Big Brother Australia 2008 was the eighth season of the Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n reality television

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...

 series, Big Brother Australia to air on Network Ten

Network Ten

Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...

. Episodes were broadcast on Network Ten

Network Ten

Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...

 and Ten HD

Ten HD

Ten HD was an Australian free-to-air television channel that launched on 16 December 2007. The channel was available to high definition digital television viewers through owned-and-operated stations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth...

 in Australia. The first episode aired on 28 April 2008. Since then, there has been a total 20 housemates competing in the series. Half way through the series, the prize money was revealed to be $250,000, the amount originally given in the earlier season of the series. This season introduced Kyle Sandilands

Kyle Sandilands

Kyle Dalton Sandilands is an Australian radio and TV personality. He is currently the host with Jacqueline Henderson, better known as Jackie O, on the weekday morning radio program The Kyle and Jackie O Show on Sydney radio station 2Day FM, The Kyle and Jackie O Hour of Power which airs on...

 and Jackie O

Jackie O (radio host)

Jacqueline Ellen Marie Henderson, better known as Jackie O, is an Australian commercial radio host, actress and television presenter. She is best-known nationally for presenting The Hot Hits, the Hot 30 Countdown, Take 40 Australia and the Kyle & Jackie O on 2Day FM with Kyle Sandilands and for...

 as the new hosts and featured the return of an adult-themed weekly installment.

The season featured a new audition process similar to the format used in the earlier seasons, where people wishing to audition sent in a tape rather than attending cattle call audition sessions. For the first time in Big Brother Australia history, the public could vote which housemates they wanted to see in the House prior to the commencement of the season. The tagline in pre-season publicity was "I don't think so", based on the song by Kelis

Kelis

Kelis Rogers Kelis Rogers Kelis Rogers (born August 21, 1971 is an American musical artist. She is a BRIT Award, Q Award and NME Award winner and has been nominated for two Grammy Awards. She has had nine top 10 singles on the UK Singles Chart...

. The series lasted 85 days—a shorter run than preceding seasons—with the finale taking place on 21 July 2008.

The season rated poorly, leading to the cancellation of the series, announced 13 July 2008. Ten's chief programmer, David Mott, admitted the series had recently experienced "audience erosion" and widespread criticism of the new hosts. Mott reasoned that after so many seasons there were few new surprises in the format, leading to reduced viewing figures. Mott defended the new hosts saying that the ratings for eviction shows held up. The lowest-rating component of the season was the Big Mouth late night weekly panel show. Its audience slipped to the half-a-million mark and it was moved to a later time slot. However, a new series of Big Brother was subsequently announced in 2011.

Auditions

Auditions opened in late 2007. People wishing to audition were required to post a video audition of themselves on the official Big Brother website. Voting closed on 7 January 2008. The three people with the highest number of votes would be guaranteed a place in the House with the top 50 others to go through a second selection process.

Promotions

Promotional advertisements for the new series premiered on 6 April 2008 featuring a short video of former Australian Prime Minister John Howard

John Howard

John Winston Howard AC, SSI, was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He was the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies....

 criticising the show in 2006, stating that Channel Ten should "get this stupid show off the air", followed by the tagline "I Don't Think So" from the eponymous Kelis

Kelis

Kelis Rogers Kelis Rogers Kelis Rogers (born August 21, 1971 is an American musical artist. She is a BRIT Award, Q Award and NME Award winner and has been nominated for two Grammy Awards. She has had nine top 10 singles on the UK Singles Chart...

 track.

Series

The series began Monday 28 April 2008 at 7:00 pm. The opening episode had the lowest-ever ratings of any launch of Big Brother Australia. The episode mostly outrated its competitors in most timeslots—except its second half hour when it lost out to Border Security

Border Security: Australia's Front Line

Border Security: Australia's Front Line is an Australian television programme that airs on the Seven Network. The show follows the work of officers of Australian Customs and Border Protection, the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service, and the Department of Immigration and Citizenship as...

. The audience for the launch peaked at 1.91 million.
The series lasted a total of 84 days. The 2008 finale aired on Monday 21 July 2008 at 7:00 pm on Network Ten

Network Ten

Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...

. It was the first Big Brother Australia finale to feature three finalists and the first hosted by Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O.

