Big Brother 2009, also known as Big Brother 10, is the tenth series of the British reality television series Big Brother. The show followed a total of twenty-two contestants, who were isolated from the outside world for an extended period of time in a custom built House. Each week, one or more of the housemates were evicted by a public vote. The last remaining housemate, Sophie Reade, was declared the winner, winning a cash prize of £71,320.
The series launched on Channel 4 on 4 June 2009 and ended on 4 September 2009, lasting 93 days – the joint-second longest British edition of Big Brother to date (together with the seventh and ninth series, and one day shorter than the eighth series). Davina McCall returned as presenter for her tenth consecutive year. Sixteen housemates entered on launch night, with an additional six being introduced in later weeks.
Big Brother 10 was watched by an average of 2.5 million viewers. It was the lowest rated series of the show since its inception, becoming the first series to draw an average of less than 3 million, and remains the lowest rated series of Big Brother to be broadcast on Channel 4. During the series, Channel 4 announced that it would not be renewing its contract to show the series with Endemol once it expired in 2010, meaning that the subsequent eleventh series would be the last to be broadcast on Channel 4.
Format
The format remained largely unchanged from previous series. Housemates were incarcerated in the Big Brother House with no contact to and from the outside world. Each week, the housemates took part in a compulsory task that determined the amount of money they were allocated to spend on their shopping; if they passed, they received a luxury budget and they were allocated a basic budget if they failed. Housemates were instructed to nominate two fellow housemates for eviction each week. This compulsory vote was conducted in the privacy of the Diary Room and housemates were not allowed to discuss the nomination process or influence the nominations of others. On Day 68, Big Brother changed the rules to allow housemates to discuss nominations until further notice. The two or more housemates who gathered the most nominations per week faced a public vote and the housemate receiving the most votes was evicted from the House on the Friday and interviewed by Davina McCall. Housemates could voluntarily leave the House at any time and those who broke the rules could have been ejected by Big Brother.
In a change from previous series, Channel 4 announced that it would no longer donate any of its income from the premium-rate telephone lines, by which viewers vote for whom they would like to see evicted or win the programme, to charitable organisations. The broadcaster said that the current economic downturn is to blame for this decision and that the change would bring Big Brother into line with other programmes of its kind, such as The X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing. The format of the live eviction interview programme was altered for this series. Unlike previous series in which McCall interviewed evicted housemates by herself, she was instead joined by two guest panellists to "interrogate" the evictee. Panellists included former housemates, journalists, psychologists, and fans of the programme. A new rule was added to the programme at the start of the series; "fake romances" were not permitted.
Housemates Big Brother 10 saw 22 contestants competing to win. Sixteen participants entered the House on Day 1 and an additional five housemates entered the House on Day 44, followed by one other on Day 56.
