Big Brother (UK series 5)
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Big Brother 5 in 2004 was the fifth series of Big Brother
in the UK
, a reality television show
shown on Channel 4
in which a number of contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize at the end of the run.
Due to the poor reaction to the previous series, the theme for this year's series was "Big Brother Turns Evil", in which the housemates were subject to a crueler environment. It launched on Channel 4 on the same night the last episode of Friends
aired, and the day was promoted as 'Black Friday'.
The series began on 28 May 2004, and ended on 6 August in the same year and was the second most watched series of Big Brother
in the UK (the first being Big Brother 3
), averaging 5.1 million viewers.
Nadia Almada
returned for Ultimate Big Brother and entered on Day 1. Michelle Bass
and Victor Ebuwa later joined the House on Day 4. Nadia and Michelle became the third and fourth evicted housemates respectively but Victor made the final and achieved fourth place.
), a former asylum seeker (Ahmed), and a person who claimed to be bisexual (Jason, although he later revealed that this had been a fabrication to improve his chances of being selected). Becki, however, was in fact bisexual. This feeling soon dissipated to a large extent as the personalities of the housemates overshadowed these issues.
One of the main twists to Big Brother in 2004 was the fluctuating prize fund. Housemates could either win or lose money depending on how well they completed the task. As the winner, Nadia received £63,500, meaning that the housemates lost £36,500 during the 71 day run of the programme.
In week 1, housemates had to nominate who they didn't want to receive their suitcase, not who they wanted to evict. Kitten refused to nominate. Kitten was evicted by Big Brother after constant rule breaking.
This week, housemates were told there was a double eviction, and the two housemates to be evicted were Emma and Michelle. In reality, the public had been voting which two housemates enter a secret Big Brother Bedsit, in which the two evictees would live for five days, and be able to watch their fellow housemates on a television screen, and then return to the house, still able to win the prize money.
Emma and Michelle made their nominations from the Bedsit. The other housemates could not nominate them, assuming them to be evicted.
Due to Emma’s ejection from the house, Week Three’s eviction was postponed until Week Four.
In Week Five, new housemate Becki arrived. She could not be nominated, and believed she could not nominate. However, Big Brother told her that she must nominate one housemate who will automatically face eviction by kissing them. If she didn’t do this, she would be up for eviction. Becki kissed Michelle, meaning she was up against the two housemates with the most nominations, Marco and Nadia.
Jason and Victor were banned from nominating due to constant discussion of nominations.
In the housemates army task, sergeants Jason and Michelle were told of the twist in nominations. If the privates passed the task, all six privates would face eviction. If the privates failed, sergeants would face eviction. Privates passed, meaning the six of them faced eviction.
All housemates faced eviction automatically.
There were no nominations in the final week. With five housemates remaining, the housemate with the least public votes to win would be evicted in a surprise eviction during a party. Stuart was this housemate, leaving Dan, Jason, Nadia and Shell in the final four.
Big Brother (UK)
Big Brother UK is the British version of the Dutch Big Brother television format, which takes its name from the character in George Orwell's 1948 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four...
in the UK
United Kingdom
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, a reality television show
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...
shown on Channel 4
Channel 4
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in which a number of contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize at the end of the run.
Due to the poor reaction to the previous series, the theme for this year's series was "Big Brother Turns Evil", in which the housemates were subject to a crueler environment. It launched on Channel 4 on the same night the last episode of Friends
Friends
Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
aired, and the day was promoted as 'Black Friday'.
The series began on 28 May 2004, and ended on 6 August in the same year and was the second most watched series of Big Brother
Big Brother (UK)
Big Brother UK is the British version of the Dutch Big Brother television format, which takes its name from the character in George Orwell's 1948 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four...
in the UK (the first being Big Brother 3
Big Brother 2002 (UK)
Big Brother 3 was the third series of Big Brother UK. The series started on 24 May 2002, ending on 26 July 2002 and the final of this series drew 10.0 million viewers. Votes in the final week totalled 8.6 million...
), averaging 5.1 million viewers.
