Big Brother 5 (UK)

Big Brother 5 (UK)
Season Information
Country	United Kingdom
Host	Davina McCall
Season	5
Prize Money	£63,500
No. of Housemates	13
No. of Days	71
Winner	Nádia Almada
Runner(s)-up	Jason Cowan
Returnees	Kitten Pinder (Panto) Marco Sabba (Panto) Michelle Bass (Ultimate) Nádia Almada (Ultimate) Victor Ebuwa (Panto, Ultimate)
Production
Network	Channel 4
Creative Directors	Philip Edgar-Jones
Executive Producers	Shirley Jones
Challenge Producers	Susy Price (Sr) Ben Paul
Editor	David Williams Rebecca De Young
Announcers	Marcus Bentley
Season Run	May 28, 2004 – August 6, 2004
No. of Episodes	82
Viewership	5.1m
Companion Shows	Big Brother's Little Brother
Cast
Opening Sequence
Series Chronology
Previous Season	Big Brother 4 (UK)
Next Season	Big Brother 6 (UK)

Big Brother 5 is the fifth season of Big Brother UK.

This series was the first to be centered around an evil theme, which sparked new altercations like never before. It was the very first season to have more than one contestant ejected from the house. Eventually, after 71 days, bookie-favorite Nádia Almada was crowned the winner over Jason Cowan with a whopping 74.32% of the vote to be the first transgender contestant to win the game.

Background

This was the year Big Brother turned evil. Due to poor ratings the previous year, evil Big Brother changed parts of the game.

The grand prize was increased to £100,000. However, throughout the series, the housemates participated in tasks to save the prize from dropping in size. At the end of ten weeks, the final prize was £63,500, the lowest ever at the time, meaning the housemates lost an additional £36,500 in prize money.

This series also included different eviction styles that would further be evolved in the future of the show.

House

The house for this season was much smaller than the previous seasons to keep in line with the "Evil Big Brother" theme. The house featured an elevated floor, as well as a lowered ceiling. The kitchen was simplistic only featuring the absolute necessities, such as an oven, a fridge, and a sink. Only one bedroom was featured in the house with housemates having to walk through the garden to get to it. The room featured eight singular beds and two double beds.The showers led out into the garden and were made out of glass.

Bedroom

Garden

Kitchen

Living Room

Twists

• Evil Big Brother: This season Big Brother was more strict in his enforcement of rules, and often punished the housemates by going against what he had previously told them.
• Changing Prize Money: This season's prize money was raised from £70,000 to £100,000. However, in addition to shopping tasks, the house would have to complete tasks that would see money being either added to or removed from the prize. By the end of the season, only £63,500 remained in the prize fund.
• Fake Double Eviction: On Day 15, it was announced that Emma and Michelle had been evicted from the house in a double eviction. However, this was a fake eviction; in reality, the pair were moved into the "Big Brother Bedsit" next door, where they could see and hear what was going on in the main house.
• Secret Eviction: During a party on Day 69 Stuart, who had received the fewest votes to win at that point, was called into the Diary Room. He was informed that he had received the fewest votes to win at that point and would be immediately evicted from the house without getting the chance to say goodbye to his fellow housemates.

The Bedsit

Located behind the Diary Room, the bedsit contains one double bed, a small kitchen, a small bathroom, tattered armchairs, a telephone and flowery wallpaper, the only modern feature of the bedsit is the plasma screen where housemates can view the main house. Outside the bedsit is a corridor leading to the Diary Room. Due to the close proximity of the bedsit to the main house, housemates were required to speak quietly in the bedsit to avoid detection. The bedsit was resurrected five years later in Ultimate Big Brother.

