Dreamworld sets tongues wagging with cryptic post ahead of Big Brother reboot: 'Is someone on The Giant Drop?'
It appears that Big Brother could be making a welcome return to its original Queensland home.
The popular reality series, which is getting the reboot treatment in 2025, was filmed at Gold Coast theme park Dreamworld during its original Network Ten run from 2001 to 2008.
Ahead of its anticipated return to Network Ten after a lacklustre showing on Seven, Dreamworld has dropped a major hint about a potential return to the site.
Posting to its official social channels this week, Dreamworld staff shared a video that showed a passenger in a car driving past the theme park who spots a person on the side of the road with a sign reading, 'Look up'.
The camera then pans over the towering ride The Giant Drop, with the passenger saying; 'Wait, do you guys see that? Is there someone on the Giant Drop?'
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A second clip, shared on Wednesday, shows two people standing atop the lofty ride declaring: 'Hold on tight, something massive is happening at Dreamworld.'
Captioning the clip, theme park staff teased something 'big' would be revealed on Thursday 19 June.
'Something's up,' the caption read, the sentiment augmented by a bulging eyes emoji.
'Signs are pointing to Dreamworld - literally. Whatever it is, it's BIG. Stay tuned.'
The comment was followed by: 'We told you something big was coming.... hold on tight... all will be revealed tomorrow.'
The cryptic post was met with a flurry of comments from theme park fans with some suggesting that the scoop was Big Brother's return to Dreamworld.
'Big Brother!!! The eyes emoji and BIG capitalised in the caption give it away,' one eagle-eyed follower suggested.
'It is returning to its original home at channel 10 so it also makes sense to return to its actual home!'
Another commented simply with: 'Big Brother,' while a third suggested it was in fact incoming host Mel Tacina that was standing on top of The Big Drop.
The hints come after production company Endemol Shine all but confirmed the anticipated series would return to its spiritual Dreamland home.
The production company, last week, put out a call for local production staff.
'Endemol Shine Australia is looking for Queensland-based post production crew available to work on-site for the return of Big Brother,' read the post.
While no filming location was specified, the posts suggest that a new home could be built up North, after filming the latest three seasons in Sydney before the series was canned by Seven in 2014.
The series will return to screens in early November and is expected to wrap in the first half of December.
The abandoned Gold Coast house was deliberately lit on fire in June 2019.
Four children aged between 11 and 15 were later charged with arson after it was set ablaze.
Two nine-year-olds who were also arrested were released after assisting police with inquiries.
After the show was axed in 2014, the unoccupied set was left to rot for five years.
A new house was built in 2020 in Manly for when Channel Seven picked up the series before it was eventually relocated to Sydney Olympic Park in 2021 after being served an eviction notice by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
The eviction notice was issued due to concerns for local wildlife.
A brand new crop of housemates will be live-streamed 24/7 as the series returns with a fresh new host in 2025.
Tracina is planning to revamp the series after taking the hosting reins from Gold Logie winner Sonia Kruger.
Speaking to Daily Mail Australia, Tracina revealed Aussie viewers will finally have access to the game in real time.
'What's so good about this is the livestream element,' she said.
'So you don't have to worry about getting a bad edit, or being the "season villain", because viewers can log in at any time and see what the [housemates] are up to.'
The beloved reality show, which sees housemates compete to stay in the house to win prize money, found roaring success on Channel Ten in the early 2000s.
Since then, the show has changed networks several times - first going over to Channel Nine before a revamped version at Channel Seven.
Big Brother Australia was axed from Channel 7's 2024 schedule after scoring its lowest-rated season yet.
The show got bumped from its original 7.30 time slot to a later time after just one week on-air and concluded its 15th season with just 152,000 overnight viewers in the five capital cities – a huge drop from when the show relaunched in 2020 with 853,000 viewers.
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