Pinoy Big Brother: Unlimited

Pinoy Big Brother

◄ ►  Unlimited (2011-2012)

Housemates Name Entered Exited       Slater Day 1 Day 155 Pamu Day 1  Day 155    Biggel Day 1  Day 155    Paco Day 1  Day 155    Divine Day 1  Day 152    Tin Day 1  Day 148    Carlo Day 1  Day 141    Kevin Day 1  Day 134    Seichang Day 1  Day 134    Deniesse Day 15  Day 120    Eting Day 8  Day 113    Wendy Day 8  Day 99    Jessica Day 8  Day 93    Joya Day 8  Day 92    Naprey Day 8  Day 78    Unad Day 8  Day 78    Roy Day 1  Day 78    Ryan Day 23  Day 78    Jerico Day 8  Day 78    Steph Day 8  Day 78    Kim Day 1  Day 71    Kigoy Day 1 Day 121  Day 71 Day 124    Tol Day 8  Day 71    Luz Day 1 Day 121  Day 71 Day 127    Seth Day 25  Day 50    Erica Day 8  Day 50    Mark Day 8  Day 43    Lyn Day 8  Day 43    Casey Day 8  Day 36    Reg Day 15  Day 36    Jaz Day 1  Day 31    Diane Day 8  Day 29    Lordwin Day 8  Day 29    Cindy Day 15  Day 22    Rhea Day 15  Day 22    RJ Day 15  Day 21    Kulas Day 15  Day 20    Winner Runner-up Evicted Voluntary Exit Forced Eviction

Pinoy Big Brother: Unlimited is the fourth season and the ninth series overall of Pinoy Big Brother that aired on ABS-CBN from October 29, 2011. Toni Gonzaga and Bianca Gonzales reprised their hosting stints for the show, together with PBB Teen Edition Plus ex-housemate Robi Domingo. The season ended on March 31, 2012 after 155 days, breaking Double Up's record for the longest duration by three more weeks and also ranked as one of the show's longest seasons worldwide, only surpassed by a number of seasons held in Germany. It is the first regular season with a male winner.^[1][2][3][4]

Auditions for the season started in Metro Manila on March 4, 2011 at the SM Mall of Asia where around 10,000 people attended. Show director Lauren Dyogi said the turnout at the Mall of Asia audition was the largest in the show's history. Other auditions were held at several key cities in the Philippines from March to July 2011, plus overseas auditions in Tokyo and Los Angeles.^[5][6] The total number of aspirants for the season, as claimed by the show, was 30,789. A total of 37 housemates entered for this season; fourteen on opening night, fifteen on Day 8, six on Day 15, and two on Days 23 and 25.^[7][7]

In the run-up to the premiere, a special weekday afternoon primer entitled Pinoy Big Brother: The Audition Stories started airing on October 24, 2011. It featured several participants whose audition stories caught the interest of the producers.^[8][9][10] The afternoon primer lasted until November 4, 2011. It eventually gave way to the new show, Pinoy Big Brother: UnliDay, the day main program. The said program shows the latest happenings of the Day Housemates from the Industrial House.

Slater Young emerged as the winner of this season.

Overview

House theme

For the season, the exterior of the House was slightly tweaked to have slotted walls and minor modifications, but still keeping the yellow and blue color scheme. There are five areas for this season: four Houses and a special area. Two of the houses, the Industrial and Luxury Houses, are connected via a secret hallway first revealed on Day 22 and fully opened on Day 65.

• Slums: First occupied on opening night, the Slums was made to look like a typical squatters' area in many urban areas in the Philippines. This was done to let the housemates experience the same living conditions as 15 million Filipinos who live in such areas, based from a typical answer during auditions of experiencing typical Filipino life.^[11] This House was demolished on Day 22.
• Industrial House: The interior of the second House follows the regular House layout and its accompanying amenities. It is further given an "industrial" feel with steel, wooden, and brick walls. Unlike previous seasons, however, this House has no yard area. The house was opened on Day 8 and was closed down on Day 77.
• Luxury House: Also called the Mansion, the third House is exquisitely furnished and brightly lit. Like the Industrial House, this House also has no yard area, although sunlight somehow passes through a curtain. This house was opened on Day 22.
• Resort: Located adjacent to the Luxury House, this area is sophisticated with the inclusion of the pool and a jacuzzi in the beach-themed Garden area. It is used as a venue for special occasions and tasks. This area was opened on Day 15 and the door to the resort (hidden under a curtain in the Luxury House) was opened on Day 65.
• Hacienda: Located at the activity area, the Hacienda is modelled after a typical plantation in the Philippines by featuring several plants. It contains a large hut where the housemates would live in. This House was opened on Day 128.