Housemates

Winner    Nádia

Runner-Up    Jason

Finalist    Daniel

Finalist    Shell

Evicted    Stuart

Evicted    Michelle

Evicted    Victor

Evicted    Ahmed

Evicted    Becki

Evicted    Marco

Evicted    Vanessa

Ejected    Emma

Ejected    Kitten

Tasks

Week	Days Lasted	Task Description	Reward	Result
Week 2	Day 9	The housemates had to select one housemate who they felt was the smartest, and had to select another housemate who they felt was the strongest person; Stuart and Jason were selected, respectively. Stuart had to answer nine general knowledge questions in the Diary Room, with the grand prize fund being reduced by £1,000 for each incorrect answer he gave. Outside, the other housemates were strapped onto a turntable, which Jason was required to spin around in circles. For each question Stuart answered correctly, a Housemate could be removed from the turntable, thus making it easier to spin.	Prize Fund	-£5,000
	Days 10-14	During the "Big Brother Food to Go" task, housemates were required to run a fast food restaurant in which Big Brother could place an order at any time, and housemates were required to make the order and take it to the Diary Room within thirty minutes.	Privilege Pass
Week 3	Days 17-19	The housemates each had a football theme to coincide with the Euro 2004 championships that were occurring at the time. The first portion of the task required housemates to select a country and make a mascot for the team.	Privilege Pass
Week 4	Days 25-26	The housemates were given their new task, in which they had to cast their own body parts in plaster, and attach them to a chicken-wire frame, thus creating the "perfect housemate."
	Day 26	The housemates were given a task in which they had to create a film based on their time in the House, with the housemates portraying one another.
Week 5	Day 30	They wagered a total of £3,000 on the first part of the task, which required Victor to unscramble a word.	Prize Fund	-£3,000
		The second portion saw the housemates wagering £1,000 on their success. Victor and Jason had to roll Michelle around in a giant ball, knocking over obstacles within the time limit.	-£0 from the Prize Fund
		They wagered £6,000 on the final portion of the task, and were required to guide a loop around wires attached to a helmet on Shell's head.	-£0 from the Prize Fund
	Days 32-34	The housemates were given their new weekly task, for which Big Brother provided them with costumes. For the first part, they had twenty seconds to gather their costumes and get on the stage before a song begins. The second part of the task required housemates to be split into two groups, each group when then perform their own song.	Full Moon Party, Shopping Budget
Week 6	Day 37	The housemates took part in a "farmers and cows" task. The task involved half the housemates being farmers and the other half being cows. The cows were blindfolded and had to be guided round a course by the farmers; the farmers used cattle prods to guide the cows.	Prize Fund	-£2,500
	Days 39-41	The housemates weekly task was based around going back to school. They had to attend registration in the morning, and were set several mini-tasks based on school subjects.	Shopping Budget
Week 7	Days 44-47	The housemates were given the "bootcamp" task. Jason and Michelle were selected as sergeants while the rest of the housemates were privates. In the Diary Room, Jason and Michelle were told that if the privates passed the task, then they would be up for eviction, and if the privates failed the task, then the two sergeants would be nominated.	Immunity, Shopping Budget
	Day 48	The housemates took participated in a "dating service". Each housemate was required to deliver their own dating message in the Diary Room in order to present themself to a potentianl "love interest".	Alcohol
Week 7	Day 51	The housemates were required to pick one person to be the "Intellectual" and another to be the "Selector", the rest of the housemates were the "Physicals". The "Intellectual" housemate was required to answer general knowlege questions, for every time he answered a question wrong, one of the "Physical" housemates fell from a giant staircase into a tank of fish-guts.	Prize Fund	-£15,000
		As the "Selector", Michelle was asked to drink a milkshake made from fish-guts.	+15,000 to the Prize Fund
	Days 53-55	The housemates were set a wedding task, and Shell and Victor were chosen as the bride and groom. Nádia was the bridesmaid, Daniel was the best man, Jason held the service and Michelle sang at the service. The housemates took part in all traditional events of a wedding including a hen and stag night, and the service itself, but failed the task on the first day.	Privilege Pass, Shopping Budget
	Day 57	The housemates were given one hour to create a two-minute mime performance.	Ice Cream Machine
Week 8	Days 60-62	The housemates were weighed, and were then chained together in pairs based on their weight. Daniel and Nádia, the heaviest man and woman were shackled together by the foot, Jason and Michelle were chained together by the arm, and the lightest man and woman - Stuart and Shell were shackled together by the waist. Housemates were made to stay shackled together except for when they were in the diary room or in the bathroom, and had to apply each other's makeup and brush each other's teeth, as well as competing in mini-tasks, including making pottery and writing a short story as a pair, typing only one letter each at a time.	Video Messages from Home, Double Shopping Budget
Week 10	Day 65	The housemates were required to drink various shots that were made from either salt-water, oil or fish-guts.	Prize Fund	+£10,000
	Day 66	The housemates were provided with materials to make hand-puppets that we similar to their fellow housemates. Later in the day, they were all then required to perform a puppet-show with the puppets that they had made.	Ice Cream Machine
	Day 69	The housemates were required to place some of their own items into a time-capsule and berry it in the garden.	Party

