| Celebrity Big Brother 16 | |
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| Series Information | |
| Presenter: | Emma Willis |
| Broadcaster: | Channel 5 |
| Series Run: | 27 August, 2015 – 24 September, 2015 |
| No. of Days: | 29 |
| No. of Housemates: | 14 |
| Winner: | James Hill |
| Runner Up: | Austin Armacost |
| Series Chronology | |
| Previous: | Celebrity Big Brother 15 |
| Next: | Celebrity Big Brother 17 |
Celebrity Big Brother 16 is the sixteenth series of the British reality television series Celebrity Big Brother, hosted by Emma Willis and narrated by Marcus Bentley. The series launched on 27 August 2015 on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom and TV3 in the Republic of Ireland, making it the first celebrity series to be broadcast in Ireland, and concluded 29 days later on 24 September 2015. It is the ninth celebrity series and the fourteenth series of Big Brother overall to air on Channel 5.
The series launched under the new contract that renews the show for a further three years. It is also the first and only celebrity series to credit Denis O'Connor as creative director.
The series was won by ex-The Apprentice star, James Hill, who received 45% of the final vote.
With a series average of 1.9 million viewers, Celebrity Big Brother 16 is the least watched series of Celebrity Big Brother to date.
Production
Format
On 31 July 2015, it was confirmed that the series would follow a "UK vs USA" theme, with Channel 5 teasing that "the housemates will will feel far from home as there will be plenty of surprises along the way. Our patriotic celebrities will need to be very competitive as UK and USA is pitted against each other in an epic trial of tasks, challenges and twists." It is the first celebrity series to feature a prominent theme throughout, similar to the civilian series' themes.
Bit on the Side
On 31 July 2015, it was revealed that Rylan Clark will continue to host the spin-off show Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side, and that it would be returning to it's original broadcast format of seven days a week.
Live feed
On 14 August 2015, it was announced that an hour of live feed would be broadcast every weeknight during the series on 5*; the most live feed offered during a series since the show's move to Channel 5.
Pre-series
House
The House was redecorated following the sixteenth civilian series, which concluded in July; the first time that a summer celebrity series' House has been fully redecorated and changed significantly from the previous civilian series since it's move to Channel 5 - mainly due to the change of theme and the longer gap between the two shows than usual. The House will be decorated with British and American iconography to fit the "UK vs USA" theme.
Celebrity Big Brother 16 - UK vs. USA teaser trailer
A 6-second teaser was released on 31 July 2015 promoting the series and it's new theme for the first time.
Trailers
Celebrity Big Brother 16 UK vs. USA - full length trailer
On 7 August 2015, an American football inspired full length trailer for the series was released, revealing the new Celebrity Big Brother eye.
Housemates
On Day 1, twelve housemates entered the House. On Day 2, Bobby Davro and Janice Dickinson entered the House as the thirteenth and fourteenth housemates.
| Team |
Housemate |
Entered House/Left House | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
USA
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Model & television personality 33, Houston, Texas |
Day 1 |
Ejected Day 2 |
USA
|
 |
Daniel Baldwin Film & television actor 54, Malibu, California |
Day 1 |
1st Person Evicted Day 9 |
UK
|
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Chris Ellison The Bill actor 68, Brighton, East Sussex |
Day 1 | 2nd Person Evicted
Day 13 |
USA
|
 |
Fatman Scoop Rapper 46, Harlem, New York |
Day 1 | 3rd Person Evicted
Day 20 |
UK
|
 |
Gail Porter Television presenter 44, Edinburgh |
Day 1 | 4th Person Evicted
Day 20 |
USA
|
 |
Farrah Abraham Teen Mom star 24, Council Bluffs, Iowa |
Day 1 | 5th Person Evicted
Day 23 |
USA
|
 |
Jenna Jameson Former pornagraphic actress 41, Las Vegas |
Day 1 | 6th Person Evicted
Day 27 |
USA
|
 |
Janice Dickinson Supermodel 60, Beverly Hills, California |
Day 2 | 7th Person Evicted
Day 27 |
UK
|
 |
Former Coronation Street actress 64, Manchester |
Day 1 | Sixth Place
Day 29 |
UK
|
 |
Stevi Ritchie & Chloe-Jasmine Whichello The X Factor contestants 34 & 24, Colchester, Essex & Sussex |
Day 1 | Fifth Place
Day 29 |
UK
|
 |
Bobby Davro Stand-up comedian 56, Ashford, Middlesex |
Day 2 | Fourth Place
Day 29 |
UK
|
 |
Natasha Hamilton Atomic Kitten singer 33, Liverpool |
Day 1 | Third Place
Day 29 |
USA
|
 |
Reality television star 27, Indianapolis, Indiana |
Day 1 | Runner-Up
Day 29 |
UK
|
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James Hill The Apprentice contestant 28, Chesterfield |
Day 1 | Winner
Day 29 |
House guests
Paul Burrell
On Day 6, former British Royal Household servant, footman for Queen Elizabeth II, and butler to the late Diana, Princess of Wales, Paul Burrell entered the House to accommodate the "Big Brother Royal Family" task. He later left on Day 9.