Unlimited twists

• Reserved housemates — Aside from the 13 official housemates who entered on Day 1, 30 short-listed housemates are given another chance to become official housemates. A lottery was made on Day 1 to choose the sub-official housemate. On Day 15, six reserved housemates entered; three girls collectively known as the 3Gs entered the Slums while three boys collectively known as the Power Strangers entered the Industrial House. Another two male reserved housemates entered on Days 23 and 25. They were given tasks to fulfill in order to become official housemates.
• Unli-Day/Unli-Night — Like the previous regular season, Double Up, the show would feature two houses, each containing a different set of housemates. To accommodate both, a second main program, Unli-Day, was aired in the afternoons to focus on the events in the Industrial House to be hosted by Bianca; Toni will host the original primetime main program, dubbed Unli-Night, which will look into happenings at the Slums/Luxury House. The setup only applies to weekdays; on weekends, nomination and eviction nights, and special shows, the primetime program would cover both Houses. With the closure of the Industrial House on Week 11, Unli-Day was directed towards covering events in the active House(s) while the host has an interview session with former housemates.
• House Swaps — Housemates will be made to swap houses and group members as instructed by Big Brother.
• SE Voting System — Also lifted from the previous regular season, the Save-Evict (SE) voting system gives a chance for the public to vote to save or evict a housemate. The housemate with the lowest net votes, Save and Evict votes combined, is evicted. Furthermore, voting for each house's nominees are separate yet simultaneous for every week, thus having two evictees per round. This voting system was stopped after the fourth eviction round.
• Head of Household — Similar to Double Up, the concept will involve the housemates competing against each other, and the winner/s of the competition will be each house's HOH for week. The HOH will be granted immunity in the coming nomination.
• House Competitions — Big Brother brought back the House competitions from Double Up, but with a more lucrative prize. For ten weeks, the Luxury House housemates, dubbed as Team High-Voltage, would compete against the Industrial House's occupants, known as Team Wayuk, in weekly major competitions with PHP150,000 at stake in each. At the end of those ten weeks, the cash accumulated by each team would be shared among the final four housemates in each House. The teams would also compete in "mini-battles" wherein the winning team would be given minor rewards.
• Intensity 7 — On Day 71, the remaining 20 housemates, 11 from Team High-Voltage and nine from Team Wayuk, were put-up for 24-hour public voting. The top five housemates from each team will be safe from elimination on Day 78, where six housemates will be evicted from the house. A sequel twist, called the Aftershock, would test the remaining housemates further.
• The Big Road Trip - Certain housemates will temporarily return to the outside world and do tasks without being recognized by anybody.
• House Guests - Big Brother inserted three sets of guest housemates into the house:

• Double Trouble - Under the cover of a fake Big Swap, Big Brother inserted two guest housemates supposedly from the Czech Republic edition of the show on Day 100.
• M.I.B. (Melason is Back)- Big Brother inserted Double Up winner Melisa Cantiveros and second runner-up Jason Francisco as guest housemates on Day 114.
• Kuya's Fairy Godmothers - Previous winners Nene Tamayo, Beatriz Saw, and Keanna Reeves were inserted on Day 135 to accord special wishes to certain housemates.

• House Players - An evicted housemate will remain in the house to test the remaining official housemates through tasks set by Big Brother and the audience. There are two sequel House Player twists with the same purpose:

• M6 - Two housemates from the current season and four from the previous seasons were inserted on Day 121.
• Don-Donya - Baron and Beauty from the M6 and Seichang from the current season were inserted on Day 128.

• Wildcard Housemate - A holdover from certain previous seasons, an evicted housemate will have a chance to come back on the roster of housemates.
• Power of One - Starting the 13th eviction, the public may only vote once per day per mobile phone number.
• Big Shot for the Big Slot - The final five housemates are given the chance to have a fifth slot in the finale by completing a shooting task.

