Big Brother 2 (US)

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The second season of Big Brother, the American reality TV show aired twenty-nine episodes during the summer of 2001 from July 5 to September 20. New rules were introduced in this season and have been used since. Under these rules, viewers do not vote for housemates to be evicted. Each week, the housemates compete for the title of Head of Household (HoH). The contestant who wins this competition is given additional privileges, and also nominates two other housemates for eviction. The remaining housemates then vote their choice of the two nominees, and the one with the most votes is evicted. The HoH breaks a tie, if necessary. At season's end, the winner is selected by a vote of the evicted houseguests rather than by the viewing public (although the audience would decide who would win in the event of a tie). In a special twist this season, the two remaining houseguests got to decide which houseguest's vote they could void, in hopes that their vote was for their opponent, and that they would gain an advantage over the other player.

Early in the second season, a houseguest, Justin, placed a knife to the throat of fellow houseguest Krista and asked, "Would you be mad if I killed you?" Both competitors were under the influence of alcohol, but Justin was quickly disqualified and evicted.

Contestant Shannon became known for her temper. After a snit with fellow houseguest Autumn, she placed a bag of chips on Autumn's pillow to make Autumn feel that one of the houseguests thought she was fat, without a note, so that Autumn would not know who did it and would become paranoid. After a fight with fellow houseguest Hardy, Shannon stormed off to the bathroom, where she picked up his electric toothbrush and scrubbed the toilet with it, in an ostensible act of revenge. The voice of Big Brother alerted Hardy to Shannon's actions, however.

The houseguests received a short visit from some contestants of the other CBS reality show Survivor. Gervase Peterson and Susan Hawk from Survivor: Borneo and Alicia Calaway and Jeff Varner from Survivor: The Australian Outback visited the house for a few hours in an episode that aired on September 5.

About two weeks before the end of the second season, the September 11 attacks pre-empted television for an entire week. In a move away from the rule of not letting the houseguests in on information from the outside world, the three remaining houseguests were told of the news. The Big Brother voice asked Monica to enter the diary room, and she was told that her cousin Tamitha was as yet not located at the World Trade Center. The week after the attacks, the game continued as normal.

On finale night, the audience was updated that former houseguest Sheryl was diagnosed with breast cancer and needed to undergo chemotherapy, as well as the news that Monica's cousin Tamitha had died at the World Trade Center.

At the end, a group of nine evicted contestants were gathered to decide who would win. Each finalist excluded one person, leaving a jury of seven to vote for the winner. Five voted for Will, who won the $500,000 grand prize.^[1] With only two votes, Nicole was awarded the runner-up prize of $50,000.

Contents 1 Chronology 1.1 Days 1-12 1.2 Days 13-19 1.3 Days 20-26 1.4 Days 27-33 1.5 Days 34-40 1.6 Days 41-47 1.7 Days 48-61 1.8 Days 62-68 1.9 Days 69-79 1.10 Days 80-82 2 Season 2 voting history 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Chronology

[edit] Days 1-12

The houseguests moved into the house and were immediately thrown into a competition for food and luxury. Kent became the winner of a brand new SUV on the first night, making him a target for eviction. The next day, Mike became successful in the series' first Head of Household competition. He nominated Nicole for eviction, as she was annoying to most of the house. He also nominated Sheryl for eviction as a decoy, believing that Nicole would be evicted over the more liked Sheryl. However, Nicole fought back and rallied the votes to stay. She received the support of Kent, Bunky, Hardy, Krista and Autumn, who voted for Nicole to remain in the house. On day 12, Sheryl was evicted from the house.

A few days before Sheryl's eviction, Justin was expelled from the house for his aggressive behavior. The final straw was a drunken night in the kitchen with Krista, when he placed a knife to her throat. He was called to the Diary Room on this tenth day in the house, and never came back.

[edit] Days 13-19

Krista became the new Head of Household after the eviction of Sheryl. She was under pressure from many of her housemates to nominate two members of the 'Chilltown' alliance which included Mike, Will and Shannon. However, Krista did not do so, and chose instead to nominate Autumn and Kent for eviction, believing that Autumn was too unstable to remain in the house. Although Nicole entertained the idea of joining with the Chilltown group to evict Kent, Autumn was evicted in a unanimous vote on the 19th day.

Throughout the week, Autumn was engaged in arguments with Mike and Shannon, who she felt was treating her in a cruel manner.

This week also marked the first week of the Peanut Butter and Jelly diet. The females in the house lost the food competition and were restricted to PBJ and water throughout the week.

[edit] Days 20-26

Hardy took over the reigns from Krista as Head of Household. As a part of the 'TOP' (The Other People) alliance with Kent, Nicole, Bunky and Monica, he targeted Chilltown's romantic couple of Will and Shannon. Shannon requested that the housemates vote to evict her, and they granted her wish, sending her to the outside world in a unanimous vote on day 26.

This was another explosive week in the Big Brother house. Shannon felt that Hardy's nominations were "cowardly" and used his toothbrush to scrub the toilet. She was forced by producers to admit to this for sanitary concerns. Shannon also became engaged in arguments with Hardy and Kent during the weekly Monday meeting that occurred in the house.

[edit] Days 27-33

Kent became the new Head of Household after Shannon left the house. Many housemates felt that he was taking his power too seriously during the week. He struck a deal with Chilltown's Will to not nominate him for eviction. He instead nominated Chilltown's Mike and Krista, who lacked any official associations. Mike and Krista had begun to take their relationship to a romantic level during the past weeks and were angry to be nominated together. On the thirty-third day, Mike was evicted, with only his friend Will voting to keep him.

