Big Brother (UK series 1)
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Big Brother 2000 was the first series of Big Brother
in the UK
, a reality show
shown on Channel 4
in which a number of contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by votes from the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize at the end of the run. The series started on 14 July 2000 and ran for 9 weeks until 15 September 2000. The contestants, called "housemates", were removed from the house one a week from the second week onwards until three remained for the final week; the housemate with most votes would win £70,000. Forty thousand people applied to participate in the first series.
The series was a financial and viewing success, with 400,000 votes cast in the first week, rising to 7.8 million in the final week. Its most notorious moment occurred when attempts to influence voting by Nick Bateman
were uncovered by other housemates. Craig Phillips
went on to win with Anna Nolan
finishing in second place. The series averaged 4.5 million viewers, with a series high of 10 million viewers on the final night.
Nick returned with former Housemates of other series for Ultimate Big Brother, and entered on Day 1. Anna, Darren and Caroline returned briefly to compete in tasks, and Craig returned to compete in a task directly against the Ultimate Big Brother Housemates briefly convincing them that he was returning to the house. Nick finished in fifth place.
, east London. The house for the first series was very basic. It had a living area and kitchen with a store room. The two bedrooms were divided into a "Boys'" and "Girls'", and there was a shower room and toilet, all areas had cameras and microphones in them. Communication with the producers, in the guise of "Big Brother" was in a room called the "Diary Room". The house had a large garden with a vegetable patch, and a chicken coop to provide the housemates with eggs.
In week 2, the weekly task was to memorize facts about their fellow housemates. After four days, the housemates would be called to the diary room and asked 3 questions each. Housemates were only allowed to get 1 question wrong between them. On day 13, the housemates passed this task, as Craig was the only housemate to get a question wrong. Housemates nominated for the first time on day 11. Each housemate named two other housemates they wanted to evict, the two houesmates with the most amount of votes would be put to the public vote. Sada had six votes and Caroline had five votes, and so they were up for eviction. On day 15 Sada was evicted with 55% of the vote.
In week 3 the weekly task was for housemates to cycle the equivalent distance from Land's End to John O'Groats on an exercise bike, via all of the housemate's hometowns in 3 days. The housemates passed this task. Caroline had five votes and Andrew had four votes, so they were put up for eviction. Andrew was evicted on day 22 with 68% of the public vote.
In week 4 the weekly task was for housemates to learn the Semaphore signalling system. The group was split into pairs picked at random. At the end of the task, the housemates had to communicate and transcribe a message in Semaphore, in silence, with no mistakes. The housemates failed the task on day 27. Caroline and Tom had four votes each and were put up for eviction. On day 29 Caroline was evicted with 62% of the public vote.
In week 5 the housemates had to set up and practise on an assault course. On the last day of the task, housemates had to complete the task in a set time of 8 minutes. The housemates completed the task in 5 minutes and 48 seconds, thus passing the task. On day 35 Nick was ejected from the house for trying to influence the votes of the other housemates. Nichola and Craig had four votes each and were up for eviction, despite Nick's departure on day 35 the eviction went out as planned on day 36 with Nichola being evicted with 72% of the public vote.
On the first day of week 6, day 37, Claire entered the House, as a replacement for Nick. The task for the week was for housemates to memorize the order that pictures of the housemates appear over the garden wall. There were over 100 pictures, and they had to be recalled in the exact order in the Diary Room. The housemates passed the task. Darren had three votes, Craig, Anna and Tom had two votes each, and Claire was exempt from nominating or being nominated. Tom was evicted on day 43 with 30% of the public vote.
During week 7 the housemates' weekly task was to make life-sized sculptures of themselves, but they failed. During nominations Darren's nominations were overheard, requiring the housemates to re-nominate. Craig and Claire had three votes each and were put up for eviction. On day 50 Claire was evicted after thirteen days in the House with 79% of the public vote, the highest percentage of the series.
In week 8 the housemates had two tasks. The first was the Big Brother Circus. Housemates had to learn and perform various circus skills including juggling, tightrope walking and unicycling. All housemates had to perform the three activities. The housemates failed this week's task on day 55. On day 55, housemates were required to make a 4 page newspaper about what they have imagined has been going on in the outside world while they've been in the house. The housemates passed the task on day 58, and won a takeaway meal. Darren received three votes, Melanie and Craig received two votes each and all three faced eviction. On day 57 Melanie was evicted with 69% of the public vote.
In week 9, on day 59, a three part task began. The winner would get a party on a theme of their choice. The task involved learning about the Highway Code, testing the housemates' physical prowess, and taking care of an artificial baby. Darren scored 76%, Craig 82%, and Anna won with 92%.
On day 64, Darren finished in third place with 13% of a three-way vote, Anna finished in second place with 49% of the final vote, and Craig won the £70,000 prize with 51% of the vote.