Nominations Table

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10
										Day 69	Final
Nádia	Ineligible	Ahmed Daniel	Daniel Vanessa		Jason Victor	Jason Victor	Private in task	Jason Victor	No Nominations	No Nominations	Winner
Jason	Ineligible	Marco Emma	Nádia Marco		Nádia Marco	Banned	Sergeant in task	Nádia Daniel	No Nominations	No Nominations	Runner-Up
Daniel	Ineligible	Ahmed Michelle	Nádia Ahmed		Marco Jason	Victor Becki	Private in task	Victor Shell	No Nominations	No Nominations	Third Place
Shell	Ineligible	Ahmed Michelle	Ahmed Daniel		Marco Nádia	Becki Jason	Private in task	Jason Victor	No Nominations	No Nominations	Fourth Place
Stuart	Ineligible	Ahmed Michelle	Ahmed Daniel		Shell Nádia	Ahmed Becki	Private in task	Daniel Nádia	No Nominations	No Nominations
Michelle	Ineligible	Ahmed Jason	Victor Jason		Jason Ahmed	Ahmed Becki	Sergeant in task	Jason Daniel	No Nominations
Victor	Ineligible	Emma Nádia	Daniel Vanessa		Marco Nádia	Banned	Private in task	Daniel Nádia
Ahmed	Ineligible	Marco Emma	Vanessa Marco		Marco Nádia	Nádia Daniel	Private in task
Becki	Not In House				Michelle	Daniel Ahmed
Marco	Ineligible	Jason Ahmed	Daniel Vanessa		Jason Victor
Vanessa	Ineligible	Ahmed Michelle	Ahmed Nádia
Emma	Ineligible	Victor Daniel	Victor Jason
Kitten	Ineligible

Opening Night Suitcase Voting

Housemate	Voted For	Votes Received
Ahmed	Michelle	1
Daniel	Marco	0
Emma	Victor	0
Jason	Kitten	0
Kitten	Refused (Self)	7
Marco	Kitten	1
Michelle	Kitten	2
Nadia	Michelle	0
Shell	Kitten	0
Stuart	Ahmed	0
Vanessa	Kitten	0
Victor	Kitten	1

Note: Kitten refused to vote and therefore cast a vote against herself. Even if she had voted, she would still have received the most votes.

Fight Night

On Day 20 in the house, a string of controversial fights and outbursts occurred in the house, with fans dubbing the event "Fight Night." The events leading up to the event began when Emma Greenwood and Michelle Bass were sent to Big Brother's Bedsit in secret, where they were given access to live streaming from the house. Under the impression that they had been evicted, some of the remaining housemates spoke poorly of Emma and Michelle. Upon their return to the house five nights later, the housemates were provided with party food and alcohol. Later, some of the housemates engaged in a playful food fight, leaving the communal living area in a mess. When Jason Cowan insisted that they tidy up their mess, Marco Sabba refused, prompting an argument between the pair. Nádia Almada and Emma intervened in defense of Marco, with Nádia flipping over a table. The argument continued to escalate, and Emma began throwing a food tray at Victor Ebuwa, who retaliated by throwing the same tray back at Emma, hitting her in the back of the head. Emma then threw a full tray of food at him and raced toward him, at which point she stated she would kill him. Some of the other housemates intervened and broke up the fight taking Emma into the bedroom. The arguments led to Shell Jubin becoming very emotional, and she hid in the bathroom where she was comforted by Vanessa Nimmo. Nádia entered the bathroom with the intent of apologizing for upsetting Shell but ended up having an argument with Vanessa, resulting in Big Brother sending security into the house. The events of the night led Jason to decide to walk from the game, though he was later talked out of it. That night, Emma was sent back into the Big Brother Bedsit, in an attempt to separate her from the other Housemates. Jason, Marco, Nádia, Vanessa, and Victor were all given official strikes by Big Brother due to the events of the night. Due to the events of the night, the planned eviction for Day 22 was postponed until the following week; Daniel and Vanessa still remained nominated for eviction. On Day 23, after spending the past few days in the Big Brother Bedsit, Emma was officially ejected from the house after much consideration from Big Brother.

