Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition 1

Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition 1
Season Information
Country	Philippines
Host	Toni Gonzaga Luis Manzano Mariel Rodriguez
Season	1st Celebrity (2nd Overall)
Prize Money	₱5,000,000 worth of various prizes
No. of Housemates	14
No. of Days	56
Winner	Keanna Reeves
Runner(s)-up	John Prats
Production
Network	ABS-CBN Studio 23 (talk show) SkyCable (live feeds)
Executive Producers	Laurenti Dyogi
Season Run	February 5, 2006 - April 1, 2006
Companion Shows	Pinoy Big Brother Uplate Pinoy Big Brother Buzz Pinoy Big Brother Celebrity Challenge Pinoy Big Brother: Si Kuya, Kabarkada Mo!
Cast
Series Chronology
Previous Season	Pinoy Big Brother 1
Next Season	Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition 1

Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition 1 is the first celebrity edition and the second overall season of Pinoy Big Brother.

It officially began on February 5, 2006 and ran for 56 days, ending on April 1, 2006, and were once again hosted by Toni Gonzaga and Mariel Rodriguez, along with new presenter Luiz Manzano.

After 56 days, Keanna Reeves emerged as the season's Big Winner, becoming the first celebrity to win the title.

Background

Casting

A special casting was held for this season wherein the final 14 were eventually chosen. According to show's director, Laurenti Dyogi, the casting calls began in December 2005. The casting was opened to celebrities who wanted to audition, but there were also some celebrities who were invited to be part of the show.

The celebrities who auditioned include athletes, stand-up comedians, ramp and commercial models, musicians, and TV personalities.

In addition, aside from the nationwide famous Manila-based celebrities, there were also regionally famous celebrities from Visayas and Mindanao who became part of the cast.

Hosts

Initially, Willie Revillame, Toni Gonzaga and Mariel Rodriguez reprised their hosting roles in Pinoy Big Brother. However, due to an unexpected tragedy in Willie's afternoon variety show Wowowee, he immediately decided to leave Pinoy Big Brother a day before the live premiere.

After his sudden departure, Toni Gonzaga who originally narrated the weeknight primetime episodes last season, took over Willie's role as the main presenter of the series and hosted the live eviction and nomination nights as well.

TV Host and Myx VJ, Luis Manzano became a replacement male co-host for Willie Revillame.

Premiere Delay

The series was originally scheduled to start a day before on February 4, 2006 but due to the Wowowee ULTRA stampede tragedy that happened earlier that day, the management rescheduled it the following day, February 5, 2006.

Theme Song

In this season, the show introduced a new theme song specially used for celebrity seasons of the series. "Sikat Ang Pinoy" (lit. Filipinos Are Famous) was first performed by Sam Milby and Toni Gonzaga on the season's live premiere. It has been used throughout the season, but the original theme song of the series Pinoy Ako was still occasionally used.

Prizes

The prizes at stake cost ₱5 million, which includes ₱1 million pesos for the winning housemate, another ₱1 million for the winner's chosen charity, ₱1 million for the charity of Big Brother's choice and a condominium unit worth ₱2 million.

Production Changes

• Shorter Duration: Unlike the previous season which had 112 days, this season would only air for 56 days.
  • Weekly Evictions: Because of its short duration, the evictions would take place weekly, as opposed to last season's evictions which took place every other week.

The House

The layout and overall interior design of the Big Brother house remained unchanged from Pinoy Big Brother 1, except for a fact that the house was empty when this season's celebrity housemates entered, with only few basic, utilitarian furniture made of bamboo.

This season's house concept was "back to basics". To give the celebrity housemates a back to basics experience, they entered in an empty house having only basic household items, with the exception of the Plasma TV and the Refrigerator and the Confession Room chair. They were only allowed to get water from an old fashioned water pump, use a stick for brushing their teeth, use bare hands for eating and use a makeshift outdoor kitchen for cooking. The swimming pool was empty when they first entered, and must fill it up manually with water from the water pump as their first task.

After two weeks, Big Brother lifted the "Back to Basics" twist after seeing the housemates adapting to the said lifestyle, despite difficulties. The Forbidden Room, a pink-walled room with beds and mattresses reserved only for eviction nominees, became the ladies' bedroom, while the bamboo beds in the eventual men's bedroom were suddenly covered with mattresses. They were then provided with a microwave oven, an electric stove, utensils, and some toothbrushes and were allowed to use the swimming pool at any time, as well as wearing footwear indoors. Later, sofas replaced the bamboo benches in the living room.

Entrance Hallway

Altar

Basic Living Room

Living Room with Furniture

Diary Room

Basic Bedroom

Womens' Bedroom with Beds

Kitchen

Basic Dining Area

Sitting Area

Garden Area

Garden Area

Garden Area

Season Twists

• Celebrity Housemates: For the first time in Pinoy Big Brother and throughout Asia, the house was filled with Celebrities coming from various fields of Philippine entertainment industry. Aside from competing to win the cash prize for their own, they also played for a charity they chose to help.

• Back to Basics: The celebrity housemates entered in an empty house, with only the primary necessities present. The twist ended on Week 3, by finally having furniture and appliances inside the house.