. He was evicted on Day 22 with 68% of the vote. Andrew works in Youth Marketing and brand consultancy and was recently Vice-President at MTV London. He is the brother of Formula One
racing driver and BBC Radio 5
commentator Anthony Davidson
. When he was nominated by Darren for eviction, he gave his reason that his brother Anthony was go-karting the following week, and said he would rather like to see him race, instead of staying in the house the week he would be racing. 'Randy Andy' took part in the first BB kiss with fellow housemate Mel. He was voted off by the UK crowd in favour of Caroline.
and Raidió Teilifís Éireann
. In 2001, she presented, with Davina McCall, a programme called Closure, for two series. From 2002 to 2004 she presented lifestyle programmes such as Ask Anna, and Anna in Wonderland, for BBC 3. In 2004, she moved on to present the flagship daily live programme The Afternoon Show
for RTÉ One
. She announced in August 2006 that she would not be renewing her contract with The Afternoon Show and moved on to front the religious documentary series Would You Believe
. She combines her television work with writing a weekly column for the Evening Herald
national newspaper. Anna Nolan is now a television producer, and produced the series Operation Transformation
in 2011.
In 2010, Anna was a guest during the day 2 task "Who Is She?" on Ultimate Big Brother.
and of various jobs. Caroline was unemployed before entering Big Brother. her previous jobs have included mortgage consultant, telephonist, special constable for West Midlands Police, vocalist in a rave organisation, cleaner in a gay bar, makeovers, and sold sex toys. She was evicted on Day 29 with 62% of the vote.
After Big Brother Caroline returned to her old job of selling sex toys in Birmingham, alongside occasional singing spots in clubs. However she also attempted to launch a pop career, recorded a single, but failed to gain a recording contract. Following this failure, in 2001, she suffered from depression. She was offered £5,000 for topless modelling for the Sunday Sport. Caroline ran a makeover portrait studio in London.
In 2010 Caroline was a guest during the day 2 task "Who Is She?" on Ultimate Big Brother.
, Buckinghamshire
. She entered the House on Day 37 as a replacement for Nick Bateman, who was ejected for cheating. She was then evicted on Day 50 with 79% of the vote. Following the Big Brother show Claire landed a role as presenter of a new six-part ITV series about dancefloor and clubbing culture entitled "Dance 2000". In 2001 Claire announced she was expecting a baby with fellow Big Brother housemate Tom McDermott. The couple began dating in February 2001 and it wasn't long before Claire became pregnant. The couple were said to have no plans to marry, preferring to concentrate on the baby and their burgeoning careers.
In 2003 Claire Strutton and Tom McDermott moved to Southern Spain with their toddler son Pierce, and ran a property website. Tom and Claire have since split up. Claire also made an appearance on The Salon
, the reality hairdressing show on Channel 4
.
. The younger of 2 children, his family moved to Shropshire in the late 1980s. Craig's dad was killed in a car crash when he was 13 and since then he has looked after his mum, sister and three dogs (2 boxers, 1 bull mastiff) After leaving school at 15 he went to work in a butcher's shop and at 18, Craig secured a day release bricklayers apprenticeship whilst employed with Wrekin Council's construction department. Craig set up his own building company, and also hires out marquees for functions and special events. Previously he has worked his way up to managerial level in a butcher's shop in Liverpool. He has also worked as a stripper-gram.
He won Big Brother with a narrow 51% of the vote. After winning Big Brother he donated the £70,000 prize to his Down's syndrome friend Joanne Harris to help pay for her heart and lung transplant. Joanne died in April 2008 after contracting an infection in hospital.
In 2001 Craig presented Renovation Street with Linda Robson
for ITV
before being brought in as the DIY expert for the BBC
on an exclusive contract.
He also has a production company called Avent Productions set up in 2003 for Avent he has presented the programmes Conversion, a 10 part series for Discovery Realtime, and the sixth series of Hung, Drawn & Quartered, a 6 part series for British Forces Broadcasting Service. In 2007 Craig joined the team of 60 Minute Makeover
for ITV1
for the fifth and sixth series trading his famous on screen white t-shirt look for a black t-shirt look.
In 2009, Craig reappeared on Big Brother 10 as part of a task celebrating ten years of Big Brother. Craig challenged Halfwit on an obstacle course challenge, which Halfwit won.
Ramsay came third in the final. After Big brother Darren fell into a year long depression, but then made an attempt to launch a career as a TV presenter and managed to present Good Food Live on UK Food. He then trained as a flight attendant which appeared on ITV1
's Airline without completing, citing a lack of interest. Darren has also appeared as a contestant on the 'Reality TV Star' special episode of Anne Robinson's The Weakest Link.
In 2010 Darren appeared briefly in the Ultimate Big Brother house on day 3 in a secret task involving Nick. Darren was tasked with finding pieces of paper with the potentional evictees names, which had been written by Nick as part of a secret task.
