Big Brother Australia 8

Big Brother Australia 8
Season Information
Country	Australia
Host	Kyle Sandilands Jackie O
Season	8
Prize Money	$250,000
No. of Housemates	20
No. of Days	85
Winner	Terri Munro
Runner(s)-up	Rory Ammon
Production
Network
Announcers	Mike Goldman
Season Run	April 28, 2008 - July 21, 2008
Sponsor
No. of Episodes	93
Viewership	0.86m
Companion Shows	Big Brother's Big Mouth Friday Night Live
Cast
Series Chronology
Previous Season	Big Brother Australia 7
Next Season	Big Brother Australia 9

Big Brother Australia 8 is the eighth version of Big Brother Australia. After 85 days, Terri Munro was crowned the winner over runners-up Rory Ammon and Ben McCallum.

Background

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.

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 before the start of the season.

Promotions

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

Twists

• Snap Evictions: Throughout the season random evictions will take place without notice unlike seasons prior where evictions would happen weekly.
  • Opening Night Eviction: On the first night before the housemates were permitted to enter the main house, the housemates had to evict one of their own. That evicted housemate would leave immediately
• Housemate Hand Grenade: After their eviction, the evicted housemate will be given a power or punishment to give to one of the remaining housemates in the game.
• Head of Household: This year, the Head of Household will be the winner of the Friday Night Live games.
• Public Nominate, Housemates Evict: For the first five weeks of the season, the public will nominate three housemates and the housemates will then decide themselves who to evict.
• House Guest: On Day 7, two house guests entered the house. These are not official contestants, however they will have the chance to be housemates if they pass their task.

Housemates

Winner    Terri	Runner-Up    Rory	Third Place    Ben	Evicted    Travis	Evicted    Alice
Evicted    Cherry	Evicted    Brigitte	Evicted    Bianca	Evicted    Terrence	Evicted    Nobbi
Evicted    Rhianna	Evicted    Renee	Evicted    Dixie	Evicted    David	Evicted    Nathan
Evicted    Rebecca	Evicted    Saxon	Evicted    Barney	Evicted    Michael	Walked    Rima

Friday Night Live

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

Nominations/Voting History

	Vote to Evict						Nominate to Evict							Fake Vote to Evict
	Week 1	Week 2		Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11		Week 12
		Day 11	Day 15									Day 74	Day 78			Day 85	Finale
Terri	Nobbi	Barney Michael	Exempt	Ben Rebecca	Nathan David	Bianca Dixie	Rep Renee Nobbi	Nobbi Bianca	Rep Terrence Bianca	Rory Bianca	Rep Bianca Rory	Rory Cherry	No Nominations	Travis	Travis	No Nominations	Winner
Rory	Terri	Ineligible	Rep David Saxon	Rebecca Ben	Rep Nathan David	Dixie Bianca	Brigitte Terri	Alice Brigitte	Saved Brigitte Cherry	Travis Brigitte	Alice Brigitte	Brigitte Cherry	No Nominations	Alice	Travis	No Nominations	Runner-Up
Ben	Terri	Ineligible	David Saxon	Rebecca Rory	David Nathan	Dixie Bianca	Alice Brigitte	Alice Cherry	Alice Cherry	Brigitte Alice	Travis Alice	Alice Cherry	No Nominations	Alice	Travis	No Nominations	Third Place
Travis	Rory	Ineligible	David Rory	Saved Rory Ben	David Nathan	Dixie Nobbi	Brigitte Renee	Nobbi Ben	Terri Terrence	Terrence Rory	Rep Bianca Rory	Terri Rory	No Nominations	Terri	Terri	No Nominations
Alice	Ben	Ineligible	Saxon Rory	Rebecca Rory	Saved Nathan David	Saved Bianca Nobbi	Saved Bianca Travis	Nobbi Ben	Ben Rory	Bianca Ben	Saved Bianca Rory	Rep Rory Ben	No Nominations	Ben	Secret Room	No Nominations
Cherry	Not In House						Exempt	Rep Terrence Rhianna	Rory Nobbi	Rory Ben	Rory Bianca	Saved Ben Rory	No Nominations
Brigitte	Rima	Ineligible	Saxon Rory	Ben Rory	Nathan Rory	Bianca Dixie	Ben Nobbi	Nobbi Cherry	Rep Nobbi Rory	Saved Terrence Rory	Rory Ben	Rep Rory Terri
Bianca	Nobbi	Ineligible	Saxon David	Rebecca Ben	David Nathan	Dixie Nobbi	Alice Terri	Terrence Terri	Terrence Terri	Rep Terrence Terri	Terri Alice
Terrence	Not In House						Exempt	Cherry Rhianna	Cherry Brigitte	Brigitte Alice
Nobbi	Terri	Ineligible	David Rory	Rebecca Ben	Nathan David	Rep Dixie Bianca	Alice Terri	Saved Rhianna Alice	Rep Alice Cherry
Rhianna	Not In House						Exempt	Rep Terrence Brigitte
Renee	David	Ineligible	Saxon David	Rebecca Ben	Rory David	Nobbi Bianca	Rep Bianca Brigitte
Dixie	Brigitte	Ineligible	Saxon David	Rebecca Ben	Nathan Rory	Dixie Bianca
David	Ben	Ineligible	Saxon Rory	Ben Rebecca	Rory Nathan
Nathan	Not In House		Exempt	Rebecca Ben	David Rory
Rebecca	Ben	Ineligible	Saved Saxon Rory	Rep Rebecca Ben
Saxon	Terri	Ineligible	David Rory
Barney	Not In House
Michael	Not In House
Rima	Brigitte										Guest
Corey	Not In House	Guest