The Celebrity Housemates

Winner    Keanna

Runner-Up    John

Finalist    Bianca

Finalist    Zanjoe

Evicted    Budoy

Voluntary Exit    Rustom

Evicted    Rico

Voluntary Exit    Roxanne

Evicted    Gretchen

Evicted    Aleck

Evicted    Christian

Evicted    Rudy

Forced Evicted    Mich

Voluntary Exit    Angela

Nominations History

	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6		Week 7	Week 8
					Day 39	Day 42		Big Night
Keanna	2-Budoy 1-Rudy	Automatic Nomination	2-Christian 1-Aleck	2-Aleck 1-Roxanne	2-Gretchen 1-Zanjoe		Zanjoe Bianca	Big Winner
John	2-Angela 1-Rico	No Nominations	2-Christian 1-Roxanne	2-Aleck 1-Roxanne	2-Rico 1-Gretchen		2-Budoy 1-Zanjoe	Runner Up
Bianca	2-Rico 1-Gretchen	No Nominations	2-Rico 1-Gretchen	2-Rico 1-Gretchen	2-Gretchen 1-Budoy		2-Rustom 1-John	3rd Place
Zanjoe	2-Mich 1-Keanna	No Nominations	2-Rico 1-Rustom	2-Aleck 1-Rico	2-Gretchen 1-Rico		2-Rustom 1-John	4th Place
Budoy	2-Aleck 1-Zanjoe	No Nominations	2-Bianca 1-Roxanne	2-Roxanne 1-Bianca	2-John 1-Gretchen		2-Zanjoe 1-Bianca
Rustom	2-Rudy 1-Angela	No Nominations	2-Christian 1-Roxanne	2-Aleck 1-Bianca	2-Zanjoe 1-Bianca		2-Bianca 1-Zanjoe
Rico	2-Aleck 1-Mich	Automatic Nomination	2-Aleck 1-Christian	2-Rustom 1-Aleck	2-Zanjoe 1-Gretchen
Roxanne	2-Rico 1-Angela	No Nominations	2-Rico 1-Aleck	2-Aleck 1-Gretchen	2-Gretchen 1-Keanna
Gretchen	2-Keanna 1-Aleck	No Nominations	2-Rico 1-Keanna	2-Keanna 1-Zanjoe	2-Zanjoe 1-John
Aleck	2-Keanna 1-Mich	No Nominations	2-Rico 1-Zanjoe	2-Keanna 1-Budoy
Christian	2-Keanna 1-Rustom	No Nominations	2-Rico 1-Keanna
Rudy	2-Keanna 1-Zanjoe	Automatic Nomination
Mich	2-Rico 1-Rudy	No Nominations
Angela	2-Rudy 1-Rustom

Key:

Nominated

Evicted

Walked

Forced Evicted

Game History

#	Nominations																																																												Result
																																																													Housemate	Vote	Finish
2	Keanna 9 points																				Rico 7 points																				Rudy 6 points																				Angela	1st Eviction Night Cancelled Voluntary Exit Day 12
3																																																													Mich	Forced Evicted Day 21
																																																													Rudy	23% to save (Rudy) 24% to save (Keanna) 53% to save (Rico)	1st Evicted Day 21
4	Christian Automatic																				Rustom Automatic																				Rico 12 points																				Christian	13.5% to save (Christian) 40.9% to save (Rico) 46.5% to save (Rustom)	2nd Evicted Day 28
5	Aleck 11 points																				Keanna 4 points																				Roxanne 4 points																				Aleck	13.6% to save (Aleck) 23.4% to save (Roxanne) 63.0% to save (Keanna)	3rd Evicted Day 35
6	Gretchen 11 points															Zanjoe 7 points															John 3 points															Rico 3 points															Gretchen	14.5% to save (Gretchen) 24.5% to save (Not Revealed) 26.6% to save (Not Revealed) 32.4% to save (Not Revealed)	4th Evicted Day 39
																																																													Roxanne	Voluntary Exit Day 41
																																																													Rico	28.3% to save (Rico) 32% to save (John) 39.7% to save (Zanjoe)	5th Evicted Day 42
7	Aleck 11 points															Bianca 7 points															Budoy 3 points															Rustom 3 points															Rustom	Voluntary Exit Day 47
																																																													Budoy	27.4% to save (Budoy) 33% to save (Bianca) 44% to save (Zanjoe)	6th Evicted Day 49
8																																																													Zanjoe	8% to win	4th Big Placer Day 56
																																																													Bianca	19% to win	3rd Big Placer Day 56
																																																													John	28.8% to win	2nd Big Placer Day 56
																																																													Keanna	44.2% to win	Big Winner Day 56

Trivia 

• This is the season with the oldest Pinoy Big Brother housemate to enter at age 58. It also had the first disabled housemate to enter Pinoy Big Brother.
• This is the first-ever season where a housemate publicly came out as a homosexual. The 80s Filipino matinee idol, Rustom Padilla revealed to his fellow housemate, Keanna Reeves during a private conversation that he is gay.
• This is the first season to have a housemate to voluntarily exit before the first eviction making the first eviction night be canceled.
  • This marked the only time that the set of nominees was retained on the following week, despite having somebody walking off.
• Since the stampede that happened on February 4, 2006, the show Wowowee was taken off the air. To take over the time slot it left behind, Pinoy Big Brother aired a special noontime edition called Pinoy Big Brother Celebrity Challenge, in which the celebrity housemates play mini-games for charities of their choice, inclusive only to the housemates' charities. It started on Saturday, February 11, 2006. It aired its last episode on March 4, 2006, having raised a total of P1,440,000 for the various charities.

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