Marinduque boy now official PBB housemate!

OMG! He did It! Marinduque’s Joseph Emil Biggel is PBB Housemate now!


Promising to be the biggest and most sophisticated Pinoy Big Brother Season ever, the most famous yellow and blue house in the country opened its door last night to 13 official housemates.

Bahay ni Kuya with hosts Toni Gonzaga, Bianca Gonzales and Robi Domingo welcomed Marinduque’s 19-year old Joseph Biggel from the fishing-farming village of Banot in Gasan town. Biggel was among 30,789 who earlier auditioned for PBB, one of the most life-changing reality shows on national and global television.

Selected potential housemates numbered more than 1,000 then trimmed down to only 48, according PBB final updates, during the final selection after a stiff process of screening that covered a period of seven months.



Biggel's was PBB #15913

Biggel, “promdihirang tisoy ng Marinduque” was how the show introduced him, is of Filipino and German descent. At age six he, together with a younger sister, was left by estranged parents to maternal grandparents who were left fending for the kid and the baby from then on, as the old couple engaged in farming and fishing for living in their coastal hamlet; the boy learning to do the same and other odd jobs, as he grew up.

After the slideshow on "Biggel". also his official PBB name, in last night’s kick-off show, Toni asked what he would like to say to his parents wherever they might be.

“"Ma, pa, si Joseph to, sana nanunuod kayo, malaki na po ako. Maayos naman po ang pagpapalaki ng lolo't lola ko", on the verge of tears, he said. Hosts Bianca and Robi then lead Biggel and the other housemates to a tunnel that ended in an an opening that led to, lo and behold!, so different from the previous classy episodes. PBB seems to want to make a statement on the country's stark realities this time.

Question is, how different is it from the one "Biggel" has known? You wonder.