Big Brother 1 (UK)

Big Brother 1 (UK)
Season Information
Country	United Kingdom
Host	Davina McCall
Season	1
Prize Money	£70,000
No. of Housemates	11
No. of Days	64
Winner	Craig Phillips
Runner(s)-up	Anna Nolan
Returnees	Melanie Hill (Panto) Nick Bateman (Panto, Ultimate)
Production
Network	Channel 4
Executive Producers	Ruth Wrigley
Challenge Producers	Paul Osborne
Editor	Conrad Green
Announcers	Marcus Bentley
Season Run	July 18, 2000 – September 15, 2000
No. of Episodes	52
Viewership	4.5m
Cast
Opening Sequence
Series Chronology
Next Season	Big Brother 2 (UK)

Big Brother 1 (UK) (also known as Big Brother 2000) is the first series of Big Brother (UK). The ten housemates entered on July 14, 2000, just 9 days after the American version began, and 64 days later, Craig Phillips emerged victorious over runner-up Anna Nolan.

This series set the trend for the format of the rest of the Big Brother (UK) franchise - each week, the housemates would nominate two of their fellow housemates for eviction. After all of the nominations were counted and the nominees were decided, the public would vote on which housemate they would like to leave the house, though the format has varied to some degree over the course of the franchise. Each week the housemates would compete in tasks set by Big Brother in order to win rewards for the house, such as alcohol or their weekly shopping budget.

Housemates Nick Bateman and Melanie Hill returned for the spin-off Big Brother Panto during the 2004 holiday season. The season's winner, Craig, would later return in Big Brother 10 to participate in a task. Nick would later compete in Ultimate Big Brother, with Craig, Anna, Darren Ramsay and Caroline O'Shea participating in tasks.

Twists

• Additional Housemates: As a result of Nick's ejection, on Day 37 an additional housemate (Claire) entered the house.

Housemates

Winner    Craig

Runner-Up    Anna

Finalist    Darren

Evicted    Melanie

Evicted    Claire

Evicted    Tom

Evicted    Nichola

Ejected    Nick

Evicted    Caroline

Evicted    Andrew

Evicted    Sada

Tasks

Week	Days Lasted	Task Description	Percent Gambled	Reward	Result
Week 1	Days 2-7	The housemates had to make a clay pot and mug each, of which only three were allowed to crack after being fired.	20.0%	Shopping Budget
Week 2	Days 9-13	The housemates were provided with 10 questions about one another, and each housemate would have to answer the question later in the week. They must memorize their housemates' answers, as they will be answering them later in the week. If the housemates as a group miss more than one question, their shopping budget will be decreased.	40.0%	Shopping Budget
Week 3	Days 16-19	The housemates were given an exercise bike, and had to travel from Land's End to John O'Groats on the bike, in a total of three days. They had to pass all of their hometowns in this amount of time. This means they had to travel a total of 1,800 km.	50.0%	Shopping Budget
	Day 19	The housemates were required to write and perform a play, and all nine housemates were required to participate.		Film
Week 4	Days 23-27	The eight remaining housemates were required to learn the Semaphore signalling system, and were separated into four pairs. They had four days to learn how to communicate and transcribe a message in Semaphore with their partner, and they were not allowed to make mistakes. Each pair were given a message to communicate to one another. The randomly selected pairs were Caroline and Craig, Nichola and Nicholas, Thomas and Melanie, and Anna and Darren.	35.0%	Shopping Budget
	Day 26	Each housemate was required to perform a good deed.		Weekly Shopping
Week 5	Days 30-34	The housemates found an assault course set up in the backyard. They had to practice the course throughout the week, and complete it in an 8 minute time limit at a later date.	50.0%	Shopping Budget
	Day 31	The housemates had to write poems about one another, and then guess who wrote which poem as well as whom they wrote about.
	Day 34	The housemates were given the task of writing a song, with lyrics, and would perform it in 24 hours.
Week 6	Days 37-41	The five original housemates, plus new arrival Claire, would have one minute after hearing an alarm to go outside and find a face of one of the ten original housemates, or Claire. At a later date, they would have to tell Big Brother the sequence in which the faces popped up. In total, there would be 100 faces pop up throughout the next few days.	50.0%	Shopping Budget
	Day 41	The housemates were given a mini-task of making outfits for their fellow housemates.
Week 7	Days 44-48	The housemates had to make a life-sized sculpture of themselves, made of wiring. A housemates sculpture is required to stand on its own, without assistance, for one consecutive minute. If it does not meet the requirements, the housemates fail the task. They had to present the sculptures at a later date.	50.0%	Shopping Budget
	Day 44	The housemates were given three different samples of wine. If they could figure out which one was the most expensive, they would be given five bottles of the wine.		5 Bottles of Wine
Week 8	Days 51-55	The housemates were required to learn and perform various circus skills, which included juggling, tightrope, walking, and learning how to ride a unicycle. All of the housemates were required to participate, and would perform the three activities at a later date in the House.	20.0%	Shopping Budget
	Day 55	The housemates were set a task in which they had to impersonate one of their fellow housemates. This includes dressing, speaking and acting like the selected housemate. Each housemate randomly drew names to decide which housemate they were to imitate.
		The housemates were set a task in which they had to create a 4 page newspaper and fill it with events they believe had happened outside of the House.		Takeaway Meal
Week 9	Days 59-62	The housemates were given a three part task for the week. The task would have one winner, who would win a party with the theme of their choice. The tasks first step involved learning about the highway code, while the second tested the housemates' physical ability. The last part of the task required housemates to take care of an artificial baby for an amount of time in the House.		Party of Their Choice	Anna