Housemates

A total of fourteen housemates entered the House on Day 1, thirteen official housemates plus a sub-official housemate acting as a "mole" in a task to become the fourteenth official housemate. That sub-official housemate was chosen by lottery from a pool of 30 reserved housemates. These are the auditionees who were shortlisted for the show, but did not make the official cut.

All thirteen official housemates plus the sub-official "mole" housemate, chosen via random sampling, entered the House on Day 1 (October 29, 2011).^[12][12] A second batch of housemates entered the House on Day 8, although those assigned to the Industrial House were not physically inside until the next day. Eight reserved housemates entered on Days 15, 23 and 25. The ages indicated were the housemates' ages upon their entrance to the House.^[13][14]

Name	Age	Birthplace/residence	Ethnicity	Source
First batch
Jaz Manabat	24	Quezon City	Filipino	[15][16]
Slater Young	23	Cebu City	Filipino–Chinese	[15][16]
Kigoy Abarico	32	Ormoc, Leyte	Filipino	[15][16]
Tin Patrimonio	19	Cainta, Rizal	Filipino	[15][16]
Roy Gamboa	29	Pangasinan	Filipino	[15][16]
Kevin Fowler	18	California, USA	Filipino-American	[15][16]
Luz McClinton	33	Muntinlupa	Filipino	[15][16]
Pamu Pamorada	19	Lipa, Batangas	Filipino	[15][16]
Paco Evangelista	26	General Santos City	Filipino	[15][16]
Kim de Guzman	19	Olongapo City	Filipino	[15][16]
Joseph Biggel	19	Marinduque	Filipino–German	[15][16]
Seichang Ushimi	22	Tokyo, Japan	Filipino–Japanese	[15][16]
Divine Maitland-Smith	20	Cebu City	Filipino–British	[15][16]
Carlo Romero H1	25	Chicago, USA	Filipino	[15][16]
Second batch
Jerico Redrico	24	Pampanga	Filipino	[13]
Diane Aquino	28	Quezon City	Filipino	[13]
Tol Chua	33	Surigao del Sur	Filipino–Chinese	[13]
Casey Ann Austria	19	Legazpi, Albay	Filipino	[13]
Wendy Tabusalla	22	Muntinlupa	Filipino-Indonesian	[13]
Joya Genzola	24	Negros Occidental	Filipino	[13]
Eting Linaban	27	Cebu	Filipino	[13]
Jessica Connelly	19	Taguig	Filipino–Irish	[13]
Lordwin Claveria	23	Quezon	Filipino	[13]
Lyn Bagiosa	25	Surigao del Norte	Filipino	[13]
Erica Arlante	31	Bacolod	Filipino	[13]
Steph Enage	23	Baybay, Leyte	Filipino	[13]
Unad Hernandez	24	Batangas	Filipino	[13]
Mark Luz	23	Quezon City	Filipino	[13]
Naprey Almario	23	Davao	Filipino	[13]
Reserved housemates
Cindy Miranda	20	Nueva Ecija	Filipino
Deniesse JoaquinH3	21	Sampaloc, Manila	Filipino
Rhea Lim	26	Pampanga	Filipino–Chinese
Kulas Alon	26	La Union	Filipino-Italian
Reg PinedaH2	19	Quezon City	Filipino
RJ Padilla	22	Parañaque	Filipino–German
Ryan TomasH5	19	Colorado, USA	Filipino
Seth CoxH4	32	California, USA	Filipino– American
Houseplayers
Anthony Semerad	20	Manila, Philippines	Filipino– Czech
David Semerad	20	Manila, Philippines	Filipino– Czech

Houseguests

Similar to the franchise's previous seasons, Big Brother invited guests to his house for special purposes.

Notable houseguests for this season were ex-housemates from previous seasons such as Melisa Cantiveros, Jason Francisco, Franzen Fajardo, Baron Geisler, Beauty Gonzalez, Rica Paras and previous winners, Nene Tamayo, Beatriz Saw, and Keanna Reeves.

Note:

^Note H1 : Entered Day 1 as a reserved housemate; became the 14th official housemate on Day 8.^[13]

^Note H2 : Entered Day 15 as a reserved housemate; became the 30th official housemate on Day 21.

^Note H3 : Entered Day 15 as a reserved housemate; became the 31st official housemate on Day 22.

^Note H4 : Entered Day 25 as a reserved housemate; became the 32nd official housemate on Day 26.

