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Season 5 (2003)


The fifth season of Big Brother, the American reality TV show, ran for thirty-one episodes from July 6 to September 21, 2004.

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[edit] HouseGuests

[edit] Adria

Main article: Adria Montgomery-Klein and Natalie Montgomery-Carroll

Adria (Montgomery) Klein (born June 24, 1974, in Birmingham, Alabama) is a 30-year-old fitness professional from Birmingham, Alabama. On Day 63, Adria was evicted from the Big Brother House.

[edit] Diane

Main article: Diane Henry

Diane Henry (born March 1, 1982, in Euless, Texas) is a 22-year-old cocktail waitress from Burlington, Kentucky. Diane finished in third place, being evicted on Day 78. Diane was later chosen to be a contestant in Big Brother 7, but was the fourth evicted.

[edit] Drew

Main article: Andrew Daniel

Andrew Theodore "Drew" Daniel (born April 28, 1982, in Springfield, Ohio) is a 22-year-old college graduate from Urbana, Ohio. He was the winner of Big Brother 5, receiving $500,000.

[edit] Holly

Main article: Holly King (actress)

Holly Michelle King (born August 20, 1977, in Hollywood, California) is a model living in Los Angeles, California. She was eventually voted out on Day 28.

[edit] Jase

Jase Wirey is a 28-year-old volunteer firefighter from Decatur, Illinois. He was evicted on Day 42. Jase was later a contestant in Big Brother 7: All-Stars, but evicted on July 27, 2006.

[edit] Nakomis

Jennifer Jeannene "Nakomis" Dedmon (born April 25, 1983, in Houston, Texas) is a 21-year-old restaurant waitress from San Antonio, Texas. She was later a contestant in Big Brother 7: All-Stars, but was evicted on July 20, 2006. "Nakomis" is a nickname she got when she was 15. It means "daughter of the moon".

[edit] Karen

Karen Ann (O'Neil) Ganci (born January 17, 1974) is a portrait artist originally from Saddle Brook, New Jersey, and now lives in Spring Hill, Florida. She was evicted on Day 70, the ten-week marker in the House.

[edit] Lori

Lori Valenti (born November 16, 1977, in Woburn, Massachusetts) is a yoga instructer from Woburn, Massachusetts. She was evicted on Day 21.

[edit] Marvin

Marvin Latimer is a mortician from Conway, South Carolina. Marvin was evicted on Day 64, as part of a Double Eviction Week.

During Big Brother 7: All Stars, he came back for the August 13th show as a guest judge for the food competition along with Jun (Season 4 winner) and Nicole (Season 2 runner-up.)

[edit] Michael

Michael "Cowboy" Ellis (born December 12, 1980, in Houston, Texas) is a security officer from Durant, Oklahoma. He has a wife and a son. The season's twist, Project DNA, showed him that he had a half-sister, Nakomis. Cowboy was the runner-up this season.

[edit] Mike

Mike Lubinski (born March 8, 1963) is a single dad and painter from Eastpointe, Michigan. He was originally a finalist for Big Brother 4 but ultimately did not make the final cast. Mike was the first person evicted from the House, on Day 14.

[edit] Natalie

Main article: Adria Montgomery-Klein and Natalie Montgomery-Carroll

Natalie (Montgomery) Carroll (born June 24, 1974, in Birmingham, Alabama) is a fitness professional. Her identical twin sister is Adria. Natalie was evicted on Day 56.

[edit] Scott

Scott Long (born June 15, 1979, in Cleveland, Ohio) is a sales representative from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was part of the four horsemen alliance with Cowboy, Jase, and Drew. He was evicted on Day 35, the same day as the twin twist was revealed. After the show, Scott posed nude for Playgirl.

[edit] Will

Main article: Will Wikle

Charles William "Will" Wikle III (born December 15, 1978, in Tupelo, Mississippi) is a registered nurse from Tupelo, Mississippi. He went on to have his own show on the Logo network called Round Trip Ticket. He was evicted sixth and was a member of the jury.