Nadia Almada
Nadia Almada
Nadia Conceicao Almada is a Madeiran-born UK reality television star, best known for being the first transsexual winner of Big Brother in series 5 in 2004.-Big Brother:...
returned for Ultimate Big Brother and entered on Day 1. Michelle Bass
Michelle Bass
Michelle Bass is an English glamour model and television personality turned singer and columnist....
and Victor Ebuwa later joined the House on Day 4. Nadia and Michelle became the third and fourth evicted housemates respectively but Victor made the final and achieved fourth place.
Housemates
12 housemates entered the house on Day 1. In Week 5, Becki entered through the bedroom door as a replacement for Emma who had been ejected earlier in the series.Weekly summary
Trailed as "Big Brother turns evil", it was controversial from the start. The house was smaller and more claustrophobic; there was one bedroom in which each mattress was removed every time a housemate left, along with a loud noise to wake the housemates in the morning; and the prize money of £100,000 was reduced if housemates failed their tasks. Big Brother promised tougher challenges as well as surprises to test the minds of housemates. The makers were initially criticised for choosing contestants specifically to boost ratings, opting for people that were openly gay (Marco, Dan and Kitten), a transsexual (NadiaNadia Almada
Nadia Conceicao Almada is a Madeiran-born UK reality television star, best known for being the first transsexual winner of Big Brother in series 5 in 2004.-Big Brother:...
), a former asylum seeker (Ahmed), and a person who claimed to be bisexual (Jason, although he later revealed that this had been a fabrication to improve his chances of being selected). Becki, however, was in fact bisexual. This feeling soon dissipated to a large extent as the personalities of the housemates overshadowed these issues.
One of the main twists to Big Brother in 2004 was the fluctuating prize fund. Housemates could either win or lose money depending on how well they completed the task. As the winner, Nadia received £63,500, meaning that the housemates lost £36,500 during the 71 day run of the programme.
| Week 1 | Tasks | On Day 2, the housemates individually nominated who they thought was least deserving of their suitcase. The majority of the housemates chose Kitten (who was also deemed to have nominated herself by refusing to nominate). Only four housemates did not vote for Kitten, Nadia and Ahmed voted for Michelle, Daniel voted for Marco and Stuart voted for Ahmed not to get their suitcases. |
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| Punishments | On Day 5, the rebellious housemates decided to move the refrigerator into the bedroom, but the housemates (especially Kitten) were disciplined for their actions. Kitten broke all house rules bar one (physical violence) in the first week, and received the maximum of three formal warnings. After her third warning, she was informed that because of her behaviour, one housemate would be evicted on Friday, and this turned out to be her. | |
| Prize fund | The housemates lost £9,000 during week one. Kitten was ejected from the Big Brother house, but she refused to leave. Big Brother decided to drop £1,000 from the prize fund for every second that Kitten remained in the house. She stayed inside the house for 9 seconds and the housemates lost £9,000. At the end of week one, the prize was £91,000. | |
| Entrances | Marco, Ahmed, Jason, Dan, Stuart, Victor, Vanessa, Emma, Kitten, Michelle, Shell and Nadia entered on Day 1. | |
| Exits | On Day 8, Kitten was removed by Big Brother because of her constant breaking of the rules. Though technically an ejection, on the programme it was counted as an eviction. | |
| Week 2 | Tasks | On Day 9, the task involved Stuart's knowledge and Jason's strength. Stuart was required to answer general knowledge questions in the Diary Room while Jason had to spin a turntable on which the rest of the housemates sat. On Day 10, the housemates were told of the first week-long task: Big Brother Food to Go, a 24/7 fast food challenge. The housemates failed the task. |
| Prize fund | During the task on Day 9, Big Brother decided that Ahmed had not abided by the task rules, and Big Brother decided to take £10,000 away from the prize fund. During the weekly task, the housemates lost £9,000. The total after week two was £81,000. | |
