Stepping behind the camera. Image: Mike Goldman
	Entering the Big Brother house as an ”unwelcome guest” was a highlight for Mike. Image: Big Brother
	Mike aims to take his career to the U.S. next year. Image: Mike Goldman
	Hanging around the Big Brother house. Image: Big Brother
	Flying high…exploring the world. Image: Mike Goldman
	Hanging out with friends in Cesky Krumlov. Image: Mike Goldman
	Cesky Krumlov lovin'. Image: Mike Goldman
	“This is the best photo I’ve ever taken.” Sunset over Iraq in 2006 shortly a bomb blast. Image: Mike Goldman

The man behind one of the most distinguishable voices on Australian television and radio takes e-Travel Blackboard into the voiceover booth and shares why the last series of "Big Brother" is the best he's ever worked on.

An International Emmy Award nominee and Gold Lion recipient, Mike divides his time between movie-making and voiceovers and is currently preparing for the next stage of his career in the United States.

e-Travel Blackboard: How have you found this season of Big Brother having worked on the show since its inception in Australia?

Mike: It has been the best series of Big Brother I have ever worked on. It’s so much fun; the housemates are unbelievable. This year has just been hilarious. It’s been so much fun and it’s reflected in the ratings.

e-Travel Blackboard: The tasks this year  have been very creative. How did you feel actually going into the house as an unwelcome guest?

Mike: How cool was that? That was the best thing I’ve ever done!

e-Travel Blackboard: This year has been a very G-rated Big Brother,  were the housemates briefed before going in that there wasn’t supposed to be any kind of debauchery?

Mike: Not at all. I mean, it’s a testament to the producers and editors who have put together the show and the task department who have been coming up with the amazing tasks...basically putting on air every night a show that’s fun to watch.

People are just over death and despair and the news and the dramas and crap that might be on the other channels.

Then all of a sudden, our show comes along and introduces Australia to a whole stack of new, average, everyday, 18-35 year old people who have had highs and lows, ups and downs and have been knocked around in the house and fell in love and fell out of love and fought…and the majority of them had a blast in there!

e-Travel Blackboard: Who was your favourite housemate this season?

Mike: Bradley! Love Bradley! He was always so inappropriate and didn't have a filter on his brain. I loved his dancing and hear that he's pashed a few girls since leaving the house!

e-Travel Blackboard: What is the most memorable experience you have had on stage at a live eviction or nomination show this year?

Mike: The crowd are amazing, they dance, cheer, do stunts and play games with me in the breaks.

One night a little kid walked up on stage of his own accord and just did a handstand for about a minute right in front of me!

e-Travel Blackboard: How did you first get into voiceover work?

Mike: My dad was a voiceover guy. He works on radio still today, working on 2SM in Sydney on the breakfast show there...he’s been a radio announcer his whole life.

e-Travel Blackboard: So there was no doubt you were going to go into anything else?

Mike: Well I did work at a hairdressing salon for a couple of weeks, that didn’t work out to well, I got fired. I also worked in a cereal factory, wrapping the cereal and then I just pursued what I really wanted to do, which was acting and TV hosting and stuff like that...making movies.

e-Travel Blackboard: Tell me more about your foray into movies.

Mike: I have two coming out next year, one with Magda Szubanski and Ronan Keating called "Goddess".

I’ve got a little part in that, and I’ve got a feature coming out which is called "Shooting Goldman".

It’s a thriller about a reality TV host who wants to be a serious actor and he thinks his whole life has been a reality TV show and everyone’s in on it and he goes on sort of a "Truman Show" thing to prove that his life actually was a reality TV show.

Check out www.shootinggoldman.com. It’ll be out early next year...I’m the executive producer and I wrote the screenplay.

Last year I got nominated for an international Emmy Award and we won a Gold Lion as well for a 22-part series called "The Great Crusade" which we shot in New Zealand.

e-Travel Blackboard: If you weren’t involved in Big Brother and you weren’t doing what you’re doing, would you have entered to be a contestant?

Mike: I don’t think so. I don’t think I’d be a contestant. I’m just grumpy in the mornings, everyone would hate me...I’d get voted off the first week.

I’m turning 40 on the finale of Big Brother and I need my creature comforts, otherwise I lose it.

e-Travel Blackboard: Where is your favourite destination to visit and why?

Mike: My favourite destination is the place I haven’t been yet, because the world is such an amazing place and I have a rule that I must visit at least two new places every year. I’ve seen some incredible places.

I’ve been to the Middle East, I’ve been to Iraq, Afghanistan...they can open up your eyes.

The Kimberleys as well. I sailed around there for about four weeks fishing and being chased by crocodiles!

I love New York…I’m thinking of moving there next year because LA is just crowded with people like me!

e-Travel Blackboard: What is number one on your bucket list of places to travel to?

Mike: I really want to visit Africa. I narrated “Meerkat Manor” and I've never even been to the Kalahari Desert.

I do love New York and would love to live there one day it's such an amazing city.

e-Travel Blackboard: If you could travel with any celebrity, who would it be and why?

Mike: Donald Trump. He would pay.

e-Travel Blackboard: If you could travel with any housemate from this season, who would it be and why?

Mike: The winner of the show. She/he would pay.

I would love to do a housemate cruise. Every BB housemate ever on a big cray cray cruise. Fun!

e-Travel Blackboard: Name three things that you can’t travel without.

Mike: Toothbrush, my iPad mini and a phone.

e-Travel Blackboard: Where in the world is the number one place you think our readers should travel to and what should they do when they’re there?

Mike: Disneyland in every country. Who doesn't love a good ride?