Broadcasts

Starting this season, new hosts Kyle Sandilands

Kyle Sandilands

Kyle Dalton Sandilands is an Australian radio and TV personality. He is currently the host with Jacqueline Henderson, better known as Jackie O, on the weekday morning radio program The Kyle and Jackie O Show on Sydney radio station 2Day FM, The Kyle and Jackie O Hour of Power which airs on...

 and Jackie O

Jackie O (radio host)

Jacqueline Ellen Marie Henderson, better known as Jackie O, is an Australian commercial radio host, actress and television presenter. She is best-known nationally for presenting The Hot Hits, the Hot 30 Countdown, Take 40 Australia and the Kyle & Jackie O on 2Day FM with Kyle Sandilands and for...

 replaced Gretel Killeen

Gretel Killeen

Gretel Killeen is an Australian journalist and author. Killeen is well known for being the primary host of Big Brother Australia from its inception in 2001 until the 2007 season ....

, who had hosted since the show's launch in 2001.
The nomination and eviction processes were changed for this season and those elements were both covered in the same weekly episode of the program. In previous seasons nominations and evictions were conducted separately and each had a weekly special dedicated to them.
A new panel discussion program titled Big Brother's Big Mouth was hosted by Tony Squires

Tony Squires

Tony Squires is an Australian media personality, currently presenting the sport report on Seven News in Sydney. He is perhaps best known as the presenter of the comic sport news show The Fat, which ran on ABC television from 2000 to 2003....

 and Rebecca Wilson

Rebecca Wilson

Rebecca Wilson is an Australian media personality, known mainly for her reporting on sport.-Career:Wilson has worked in both the newspaper and television industry for over 20 years...

. This show was similar in format to the UK Big Brother panel show of the same name. It screened Monday nights, initially at 9:30 pm before being moved later due to low ratings.
Big Brother: UpLate did not air this season due to Ten's late night programming schedule being used for Indian Premier League

Indian Premier League

The Indian Premier League is a professional league for Twenty20 cricket competition in India. It was initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , headquartered in Mumbai, and is supervised by BCCI Vice President Rajeev Shukla, who serves as the league's Chairman and Commissioner...

 cricket telecasts in May and June. In comparison to 2007's broadcast, this season saw 11 hours less free-to-air telecasts a week, solely due to the absence of Mike Goldman's Big Brother: UpLate.
Television broadcast episodes featured a slightly updated logo and graphics, and much shorter theme music intros to each show.
The free internet streaming was also changed. The time allotted to free streaming was cut to three five-minute blocks per day. The full-membership subscriptions cost around A$33.00.

Nomination and eviction voting format

In the previous series of Big Brother, housemates nominated two other housemates for eviction and viewers then voted to actually evict. In this season the nominations were based on viewer votes collected through the week. The public were only able to vote for which housemate to save from eviction. The three housemates with the least amount of save votes were nominated for eviction on Sunday. The housemates then voted to evict one of these three. Housemates gave two points to one person they want evicted, and one point to another of the three.
The winner of Friday Night Games had the power to remove one nominated housemate from the nomination lineup, after which the housemate(s) in fourth place moved into the nomination lineup. In awarding eviction points, the winner could award four points to one person, and two points to another.
After five weeks, the nomination and eviction process reverted to the traditional format of all previous seasons: the housemates nominate, and viewers vote for the housemate to be evicted. Unlike the preceding few seasons, there was no save vote for nominated housemates; viewers could only vote to evict.
At the start of the season, Big Brother announced to the housemates that "snap evictions" will be executed at various points during the season. Terri was evicted on the first night in what was described as a "snap eviction", but she was soon returned to the house. Two of the three viewer-voted housemates, Barney and Michael, were quickly removed in what was described by the show's makers as a "snap eviction". In the final week, housemates were asked to vote to evict two housemates in a surprise "snap eviction". Alice and Travis were "evicted" and moved to another section of the compound. Later, it was revealed to Alice and Travis, and then the other housemates, that this eviction was fake and Alice and Travis returned to the main House.

The House

The House was rebuilt with a new layout as has occurred with most seasons of Big Brother Australia. The bedroom contained just one big bed for all housemates to share. The garden featured a Volkswagen Type 2

Volkswagen Type 2

The Volkswagen Type 2, officially known as the Transporter or Kombi informally as Bus or Camper , was a panel van introduced in 1950 by German automaker Volkswagen as its second car model – following and initially deriving from Volkswagen's first model, the Type 1 , it was given the factory...

 in which one housemate had to sleep. There was also a vending machine in the garden. The housemates could buy various items such as snacks, and sunglasses. Coins for the vending machine were distributed to housemates as a reward for sustaining good behaviour.

