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Big Brother 7 was the 2006 edition of the Big Brother UK reality television series. It aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, from 18 May 2006 to 18 August 2006, making it the longest series so far at 93 days, or thirteen weeks long.

On the launch night, the programme obtained a peak audience of 7.7 million viewers, one million greater than the previous year's show but then dropped to an average of 4.7 million.[1] On the Final night of the series, the programme obtained a peak audience of 8.2 million viewers, one hundred thousand greater than the launch show. This series ended up being the third most watched, along with the first series.

The show format was unchanged from previous years. A number of contestants (known as "housemates") lived in a purpose-built house at Elstree Studios, and were totally isolated from the rest of the world. Each week, housemates nominated others for eviction, and those with the most nominations faced a public vote, with one eventually being evicted from the House. However, there were exceptions to this process as dictated by Big Brother, known as "twists". In the final week, there were six housemates remaining, and the public voted for who they wanted to win. Pete Bennett was the successful housemate, and won the prize money of £100,000.

Companion shows Big Brother's Big Mouth and Big Brother's Little Brother were broadcast alongside the main show, with the addition of new show Big Brother's Big Brain (a psychology show), hosted by Dermot O'Leary. Live action was available online through the official Channel 4 website; NTL BroadbandPlus; and by pressing the red button on E4 via Sky Digital (UK, not ROI subscribers) and cable. At the start of the series live action was also available by pressing the red button on E4 via Freeview, but the service was removed a few days prior to the launch of Film4 on Freeview.

Housemates

Main article: List of Big Brother housemates (UK series 7)

Fourteen housemates entered on launch night, but over the whole series there were a total of twenty-two, more than in any previous series. Due to the departures of Shahbaz and Dawn, two new housemates, Sam and Aisleyne, were introduced[2] as part of the Meal or No Meal task (see Week 2). George walked from the House on Day 13 as he didn't want to be famous. On Day 23, Susie entered the House as Big Brother's lucky Golden Ticket winner. Five more housemates entered on Day 44 (Jonathan, Spiral, Jennie, Michael and Jayne) to the House Next Door, totalling 22 housemates.

This series saw the largest number of housemates to leave without eviction, with three exiting the House. This beat series 3, where there were a total of fourteen housemates and two people walked; and series 5, in which there were a total of thirteen housemates and two were ejected. Housemate numbers also topped series 6, in which even after the "Secret Garden" twist, there were only a total of sixteen contestants. At one point there were more additional housemates than original housemates in this series: during Week 9, following Nikki's eviction there was a total of six additional housemates and five original housemates, having entered the House on launch night.

Chronology

Week 1

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The Big Brother Lounge

The first task was "The Big Brotherhood". Lisa and Shabhaz were leaders, and chose housemates to elect into this group, who would receive their suitcase and eviction immunity for that week.[3] On Day 6, Shahbaz left the show voluntarily[4] and Mikey replaced him as leader. On Day 8, Dawn was ejected from the House for rule-breaking.[5] All the housemates (with the exception of Bonnie, Dawn and Glyn) became members of "The Big Brotherhood". The remaining housemates faced eviction that week and would not receive their suitcases for their entire stay. Bonnie was evicted on Day 9, receiving 78% of the public vote against Glyn's 22%.[6]

Week 2

The second task was "Meal or No Meal" (a pun of Deal or No Deal). The housemates had to answer various questions in order to win a luxury food budget. On Day 12 Pete was asked questions answered wrongly in previous rounds. Getting three out of four right, Pete won the House two new housemates, Sam and Aisleyne.[7] On Day 13, George left voluntarily[8] and both Sezer and Imogen were banned from nominating due to their discussion of tactics the previous night. This week Richard, Lea and Sezer were voted to face the public vote.[9] On Day 16, Sezer was evicted with a record 91.6% of the vote.[10]

Week 3

On Day 20, it was revealed that Nikki and Sam were to face the public vote. On Day 23, Sam became the third housemate to be evicted, having received 53.7% of the vote to Nikki's 46.3%, which turned out to be the closest eviction during the series.[11] Susie, having bought a golden ticket from eBay, entered the House after Sam had left. She was to be the "Golden Housemate", and had to wear only gold at all times for the duration of the week, and would be the only Housemate to nominate the next week.[12]

Week 4

On Day 26, Susie nominated Grace and Nikki for eviction. She was the only housemate to nominate this week and therefore Grace and Nikki automatically faced eviction. The task this week was "The State of Susie". This involved the House being adorned with images and statues of Susie, making Susie the leader of the dictatorship and the other housemates her followers.[13] They failed the task four hours after it began and, overall, thirty-three fails were recorded, thirty more than were allowed, a record for the show.[14] On Day 30, Grace was evicted, receiving 87.9% of the vote.[15] Moments before she left, she threw water at Susie. When Aisleyne lost her temper, Grace told her to "shut up" and called her a moose.[16]

