Big Brother 4 | |
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Series Information | |
Presenter: | Davina McCall |
Broadcaster: | Channel 4 |
Series Run: | 23 May, 2003 – 25 July, 2003 |
No. of Days: | 64 |
No. of Housemates: | 13 |
Winner: | Cameron Stout |
Series Chronology | |
Previous: | Big Brother 3 |
Next: | Big Brother 5 |
Big Brother 4 in 2003 was the fourth series of Big Brother in the UK, a reality show shown on Channel 4 in which a number of contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize at the end of the run. The series ran from Friday 23 May to Friday 25 July 2003.
The reaction to this series was poor, the press and viewers finding the housemates boring. Big Brother turned "evil" and selected more extreme housemates the next year.
Pre-Series
Auditions
Potential housemates applied by sending producers a home video that stated why they should be housemates. Successful candidates were invited to further rounds of auditions. This was the last year to feature this audition format as from Big Brother 5, open auditions were used to select housemates.
Big Brother 4 had more than 10,000 applicants apply to be a housemate.
Presenters
Davina McCall continued to host the main show and Dermot O'Leary continued to host the spin-off show, Big Brother's Little Brother. Marcus Bentley continued to narrate the show.
Promotion
This series was promoted as being a 'Back to Basics' edition; following the twists to the format introduced within the past series.
Promotion controversy
To promote the series, a large 300 ft hill figure of the eye logo was painted on the top of White Horse Hill, Oxfordshire, right above the famous Uffington White Horse, believed to be around 3,000 years old. Although permission for the figure's construction was agreed to by The National Trust, the figure angered local residents. It was washed off only a few days after completion.
Broadcasts
The series premiered on 23 May 2003, on Channel 4. The contestants were recorded 24 hours a day with cameras fixed around the House, and the wearing of portable microphones mandatory. Big Brother 4 was the second regular series to feature a live launch. The series ended on 25 July 2003, lasting for a total of 64 days. Channel 4 broadcast a sixty-minute highlights show nightly, with each Friday episode being a live episode that saw one of the housemates evicted from the House. Live coverage from the House also remained a huge part of E4's daily and nightly schedule. A new show named Big Brother's Nominations Uncut was broadcast on E4 every Tuesday, in which it would show housemates nominations in full, rather than edited clips as seen in the main show. During Cameron's visit to Africa, E4 showed highlights of his stay straight after the main Channel 4 show.
Eye logo
The shape of the eye remained the same as the previous year, but a different art design was used. The eye was multi-coloured with black and white stripes beaming from the pupil of the eye.
House
The Big Brother house has been located at Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire since the third series of the show. The House featured a completely new look compared to the previous series. The living room for this series was one-third smaller than the one featured in the previous series, and features red and green couches and chairs. The kitchen remained simple in design, with only necessities such as an oven, fridge, and sink included. The dining table was located beside the kitchen and was coloured yellow and white. The Diary Room featured a soft pink coloured background and contained a large blue chair. Like previous editions of the series, there were two bedrooms in this series, with the two being located beside one another for the first time. Big Brother 4 saw the return of the chicken coop in the garden, a feature used in the first two series'. The chickens were used as a source of food (eggs), thus the housemates were not required to buy eggs as a part of their weekly shopping list. The house garden also included a large seating area and a vegetable patch which the housemates could use to grow plants and vegetables to eat. This series introduced the Rewards Room, where the winning housemates of the weekly live task were invited and were often thrown a party.
Format Changes
Big Brother 4 featured an opening night twist, alike the previous two series'. Housemates had to nominate one housemate for eviction on the first night, and any housemates who received even one nomination were automatically up against the public vote.
Later in the series, housemate, Cameron Stout, accepted a challenge from Big Brother and discovered it meant spending a week in the Big Brother Africa House. Housemate Gaetano spent time in the Big Brother 4 house while Cameron was in Africa.
Big Brother 4 was the first series to feature a double eviction, with two out of the three nominated housemtes being evicted on Day 29. On Day 37, an intruder, Lisa, entered the series. This series was also the first to allow previously evicted housemates to return, with ex-housemate Jon entering the House for a second time on Day 50. He remained in the house until the finale, but was ineligible to win the grand prize.
Housemates
Twelve housemates entered the House on Day 1. On Day 37, Lisa entered the House as an "intruder".
