Big Brother Brasil 8
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Big Brother Brasil 8 was the eighth season of Big Brother Brasil which premiered January 8, 2008 with the season finale airing March 25, 2008 on the Rede Globo
television network
.
The show is produced by Endemol Globo
and presented by news reporter Pedro Bial
. The season was officially confirmed since 2001 as part of the original contract between international Endemol and Rede Globo that provided seasons until 2008. The prize award was R$1,000,000 with tax allowances.
The winner was 26 year-old musician Rafael "Rafinha" Ribeiro, from Campinas
, São Paulo
. He won with 50.15% of the over 75 million votes cast.
(ages stated at time of contest)
Bianca and Natália won a competition and the Public voted for one of them to receive immunity. The winner was Bianca with 50.68% of the Vote.
Rafael answered the Hot Phone and had the power to choose a Nominee. He chose Gyselle, who automatically faced the Public Vote.
Bianca answered the Hot Phone and automatically faced the Public Vote.
Marcelo answered the Hot Phone and was put up for nomination. He had to choose 2 other Housemates who would be up for nomination on Sunday. He chose Gyselle & Juliana. The 3 Housemates who were put up for nomination on Friday - Marcelo, Gyselle & Juliana - had to decide between themselves which would be up for eviction. They chose Marcelo, who would face the Vote along with the two other Housemates decided via. the normal Nomination process.
Felipe answered the Hot Phone and he had to choose 2 Housemates who would be up for nomination on Sunday. He chose Gyselle & Thatiana. Marcelo, the Head of Household, had to choose one of the Housemates who were put up for nomination by Felipe on Friday to be up for eviction. He chose Thatiana, who was later joined by Fernando and Natália.
Thatiana came last in the Head of Household competition and is automatically up for eviction. Thatiana answered the Hot Phone and obtained the Power of Veto, she can use it to save the person nominated by the HoH if she wishes. HoH Marcelo automatically nominated Felipe. Thatiana used her Veto and saved him. Marcelo nominated Natália in his place. Natália & Thatiana were joined in the Nomination line-up by Felipe, who had the most Nominations from his fellow Housemates.
Marcos answered the Hot Phone and had to choose a Housemate to be automatically up for eviction. He chose to nominate Marcelo.
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.
The show is produced by Endemol Globo
Endemol
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and presented by news reporter Pedro Bial
Pedro Bial
Pedro Bial is a Brazilian producer, director, writer, journalist and a celebrity TV presenter, best known for hosting the Variety Show Fantástico, and the Reality Show Big Brother Brasil, -Career:Bial graduated in journalism from PUC-RJ. His career, as a reporter, began at Rede Globo in 1981...
. The season was officially confirmed since 2001 as part of the original contract between international Endemol and Rede Globo that provided seasons until 2008. The prize award was R$1,000,000 with tax allowances.
The winner was 26 year-old musician Rafael "Rafinha" Ribeiro, from Campinas
Campinas
Campinas is a city and municipality located in the coastal interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. is the administrative center of the meso-region of the same name, with 3,783,597 inhabitants as of the 2010 Census, consisting of 49 cities....
, São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
. He won with 50.15% of the over 75 million votes cast.
