The first Croatian

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 season of Big Brother ran for 100 days, starting on 18 September 2004 and ending on 26 December 2004. It received high ratings and proved to be one of the rare successes for RTL Televizija in its first six months on Croatian television markets.

Despite huge commercial success and becoming cultural phenomenon of its season, the first season was subjected to much criticism. Andrija Hebrang

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, Croatian health minister at the time, complained about contestants smoking while the programme on air, which was against Croatian laws. In response to this, later live broadcasts were time-delayed. The show also created minor controversy due to a single homophobic statement ("If I knew I had a fag

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friend, I would kill him. I would kill him") made by Zdravko Lamot http://www.lupiga.com/vijesti/index.php?id=3322 http://www.balconn.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=326.

Other critics complained about lack of diversity among contestants who didn't represent the average of Croatian population. They were mostly all in mid-20s, attending college, having liberal mindset and coming from well-to-do or upper-middle class families. Another exception was Saša Tkalčević, 32-year old biker from Bjelovar, husband and father of two children. He almost immediately established himself as frontrunner, indicating that the audience for the show and pool of potential voters was much older than previously thought.

In this first season, there were 12 original housemates. Later, two new housemates entered the house.

	| #1	| #2	| #3	| #4	| #5	| #6	| #7	| #8	| #9	| Final
Saša	Egle Filip	Alen Marina	Alen Marina	Antonija Vlatka	Antonija Sanja	Antonija Marina	Antonija Marina	Antonija Valentina	Antonija Marina	Winner
Zdravko	Ozren Sanja	Krešo Ozren	Antonija Sanja	Sanja Vlatka	Marina Sanja	Antonija Marina	Antonija Valentina	Antonija Valentina	Antonija Marina	Runner up
Alen	Ana Filip	Ana Ozren	Filip Valentina	Vlatka Željko	Sanja Valentina	Ana Valentina	Ana Antonija	Antonija Valentina	Antonija Saša	Third place
Marina	Egle Ozren	Ozren Sanja	Sanja Zdravko	Vlatka Željko	Sanja Željko	Saša Željko	Alen Ana	Antonija Saša	Saša Zdravko
Antonija	Alen Zdravko	Alen Ozren	Filip Zdravko	Saša Zdravko	Alen Željko	Alen Željko	Alen Zdravko	Marina Saša	Saša Zdravko	Evicted (Day 91)
Valentina	Egle Ozren	Krešo Ozren	Alen Filip	Alen Vlatka	Ana Željko	Alen Željko	Alen Ana	Alen Zdravko	Evicted (Day 84)
Ana	Alen Egle	Filip Ozren	Filip Marina	Vlatka Željko	Alen Željko	Alen Željko	Alen Marina	Evicted (Day 77)
Željko	Not in the house		Exempt	Ana Antonija	Alen Marina	Alen Valentina	Evicted (Day 70)
Sanja	Alen Egle	Marina Zdtavko	Marina Zdravko	Ana Vlatka	Marina Željko	Evicted (Day 63)
Vlatka	Not in the house		Exempt	Marina Zdravko	Evicted (Day 49)
Filip	Antonija Ozren	Krešo Ozren	Antonija Valentina	Evicted (Day 35)
Ozren	Krešo Zdravko	Marina Zdravko	Walked (Day 23)
Krešo	Egle Ozren	Ana Ozren	Ejected (Day 22)
Egle	Krešo Ozren	Evicted (Day 14)
Up for eviction	Egle Ozren	Krešo Marina Orzen	Filip Marina Zdravko	Vlatka Željko	Sanja Željko	Alen Željko	Alen Ana Antonija	Antonija Valentina	Antonija Saša	Alen Marina Saša Zdravko
Evicted	Egle 71%	Eviction cancelled	Filip 55%	Vlatka 84%	Sanja 73%	Željko 64%	Ana 51%	Valentina 63%	Antonija 80%	Marina 6% ---- Alen 7% ---- Zdravko 10%
Not evicted	Ozren 29%		Marina 26% Zdravko 19%	Željko 16%	Zeljko 27%	Alen 36%	Alen 13% Antonija 26%	Antonija 37%	Saša 20%	Saša 77%