Housemate | Entered House/Left House | ||
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Nursery Assistant 20, Manchester, Greater Manchester |
Day 1 |
1st Person Evicted Day 8 | |
Sales Assistant 27, Leeds, West Yorkshire |
Day 1 |
2nd Person Evicted Day 15 | |
Fashion Designer 26, Toxteth, Liverpool |
Day 1 |
3rd Person Evicted Day 22 | |
Waiter 23, Glasgow |
Day 1 |
4th Person Evicted Day 29 | |
Data Strategy Manager 29, Staines-upon-Thames, Spelthorne |
Day 1 |
5th Person Evicted Day 29 | |
Day 50 |
Guest Day 64 | ||
Shop Assistant 22, London |
Day 1 |
6th Person Evicted Day 36 | |
Chef 31, Southall, London |
Day 1 |
7th Person Evicted Day 44 | |
Shop Manager 35, South Wales |
Day 29 |
8th Person Evicted Day 50 | |
Sales Assistant 23, Malvern, Worcestershire |
Day 1 |
9th Person Evicted Day 57 | |
Visual Merchandiser 27, Redditch, Worcestershire |
Day 1 |
Fourth Place Day 64 | |
Marketing Manager 27, Liverpool, Merseyside |
Day 1 |
Third Place Day 64 | |
IT Systems Administrator 25, Dublin |
Day 1 |
Runner-Up Day 64 | |
Fish Trader 32, Stromness, Orkney Isles |
Day 1 |
Winner Day 64 |
Tasks
Week | Days Lasted | Task | Gambled | Reward | Result |
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Week 1 | Day 3 – Day 6 | The housemates had to power a pedalo non-stop for 72 hours. | 50.0% | Shopping Budget | Failed |
Week 2 | Day 9 | The housemates took part in teams in a game of tug-of-war; Gos, Jon, Justine, Scott and Steph were all on the green team, Cameron, Federico, Nush, Ray and Tania were all on the yellow team, and Sissy was the umpire. | Reward Room Access | Gos, Jon, Justine, Scott, Steph | |
Day 10 – Day 13 | The housemates were given a chance to become honorary members of the "Cub Scouts". | 65.0% | Shopping Budget | Failed | |
Week 3 | Day 16 | The housemates took part in a game of pass-the-parcel. | Reward Room Access | Cameron, Federico, Gos, Jon, Nush, Scott, Tânia | |
Day 17 – Day 20 | The housemates had to memorise and perform a musical tune on a set of handbells. | 65.0% | Shopping Budget | Failed | |
Day 20 | The housemates had to name the tune that they had been performing as part of their shopping task. | Chinese Takeaway | Passed | ||
Week 4 | Day 23 | The housemates took part in a game of charades. | Reward Room Access | Cameron, Federico, Jon, Nush, Ray, Steph, Tânia | |
Day 24 – Day 27 | The housemates had to create superhero alter egos and perform tasks within their chosen alter ego. | 85.0% | Shopping Budget | Passed | |
Week 5 | Day 30 | The housemates took part in a geography quiz. | Reward Room Access | Cameron | |
Day 33 – Day 34 | The housemates had to memorise facts about each other. | 95.0% | Shopping Budget | Passed | |
Week 6 | Day 38 – Day 41 | The housemates had to take part in a gymkhana. | 100.0% | Shopping Budget | Passed |
Week 7 | Day 45 | The housemates chose a robot animal to represent them in a race. | Head of House | Ray | |
Reward Room Access | Lisa, Nush, Ray, Scott, Steph | ||||
Day 48 | Ray had to gamble money from the shopping budget on the spin of a roulette wheel. | Red - £20, Black - £1, #21 - £10, #29 - £10, #16 - £10 |
Shopping Budget | £2 | |
Week 8 | Day 51 | The housemates took part in a game of bingo. | Reward Room Access | Ray | |
Day 52 | Scott | ||||
Day 54 – Day 55 | The housemates had to write and perform six songs based on their eperiences in the House. | Luxury Shopping Budget | Passed | ||
Week 9 | Day 58 | The housemates had five minutes to find five needle in a hay stack that had been placed in the garden. | Reward Room Access | 2 Nights | |
Day 59 – Day 60 | The housemates were given various topics which they had to discuss with Big Brother for a minimum of ten minutes. | Themed Party | Failed |
Nominations table
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Final Week 9 | |||
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Cameron | Anouska | Jon, Tania |
Jon, Federico |
Jon, Federico |
Tania, Nush |
Nush, Ray |
Not eligible |
Nush, Ray |
Winner (Day 64) | ||
Ray | Jon | Jon, Justine |
Jon, Cameron |
Jon, Cameron |
Tania, Steph |
Nush, Gos |
Cameron, Lisa, Steph |
Nush, Cameron |
Runner-Up (Day 64) | ||
Scott | Anouska | Steph, Jon |
Steph, Jon |
Jon, Cameron |
Steph, Tania |
Gos, Steph |
Not eligible |
Steph, Cameron |
Third Place (Day 64) | ||
Steph | Federico | Scott, Federico |