After leaving Big Brother Melanie has hosted two series of TV channel E4's reality game show Chained and as a newspaper and magazine journalist, writes lifestyle and travel features for magazines. She also dated Alex Sibley from Big Brother 2002 (UK)
for a time, and was in training to become a barrister
. After enrolling in the CPE she has given up on law and is currently redundant and travelling around Thailand. The Big Brother eye motiff was based on Mel's eye.
in Scotland
at the same time as the Earl of Wessex. Bateman worked in the City of London
for nine years as a broker for the Willis Group from 1991.
During his time in the house he had attempted to influence voting, although this was uncovered by other housemates on Day 35, who confronted him in a house meeting. He denied the allegations until the evidence was presented to him – housemate names, secretly written on scraps of paper hidden in his suitcase. Nick was removed from the house later that day by the show's producers for rule-breaking.
After being kicked out of the house Nick signed an exclusive deal with The Sun to tell his story and donated a portion of the fee to charity. The Sun began serialising his story on the Monday after his eviction. For a time after his departure from the show, Nick enjoyed considerable media exposure and attended many show-business parties and premieres. He went on to present the short-lived television show Trust Me, wrote a book entitled Nasty Nick: How to be a Right Bastard, and appeared on the reality television series Back to Reality and in the Big Brother pantomime. He also featured as the narrator in a stage production of The Rocky Horror Show and has appeared in panto. He briefly dated Big Brother 4 housemate Justine Sellman in 2003 and he was mentioned at the finale of the fourth series.
Nick later did a directing course at the BBC and is keen to make wildlife films. Nick is now the Editor At Large for The Good Holiday magazine, travel writer for the Reading Post, manages his extensive property portfolio and is married to magazine editor and fashion stylist Lynnette Peck He also has a successful newspaper online blog and on the 24th August 2010, he re-entered the house to take part in "Ultimate Big Brother", in which he finished in fifth place..
He since has opened an online vintage clothing boutique with his wife Lynnette.Nick now presents his own radio magazine show on 107.8 Academy FM
in East Kent on a Sunday.
After leaving Big Brother she tried to cash in by making attempt at being a pop star by releasing a single called "The Game" but it flopped, reaching number 72 in the UK Singles Chart. Holt tried to make it in fashion and textiles but currently works in the adult film industry.
and Wakefield
. She now lives in South West London. Wilkington has a BA degree in Art and Archaeology and an MA in Oriental and African Art. Sada has previously worked as a waitress, apprentice gardener, an actress, model, art researcher, but is now working as a writer. Her current project is a book called "Babe's Bible" to be published by Quadrille.
She was evicted on Day 15 with 55% of the vote, and was nominated 6 times. After Big Brother Sada trained as a yoga instructor and spent some time living in Argentina. She now keeps an extremely low profile, and is believed to be waitressing in a bistro somewhere in London.
, County Tyrone
with his parents on their farm. He was educated at a religious school, St Patrick's secondary, and Omagh College of Further Education where he gained a qualification in brick laying and joinery.
He was evicted on Day 43 with 30% of the vote.
He has had a child with fellow contestant Claire Strutton and in 2003 McDermott and Strutton moved to southern Spain with their toddler son
Pierce and ran a property website. Tom and Claire have since split up.
As a new housemate, Claire was unable to nominate or be nominated.
In week 7, Darren's nomination for Melanie and Craig was overheard by the rest of the house. Big Brother decided to cancel all the nominations and the housemates had to nominate for a second time in which Darren changed his nominations. Had this not happened, Claire, Craig, Darren and Melanie would have faced the public vote.
There were no nominations in the final week. The public voted for who they wanted to win.
Big Brother (UK)
Big Brother UK is the British version of the Dutch Big Brother television format, which takes its name from the character in George Orwell's 1948 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four...
in the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, a reality show
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...
shown on Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
in which a number of contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by votes from the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize at the end of the run. The series started on 14 July 2000 and ran for 9 weeks until 15 September 2000. The contestants, called "housemates", were removed from the house one a week from the second week onwards until three remained for the final week; the housemate with most votes would win £70,000. Forty thousand people applied to participate in the first series.
The series was a financial and viewing success, with 400,000 votes cast in the first week, rising to 7.8 million in the final week. Its most notorious moment occurred when attempts to influence voting by Nick Bateman
Nick Bateman
Nicholas "Nasty Nick" Bateman is a British media personality and a former contestant on the first series of the British version of Big Brother.-Big Brother:...
were uncovered by other housemates. Craig Phillips
Craig Phillips
Craig Phillips is an English builder, DIY expert, television personality and presenter, best known for winning the first series of the British reality television show Big Brother...
went on to win with Anna Nolan
Anna Nolan
Anna Nolan is an Irish television presenter, producer and former business manager, waitress and Irish international basketball player. She has presented numerous television programmes in Ireland and the UK...
finishing in second place. The series averaged 4.5 million viewers, with a series high of 10 million viewers on the final night.
