Celebrity Big Brother 1 (UK)

Celebrity Big Brother 1 (UK)
Season Information
Country	United Kingdom
Host	Davina McCall
Season	1
No. of Housemates	6
No. of Days	8
Winner	Jack Dee
Runner(s)-up	Claire Sweeney
Returnees	Vanessa Feltz (Ultimate)
Production
Executive Producers	Ruth Wrigley
Editor	Helen Hawken
Announcers	Marcus Bentley
Season Run	March 9, 2001 – March 16, 2001
Cast
Opening Sequence
Series Chronology
Next Season	Celebrity Big Brother 2 (UK)

Celebrity Big Brother 1 (UK) was the inaugural version of Celebrity Big Brother. Like the regular version of Big Brother (UK), the show featured a number of strangers living in a house together in complete isolation, having to nominate each other for eviction with the public voting on who to evict. Unlike the regular version of the show, however, the six housemates living together were notable celebrities, with the prize money going to charity rather than to themselves. This season, all money raised was given to Comic Relief, with the season finale being held on Red Nose Day 2001.

About

Retrieved from Comic Relief
Celebrity Big Brother is the result of an incredible alliance between Comic Relief, Channel 4, BBC and Bazal (part of Endemol Entertainment UK) to raise money for Red Nose Day 2001, on 16th March. The week-long TV special will be made by Endemol and, uniquely, programmes will be broadcast on both Channel 4 and BBC ONE.

The six celebrity housemates taking part in this special version of Big Brother will not receive fees of any kind and money raised from the voting lines will go to Comic Relief, as will the format fee for Endemol.

The celebrities entered the Celebrity Big Brother house on Friday 9th March, and the final eviction will take place as part of BBC ONE's Red Nose Day on Friday 16th March.

Conditions inside the house will be comfortable but basic, with simple food supplied and a small additional budget. As in Big Brother, the stars will be required to complete tasks, but this time the tasks will be daily.

Twists

• Live Nominations: Each housemate was required to make their nominations live during the launch episode, moments after meeting each other. The first eviction would be held the day after, on Day 2.

Housemates

Winner    Jack

Runner-Up    Claire

Finalist    Keith

Evicted    Anthea

Evicted    Vanessa

Evicted    Chris

Tasks

Task No.	Day	Description	Reward	Result
1	2	Housemates were required to design a pair of underpants for one of their fellow housemates to wear. The housemates then had to present these underpants as part of a fashion show.	Westlife's version of "Uptown Girl" was played into the house.	Passed
2	3	Housemates were required to memorize 10 facts about each of their fellow housemates. They were then called into the Diary Room individually and asked 3 random questions about these facts. If the entire group answered more than 1 question incorrectly, they would fail.	Shopping budget increased by 50% (£18).	Passed
3	4	The housemates were given a topiary kit and had until 6:00 PM that day to create a topiary that they would later present to Big Brother.	A film was played for the house.	Passed
4	5	The housemates had to create and perform an original song about their time in the house.	The house was provided with a take-out dinner.	Passed
5	6	The housemates had to complete a military assault course in less than 7 minutes	Shopping budget increased by 50% (£7.50).	Passed
6	7	The remaining 3 housemates were each given a baby simulator called "Juanita" to take care of.	A Wild West-themed party was thrown for the house.	Passed
7	8	Each housemate had to paint a picture of their favorite view of the house. They later presented these paintings to Big Brother.	None	N/A

Nominations History

	Week 1			Week 2
	Day 2	Day 4	Day 6	Final
Jack	Anthea Chris	Vanessa Anthea	Anthea Keith	Winner
Claire	Anthea Chris	Vanessa Jack	Jack Keith	Runner-Up
Keith	Chris Jack	Jack Vanessa	Anthea Claire	Third Place
Anthea	Chris Keith	Keith Jack	Jack Keith
Vanessa	Chris Jack	Keith Jack
Chris	Claire Anthea

Game History

#	Nominations						Result
							HM(s)	Finish
1	Anthea			Chris			Chris	1st Evicted Day 2
	Jack			Vanessa			Vanessa	2nd Evicted Day 4
	Anthea		Jack		Keith		Anthea	3rd Evicted Day 6
2							Keith	Third Place
							Claire	Runner-Up
							Jack	Winner

Round 1

Nominee 34% to Evict    Anthea

Evicted 66% to Evict    Chris

Round 2

Nominee 29% to Evict    Jack

Evicted 71% to Evict    Vanessa

Round 3

Nominee    Jack

Nominee    Keith

Evicted 52% to Evict    Anthea

Finale

Winner 59% to Win out of 2    Jack

Runner-Up 41% to Win out of 2    Claire

3rd Place 16% to Win out of 3    Keith

Trivia

• At 8 days, this is the shortest season of Big Brother across any version of the show.
• This season is tied with Celebrity Big Brother 2 for the record of fewest housemates, with only six each.
• During Anthea's eviction, Jack ran outside to greet his wife. He was promptly sent back inside.