Why Lance Bass Would Never Compete on ‘Big Brother’

While Lance Bass considers himself to be a Big Brother superfan, he doesn’t see himself ever competing on the truth present.

“I don’t think I would ever do Big Brother, just [because of] the 24/7 live element,” Bass, 44, mentioned through the Monday, August 28, episode of his “Frosted Tips” podcast. “Because especially these days, I’m gonna say something stupid. I’m gonna say something ignorant that I have in my vocabulary that I don’t know is supposed to be out of my vocabulary at this point.”

Bass — who confessed he was a dwell feed watcher — defined he didn’t assume he would say one thing deliberately malicious or insensitive, the worry of claiming one thing fallacious on the dwell feeds was behind his thoughts.

Actor Josh Henderson — Bass’ visitor of the week and a fellow BB fan — famous that more often than not the houseguests turn into “numb” to the truth that they’re being filmed each second and “forget” they’re surrounded by cameras. Earlier this month, contestant Luke Valentine was expelled from the sport after he was caught saying the N-word on the dwell feeds.

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While Bass was adamant about not doing the present, he has been a fan of Big Brother because the present premiered in 2000. While discussing their love of the collection , Bass and Henderson, 41, even got here up with a method in the event that they had been to ever enter the home as a duo.

“This is how I would do it, I would never do the show, … but we would go in and pretend that we were like ‘yeah I don’t like this guy,’” Bass defined. “So you would take half the house and I’d take the other half and we would just make sure that we never got voted off.”

Bass additionally shared that he would even attempt to kind an alliance with a 3rd individual so the home would get cut up into thirds. The former ‘NSync member acknowledged that forming a trio would assist him “really get what everyone” was pondering.

After moving into technique talks, Bass admitted it “would be so fun” to be on the present. However, he plans on sticking along with his regular watch routine and connecting with the contestants as soon as they get out of the home.

“I throw the kind of official ‘Welcome Back to Reality’ party for everyone when [houseguests] come out [of the house],” Bass revealed. “They would do their press, and they would always come meet me and Shannon Elizabeth.”

Bass defined that he and Elizabeth, 49, nonetheless throw the occasion collectively and congratulate all of the gamers on their success within the sport. Even The Cookout alliance made an look on the final one in keeping with Bass.