‘Big Brother Canada’ winner Kevin Jacobs shares tips to ace the audition process
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Thinking of applying for 'Big Brother Canada'? A past winner has some audition advice for wannabe houseguests.
It’s been a big year for Kevin Jacobs, the winner of the 11th season of Big Brother Canada.
After using a fake marriage to his advantage on the show, Jacobs is looking forward to a real marriage — he proposed to his girlfriend, Jillian, and they’re busy planning summer 2023 nuptials.
He’s also looking forward to watching a new group of houseguests battle it out on the upcoming season of Big Brother Canada, and encourages anyone interested to send in their application by Friday, Nov. 11.
Jacobs shared with Global News some of his tips and tricks on how to make a Big Brother Canada application stand out, and shared some of his insights on life in the house.
Global News: What was your casting experience like for the show? What angle did you use to set yourself apart? Kevin Jacobs: I was always a fan of the show, but when I first thought of applying I was looking for something that would make me seem like something I wasn’t. That approach really didn’t work for me. What actually did end up working was taking a second, looking at my life and trying to find what would stand out against other contestants. So for me, my job in tech was not particularly unique in my eyes, but it wasn’t something that we’d never seen on the show before, and that helped me get through the first step and actually get a callback from casting.
Tell us a little bit about the first steps of the casting process.The casting team is really good. They’ve been doing this for years and years, and they’re going to look at everything about you. But step one is just getting that callback. The first step for potential contestants is getting the casting team curious enough about you. You have to be who you are because they’re going to find out if you’re pretending to be some big villain and you’re not, or you’re pretending to be some hero when you’re not. They’ll know who you are. They’ll cut through it. So you have to know who you are and maintain that the entire time.
When you apply to Big Brother Canada, you’re applying online. You’re submitting a video under a couple of minutes and you’re just talking about yourself. Some people want to put every single detail of their lives into the video, but that’s not neccessary. I said “Hey, I’m a sales engineer. I have to do sales and I have to be really smart about it, like an engineer. Here’s how it applies to the show,” and that was enough for me to get a callback.