Mike had several comments to say to Kent during the week, resulting in arguments between the two. This week also marked another week in which Nicole entertained the idea of joining with Chilltown to save Mike and evict Krista, but she did not do so.

[edit] Days 34-40

Hardy won the Head of Household for the second time. He set his sights on Kent, whose actions he did not approve of the prior week. Alongside Kent, he nominated Will for eviction for the second time. The house unanimously voted to evict Kent on the 40th day.

This week had great tension in the house. Kent felt that the house was alienating Bunky and himself, which caused Monica to blow up in a rage. Kent also engaged himself in an argument with Hardy during the Monday meeting, calling Hardy a liar.

[edit] Days 41-47

Nicole won her first Head of Household competition after Kent's eviction. Upset and betrayed with the 'Untouchables' alliance that Will revealed to her, which consisted of Krista, Monica and Hardy, Nicole set her sights on Krista and Monica, who were very close friends in the house. The women were very upset to be nominated together, and vowed revenge upon Nicole.

Nicole and Hardy felt betrayed with some of Krista's statements she had made, and strong armed Bunky and Will into voting to evict Krista unanimously on day 47.

[edit] Days 48-61

An eviction week was skipped due to Justin's earlier expulsion from the show. Therefore, the 8th week in the house was filled with competitions and special events.

In the Head of Household competition, Hardy entered the 9th week as Head of Household for the third time. With Bunky winning many of the special competitions during the prior week, Hardy felt threatened and nominated him for eviction, alongside Will for the third time. Will made Nicole and Hardy angry many times during the week, but ultimately was saved because he promised to nominate Monica for eviction should he win the next Head of Household. Hardy broke a tie vote and evicted Bunky from the house on day 61.

[edit] Days 62-68

The houseguests began an endurance competition for Head of Household, in which Monica was victorious for the first time. Nicole and Hardy were outraged when Will threw the competition, after he had promised to help save them. Nicole's week was also made more miserable when, during the endurance competition, she received a banner plane which contained a message from her husband, upset with her sexually suggestive actions in the hot tub the previous night. Nicole worried that her marriage was in jeopardy.

Monica nominated the powerhouse alliance of Nicole and Hardy for eviction, leaving Will as the sole voter for the week. Still upset with Will's betrayal, Nicole and Hardy did not campaign. Seeking to avenge his girlfriend Shannon's earlier eviction, Will voted to evict Hardy from the house on day 68.

[edit] Days 69-79

Nicole and Will began a successful start to the first part of the Head of Household competition, and secured their lead in part 2, leaving Monica out of the third portion.

Focus was taken out of the game on day 73, when the September 11th attacks occurred. The housemates were informed of the attacks, and Monica was informed that her cousin had yet to be accounted for in the attacks. The live eviction planned for day 75 was pre-empted and pre-taped on day 77, to air three days later.

On day 77, Nicole and Will battled it out in the third part of the HoH competition. Nicole emerged victorious, and cast the sole vote to evict Monica, believing her to be a bigger threat to win the money than Will.

Nicole and Will remained in the house for several days without any planned activities.

[edit] Days 80-82

On day 80, the jury of 9 returned to question Nicole and Will and to hear their thoughts. Nicole felt that some of the questions were very mean and Will gave an arrogant speech to the jurors, asking them to consider whether or not they are happy with themselves.

On day 82, the jurors returned and revealed their votes. Will won in a 5-2 vote with votes from Sheryl, Mike, Kent, Krista and Monica. Nicole received votes from Autumn and Hardy. Shannon and Bunky's votes were nullified. For the record, Shanon voted for Will, while Bunky voted for Nicole.

[edit] Season 2 voting history

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Results
Head of Household	Mike	Krista	Hardy	Kent	Hardy	Nicole	No Head of Household	Hardy	Monica	Nicole
Nominated	Nicole Sheryl	Autumn Kent	Shannon Will	Krista Mike	Kent Will	Krista Monica	No Nominations	Bunky Will	Hardy Nicole	Monica Will
Will	Nicole	Autumn	Nominated	Krista	Nominated	Krista	No Voting	Nominated	Hardy	Nominated	Winner $500,000
Nicole	Nominated	Autumn	Shannon	Mike	Kent	Head of Household	No Voting	Bunky	Nominated	Monica	Runner-Up $50,000
Monica	Nicole	Autumn	Shannon	Mike	Kent	Nominated	No Voting	Will	Head of Household	Nominated	Will
Hardy	Sheryl	Autumn	Head of Household	Mike	Head of Household	Krista	No Voting	Bunky	Nominated	Evicted (Day 68)	Nicole
Bunky	Sheryl	Autumn	Shannon	Mike	Kent	Krista	No Voting	Nominated	Evicted (Day 61)		Nullified (Nicole)
Krista	Sheryl	Head of Household	Shannon	Nominated	Kent	Nominated	Evicted (Day 47)				Will
Kent	Sheryl	Nominated	Shannon	Head of Household	Nominated	Evicted (Day 40)					Will
Mike	Head of Household	Autumn	Shannon	Nominated	Evicted (Day 33)						Will
Shannon	Nicole	Autumn	Nominated	Evicted (Day 26)							Nullified (Will)
Autumn	Sheryl	Nominated	Evicted (Day 19)								Nicole
Sheryl	Nominated	Evicted (Day 12)									Will
Justin	Ejected (Day 8)
Evicted	Sheryl	Autumn	Shannon	Mike	Kent	Krista	No Eviction	Bunky	Hardy	Monica

[edit] References

1. ^ Powell, John, "And the 'Big Brother 2' winner is..." CANOE JAM! Television. September 21, 2001.

[edit] External links

• Big Brother 2 official CBS site

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