House Guests

There were several celebrity guests appearances featured during this series. Carson Kressley

Carson Kressley

Carson Lee Kressley was the fashion expert on the American television program Queer Eye, where he was one of the show's "Fab Five" members. He is also the motivational host of the TV show How to Look Good Naked.-Biography:...

 arrived and gave the housemates a makeover to promote his new show, How to Look Good Naked

How to Look Good Naked

How to Look Good Naked is a television program, first aired on British Channel 4 in 2006, in which fashion stylist Gok Wan encourages women and men who are insecure with their bodies to strip nude for the camera...

. He stayed for only several hours. Former housemate Rima returned briefly late in the season. Rima was originally a housemate, but left after breaking her leg on the first Friday Night Live games. She returned on Day 63 with a special task of telling the housemates that there was a mole

Mole (espionage)

A mole is a spy who works for an enemy nation, but whose loyalty ostensibly lies with his own nation's government. In some usage, a mole differs from a defector in that a mole is a spy before gaining access to classified information, while a defector becomes a spy only after gaining access...

 among them. She left on Day 66 after a four day return.
Pamela Anderson

Pamela Anderson

Pamela Denise Anderson is a Canadian-American actress, model, producer, author, activist, and former showgirl, known for her roles on the television series Home Improvement, Baywatch, and V.I.P. She was chosen as a Playmate of the Month for Playboy magazine in February 1990...

 entered as a guest on Day 73, then returned the following day for a special task. She did not stay in the house overnight. When asked how much she was paid to do the show, she said, "Much more than I am worth" and "I don't want to say how much but it is a lot."
The day after her first Big Brother appearance, Anderson took part in a campaign against alleged KFC cruelty outside Southport KFC Restaurant, Gold Coast, where she hand-delivered a letter to the manager opposing expressing her concerns. Anderson's appearance generated the highest ratings of the entire season to that time.

Housemates

It was initially confirmed that there would be 18 housemates this season. One housemate quit before the show started and ultimately 14 housemates entered the House on the opening night, with an additional three entering in the first week.

Friday Night Live themes and winners

Week	Theme	Winner	Runner Up
1	Out of This World	Nobbi	Brigitte
2	Hip-Hop	Nathan	Travis
3	Celebrities	Rebecca	Nathan
4	Scouts	Alice	Terri
5	A Day at the Races	Renee	Nobbi
6	Superheroes	Nobbi	Bianca
7	Friday the 13th	Nobbi	Travis
8	Heavy Metal	Brigitte	Travis
9	Spy Night	Cherry	Brigitte
10	I Love New York	Cherry	Bianca
11	Circus Night	Ben	Travis
12	Playing to Win	Rory	Travis

Reception

After the telecast of the season's third eviction show, critic Andrew Mercado summarised the 2008 series eviction shows, which he described as in previous seasons being a viewing highlight of the series, as having descended into "just a boring, hateful shemozzle, where Kyle insults everybody around him (housemates are psychos, the crew are work experience and the audience is a 'pack of pigs')."
The 2008 season showed a marked downturn in ratings for the program. Both the Daily Show and the eviction shows rated significantly lower than previous seasons. Ratings for the first 2008 eviction were half those achieved by eviction shows during the program's peak. Academic Alan McKee singled-out the departure of previous host Gretel Killeen as having weakened the series. McKee judged that Killeen had successfully provided the show's "moral centre". Of the replacement hosts, McKee said that "Kyle and Jackie O just don't serve the same purpose. Jackie is quite limp and Kyle prides himself on just being wrong—he will always say the wrong, obnoxious thing and hurt people."
By the eviction show on 1 June 2008, the program's ratings were said to have "almost flatlined on Sunday night, dropping below 500,000 in the key demographic along the East Coast." Host Kyle Sandilands called in sick for this program and his co-hosting duties were handled by usual series announcer and narrator Mike Goldman

Mike Goldman

Mike Goldman is an Australian television and radio host, probably best known for his various roles in Big Brother Australia series.-Television:...

.
Sandilands missed his second eviction show the following week, 8 June 2008, after again calling in sick, with a severe chest infection. It was reported that hundreds of fans took to message boards calling for Mike Goldman, his stand-in for the 1 June and 8 June eviction episodes, to become a permanent eviction host. Some speculated Sandilands had already been sacked; others accused him of faking his illness. A spokeswoman for the series said Sandilands was expected to return for the following eviction show.
Another commentator, Peter Craven, described the 2008 season as being increasingly gimmicky. The visit by Carson Kressley

Carson Kressley

Carson Lee Kressley was the fashion expert on the American television program Queer Eye, where he was one of the show's "Fab Five" members. He is also the motivational host of the TV show How to Look Good Naked.-Biography:...

 to make over

Makeover

A makeover is a term applied to changing one's appearance, sometimes through cosmetics. Makeovers can range from something as simple as a new haircut, to the use of cosmetic surgery, to the extreme of the implantation of dental veneers, eye-color-changing contact lenses, and the use of...

 the housemates was seen as an obvious gimmick; when Kressley made a second appearance in another makeover episode screened several days later, Craven felt that it looked forced. The visit by hypnotist Peter Powers

Peter Powers

Peter Powers is a British television personality and hypnotist. According to his website, he claims to hold the world record of being the fastest hypnotist, as well as inducing the longest hypnotic sleep documented....

