Director Lauren Dyogi announced that half of the iconic Pinoy Big Brother (PBB) house was already set for demolition.
In his IG post, he personally visited the PBB house, also known as ‘Bahay ni Kuya’ after being informed that it would be demolished soon because their lease was already expired.
According to him, it’s already impractical to renew the lease agreement so they just decided to give up the property.
“I was able to visit the Pinoy Big Brother House because @raymdizon informed me that we will start the demolition of one half of the PBB House which we built at the start of Pinoy Dream Academy about 17 years ago, in 2006.” Director Lauren said.
“After 2 seasons of PDA, it became our House B which had our offices, brainstorm space, pantry, hosts’ dressing rooms, mini studio with control room and living quarters especially during the last two “lock-in seasons”. This part of the house has lots of good memories and even scary experiences.
“We needed to give up this part of the PBB house as our lease has expired this year and it is impractical to renew it. We still have the main PBB house and control room which hopefully we still get to use for the next PBB edition. This original house was built in 2004 and is 18 years old. It has become iconic and a landmark in the area.” he added.
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However, the director clarified that it’s possible for them to find a new property of PBB.
It’s not yet known if the decision not to renew the lease for the portion of the PBB house property was connected to the failure of ABS-CBN to get a franchise.
It can be recalled that some properties owned by Kapamilya Network were also being converted to other purposes.