Nick returned with former Housemates of other series for Ultimate Big Brother, and entered on Day 1. Anna, Darren and Caroline returned briefly to compete in tasks, and Craig returned to compete in a task directly against the Ultimate Big Brother Housemates briefly convincing them that he was returning to the house. Nick finished in fifth place.
House
The Big Brother house was located in BowBow, London
Bow is an area of London, England, United Kingdom in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is a built-up, mostly residential district located east of Charing Cross, and is a part of the East End.-Bridges at Bowe:...
, east London. The house for the first series was very basic. It had a living area and kitchen with a store room. The two bedrooms were divided into a "Boys'" and "Girls'", and there was a shower room and toilet, all areas had cameras and microphones in them. Communication with the producers, in the guise of "Big Brother" was in a room called the "Diary Room". The house had a large garden with a vegetable patch, and a chicken coop to provide the housemates with eggs.
Broadcast history
The contestants entered the house on Friday 14 July 2000, and the first episode was broadcast on Tuesday 18 July at 9pm. The contestants were recorded twenty-four hours a day with cameras fixed around the house, and had to wear portable microphones. Each night, with the exception of Saturday, Channel 4 broadcast 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. Footage of the House was available live on the Channel 4 website, however the quality was poor. The ratings grew over the course of the program, reaching 10 million watching the final episode on 15 September 2000.Weekly summary
In week 1, day 1 the housemates, Andrew, Anna, Caroline, Craig, Darren, Melanie, Nichola, Nicholas, Sada and Tom entered the House. Their first weekly task was for housemates to make a clay bowl and mug each using a potter's wheel. If more than three objects cracked when cooked, the housemates would fail. The housemates failed this task.In week 2, the weekly task was to memorize facts about their fellow housemates. After four days, the housemates would be called to the diary room and asked 3 questions each. Housemates were only allowed to get 1 question wrong between them. On day 13, the housemates passed this task, as Craig was the only housemate to get a question wrong. Housemates nominated for the first time on day 11. Each housemate named two other housemates they wanted to evict, the two houesmates with the most amount of votes would be put to the public vote. Sada had six votes and Caroline had five votes, and so they were up for eviction. On day 15 Sada was evicted with 55% of the vote.
In week 3 the weekly task was for housemates to cycle the equivalent distance from Land's End to John O'Groats on an exercise bike, via all of the housemate's hometowns in 3 days. The housemates passed this task. Caroline had five votes and Andrew had four votes, so they were put up for eviction. Andrew was evicted on day 22 with 68% of the public vote.
In week 4 the weekly task was for housemates to learn the Semaphore signalling system. The group was split into pairs picked at random. At the end of the task, the housemates had to communicate and transcribe a message in Semaphore, in silence, with no mistakes. The housemates failed the task on day 27. Caroline and Tom had four votes each and were put up for eviction. On day 29 Caroline was evicted with 62% of the public vote.
In week 5 the housemates had to set up and practise on an assault course. On the last day of the task, housemates had to complete the task in a set time of 8 minutes. The housemates completed the task in 5 minutes and 48 seconds, thus passing the task. On day 35 Nick was ejected from the house for trying to influence the votes of the other housemates. Nichola and Craig had four votes each and were up for eviction, despite Nick's departure on day 35 the eviction went out as planned on day 36 with Nichola being evicted with 72% of the public vote.
On the first day of week 6, day 37, Claire entered the House, as a replacement for Nick. The task for the week was for housemates to memorize the order that pictures of the housemates appear over the garden wall. There were over 100 pictures, and they had to be recalled in the exact order in the Diary Room. The housemates passed the task. Darren had three votes, Craig, Anna and Tom had two votes each, and Claire was exempt from nominating or being nominated. Tom was evicted on day 43 with 30% of the public vote.
During week 7 the housemates' weekly task was to make life-sized sculptures of themselves, but they failed. During nominations Darren's nominations were overheard, requiring the housemates to re-nominate. Craig and Claire had three votes each and were put up for eviction. On day 50 Claire was evicted after thirteen days in the House with 79% of the public vote, the highest percentage of the series.
In week 8 the housemates had two tasks. The first was the Big Brother Circus. Housemates had to learn and perform various circus skills including juggling, tightrope walking and unicycling. All housemates had to perform the three activities. The housemates failed this week's task on day 55. On day 55, housemates were required to make a 4 page newspaper about what they have imagined has been going on in the outside world while they've been in the house. The housemates passed the task on day 58, and won a takeaway meal. Darren received three votes, Melanie and Craig received two votes each and all three faced eviction. On day 57 Melanie was evicted with 69% of the public vote.
In week 9, on day 59, a three part task began. The winner would get a party on a theme of their choice. The task involved learning about the Highway Code, testing the housemates' physical prowess, and taking care of an artificial baby. Darren scored 76%, Craig 82%, and Anna won with 92%.
