Big Brother Australia 2004
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Big Brother Australia 2004 was the fourth series of Big Brother Australia, and was aired on Network Ten, starting on Sunday May 2, 2004, with the housemates entering the day before; and ended on Monday July 26, 2004, lasting 87 days.
The season was billed as "back to basics, but with one small secret". In a return to the basic format of Big Brother 2001 and Big Brother 2002 that had been eschewed in favour of twists and surprises in Big Brother 2003, all housemates were let into the house together and former surprise elements such as swimming pools and gym equipment were all exposed from the beginning. Two Intruders entered the house later in the game, and Miriam, the transsexual star of the show There's Something About Miriam, entered as a houseguest near the end. [1] The prize money was raised from $250,000 to $1,000,000, but this was kept hidden from housemates until later in the series. Evicted housemates also received larger prizes than any season before, with every evictee receiving a Mitsubishi Lancer.
The two Intruders were some of the least liked in all the four series, with Violeta being chosen for eviction by every single housemate, and then Monica, who already had a boyfriend outside, immediately started falling for Ryan, and she and Bree developed an intense dislike towards each other. When Monica was finally up for eviction, she was evicted with a very large percentage of the votes.
The final contestants in 2004 were Bree Amer and Trevor Butler. Trevor won, and then proposed to his girlfriend on stage. Mid-Season, The housemates were able to see the "unoffical Premiere" of The Day After Tomorrow.
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[edit] Housemates
[edit] Trevor
Trevor Butler, from Broken Hill, New South Wales, entered the House on Day 0. He was announced as the winner of Big Brother 2004 and $1,000,000 AUD, and proposed to his girlfriend on stage shortly afterwards. Trevor is the only Big Brother Australia housemate to have won $1,000,000.
On the 10th of October 2007, Trevor made a celebrity appearance on the ABC Television series Summer Heights High.
[edit] Bree
Bree Amer, from the Gold Coast, Queensland, entered the House on Day 0. Bree now co-hosts Friday Night Live and the Friday Night Games with fellow former housemate Ryan Fitzgerald. Bree was also wrongly evicted during the show and re-entered the house. She is currently dating BB 07 housemate Bodie.
[edit] Paul
Paul Dyer, from Jan Juc, Victoria, entered the house on Day 0. Paul had been involved in an intense argument with Merlin over the issue of becoming an Australian citizen. Paul was evicted on Day 85.
[edit] Ryan
Ryan Fitzgerald (or "Fitzie"), a former professional Australian rules football player from Adelaide, South Australia, entered the House on Day 0, and was evicted on Day 83. He also co-hosts Nova 91.9 Adelaide's breakfast show, Friday night games, Friday night live and Friday night download.
[edit] Catherine
Catherine Tremolada is a single mother of two from Albion Park, New South Wales. She entered the House on Day 0, and was evicted on Day 78, the day before the Final Countdown.
[edit] Ashalea
Ashalea McWalters, from Perth, Western Australia was evicted on Day 71.Entered competition in 2006 on RSVP seen on the big night in with John Foreman
[edit] Monica
Monica de Balso, from New South Wales, entered the House as an Intruder, and was evicted in a Double Eviction on Day 71.
[edit] Wesley
Wesley Dening was evicted on Day 68, and now co-hosts children's television show, Totally Wild.
[edit] Violeta
Violeta Black was from Melbourne, entered the house as an Intruder, and was evicted on Day 59.
[edit] Kane
Kane Dignum, from Queensland was evicted on Day 57.
[edit] Terri
Terri Mann, from Western Australia, entered the House on Day 0 with the original housemates, and was evicted on Day 50.
[edit] Merlin
Merlin Luck, from New South Wales, entered the House on Day 0 with the original housemates, and was evicted on Day 43. During his Eviction, he attracted controversy by taping over his mouth and revealing a makeshift banner which read "Free Th Refugees". The letter E had fallen off and it was intended to read "Free The Refugees" in reference to Australian Government policy of mandatory detention of asylum seekers. He refused to speak throughout his eviction show, but later spoke of the incident during the following nomination show.
[edit] Elle
Bree Quartermaine, known in the House as Elle and from Western Australia, entered the House on Day 0 and was evicted on Day 36.
[edit] Krystal
Krystal Ince, from Queensland, entered the House on Day 0 with the original housemates, and was evicted on Day 29.
