Grande Fratello 10 premiered on October 26, 2009, and concluded on March 8, 2010. It was the tenth Italian edition of the reality

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 franchise Big Brother

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. Alessia Marcuzzi returned as the main host of the show. The winner of the edition, Mauro Marin, received a €250,000 grand prize.

Housemates

On Day 1 (October 26, 2009) 16 housemates entered the Grande Fratello house; that same night potential housemates Luca Magnani and Alessia Giovagnoli lost the chance to enter the house by losing a public vote and the housemates vote, respectively. On Day 8 (November 2, 2009), Gabriele, Mauro, and Veronica entered the house followed by Daniele and Mattia on November 23, 2009 (Day 29). Day 43 (December 7, 2009) welcomed Sarah and Dominique. On Day 64 (December 28, 2009), the housemates saw the return of Alessia who was evicted by the male housemates back on Day 1 and the addition of Nicola Pappalepore. On Day 85, Gianluca Bedin entered as the last housemate of the edition.

Alberto

Alberto Baiocco was born on August 6, 1983, Italy and entered the house on Day 1. On the final day (Day 134), he ended on 4th place. Inside the house he formed a relationship with Mara.

Alessia

Alessia Giovagnoli, born on January 31, 1984, is a female housemate who had the opportunity to enter the house on Day 1; Grande Fratello let the male housemates decide whether she or Cristina should stay; Alessia was unanimously evicted. She returned on Day 64. After almost being evicted against Daniele in a 51%-49% vote on Day 85, Alessia was eventually evicted three weeks later on Day 106 against Mauro with 69%.

Camila

Camila Sant'Ana was born on January 16, 1985 and entered the house on Day 1. Camila was evicted on Day 29.

Carmela

Carmela Gualtieri was born on July 8, 1977 and entered the house on Day 1. She formed a relationship with George. On Day 70, Carmela and Massimo were selected to be part of a Housemate Exchange with the Gran Hermano (Spain) house. On Day 113, Carmela was evicted with 58% in a seven-person public vote.

Cristina

Cristina Pignataro was born on April 14, 1983 and entered the house on Day 1. On Day 134, she ended up in 3rd place and the longest female housemate to ever stay in the house, in all seasons.

Daniela

Daniela Caneo was born on March 13, 1977 and entered the house on Day 1 and was evicted on Day 15.

Daniele

Daniele Santoianni was born on June 21, 1981 and entered the house on Day 29. On Day 50, he was evicted by the female housemates but returned to the house after receiving more save votes from the public. He was evicted, for real this time, on Day 85 with 51% of the public vote, the closest eviction between two housemates in the history of Grande Fratello.

Davide

Davide Vallicelli was born on September 4, 1980 and entered the house on Day 1. Davide was evicted on Day 22.

Diletta

Diletta Franceschetti was born on January 12, 1980 and entered the house on Day 1. Diletta was evicted on Day 43.

Dominique

Dominique La Rosa was born on December 8, 1984 and entered on Day 43 and evicted on Day 64.

Gabriele

Gabriele Dario Belli, born on October 7, 1971, is a male housemate who entered on Day 8. Gabriele is actually a female to male transsexual. He was evicted on Day 36 with 53% of the public vote.

George

George Leonard was born on February 8, 1982 and entered the house on Day 1. He formed a relationship with Carmela. He was evicted on Day 78 with 59%.

Gianluca

Gianluca Bedin, born on June 22, 1973, is a male housemate who entered on Day 85. On Day 113, despite being nominated for eviction for the week, he left the house due to personal reasons; him leaving did not affect the public vote as it was revealed he only received 4% of the public vote.

Giorgio

Giorgio Ronchini was born on June 16, 1983 and entered the house on Day 1. He was the second evictee on Day 64 as part of a double eviction, however, the surprise was that only one person would be evicted; as Dominique received the most votes from the public, she was evicted over him. On Day 134, the finale, Giorgio finished as runner up of the edition with 20% of the final vote.

Marco

Marco Mosca was born on February 22, 1991 and entered the house on Day 1. He was evicted on Day 71.