 (Craven erroneously named Derren Brown

Derren Brown

Derren Victor Brown is a British illusionist, mentalist, painter, writer and sceptic. He is known for his appearances in television specials, stage productions and British television series such as Trick of the Mind and Trick or Treat...

 as the hypnotist visitor) was described as being "riveting", but also as turning Big Brother into more a variety show. The choice of eccentric housemates and an appearance by Corey Worthington was seen as an attempt "to highlight the superficially weird" while the absence of Uplate and Uncut for 2008 was judged by Craven as being a mistake. Craven suggested the worst mistake of the season was replacing Gretel Killeen, whom Craven praised for being "formidable and charismatic" and skilled at her role, with new hosts. Craven judged Kyle Sandilands the more intelligent of the new hosts, but noted he gave no impression of having kept up with the show, as Killeen always did. Craven believed Sandilands to be "sensationally ill-suited to the format, which requires a warm embrace of the Big Brother ethos. By contrast, Jackie O, as the good cop was seen all vapid smiles and gooey attentiveness."
In a news report where the series was described as suffering a "ratings slump" and where the new hosts were said to have been unable to save the show, former host Killeen was quoted as saying she refused to watch the current season and refused to comment on its low ratings. "I haven't watched it because I don't want to be in the situation where I am not telling the truth and I know people will want to know my opinion of it and I think it is much better not to have seen it," Killeen said. "I don't think it's dignified for me to come back and say this should be done like this and this should be changed."

Australian TV ratings

MONDAY - FRIDAY DAILY SHOW

WEEK	Sydney Sydney Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...	Melbourne Melbourne Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...	Brisbane Brisbane Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...	Adelaide Adelaide Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...	Perth Perth, Western Australia Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....	TOTAL	WEEKLY RANK
01	335,000	335,000	231,000	128,000	124,000	1,154,000	38
02	307,000	307,000	203,000	113,000	121,000	1,051,000	49