On day 64, Darren finished in third place with 13% of a three-way vote, Anna finished in second place with 49% of the final vote, and Craig won the £70,000 prize with 51% of the vote.
Housemates
Ten housemates entered the House together on the first day in the morning. Each week, except from the first, one of them was evicted by the public vote. Due to Nick's ejection from the House in week 5, Claire was introduced into the House to replace him. On the final night, the public voted for the housemate they wanted to win, and Craig Phillips became the winner.Andrew
Andrew 'Andy' Davidson (born 23 July 1976) was a 23-year-old marketing product manager from Hemel Hempstead. He had a university education and gained a BA Degree in English and Media Studies at the University of SussexUniversity of Sussex
The University of Sussex is an English public research university situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove. The University received its Royal Charter in August 1961....
. He was evicted on Day 22 with 68% of the vote. Andrew works in Youth Marketing and brand consultancy and was recently Vice-President at MTV London. He is the brother of Formula One
Formula One
Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...
racing driver and BBC Radio 5
BBC Radio 5 Live
BBC Radio 5 Live is the BBC's national radio service that specialises in live BBC News, phone-ins, and sports commentaries...
commentator Anthony Davidson
Anthony Davidson
Anthony Denis Davidson is a British former Formula One racing driver from England, born in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. He has raced for Minardi, Super Aguri and been a test and/or reserve driver for the British American Racing, Honda and Brawn GP teams...
. When he was nominated by Darren for eviction, he gave his reason that his brother Anthony was go-karting the following week, and said he would rather like to see him race, instead of staying in the house the week he would be racing. 'Randy Andy' took part in the first BB kiss with fellow housemate Mel. He was voted off by the UK crowd in favour of Caroline.
Anna
Anna Nolan (born 16 October 1970) was an office manager from Dublin who came from a large family of five sisters and one brother. Before entering Big Brother, Anna worked as an office manager for a skateboarding company, but she has also worked as a banker, basketball coach, novice nun, domestic in a maternity hospital and a helper in a female prison. She came second in the final, and went on to be a TV presenter for the BBCBBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
and Raidió Teilifís Éireann
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
Raidió Teilifís Éireann is a semi-state company and the public service broadcaster of Ireland. It both produces programmes and broadcasts them on television, radio and the Internet. The radio service began on January 1, 1926, while regular television broadcasts began on December 31, 1961, making...
. In 2001, she presented, with Davina McCall, a programme called Closure, for two series. From 2002 to 2004 she presented lifestyle programmes such as Ask Anna, and Anna in Wonderland, for BBC 3. In 2004, she moved on to present the flagship daily live programme The Afternoon Show
The Afternoon Show
The Afternoon Show was Raidió Teilifís Éireann's live flagship daytime show. It ran from 2004 until May 2010. The programme was dropped by RTÉ as part of its new season of television in 2010, to be replaced by two afternoon programmes 4 Daily presented by Maura Derrane and The Daily Show hosted by...
for RTÉ One
RTÉ One
RTÉ One is the flagship television channel of Raidió Teilifís Éireann , and it is the most popular and most watched television channel in Ireland. It was launched as Telefís Éireann on 31 December 1961, it was renamed RTÉ Television in 1966, and it was renamed as RTÉ One upon the launch of RTÉ...
. She announced in August 2006 that she would not be renewing her contract with The Afternoon Show and moved on to front the religious documentary series Would You Believe
Would You Believe (TV series)
Would You Believe is an Irish religious television series broadcast on RTÉ One. It currently airs on Sunday nights at 22:40. A new series of 12 films began airing on September 21, 2008.-Archive:- 2009 - 2010 :...
. She combines her television work with writing a weekly column for the Evening Herald
Evening Herald
The Evening Herald is a mid-market tabloid evening newspaper published in Dublin, Ireland by Independent News & Media. It is published Monday-Saturday, and has three editions — City Edition, City Final Edition and National Edition...
national newspaper. Anna Nolan is now a television producer, and produced the series Operation Transformation
Operation Transformation (TV series)
Operation Transformation is an Irish health and fitness programme. The show is a cross-media event broadcast via radio, web and television on RTÉ 2fm, RTÉ.ie and RTÉ One since 2008...
in 2011.
In 2010, Anna was a guest during the day 2 task "Who Is She?" on Ultimate Big Brother.
Caroline
Caroline (AKA 'Caggy') O'Shea (born 1 April 1963) was from BirminghamBirmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
and of various jobs. Caroline was unemployed before entering Big Brother. her previous jobs have included mortgage consultant, telephonist, special constable for West Midlands Police, vocalist in a rave organisation, cleaner in a gay bar, makeovers, and sold sex toys. She was evicted on Day 29 with 62% of the vote.
After Big Brother Caroline returned to her old job of selling sex toys in Birmingham, alongside occasional singing spots in clubs. However she also attempted to launch a pop career, recorded a single, but failed to gain a recording contract. Following this failure, in 2001, she suffered from depression. She was offered £5,000 for topless modelling for the Sunday Sport. Caroline ran a makeover portrait studio in London.