Name Age on entry Hometown Day entered Day exited Result Sophie "Dogface" Reade 20Nantwich, Cheshire 1 93 Siavash Sabbaghpour 23London (originally from Iran) 1 93 nowrap David Ramsden 28Dewsbury 44 93 Charlie Drummond 22Newcastle 1 93 Rodrigo Lopes 23Leeds (originally from Brazil) 1 93 Lisa Wallace 41 Birmingham 1 90 Marcus Akin 35London 1 86 Rebecca "Bea" Hamill 24Bristol 44 79 Freddie "Halfwit" Fisher 23Market Drayton 1 72 Hira Habibshah 25Dublin (originally from Pakistan) 44 65 Isaac Stout 23Cleveland, United States 56 58 Nóirín Kelly 25Dublin 1 58 Tom Oliver 27Northampton 44 53 Kenneth Tong 24Edinburgh (originally from Hong Kong) 44 50 Karly Ashworth 21Fife 1 44 Kris Donnelly 24Shrewsbury 1 37 Sreedhara "Sree" Dasari 25Hatfield (originally from India) 1 30 Elena "Angel McKenzie" Chebotareva 35 London (originally from the Russian Federation) 1 23 Cairon Austin-Hill 18London (originally from the United States) 1 16 Sophia Brown 26London 1 9 Saffia Corden 27Nottingham 1 8 Beinazir Lasharie 28London (originally from Pakistan) 1 4
Nominations table Week 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 13Nominations receivedDay 4Day 6Day 88Final Sophie DogfaceHousemate Charlie,Sree Halfwit,Marcus Angel,Halfwit Halfwit,Marcus Halfwit,Marcus Marcus,Nóirín Marcus Hira,Marcus Marcus,Halfwit Marcus,Halfwit Rodrigo,Bea David,Marcus Refused Winner(Day 93) 6 SiavashNon-Housemate Charlie,Halfwit Charlie,Lisa Angel,Sree Sree,Kris Charlie,Lisa Nóirín,Karly Charlie,Lisa Hira,Lisa Refused Bea,David Bea,Sophie Charlie,Sophie Refused Runner-up(Day 93) 20 DavidNot inHouse Failedmission Nóirín,Marcus Marcus,Bea Halfwit,Marcus Siavash,Marcus Siavash,Marcus Siavash,Sophie Third place(Day 93) 14 CharlieHousemate Sophia,Halfwit Halfwit,Marcus Banned Halfwit,Siavash Marcus,Rodrigo Marcus,Nóirín Halfwit,Siavash Nóirín,Siavash Siavash,Halfwit Halfwit,Marcus Siavash,Marcus Siavash,Marcus Refused Fourth place(Day 93) 10 RodrigoHousemate Cairon,Siavash Cairon,Halfwit Halfwit,Sree Sree,Halfwit Marcus,Halfwit Lisa,Karly Nóirín,Marcus Nóirín,Marcus Marcus,Bea Halfwit,Marcus Bea,David Siavash,Marcus Lisa,David Fifth place(Day 93) 5 LisaHousemate Halfwit,Karly Marcus,Halfwit Angel,Halfwit Marcus,Halfwit Marcus,Halfwit Nóirín,Marcus Halfwit,Nóirín Nóirín,Bea Bea,Marcus Halfwit,Marcus Bea,Marcus Siavash,Marcus Siavash,Rodrigo Evicted(Day 90) 26 MarcusNon-Housemate Lisa,Sree Lisa,Halfwit Sree,Lisa Sree,Lisa Lisa,Halfwit Lisa,Karly Lisa,Charlie Hira,Nóirín Dogface,David David,Bea David,Bea David,Sophie Evicted(Day 86) 46 Bea Not inHouse Failedmission David,Lisa David,Lisa Marcus,David Rodrigo,David Evicted(Day 79) 12 Freddie HalfwitHousemate Sree,Lisa Sree,Lisa Kris,Sree Sree,Lisa Nóirín,Lisa Lisa,Karly Charlie,Lisa Charlie,Lisa Lisa,David Marcus,David Evicted(Day 72) 45 HiraNot inHouse Failedmission Marcus,Siavash Bea,Marcus Evicted(Day 65) 3 IsaacNot inHouse Walked(Day 58) N/A NóirínHousemate Halfwit,Sophia Halfwit,Cairon Angel,Halfwit Halfwit,Sree Halfwit,Siavash Karly,Lisa Rodrigo,Lisa Marcus,Lisa Evicted(Day 58) 15 TomNot inHouse Failedmission Walked(Day 53) N/A KennethNot inHouse Failedmission Walked(Day 50) N/A KarlyHousemate Halfwit,Marcus Halfwit,Angel Angel,Halfwit Halfwit,Marcus Halfwit,Marcus Nóirín,Marcus Evicted(Day 44) 6 KrisHousemate Halfwit,Sophia Halfwit,Angel Angel,Halfwit Halfwit,Siavash Halfwit,Siavash Evicted(Day 37) 2 SreeNon-Housemate Sophia,Marcus Cairon,Halfwit Halfwit,Siavash Marcus,Nóirín Evicted(Day 30) 16 AngelNon-Housemate Dogface,Sophia Cairon,Siavash Sree,SiavashEvicted(Day 23) 9 CaironHousemate Sree,Charlie Angel,Sree Evicted(Day 16) 5 SophiaNon-Housemate Saffia,Nóirín Evicted(Day 9) 6 SaffiaHousemate Sophia,Marcus Walked(Day 8) 1 BeinazirNon-Housemate Evicted(Day 4) N/A Notes 1none 2 none 3 4 5 none 6 7 8 9 10 11 Againstpublic vote Angel,Beinazir,Marcus,Siavash,Sophia,Sree Halfwit,Sophia Cairon,Halfwit Angel,Halfwit Halfwit,Sree Charlie,Dogface,Halfwit,Kris,Marcus Dogface,Karly,Nóirín,Siavash Bea,Charlie,David,Dogface,Halfwit,Hira,Kenneth,Marcus,Nóirín,Siavash,Tom Marcus,Nóirín Bea,Charlie,David,Dogface,Halfwit,Hira,Lisa,Marcus,Rodrigo,Siavash Halfwit,Marcus Bea,David,Marcus Marcus,Siavash Charlie,David,Lisa,Rodrigo,Siavash,Sophie Charlie,David,Rodrigo,Siavash,Sophie Walked none Saffia none Kenneth Tom,Isaac none EvictedBeinazir6.8%to be a housemateSophia91.2%to evictCairon73.2%to evictAngel81.0%to evictSree85.0%to evictKris63.0%to evictKarly50.4%to evictEvictioncancelledNóirín60.0%to evictHira5.7%to saveFreddie53.6%to evictBea88.2%to evictMarcus64.0%to evictLisa68.6%to evictRodrigo11.0%(out of 5)Charlie13.2%(out of 5)David19.0%(out of 3)Siavash25.6%(out of 2)Sophie74.4%to win Source