Weekly summary

Week 1	Events	On Day 0, the 14 Housemates entered the House on launch night. Each Housemate placed a valuable possession on the "Big Brother Memento Cabinet" prior to entering the House. Big Brother informed the Housemates that a "snap eviction" would take place the next day at sunrise. The House was out of bounds until the snap eviction was over. On Day 2, Big Brother gave evicted Housemate Terri a special power called the "Housemate Hand Grenade". With the Housemate Hand Grenade, Terri banished Nobbi to the Volkswagen van in the backyard. He was not allowed to enter the House unless invited by Big Brother. On Day 5, during the first Friday Night Live games, Rima injured herself during a competition. After being seen by a medic, she was taken to the hospital, where X-rays revealed that she had broken her leg.
	Entrances	Alice, Ben, Bianca, Brigitte, David, Dixie, Nobbi, Rebecca, Renee, Rima, Rory, Saxon, Terri and Travis entered the House on Day 0.
	Exits	Terri was evicted from the House on Day 1 with 4 votes total out of 14. Rima left the House due to an injury on Day 5.
Week 2	Events	On Day 9, Big Brother conducted a snap eviction. Terri accepted the task of deciding the evictees after Corey declined. On Day 10, Terri was re-instated as a Housemate for completing her task to evict two housemates. Later in the day, Big Brother called all Housemates to the Diary Room and explained the new nomination and eviction process.
	Tasks	On Day 8, Big Brother set the Housemates a task to clean up a mess in the backyard placed by the show's makers after the Housemates went to bed. Each morning, the Housemates had one hour after Big Brother wakes up the House to clean the backyard. On Day 9, Corey was given the task of evicting two of the three new Housemates. He declined the task and Big Brother then offered the task to Terri. If she executed this task, she would be re-instated as a Housemate. Terri accepted the task.
	Entrances	Barney, Michael and Nathan entered the House as Housemates on Day 7. Terri and Corey entered the House as House Guests on Day 7.
	Exits	Barney and Michael were evicted from the House on Day 10. Saxon was evicted from the House on Day 14 with 16 of 39 Points to evict.
Week 3	Events	On Day 15, Saxon handed the second Housemate Hand Grenade to Brigitte, which led to the indefinite removal of all her items. On Day 15, Rory, Alice, David, and Renee were treated to a trip to "Bali": actually a specially decorated pool area within the Big Brother compound. On Day 16, celebrity Carson Kressley Carson Kressley Carson Lee Kressley was the fashion expert on the American television program Queer Eye, where he was one of the show's "Fab Five" members. He is also the motivational host of the TV show How to Look Good Naked.-Biography:...  entered the House to give Housemates makeovers.
	Tasks	On Day 15, Housemates were assigned the Cricket Task: three Housemates at a time had to stand in the backyard facing a ball launcher and attempt to catch the ball when it is ejected. They had to wear the proper gear at all times while on the field, and show great enthusiasm when catching a ball.
	Exits	On Day 19, House Guest Corey left the House. On Day 21, Rebecca was evicted from the house after receiving 22 out of 42 possible points.
Week 4	Events	On Day 22, Rebecca handed the third Housemate Hand Grenade to Dixie; she had to do all of the Housemates clothes. On Day 27, So You Think You Can Dance So You Think You Can Dance Australia So You Think You Can Dance Australia was an Australian version of the American reality dance-off series So You Think You Can Dance. The show is hosted by Natalie Bassingthwaighte, with Jason Coleman, Matt Lee and Bonnie Lythgoe acting as the judges.... judges Matt Lee and Jason Coleman judged the Dance Task.
	Tasks	On Day 22, the Dance Task was assigned. Split into couples, the housemates had to learn a dance and perform it together, with their performance judged by the judges from talent series So You Think You Can Dance.
	Exits	On Day 28, Nathan and David were evicted in a surprise double eviction.
Week 5	Events	On Day 29, David handed the fourth Hand Grenade to Bianca, designating her as the night watchwoman. Nathan handed the fifth Hand Grenade to Travis, requiring him to be the first to rise each morning. Thereafter, he is unable to return to sleep.
	Task	Starting Day 29, Housemates had to maintain the training of a seeing eye dog from Seeing Eye Dogs Australia Seeing Eye Dogs Australia Seeing Eye Dogs Australia is the only national organisation in Australia to focus on providing Seeing Eye Dogs to people with vision impairment.SEDA's head office is based in Melbourne, Australia - though it has major operations in Queensland.... . Alice named the dog Ollie.
	Exits	On Day 33, Travis was squirted in the eye with shampoo as he came out of the toilet as a prank played by Ben that went wrong. He was then rushed to hospital but returned on day 35. On Day 35, Dixie was evicted after receiving 14 out of a possible 33 points to evict. Usual host Kyle Sandilands did not host the eviction due to illness, and was replaced by Mike Goldman, who hosted with Jackie O.
Week 6	Events	On Day 35, the voting format changed. Housemates nominate for eviction, and the nominated housemates are then evicted by the public. On Day 36, Dixie's Hand Grenade was to save one of the three nominated Housemates. She saved Alice. This moved Renee and Terri into the list of nominated Housemates.
	Task	On Day 36, the Ignore the Obvious Task was assigned. Housemates were to ignore obvious unusual occurrences in the House, such as a fireworks display, A marching band entering the house, Scottish dancers dancing along to the bagpipes, a platter with $2,000 with a sign saying "Free Money", Housemates' relatives shown in footage on the House TV screen, and Brigitte's name constantly called out by a voice-over.