Week 5

On Day 33, Glyn, Imogen, Lea, Lisa and Nikki were punished for discussing nominations. Big Brother instructed them to nominate one of the other rule breakers, in front of the other housemates. Nikki gained the most votes and therefore automatically faced the public vote. After the other housemates nominated, Nikki was joined for eviction by Imogen, Lisa and Mikey through normal nominations.[17] The task this week was to perform a baton routine, dressed as Majorettes. Glyn was appointed leader and led the housemates to pass the task.[18] On Day 37, Lisa was evicted from the House with 60.3% of the vote.[19]

Week 6

House plan with the House Next Door highlighted

On Day 38, a task was set to rub another person with soap until all of the soap was gone. Imogen, Glyn and Susie won, winning the use of a luxury spa.[20][21] On Day 41, Big Brother announced that Aisleyne and Susie would face the public vote, but this was for which housemate should move into the 'House Next Door', a separate smaller secret House, that shared the diary room with the main House.[22] The next task was for Imogen to empty more than half of the milk in a tank, without the other housemates' knowledge (who had been told the opposite),[23] and she succeeded. On Day 44, Aisleyne moved to the House Next Door, receiving 67.3% of the vote. She was joined by five new housemates: Jayne, Jennie, Jonathan, Michael and Spiral.[24] The new housemates had been in seclusion for nine days, and had therefore had seen some of the previous action in the House but were unaware of the twist they were about to become part of.[25]

Week 7

During Day 45, housemates were given a "Silent dance-a-thon" task, where they had to dance blindfolded to music played from personal MP3 Players for as long as possible.[26] Glyn won the task and recieved a miniature trophy.[27] On Days 46 and 48, Aisleyne sent Jayne, Michael and Jennie to the main House, believing that she was evicting them. On Day 49, during a special, live episode of Big Brother, Aisleyne was told to evict either Jonathan or Spiral (having been told about her task that week). She evicted Jonathan.[28]

On Day 51, Lea became the sixth person to be evicted from the main House by a public vote, with 53.8% of the vote against Richard's 46.2%.[29]

Week 8

On Day 54, Big Brother told Jayne that she had broken one of the fundamental rules of Big Brother, since she had relayed her impressions of the other housemates before she had entered the House. As a punishment, all of the housemates except her were to face the public vote.[30] Over the next few days, Jayne continued to break the rules, culminating in the group only being provided with basic rations of food for that week.[31]

On Day 58, Nikki became the seventh housemate to be evicted from the House, with 37.2% of the votes.[32]

Week 9

On Day 59, housemates sat an examination based on the House rules. The group failed so Big Brother banned use of the swimming pool.[33]

On Day 63, housemates had to devise and carry out a fitness training programme.[34] The housemates passed the task and regained access to the swimming pool.[35]

The next day, housemates had to complete an assault course.[36] The housemates passed the task and were rewarded with an eighties-theme party, along with a luxury shopping budget for the following week.

On Day 65, Jayne became the eighth to be evicted from the House, with 67.1% of the public vote against Richard's 32.8%.[37]

Week 10

On Day 66, the "Best Friends" task was announced with housemates paired up for the week's activities. This included nominations (when choosing their partners, the housemates didn't know this). Each pair chose a single fellow housemate for eviction and Big Brother later announced that the nominated housemates, along with their "Best Friends", would be up for eviction. The pair with the lowest share of the public vote would be evicted.[38]

Throughout the week, housemates completed the "Prison" task where "The House Next Door" had become a prison.[39][40][41][42] The housemates passed the task and the prisoners were rewarded with letters from home, along with the luxury food budget.[43]

Richard celebrated his 34th birthday on Day 72 (28 July). Pete, as Richard's best friend, had to choose a theme for a party. Pete chose Madonna. Later that day, Michael and Spiral became the ninth and tenth housemates to be evicted, after only 9.7% of the public voted to save them. This was the first time in the history of the United Kingdom Big Brother where two housemates were evicted from the House and interviewed together.[44]

Week 11

On Day 73, the housemates had to work out their success rate of the psychological tests they took before entering the House.[45] Housemates passed parts of the task;[46] this therefore supplied the housemates with alcohol and music.

On Day 74, housemates were informed that Big Brother had gone on holiday. In order to talk to Big Brother and to make their nominations, housemates had to use the "Automated Big Brother" system, which was similar to that of a touch pad telephone.[47] Housemates were told to make postcards for Big Brother and were rewarded with a sleepover and PJ party.