[edit] Highlights

Like the previous season's Ex-Factor, this season also had a twist theme. It was called Project Do Not Assume or Project DNA for short and had two aspects. The first was that two of the contestants, Michael and Jennifer were half-siblings who were unaware of each other before the show. They discovered this in the second week and revealed it to the other HouseGuests. Both Diane and Drew had identical twins as well (their twins were not competing in the game), something that was revealed to everyone on the first night and therefore wasn't a twist.

The second Project DNA aspect was a pair of identical twins who switched places every few days, appearing as one person, Adria, to the other HouseGuests. If they were not discovered after five weeks in the House, they would be able to live in the House simultaneously as individuals. The twins evaded eviction in the fourth week when Adria was nominated as a veto replacement by the Head of Household, Drew. Host Julie Chen introduced Natalie to the other HouseGuests on Day 35, minutes following Scott's eviction. Before the introduction, many houseguests assumed it was Holly who switched in and out with her twin, due to an innocuous comment she had made while in the house. On her eviction night, Holly rebuffed that speculation by saying "there's only one Holly in the world," and was later shocked to learn of the Adria/Natalie twist.

The Golden Veto was tweaked slightly to increase the possibility that the veto would be exercised. From this season on, only a maximum of six players could participate in any veto contest: the two nominees and the Head of Household all getting to select one person each. The winner was free to use or decline to use the veto as he or she saw fit, but with so few players playing, there were indeed more vetoes this season than in the previous two seasons combined.

A new strategic move known as backdooring also originated during this season. Backdooring occurs when a Head of Household puts two players up for nominations whom the Head of Household actually doesn't have any intention to get evicted. Instead, the Head of Household and the two nominees have agreed to band together to rid the Big Brother House of a common threat. During the veto challenge, these three players only choose players whom they feel will use the veto if it is won (the common threat isn't given a chance to participate in the Power of Veto challenge). The player who won the veto uses it, and the common threat goes up for nomination and gets evicted.

Backdooring has greatly impacted on how this game was played. During this season, the 'Four Horsemen' alliance (Jase Wirey, Michael Ellis, Drew Daniel, and Scott Long) dominated the Big Brother House for weeks until Diane Henry won Head of Household. Diane attempted to evict Jase during her reign, but she failed when he won the veto and removed himself from the nomination block. The next week, Jennifer (also known as "Nakomis") won Head of Household. Jennifer put a plan into motion that would later become known as backdooring. This specific plan was called the Six-Finger Plan when it was first conceived. Jennifer put Diane and Marvin up for eviction without any intention of getting them evicted. Instead, Jennifer's plan was to finally get Jase evicted from the House. Drew won the veto, and he used it to take Diane off the nomination block. Jase figured out what had happened before being nominated; however, by then, it was too late. Michael Ellis had said to Jase as they figured out the scheme, "You just got bitch slapped." Jase became nominated and was evicted by a vote of 6-1. Later on in the season, another backdooring plot that Diane created led to Karen's eviction. Karen held animosity toward Diane and expressed her displeasure with being backdoored as she left, which Diane vehemently denied, citing a low number of players left in the game and that it was Karen's time to go.

An additional twist was a "Double Elimination Week" in the tenth week of the game, in which the entire process of selecting a Head of Household and veto holder, and evicting a player all occurred twice in one week.

