Big Brother Australia 2001

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1 Housemates 2 Housemate Summary Table

Big Brother 2001 was the first series of Big Brother Australia. The season ran from April 23, 2001 to July 16, 2001, a duration of 86 days.

Potential contestants in the show were required to send video applications to the show's producers, in which they sold themselves as entertaining housemates.

When compared to the more complex arrangements and twists that emerged in later series, this season presented a rather basic set-up which stuck closely to the traditional Big Brother concept. The main twist was the entrance of two Intruders about half-way through the series.

The winner of the series was Ben Williams, and the runner-up was Blair McDonough, who later got a role in Network Ten's daily soap opera Neighbours. It was the only series where housemates were allowed to nominate fellow housemates without a reason (something that is enforced strongly in later seasons).

Some of the more memorable moments of the series were:

• Christina and Peter, a couple that got together early in the series, and their antics under the bed covers or "dancing doona" as it was dubbed. Many viewers suspected some sort of sexual activity went on, though it was clearly not full intercourse as both participants remained lying beside each other on their backs for the duration of the incident.
• Housemate Andy Silva, who was well known for showering outside in the backyard and her stories about her sexual adventures. Her goal of sleeping with at least seven other housemates (male or female) never got a chance to be completed as she was evicted in the first eviction.
  

  

  The Big Brother 2001 eviction stage (faces of housemates inset).

• Popular housemates Jemma and Johnnie hit an obstacle when Christina walked-in on them discussing nominations (and, crucially, their agreed opinion that Christina would be nominated that week). Their conversation was deemed to be collusion - something that is against the rules of the series - and Jemma and Johnnie were subsequently reprimanded by Big Brother, with Jemma punished by not being allowed to nominate that week. In the next two evictions Johnnie and then Jemma were evicted.
• Sara-Marie, the bum-dancing strip-club manager famous for loud behaviour (cooking fish fingers in the middle of the night) and wearing bunny ears through her stay in the house. The show's most famous cult-figure, she was somewhat surprisingly evicted before Blair or Ben. She was nominated many times by the housemates, but stayed in the house week after week - after a while she caught on that the public must like her for being herself.

[edit] Housemates

[edit] Ben

Ben Williams, from Epping, North West Sydney, New South Wales, entered the House on Day 0 and was the winner of Big Brother 2001.

[edit] Blair

Blair McDonough, from Melbourne, Victoria. The runner-up of Big Brother 2001, Blair went on to a regular acting role in Neighbours from 2001 to 2006. Now in the UK pursuing acting opportunities.

[edit] Sara-Marie

Sara-Marie Fedele, a strip-club manager from Western Australia, entered the House on Day 0. Since then, she has appeared in Celebrity Big Brother Australia and in a few episodes of the afternoon children's program Totally Wild on Network Ten, and participated in Dancing with the Stars, series two in 2005. Seen in 2006 on Celebrity Survivor as Imogin Baileys friend

[edit] Christina

Christina Davis, a former ballerina from Sydney, New South Wales, entered the House on Day 0. She was evicted on Day 77. She is now a stand-up comedian and appeared in FHM's Search for Australia's Funniest Man (or Woman). She is married to Triple M "The Cage (radio show)" Breakfast Host, Mike Fitzpatrick (broadcaster)

[edit] Jemma

Jemma Gawned, from Melbourne, Victoria, entered the House on Day 0 and was evicted on Day 70. She now has her own make-up products and appeared on the now defunct Good Morning Australia on Network Ten.

[edit] Johnnie

John Cass, known in the House as Johnnie, is from Sydney, New South Wales. He entered the House on Day 0, and was evicted on Day 63. He was labelled "Johnny Rotten" in the media for giving consoling hugs to housemates upset that they had been nominated for eviction, where he had himself nominated them.

[edit] Anita

Anita Bloomfield, from Sydney, New South Wales. entered the House as an Intruder on Day 36, and was subsequently evicted two weeks later on Day 56.

[edit] Peter

Peter Timbs, from Sydney, New South Wales, entered the House on Day 0. He was evicted on Day 49, and now works for TV Week.

