Big Brother 5

Big Brother 5
Series Information
Presenter:	Davina McCall
Broadcaster:	Channel 4
Series Run:	28 May, 2004 – 6 August, 2004
No. of Days:	71
No. of Housemates:	13
Winner:	Nadia Almada
Series Chronology
Previous:	Big Brother 4
Next:	Big Brother 6

Big Brother 5 was the fifth series of Big Brother UK. It aired from 28th May, 2004 until 6th August, 2004. The series was notable for its fluctuating prize fund, the final value of which depended on the housemates' performance during tasks. The series was won by Nadia Almada; she received £63,500.

Broadcasts

The series premiered on May 28, 2004, on Channel 4. The contestants were recorded 24 hours a day with cameras fixed around the house, and had to wear portable microphones. Big Brother 5 was the third of the main series to feature a live launch. The launch night saw Davina McCall give a house tour, as well as discuss rumours that had been going on about the series. She then introduced the new housemates, and they entered the house live. Channel 4 broadcasted a daily highlights show, and from the first week there was a live eviction show hosted by Davina McCall, where the evicted housemate was interviewed. In the nightly highlight episodes, viewers are shown various highlights of a specific day in the house. Big Brother 5 saw the return of the psychiatrists providing commentary on events in the game, with the episodes featuring them being the highlights show after the most recent eviction. The live eviction episode was held on Friday, with a pre-eviction episode and an official eviction episode being held with a 30 minute gap between them. The series ended on August 6, 2004, lasting for a total of 71 days. This made it the longest season of the series at the time. The Saturday Night Live spin-off series, first introduced in Big Brother 3, saw housemates competing in live tasks. It would last until midway through this, when it was axed due to poor ratings.

Prizes

The thirteen housemates in the game are competing for the grand prize, which eventually amounted to £63,500. Each week, the housemates attempted to complete various tasks assigned by Big Brother in exchange for a weekly budget, which they used to buy food and luxuries; this included buying things such as alcohol and cigarettes.

House

Living area of the Big Brother 5 House

The Big Brother House has been located at Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire since Big Brother 3 onward. To go along with the format change of the "evil" Big Brother this year, the House was much smaller in size. The House was one-third smaller, and featured an elevated floor and a lowered ceiling, adding a feeling of claustrophobia. The kitchen remained simple, with only necessities such as an oven (on which the only reference of time was located in the entire House), fridge, and sink. There was only one bedroom, and housemates were required to go through the garden to get to the bedroom. With eight single beds and two double beds, housemates were forced to share beds, and when a housemate was evicted from the series, their bed was removed from the House, effectively preventing bed swapping. The showers in the bathroom this season were made of glass which led out into the garden, thus providing housemates with no privacy. The Diary Room this series featured a red and blue background, with a large red chair which was attached to the wall. Big Brother 5 was the first series to not feature the chickens in the backyard. The House for this series was later described as being "horrible", with a member of production stating it was "designed to be as uncomfortable as possible, with none of the luxury gadgets of previous years."

Housemates

Big Brother 5 saw thirteen new housemates enter its doors throughout the series. Twelve of these housemates entered the House on Day 1. An additional housemate entered the House on Day 31, as a replacement for a housemate that had previously been ejected. Two of the thirteen housemates were removed from the House after breaking the fundamental rules of Big Brother.