On Day 76, it was revealed that Imogen, Jennie, Mikey and Susie faced eviction this week. However, the housemates were unaware at this point that the eviction would be a double one.[48][49]

On Day 77, housemates were given a task by Big Brother called 'Big Brother University', where they had to become students and learn five different subjects. The group passed so they were given a luxury shopping budget for week 12. The graduation was celebrated with a party.

On Day 79, Mikey and Susie became the 11th and 12th housemates to be evicted with Mikey receiving 48.5% of the public vote, and Susie receiving 59.4% of the remaining public vote after Mikey's eviction.

Week 12

On Day 80, the task 'Big Brother Board Game' was won by Jennie who recieved a board game, a place in the final and a bottle of champagne.[50] She would be immune from the next eviction.

On Day 82, the housemates made their nominations. Also on that day, housemates were given the task by Big Brother called "Big Brother FM" where they had to pretend to be DJs. They were awarded a luxury shopping budget, after the show proved popular with the public.[51]

On Day 83, four previous evictees entered the "House Next Door" following a public vote between 10 previous Housemates. Nikki received 63% of the vote, with Grace getting 8.4%, and Lea and Mikey 7.3% each. On hearing the news that four ex-housemates are living Next Door, Glyn attempted to get into the House Next Door by climbing on the roof and therefore breaking the rules.[52] It was also revealed to the public that Imogen and Richard face the public vote.

On Day 84, Imogen and Richard, who both faced eviction that week, were moved into the House Next Door.[53] On Day 85, Grace spent 21 minutes inside the main House, as it was her birthday.[54]

On Day 86, Imogen became the 13th housemate to be evicted from the Big Brother House with 62% of the public vote. Nikki was chosen by the remaining housemates to return to the Big Brother house and become eligible to win the prize money[55] and Grace, Mikey and Lea left the House Next Door. As punishment for climbing on the roof, Glyn was not permitted to participate in the decision.

Week 13

On Day 87, the housemates completed a slow bicycle race. Pete won this task and was rewarded with a disco for one in the diary room with free alcohol. On Day 88, Housemates were also given a task in which they had to form a dance troupe. They passed the task and were rewarded with two bottles of wine.

On Day 89, housemates were given a task called "Before They Were Housemates". On Day 90, housemates were given another mini task by Big Brother in which they had to write a "future autobiography".

On Day 91, housemates were set the task of becoming "political campaigners". Each housemate was required to convince the audience that another housemate should win Big Brother.

On Day 92, the Big Brother 7 Awards took place. The housemates also held a celebratory last dinner.

Day 93 was the Final day, in which several ex-housemates attended the live show. In order of eviction the results were as follows; Jennie was first out finishing sixth, with 0.9% of the vote. Next in fifth place was Nikki, gaining 6.5% of the vote. Then came Richard in fourth with 9.2% of the vote, Aisleyne was third with 22%, the runner-up was Glyn with 38.8% and Pete eventually won the series with 61.2% of the vote.

Nominations, evictions and percentages

Main article: Big Brother nominations table (UK series 7)
  Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13
Against
Public Vote 		Bonnie
Glyn		 Lea
Richard
Sezer		 Nikki
Sam		 Grace
Nikki		 Imogen
Lisa
Mikey
Nikki		 Aisleyne
Susie		 Lea
Richard		 All but Jayne Jayne
Richard		 Imogen & Susie;
Michael & Spiral;
Pete & Richard		 Imogen
Jennie
Mikey
Susie		 Imogen
Richard		 Aisleyne
Glyn
Jennie
Nikki
Pete
Richard
Evicted and Vote Percentage Bonnie

78.0%
to evict

Sezer

91.6%
to evict

Sam

53.7%
to evict

Grace

87.9%
to evict

Lisa

60.3%
to evict

Aisleyne

67.3%
to move

Jonathan

Aisleyne's choice
to evict

Lea
53.8%
to evict

Nikki

37.2%
to evict

Jayne

67.1%
to evict

Michael &
Spiral

9.7%
to save

Mikey

48.5%
(out of 4)
to evict

Susie
59.4%
(out of 3)
to evict

Imogen

62.0%
to evict

Grace
Lea
Mikey
(Not chosen by fellow Housemates to return)

Jennie
0.9%
(out of 6)

Nikki
6.5%
(out of 5)

Richard
9.2%
(out of 4)

Aisleyne
22.0%
(out of 3)

Glyn
38.8%
(out of 2)

Pete
61.2%

to win

Title sequence

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A frame of the title sequence

The title sequence this series contained hidden words, which were clearer when watched in slow motion. At the start was a red screen (teal, purple and orange for BBLB, BBBM and BBBB respectively), containing phrases such as "This is the title sequence for Big Brother", "Not for transmission", and a copyright year of 1903 (written MCMIII), the birth year of George Orwell. Other words flashed on screen included "You are being observed", and, in sequence the text "cam 01", "cam 09", "cam 08" and "cam 04" was shown at the top of the screen, making 1984, another reference to Nineteen Eighty-Four.[56]

Criticism

This year, Big Brother was criticised in the media for both its choice of housemates and its practice once the housemates were inside.