| Twists | During the eviction night on Day 15, the housemates believed Michelle and Emma were evicted, but instead they were taken to the Big Brother Bedsit Bedsit A bedsit, also known as a bed-sitting room, is a form of rented accommodation common in Great Britain and Ireland consisting of a single room and shared bathroom; they are part of a legal category of dwellings referred to as Houses in multiple occupation.... , where they could see and hear what was going on. This was originally supposed to happen on Day 8, but postponed because of the removal of Kitten. |
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| Exits | Michelle and Emma moved to the Big Brother Bedsit on Day 15. | |
| Week 3 | Tasks | The housemates were set a football task to coincide with the Euro 2004 championships that were occurring at the time. As a reward for passing the task, the housemates received their shopping budget, and were allowed to watch an England football game from the tournament. In the bedsit, Emma and Michelle were set tasks by Big Brother for their other housemates, including baking a cake with chili powder, choosing a housemate to only receive cold showers for the week for which they choose Victor, and to choose which housemate would be given a football shirt filled with itching powder for the weekly task, for which they choose Vanessa. They also got to choose which costumes housemates would wear at a party during which they would return to the house. |
| Incidents | After Emma and Michelle's return to the house, scenes of aggression and violence erupted resulting in on-site security staff having to enter the house for the first time in the show's history. Some viewers of the live feed also called the police; after a short investigation, a joint statement by Hertfordshire police and producers Endemol said that they were satisfied with steps being taken to ensure housemates' safety and well-being. Police were also reportedly questioning each contestant as they left the house. A psychologist on the show resigned, claiming that his warnings that Endemol's deliberate selection of housemates likely to cause conflict would lead to the fight went unheeded. | |
| Prize fund | Prize money dropped to £77,000. | |
| Week 4 | Tasks | On Day 25, housemates were given a papier-maché Papier-mâché Papier-mâché , alternatively, paper-mache, is a composite material consisting of paper pieces or pulp, sometimes reinforced with textiles, bound with an adhesive, such as glue, starch, or wallpaper paste.... task in which they had to create a unique housemate sculpture. Later, Ahmed tore it down. |
| Punishments | As a result of the fight on Day 20, Emma was moved back to the bedsit and then removed permanently on Day 23. Victor, Jason, Nadia, Vanessa, Marco were given a formal warning. | |
| Prize fund | Task was cancelled due to the removal of Emma over Fight Night. Therefore the prize fund stayed the same at £77,000. | |
| Exits | Emma was ejected on Day 23 and Vanessa was evicted on Day 29. | |
| Week 5 | Tasks | On Day 30, Big Brother gave the housemates a task involving unscrambling words displayed by the other housemates and resisting an electric shock. The housemates weekly task involved them becoming hippies, and they had to write their own songs and live the life of hippies. |
| Twists | New housemate, Becki, was given a task by Big Brother to kiss one of the housemates on both cheeks, and that housemate would be up for eviction. This became known as the "Judas Judas Iscariot Judas Iscariot was, according to the New Testament, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus. He is best known for his betrayal of Jesus to the hands of the chief priests for 30 pieces of silver.-Etymology:... kiss". She chose popular housemate Michelle to face eviction, and Becki became unpopular. |
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| Prize fund | Victor failed to solve one anagram Anagram An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once; e.g., orchestra = carthorse, A decimal point = I'm a dot in place, Tom Marvolo Riddle = I am Lord Voldemort. Someone who... in the task, thereby losing £3,000, leaving a prize fund of £74,000. |
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| Entrances | Becki entered the house on Day 31 as Emma's replacement. | |
| Exits | Marco was evicted on Day 36. | |
| Week 6 | Tasks | Housemates weekly task was based around going back to school. Housemates had to attend registration in the morning, and were set several mini-tasks based on school subjects. They failed the task after Nadia misspelled "balloon" in a spelling bee task, causing the housemates to protest as English was not her first language. |