Nomination History

	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7		Week 8	Week 9
						Round 1	Round 2		Final
Craig	Caroline Sada	Caroline Nichola	Caroline Nichola	Nichola Darren	Darren Anna	Darren, Anna	Darren Anna	Darren Melanie	Winner
Anna	Andrew Darren	Andrew Thomas	Craig Thomas	Craig Thomas	Craig Thomas	Claire Craig	Claire Craig	Craig Darren	Runner-Up
Darren	Sada Caroline	Andrew Melanie	Craig Thomas	Craig Thomas	Thomas Melanie	Melanie Craig	Claire Craig	Melanie Anna	Third Place
Melanie	Sada Craig	Craig Caroline	Caroline Nichola	Nichola Darren	Craig Darren	Claire Craig	Craig Claire	Craig Darren
Claire	Not In House				Exempt	Darren, Melanie	Melanie, Darren
Thomas	Caroline Sada	Darren Caroline	Darren Caroline	Anna Nichola	Anna Darren
Nichola	Andrew Thomas	Andrew Craig	Melanie Thomas	Craig, Thomas
Nick	Sada Caroline	Caroline Craig	Nichola Caroline	Craig Nichola
Caroline	Darren Andrew	Thomas Andrew	Thomas Melanie
Andrew	Sada Caroline	Caroline Nichola
Sada	Darren Andrew

Note: During the first round of nominations Week 7, the housemates overheard Darren making his nominations in the Diary Room. To avoid affecting the outcome of the game, Big Brother voided this round of nominations and had everyone nominated again. During this Darren changed his nominations, resulting in Craig and Claire being nominated. Had Big Brother gone with the original nominations, Darren and Melanie would have also been nominated.