^Note H5 : Entered Day 23 as a reserved housemate; became the 33rd official housemate on Day 30.

Chronology of notable events

House Competitions (Kontra Battles)

On Day 30, Big Brother announced the start of House Competitions, where the two Houses will compete for ten weeks for P150,000 at stake every week. The accumulated pot money for each House will be divided among the remaining housemates of each House after ten weeks. Group immunity from nomination was also put at stake with the seventh and eighth challenges.

The Luxury House residents are known as Team High Voltage and the Industrial House denizens are codenamed Team Wayuk.

Weekly tasks

Below is the list of weekly tasks performed by the housemates. Each of the tasks below are "all-or-nothing" tasks; failure would mean no budget for the next week. There are separate weekly tasks for each House.

The first weekly task was done by the first batch of housemates in the Slums.

Teams High Voltage and Team Wayuk were formed on Day 30. Weekly tasks prior to Day 30 were done by the same sets of housemates, with the exception of the very first weekly task. On Day 22, Jaz and Seichang transferred to the Luxury House and joined in doing Team High Voltage's extended 3rd weekly task. On Day 31, Luz and Seichang transferred to the Industrial House and became part of Team Wayuk.

Starting Day 71, the members of Teams High-Voltage and Wayuk who were drafted into the top 14 were made to do their weekly task as one group.

Wayuk

High Voltage

Joint Team (Wayuk & High Voltage)

Legend:

     Weekly task was performed in the slums

     Weekly task was performed in the industrial house

     Weekly task was performed in the luxury house

     Weekly task was performed in the outside world

     Weekly task was performed in the hacienda

Notes:

• ^T1 : Reserve housemate Carlo lost the 4th task on purpose as part of his secret task as a mole.
• ^T2 : This task was extended to the Luxury House after the fish flew away from the Slums during its first hour, hence, becoming the team's weekly task for two weeks. Big Brother declared the task a failure because Fifi's tailfin touched the floor frequently.
• ^T3 : Big Brother declared the task a success because the Luxury housemates ignored nine of 14 distractions.
• ^T4 : The Luxury and Industrial housemates earned PHP71,500 and PHP48,600, respectively, for charity which resulted a success for both their weekly tasks.
• ^T5 : By the time accumulation was halted at around 9:30 PM on Day 30, 20,959 "Likes" were posted. The target of 14,000 "Likes" was already reached at around the afternoon of Day 29.
• ^T6 : Five of the six contraptions were successful - two from Team High Voltage and three from Team Wayuk.
• ^T7 : The success was assured after the nominees of the week got 20 out of 20 answers correct in a challenge to match each housemate's picture with the proper Chinese characters in the right sequence.
• ^T8 : The task was declared a partial success because the housemates were recognized during the trip at some point.
• ^T9 : The task was declared a failure because only one housemate (Paco) sat on the throne.

Head of Household Competitions

Housemates from each houses will compete against each other, and the winner/s of the competition will be each house's HOH for week. The HOH will be granted immunity in the coming nomination.

Notes:

• ^N1 : Paco did not participate in the challenge, but was declared as HoH to protect his status as house player.
• ^N2 : Since Paco was the only one to sit on a special throne reserved for the Big Winner, he was declared the HoH.
• ^N3 : The M5 House Players were explicitly told by Big Brother to pick Paco as HoH to protect his status as house player.

Nomination history

Big Night at the Grandstand

On March 31, 2012, 154 days after the season started, at the Quirino Grandstand, Slater Young was declared the Big Winner after amassing 40.02% of the votes. Leaving before him were Second Big Placer Pamu with 21.49% of the votes, Third Big Placer Biggel with 21.39% of the votes and Fourth Big Placer Paco with 17.10% of the votes. Slater thus earned the distinction of being the first male winner of a regular season four years after Ruben Gonzaga was declared as the first male winner of the entire franchise. The Big Night voting was only done overnight, with the Power of One rule in effect. This is also the first and only season wherein only vote percentages are shown and not the actual number of votes. The theme of the Big Night is Filipino style.

This table shows the summary of votes as obtained by each of the Big 4 in the Big Night.

References

External links

• Official Website
• Pinoy Big Brother: Unlimited on Twitter
• Pinoy Big Brother: Unlimited on Facebook
• Pinoy Big Brother: Unlimited at the Internet Movie Database

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