Massimo

Massimo Scattarella was born on May 14, 1975 and entered the house on Day 1. On Day 70, Massimo, along with Carmela, were selected to be part of a Housemate Exchange with the Gran Hermano (Spain) house. In Week 13, during a conversation with Veronica, Massimo said a blasphemous comment which can be considered as offensive to the Italian public; during the following eviction show which saw Sarah evicted on Day 92, Grande Fratello announced that Massimo would be ejected for the comment.

Mattia

Mattia Mor, born on June 1, 1981, is a male housemate who entered on Day 29. He was evicted on Day 50 with 33% of the public vote.

Mauro

Mauro Marin, born on July 21, 1980, is a male housemate who entered on Day 8. He was scheduled to enter during the premiere of this season but he was put on hold for talking with a previous Grande Fratello housemate. He was in the center of many house arguments particularly with Massimo. In the last 7 weeks, its been announced that he has topped many polls and votes which make him favourite to win the series and has survived 5 evictions, much to the anger of the other housemates. Despite being disliked in the house, Mauro was announced as the winner of Grande Fratello 10 on Day 134 with 80% of the public vote.

Nicola

Nicola, born on August 17, 1984, is a male housemate who entered on Day 64. He was evicted on Day 99 with 47%.

Sabrina

Sabrina Passante was born on November 9, 1987 and entered the house on Day 1. Sabrina was evicted on Day 22.

Sarah

Sarah Nile

Sarah Nile

Sarah Nile is an Italian model, showgirl and reality television personality.-Biography:Born by a mother of Pozzuoli and a father of Brussels, Sarah lives and works in Milan and she speak three languages ​​.Nile has Italian and French citizenship .Nile gained to the...

, born on October 10, 1985, is a female housemate who entered on Day 43; she has posed for the Italian version of Playboy. In Week 13, she was nominated alongside the love of her life in the house, Veronica; Sarah was evicted on Day 92 with 51%, which tied the closest eviction percentage with Daniele from the previous week and Maria from the first series

Grande Fratello Season 1

The first season of Grande Fratello kicked off on 14 September 2000, and ended on 21 December 2000.The idea was spawned from George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, and the Italian version inspired by the original Big Brother series in Holland.-Concept:Every two Weeks the Housemates were called...

Tullio

Tullio Tomasino was born on July 12, 1986 and entered the house on Day 1 and was evicted on Day 57.

Veronica

Veronica Ciardi, born on July 13, 1985, is a female housemate from Rome, Italy, who entered on Day 8. She has formed a relationship with Marco, Massimo, Mauro, Daniele, and Sarah. However, it was her love for Sarah that evoked true amore. Stating that Signorini was correct, and that her "first real passionate kiss" in the house was between herself and Sarah. Veronica was evicted on Day 120 against Mauro.

Housemate Exchange

On December 17, 2009, the Spanish

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 version of Grande Fratello/Big Brother revealed a housemate exchange with another country will take place. It was revealed the exchange will be with Grande Fratello; the decision most likely comes as the television station that programs the Spanish and Italian versions of Big Brother are owned by the same company, Mediaset

Mediaset

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. On December 29, during the spin-off show of Gran Hermano: El Debate, it was shown to the Gran Hermano housemates that the Italian housemates taking part of the exchange will be Carmela and Massimo; they arrived at the Gran Hermano house on January 3, 2010; that same night it was announced that the Gran Hermano housemates involved in the exchange are Saray and Gerardo. The Gran Hermano housemates arrived the next day in the Grande Fratello house (Day 71) and stayed till January 9 (Day 77). Carmela and Massimo left the Gran Hermano house early January 10 and returned to the Grande Fratello house on January 11 (Day 78) during the eviction show

