Big Brother 4 (UK)

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Big Brother 4 in 2003 was the fourth series of Big Brother in the UK, a reality show shown on Channel 4 in which a number of contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize at the end of the run.The series ran from Friday 23rd May to Friday 25th July 2003.

The fourth series saw several surprises. Four housemates were nominated on the opening night after the housemates were told to make instant nominations based on first impressions, with every housemate receiving even one nomination facing the public vote; of the four, Anouska was evicted one week later. One housemate, Cameron Stout, accepted a challenge from Big Brother and discovered it meant spending a week in the Big Brother Africa house (one of the African housemates, Gaetano, spent some time in the UK house in return). There was a surprise double eviction, new housemate, and return by evicted housemate Jon Tickle for the last two weeks (he was not eligible to win, though he opted not to tell his housemates this). The biggest surprise was unplanned: a bomb scare led to the evacuation of the housemates for several hours.

The £70,000 prize was eventually won by Cameron. Several housemates later had presenting or acting jobs.

The reaction to this series was poor, the press and viewers finding the housemates boring. Endemol turned "evil" and selected more extreme housemates the next year.

After Big Brother, Cameron Stout, Jon Tickle and Ray Shah went on to have successful careers in the media industry. Cameron Stout is an occasional columnist with The Sunday Post newspaper and has appeared in panto in Aberdeen, Jon Tickle co-presents Brainiac: Science Abuse on UK television's Sky One, now in its fourth season and Ray Shah now works in the radio, television and entertainment industry in Ireland. He presents radio show's on Dublin's Q102 and TV show's on City Channel. Ray also works as a club DJ playing at venues around Ireland.

In a poll aired on E4 on May 13th 2006, Gos was voted the least popular housemate of all time.

Total number of votes in the final week: 4.3 million

[edit] Nominations, evictions and percentages

Main article: Big Brother (UK series 4) nominations table

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9
Against Public Vote	Anouska, Federico, Jon, Scott	Jon, Justine	Federico, Jon, Sissy	Cameron, Federico, Jon	Nush, Steph, Tania	Gos, Nush, Ray	Cameron, Lisa, Steph	Cameron, Nush	Cameron, Ray, Scott, Steph
Evicted and Vote Percentage	Anouska 45.9% to evict	Justine 57% to evict	Sissy 45% to evict	Federico 40.1% to evict Jon 37% to evict	Tania 72.02% to evict	Gos 46.3% to evict	Lisa 82.25% to evict	Nush 66.87% to evict	Steph 7% (out of 4)	Scott 26.7% (out of 3)
									Ray 42.5% (out of 2)	Cameron 57.5% to win

[edit] External links

• Big Brother - Series 4 at channel4.com

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