Housemate		Entered House/Left House
	Kitten Pinder Political Activist 24, Brighton	Day 1	Ejected Day 8
	Emma Greenwood Administrative Assistant 20, Oldham	Day 1	Ejected Day 23
	Vanessa Nimmo Business Studies Student and Former Archery Champion 26, Leeds	Day 1	1st Person Evicted Day 29
	Marco Sabba Law Student 21, Middlesex	Day 1	2nd Person Evicted Day 36
	Becki Seddiki Singer-Songwriter 33, London	Day 31	3rd Person Evicted Day 43
	Ahmed Aghil Property Investor 44, Liverpool	Day 1	4th Person Evicted Day 50
	Victor Ebuwa Politics Student 23, London	Day 1	5th Person Evicted Day 57
	Michelle Bass Mortgage Advisor 23, Newcastle	Day 1	6th Person Evicted Day 64
	Stuart Wilson Psychology Student 20, Macclesfield	Day 1	7th Person Evicted Day 69
	Shell Jubin History Of Art Student 22, Glasgow	Day 1	Fourth Place Day 71
	Daniel Bryan Hairdresser 30, Hull	Day 1	Third Place Day 71
	Jason Cowan Former Weapons Engineer and Trainee Air Steward 30, Hamilton	Day 1	Runner-Up Day 71
	Nadia Almada Bank Clerk 27, Working	Day 1	Winner Day 71

Tasks

Week	Days Lasted	Task	Reward	Result
Week 2	Day 9	The housemates had to select one housemate who they felt was the smartest, and had to select another housemate who they felt was the strongest person; Stuart and Jason were selected, respectively. Stuart had to answer nine general knowledge questions in the Diary Room, with the grand prize fund being reduced by £1,000 for each incorrect answer he gave. Outside, the other housemates were strapped onto a turntable, which Jason was required to spin around in circles. For each question Stuart answered correctly, a Housemate could be removed from the turntable, thus making it easier to spin.	Prize Fund	-£5,000
	Day 10 – Day 14	During the "Big Brother Food to Go" task, housemates were required to run a fast food restaurant in which Big Brother could place an order at any time, and housemates were required to make the order and take it to the Diary Room within thirty minutes.	Privilege Pass	Failed
Week 3	Day 17 – Day 19	The housemates each had a football theme to coincide with the Euro 2004 championships that were occurring at the time. The first portion of the task required housemates to select a country and make a mascot for the team.	Privilege Pass	Passed
Week 4	Day 25 – Day 26	The housemates were given their new task, in which they had to cast their own body parts in plaster, and attach them to a chicken-wire frame, thus creating the "perfect housemate."		Passed
	Day 26	The housemates were given a task in which they had to create a film based on their time in the House, with the housemates portraying one another.		Passed
Week 5	Day 30	They wagered a total of £3,000 on the first part of the task, which required Victor to unscramble a word.	Prize Fund	-£3,000
		The second portion saw the housemates wagering £1,000 on their success. Victor and Jason had to roll Michelle around in a giant ball, knocking over obstacles within the time limit.	-£0 from the Prize Fund	Passed
		They wagered £6,000 on the final portion of the task, and were required to guide a loop around wires attached to a helmet on Shell's head.	-£0 from the Prize Fund	Passed
	Day 32 – Day 34	The housemates were given their new weekly task, for which Big Brother provided them with costumes. For the first part, they had twenty seconds to gather their costumes and get on the stage before a song begins. The second part of the task required housemates to be split into two groups, each group when then perform their own song.	Full Moon Party, Shopping Budget	Passed