Nominations Table

	| #1	| #2	| #3	| #4	| #5	| #6	| #7	| #8	| #9	| #10	| #11	| #12	| #13	| #14	| #15	| #16	| #17	| #18	| #19	| #20	| #21	| #22	| Final
Mauro	Not in house	Exempt	Mara Sabrina	Giorgio	Exempt	Massimo Maicol	Marco Mara	Mattia Mara	Exempt	Carmen Marco	Dominique Giorgio	Carmen Marco	Carmen George	Exempt	Sarah Carmela	Alessia	Carmela Mara	Carmela Mara	Maicol Carmen	Carmen	Maicol Mara	Cristina to save	No nominations
Giorgio	Cristina	Daniela Mara	Sabrina Cristina	Nominated	Mara Camila	Mauro Marco	Mara Diletta	Mara Daniele	Exempt	Marco Mara	Dominique Sarah	Marco Daniele	Sarah George	Alessia Nicola	Veronica Sarah	Exempt	Alessia Veronica	Mauro Gianluca	Veronica Mauro	Cristina	Mauro Cristina	Alberto to save	No nominations
Cristina	Nominated	Daniela Diletta	Davide Giorgio	Davide	Tullio Camila	Massimo George	Tullio Diletta	Mattia Mara	Daniele to nominate	Tullio Marco	Dominique Daniele	Daniele Marco	George Daniele	Alessia Daniele	Alessia Mauro	Nominated	Mauro Gianluca	Gianluca Mauro	Mauro Veronica	Mauro	Mauro Alberto	Mara to save	No nominations
Alberto	Cristina	Daniela Carmela	Mara to save	Giorgio	Exempt	Gabriele Mauro	Diletta Giorgio	Carmen Mattia	Exempt	Carmen Tullio	Dominique Sarah	Daniele Carmen	Sarah Daniele	Alessia Daniele	Alessia Sarah	Mara	Alessia Gianluca	Gianluca Veronica	Mauro Veronica	Carmen	Maicol Cristina	Giorgio to save	No nominations
Mara	Not eligible	Daniela Tullio	Sabrina Giorgio	Giorgio	Giorgio Tullio	Mauro Gabriele	Giorgio Tullio	Carmen Mattia	Daniele to nominate	Tullio Giorgio	Dominique Sarah	Daniele Giorgio	Sarah Daniele	Sarah Daniele	Sarah Veronica	Nominated	Mauro Alessia	Mauro Gianluca	Mauro Veronica	Mauro	Mauro Giorgio	Alberto to save	Evicted
Maicol	Cristina	Mara to save	Exempt	Davide	Exempt	Mauro Gabriele	Diletta Marco	Daniele Mara	Exempt	Marco Tullio	Dominique Daniele	Daniele Marco	Daniele George	Alessia Daniele	Alessia Sarah	Cristina	Mauro Alessia	Mauro Gianluca	Mauro Veronica	Mara	Mauro Alberto	Evicted
Carmen	Not eligible	Daniela Carmela	Mara Davide	Davide	Tullio Veronica	Alberto George	Diletta Tullio	Mara Tullio	Daniele	Mara Tullio	Dominique Sarah	Daniele Marco	Sarah George	Alessia Alberto	Alessia Mauro	Nominated	Mauro Alessia	Gianluca Mauro	Mauro Mara	Mauro	Evicted (Day 120)
Veronica	Not in house	Exempt	Giorgio Mara	Davide	Tullio Mara	Gabriele Tullio	Tullio Diletta	Daniele Mara	Marco to nominate	Marco Mara	Giorgio Cristina	Marco Giorgio	George Cristina	Mara Massimo	Mara Nicola	Exempt	Mauro Carmela	Mauro Gianluca	Mauro Mara	Evicted (Day 120)
Carmela	Not eligible	Daniela Tullio	Exempt	Davide	Camila Tullio	Mauro Gabriele	Tullio Giorgio	Tullio Carmen	Daniele to nominate	Tullio Carmen	Daniele Sarah	Daniele Giorgio	In Spain	Sarah Daniele	Sarah Veronica	Exempt	Veronica Mauro	Mauro Gianluca	Evicted (Day 113)
Gianluca	Not in house														Exempt	Nominated	Alessia Carmen	Cristina Carmen	Walked (Day 113)
Alessia	Nominated	Evicted (Day 1)										Exempt		Carmen Maicol	Nicola Maicol	Nominated	Carmen Mara	Evicted (Day 106)