Game History

Retrieved from Channel 4

#	Nominations																																																																Result
																																																																	HM(s)	Finish
2	Caroline																																																																Sada																																																																Sada	1st Evicted Day 15
3	Andrew																																																																Caroline																																																																Andrew	2nd Evicted Day 22
4	Caroline																																																																Tom																																																																Caroline	3rd Evicted Day 29
5																																																																	Nick	Ejected Day 35
	Craig																																																																Nichola																																																																Nichola	4th Evicted Day 36
6																																																																	Claire	Entered Day 37
	Anna																																																																Craig																																																																Darren																																																																Tom																																																																Tom	5th Evicted Day 43
7	Claire																																																																Craig																																																																Claire	6th Evicted Day 50
8	Craig																																																																Darren																																																																Melanie																																																																Melanie	7th Evicted Day 57
9																																																																	Darren	Third Place
																																																																	Anna	Runner-Up
																																																																	Craig	Winner

Week 1

Mel was the talk of the House after flirting with Andrew, Darren and shy farmer Tom in the space of three days. City man Nick amazed the housemates with several outlandish tales including once working as a male escort. Andrew admitted using prostitutes in Amsterdam, while Bolton lass Nichola shocked the girls by telling them she'd been sacrificed in a previous life. There was plenty of touchy-feely behaviour with a host of pedicures, massages, body building and yoga sessions. Nichola also instigated a stripping session as some of the housemates made body prints on the wall. Nick and Andrew secretly arranged voting for Sada and Caroline in the first nominations. Nick claimed: "Tom thinks the same". Darren and Craig were not immune to such Machiavellian manoeuvres.

Week 2

Nominee  45% to Evict    Caroline

Evicted  55% to Evict    Sada

The group received their second weekly task - a memory quiz. Former nun Anna - who started the show as a non-smoker - soon took up the habit with smoker Nick. Andrew celebrated his 24th birthday as the housemates decided to strip him naked on the stroke of midnight. The next night all 10 enjoyed a boozy celebration with the highlights including a near snog from Sada and Nichola and the girls dressing the boys in drag. Sada and Caroline became the first two housemates put up for eviction. Sada promised she would leave even if the public vote saved her. Speaking in the Diary Room, she stated: "I'm not going to get the money because A, I'm a woman and B, I'm a threat to people here."
Sada became the first housemate voted out.

Week 3

Nominee  32% to Evict    Caroline

Evicted  68% to Evict    Andrew

Andrew and Mel's flirting began to annoy Anna and Caroline. "It's either Mel or Andrew... there's no room for anybody else," whispered Caroline. Anna agreed. "They're not very engaging," she said. Andrew informed Mel he had a quiet word with Nick a few days ago about his covert tactics to disrupt group dynamics. Caroline and Andrew are nominated - Andrew says he would "lose faith in the British nation" if he was voted out. It's not all bad for Andrew though after he shared a snog with Mel. In turn, Caroline confronted Craig about his lazy attitude during a House meeting, but is pretty much alone in her diatribe. Anna also got stabbed in the back while she slept. Nick stated: "She hasn't put a foot wrong but I think she's dangerous because she's calculating."
Andrew became the second housemate voted out.

Week 4

Nominee  38% to Evict    Tom

Evicted  62% to Evict    Caroline

With former beau Andrew departed, Mel soon turned her attention to Tom. Nick's nomination 'manipulation' continued with Tom and Craig, and he soon got Mel in on the act. Pointing at Mel and Tom he stated: "If you, you, me and Craig voted for Anna it wouldn't matter." Nick was referring to the split in the House, with Caroline, Anna and Nichola on the other side. Nick revealed a secret stash of cigarettes to ally Tom, while Big Brother warned the housemates that tactical voting will not be tolerated - Tom and Caroline were named as the two to face the public vote. Nick told Mel and Tom he lied about his secret wife dying in Australia, while Nichola threatened to leave if Caroline was evicted. Hunky Darren admitted: "I understand women a lot better now," before breaking into a bout of fake tears.
Caroline became the third housemate voted out.

