Big Brother 4 (US)

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Big Brother

Season 4 (2003)

Housemates Name Exited Entered       Jun Song Day 82 Day 1 Alison Irwin Day 82 Day 1 Robert Roman Day 75 Day 1 Erika Landin Day 68 Day 1 Jee Choe Day 61 Day 1 Jack Owens Day 54 Day 1 Justin Giovinco Day 47 Day 1 Nathan Marlow Day 40 Day 1 Dana Varela Day 33 Day 1 David Lane Day 26 Day 1 Michelle Maradie Day 19 Day 1 Amanda Craig Day 12 Day 1 Scott Weintraub Day 8 Day 1 Winner of Big Brother 4 and $500,000 USD Runner-up, Winner of $50,000 USD Evicted Expelled

In the fourth season of Big Brother, the American reality TV show, aired thirty-three episodes during the summer of 2003 from July 8 to September 24.

A DVD was released that featured uncensored moments from the season that weren't allowed for broadcast, including nightvision camera footage of contestants Amanda and David having sex in the Head of Household room. (The actual acts happened under covers, so nothing pornographic was shown.)

[edit] Changes

[edit] X-Factor

First eight to enter house (top to bottom, left to right) Scott Weintraub, David Lane, Jack Owens, Nathan Marlow Jun Song, Erika Landin, Dana Varela, Alison Irwin.

The big twist for the year was The X-Factor. Eight houseguests were introduced, only to have five houseguests' exes compete against them in the game. This quickly became messy, as Scott, a houseguest who had his ex-girlfriend move into the house, had a violent outburst, and subsequently told the house that he had a sexually transmitted disease. He was disqualified and evicted from the game.

[edit] Golden Power of Veto

Another twist, introduced in the last veto contest of Big Brother 3, was the Golden Power of Veto, in that if a nominated person won such a veto, they would be allowed to take themselves off consideration for voting, which was not allowed when the veto was introduced originally the year before.

[edit] Event ordering

Yet another twist in the game occurred when Jun won HoH in Week 8 of the competition. The Veto competition would be held before Jun would make her nominations. The reason being was that Jun, as HoH, won a special trip outside of the Big Brother house to attend the 20th Annual MTV Video Music Awards. Her disappearance (as she entered the Diary Room and never returned) played a part in the Veto Competition, as the houseguests had to guess where Jun was. Jun returned, and nominated Jee, her ex-boyfriend, and Alison. However, Alison won the Veto, and used it on herself, forcing Jun to put Robert in her place. Despite Robert being a replacement for Alison, Jee was unanimously evicted 2-0.

[edit] Jury

One last twist to the format included a jury of seven who would decide the outcome of the game. When the game got down to nine players, the evictees formed the jury. The jury format eliminated America's need to break a tie if necessary, as done before in Season 3 (though Lisa won 9-1).

[edit] Final outcome

The Final "Diamond" Power of Veto, was of the utmost importance to the game. At the final Veto Competition, Alison emerged victorious, with the power to pull herself from the Block and cast the sole evict vote. Despite having promised both Jun and Erika to take them to final two, Alsion chose to evict Erika, and put on a show of crocodile tears at her eviction. In the Final Head of Household Competition, Alison beat Robert to win HOH part one, which was an endurance competition, after promising to take Robert to the Final two. In the Second part of the HOH competition, Jun easily beat Robert by completing a mental challenge based on events that had taken place in the House. Therefore, Jun and Alison faced each other in part three of the final HOH, with both having pledged to take the other to final two. After eight questions based on their ex-boyfriends Jee and Justin the women were tied on four correct answers apiece. The tiebreaker question was "How many days did you date your ex for?" to which Alison answered 0 days and Jun answered one million. Therefore, Alison emerged as the Final HOH and evicted Robert from the House. Despite Alison's prowess in competitions, she went on to lose the Jury vote 6-1 to Jun, with the jury stating its disgust and disappointment with the conduct and gameplay of both women.

[edit] Nominations and evictions

[edit] External links

• Big Brother 4 official CBS site