Big Brother 2005 (UK)

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Big Brother UK

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Housemates Name Entered Exited       Anthony Day 1 Day 78 Eugene Day 29  Day 78    Makosi Day 1  Day 78    Kinga Day 29 Day 66  Day 32 Day 78    Craig Day 1  Day 76    Derek Day 1  Day 71    Orlaith Day 29  Day 65    Kemal Day 1  Day 64    Science Day 1  Day 57    Vanessa Day 1  Day 50    Maxwell Day 1  Day 43    Saskia Day 1  Day 36    Roberto Day 1  Day 29    Sam Day 1  Day 22    Lesley Day 1  Day 15    Mary Day 1  Day 8    Winner Runner Up Evicted Walked

Big Brother 2005 was the sixth series of Big Brother in the UK, a reality television show on Channel 4, in which a number of contestants live an isolated existence in a purpose-built house who try to avoid being evicted by public vote, with the aim of winning a large cash prize at the end of the run. Big Brother 2005 ran for eleven weeks, at the time the longest the programme had lasted (subsequent series extended the duration to thirteen weeks). The sixth series began on 27 May 2005 and ended on 12 August of the same year.

[edit] Pre-series

A teaser advertisement for Big Brother 2005

The first reports of this series were announced in March 2005 when Channel 4 confirmed that Big Brother would return for its sixth series in the summer of that year.^[1] Within that announcement the company revealed that host Davina McCall, Big Brother's Little Brother presenter Dermot O'Leary, and Big Brother's Big Mouth (called Big Brother's EForum the previous year) host Russell Brand would return along with the show.^[1] Soon after, Channel 4 programming director Kevin Lygo told the press that Big Brother 5's "evil" theme would not return despite its success the previous year and that the programme would be renewed for 2006 and beyond.^[2]

In April, Channel 4 confirmed that Big Brother 6 would start on 27 May 2005, in keeping with the tradition that Big Brother UK would start in late May.^[3] On 30 April 2005, Channel 4 revealed the eye for the series, a sliced mirror of alternating black and blue strips, in reality two eyes on top of each other.^[4] This helped fuel rumours about two houses, an idea that although never coming to fruition, was put into practice during the 2003 series of Big Brother in Australia.^[4] On 9 May 2005, Channel 4 began airing countdown bumpers, starting at eighteen days rather than the usual ten days before the launch;^[5] subsequent series began airing countdown bumpers ten days before the premiere. Channel 4 contradicted itself two days before the launch show, confirming that Big Brother 6 would, in fact, be evil.^[6] The broadcaster also told the press that there would be thirteen housemates with a theme of "unlucky thirteen," inspired by triskaidekaphobia.^[6]

[edit] The House

Host Davina McCall tours the house. She is standing in the bedroom and behind her from left to right are: the dining table, Diary Room, living area, and kitchen.

The House for Big Brother 2005 was a radical change from the oppressive and angled house from the previous year. House designer Patrick Watson described the design as "[A]spirational and yet not wildly practical."^[7] Although the House is still quite small, light pale colours and high camera angles give the viewer the impression that the House is larger than it actually is. Watson also revealed that he accomplished this by extensively utilising mirrors for an airier and cooler atmosphere.^[7] Channel 4 described the House as the boldest one at the time and Watson stated it to be complementary to "iPod neutrality."^[7]

Pictures of the House were released on 24 May 2005, revealing the outdoor shower and pool.^[8] There is a row of three outdoor showers that replace the need for a complete bathroom; a sink and toilet are inside despite having an outdoor sink. The tiled floor leads onto the wooden deck of the pool, this year a circular pool positioned in a corner of the garden.^[8] The other side of the showers leads towards the slightly elevated glass-box lounge that originally had mult-levelled green couches but were eventually replaced with low orange ones.^[9][10]

