT WAY WHEN THEY HAD A LITTLE TOO MUCH TO DRINK. LOOK AT BEAU WHEN HE WON THE MARTINI BAR. ACTUALLY THE MAGGOTS ARE OBNOXIOUS 24/7.

she showed the 275 answer when Julie said I need a final answer, so thus her final answer was 275...people just look for a reason to think this is all rigged, just say she got DQ'd then we have Beau as HOH....good-bye Howie/Rachell or Janelle which would have really really blew...

Janelle should have lost out of the sheer stupidity that she couldn't figure out which way to display her answer. Are we to believe she had written 275 on the paper and was showing it to herself? Is this the brainiac everyone calls one of the smartest people in the house?

If she had done this on Survivor, do you really think Jeff Probst would say "Is that your final answer Janelle?" ???

Hell no. He'd say, your card is obviously backwards and 300 is too much so you're out & we'll take the next closer answer.

That being said. Get back to your lives and also realize that Jennifer the one everyone hates is now probably eligible for a small settlement from CBS since she was evicted as a direct result of this garbage. $100,000 each was given to Lex & Tom on Survivor Africa as a result of an immunity challenge gone wrong.

Hee Hee Loved the image of her showing her answer to herself. I don't think she cheated but her execution was,indeed, idiotic.Cross the wrong answer out, mallet head!! As for her being so smart and so underestimated...sheesh. It seems people are so anxious for her to break the dumb blonde bimbo cocktail waitress stereotype that they are cutting her all kinds of breaks. Meanwhile she still hasn't figured out that that class-conscious dull cypher Michael was merely amusing himself with her and won't even give her a tumble on the outside. As vulgar and grating as I find her, I felt sad for her when she brought up "my man Michael" on the show last night.And I don't believe for a second that her good pal Kaysar didn't know (while he was in the house) that she isn't Michael's "type" anymore than she is his. If he really cared about her as much as he claims, he might have given her a gentle warning about maybe scaling back her expectations a notch or two.

As somebody else mentioned, she was already changing her answer. She did not cheat in any way. The conspiracy theorists are grasping at straws.

Whether she changed it or not, it wasn't caught by Julie so it doesn't matter. These things are done live, and it isn't the first time that they're done incorrectly.

I honestly can't believe that people think the show is fixed.