Notes
: As they did not achieve housemate status by successfully completing a challenge, Angel, Beinazir, Marcus, Siavash, Sophia and Sree faced a public vote on Day 4 to decide which five remaining non-housemates would be given housemate status. Beinazir received the fewest votes and was therefore evicted. : Siavash, playing King Henry VIII in the week's shopping task, was called upon to ban one housemate from nominating and to grant another immunity. He chose Charlie and Marcus respectively. : As punishment for discussing nominations, Charlie, Dogface and Kris had to remain silent for several hours or they would automatically face eviction. All three failed this task and automatically faced eviction. : As punishment for discussing nominations, Dogface and Siavash were told not to swear for several hours or they would automatically face eviction. They failed to do so and therefore automatically faced eviction. As this took place before nominations, they were ineligible to be nominated by their fellow housemates. : As new housemates, Bea, David, Hira, Kenneth and Tom could not nominate and could not be nominated by their fellow housemates. However, they were set a secret mission, in which they had to get Halfwit and Nóirín (who were randomly chosen by Hira) nominated for eviction by the other housemates. Failure meant automatically facing the public vote. Charlie and Lisa received the most nominations, therefore the new housemates failed their mission and faced eviction themselves. As punishment for discussing nominations, Charlie, Dogface (who also failed to nominate the required two people for eviction this week), Halfwit, Marcus, Nóirín and Siavash also faced the public vote and Big Brother voided all nominations. Therefore, Lisa and Rodrigo were the only two housemates not to face eviction this week. The eviction was later cancelled due to Kenneth walking from the house. During the time the lines were available to vote, Kenneth had received the most votes. : Bea and Marcus received the most nominations, however Big Brother declared the result void due to Marcus attempting to influence his fellow housemates on several occasions and Siavash refusing to nominate. As punishment, all housemates faced the public vote. Unlike previous weeks, this week was a vote to save. : On Day 72, Big Brother announced to Halfwit and Dogface that they would revert their names back by deed poll to Freddie and Sophie respectively. As he was evicted on the evening of that same day, the table lists Freddie and not Halfwit as the tenth person to be evicted. : Siavash and Sophie both refused to nominate. As punishment Big Brother decided, without telling them, that the first two housemates with whom Siavash made physical contact and the first two that Sophie named after leaving the Diary Room would be deemed to be their nominations. Siavash touched Bea and Sophie, and Sophie named Rodrigo and Bea. Therefore, Bea received an additional two nominations and Sophie and Rodrigo each received one extra nomination. : As a warning to anyone considering to disrupt the nominations process this week, Big Brother chose Charlie and Sophie at random and announced to the House that they would each automatically receive one nomination from anyone refusing to nominate. : Any housemate who refused to nominate this week was automatically put up for eviction. : There were no nominations after Lisa's eviction on Day 90. The public voted for whom they wanted to win, rather than evict.
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