Nicola	Not in house											Exempt		Alessia Daniele	Sarah Veronica	Nominated	Evicted (Day 99)
Massimo	Cristina	Daniela Diletta	Sabrina Cristina	Davide	Cristina Camila	Mauro Gabriele	Diletta Marco	Cristina Mattia	Exempt	Marco Cristina	Dominique Sarah	Cristina Daniele	In Spain	Veronica Daniele	Veronica Sarah	Ejected (Day 92)
Sarah	Not in house							Exempt	Daniele to nominate	Exempt	Giorgio Dominique	Marco Giorgio	George Cristina	Carmela Nicola	Carmela Mara	Evicted (Day 92)
Daniele	Not in house					Exempt		Mattia Cristina	Nominated	Exempt	Dominique Cristina	Cristina Marco	Cristina Carmen	Alessia Massimo	Evicted (Day 85)
George	Cristina	Daniela Diletta	Sabrina Cristina	Davide	Cristina Veronica	Gabriele Mauro	Diletta Tullio	Carmen Mattia	Exempt	Carmen Giorgio	Sarah Giorgio	Cristina Carmen	Cristina Sarah	Evicted (Day 78)
Marco	Cristina	Daniela Diletta	Camila Sabrina	Davide	Camila Tullio	Mauro Gabriele	Tullio Giorgio	Tullio Cristina	Nominated	Tullio Giorgio	Giorgio Sarah	Giorgio Cristina	Evicted (Day 71)
Dominique	Not in house							Exempt	Daniele to nominate	Exempt	Daniele Giorgio	Evicted (Day 64)
Tullio	Cristina	Mara Daniela	Sabrina Cristina	Nominated	Veronica Cristina	Marco Gabriele	Marco Diletta	Cristina Daniele	Exempt	Marco Cristina	Evicted (Day 57)
Mattia	Not in house					Exempt		Daniele Cristina	Evicted (Day 50)
Diletta	Not eligible	Daniela Mara	Cristina Giorgio	Tullio to save	Cristina Giorgio	Massimo Mauro	Marco Giorgio	Evicted (Day 43)
Gabriele	Not in house	Exempt	Sabrina Mara	Giorgio	Veronica Mara	George Massimo	Evicted (Day 36)
Camila	Not eligible	Daniela Tullio	Sabrina Cristina	Giorgio	Giorgio Cristina	Evicted (Day 29)
Davide	Cristina	Daniela Carmela	Sabrina Cristina	Nominated	Evicted (Day 22)
Sabrina	Not eligible	Daniela Mara	Mara Davide	Evicted (Day 22)
Daniela	Not eligible	Mara Carmela	Evicted (Day 15)
Nominated	Alessia Cristina	Carmela Daniela Diletta	Cristina Sabrina	Davide Giorgio	Camila Cristina Tullio	Gabriele Mauro	Diletta Giorgio Marco Tullio	Cristina Daniele Mara Mattia	Daniele	Carmen Marco Tullio	Daniele Dominique Giorgio Sarah	Daniele Giorgio Marco	Cristina Daniele George Sarah	Alessia Daniele	Sarah Veronica	Carmen Gianluca Nicola	Alessia Mauro	Carmela Carmen Cristina Gianluca Mara Mauro Veronica	Mauro Veronica	Carmen Mauro	Alberto Cristina Maicol Mauro	Giorgio Mauro ---- Cristina Mara ---- Giorgio Mara	Alberto Cristina Giorgio Mauro
Notes		, ,	, ,		,		,	,								,	none				none		none
Evicted	Alessia 0 votes to save	Daniela 59% to evict	Sabrina 55% to evict	Davide 8 votes to evict	Camila 49% to evict	Gabriele 53% to evict	Diletta 34% to evict	Mattia 33% to evict	Daniele ?% to save	Tullio 47% to evict	Dominique 45% to evict	Marco 52% to evict	George 59% to evict	Daniele 51% to evict	Sarah 51% to evict	Nicola 47% to evict	Alessia 69% to evict	Carmela 58% to evict	Veronica 80% to evict	Carmen 81% to evict	Maicol 33% to evict	Mara 40% to save	Alberto ??% to win (out of 4)	Cristina ?% to win (out of 3)
																							Giorgio 20% to win (out of 2)	Mauro 80% to win (out of 2)