Initially the programme faced accusations of exploiting a man with Tourette syndrome, by accepting him as a housemate. The Tourette Syndrome Association of the U.K. (TSA UK) "claimed the broadcaster had deliberately cast someone with relatively strong symptoms in order to make him a 'figure of fun'."[57] The TSA UK claimed that this year's contestant, Pete Bennett, could suffer in the House, and also stated that parents were concerned that their children could have been subjected to bullying as a consequence of Pete's behaviour inside the House. Channel 4 said Pete's inclusion could educate people about the syndrome.[58] His condition was reported to have been aggravated by drug use.[59] Pete's mum said "I'm angry when people say Pete shouldn't be on the show - that it is in someway exploitative. It's ridiculous. Do we want people with Tourette's to be accepted or marginalised?"[60] In The Guardian of July 11, Rebbecca Atkinson remarked "At last, in series seven, and not a day too soon, there is a disabled housemate"[61]

Further criticism arose when contestant Glyn Wise was reprimanded for communicating in his first language, Welsh, to housemate Imogen Thomas. Big Brother deemed this a form of 'code' and issued a warning to Glyn, who retorted "But Welsh is British". Following the incident, the Welsh Language Society complained to Channel 4, Ofcom and S4C, asking "are we moving towards a state where 'Big Brother' is watching over us and deciding what language we can and cannot speak?" Clearly, it was no longer a problem after this as Glyn and Imogen continued to converse in Welsh. Such discussions were broadcast with English subtitles. Indeed, Big Brother went to the lengths of communicating with Glyn in Welsh in the Diary Room for humorous effect, much to the delight of Glyn and Spiral.[62] A couple of days before the finale, there was a day when the diary room liaison would only communicate in Welsh, causing confusion for the non-Welsh speaking housemates.

The programme attracted more criticism on May 31 for putting a total of five vulnerable people in the Big Brother House. As well as Pete, Shahbaz was revealed to be mentally and emotionally unstable and threatened to commit suicide on live television; Lea suffers from Body dysmorphic disorder; Sam has admitted to being shunned by family members because of homosexuality, and possible gender identity disorder; and Nikki has suffered from anorexia and been sectioned[63][64] in the past due to the condition. A spokeswoman for mental health charity SANE claimed that producers are "playing fast and loose with people's lives." A spokesperson for Rethink commented "The programme should not profit from people having a breakdown." A spokesman defended the show saying that a psychologist is always available for housemates.[65]

The decision to allow one evicted housemate, who would be eligible to win the £100,000 prize money, to return to the House was also criticised. Media watchdog Ofcom confirmed that it had received over 1,000 complaints from viewers about this matter and Channel 4 had received 500. Ofcom quickly advised viewers that the matter should be taken up with ICSTIS.[66] On the day after the four ex-housemates entered the House Next Door, ICSTIS released a statement confirming that it was dealing with over 2,500 complaints and that a "full, formal investigation" was possible.[67] One day later, ICSTIS followed up its claims and confirmed that it would be launching an official investigation.[68] On the day prior to the results being announced, Channel 4 had stated that it still considered the vote to be as a success as they had already received 400,000 votes, making it the most successful of the series. 36p from each call and 26p from each text also went to charity.[69] Channel 4 raised over £250,000 for charity on the vote alone and the money will be split between three charities: Shelter, The Teenage Cancer Trust and the winning housemate's chosen charity, which Pete chose at the Tourette's Association.

[70]

Big Brother was once again criticised recently in regards to Pete's disco-for-one with free alcohol on Day 87. Pete originally went to the Diary Room and asked for the reward a day later due to his lack of sleep, after Big Brother refused he asked if he could give one of his other housemates the reward instead. Again Big Brother refused and summoned him to the diary room a few hours later. Although at first reluctant, Pete consumed over 15 units of alcohol in an hour and a half. He then put the flowerpot from the living room over his head and jumped into the pool, with his microphone on. Glyn, a trained lifeguard, then jumped in the pool to save him. This received criticism by angered fans claiming Big Brother forced too much alcohol on him in such a short space of time. Big Brother chiefs argued that Pete, as a full-grown man, knows his limits and when to stop.

On October 5 2006 ICSTIS ruled that Channel 4 had breached its code but held off fining the company, instead it imposed "administrative charges" totalling £50,000.[71]

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