‘Pili’ will be at the MicMac mall on Saturday for a season 4 open casting call
Pilar Nemer went to the Big Brother Canada auditions last September hoping to meet season 1 winner Jillian MacLaughlin and her showmance, Emmett Blois.
The 22-year-old Dartmouth native ended up with a place in the Big Brother Canada house for season 3 and a showmance of her own.
Nemer, known to fans as Pili, spent 63 days in the house, making it to the final six before being part of a double eviction with Regina’s Zach Oleynik in May.
And she’s still seeing Kevin Martin, 22, the professional poker player from Alberta who was bounced from the house a couple of weeks earlier in a double eviction that also saw the end of competition for Lower Sackville native Willow MacDonald, 26.
On Saturday, Nemer will join MacLaughlin and Blois at MicMac Mall in Dartmouth for an open casting call for season 4 of the hit Global reality TV show. Auditions take place between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Casting details and applications are available at BigBrotherCanada.ca.
“I’m really looking forward to seeing the fans. It will be fun to be on the other side,” said Nemer from Charlottetown, where she is finishing up a program in sport and recreation management at Holland College that was interrupted by the show.
The Mexican-born Nemer, one of 10 siblings, didn’t plan to audition. “I was in Halifax that weekend and I was a huge fan of Jillian and Emmett and I went to meet them and they weren’t there at the time so I decided to try out while I waited.
“I think my personality stood out. I didn’t do anything special. I went in and was completely myself. I had no plan of what I would do if I made it to the house.
“The thing to remember is it is not a job interview. You have nothing to lose. If you don’t make it you can try again.”
She said Martin tried out multiple times. “The key is not to give up. They (casting producers) know what they’re looking for. You have to be yourself and stay true to who you are.
“It’s a long process; you have to show what’s different about you, let your spark out and walk out of the room with no regrets.”
Nemer has none about her time on the show, calling it “the experience of a lifetime” even if the results were not what she expected.
She found it hard to leave school behind when it was time to head to the house. When she was released, it took a couple of months to get used to being outside the house.
Being in the jury house was a good way to ease herself back into real life, she said, noting she voted for eventual winner Sarah Hanlon even though she didn’t think anyone deserved it more than another player.
“There are a lot of aspects to being a good player; we all deserved it.”
Since the show ended, the group is in pretty much daily contact through texts, though she remains closest to the diaper alliance, the youngest on the show: herself, Jordan Parhar of Cloverdale, B.C.; Oleynik, Martin and Ashleigh Wood of Calgary.
She flew to Calgary to join Martin at the Stampede in July and spent much of August visiting him there. The two were also part of a group of about 20 contestants from the series who went to Kelowna, B.C., for a weekend.
Nemer is planning to finish school in December and isn’t sure what she’ll do following graduation, but she’s hoping Martin, with whom she talks on the phone on a daily basis, will come for a visit before Christmas.
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