	Entrances	Intruders Cherry, Rhianna and Terrence entered the House on Day 35. On Day 36, Travis returned to the House after receiving medical treatment.
	Exits	On Day 41, Ollie, the seeing-eye dog, left the House. On Day 42, Renee was evicted with 37.9% to evict. Kyle Sandilands was again replaced by Mike Goldman as Jackie O's co-host for the eviction show, reportedly again due to illness.
Week 7	Events	On Day 43, Renee handed the sixth Hand Grenade to Brigitte. This hand grenade denied her a family message that all Housemates were to receive. Brigitte celebrated her 21st birthday on Day 48 with a Sparkle theme. As a present, Big Brother returned confiscated stuffed toy Princess Sparkles to Brigitte.
	Task	Day 43, The Salon Task was assigned to the Housemates. 24 hours a day, Housemates took turns at being hairdresser, and being the person getting a hairdo, keeping up the salon chit chat the whole time.
	Exit	On Day 49, Rhianna was evicted with 37.7% to evict.
Week 8	Events	On Day 50, Rhianna handed the seventh Hand Grenade to Cherry, making him the new house maid. Housemates discovered the Grand Prize within the Diary Room chair, $250,000. Each Housemate received $25,000 at that point, and if evicted, has to give their money to the remaining housemate of their choice.
	Task	On Day 50, while the other Housemates took part in a decoy task involving rowing away from a shark, Nobbi and Bianca were assigned the real task, becoming Moon Monks. They had to go out at 2:00 a.m. each morning to worship the moon and to recruit a new member to the cult each night, without letting the other Housemates find out.
	Exit	On Day 56, Nobbi was evicted with 59.1% of votes from the public.
Week 9	Events	On Day 57, Nobbi used his Hand Grenade to put Terri and Terrence both in the Kombi van.
	Entrances	Rima re-entered the house on Day 63.
	Task	The "Trainspotting" Task required Housemates to wait at a train station set built on the stage until a model train appeared from a tunnel. They had to remember the numbers on the trains to pass the task.
	Exit	On Day 63, Terence was evicted from the Big Brother House with 41.7% to evict.
Week 10	Events	On Day 64, Terrence used his Hand Grenade to allow Terri back into the house. He also gave her his $25,000 prize share and confiscated the hair straightener.
	Task	The Housemates become wrestlers with a "deadly ninja" opponent—a large stuffed toy. Whenever a Housemate hears their "theme song", they had 90 seconds to put on their costume and get out into the ring to fight the ninja. Rima returned and told the Housemates that one of the Housemates was actually a mole Mole (espionage) A mole is a spy who works for an enemy nation, but whose loyalty ostensibly lies with his own nation's government. In some usage, a mole differs from a defector in that a mole is a spy before gaining access to classified information, while a defector becomes a spy only after gaining access...  and they had three days to decide who it was. If they chose correctly, the mole would be evicted. If not, the mole could stay and would be eligible to win the prize if not evicted in the normal course. Most housemates ultimately decided Brigitte was the mole. However, Cherry believed it was Alice. Rima then appeared on a video screen inside the House, revealing to housemates that on her return, she was not a Housemate, and was ineligible to win the money. She revealed she had now left the House and that there was no mole: her mission was to create drama and tension amongst the Housemates. This was greeted by much outrage, especially by Bianca.
	Exit	Rima exited the house on Day 66. On Day 70, Bianca was evicted from the Big Brother House.
Week 11	Events	Celebrity Pamela Anderson Pamela Anderson Pamela Denise Anderson is a Canadian-American actress, model, producer, author, activist, and former showgirl, known for her roles on the television series Home Improvement, Baywatch, and V.I.P. She was chosen as a Playmate of the Month for Playboy magazine in February 1990...  entered the house on Day 73. She was in and out of the house for 3 days. On Day 77, Network Ten announced to the public that Big Brother had been axed. On Day 77, Housemates were asked to vote to evict two Housemates in a surprise "snap eviction". Alice and Travis were "evicted" and moved to another section of the compound. Later, it was revealed to Alice and Travis, and then the other Housemates, that this eviction was fake and Alice and Travis returned to the House.
	Task	Housemates were paired up and must, at prescribed intervals and within limited time, become paparazzi Paparazzi Paparazzi is an Italian term used to refer to photojournalists who specialize in candid photography of celebrities, politicians, and other prominent people...  and track down "celebrities" (either photographs of actual celebrities, or impersonators) briefly appearing in the internal windows and mirrors of the House.
	Exits	Brigitte was evicted from the Big Brother House on Day 73. Cherry was evicted from the Big Brother House on Day 77.
Week 12	Events	After Cherry's eviction Housemates had to conduct two housemate-voted evictions; Alice and Travis were evicted; later this eviction was revealed as fake and they had never actually left the compound. Terri was announced the winner of Big Brother 2008, and Rory as the Runner-Up.
	Task	Housemates were required to iron a large quantity of clothes while wearing special uniforms.
	Exits	Alice and Travis were both evicted on Day 84. Ben was evicted from the Big Brother House on Day 85. Rory and Terri both exited the Big Brother House together after 85 Days.