In 2010 Caroline was a guest during the day 2 task "Who Is She?" on Ultimate Big Brother.
Claire
Claire Strutton (born 14 February 1975) was a florist from Gerrards CrossGerrards Cross
Gerrards Cross is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the south of the county, near the border with Greater London, south of Chalfont St Peter. Gerrards Cross is also a civil parish within South Bucks district, which was known as the Beaconsfield district from 1974 to 1980...
, Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....
. She entered the House on Day 37 as a replacement for Nick Bateman, who was ejected for cheating. She was then evicted on Day 50 with 79% of the vote. Following the Big Brother show Claire landed a role as presenter of a new six-part ITV series about dancefloor and clubbing culture entitled "Dance 2000". In 2001 Claire announced she was expecting a baby with fellow Big Brother housemate Tom McDermott. The couple began dating in February 2001 and it wasn't long before Claire became pregnant. The couple were said to have no plans to marry, preferring to concentrate on the baby and their burgeoning careers.
In 2003 Claire Strutton and Tom McDermott moved to Southern Spain with their toddler son Pierce, and ran a property website. Tom and Claire have since split up. Claire also made an appearance on The Salon
The Salon
The Salon was a British reality TV show where various members of the public were invited daily to have treatments in a studio built beauty salon situated in Balham, south-west London, and in the second series, a purpose-built studio inside the Trocadero, Piccadilly Circus.-Overview:Viewers were...
, the reality hairdressing show on Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
.
Craig
Craig Phillips (born 16 October 1971) is a former building company owner from LiverpoolLiverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
. The younger of 2 children, his family moved to Shropshire in the late 1980s. Craig's dad was killed in a car crash when he was 13 and since then he has looked after his mum, sister and three dogs (2 boxers, 1 bull mastiff) After leaving school at 15 he went to work in a butcher's shop and at 18, Craig secured a day release bricklayers apprenticeship whilst employed with Wrekin Council's construction department. Craig set up his own building company, and also hires out marquees for functions and special events. Previously he has worked his way up to managerial level in a butcher's shop in Liverpool. He has also worked as a stripper-gram.
He won Big Brother with a narrow 51% of the vote. After winning Big Brother he donated the £70,000 prize to his Down's syndrome friend Joanne Harris to help pay for her heart and lung transplant. Joanne died in April 2008 after contracting an infection in hospital.
In 2001 Craig presented Renovation Street with Linda Robson
Linda Robson
Linda Patricia Mary Robson is an English actress. She played Tracey in the BBC comedy, Birds of a Feather from 1989 to 1998.-Personal life and education:...
for ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
before being brought in as the DIY expert for the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
on an exclusive contract.
He also has a production company called Avent Productions set up in 2003 for Avent he has presented the programmes Conversion, a 10 part series for Discovery Realtime, and the sixth series of Hung, Drawn & Quartered, a 6 part series for British Forces Broadcasting Service. In 2007 Craig joined the team of 60 Minute Makeover
60 Minute Makeover
60 Minute Makeover is a British popular daytime home interior design television programme broadcast on ITV in the United Kingdom.-Overview:...
for ITV1
ITV1
ITV1 is a generic brand that is used by twelve franchises of the British ITV Network in the English regions, Wales, southern Scotland , the Isle of Man and the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey. The ITV1 brand was introduced by Carlton and Granada in 2001, alongside the regional identities of their...
for the fifth and sixth series trading his famous on screen white t-shirt look for a black t-shirt look.
In 2009, Craig reappeared on Big Brother 10 as part of a task celebrating ten years of Big Brother. Craig challenged Halfwit on an obstacle course challenge, which Halfwit won.
Darren
Darren Ramsay (born 7 July 1977) lived in Catford, London. Darren has three brothers and one sister. He also has three children of his own by ex-girlfriend Tammy. His two daughters and one son are Shanice 5, Nuviea 4, and Zahnae who celebrated her birthday while he was in the house. Although they are no longer dating , Darren and Tammy continue to live together with their children.Ramsay came third in the final. After Big brother Darren fell into a year long depression, but then made an attempt to launch a career as a TV presenter and managed to present Good Food Live on UK Food. He then trained as a flight attendant which appeared on ITV1
ITV1
ITV1 is a generic brand that is used by twelve franchises of the British ITV Network in the English regions, Wales, southern Scotland , the Isle of Man and the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey. The ITV1 brand was introduced by Carlton and Granada in 2001, alongside the regional identities of their...
's Airline without completing, citing a lack of interest. Darren has also appeared as a contestant on the 'Reality TV Star' special episode of Anne Robinson's The Weakest Link.
In 2010 Darren appeared briefly in the Ultimate Big Brother house on day 3 in a secret task involving Nick. Darren was tasked with finding pieces of paper with the potentional evictees names, which had been written by Nick as part of a secret task.
