Big Brother 2 | |
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Series Information | |
Presenter: | Davina McCall |
Broadcaster: | Channel 4 |
Series Run: | 25 May, 2001 – 27 July, 2001 |
No. of Days: | 64 |
No. of Housemates: | 11 |
Winner: | Brian Dowling |
Series Chronology | |
Previous: | Big Brother 1 |
Next: | Big Brother 3 |
Big Brother 2 was the second series of Big Brother UK; it aired in the summer of 2001. The series had a much larger budget than the first; the House in Bow, London was renovated following the first series. Ten housemates entered the House on Day 1, and an eleventh housemate, Josh Rafter, entered on Day 16. The series was won on 27 July, 2001, by Brian Dowling.
Production
Broadcasts
The series premiered on 25 May 2001, on Channel 4. The contestants were recorded 24 hours a day with cameras fixed around the house, and had to wear portable microphones. Channel 4 broadcasted a daily highlights show, and from the second 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. The second series did feature the return of the psychiatric evaluations during a highlight episode, despite controversy surrounding their appearance during the premiere season. The live eviction episode was held on Friday, with a pre-eviction episode and an official eviction episode being held with a 90 minute gap between them. The season ended on July 27, 2001, lasting for a total of 64 days. Big Brother 2 was the first series to involve an interactive service, showing two live feeds, and two more with respective one and four hour time delays. This was not a 24-hour service, and the feed was stopped for a two-hour period every night, during which the show and another three programs aired. This series spawned two spin-off series, Big Brother's Little Brother and Big Brother Reveals More. The former of the two shares the title of a segment from the first season, though there are no similarities. It was presented by Dermot O'Leary during Big Brother 2. The program showed viewers some of the comments being made by those outside of the game, and often had interviews with evicted housemates, as well as friends and family of those still in the house. Big Brother Reveals More was a recap of the previous week, which summed up the major points of the previous week. It only aired during this series, and was not featured in any subsequent series.
Prizes
The ten housemates in the game are competing for the grand prize of £70,000. 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. Big Brother 2, much like the premiere season, did not feature luxury competitions or prizes throughout the season.
House
For the first two series, the House was located in Bow, London near to the 3 Mills Studios. The second series had a bigger budget, and the House used was renovated for a new look. Despite a similar layout to the original House, the decorations and furniture were completely different. The new House had a "Cabin fever" theme, as the format of the show was similar to the feeling of having cabin fever. With this theme, there were wooden walls throughout the majority of the House. There was a living room, where important news such as nominations were revealed to the housemates. The kitchen remained simple, with only necessities such as an oven, fridge, and sink. In the "Diary Room", in which housemates may speak privately and reveal their true feelings to the public, there is a more interesting look to it. The background of the room has the appearance of a garage door, with the Big Brother eye logo imprinted on it. Like the previous season, there is a men's and women's bedroom, each with five beds in them. One of the five in each room is larger than all of the others. Unlike the previous series, however, the men and women were allowed to choose which bedroom belonged to which gender. The outside of the house features a chicken coop, with seven hens and one rooster. The housemates must care for the chickens during their stay in the House, and must also use the eggs from the chickens to eat, otherwise they must use some of their budget to buy eggs. The House also features a garden, which the housemates use to grow plants and vegetables to eat. The housemates were later given a hot tub to use in the backyard, placed close to the garden. A new feature this year was the addition of the den outside, a small area in the backyard in which housemates could enter to lounge and speak to one another. There were no couches or seats, but there were various pillows scattered around.
Housemates
The second edition of Big Brother featured 11 housemates competing for the grand prize. Ten housemates entered on Day 1, while an additional housemate was voted in by the public on Day 16.
Housemate | Entered House/Left House | ||
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Teacher 33, London |
Day 1 |
1st Person Evicted Day 15 | |
Communications Company Director 36, Oxfordshire |
Day 1 |
2nd Person Evicted Day 22 | |
Medical Rep 28, Leicester |
Day 1 |
3rd Person Evicted Day 29 | |
Warehouse Operative 24, Surrey |
Day 1 |
4th Person Evicted Day 36 | |
Table Dancer 23, London |
Day 1 |
5th Person Evicted Day 43 | |
Property Manager 32, London |
Day 16 |
6th Person Evicted Day 50 | |
CAD Designer 25, Reading |
Day 1 |
7th Person Evicted Day 57 | |
Website Designer 26, Cumbria |
Day 1 |
8th Person Evicted Day 63 | |
Internet Entrepreneur 37, Birmingham |
Day 1 |
Third Place Day 64 | |
Hairdresser 22, Cwmbran, South Wales |
Day 1 |
Runner-Up Day 64 | |
Air Steward 22, Rathangan, County Kildare, Ireland |
Day 1 |
Winner Day 64 |
Tasks
Week | Days Lasted | Task | Gambled | Reward | Result |