Voting and nominations table

For the first half of the series, the public voted for whom to save from nomination. The bottom three Housemates with the lowest saves were up for eviction. The Housemates then voted for whom to evict, with the first vote receiving 2 points and the second, 1 point. The Housemate with the most points was then evicted. This year introduced a Head of Household, who has the power to save someone in the bottom three from eviction. The person with the 4th lowest saves is then up for eviction. The Head of Household also votes with double eviction points.
In the second half of the series the voting format reverted to that of previous seasons. Housemates vote to nominate other housemates for eviction and the public then vote for whom to evict from those nominated. In this second eviction procedure the Head of Household still has the power to remove one nominated housemate from the original nomination lineup, but no longer has double voting points.

	Week 1	Week 2		Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9
		Day 10	Day 14									Day 73	Day 77	Day 84	Day 85
Head of Household	None	None	Travis	Nathan	Alice	Alice	Renee	Nobbi	Nobbi	Brigitte	Cherry	Cherry	Ben	none
Public Nominations			David Rebecca Saxon	Ben Rory Travis	Alice David Nathan	Alice Bianca Dixie	None
Public Nominations (post-HoH)			David Rory Saxon	Ben Rebecca Rory	David Nathan Rory	Bianca Dixie Nobbi	None
Automatic Nomination	All Housemates	Barney Michael Nathan	None
Terri	Nobbi	Barney Michael	Exempt	Ben Rebecca	Nathan David	Bianca Dixie	Renee Nobbi	Nobbi Bianca	Terrence Bianca	Rory Bianca	Bianca Rory	Rory Cherry	No nominations	No nominations	Winner (Day 85)
Rory	Terri	Not eligible	David Saxon	Rebecca Ben	Nathan David	Dixie Bianca	Brigitte Terri	Alice Brigitte	Brigitte Cherry	Travis Brigitte	Alice Brigitte	Brigitte Cherry	No nominations	No nominations	Runner-Up (Day 85)
Ben	Terri	Not eligible	David Saxon	Rebecca Rory	David Nathan	Dixie Bianca	Alice Brigitte	Alice Cherry	Alice Cherry	Brigitte Alice	Travis Alice	Alice Cherry	No nominations	No nominations	3rd Place (Day 85)
Travis	Rory	Not eligible	David Rory	Rory Ben	David Nathan	Dixie Nobbi	Brigitte Renee	Nobbi Ben	Terri Terrence	Terrence Rory	Bianca Rory	Terri Rory	No nominations	No nominations	Evicted (Day 84)
Alice	Ben	Not eligible	Saxon Rory	Rebecca Rory	Nathan David	Bianca Nobbi	Bianca Travis	Nobbi Ben	Ben Rory	Bianca Ben	Bianca Rory	Rory Ben	No nominations	No nominations	Evicted (Day 84)
Cherry	Not In House						Exempt	Terrence Rhianna	Rory Nobbi	Rory Ben	Rory Bianca	Ben Rory	No nominations	Evicted (Day 77)
Brigitte	Rima	Not eligible	Saxon Rory	Ben Rory	Nathan Rory	Bianca Dixie	Ben Nobbi	Nobbi Cherry	Nobbi Rory	Terrence Rory	Rory Ben	Rory Terri	Evicted (Day 73)
Bianca	Nobbi	Not eligible	Saxon David	Rebecca Ben	David Nathan	Dixie Nobbi	Alice Terri	Terrence Terri	Terrence Terri	Terrence Terri	Terri Alice	Evicted (Day 70)
Terrence	Not In House						Exempt	Cherry Rhianna	Cherry Brigitte	Brigitte Alice	Evicted (Day 63)
Nobbi	Terri	Not eligible	David Rory	Rebecca Ben	Nathan David	Dixie Bianca	Alice Terri	Rhianna Alice	Alice Cherry	Evicted (Day 56)
Rhianna	Not In House						Exempt	Terrence Brigitte	Evicted (Day 49)
Renee	David	Not eligible	Saxon David	Rebecca Ben	Rory David	Nobbi Bianca	Bianca Brigitte	Evicted (Day 42)
Dixie	Brigitte	Not eligible	Saxon David	Rebecca Ben	Nathan Rory	Dixie Bianca	Evicted (Day 35)
David	Ben	Not eligible	Saxon Rory	Ben Rebecca	Rory Nathan	Evicted (Day 28)
Nathan	Not in house	Nominated	Exempt	Rebecca Ben	David Rory	Evicted (Day 28)
Rebecca	Ben	Not eligible	Saxon Rory	Rebecca Ben	Evicted (Day 21)
Saxon	Terri	Not eligible	David Rory	Evicted (Day 14)
Barney	Not in house	Nominated	Evicted (Day 10)
Michael	Not in house	Nominated	Evicted (Day 10)
Rima	Brigitte	Walked (Injured) (Day 5)									Guest	Left (Day 66)
Notes		,	,					none						none
Housemate Nominations	None						Alice Bianca Brigitte	Alice Nobbi Terrence	Alice Cherry Rory Terrence	Brigitte Rory Terrence	Alice Bianca Rory	Ben Cherry Rory Terri	All Housemates	All Housemates	All Housemates
Housemate Nominations (post-HoH)	None						Bianca Brigitte Renee Terri	Alice Cherry Rhianna Terrence	Alice Brigitte Cherry Nobbi Terrence Terri	Bianca Rory Terrence	Bianca Rory Terri Travis	Alice Ben Brigitte Rory Terri
Walked	Rima	None
Evicted	Terri 4 of 14 votes to evict	Barney & Michael Terri's choices to evict	Saxon to evict	Rebecca to evict	Nathan to evict	Dixie to evict	Renee 37.9% to evict	Rhianna 37.7% to evict	Nobbi 59.1% to evict	Terrence 41.7% to evict	Bianca 48.1% to evict	Brigitte 29.7% to evict	Cherry 50.5% to evict	Travis 31.4% to evict	Ben fewest votes (out of 3)
															Rory fewest votes (out of 2)
					David to evict									Alice 21.3% to evict	Terri most votes to win

