Big Brother 2014 housemates Skye Wheatley and Priya Malik, two of more popular personalities this year — they came third and fourth respectively — have only been out of the house for just over a week, but the emotions flooded back when they returned to the place they called home for three months
on Wednesday night for a promo event with Ambi Pur. Skye and Priya were joined by Lawson Reeves, smitten couple Travis Lunardi and Aisha McKinnon, and Ambi Pur ambassador Ben Zabel aka Ben From Brisbane at the event, where they shared memories and gave an intimate group of media a tour around Australia's most famous house share. POPSUGAR Australia caught up with Skye and Priya to chat about things the series doesn't really show, like what lockdown is like and how they really felt about using the bathroom with cameras watching.
POPSUGAR Australia: What did you guys do in lockdown?
Priya: Though we can’t reveal much about it as per
our contracts, it was pretty much a time where we were pretty much
devoid of all technology, no contact with the outside world. I remember
spending my time cooking and watching movies, and speaking with my
chaperone — everyone gets a chaperone. That’s pretty much it! That’s
what I did.
Skye: I had bought coffee grind into lockdown, so I
made my own coffee scrub, like a Frank scrub, so I scrubbed my body with
that — it was great, because I’m like, ‘This isn’t my shower! My mum’s
not going to come in here and be like, “Oh my God, clean the walls!”
It’s messy stuff, right? So I did that. I read books. I took a medicine
ball in, and did little exercises. I would sunbake every morning on the
balcony when the sun would come up. I was so paranoid about losing my
tan. I would watch movies. When I got bored during the night-time I
would cut up fruit and vegetables and freeze them, and then blend them
the next morning and have them in healthy juices. What else? I pretty
much just ate. I was constantly eating, because I was so bored.
Priya: There’s pretty much nothing to do. On the
subject of tan, I got, for the first time in my life — I mean I’m
legally brown — but for the first time in my life I had actually gotten a
spray tan, coming into lockdown. And I hated it. And my husband loved
it, my friends loved it; they were like, “You’ve just come from a
Spanish beach,” because there was that glow and that shine. But I hated
it. Every evening I ran a bath, sat in it, exfoliated like crazy, trying
to get rid of that tan. So I was getting rid of it, you [Skye] were
getting one.
Skye: Also, we had the questionnaires to fill out,
and one of them said, ‘Draw your perfect, ideal guy.’ So I filled the
whole page up with my perfect guy, my perfect girl, I drew a monkey on
there, I drew a mermaid.
Priya: I drew a cat.
Skye: I drew everything I could think of because I
was that bored. I’d just be in the kitchen. You’d pack the dishwasher,
and then you’d unpack it. You’d eat, you’d do anything you could to
occupy yourself.
Priya: And we mean anything.
Skye: I would brush my hair in the mirror.
Priya: I was also paranoid that that room could be rigged by cameras. Did you feel that way?
Skye: Oh, kind of it.
Priya: It did sweep through my mind, but I knew it wasn’t.
PS: How many days?
Priya: Eight days to be precise. Or nine, depending on when you went in.
PS: Did the show give you a list of things you should bring?
Priya: They did. We got a massive list of things
that we will need. We also got specific instruction like, because it’s
Summer, try and get a lot of colour in your wardrobe. You will
definitely need sneakers, workout clothing. There was also a list of
things we cannot bring into the house, like hair straighteners and
curling irons. So they were pretty detailed about what we should and
shouldn’t get. Did we do it? No. We all pretty much did not pack right. I
felt I hadn’t packed right, and most of us felt that way. But the good
thing is that in the house we can share each other’s clothing, so if you
haven’t got many workout clothes you can always borrow from another
person. It worked out eventually, but we had specific packing
instructions.
PS: Why can’t you bring straighteners or curlers?
Priya: We get them from Big Brother, so they are supplied. So we can’t bring our own. And obviously no phones and no cameras.
