Big Brother Australia 2003

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Big Brother Australia 2003 was the third season of the Australian television series Big Brother Australia. The season lasted 87 days, starting on April 27, 2003 and ending on July 21, 2003.

This season was the most complicated series to date with housemates starting in two separate houses - a "round house" and a "square house". Housemate Benjamin Archbold was sent in first and spent the entire first day by himself. Other housemates were progressively admitted. On Night 22, all Housemates were locked into their respective bedrooms and a construction crew spent the night merging the two houses and revealing the hidden swimming pool and kitchen that had been in between the two smaller houses. Housemates were released into their new combined house on the morning of Day 23. Later in the day, a bathroom linking the two bedrooms was revealed.

In the Square house (which was on the right of the compound) were Belinda, Jaime, Irena, Carlo and Claire with Vincent and Saxon joining later in the week. After Ben entered on Day 1 into the Round house, Joanne, Regina, Chrissie, Daniel, Patrick and Leah soon joined him after the first week.

The cameras were completely hidden for the first time in this series. Previously some cameras were visible to housemates and at times housemates were aware of the camera tracking their movements.

Two new shows were introduced:

• UpLate hosted by Mike Goldman. Mike Goldman was best known for doing the voiceovers in the daily show. UpLate was broadcast late at night showing live vision from the house with minimal editing. Often the footage was simply of the housemates sleeping.
• The Insider hosted by Tim Ferguson was a panel-type show with additional gossip and discussion about the show. Frequently that week's evicted housemate would be one of the show's guests.

Late in the series saw a visit from Anouska Golebiewski who was the first to be evicted from Big Brother UK 4 series showing at the time. She was brought in for a little over a week to spice things up.

The biggest star and eventual winner of Series 3 was Regina Bird. Reggie earned public admiration with her unique down-to-earth charm, strong work ethic and naivety. Chrissie and Daniel came second and third respectively.

A noteworthy incident of Big Brother 2003 involved housemate Belinda Thorpe in what was later dubbed "Belindagate". After a night of drinking, an intoxicated Belinda confided in housemate Carlo that her younger sibling had been involved in a serious crime against a homosexual man. The information was not immediately revealed by Belinda as she whispered it to Carlo and house microphones did not pick it up, however after she left the room Carlo passed the information on to the other housemates.

The incident sparked a legal crisis for Endemol Southern Star and Network Ten as the identification of a minor in a court trial is illegal in Queensland, the state where Big Brother is produced. Within seconds of this information being revealed the live Internet feeds were cut and left blank for several hours. Users watching the feeds began discussing the incident on the official website discussion boards. Moderators began deleting these messages but could not keep up with the large amount being posted and eventually the messages boards were closed down. They were re-opened for a short period before being closed again permanently. As a result there were no official message boards during the following 2004 series. The closure of the boards led to the title "Belindagate".

The information spread out to unofficial Big Brother websites and several days later the show producers acknowledged the incident. An edited version of the nights events was shown on Big Brother Uncut, except in Queensland where it was cut entirely.

Brett (last name unknown) the fifteenth original housemate (a policeman) left lockdown before BB3 began. Tamara - a travel agent, the sixteenth HM, appeared on the Launch show but did not enter the house. Both were from Queensland.

[edit] Housemates

[edit] Regina

Regina Bird, known to her housemates as Reggie, from Cambridge, Tasmania, entered the House on Day 0, and was winner of Big Brother 2003.

[edit] Chrissie

Chrissie Swan, from Melbourne, Victoria, was the runner up of Big Brother 2003. Employed after leaving the BB house by DMG Radio to start a new breakfast radio show at HOT91.1 on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. [1]

[edit] Daniel

Daniel McInness is from Adelaide, South Australia.

[edit] Patrick

Patrick Flanagan, from Sydney, New South Wales. Works for Dolby Labs in Business Development, wrote articles on Big Brother 2004 for the Canberra Times. Lives in Bondi, Sydney with his wife Amanda, and son Toby.

[edit] Vincent

Vincent Amato is from Melbourne, Victoria. Working at an engineering company in Melbourne.

[edit] Jamie

Jamie O'Brien, from Melbourne, Victoria.

[edit] Kim-Marie

Kim-Marie Drury is a Hairdresser from Armadale. Caused controversy when she told a racist joke live on air during Big Brother UpLate. She left the House in a Double Eviction

[edit] Saxon

Daniel Small is from Central Coast, New South Wales. Evicted in a double eviction.

[edit] Joanne

Joanne Ashton is from Adelaide, South Australia. Regularly poses in Ralph magazine.

[edit] Claire

Claire Bellis is from Queensland. Continued with PhD studies at Griffith University, Gold Coast. Is expected to have completed doctorate by end of 2006. Claire will commence post-doctorate research with Professor Lyn Griffiths in the Genomics Research Centre, Griffith University following the completion of her PhD. Lives on the Gold Coast with girlfriend Camille.

[edit] Ben

Ben Archbold is an ex-undercover police officer who was known as the "pot-stirrer" in the house, due to him stirring situations and creating conflict.

[edit] Belinda

Belinda Thorpe is from Queensland. Left the house voluntarily and is now the proud mother of a baby daughter born in 2005.

[edit] Leah

Leah White was known for communicating/shouting to the other Big Brother house after housemates realised there were two houses.

[edit] Carlo

Carlo Marino was known for urinating in the Garden after being intoxicated

[edit] Jaime

Jaime Cedra, from Melbourne, is a keen skateboarder and band member. Jaime was evicted after two volunteers from each house were asked to switch houses, and housemates of each respective house had to subsequently vote out one of the switched housemates by making four nominations, with their first nomination being the person they most want to see evicted. It was later revealed that Jaime would receive $10,000 for being the victim of the twist.

[edit] Irena

Irena Bukhshtaber was the first housemate evicted from the House.

[edit] Other potential housemates

Brett Jensen, the fifteenth original housemate (a policeman) left lockdown before Big Brother 2003 began. Tamara Fletcher - a travel agent, the sixteenth HM, appeared on the Launch show but did not enter the house. Both were from Queensland.

[edit] Nominations and evictions

See also: Big Brother Australia 2003 nominations table

	Week 2	Day 16	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12
												Day 85	Day 86
Up for Eviction	Belinda, Ben, Irena, Lea, Saxon	Ben, Claire, Jaime, Regina	Belinda, Carlo, Daniel, Leah	Belinda, Daniel, Leah	Belinda*, Ben, Chrissie, Saxon, Vincent	Claire, Daniel, Saxon	Daniel, Joanne, Regina	All Housemates	Jamie, Patrick, Vincent	Chrissie, Daniel, Patrick, Vincent	Chrissie, Daniel, Patrick, Regina	Chrissie, Daniel, Regina	Chrissie, Regina
Evicted	Irena 33%	Jaime	Carlo 66%	Leah 41%	Ben 73%	Claire 60%	Joanne 86%	Kim 29% Saxon 19%	Jamie 50%	Vincent 62%	Patrick 50%	Daniel 51%	Chrissie 72%

Note 1: Belinda was up for eviction in Week 5, but she voluntarily left the House before the Sunday Eviction, so was removed from the eviction line-up.

[edit] External link

• Behind Big Brother Archive - Season 3; Updates, Daily Shows and Diary Room Visits

Big Brother Australia

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Spin-offs: Friday Night Games | The Up-Late Game Show