We believed that the old PBB editions were authentic and are real people put in one house interacting genuinely without pretensions. Well most of them with the exception of the likes of Say Alonzo who aims stardom but failed to survived the industry and as of present time settle to make controversial tweets just to be relevant.
When ABS-CBN or the PBB production and management saw what a Melai Cantiveros charisma can do with ratings, the inkling of a scripted edition came to fruition. Melai Cantiveros was the one and only genuine cinderella story of Pinoy Big Brother.