Notes:

On launch night there was an uneven number of housemates to enter the house, as a result of this Big brother nominated Alessia and Cristina for an immediate eviction. It was up to the male housemates to vote for which they wanted to stay.

Starting on launch night the public was asked to vote for the housemates they wanted to save from the first round of nominations. Carmela, Daniela, Diletta, Mara, and Tullio received the fewest votes and were the only housemates eligible to be nominated for eviction.

As Maicol received the most save votes in the public vote, he was given the power to save one person from eviction instead of nominating.

As new housemates, Gabriele, Mauro and Veronica were automatically immune from eviction.

Following last weeks eviction, the public was asked to vote for the housemates they wanted to save from the second round of nominations. Camila, Cristina, Davide, Giorgio, Mara, and Sabrina received the least amount of votes and were the only housemates eligible to be nominated for eviction.

As Alberto received the most save votes in the public vote, he was given the power to save two people from eviction instead of nominating.

As Carmela and Maicol received the second and third most save votes in the public vote, they were banned from nominating.

Davide, Giorgio and Tullio were automatically nominated for eviction by the producers. The producers then chose Diletta to be allowed to save one of the nominees and she chose to save Tullio.

Following last weeks eviction, the public was asked to vote for the housemates they wanted to save from the third round of nominations. Camila, Cristina, Giorgio, Mara, Tullio and Veronica received the least amount of votes and were the only housemates eligible to be nominated for eviction.

As Alberto, Maicol, and Mauro received the most votes to save they were not eligible to nominate.

Due to the disproportionate ratio of male to female housemates, all female housemates were given immunity in round six of nominations.

Following last weeks eviction, the public was asked to vote for the housemates they wanted to save from the seventh round of nominations. Diletta, Giorgio, Mara, Marco, and Tullio received the least amount of votes and were the only housemates eligible to be nominated for eviction.

In round seven, the three housemates who received the most nominations would be up for eviction as opposed to the regular two.

Following last eviction, the public was asked to vote for the housemates they wanted to save from the seventh round of nominations. Carmen, Cristina, Daniele, Mara, Mattia and Tullio received the least amount of votes and were the only housemates eligible to be nominated for eviction.

In round eight, immune housemates had to nominate one male and one female housemate who wasn't immune.

In round nine, the female housemates had to each save one male housemate from a possible eviction. Daniele and Marco were the last two male housemates not to be saved which led to a second round of voting by the female housemates, this time to evict. Daniele was evicted but in fact the public had to vote to either save or evict them.

Following the last eviction, the public was asked to vote for the housemates they wanted to save from the tenth round of nominations. Carmen, Cristina, Daniele, Giorgio, Mara, Marco and Tullio received the least amount of votes and were the only housemates eligible to be nominated for eviction.

Following the last eviction, the public was asked to vote for the housemates they wanted to save from the eleventh round of nominations. Carmen, Cristina, Dominique, Giorgio, and Sarah received the least amount of votes and were the only housemates eligible to be nominated for eviction.

Following the last eviction, the public was asked to vote for the housemates they wanted to save from the twelfth round of nominations. Carmen, Cristina, Daniele, Giorgio, and Marco received the least amount of votes and were the only housemates eligible to be nominated for eviction.

On January 2, 2010, Grande Fratello announced that Alessia and Nicola would be immune from the thirteenth round of nominations. Carmela and Massimo are immune as they are taking part in the Housemate Exchange.

For the fourteenth round of nominations, housemates had to nominate one female and one male housemate. Mauro was given an exemption following a public vote.

For the fifteenth round of nominations, the public voted for their favorite housemate to gain immunity; Mauro won the vote but the housemates were not told of this. Mauro is immune and earned the right to remove a housemate nominated for eviction. Alessia, Sarah, and Veronica received the most nominations, but Mauro decided to save Alessia leaving Sarah and Veronica to face the public vote.

Following Sarah's eviction on Week 13, the sixteenth round of nominations for Week 14 did not take place due to Massimo's ejection that same night. Nominations will presume next week on Week 14 for Week 15.

The public voted for their favourite Housemates. The six housemates with the most votes were immune from the next eviction. Alberto, Carmela, Giorgio, Maicol, Mauro and Veronica received the most public votes and gained immunity.As Alberto, Maicol and Mauro were the top three in the public vote and could each save a housemate from being nominated.

For the twentieth round of nominations, the male housemates each had to nomianate one female housemate while the female housemates each had to nominate one male housemate.