More pictures were released to the press later in the day.^[9] These depicted the exterior of the Diary Room, this year a chaotic web of sliced and angled mirrors giving housemates a distorted reflection of the rest of the house.^[9] These pictures also showed that the house was composed of one main, column-free, airy room with cream-coloured carpeting on which the dining table rested and an elevated kitchen containing a row of yellow cabinets. For the first time, an American-style refrigerator was utilised, giving the housemates more space for food and located next to the store-room.^[9] However, the glass wall that allowed housemates to view the bedroom from the living area was disguised as a mirror to ensure that viewers would not be able to count how many housemates would be in the House.^[9] Finally, only a few days before launch night, pictures of a loft in the garden leaked to the press.^[11] On Day 1, it was shown that it was painted green rather than the pink shown in the pictures.^[10][11]

[edit] The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden was first used on Day 29, when Big Brother contestants Kinga Karolczak, Orlaith McAllister and Eugene Sully secretly entered the house, minutes after Roberto Conte was evicted. For several days, the three housemates had to live in the Secret Garden, with only Makosi knowing their existence.

The Secret Garden was decorated like a jungle, and the three secret housemates were initially only supplied with fig leaves to cover only the main essentials of their bodies. This created the idea of an Adam and Eve style jungle. With Makosi's help, they had to steal clothes and food from the main Big Brother House when the other housemates were asleep, and to make sure that the other housemates did not find out about them.

The secret housemates were forced to live in the garden for several days. At the end of their stay, Makosi who had to choose two of the three secret housemates to enter the main house. She chose Orlaith and Eugene,^[12] although Kinga re-entered the house after Orlaith walked out on Day 65.

[edit] Housemates

Main article: List of Big Brother 2005 housemates (UK)

13 housemates entered the house on Day 1. In Week 5, three other housemates entered the Secret Garden. Makosi then chose two of them to enter the main house, Orlaithe and Eugene. When Orlaithe voluntarily left weeks later, the third housemates from the Secret Garden, Kinga rentered the house.

[edit] Weekly summary

[edit] Nominations, evictions and percentages

The following is a table of nominations for Big Brother 2005.

[edit] Nomination totals

[edit] Notes

Note 1: Makosi had a secret mission to get the most nominations. She succeeded in her task. She had to choose the two housemates to go up for eviction. She chose Craig and Mary. Makosi Roberto and Sam would have faced the public vote if she failed.
Note 2: As Vanessa discussed nominations, all housemates were up for eviction. As a result of this, all nominations depicted in the table for week 2 were void. Had this not happened, Derek and Sam would have faced the public vote.
Note 3: Craig, Derek and Roberto were banned from nominations for discussing nominations.
Note 4: Anthony and Maxwell were banned from nominations for discussing nominations. As Makosi was on a secret mission, she had to evict one person from the secret garden, the other two entered the house.
Note 5: Big Brother set the housemates a task, telling them Big Brother would lie to them twice. Big Brother told the housemates that the weeks nominations were optional. This was the first lie. As always, nominations were compulsory; and those that did not nominate would face the public vote. Only Anthony, Craig and Kemal nominated - saving them from the public vote. Big Brother then told the second lie by announcing that the housemates up for eviction were Anthony, Craig and Kemal, when in fact they were the only housemates not up. On eviction night, the housemates decided which of the two housemates with the most eviction votes would leave. Makosi and Vanessa were chosen by the public and all the housemates except Kemal voted to evict Vanessa.
Note 6: Instead of nominating those that they wished to evict, the housemates had to nominate those who they wanted to stay in the house.
Note 7: After Orlaith walked, Kinga was brought back in the house to replace her. She was instantly set a secret mission in which she needed to get at least one person not to nominate her. If one person failed to nominate her, she would be immune and would definitely appear in the final week of Big Brother. She passed her task as none of the housemates nominated her for eviction.
Note 8: There were no nominations in the final week. There was also a mid-week eviction in the final week. The housemate to have received the fewest votes from the public (to win) by Wednesday night was evicted, leaving four housemates for the final on Friday. The housemates were all evicted on that day between 8:30 PM and 10:30 PM. They were evicted with 4th place going first and the winner leaving last.

[edit] Ratings

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Big Brother - Series 6 at Channel4.com
• Kemal Shahin
• Vanessa Mcintosh
• Derek Laud Homepage

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