Game History

#	Nominations																																																																Result
																																																																	HM(s)	Finish
1																																																																	Kitten	Ejected Day 7
2	Ahmed																																																																Emma																																																																Michelle																																																																Michelle	Fake Evicted Day 15
																																																																																																																																																																																																	Emma	Fake Evicted Day 15
3																																																																	Michelle	Returned Day 20
	Daniel																																																																Vanesssa																																																																Emma	Ejected Day 23
4																																																																																																																																	Vanessa	1st Evicted Day 29
5																																																																	Becki	Entered Day 31
	Marco																																																																Michelle																																																																Nádia																																																																Marco	2nd Evicted Day 36
6	Ahmed																																																																Becki																																																																Becki	3rd Evicted Day 43
7	Ahmed																																																																Daniel																																																																Nádia																																																																Shell																																																																Stuart																																																																Victor																																																																Ahmed	4th Evicted Day 50
8	Daniel																																																																Jason																																																																Nádia																																																																Victor																																																																Victor	5th Evicted Day 57
9	Daniel																																																																Jason																																																																Michelle																																																																Nádia																																																																Shell																																																																Stuart																																																																Michelle	6th Evicted Day 64
10	Daniel																																																																Jason																																																																Nádia																																																																Shell																																																																Stuart																																																																Stuart	7th Evicted Day 69
11																																																																	Shell	Fourth Place
																																																																	Daniel	Third Place
																																																																	Jason	Runner-Up
																																																																	Nádia	Winner

Week 1

Ejected    Kitten

Week 2

Nominee 17% to Move    Ahmed

Moved 29% to Move    Emma

Moved 54% to Move    Michelle

Week 3

Re-Entered    Michelle

Nominee    Daniel

Nominee    Vanessa

Ejected    Emma

On Day 20, Emma and Michelle re-enter the house. Due to the infamous Fight Night, Emma was ejected on Day 23. Therefore, the eviction has postponed to next week and the nominees remain the same.

Week 4

Nominee 14% to Evict    Daniel

Evicted 86% to Evict    Vanessa

Week 5

Entered Power to Nominate    Becki

Nominated by Becki    Michelle

Nominee    Nádia

Evicted 52% to Evict    Marco

Week 6

Banned    Jason

Banned    Victor

Nominee 38% to Evict    Ahmed

Evicted 62% to Evict    Becki

Week 7

Sergeant    Jason	Segeant    Michelle
Private  Nominee    Daniel	Private  Nominee    Nádia	Private  Nominee    Shell	Private  Nominee    Stuart	Private  Nominee    Victor	Private  Evicted  52% to Evict    Ahmed

Week 8

Nominee    Daniel

Nominee    Jason

Nominee    Nádia

Evicted 47% to Evict    Victor

Week 9

Nominee    Daniel

Nominee    Jason

Nominee    Nádia

Nominee    Shell

Nominee    Stuart

Evicted 67% to Evict    Michelle

Week 10

Nominee    Daniel

Nominee    Jason

Nominee    Nádia

Nominee    Shell

Evicted 7% to Win out of 5    Stuart

Finale

Winner 74% to Win out of 2    Nádia

Runner-Up 26% to Win out of 2    Jason

Finalist 17% to Win out of 3    Daniel

Finalist 9% to Win out of 4    Shell

Trivia

• This is the very first series to have a transgender housemate.
  • As a result, Nádia Almada is the first transgender housemate to win Big Brother.
• By having Kitten Pinder and Emma Greenwood ejected from the house, it was the first season to have more than one ejection.
• The Fight Night incident marked the first time that Security Guards entered the house.
  • It would be then followed by Celebrity Big Brother 19 and Big Brother 18 (UK).