[edit] Igor
Igor Vurmeski, from Melbourne, Victoria, was evicted on Day 22.
[edit] Aphrodite
Aphrodite Vuitton was evicted on Day 15. She garnered publicity after the end of the series upon getting cosmetic surgery [1], which consisted of rhinoplasty, chin augmentation, and breast implants.
[edit] 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 | ||||
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Intruder | Noms | Day83 | Day 85 | Day 86 | ||||||||||
Trevor | Igor, Terri |
Igor, Paul |
Paul, Ashalea |
Paul, Ashalea |
Merlin, Paul |
Terri, Ashalea |
Wesley, Ashalea |
Violeta | No Nominations |
No Nominations |
Paul, Catherine |
Paul, Bree |
No Nominations |
Winner |
Bree | Terri, Igor |
Terri, Igor |
Terri, Kane |
Terri, Paul |
Terri, Paul |
Wesley, Ryan |
Kane, Paul |
Violeta | No Nominations |
No Nominations |
Paul, Ryan |
Paul, Ryan |
No Nominations |
Runner-Up |
Paul | Aphrodite, Igor |
Elle, Merlin |
Merlin, Krystal |
Elle, Trevor |
Merlin, Catherine |
Ashalea, Catherine |
Trevor, Bree |
Violeta | No Nominations |
No Nominations |
Trevor, Ryan |
Ryan, Trevor |
No Nominations |
Evicted (Day 85) |
Ryan | Igor, Aphrodite |
Igor, Terri |
Krystal, Terri |
Terri, Ashalea |
Catherine, Terri |
Bree, Terri |
Ashalea, Bree |
Violeta | No Nominations |
No Nominations |
Catherine, Bree |
Bree, Paul |
Evicted (Day 83) |
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Catherine | Ashlea, Igor |
Igor, Terri |
Paul, Ashalea |
Paul, Terri |
Merlin, Trevor |
Terri, Ryan |
Kane, Ryan |
Violeta | No Nominations |
No Nominations |
Ryan, Bree |
Evicted (Day 78) |
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Ashalea | Igor, Paul |
Elle, Merlin |
Elle, Trevor |
Elle, Kane |
Merlin, Kane |
Wesley, Kane |
Wesley, Ryan |
Violeta | No Nominations |
No Nominations |
Evicted (Day 71) |
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Mónica | Not In House |
Exempt | No Nominations |
Evicted (Day 71) |
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Wesley | Aphrodite, Krystal |
Ashalea, Krystal |
Ashalea, Bree |
Elle, Ashalea |
Bree, Catherine |
Bree, Catherine |
Ashalea, Catherine |
Violeta | No Nominations |
Evicted (Day 68) |
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Violeta | Not In House |
Exempt | Evicted (Day 60) |
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Kane | Elle, Catherine |
Krystal, Elle |
Krystal, Terri |
Elle, Terri |
Ashalea, Catherine |
Ashalea, Terri |
Bree, Ashalea |
Evicted (Day 57) |
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Terri | Igor, Ashalea |
Igor, Ashalea |
Merlin, Krystal |
Bree, Ryan |
Bree, Ashalea |
Ashalea, Kane |
Evicted (Day 50) |
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Merlin | Igor, Terri |
Igor, Terri |
Paul, Terri |
Paul, Terri |
Paul, Terri |
Evicted (Day 43) |
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Elle | Igor, Kane |
Igor, Terri |
Ashalea, Krystal |
Ashalea, Ryan |
Evicted (Day 36) |
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Krystal | Igor, Aphrodite |
Igor, Terri |
Terri, Merlin |
Evicted (Day 29) |
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Igor | Krystal, Ashalea |
Elle, Kane |
Evicted (Day 22) |
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Aphrodite | Terri, Paul |
Evicted (Day 15) |
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Notes | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | |
Nominated For Eviction |
Aphrodite, Igor, Terri |
Elle, Igor, Terri |
Ashalea, Krystal, Paul, Terri |
Elle, Paul, Terri |
Bree, Catherine, Merlin, Paul, Terri |
Ashalea, Bree, Terri, Welsey |
Ashalea, Bree, Kane, Wesley |
Mónica, Violeta |
Ashalea, Bree, Catherine, Paul, Ryan, Trevor, Wesley |
Ashalea, Bree, Catherine, Paul, Mónica, Ryan, Trevor |
Catherine, Paul, Ryan |
Bree, Paul, Ryan |
Bree, Paul, Trevor |
Bree, Trevor |
Evicted | Aphrodite 45% to evict |
Igor 47% to evict |
Krystal 41% to evict |
Elle 36% to evict |
Merlin 46% to evict |
Terri 41% to evict |
Kane 36% to evict |
Violeta 7 of 7 Votes |
Wesley 20% to evict |
Mónica 43% to evict |
Catherine 41% to evict |
Ryan 37% toevict |
Paul Third Place |
Bree Second Place |
Ashalea 13% to evict |
Trevor Winner |
[edit] Nomination Notes
Note 1: The two Intruders faced the Housemate Vote, in which the Housemates would decide which one of them should go home. The Housemates unanimously chose to Evict Violeta.