Jennie Bond
On Day 7, Jennie Bond, a British journalist, royal correspondent and television presenter, briefly entered the House as part of the "Big Brother Royal Family" task where she interviewed Lord James and Lady Natasha. Both were unaware that the American servants were watching from the potato-peeling tower.
Emma Willis
On Day 23, Big Brother presenter Emma Willis entered the House as part of an eviction twist, which saw the housemates with the most amount of public votes to save, choose out of the remaining housemates who they wanted to save from eviction.
Eamonn Holmes
On Day 27, presenter and regular Bit on the Side panelist Eamonn Holmes entered the House as part of the "Battle of the Nations" game show task, which saw Team UK and Team USA answer questions about their fellow housemates and events inside the House based on a viewer opinion poll.
President and Prime Minister
Every week, a competition saw Team UK and Team USA battle it out to win power over the House. Whichever team won, decided whether a President or Prime Minister would rule the House. On Day 2, as new housemates, only Bobby and Janice could compete to become President or Prime Minister. On Day 10, after Team USA won the task, the American housemates voted for who they wanted to become President.
| Week | Task | Winning team |
President/Prime Minister |
Term length | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bobby and Janice competed in a series of challenges, including; answering questions which related to British and American culture, correctly spelling famous colloquialisms, drinking liquified substances and putting as many clothing items on in one minute. | Team UK
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Bobby Davro | Day 2 – 9 | ||
| 2 | Team UK and Team USA had to dress up in hot dog outfits and grease themselves up in order to get as close to a target at the bottom of a slide as possible. The distance between the housemate and the target was measured in sausages, and the team who racked up the least amount of sausages won. | Team USA
|
Fatman Scoop | Day 10 – 13 | ||
Nominations table
Key:
- Team UK
- Team USA
| Day 6 | Day 11 | Day 13 | Day 18 | Day 20 | Day 25 | Day 29 Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James | Janice, Farrah |
Not eligible |
Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine, Farrah |
Not eligible |
No nominations |
Jenna, Austin |
Winner (Day 29) | |||
| Austin | Farrah, Janice |
Bobby, Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine, Gail |
Farrah, Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine |
Not eligible |
No nominations |
Janice, Bobby |
Runner-up (Day 29) | |||
| Natasha | Farrah, Janice |
Not eligible |
Farrah, Jenna |
Not eligible |
No nominations |
Jenna, Austin |
Third place (Day 29) | |||
| Bobby | Jenna, Farrah |
Not eligible |
Farrah, Gail |
Not eligible |
No nominations |
Janice, Austin |
Fourth place (Day 29) | |||
| Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine | Farrah, Daniel |
Not eligible |
Farrah, Austin |
Not eligible |
No nominations |
Jenna, Austin |
Fifth place (Day 29) | |||
| Sherrie | Jenna, Farrah |
Not eligible |
Farrah, Jenna |
Not eligible |
No nominations |
Janice, Bobby |
Sixth place (Day 29) | |||
| Janice | Farrah, Daniel |
Bobby, Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine, Gail |
Gail, Scoop |
Not eligible |
No nominations |
Jenna, Bobby |
Evicted (Day 27) | |||
| Jenna | Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine, Chris |
Bobby, Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine, Gail |
Bobby, Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine |
Austin, Natasha, Bobby, James, Sherrie |
No nominations |
Janice, Bobby |
Evicted (Day 27) | |||
| Farrah | James, Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine |
Bobby, Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine, Gail |
Natasha, James |
Austin, Natasha, Bobby, James, Sherrie |
No nominations |
Evicted (Day 23) | ||||
| Gail | Farrah, Daniel |
Not eligible |
Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine, Bobby |
Not eligible |
Evicted (Day 20) | |||||
| Scoop | Sherrie, Chris |
Chris, Bobby, Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine, Gail |
Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine, Sherrie |
Not eligible |
Evicted (Day 20) | |||||
| Chris | Jenna, Daniel |
Not eligible |
Evicted (Day 13) | |||||||
| Daniel | Janice, Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine |
Evicted (Day 9) | ||||||||
| Tila | Ejected (Day 2) | |||||||||
| Nomination notes |
none | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||
| Against public vote |
Chris, Daniel, Farrah, Janice, Jenna, Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine |
Bobby, Chris, Gail, Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine |
Bobby, Farrah, Gail, Jenna, Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine |
Gail, Janice, Scoop, Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine |
Austin, Bobby, Farrah, James, Janice, Jenna, Natasha, Sherrie, Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine |
Austin, Bobby, Janice, Jenna |
Austin, Bobby, James, Natasha, Sherrie, Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine | |||
| Ejected | Tila | none | ||||||||
| Evicted | Daniel Fewest votes to save |
Chris Fewest votes to save |
Farrah Most votes to fake evict |
Scoop Fewest votes to save |
Farrah Austin's choice (out of 2) to evict |
Jenna Fewest votes to save |
Sherrie Fewest votes (out of 6) to win |
Natasha Fewest votes (out of 3) to win | ||
| Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine Fewest votes (out of 6) to win | ||||||||||
| Austin Fewest votes (out of 2) to win | ||||||||||
| Jenna Most votes to fake evict |
Gail Fewest votes to save |
Janice Fewest votes to save |
Bobby Fewest votes (out of 4) to win | |||||||
| James Most votes to win | ||||||||||
Notes
- : As Team USA won a task on Day 10, they were granted the right to nominate as Scoop became President of the House. In addition, as Team USA won, Team UK will not be allowed to nominate and will be the only ones able to be nominated. Later that day, President Scoop was forced to make a killer nomination against one Housemate, meaning they would automatically face the public vote. On Day 11, Team USA then collectively decided three more Housemates who would also face the public vote with Chris. They chose Bobby, Gail, and Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine.
- : This week, the Housemates nominated face-to-face. However, in a twist, the public were voting to fake evict rather than to save, with the two Housemates receiving the most votes fake evicted and moved into a secret Luxury Suite. In a further twist, the other Housemates will be made aware of this, unbeknownst to the residents of the Suite.
- : As residents of the Luxury Suite, Farrah and Jenna are immune from nominations, and will be in control of who will face the public vote. However, unbeknownst to them, whoever they believe to have nominated for eviction will be immune from the public vote. The Housemates in the main house will be made aware of this and will have to try and get nominated in order to be immune from the next eviction, and whoever is not chosen will face the public vote.
- : This week all Housemates automatically faced the public vote. The four Housemates with the most votes will be saved, while the five remaining Housemates will be subject to an eviction twist. The four saved housemates (Austin, James, Natasha and Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine) had to pick one of the five remaining housemates (Bobby, Farrah, Janice, Jenna and Sherrie) to save from eviction. Natasha saved Sherrie, James saved Janice, Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine saved Bobby and ultimately Austin chose to evict Farrah thus saving Jenna from eviction.
- : In addition to finding out who was nominated on Day 25, Housemates were also shown who nominated them.
- : For the final two days, the public were voting to win rather than to save.
Nominations totals
| Day 6 | Day 11 | Day 13 | Day 18 | Day 20 | Day 25 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
| Austin | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | ||
| Natasha | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Bobby | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | |
| Stevi & Chloe-Jasmine | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |
| Sherrie | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
| Janice | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | ||
| Jenna | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | |||
| Farrah | 8 | 6 | 14 | ||||
| Gail | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Scoop | 0 | N/A | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Chris | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Daniel | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Tila | N/A | ||||||