[edit] Lisa

Lisa Standing entered the House on Day 0, and was evicted on Day 42. She was called the "fence sitter" as she never got involved in conflict or sided with anyone.

[edit] Rachel

Rachel Corbett entered the House as an Intruder on Day 36. She was evicted 4 days later.

[edit] Gordon

Gordon Sloan, an architect, entered the House on Day 0 and was evicted on Day 35. He became a "human shield" in the Iraq War (which was featured on Nine Network's A Current Affair).

[edit] Todd

Todd James entered the House on Day 0 and was evicted on Day 28. He went in with dreadlocks and came out with a shaved head. He has recently been hosting the breakfast show on PBS radio Melbourne (which was previously hosted by a different host each morning).

[edit] Sharna

Sharna West, a flight attendant for Ansett Airlines, entered the House on Day 0 and was evicted from the house on Day 21.

[edit] Andy

Andy Silva was a dominatrix from Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales.

[edit] Housemate nominations table

The first housemate in each box was nominated for two points, and the second housemate was nominated for one point.

	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12
											Day 84	Day 85
Ben	Gordon Sara-Marie	Peter Sharna	Gordon Christina	Gordon Peter	Lisa Sara-Marie	Peter Sara-Marie	Anita Sara-Marie	Sara-Marie Johnnie	Christina Sara-Marie	Sara-Marie Christina	Final Week No Nominations	Winner 62%
Blair	Andy Gordon	Sharna Peter	Gordon Sara-Marie	Gordon Lisa	Christina Lisa	Christina Peter	Anita Christina	Christina Jemma	Jemma Christina	Christina Sara-Marie		2nd 38%
Sara-Marie	Sharna Gordon	Sharna Todd	Jemma Todd	Jemma Peter	Blair Ben	Johnnie Peter	Jemma Ben	Johnnie Jemma	Blair Ben	Ben Blair	Evicted Day 84
Christina	Ben Lisa	Todd Gordon	Lisa Jemma	Lisa Johnnie	Johnnie Jemma	Blair Ben	Johnnie Jemma	Ben Johnnie	Jemma Ben	Ben Blair	Evicted Day 77
Jemma	Andy Sara-Marie	Gordon Christina	Gordon Sara-Marie	Gordon Peter	Sara-Marie Blair	Sara-Marie Peter	Anita Sara-Marie	Exempt	Christina Blair	Evicted Day 70
Johnnie	Jemma Andy	Sharna Christina	Gordon Todd	Sara-Marie Gordon	Jemma Ben	Christina Sara-Marie	Christina Anita	Ben Sara-Marie	Evicted Day 63
Anita	Not in house					Exempt	Blair Ben	Evicted Day 56
Peter	Gordon Andy	Todd Gordon	Todd Gordon	Lisa Gordon	Sara-Marie Lisa	Jemma Sara-Marie	Evicted Day 49
Lisa	Christina Andy	Christina Peter	Gordon Peter	Christina Blair	Christina Blair	Evicted Day 42
Rachel	Not in house					Evicted Day 40
Gordon	Sara-Marie Ben	Peter Ben	Ben Peter	Lisa Ben	Evicted Day 35
Todd	Sara-Marie Andy	Sara-Marie Sharna	Sara-Marie Lisa	Evicted Day 28
Sharna	Andy Sara-Marie	Christina Sara-Marie	Evicted Day 21
Andy	Sharna Lisa	Evicted Day 14
Twists	None	None	None	None	None	Note 1	None	None	None	None	None	None
Up for Eviction	Andy Gordon Sara-Marie	Christina Peter Sharna	Gordon Sara-Marie Todd	Gordon Lisa Peter	Blair Christina Lisa Sara-Marie	Christina Peter Sara-Marie	Anita Christina Jemma	Ben Johnnie Sara-Marie	Blair Christina Jemma	Ben Christina Sara-Marie	Ben Blair Sara-Marie	Ben Blair
Evicted	Andy	Sharna	Todd	Gordon	Lisa	Peter	Anita	Johnnie	Jemma	Christina	Sara-Marie	Blair

[edit] Notes

Note 1: Anita and Rachel entered the House as Intruders, and the housemates had to vote for which of the two Intruders they wanted to see leave.

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