Note 2: All Housemates were Nominated by Big Brother after failing to give reasonable Nomination reasons. Mónica, as a new Housemate, was exempt from this process.
Note 3: For the second week running all Housemates were automatically Nominated by Big Brother - this was due to the fact that at the last Eviction there was a voting error and Bree had been incorrectly Evicted. Bree later returned to the House, and the correct Evictee, Wesley, was Evicted on Day 68, four days too late. This left no time for Nominations, so all Housemates were put up for the Public Vote.
[edit] Controversy
- Housemate Merlin Luck staged a protest at his live eviction show. Upon entering the arena, he revealed a makeshift banner which read "Free Th Refugees". The letter E had fallen off and it was intended to read "Free The Refugees" in reference to Australian Government policy of mandatory detention of asylum seekers. Merlin placed gaffer tape over his mouth and refused to speak during the live show. The following night, when he returned to appear as a guest on the Nomination show, he apologised to Killeen for putting her on the spot and making her job difficult by refusing to speak during the eviction show. On this show Merlin spoke about his actions in the highest rating show of the timeslot for that night.[1]
- The producers were criticized for making a deal with housemate Ryan Fitzgerald who was permitted to wear a t-shirt that was branded with "MLS" (acronym for Massive Loser Squad). The t-shirts were being sold while the show was running and Ryan's friends admitted that a proportion of the profits was going towards votes to keep him in the house, thus giving him what was perceived to be an unfair advantage. However the producer pointed-out that many housemates had companies or local communities rally support for them, which was little different, and that there was nothing stopping any other housemate's supporters doing a similar thing to Ryan's friends.
- Housemate Bree Amer was incorrectly evicted instead of Wesley due to a vote counting error. The error was discovered after the Sunday night eviction show. Bree had already met up with friends and family. She was returned to the house the following night (Monday). [2] Wesley was evicted in a special show on the following Thursday.
[edit] Reception
[edit] Australian TV ratings
MONDAY - FRIDAY DAILY SHOW
WEEK | Sydney | Melbourne | Brisbane | Adelaide | Perth | TOTAL | WEEKLY RANK |
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01 | 356,000 | 343,000 | 256,000 | 137,000 | 152,000 | 1,243,000 | 46 |
02 | 299,000 | 281,000 | 222,000 | 115,000 | 145,000 | 1,062,000 | 58 |
03 | 312,000 | 268,000 | 199,000 | 110,000 | 148,000 | 1,037,000 | 70 |
04 | ,000 | ,000 | ,000 | ,000 | ,000 | ,000 | |
05 | 311,000 | 296,000 | 208,000 | 121,000 | 146,000 | 1,082,000 | 65 |
06 | 325,000 | 278,000 | 195,000 | 116,000 | 148,000 | 1,063,000 | 66 |
07 | 341,000 | 294,000 | 221,000 | 132,000 | 131,000 | 1,119,000 | 49 |
08 | 289,000 | 272,000 | 233,000 | 126,000 | 133,000 | 1,052,000 | 65 |
09 | 302,000 | 287,000 | 242,000 | 135,000 | 133,000 | 1,100,000 | 57 |
10 | 309,000 | 322,000 | 234,000 | 141,000 | 132,000 | 1,138,000 | 45 |
11 | 328,000 | 302,000 | 231,000 | 143,000 | 121,000 | 1,124,000 | 53 |
12 | 357,000 | 307,000 | 249,000 | 154,000 | 124,000 | 1,191,000 | 46 |
[edit] References
- ^ a b Buttner, Claire (June 14, 2004). Merlin's silent protest. The Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ "Bree to re-enter Big Brother", theage.com.au, Published July 5 2004, URL accessed July 18 2007.
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