Adria and Natalie were already considered a big threat before Adria made her bold move. Even her own alliance started questioning her, saying that the twins were "solid" and they know they can count on each other. When Adria won HoH, after revealing that Natalie was her twin, she put up Marvin (a "floater") in the game, and Will (from her alliance). Adria's plan was to form 3 smaller alliances in the game, breaking up the two existing alliances. Everyone was stunned by this, Adria's plan backfiring by uniting the rest of the House to try and evict the twins. Adria won the Power of Veto, and despite Will's hopes that she would use the Veto to save her alliance; she did not, meaning that Will was evicted and was the first person to be sent to the jury House. Afterwards, the power shifted and Adria and Natalie were nominated for eviction. In the veto competition, the twins showed their power when Adria won the Power of Veto for the second week in a row. When the Veto was used, Adria chose to save herself. Natalie was evicted, and Adria was without allies. After losing the HoH competition, Adria was put up again. In the veto competition, Adria almost won but lost to Karen, Karen's first victory in the game so far. Adria tried to convince Karen to save Adria, claiming that Karen was a pawn in her friend's group and was considered useless. Karen told Adria that she wanted to save her, but didn't want to break the promise of her alliance, and so chose not to use the Power of Veto. Adria was evicted, and was sent to the jury House. As she left, Adria made a speech regarding what she learned in the game and who Adria and Natalie would and wouldn't be voting for in the final vote, which led to a heated argument between Adria and Marvin, who took her to task on phrasing her statement in that way after Adria resigned herself to "the reality" that people did not see her and Natalie as distinct people.

Season 5 also saw the introduction of a companion talk show on the web. "House Calls" aired weekdays during the entire season and was hosted by former Big Brother 3 HouseGuest Marcellas Reynolds and radio personality Gretchen Massey. The show featured telephone calls from viewers and interviews with evicted HouseGuests, HouseGuests from past seasons and the producers of "Big Brother" Arnold Shapiro and Allison Grodner.

This was also the final season of Big Brother that had the original floor plan of the House that had been built in 2000 used. In the next season, the House was dramatically changed with the addition of another story added on top, with a more luxurious Head of Household room. CBS Corporation, parent company of the network that carries Big Brother, built the new studios of KCBS and KCAL, its two Los Angeles TV stations, on the site; the new studios opened on April 21, 2007.

[edit] Competitions

Title Day Played For Winner(s)
Hungry, Hungry Helix Day 1 Food Everyone except Holly;
however, Lori took $10,000
and forfeited everyone's
right to food.
$10,000 Lori
Treadmills of Terror Day 2 HoH Jase
Margarita Madness Day 4 Hot Tub All
Flaringo Toss Day 8 Veto Scott
Majority Rules Day 14 HoH Marvin
Catapoultry Day 15 Food All (various items)
Snag the Veto Day 16 Veto Jase
High/Low Day 21 HoH Drew
Alphabet Soup Day 22 Food All (various items)
Bluff me a Veto Day 23 Veto Nakomis
I Have a Secret Days 28-29 HoH Diane
This Little Piggy Won the Veto Day 30 Veto Jase
Home is Where the Answer Is Day 35 HoH Nakomis
Fast Times & Custard Pie Day 36 Food Karen, Marvin, Michael, Natalie, Will
Pop Goes the Veto Day 37 Veto Drew
The Puck Stops Here Day 42 HoH Adria
Backyard Burger Bonanza Day 43 Food Karen, Michael, Nakomis, Will
A Very Veto Christmas Day 44 Veto Adria
Admit One Day 44 Movie Night Drew, Diane, Will
Who Said It? Day 49 HoH Nakomis
Blenderlicious Day 49 Food All (various days)
The Web Day 51 Luxury All (Diane bonus prize)
Morph 'o' matic Day 51 Veto Adria
Putting for Power Day 56 HoH Marvin
Ice Ice Veto Day 58 Veto Karen
Chemical Reaction Day 63 HoH Drew
Bounced Day 64 Veto Diane
Ready, Set, Gone Day 64 HoH Nakomis
Caged Day 66 Veto Diane
Before or After Day 70 HoH Drew
Trashin' the Fashion Day 71 New Clothes All
Socket to Me Day 72 Veto Michael
Earthquake Day 75 HoH Part 1 Drew
Twisted Twosomes Day 76 HoH Part 2 Michael
Encore Presentation Day 78 HoH Drew

[edit] Voting history

A record of the votes cast, stored in a voting-table, shows how each HouseGuest voted to evict throughout his or her time in the House. The Head of Household and the nominees are not allowed to vote, but in the event of a tie, the Head of Household will break it. Twists to the normal nominations process are noted, such as immunity from nomination and eviction (referred to as "exempt") and double evictions. The last seven evictiees of the season are part of the Jury of Big Brother 5. The seven Jury Members vote for the winner during the Finale.