Week 6	Day 37	The housemates took part in a "farmers and cows" task. The task involved half the housemates being farmers and the other half being cows. The cows were blindfolded and had to be guided round a course by the farmers; the farmers used cattle prods to guide the cows.	Prize Fund	-£2,500
	Day 39 – Day 41	The housemates weekly task was based around going back to school. They had to attend registration in the morning, and were set several mini-tasks based on school subjects.	Shopping Budget	Failed
Week 7	Day 44 – Day 47	The housemates were given the "bootcamp" task. Jason and Michelle were selected as sergeants while the rest of the housemates were privates. In the Diary Room, Jason and Michelle were told that if the privates passed the task, then they would be up for eviction, and if the privates failed the task, then the two sergeants would be nominated.	Immunity, Shopping Budget	Passed
	Day 48	The housemates took participated in a "dating service". Each housemate was required to deliver their own dating message in the Diary Room in order to present themself to a potentianl "love interest".	Alcohol	Passed
Week 7	Day 51	The housemates were required to pick one person to be the "Intellectual" and another to be the "Selector", the rest of the housemates were the "Physicals". The "Intellectual" housemate was required to answer general knowlege questions, for every time he answered a question wrong, one of the "Physical" housemates fell from a giant staircase into a tank of fish-guts.	Prize Fund	-£15,000
		As the "Selector", Michelle was asked to drink a milkshake made from fish-guts.	+15,000 to the Prize Fund	Failed
	Day 53 – Day 55	The housemates were set a wedding task, and Shell and Victor were chosen as the bride and groom. Nadia was the bridesmaid, Daniel was the best man, Jason held the service and Michelle sang at the service. The housemates took part in all traditional events of a wedding including a hen and stag night, and the service itself, but failed the task on the first day.	Privilege Pass, Shopping Budget	Failed
	Day 57	The housemates were given one hour to create a two-minute mime performance.	Ice Cream Machine	Failed
Week 8	Day 60 – Day 62	The housemates were weighed, and were then chained together in pairs based on their weight. Daniel and Nadia, the heaviest man and woman were shackled together by the foot, Jason and Michelle were chained together by the arm, and the lightest man and woman - Stuart and Shell were shackled together by the waist. Housemates were made to stay shackled together except for when they were in the diary room or in the bathroom, and had to apply each other's makeup and brush each other's teeth, as well as competing in mini-tasks, including making pottery and writing a short story as a pair, typing only one letter each at a time.	Video Messages from Home, Double Shopping Budget	Passed
Week 10	Day 65	The housemates were required to drink various shots that were made from either salt-water, oil or fish-guts.	Prize Fund	+£10,000
	Day 66	The housemates were provided with materials to make hand-puppets that we similar to their fellow housemates. Later in the day, they were all then required to perform a puppet-show with the puppets that they had made.	Ice Cream Machine	Passed
	Day 69	The housemates were required to place some of their own items into a time-capsule and berry it in the garden.	Party	Passed