General
There were fourteen housemates competing for the grand prize, a decrease over the previous season. The season lasted 78 days, a decrease of one week over the previous season.Controversy
Housemate Juliana fainted during a Resistance Test where the contestants were to remain perfectly still inside a glass chamber. Newspapers and websites proclaimed Big Brother to be inhumane. However, the show was unaffected by the negative press.Housemates
The cast list was unveiled on January 3, 2008.(ages stated at time of contest)
| Name | Age | Occupation | Hometown |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexandre Scaquette | 24 | Model | Limeira Limeira Limeira is a city in the eastern part of the Brazilian state of São Paulo. The population in 2004 is 270,733 and the area is 582.48 km². The elevation is 588 m. It is 154 km far from São Paulo, the state capital, and 1011 km far from Brasilia, Brazil's capital... |
| Bianca Jahara | 28 | Fashion Producer | Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th... |
| Felipe Basílio | 21 | Student | São Paulo São Paulo São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among... |
| Fernando Mesquita | 25 | Account Manager | Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th... |
| Gyselle Soares | 24 | Student | Teresina Teresina Teresina is the capital and most populous municipality in the Brazilian state of Piauí. It is located in North-central Piauí 366 km from the coast.It is therefore, the only capital in the Northeast that is not located on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. With 814 439 inhabitants, it is the 19th... |
| Jaqueline Khury | 23 | Model | São Paulo São Paulo São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among... |
| Juliana Góes | 22 | Journalism Student | Santos |
| Marcelo Arantes | 31 | Doctor | Uberlândia Uberlândia Uberlândia is the main town in the Triangle region, west of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. With a population of 604,013 inhabitants, according to 2010 estimates, the city is the second largest in the state second only to Belo Horizonte... |
| Marcos Parmagnani | 26 | Student | Vitória |
| Natalia Casassola | 22 | Model | Passo Fundo Passo Fundo Passo Fundo - RS is a city in the north of the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. It is named after its river. It's the twelfth largest city in the state with an estimated population of 188,302 inhabitants living in a total municipal area of 780 km2.-Communications:The following... |
| Rafael Memória | 24 | Medical Student | Fortaleza Fortaleza Fortaleza is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeastern Brazil. With a population close to 2.5 million , Fortaleza is the 5th largest city in Brazil. It has an area of and one of the highest demographic densities in the country... |
| Rafinha Ribeiro | 26 | Musician | Campinas Campinas Campinas is a city and municipality located in the coastal interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. is the administrative center of the meso-region of the same name, with 3,783,597 inhabitants as of the 2010 Census, consisting of 49 cities.... |
| Thalita Lippi | 29 | Actress | Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th... |
| Thatiana Bione | 21 | English Teacher | Brasília Brasília Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. The name is commonly spelled Brasilia in English. The city and its District are located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It has a population of about 2,557,000 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the... |
Voting History
The voting table below records whom each housemate voted to nominate on the diary room during his or her time in the House. The Head of Household vote (casted in front of the other housemates) automatically nominate one housemate from eviction. Then, the other housemates voting and if the vote is tied, the HOH breaks the tie (this type of vote counts towards the total number of nominations received).| Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 | Nominations received |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day 74 | Day 75 | Finale | ||||||||||||
| Head of Household |
Juliana | Bianca | Thalita | Gyselle | Thatiana | Marcelo | Marcelo | Rafinha | Thatiana | Rafinha | Natalia | Rafinha | (none) | |
| Power of Immunity |
Gyselle | Fernando | Marcos | Thatiana | Bianca | Juliana | Thatiana | Juliana | Rafinha | (none) | ||||
| Saved | Rafinha | Natalia | Rafinha | Juliana | Fernando | Felipe | Juliana | Thatiana | Gyselle | |||||
| Big Phone | (none) | Rafael | Bianca | Marcelo | Felipe | Thatiana | Marcos | (none) | ||||||
| Nomination (HoH) |
Gyselle | Rafael | Alexandre | Fernando | Bianca | Natalia | Natalia | Juliana | Marcelo | Thatiana | Gyselle | Gyselle Natalia |