| Punishments | The housemates staged a silent protest after failing the shopping task, and in the afternoon started to rebel against Big Brother. Michelle decided to steal the Diary Room camera and unsuccessfully attempted to incinerate it using a match. As punishment for this, Michelle was given her "first and final warning". Dan, Shell, Stuart, and Nadia were also each issued warnings because Dan, Shell, and Nadia helped Michelle steal the camera and Stuart gathered the hay that Michelle tried to ignite. Stuart was also individually punished by being made to watch a video of the cowboy hat he had cherished being burned outside of the house. | |
| Prize fund | Prize money dropped by £2,500 to £71,500 during a farmer Farmer A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, who raises living organisms for food or raw materials, generally including livestock husbandry and growing crops, such as produce and grain... /cow task. |
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| Exits | Becki was evicted on Day 43. | |
| Week 7 | Tasks | Big Brother gave the housemates a boot camp task. Jason and Michelle were selected as sergeants while the rest of the housemates were privates. In the Diary Room, Jason and Michelle were told that if the privates passed the task, then they would be up for eviction, and if the privates failed the task, then the two sergeants would be nominated. The privates passed, and all six were automatically nominated for eviction. On Day 48, the housemates participated in a dating service. |
| Prize fund | The prize money remained at £71,500. | |
| Exits | Ahmed was evicted on Day 50. | |
| Week 8 | Tasks | The housemates were set a wedding task, and Shell and Victor were chosen as the bride and groom. Nadia was the bridesmaid, Dan was the best man, Jason held the service and Michelle sang at the service. The housemates took part in all traditional events of a wedding including a hen and stag night, and the service itself, but failed the task on the first day. The wedding became memorable for sparking the argument between Shell and Victor, and for Michelle's rendition of the song "Pie Jesu" at the service. |
| Prize fund | Prize money dropped to £56,500 after a fish-guts task. The housemates could have won the £15,000 back if Michelle (who is a vegetarian) drank a glass of fish milkshake or £5,000 if anyone else did, but it was thrown away amid speculation that it was not a good idea healthwise. Later on that week, three people failed a task , losing £1,000 each, resulting in the prize dropping further to £53,500. | |
| Exits | Victor was evicted on Day 57. It was reported that before the argument between Victor and Shell, Jason was considerably far ahead in the votes, but Victor had overtaken him in the aftermath of the fight. | |
| Week 9 | Tasks | The housemates were weighed, and were then chained together in pairs based on their weight. Dan and Nadia, the heaviest man and woman were shackled together by the foot, Jason and Michelle were chained together by the arm, and the lightest man and woman - Stuart and Shell were shackled together by the waist. Housemates were made to stay shackled together except for when they were in the diary room or in the bathroom, and had to apply each others makeup and brush each others teeth, as well as competing in mini-tasks, including making pottery and writing a short story as a pair, typing only one letter each at a time. Housemates passed the task. |
| Exits | Michelle was evicted on Day 64. | |
| Week 10 | Prize fund | Housemates were given a chance to win back £10,000 by drinking shots, some of which included fish guts. Their total was then £63,500. |
| Exits | Stuart was secretly evicted during a party on Day 69 having received the least votes to win at that point. He was not given a chance to say goodbye to his fellow housemates, who all initially felt that he had won the series after hearing the crowds reaction to him when he left the building. | |
| Finale | Nadia, as expected by all the bookmakers (she was favourite for six weeks), won Big Brother (UK) 2004 with 74% of the vote. She was greeted by an adoring crowd who chanted her name. Final vote breakdown: 4th - Shell : with 347,051 votes out of about 3.8 million votes between the final four at the tally point 3rd - Dan : with 685,995 votes out of about 4.1 million votes between the final three at the tally point 2nd - Jason : with 1,335,246 votes out of 5,198,942 votes between the final two at the close of voting 1st - Nadia : with 3,863,696 votes total. Total number of votes in the final week: 6.3 million, with more than half of the total votes being cast since the Final Eviction show started to air |
Nominations table
| Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Final Week 10 |
Nominations received | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nadia | No nominations |
Ahmed, Dan |
