Meet Big Brother 11 Houseguest Lydia Tavera

Lydia Tavera Status: Single Age: 24 (b. 3/8/85) Residence: Torrance, Calif. Job: She's a special effects make-up artist. Hobbies: She enjoys bowling, swimming and yoga. Personality: She says she is unique, colorful, silly and mellow. She says she has been up-close-and-personal with fame as she used to be a nanny for a high profile couple, which surprises people given her tattooed body and eccentric personality. Her fellow Houseguests may judge her by her looks, but she lives by...

Meet Big Brother 11 Houseguest Ronnie Talbott

Ronnie Talbott Status: Married Age: 30 (b. 1/15/79) Residence: Belpre, Ohio Job: He's a gamer. Hobbies: He says he is obsessed with video games and often plays more than six hours a day, even to the point of ignoring his wife. He also collects sci-fi and Star Wars paraphanalia. Personality: He is a fan of Big Brother, able to recite the order of every person ever evicted from the Big Brother house. He is most proud of being a national champion in speech and debate, as he feels ...

Meet Big Brother 11 Houseguest Chima Simone

Chima Simone Status: Single Age: 32 (b. 7/28/76) Residence: West Hollywood, Calif. Job: She's a freelance journalist. Personality: She is educated, independent and "an exotic beauty." Goals: She says she is looking for a man who is tall, considerate and has a great sense of humor. Strategies: She says that adaptation, the ability to not be intimidated and an extremely disarming smile are all tools that may get Chima far in this game. In life she has proven that she is strong...

Meet Big Brother 11 Houseguest Jeff Schroeder

Jeff Schroeder Status: Single Age: 30 (b. 6/5/78) Residence: Norridge, Ill. Job: He's an advertising salesman. Personality: He is curious, adventurous, spontaneous, witty and outgoing. If he ran for office, he would like to be Mayor so he can be his own boss and, to some degree, get his own way. He also says he lives by this motto: "Treat others as you'd like to be treated" and hopes others in the house will live by that, too. Challenges: He says he hopes not to do anything on ...

Meet Big Brother 11 Houseguest Michele Noonan

Michele Noonan Status: Married Age: 27 (b. 6/16/82) Residence: Pasadena, Calif. Hometown: Iselin, New Jersey Job: She's a neuroscientist. Hobbies: She enjoys reading the news. Personality: She is hardworking, creative, intelligent, a self-proclaimed nerd, a former band geek and has always been the smartest person in the room. Challenges: She lives by the motto: "Don’t sweat the small stuff" because she’s had a tough time controlling her emotions and was often extremely st...

Meet Big Brother 11 Houseguest Natalie Martinez

Natalie Martinez Status: Single Age: 24 (b. 3/3/85) Residence: Gilbert, Ariz. Hometown: Chino, Calif. Job: She is a Tae Kwon Do champion. Hobbies: She enjoys playing poker. Personality: She says she knows how to protect herself and can handle anything that comes her way. Challenges: She says that being out of contact with her father for such a long time will be the most difficult aspect of this game. Strategies: Natalie says she is a strategist and plans to deal hersel...

Meet Big Brother 11 Houseguest Jordan Lloyd

Jordan Lloyd Status: Single Age: 22 (b. 11/21/86) Residence: Matthews, N. Carolina Job: She's a waitress. Hobbies: She enjoys hanging out with her female friends. Personality: She's says she is easy-going and laid-back. She also says she is game for anything and up for a challenge. Challenges: She is very naive. She also says it will be very hard for her to be apart from her mother and brother for such a long time, because she is very close to them. Goals: She says she is...

Meet Big Brother 11 Houseguest Russell Kairouz

Russell Kairouz Status: Single Age: 24 (b. 9/1/84) Where does he live? Walnut Creek, Calif. Job: He's a mixed martial arts fighter and a commercial real-estate broker. Personality: He's loud and brash. He says he holds nothing back and is ready for a fight. Challenges: His biggest pet peeve is people who don’t think before they act. Strategies: He says nothing scares him. He also lives by this motto: "If you're not smiling, you're not living." Memorable characteristics: H...

Meet Big Brother 11 Houseguest Laura Crosby

Laura Crosby Status: Single Age: 21 (b. 12/21/87) Residence: Atlanta, Ga. Job: She's a bikini model. Hobbies: She enjoys working out, cheerleading, kickboxing, running, gymnastics and going out at least once a weekend. Personality: She is "determined, sassy and outgoing." Challenges: She says she can’t stand when people attempt to make her feel inferior. She also says the hardest part of being confined in the house will be abstaining from sex. Strategies: She says she pla...

Meet Big Brother 11 Houseguest Kevin Campbell

Kevin Campbell Status: In a Relationship Age: 29 (b. 9/18/79) Residence: Chula Vista, Calif. Job: He's a graphic designer. Personality: He is "ghetto, fabulous and inappropriate." At times he "can get bitchy." Challenges: Kevin believes the most difficult part of the game will be its duration. Goals: He hopes to win the money and hopes "that somewhere the parents with whom he lost touch can smile knowing what their now grown-up son has accomplished." Strategies: He says h...