(none) | |
| Nomination (Housemates) |
Jaqueline | Rafinha | Thatiana | Thalita | Felipe | Fernando | Felipe | Gyselle | Rafinha | Gyselle | Marcos | |||
| Rafinha | Marcelo | Thalita | Thatiana | Thalita | Juliana | Marcos | Marcos | Head of Household |
Marcos | Head of Household |
Marcos | Head of Household |
Winner R$1,000,000 |
9 |
| Gyselle | Felipe | Felipe | Fernando | Thalita | Natalia | Fernando | Felipe | Marcos | Natalia | Marcos | Marcos | Nominated | Runner-Up R$100,000 |
15 |
| Natalia | Jaqueline | Juliana | Juliana | Marcelo | Rafinha | Gyselle | Gyselle | Gyselle | Rafinha | Gyselle | Head of Household |
Nominated | Evicted (Day 76) |
4 |
| Marcos | Jaqueline | Thalita | Bianca | Thalita | Felipe | Fernando | Felipe | Gyselle | Rafinha | Gyselle | Rafinha | Evicted (Day 75) |
15 | |
| Thatiana | Jaqueline | Rafinha | Fernando | Rafinha | Felipe | Fernando | Felipe | Gyselle | Head of Household |
Gyselle | Evicted (Day 71) |
3 | ||
| Marcelo | Fernando | Rafinha | Thatiana | Thalita | Natalia | Head of Household |
Head of Household |
Marcos | Natalia | Evicted (Day 64) |
7 | |||
| Juliana | Head of Household |
Gyselle | Marcelo | Thalita | Felipe | Fernando | Gyselle | Gyselle | Evicted (Day 57) |
1 | ||||
| Felipe | Marcos | Gyselle | Marcos | Natalia | Gyselle | Marcos | Marcos | Evicted (Day 50) |
10 | |||||
| Fernando | Jaqueline | Felipe | Marcos | Marcelo | Gyselle | Juliana | Evicted (Day 43) |
7 | ||||||
| Bianca | Rafael | Rafinha | Thatiana | Marcelo | Marcos | Evicted (Day 36) |
1 | |||||||
| Thalita | Alexandre | Marcos | Head of Household |
Marcelo | Evicted (Day 29) |
8 | ||||||||
| Alexandre | Marcelo | Gyselle | Felipe | Evicted (Day 22) |
1 | |||||||||
| Rafael | Thalita | Rafinha | Evicted (Day 15) |
1 | ||||||||||
| Jaqueline | Marcos | Evicted (Day 8) |
4 | |||||||||||
| Notes | (none) | (none) | ||||||||||||
| Gyselle Jaqueline |
Rafael Rafinha |
Alexandre Gyselle Thatiana |
Bianca Fernando Thalita |
Bianca Felipe Marcelo |
Fernando Natalia Thatiana |
Felipe Natalia Thatiana |
Gyselle Juliana Marcelo |
Marcelo Rafinha |
Gyselle Thatiana |
Gyselle Marcos |
Gyselle Natalia |
Gyselle Rafinha |
||
| Evicted | Jaqueline 87% to evict |
Rafael 63% to evict |
Alexandre 45% to evict |
Thalita 65% to evict |
Bianca 60% to evict |
Fernando 62% to evict |
Felipe 44% to evict |
Juliana 50% to evict |
Marcelo 71% to evict |
Thatiana 70% to evict |
Marcos 54% to evict |
Natalia 54% to evict |
Gyselle 49.85% to win |
|
| Rafinha 50.15% to win |
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| Survived | Gyselle 13% to evict |
Rafinha 37% to evict |
Gyselle 32% to evict |
Bianca 18% to evict |
Marcelo 29% to evict |
Thatiana 25% to evict |
Thatiana 29% to evict |
Marcelo 47% to evict |
Rafinha 29% to evict |
Gyselle 30% to evict |
Gyselle 46% to evict |
Gyselle 46% to evict |
N/A | |
| Thatiana 23% to evict |
Fernando 17% to evict |
Felipe 11% to evict |
Natalia 13% to evict |
Natalia 27% to evict |
Gyselle 3% to evict |
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Bianca and Natália won a competition and the Public voted for one of them to receive immunity. The winner was Bianca with 50.68% of the Vote.
Rafael answered the Hot Phone and had the power to choose a Nominee. He chose Gyselle, who automatically faced the Public Vote.
Bianca answered the Hot Phone and automatically faced the Public Vote.
Marcelo answered the Hot Phone and was put up for nomination. He had to choose 2 other Housemates who would be up for nomination on Sunday. He chose Gyselle & Juliana. The 3 Housemates who were put up for nomination on Friday - Marcelo, Gyselle & Juliana - had to decide between themselves which would be up for eviction. They chose Marcelo, who would face the Vote along with the two other Housemates decided via. the normal Nomination process.
Felipe answered the Hot Phone and he had to choose 2 Housemates who would be up for nomination on Sunday. He chose Gyselle & Thatiana. Marcelo, the Head of Household, had to choose one of the Housemates who were put up for nomination by Felipe on Friday to be up for eviction. He chose Thatiana, who was later joined by Fernando and Natália.
Thatiana came last in the Head of Household competition and is automatically up for eviction. Thatiana answered the Hot Phone and obtained the Power of Veto, she can use it to save the person nominated by the HoH if she wishes. HoH Marcelo automatically nominated Felipe. Thatiana used her Veto and saved him. Marcelo nominated Natália in his place. Natália & Thatiana were joined in the Nomination line-up by Felipe, who had the most Nominations from his fellow Housemates.
Marcos answered the Hot Phone and had to choose a Housemate to be automatically up for eviction. He chose to nominate Marcelo.
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