Some Big Brother Australia fans are convinced Coco Beeby is getting a “winner’s edit”. She’s received a lot of airtime, and livestream viewers claim the stream appears to cut the audio whenever she is about to say anything negative or mean-spirited.
Recently evicted Vinnie Brigante tells Chattr the reason Coco received more screentime than him simply comes down to her “opinionated” behaviour, which makes for good TV. “She was shown… probably more than I thought, but I think that’s just because she’s a vocal person, and she shares her opinion a lot,” Vinnie says.
“I wasn’t shown a lot [near the start] because I’m not really one for drama. I don’t think Coco is a drama seeker, but she stands up for what she believes in. She’s a proud woman.”
Vinnie notes he knew that the louder and more opinionated housemates would be “involved in the story” and would get shown more on TV, but he didn’t mind. “The more stuff you’re involved with in the house, the more time you will get on screen,” he explains, before claiming Coco is a “lovely person” who simply “speaks her mind”.
Big Brother fans call out Coco’s ‘winner’s edit’
On Reddit, fans have been theorising that Ed Doak is getting a “villain edit” while Coco is being set up to win.
“If the majority of viewers only watch the daily show, Coco’s probably gonna win after tonight’s episode. They really tried to make her look great tonight while shitting on Allana and Ed. Coco must have talked as much crap about Vinnie as both of them and they’ve just left it all out,” one Redditor claimed.
“I actually like Coco but she’s not perfect by any means. The daily show’s really pushing her as the nice keep the peace person… she had a whole bitch with Ed about Vinnie in the clip they keep showing of Ed talking about Vinnie but they only play his part and not hers. She’s the one that said ‘he’s 21 not bloody 210’.”
“It’s fascinating to see behind the curtain as it were, finally, in a reality show. For those of us who have time to catch the live-stream, the reality is very different to the edits and storylines shown in the daily show. I get 24 hours are cut obviously to 40 minutes, but there are very, very clearly blatant hero [and] villain edits,” another replied.
“It’s actually kind of shocking. Like I knew it happened, but it’s so twisted from reality that the daily’s are pointless. It’s frightening to see how easily manipulated the audience is, through no fault of their own,” a third chimed in.
Do the Big Brother housemates know they are being live-streamed 24/7?
Vinnie also says it was very easy to “forget you’re being filmed”, even though the Big Brother Australia housemates were all aware they were being live-streamed 24/7. “You know people are watching, [but] you have no idea how many,” Vinnie says.
“We didn’t know if every single conversation would be shown. And upon reflection, watching the show and seeing some clips, apparently the washing machines got a lot of love.”
There has been some criticism about the live-streaming, with some fans claiming it spoils the nightly episodes, but Vinnie says it kept housemates “accountable”.
“You genuinely do write your own narrative in there, and the live-stream doesn’t hide. There are die hard fans, as you would know, that watch every moment of the live-stream, and I think they’re starting to see everyone [for] who they are,” he says.
“[The live-stream] adds to the excitement… it makes the fans talk, and it gets them talking before the show airs, and I think if I was a fan, I’d feed into that.”
Big Brother Australia 2025 airs Monday to Friday at 7.30pm, and Sundays at 7pm on Channel 10 and 10Play.
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