Meet the cast of 11th `Big Brother’ (AP)

LOS ANGELES – Chima Simone couldn’t conceive of a meliorate locate to pay the ceding than the “Big Brother” house.

“I intellection it’d be fun,” said the 32-year-old worker journalist, digit of 13 contestants who module be locked absent for the 11th season. “I wasn’t effort whatever responses to my ask letters. I’m not motion anywhere this summer. I intellection `Big Brother’ would be a avid artefact to attain a ton of money in a restricted instance without rattling having to impact for it.”

Simone module be among the houseguests competing for the spectator CBS actuality show’s $500,000 noble prize, awarded to the contestant who outlasts the rest patch existence monitored by mountain of cameras exclusive a temporary two-story concern on a soundstage.

This summer’s contestants also allow a surfer, swimsuit model, “World of Warcraft” gamer, a neuroscientist, tae kwon do endorse and fifth-grade teacher. Before gathering their competitors or incoming the house, the patch were severally interviewed by The Associated Press patch they were voluntarily sequestered — no television, newspapers or telephones — from the right world.

Casey “DJ Mingle Mixxx” Turner, the oldest contestant at 41, is a self-proclaimed “hip-hop redneck” from St. Petersburg, Fla. The fifth-grade pedagogue who moonlights as a round jockey mitt behindhand his spouse and digit children — including a 9-month-old son — to move in the show. During production, the contestants module be unaccompanied from their idolized ones.

“I’m feat to woman my family,” said Turner. “It’s been rattling hornlike for me meet the pair of life I’ve been private here in the hotel, so I crapper envisage how I’m feat to wager a period from now. I countenance nervy to gathering whatever modify people. All of them module not be cool. I’m alive of that. All of them module not same my style. I’m alive of that, too.”

Michelle Noonan, a mated 27-year-old linguist from Pasadena, Calif., auditioned for the exhibit after her economise forwarded her a craiglist.org bill hunting for grouping with engrossing jobs. Noonan, who entireness as a individual at the Calif. Institute of Technology, is avid most representing the technological accord on “Big Brother.”

“You don’t wager likewise some scientists on actuality TV,” she said. “I poverty to be a recreation warning of a real-life individual that’s not a stereotype. I’m not the exemplary nerd you would wager on a exhibit same `Beauty and the Geek.’ There are actually some someone scientists, but you never wager them on TV. Hopefully, I crapper be an rousing to girls fascinated in science.”

Video accumulation trainer Natalie Martinez, who has been a “Big Brother” follower since the show’s beginning, is exclusive fascinated in digit thing: winning. The 24-year-old past Arizona State University correct from Gilbert, Ariz., said she doesn’t organisation on informing her competitors that she won a discolour ribbon for tae kwon do at the Junior athletics Championships in 2002.

“They’re not feat to know,” she said. “I’m not informing anybody most my tae kwon do. I would be actuation myself in the measure to permit grouping undergo I’m a combative active person. I don’t poverty grouping to undergo that. I poverty them to conceive I’m this course lowercase woman who’s not strong, not sharp and won’t win. I poverty them to wager me as someone not to vexation about.”

This season, the California-themed “Big Brother” habitation module go naif with individual eco-friendly touches including nonsynthetic clean in the bathroom, energy-producing training bikes in the gym and composting bins in the backyard. Executive shaper Allison Grodner excited that digit of the threesome bedrooms, a jungle-themed enclave, module feature a filthy surprise.

“It is a shack that module effort their resolve,” Grodner said during a past journeying of the newest “Big Brother” house. “I module go discover on a branch and feature that it is the poorest shack to rest in whatever `Big Brother.’ After 11 seasons, that’s locution a lot. This is a primary impact for the houseguests. Each week, digit assemble of houseguests module modify up in this room.”

At the start, the patch module be separated into teams. One ingroup module be connected by a perplexity 13th invitee when the exhibit premieres July 9. Rumors hit been moving online that the 13th blot would go to a contestant who appeared in a preceding flavour of “Big Brother.” HTML cipher on the show’s authorised Web place points to someone with the prototypal study Brian.

The addicted contestants of “Big Brother”:

• Braden Bacha, 28, model-actor from Santa Monica, Calif.

• Kevin Campbell, 29, realistic specializer from Chula Vista, Calif.

• Laura Crosby, 21, swimsuit help from Atlanta

• writer Kairouz, 24, integrated military subject plane from Walnut Creek, Calif.

• river Lloyd, 22, waitress from Matthews, N.C.

• Natalie Martinez, 24, accumulation trainer from Gilbert, Ariz.

• Michelle Noonan, 27, linguist from Pasadena, Calif.

• Jeff Schroeder, 31, business salesman from Norridge, Ill.

• Chima Simone, 32, worker writer from West Hollywood, Calif.

• Ronnie Talbott, 30, pedagogue from Belpre, Ohio.

• Lydia Tavera, 24, cosmetics creator from Torrance, Calif.

• Casey Turner, 41, pedagogue from St. Petersburg, Fla.

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