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Big Brother revealed to the Housemates that someone will be evicted the next day. Housemates had to decide who would leave the House on Day 1. Rima was removed from the house after breaking her leg.     Terri returned to the House along with Corey as House Guests. Big Brother set Terri a mission to be Corey's guardian during his time in the House. If successful, she would be re-instated as a Housemate. However, she failed this mission.On Day 9, Big Brother announced another snap eviction. Corey was initially offered the task of deciding which two of the three housemates voted in by the Australian public would be evicted. Corey declined this task. It was then offered to Terri and she accepted the task after failing her original task given to her by Big Brother. After the eviction, Terri was re-instated as a Housemate.On Day 12, during FNL, Big Brother announced the winner of FNL would also become Head of Household, who would get to vote with double eviction points, and get a dinner for two in the Strategy Room, where they are allowed to talk about nominations and eviction.Although Nathan won FNL, since he was exempt and couldn't vote, Big Brother gave the eviction duties of Head of Household to the runner-up, Travis.As Rebecca was evicted, she had to give her rights as HOH to another housemates. During her goodbye message, she gave the rights as HOH to Alice.This week was a double eviction; the two Housemates with the highest points were evicted.Intruders Cherry, Rhianna and Terrence entered the House on Day 35.On Day 36, Brigitte (six points), Alice (six points) and Bianca (four points) were nominated for eviction. However, evicted Housemate Dixie used a Housemate Hand Grenade and saved Alice from eviction. Both Renee and Terri were then nominated in place of Alice. Both Terri and Renee had three nomination points total.
On Day 77, Alice and Travis were evicted. Later, this eviction was revealed as fake.This year, the public voted for whom to evict, not win. The winner was the person with the fewest votes to evict.

Housemate Hand Grenades

This season, housemates evicted by the usual process are given the power to decide which housemate receives the penalty—or sometimes the benefit—which has been devised by Big Brother for that eviction. These are dubbed the 'Housemate Hand Grenade' by the makers of the show. Sometimes, the ruling is permanent. Rulings later removed are marked by (R).

Evicted Housemate	Hand Grenade	Recipient
Terri	Housemate must live in the Volkswagen Kombi for the rest of their time in the house.	Nobbi
Saxon	Housemate will lose all of their possessions indefinitely. (R)	Brigitte
Rebecca	Housemate is required to do everybody's laundry.	Dixie
Nathan	Housemate must wake up before all other housemates and serve Big Brother breakfast.	Travis
David	Housemate must be the last housemate to go to bed every night. (R)	Bianca
Big Brother	Housemates will now nominate and the public will vote to evict.	All Housemates
Dixie	Housemate could save one nominated Housemate from eviction.	Alice
Renee	Housemate would not receive a message from home.	Brigitte
Rhianna	Housemate required to all washing up and clean toilets everyday. (R)	Cherry
Nobbi	Two housemates must live in the Volkswagen Kombi van until further notice. (R)	Terri and Terrence
Terrence	Reversal of Nobbi's Grenade; removal of hair straightener from the house.	Terri; All housemates
Rima	Housemates are told there is not a mole in the house.	All housemates
Bianca	Housemate will become the house chef until further notice. (R)	Ben
Brigitte	Housemate must eat only basic staple food Staple food A staple food is one that is eaten regularly and in such quantities that it constitutes a dominant portion of a diet, and that supplies a high proportion of energy and nutrient needs. Most people live on a diet based on one or more staples... prepared by Big Brother indefinitely. (R)	Rory
Cherry	Cherry presented the announcement that Big Brother would be conducting a housemate-voted eviction that evening.	All housemates had to vote; Alice was fake evicted.
Alice	Alice presented the announcement that Big Brother would be conducting another housemate-voted eviction that evening.	All housemates had to vote; Travis was fake evicted.
Alice & Travis	Alice and Travis returned to the game.	All housemates