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Week 1 | Day 2 – Day 7 | All housemates were required to build a fire in the backyard by noon, and had to keep it lit for a consecutive 120 hours - five days. The fire had to be watched by two or more housemates at all times. | 30.0% | £49.00 Shopping Budget |
Failed |
Week 2 | Day 9 – Day 13 | The task for this week, for all housemates, was to learn first-aid. The housemates had to treat injured “people” on the assessment day. | 60.0% | £112.00 Shopping Budget |
Passed |
Week 3 | Day 17 – Day 20 | All the housemates were given their new task which required them to learn ten facts about their fellow housemates. | 40.0% | £98.00 Shopping Budget |
Passed |
Week 4 | Day 23 – Day 27 | All housemates had to adopt an individual dance and perform it on request from Big Brother at any time between 8am and 2am for 5 days. Each housemate would grab a partner when instructed, and would have 20 minutes to make it to the stage. Each housemate would pick a genre, and had to be outside for that genre. Each genre of music also had a specific dance move that the participants had to perform at least three times during the dance. | 10.0% | £56.70 Shopping Budget |
Failed |
Day 27 | All the housemates performed a task in which they had to design hats for one another. | Food and drinks | Passed | ||
Week 5 | Day 30 – Day 34 | All housemates had to attempt to set a new Guinness World Record by the end of the week. There were four records total that they could break, and they would perform one task each day in an attempt to break the record. They would only pass the task if they broke one or more of the records. | 10.0% | £61.60 Shopping Budget |
Passed |
Week 6 | Day 37 – Day 41 | For this weeks task, a dog, a white poodle named Paddy, would be released into the House for four hours every day. While Paddy was in the House, they were required to teach him tricks. They randomly selected eight tricks, which were the tricks they had to teach him. They were provided with a clicker and pieces of chicken to help train Paddy. | 50.0% | £24.50 Shopping Budget |
Failed |
Day 38 – Day 40 | All housemates were given the task of making a soap opera based on their time in the House. | Passed | |||
Week 7 | Day 44 – Day 48 | All housemates were given the task to dismantle a drum kit, move it over an obstacle course, and then reassemble it. They were required to complete this task in eight minutes and fifteen seconds, otherwise they would fail the task. | 36.4% | £57.21 Shopping Budget |
Passed |
Week 8 | Day 51 – Day 55 | All housemates were given the task of playing playground games. This included games such as skipping, riding a pogo stick, using a hula-hoop, and using a space hopper. The housemates had six minutes to complete the task this week. | 40.0% | £21.00 Shopping Budget |
Failed |
Nominations table
Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Final Week 9 | ||
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Brian | Helen, Elizabeth |
Stuart, Helen |
Paul, Amma |
Paul, Amma |
Paul, Amma |
Paul, Josh |
Paul, Helen |
Winner (Day 64) | |
Helen | Bubble, Narinder |
Narinder, Bubble |
Brian, Narinder |
Bubble, Brian |
Josh, Dean |
Dean, Josh |
Dean, Elizabeth |
Runner-Up (Day 64) | |
Dean | Narinder, Penny |
Narinder, Paul |
Paul, Narinder |
Paul, Helen |
Paul, Amma |
Helen, Josh |
Paul, Helen |
Third place (Day 64) | |
Elizabeth | Penny, Helen |
Paul, Stuart |
Narinder, Paul |
Paul, Brian |
Paul, Helen |
Paul, Helen |
Paul, Helen |
Evicted (Day 63) | |
Paul | Amma, Helen |
Amma, Bubble |
Brian, Bubble |
Amma, Bubble |
Amma, Elizabeth |
Brian, Josh |
Brian, Elizabeth |
Evicted (Day 57) | |
Josh | Not in house |
Exempt | Narinder, Bubble |
Paul, Bubble |
Amma, Brian |
Brian, Helen |
Evicted (Day 50) | ||
Amma | Paul, Penny |
Paul, Stuart |
Narinder, Paul |
Paul, Dean |
Paul, Josh |
Evicted (Day 43) | |||
Bubble | Paul, Penny |
Paul, Helen |
Narinder, Josh |
Paul, Josh |
Evicted (Day 36) | ||||
Narinder | Helen, Bubble |
Stuart, Helen |
Amma, Bubble |
Evicted (Day 29) | |||||
Stuart | Penny, Narinder |
Amma, Narinder |
Evicted (Day 22) | ||||||
Penny | Helen, Amma |
Evicted (Day 15) | |||||||
Notes | See note 1 |
none | See note 2 | ||||||
Against public vote |
Helen, Penny |
Paul, Stuart |
Narinder, Paul |
Bubble, Paul |
Amma, Paul |
Helen, Josh |
Helen, Paul |
Brian Dean Elizabeth Helen | |
Evicted | Penny 58.28% to evict |
Stuart 86.27% to evict |
Narinder 62.00% to evict |
Bubble 53.21% to evict |
Amma 64.18% to evict |
Josh 84.39% to evict |
Paul 83.51% to evict |
Elizabeth 2% (out of 4) to win |
Dean 5% (out of 3) to win |
Helen 39% (out of 2) to win | |||||||||
Survived | Helen 41.72% |
Paul 13.72% |
Paul 38.00% |
Paul 46.79% |
Paul 35.82% |
Helen 16.61% |
Helen 16.47% |
Brian 61% (out of 2) |
Notes
Note 1: There were no nominations until Week 2.
Note 2: 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 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Total | |
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Brian | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
Helen | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 16 |
Dean | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Elizabeth | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
Paul | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 20 |
Josh | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | |||
Amma | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | ||
Bubble | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | |||
Narinder | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 | ||||
Stuart | 0 | 4 | 4 | |||||
Penny | 5 | 5 |
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