Week 5

Nominee  28% to Evict    Craig

Evicted  72% to Evict    Nichola

Ejected    Nick

Nick was sensationally asked to leave the House by Big Brother. After weeks of rule breaking - including talking about nominations - Nick's double-dealing finally came to light during a discussion in the early hours of this morning between the housemates. Both Darren and Craig claimed Nick had shown them notes, although even having a pencil was against the BB rules. They subsequently searched Nick's belongings to discover the notes with which Nick had been attempting to sway his companions voting intentions. And then came the house meeting! There's a number of people sitting around this table who have come to me," Craig calmly stated, "and basically said that you have shown them a piece of paper with various names on it on a number of occasions." Sure that his name was on one of the scraps of paper Craig asked, "Will you go and get the pieces of paper?" "No I'll not do that," Nick insisted with a shrug. "I'll pack my suitcase, simple as that." Darren finally said, "I'm going to get the names now." He walked to the boys' bedroom and returned with Nick's suitcase. Darren found three pieces of paper, each had two names written on them. They were: Caroline and Mel, Caroline and Nicky, and Craig and Nicky. The housemates expressed their anger and bemusement, Nick broke down in the bedroom and was asked to leave by Big Brother. Nichola and Craig were up for eviction.
Nichola became the fourth housemate voted out.

Week 6

Entered   Exempt    Claire

Nominee  19% to Evict    Craig

Nominee  22% to Evict    Anna

Nominee  29% to Evict    Darren

Evicted  30% to Evict    Tom

Nick's departure led to a new housemate entering the proceedings - 25-year-old Claire. A hot tub was installed in the garden and Scouser Craig immediately asked for a steamy round or two beneath the sheets with the Bucks Beauty. The newcomer revealed she'd had a boob job. "Get them out, then. You can't have spent that much money and not show everyone," was Craig's reaction. Only Mel and Claire (who had a week's grace) escaped nominations - Anna, Craig, Darren and Tom were all up for eviction. Craig and Tom suggested killing a chicken for food. "Certainly not, Craig!" snapped Big Brother.
Tom became the fifth housemate voted out.

Week 7

Nominee  21% to Evict    Craig

Evicted  79% to Evict    Claire

The potential romance between Claire and Craig was ruined by their nominations. The hot-tub was put to good use with a heated kissing game. The rules were simple. One participant dived under water. While holding their breath one of the remaining four slid beneath the surface and kissed them. "I can't believe I kissed Darren," Craig said in embarrassment the next morning.
Claire became the sixth housemate voted out.

Week 8

Nominee  13% to Evict    Craig

Nominee  18% to Evict    Darren

Evicted  69% to Evict    Melanie

Mel informed Anna she'd dreamt about being involved in a choreographed orgy. The pair then discussed writing a novel - Mel predicted it would take her four months. The weekly task involved learning circus acts. While practicing the unicycle, saddle-sore Mel moaned to Anna: "This seat is too uncomfortable." Mel was nominated for the first time alongside Darren and Craig. Father-of-three Darren became closer to his favourite part of the House - the chickens. In particular, the one the gang named 'Marjorie'. "I love birds...I used to wash my budgie once a week in washing-up liquid," Darren admitted to Craig.
Mel became the final housemate voted out.

Week 9

Winner  46% to Win    Craig

Runner-Up  41% to Win out of 2    Anna

Finalist  13% to Win out of 3    Darren

As part of a triple-task, Big Brother gives the final three a placebo baby (complete with microchip to make it cry like a real child) to look after. Darren named her 'Juanita'. Craig found it particularly stressful looking after Juanita, but finally got to grips with the procedure. "She's just had winding, rocking, the nappy change, she was fed in there. Shall I just leave her out here to sleep?" he asked the expert, Darren. The housemates talked about finally leaving the House. "My kids won't recognise me!" joked Darren. Anna won the weekly task, and decided on a Spanish-themed party. "Don't forget that I want a donkey filled with sweets," she instructed. On the final day, the tension was palpable and Darren admitted: "Tonight will be the biggest thing that I have ever done."
Craig won Big Brother with 46% of the votes
Anna came second with 41% of the votes.
Darren came third with 13% of the votes.

Trivia

• The "eye" for this season is actually contestant Melanie Hill's eye.
• Darren Ramsay was the only housemate from this series to have a child.
• Nick Bateman was the only contestant not to receive a single eviction nomination from any of his fellow housemates.
• This season featured the first ejection in the Big Brother franchise.