Dan, Vanessa |
No nominations |
Jason, Victor |
Jason, Victor |
Private in task |
Jason, Victor |
No nominations |
Winner (Day 71) |
13 | |
| Jason | No nominations |
Marco, Emma |
Nadia, Marco |
No nominations |
Nadia, Marco |
Banned | Sergeant in task |
Nadia, Dan |
No nominations |
Runner-up (Day 71) |
13 | |
| Dan | No nominations |
Ahmed, Michelle |
Nadia, Ahmed |
No nominations |
Marco, Jason |
Victor, Becki |
Private in task |
Victor, Shell |
No nominations |
Third place (Day 71) |
13 | |
| Shell | No nominations |
Ahmed, Michelle |
Ahmed, Dan |
No nominations |
Marco, Nadia |
Becki, Jason |
Private in task |
Jason, Victor |
No nominations |
Fourth place (Day 71) |
2 | |
| Stuart | No nominations |
Ahmed, Vanessa |
Dan, Vanessa |
No nominations |
Shell, Nadia |
Ahmed, Becki |
Private in task |
Dan, Nadia |
No nominations |
Evicted (Day 69) |
0 | |
| Michelle | No nominations |
Ahmed, Jason |
Victor, Jason |
No nominations |
Jason, Ahmed |
Ahmed, Becki |
Sergeant in task |
Jason, Dan |
No nominations |
Evicted (Day 64) |
4 | |
| Victor | No nominations |
Emma, Nadia |
Dan, Vanessa |
No nominations |
Marco, Nadia |
Banned | Private in task |
Dan, Nadia |
Evicted (Day 57) |
10 | ||
| Ahmed | No nominations |
Marco, Emma |
Vanessa, Marco |
No nominations |
Marco, Nadia |
Nadia, Dan |
Private in task |
Evicted (Day 50) |
14 | |||
| Becki | Not in house |
Michelle | Dan, Ahmed |
Evicted (Day 43) |
4 | |||||||
| Marco | No nominations |
Jason, Ahmed |
Dan, Vanessa |
No nominations |
Jason, Victor |
Evicted (Day 36) |
9 | |||||
| Vanessa | No nominations |
Ahmed, Michelle |
Ahmed, Nadia |
No nominations |
Evicted (Day 29) |
6 | ||||||
| Emma | No nominations |
Victor, Dan |
Victor, Jason |
Ejected (Day 23) |
3 | |||||||
| Kitten | No nominations |
Ejected (Day 8) |
N/A | |||||||||
| Nomination note | none | |||||||||||
| Against public vote |
none | Ahmed, Emma, Michelle |
Dan, Vanessa |
Marco, Michelle, Nadia |
Ahmed, Becki |
Ahmed, Dan, Nadia, Shell, Stuart, Victor |
Dan, Jason, Nadia, Victor |
Dan, Jason, Michelle, Nadia, Shell, Stuart |
Dan, Jason, Nadia, Shell, Stuart |
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| Ejected | Kitten | none | Emma | none | ||||||||
| Evicted | none | Emma 29% to move |
eviction postponed | Vanessa 86% to evict |
Marco 62% to evict |
Becki 61.5% to evict |
Ahmed 56% to evict |
Victor 47% to evict |
Michelle 67% to evict |
Stuart 7% (out of 5) |
Shell 9% |
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| Dan 17% |
Jason 26% (out of 2) |
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| Michelle 54% to move |
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| Nadia 74% to win |
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In week 1, housemates had to nominate who they didn't want to receive their suitcase, not who they wanted to evict. Kitten refused to nominate. Kitten was evicted by Big Brother after constant rule breaking.
This week, housemates were told there was a double eviction, and the two housemates to be evicted were Emma and Michelle. In reality, the public had been voting which two housemates enter a secret Big Brother Bedsit, in which the two evictees would live for five days, and be able to watch their fellow housemates on a television screen, and then return to the house, still able to win the prize money.
Emma and Michelle made their nominations from the Bedsit. The other housemates could not nominate them, assuming them to be evicted.
Due to Emma’s ejection from the house, Week Three’s eviction was postponed until Week Four.
In Week Five, new housemate Becki arrived. She could not be nominated, and believed she could not nominate. However, Big Brother told her that she must nominate one housemate who will automatically face eviction by kissing them. If she didn’t do this, she would be up for eviction. Becki kissed Michelle, meaning she was up against the two housemates with the most nominations, Marco and Nadia.
Jason and Victor were banned from nominating due to constant discussion of nominations.
In the housemates army task, sergeants Jason and Michelle were told of the twist in nominations. If the privates passed the task, all six privates would face eviction. If the privates failed, sergeants would face eviction. Privates passed, meaning the six of them faced eviction.
All housemates faced eviction automatically.
There were no nominations in the final week. With five housemates remaining, the housemate with the least public votes to win would be evicted in a surprise eviction during a party. Stuart was this housemate, leaving Dan, Jason, Nadia and Shell in the final four.
External links
- Big Brother - Series 5 at Channel4.com