Jon, Sissy |
Federico, Ray |
Ray, Nush |
Ray, Nush |
Not eligible |
Scott, Nush |
Fourth Place (Day 64) | ||
Nush | Scott | Ray, Jon |
Jon, Federico |
Federico, Jon |
Gos, Steph |
Steph, Gos |
Not eligible |
Steph, Cameron |
Evicted (Day 57) | ||
Lisa | Not in house |
Exempt | Not eligible |
Evicted (Day 50) | |||||||
Gos | Anouska | Justine, Jon |
Federico, Sissy |
Federico, Scott |
Ray, Nush |
Ray, Nush |
Evicted (Day 44) | ||||
Tania | Jon | Cameron, Sissy |
Jon, Sissy |
Cameron, Jon |
Gos, Scott |
Evicted (Day 36) | |||||
Jon | Anouska | Justine, Federico |
Sissy, Nush |
Federico, Ray |
Evicted (Day 29) |
Guest (Day 50-64) | |||||
Federico | Jon | Justine, Tania |
Cameron, Steph |
Tania, Cameron |
Evicted (Day 29) | ||||||
Sissy | Anouska | Ray, Scott |
Scott, Federico |
Evicted (Day 22) | |||||||
Justine | Anouska | Jon, Ray |
Evicted (Day 15) | ||||||||
Anouska | Jon | Evicted (Day 8) | |||||||||
Nomination note | See note 1 | none | none | See note 2 | See note 3 | See note 4 | See note 5 | See note 6 | See note 7 | ||
Against public vote |
Anouska, Federico, Jon, Scott |
Jon, Justine |
Federico, Jon, Sissy |
Cameron, Federico, Jon |
Nush, Steph, Tania |
Gos, Nush, Ray |
Cameron, Lisa, Steph |
Cameron, Nush |
Cameron, Ray, Scott, Steph | ||
Evicted | Anouska 45.88% to evict |
Justine 56.77% to evict |
Sissy 44.68% to evict |
Federico 40.1% (out of 3) to evict |
Tania 72.02% to evict |
Gos 46.37% to evict |
Lisa 82.25% to evict |
Nush 66.87% to evict |
Steph 7% (out of 4) to win |
Scott 26.7% (out of 3) to win | |
Jon 51.12% (out of 2) to evict |
Ray 42.5% (out of 2) to win | ||||||||||
Survived | Jon 31.43% |
Jon 43.23% |
Federico 38.61% |
Cameron 47.88% (out of 2) |
Nush 14.66% |
Nush 35.72% |
Steph 12.16% |
Cameron 33.13% |
Cameron 57.5% (out of 2) | ||
Federico 17.72% |
Jon 16.71% |
Steph 13.32% |
Ray 17.91% |
Cameron 5.59% | |||||||
Scott 4.97% |
Notes
- Note 1: All housemates had to nominate one fellow housemate on Day 1, only a short while after they had entered the house. Every housemate who received a nomination faced eviction.
- Note 2: In Week 4, there was a "double eviction".
- Note 3: Cameron made his nominations from the Big Brother House in South Africa over the phone to Gaetano. Even though he was allowed to nominate, nobody could nominate him.
- Note 4: As Lisa had only entered the house a couple of days earlier, she was exempt from nominations. As Cameron had only recently returned to the house from South Africa, he was allowed to nominate, but not be nominated. On Day 43, the night the eviction was supposed to be on, a bomb scare forced all housemates to be evacuated. The eviction, therefore, happened the next day, on Day 44 (a Saturday). When Gos was evicted, there was no crowd outside due to Health & Safety precautions.
- Note 5: Ray, as leader of the house in Week 7, had to choose the three housemates to face eviction. When Lisa was evicted, Federico, Gos, Jon, Justine, Lisa and Sissy, had the opportunity to be a guest in the Big Brother house. Anouska couldn't go back because she was a guest in the Big Brother Australia 2003 house. Tania didn't want to go back into the Big Brother house. The public voted for Jon to go back in, but he wasn't eligible to win.
- Note 6: Because Jon was a guest in the house, and was not eligible to win, he was exempt from nominations.
- Note 7: Nominations do not take place in the final week, instead the public votes for which of the remaining housemates they want to win.
Nomination totals
Week | Total | ||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||
Cameron | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | ||
Ray | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 | |
Scott | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
Steph | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
Nush | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 11 |
Lisa | 1 | 1 | |||||||
Gos | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||
Tânia | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | |||
Jon | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 21 | ||||
Federico | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | ||||
Sissy | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |||||
Justine | 0 | 4 | 4 | ||||||
Anouska | 6 | 6 |
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