👁️ EXCLUSIVE CHAT| Mel Tracina Gives Us the Gossip on Big Brother in Brisbane!

**Susie O'Neill** (0:06)
And some exciting Brisbane news, guys.

**David Lutteral** (0:08)
Very exciting, Susan.

**Susie O'Neill** (0:10)
Big Brother's moving to Brisbane.

**Mel Tracina** (0:12)
What?

**David Lutteral** (0:12)
Stop it!

**Susie O'Neill** (0:13)
Yes.

**David Lutteral** (0:13)
I can't believe this.

**Susie O'Neill** (0:14)
We're going to hear it from the horse's mouth.

**Mel Tracina** (0:16)
We've got Mel Tracina on the line. I'm not going to clue a horse.

**Susie O'Neill** (0:18)
We've got Mel Tracina on the line. Are you warming up for your shift today, Mel?

**Mel Tracina** (0:26)
Yeah, I am. If anyone asks, I'm literally parking the car. Yeah, I was going to say. Ready to walk into the studio. Yeah.

**Susie O'Neill** (0:33)
Oh, wow.

**Mel Tracina** (0:34)
Because I am on time.

**David Lutteral** (0:36)
Usually, you're doing your vocal pilates in the studio next to us by now. But that's all right. Now, it's so weird. Now, tell us exactly where it is. For some reason, I was on Google Maps recently looking at those. Screen Queensland has these studios near the river, over the other side of the river.
At Hammet and stuff. I was looking at, for some reason, looking at it, I don't know why. It was the reason I was looking at it. Is that where the house is going to be?

**Mel Tracina** (1:03)
Yeah, it's going to be at the Screen Australia studios. The whole thing is going to be there.

**David Lutteral** (1:08)
Wow.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:09)
So, I'll set it up like a house inside, like in the spa bath and the pool and everything outside.

**Mel Tracina** (1:14)
I love that that's the first thought you have. The spa bath and the pool. I mean, she's probably right. Do you think that I'll be able to watch it from the car park?

**David Lutteral** (1:23)
So, I'm trying to think. So, it's Murrerees, so that area, like the other, from where we are now, the other side of the river near the port.

**Mel Tracina** (1:29)
I don't know where it is.

**David Lutteral** (1:31)
There's a hockey place there and everything. Well, you do live audiences and stuff, Mel, like that was on the Gold Coast.

**Mel Tracina** (1:37)
Yeah, it'll be all the same, just in Brissy.

**David Lutteral** (1:40)
Okay.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:40)
Where are you going to stay this time? Are you going to stay in Brisbane or are you still?

**David Lutteral** (1:42)
Stay at Susie's.

**Mel Tracina** (1:43)
Down at Gold Coast.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:44)
Yeah, stay at Susie's.

**Mel Tracina** (1:45)
Yeah, I'll stay at your place, Susie. She's got plenty of room. Do you want to stay?

**Susie O'Neill** (1:48)
You can have the East Wing.

**Mel Tracina** (1:50)
I'll help you with the gardening.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:52)
Oh, yes. I haven't done much gardening lately. That'd be fun. I can stay, but I don't like conversation much at home, so if it's okay, we can.

**David Lutteral** (2:00)
You can stay on her boat.

**Susie O'Neill** (2:01)
She's got a massive boat as well that rolls around the river.

**Mel Tracina** (2:04)
It's only a bad image of me.

**David Lutteral** (2:07)
So is there a timeline, Mel, on this one? What's happening? What do we know?

**Mel Tracina** (2:12)
Okay. So I actually don't know much about the timeline, but I feel like I'm the worst host of any TV show I've had.

**David Lutteral** (2:21)
Crossing to Mel now. Mel, what news?

**Susie O'Neill** (2:25)
I've got a question that I reckon you will know then. Yeah.

**Mel Tracina** (2:27)
Yeah, hit me.

**Susie O'Neill** (2:28)
Who was the famous winner in 2003?

**David Lutteral** (2:34)
How wouldn't Mel know that?

**Mel Tracina** (2:35)
I know she wouldn't. She wasn't even born.

**Susie O'Neill** (2:37)
I'm being silly.

**Mel Tracina** (2:39)
2003, was that Reggie?

**Susie O'Neill** (2:44)
Ding.

**Mel Tracina** (2:45)
That's a good. Let's keep going with winners over the end.

**David Lutteral** (2:47)
I'll tell you what though, I'm looking at the names of winners that have, let's say that have kicked on in some way. Early on, not much because when it started in 2001, I don't think people went on there to be famous. Is that a fair assessment?
I mean, Trevor Butler in 2004, he went on the radio, he won a million bucks, Trevor in 2004

**Susie O'Neill** (3:05)
But you're not going through the names.

**David Lutteral** (3:07)
Fitsy didn't win. No, he came like third or something. Yeah, but so there's a-

**Mel Tracina** (3:10)
He won a car. Fitsy won a car.

**David Lutteral** (3:12)
Yeah, yeah.
And just also timing wise, I can tell you, Mel, that casting is open till August 31 So only another week. So that tells me that they're getting to the stage now where we're looking at some action potentially later in the year. I hope so.