Fight Night

Main Article: Fight Night
Fight Night is the name given to the most well known argument in Big Brother UK history. It escalated into physical violence and threatening behaviour. For the first time up until that series, and the only time since, Big Brother called in security to break up the fight. The house was left in a mess and most of the housemates were given warnings by Big Brother.

Nominations table

	Week 2	Week 3	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Final Week 10
Nadia	Ahmed, Dan	Dan, Vanessa	Jason, Victor	Jason, Victor	Private in task	Jason, Victor	No nominations	Winner (Day 71)
Jason	Marco, Emma	Nadia, Marco	Nadia, Marco	Banned	Sergeant in task	Nadia, Dan	No nominations	Runner up (Day 71)
Daniel	Ahmed, Michelle	Nadia, Ahmed	Marco, Jason	Victor, Becki	Private in task	Victor, Shell	No nominations	Third place (Day 71)
Shell	Ahmed, Michelle	Ahmed, Dan	Marco, Nadia	Becki, Jason	Private in task	Jason, Victor	No nominations	Fourth place (Day 71)
Stuart	Ahmed, Vanessa	Dan, Vanessa	Shell, Nadia	Ahmed, Becki	Private in task	Dan, Nadia	No nominations	Evicted (Day 69)
Michelle	Ahmed, Jason	Victor, Jason	Jason, Ahmed	Ahmed, Becki	Sergeant in task	Jason, Dan	No nominations	Evicted (Day 64)
Victor	Emma, Nadia	Dan, Vanessa	Marco, Nadia	Banned	Private in task	Dan, Nadia	Evicted (Day 57)
Ahmed	Marco, Emma	Vanessa, Marco	Marco, Nadia	Nadia, Dan	Private in task	Evicted (Day 50)
Becki	Not in house		Michelle	Dan, Ahmed	Evicted (Day 43)
Marco	Jason, Ahmed	Dan, Vanessa	Jason, Victor	Evicted (Day 36)
Vanessa	Ahmed, Michelle	Ahmed, Nadia	Evicted (Day 29)
Emma	Victor, Dan	Victor, Jason	Ejected (Day 23)
Kitten	Ejected (Day 8)
Nomination note	See note 1 See note 2	See note 3 See note 4	See note 5	See note 6	See note 7	None	See note 8	See note 9
Against public vote	Ahmed, Emma, Michelle	Dan, Vanessa	Marco, Michelle, Nadia	Ahmed, Becki	Ahmed, Dan, Nadia, Shell, Stuart, Victor	Dan, Jason, Nadia, Victor	Dan, Jason, Michelle, Nadia, Shell, Stuart	Dan, Jason, Nadia, Shell, Stuart
Ejected	Kitten	Emma	none	none	none	none	none	none
Evicted	Emma 28.68% to move	Vanessa 86% to evict	Marco 52.45%% to evict	Becki 61.44% to evict	Ahmed 56.01% to evict	Victor 47.15% to evict	Michelle 66.96% to evict	Stuart 6.97% (out of 5) to win	Shell 9% (out of 4) to win
	Michelle 54.48% to move							Dan 17% (out of 3) to win	Jason 25.68% (out of 2) to win
Survived	Ahmed 16.84%	Daniel 14%	Michelle 18.29%	Ahmed 38.56%	Victor 28.65%	Jason 40.57%	Daniel ?%	Nadia 74.32% (out of 2)
					Stuart 5.41%	Nadia 7.22%	Jason ?%
			Nadia 19.27%		Nadia 4.79%		Nadia ?%
					Shell 3.74%	Daniel 5.06%	Shell ?%
					Daniel 1.41%		Stuart ?%

Notes

Note 1: In week 1, housemates had to nominate who they didn't want to receive their suitcase, not who they wanted to evict. Kitten refused to nominate. Kitten was evicted by Big Brother after constant rule breaking.

Note 2: This week, housemates were told there was a double eviction, and the two housemates to be evicted were Emma and Michelle. In reality, the public had been voting which two housemates enter a secret Big Brother Bedsit, in which the two evictees would live for five days, and be able to watch their fellow housemates on a television screen, and then return to the house, still able to win the prize money.

Note 3: Emma and Michelle made their nominations from the Bedsit. The other housemates could not nominate them, assuming them to be evicted.

Note 4: Due to Emma’s ejection from the house, Week Three’s eviction was postponed until Week Four.

Note 5: In Week Five, new housemate Becki arrived. She could not be nominated, and believed she could not nominate. However, Big Brother told her that she must nominate one housemate who will automatically face eviction by kissing them. If she didn’t do this, she would be up for eviction. Becki kissed Michelle, meaning she was up against the two housemates with the most nominations, Marco and Nadia.

Note 6: Jason and Victor were banned from nominating due to constant discussion of nominations

Note 7: In the housemates army task, sergeants Jason and Michelle were told of the twist in nominations. If the privates passed the task, all six privates would face eviction. If the privates failed, sergeants would face eviction. Privates passed, meaning the six of them faced eviction.

Note 8: All housemates faced eviction automatically.

Note 9: Nominations do not take place in the final week, instead the public votes for which of the remaining housemates they want to win. As Stuart has the least votes to win he was given a surprise eviction during a party. The public then voted for the final four.

Nomination totals

	Week 2	Week 3	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Total
Nadia	1	3	5	1		3		13
Jason	2	2	4	2		3		13
Daniel	2	5	0	2		4		13
Shell	0	0	1	0		1		2
Stuart	0	0	0	0		0		0
Michelle	3		1	0		0		4
Victor	1	2	2	2		3		10
Ahmed	7	3	1	3				14
Becki				4				4
Marco	2	2	5					9
Vanessa	1	5						6
Emma	3							3
Kitten								N/A