Melanie
Melanie 'Mel' Hill (born 18 January 1974) was from North London. She is very close to and lives with her mother in North London. Her father left when she was young. She achieved further education and gained a Psychology and cognitive science degree from Sussex University. Before entering the Big Brother house Melanie worked as a salesperson in the Computer industry. Previously Melanie has worked in the civil service and also as a buyer for a jewellery firm. She was seen to cultivate relationships with two different contestants, and was evicted on Day 57 with 69% of the vote.After leaving Big Brother Melanie has hosted two series of TV channel E4's reality game show Chained and as a newspaper and magazine journalist, writes lifestyle and travel features for magazines. She also dated Alex Sibley from Big Brother 2002 (UK)
Big Brother 2002 (UK)
Big Brother 3 was the third series of Big Brother UK. The series started on 24 May 2002, ending on 26 July 2002 and the final of this series drew 10.0 million viewers. Votes in the final week totalled 8.6 million...
for a time, and was in training to become a barrister
Barrister
A barrister is a member of one of the two classes of lawyer found in many common law jurisdictions with split legal professions. Barristers specialise in courtroom advocacy, drafting legal pleadings and giving expert legal opinions...
. After enrolling in the CPE she has given up on law and is currently redundant and travelling around Thailand. The Big Brother eye motiff was based on Mel's eye.
Nick
Nicholas 'Nasty Nick' Bateman (born 5 November 1967 in London, England) grew up in Kent with his four sisters. He was educated at a boarding school in Kent for five years and then at the private Gordonstoun School near ElginElgin, Moray
Elgin is a former cathedral city and Royal Burgh in Moray, Scotland. It is the administrative and commercial centre for Moray. The town originated to the south of the River Lossie on the higher ground above the flood plain. Elgin is first documented in the Cartulary of Moray in 1190...
in Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
at the same time as the Earl of Wessex. Bateman worked in the City of London
City of London
The City of London is a small area within Greater London, England. It is the historic core of London around which the modern conurbation grew and has held city status since time immemorial. The City’s boundaries have remained almost unchanged since the Middle Ages, and it is now only a tiny part of...
for nine years as a broker for the Willis Group from 1991.
During his time in the house he had attempted to influence voting, although this was uncovered by other housemates on Day 35, who confronted him in a house meeting. He denied the allegations until the evidence was presented to him – housemate names, secretly written on scraps of paper hidden in his suitcase. Nick was removed from the house later that day by the show's producers for rule-breaking.
After being kicked out of the house Nick signed an exclusive deal with The Sun to tell his story and donated a portion of the fee to charity. The Sun began serialising his story on the Monday after his eviction. For a time after his departure from the show, Nick enjoyed considerable media exposure and attended many show-business parties and premieres. He went on to present the short-lived television show Trust Me, wrote a book entitled Nasty Nick: How to be a Right Bastard, and appeared on the reality television series Back to Reality and in the Big Brother pantomime. He also featured as the narrator in a stage production of The Rocky Horror Show and has appeared in panto. He briefly dated Big Brother 4 housemate Justine Sellman in 2003 and he was mentioned at the finale of the fourth series.
Nick later did a directing course at the BBC and is keen to make wildlife films. Nick is now the Editor At Large for The Good Holiday magazine, travel writer for the Reading Post, manages his extensive property portfolio and is married to magazine editor and fashion stylist Lynnette Peck He also has a successful newspaper online blog and on the 24th August 2010, he re-entered the house to take part in "Ultimate Big Brother", in which he finished in fifth place..
He since has opened an online vintage clothing boutique with his wife Lynnette.Nick now presents his own radio magazine show on 107.8 Academy FM
Academy FM
Academy FM may refer to either:* Academy FM , serving the district of Thanet in Kent and started broadcasting in 2010* Academy FM , serving the town of Folkestone in Kent and due to start broadcasting in 2011...
in East Kent on a Sunday.
Nichola
Nichola Dawn Holt (born 12 August 1971) was an art teacher from Bolton, Lancashire who lived with her parents. She has one sister. Holt left home at the age of 17 and is into both Buddhism and Spiritualism. She works as self-employed textile artist and art teacher but has previously worked as a tax officer, a life model, bar waitress, care worker, 3-D artist and a costume designer. She was evicted on Day 36 with 72% of the vote.After leaving Big Brother she tried to cash in by making attempt at being a pop star by releasing a single called "The Game" but it flopped, reaching number 72 in the UK Singles Chart. Holt tried to make it in fashion and textiles but currently works in the adult film industry.
Sada
Alyson Sada Wilkington (born 10 May 1972) was from EdinburghEdinburgh
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
and Wakefield
Wakefield
Wakefield is the main settlement and administrative centre of the City of Wakefield, a metropolitan district of West Yorkshire, England. Located by the River Calder on the eastern edge of the Pennines, the urban area is and had a population of 76,886 in 2001....