Immune

Nominated

Rep: Replacement Nominee

Saved: Saved Nominee

HOH

Dethroned HOH

Guest

Left

Walked

Evicted

Housemate Hand Grenades

Day	Evicted Housemate(s)	Description	Housemate(s) Selected	Reversed?
Day 2	Terri	The selected housemate will be banished from the house and will have to live in the Volkswagen van in the backyard for the rest of their time in the house. They will only be allowed in the house when instructed by Big Brother.	Nobbi
Day 15	Saxon	The selected housemate will lose all of their personal belongings until further notice.	Brigitte	Day 60
Day 22	Rebecca	The selected housemate will have to all the laundry for all the housemates when instructed or requested until further notice.	Dixie
Day 29	Nathan	The selected housemate will have to be the first housemate awake. This housemate will have to make Big Brother breakfast and take it to the diary room.	Travis
	David	The selected housemate will have to be the final housemate to go to bed. The housemate will have to bring a cookie and a glass of milk to the diary room and occasionally read a bedtime story to Big Brother.	Bianca	Day 60
Day 36	Big Brother	The housemates will no longer vote to evict. Australia will now vote to evict and the housemates will nominate to evict.	All Housemates
Day 43	Dixie1	The selected housemate will be given the chance to save one housemate from eviction.	Alice
	Renee	The selected housemate will not receive their letter from home.	Brigitte
Day 50	Rhianna	The selected housemate will have to be the housekeeper. They will be required to keep the kitchen clean, wash after every meal, and clean both toilets.	Cherry	Day 60
Day 57	Nobbi	The selected housemate will be banished from the house and will have to live in the Volkswagen van in the backyard until further notice. They will only be allowed in the house when instructed by Big Brother.	Terrence
			Terri	Day 64
Day 64	Terrence	The selected housemate will have their hand grenade removed.	Terri
		The house will remove one item. The selected item was the hair straighter.	All Housemates
Day 68	Rima	There is no mole in the house, and that it was a task by Big Brother.	All Housemates
Day 71	Bianca	The selected housemate will be the house chef until further notice. They will be required to do all the cooking.	Ben	Day 72
Day 74	Brigitte	The selected housemate will have to live on staples until further notice.	Rory	Day
Day 78	Cherry	Presented the announcement that Big Brother would be conducting a housemate-voted eviction that evening.	All Housemates
	Alice	Presented the announcement that Big Brother would be conducting another housemate-voted eviction that evening.	All Housemates
	Alice & Travis	Presented the announcement that they were fake evicted and were returning to the house.	All Housemates

^1 Dixie's house grenade was revealed to the public on house Day 36. However, it was not revealed to the housemates until Day 43.

Ratings

Big Brother Australia 8 Ratings
		Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12	Week 13
Sunday	Daily Show		0.98	0.87	0.77	0.80	0.84	0.78	0.73	0.69	1.01	0.92	1.03	1.04
	Eviction		1.12	1.00	0.96	1.02	0.98	0.89	0.84	0.80	1.38	1.03	1.09	1.11
Monday	Daily Show	1.53	0.88	0.76	0.71	0.73	0.76	0.70	0.66	0.61	0.90	0.83	0.89	1.50
	Big Mouth		0.68	0.51	0.44	0.40	0.41	0.37	0.33	0.29	0.36	0.33	0.39
Tuesday	Daily Show	0.91	0.79	0.79	0.73	0.69	0.74	0.66	0.62	0.59	0.68	0.70	0.71
Wednesday	Daily Show	0.83	0.85	0.80	0.77	0.75	0.71	0.67	0.63	0.62	0.70	0.70	0.69
Thursday	Daily Show	0.80	0.90	0.88	0.88	0.83	0.80	0.74	0.70	0.68	0.77	0.80	0.87
Friday	Daily Show	0.94	0.94	0.97	0.94	0.90	0.90	0.84	0.79	0.74	0.80	0.83	0.91
	FNL	1.12	1.01	1.01	0.99	0.96	0.98	0.89	0.85	0.78	0.91	0.93	1.15

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