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11
Day 63 Day 64 Day 78 Finale
Head of Household Jase Marvin Drew Diane Nakomis Adria Nakomis Marvin Drew Nakomis Drew Drew (none)
Nominations
(pre-veto)		 Mike
Nakomis		 Holly
Lori		 Holly
Nakomis		 Jase
Scott		 Diane
Marvin		 Marvin
Will		 Adria
Natalie		 Adria
Michael		 Diane
Marvin		 Drew
Michael		 Diane
Nakomis		 Diane
Michael
Veto Winner Scott Jase Nakomis Jase Drew Adria Adria Karen Diane Diane Michael (none)
Nominations
(post-veto)		 Mike
Nakomis		 Karen
Lori		 Adria
Holly		 Marvin
Scott		 Jase
Marvin		 Marvin
Will		 Michael
Natalie		 Adria
Michael		 Marvin
Nakomis		 Karen
Michael		 Diane
Nakomis
Drew Mike Lori Head of Household Marvin Jase Will Natalie Adria Head of Household Karen Head of Household Diane Winner
$500,000
Michael Mike Lori Holly Marvin Marvin Will Nominated Nominated Marvin Nominated Nakomis Nominated Runner-Up
$50,000
Diane Mike Karen Holly Head of Household Jase Marvin Natalie Adria Marvin Karen Nominated Evicted
(Day 78)		 Drew
Nakomis Nominated Lori Holly Scott Head of Household Marvin Head of Household Adria Nominated Head of Household Nominated Evicted
(Day 75)		 Michael
Karen Mike Nominated Holly Scott Jase Marvin Natalie Adria Marvin Nominated Evicted
(Day 70)		 Drew
Marvin Mike Head of Household Holly Nominated Nominated Nominated Natalie Head of Household Nominated Evicted
(Day 64)		 Drew
Adria Mike Lori Nominated Scott Jase Will Michael Nominated Evicted
(Day 63)		 Michael
Natalie Not in
house		 Jase Will Nominated Evicted
(Day 56)		 Michael
Will Mike Karen Holly Scott Jase Nominated Evicted
(Day 49)		 Drew
Jase Head of Household Lori Adria Marvin Nominated Evicted
(Day 42)
Scott Mike Lori Holly Nominated Evicted
(Day 35)
Holly Mike Lori Nominated Evicted
(Day 28)
Lori Mike Nominated Evicted
(Day 21)
Mike Nominated Evicted
(Day 14)
Notes See
note 1		 None See
note 2		 None See
note 3		 None See
note 4		 See
note 5
Evicted Mike
10 of 10 votes
to evict		 Lori
7 of 9 votes
to evict		 Holly
7 of 8 votes
to evict		 Scott
4 of 7 votes
to evict		 Jase
6 of 7 votes
to evict		 Will
4 of 7 votes
to evict		 Natalie
4 of 5 votes
to evict		 Adria
4 of 4 votes
to evict		 Marvin
3 of 3 votes
to evict		 Karen
2 of 2 votes
to evict		 Nakomis
1 of 1 vote
to evict		 Diane
1 of 1 vote
to evict

Michael
3 votes
to win

Drew
4 votes
to win

Note 1: The twins, Adria and Natalie, secretly switched places frequently the first five weeks. Both twins pretended to be Adria until they completed their task. In Week 6, Natalie was allowed to enter the House as a separate HouseGuest.
Note 2: During the eviction of Week 6, Adria as the HoH had to vote to break a tie.
Note 3: "Double Elimination Week", the entire process of selecting a Head of Household and veto holder, and evicting a player all occurred twice in one week.
Note 4: In the final week, the HoH is the only HouseGuest eligible to vote for eviction since the other two HouseGuests are up for eviction by default.
Note 5: Votes in the finale are cast for the HouseGuest's choice to win, not for who to evict. Only the last seven HouseGuests evicted can vote.

[edit] External links

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