. She now lives in South West London. Wilkington has a BA degree in Art and Archaeology and an MA in Oriental and African Art. Sada has previously worked as a waitress, apprentice gardener, an actress, model, art researcher, but is now working as a writer. Her current project is a book called "Babe's Bible" to be published by Quadrille.
She was evicted on Day 15 with 55% of the vote, and was nominated 6 times. After Big Brother Sada trained as a yoga instructor and spent some time living in Argentina. She now keeps an extremely low profile, and is believed to be waitressing in a bistro somewhere in London.
Tom
Thomas 'Tom' McDermott (born 29 May 1969) was a farmer and computer engineer from OmaghOmagh
Omagh is the county town of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated where the rivers Drumragh and Camowen meet to form the Strule. The town, which is the largest in the county, had a population of 19,910 at the 2001 Census. Omagh also contains the headquarters of Omagh District Council and...
, County Tyrone
County Tyrone
Historically Tyrone stretched as far north as Lough Foyle, and comprised part of modern day County Londonderry east of the River Foyle. The majority of County Londonderry was carved out of Tyrone between 1610-1620 when that land went to the Guilds of London to set up profit making schemes based on...
with his parents on their farm. He was educated at a religious school, St Patrick's secondary, and Omagh College of Further Education where he gained a qualification in brick laying and joinery.
He was evicted on Day 43 with 30% of the vote.
He has had a child with fellow contestant Claire Strutton and in 2003 McDermott and Strutton moved to southern Spain with their toddler son
Pierce and ran a property website. Tom and Claire have since split up.
Nominations table
| Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Final Week 9 |
Nominations received | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Round 1 | Round 2 | ||||||||||
| Craig | Caroline, Sada |
Caroline, Nichola |
Caroline, Nichola |
Darren, Nichola |
Darren, Anna |
Darren, Anna |
Darren, Anna |
Darren, Melanie |
Winner (Day 64) |
20 | |
| Anna | Andrew, Darren |
Andrew, Tom |
Craig, Tom |
Tom, Craig |
Craig, Tom |
Claire, Craig |
Claire, Craig |
Craig, Darren |
Runner-Up (Day 64) |
6 | |
| Darren | Sada, Caroline |
Andrew, Melanie |
Craig, Tom |
Craig, Tom |
Tom, Melanie |
Melanie, Craig |
Claire, Craig |
Melanie, Anna |
Third Place (Day 64) |
17 | |
| Melanie | Sada, Craig |
Craig, Caroline |
Caroline, Nichola |
Darren, Nichola |
Craig, Darren |
Claire, Craig |
Craig, Claire |
Craig, Darren |
Evicted (Day 57) |
9 | |
| Claire | Not in house |
Exempt | Darren, Melanie |
Melanie, Darren |
Evicted (Day 50) |
5 | |||||
| Tom | Caroline, Sada |
Darren, Caroline |
Darren, Caroline |
Nichola, Anna |
Anna, Darren |
Evicted (Day 43) |
12 | ||||
| Nichola | Andrew, Tom |
Andrew, Craig |
Melanie, Tom |
Craig, Tom |
Evicted (Day 36) |
9 | |||||
| Nick | Sada, Caroline |
Caroline, Craig |
Nichola, Caroline |
Craig, Nichola |
Ejected (Day 35) |
0 | |||||
| Caroline | Andrew, Darren |
Tom, Andrew |
Tom, Melanie |
Evicted (Day 29) |
14 | ||||||
| Andrew | Sada, Caroline |
Caroline, Nichola |
Evicted (Day 22) |
8 | |||||||
| Sada | Darren, Andrew |
Evicted (Day 15) |
6 | ||||||||
| Nomination note |
none | none | |||||||||
| Against public vote |
Caroline, Sada |
Andrew, Caroline |
Caroline, Tom |
Craig, Nichola |
Anna, Craig Darren, Tom |
Claire, Craig, Darren, Melanie |
Claire, Craig |
Craig, Darren, Melanie |
Anna, Craig, Darren |
||
| Ejected | none | Nick | none | ||||||||
| Evicted | Sada 55% to evict |
Andrew 68% to evict |
Caroline 62% to evict |
Nichola 72% to evict |
Tom 30% to evict |
Nominations void |
Claire 79% to evict |
Melanie 69% to evict |
Darren 13% (out of 3) |
Anna 49% |
|
| Craig 51% to win |
|||||||||||
As a new housemate, Claire was unable to nominate or be nominated.
In week 7, Darren's nomination for Melanie and Craig was overheard by the rest of the house. Big Brother decided to cancel all the nominations and the housemates had to nominate for a second time in which Darren changed his nominations. Had this not happened, Claire, Craig, Darren and Melanie would have faced the public vote.
There were no nominations in the final week. The public voted for who they wanted to win.
External links
- Big Brother – Series 1 at Channel4.com
- "Craig Phillips Official Website"