Ultimate Big Brother

Ultimate Big Brother was the final series of the UK reality television programme Big Brother to air on Channel 4. The series was broadcast for 18 days, from 24 August 2010 to 10 September 2010 and was produced by Remarkable Pictures, a division of Endemol. It featured housemates from previous series of Big Brother and a smaller section of housemates from Celebrity Big Brother. As with the eleventh series of Big Brother, Ultimate Big Brother was sponsored by skincare brand Freederm and a 24 hour live streaming service was available via the Big Brother website as a fee-based service The series ended with Brian Dowling winning the title of the "Ultimate Housemate" and the words "Big Brother will get back to you".

Production

The series was first announced during the launch night of the eleventh series of Big Brother. The first trailer for Ultimate Big Brother was shown on 13 August 2010 during a live eviction episode of Big Brother. On the same day, Channel 4 released a promo image for the series on the Big Brother website. The promo featured 15 of the previous 186 Big Brother housemates and 68 Celebrity Big Brother housemates, along with the tag line "Who goes in? We decide".

Broadcasts

The Launch Night and first broadcast of Ultimate Big Brother was on Tuesday 24 August 2010 as part of the Big Brother 2010 final night show, presented by Davina McCall.

The main television coverage of Ultimate Big Brother is screened on Channel 4 using daily highlights programmes, narrated by Marcus Bentley. These episodes summarise the events of the previous day in the House. Although the schedule is erratic, in general the Monday to Thursday highlights episodes are shown at 10pm and aired for 70 minutes, whilst the weekend shows air for 60 minutes at 9pm. The two-part, live eviction shows, hosted by Davina McCall, feature a highlights episode 9pm and a second show at 10.35pm in which the evicted housemate (or housemates) are interviewed. Eviction shows and highlights episodes are given a censored repeat the following morning on both Channel 4 and E4.

Alongside these highlights shows were spin-off programmes, Big Brother's Big Mouth and Big Brother's Little Brother, that comment on fandom, cultural reaction to the events within the House and include interviews with celebrities, former housemates and family and friends of housemates. Emma Willis and George Lamb present Big Brother's Little Brother live on E4 at 6pm for 30 minutes Monday to Friday and on Channel 4 for an hour Sunday lunchtime. Big Brother's Big Mouth is fronted by McCall and aired on E4 for an hour after the main eviction programme.

Logo

The eye used for this series is the same used for Big Brother 2010.

The titles are almost identical to the Big Brother 2010 titles, except for small millisecond snippets of titles from previous series.

House

Since the third series in 2002, the programme was filmed at Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. The House for Ultimate Big Brother was the same House used for the eleventh series and was mainly glass walled with floral designs. The entrance had a heaven theme with a single staircase and the Diary Room underneath, to the right hand side. The Diary Room reflected the heaven theme with wings on the chair and a sky scene as the backdrop. A small task room was located off of the Diary Room. Upon entering the living room, there was one large red sofa. In contrast to the kitchen and bathroom's modern effect, the bedroom consisted of Salvador Dali designs on the beds. The bedroom also contained a walk-in wardrobe. The store room for the house was located off of the kitchen. The garden had a carnival theme and included a carousel (for the smoking area) and a snug (called the nest). The garden also contained a mini pool/tub and outdoor showers. A large task room was located off of the garden and the garden toilet could be used to access a smaller task room. On the penultimate day of Big Brother 2010 it was revealed that a few changes had been made to the house prior to Ultimate Big Brother beginning; the glass walls of the shower were made frosted and the cameras were removed from the toilets in order to respect the privacy of the celebrity housemates.

The House included several features present from Big Brother 2010:

• Bob Righter – a fortune teller machine used to predict the future,
• Davina McCaw – a mechanical parrot in the living room used to recall previous conversations made by the housemates,
• Tree of Temptation – a chest of drawers in the bathroom made from the Tree of Temptation present in 2010's celebrity series.

In celebration of the final series the House also included a secret bedsit, which had previously been used in Big Brother 2004. The Ultimate Big Brother bedsit housed Michelle Bass and Victor Ebuwa from Day 4 to Day 6. The bedsit had its own Diary Room (a copy of the Diary Room from Big Brother 2004) and was used to spy on and reward or punish the housemates. Michelle also inhabited the 2004 series' bedsit with Emma Greenwood and Victor was one of their prank victims.

Housemates

On Day 1, following the Big Brother 2010 final, 11 former housemates entered the Ultimate Big Brother House. These included the eleventh series winner, 5 housemates from regular Big Brother series and 5 housemates from Celebrity Big Brother series. On Day 4, two new housemates (Michelle and Victor) entered the bedsit. They were both allowed full access to the House on Day 6. A third new housemate (Vanessa) entered the House on Day 11.

Name	Big Brother History		Age	Hometown	Nationality	Source
	Series	Status
Brian Dowling	Big Brother 2	Winner	32	Rathangan, County Kildare, Ireland
Chantelle Houghton	Celebrity Big Brother 4	Winner	27	Brentwood, Essex
Coolio	Celebrity Big Brother 6	Third place	47	Monessen, Pennsylvania
John McCririck	Celebrity Big Brother 3	Evicted	70	Surbiton, London
Josie Gibson	Big Brother 11	Winner	25	Bristol
Makosi Musambasi	Big Brother 6	Third place	29	Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Michelle Bass	Big Brother 5	Evicted	29	Newcastle upon Tyne
Nadia Almada	Big Brother 5	Winner	33	Woking, Surrey
Nick Bateman	Big Brother 1	Ejected	42	London
Nikki Grahame	Big Brother 7	Fifth place	28	Watford, Hertfordshire
Preston	Celebrity Big Brother 4	Fourth place	28	Worthing, West Sussex
Ulrika Jonsson	Celebrity Big Brother 6	Winner	43	Cookham Dean, Berkshire
Vanessa Feltz	Celebrity Big Brother 1	Evicted	48	London
Victor Ebuwa	Big Brother 5	Evicted	29	London

House guests

Throughout the series, ex-housemates from previous series of Big Brother and Big Brother presenters have entered the Ultimate Big Brother House as part of tasks or have been involved in the series for other reasons.

Name	Big Brother History		Day	Reason	Source
	Series	Status
Caroline O'Shea	Big Brother 1	Evicted	Day 2	Took part in the "Who Is She" shopping task.
Kathreya Kasisopa	Big Brother 9	Evicted
Grace Adams-Short	Big Brother 7	Evicted
Amma Antwi-Agyei	Big Brother 2	Evicted
Anna Nolan	Big Brother 1	Runner-up
Lisa Jeynes	Big Brother 4	Evicted
Darren Ramsay	Big Brother 1	Third place	Day 3	Announced the results of Day 3's nominations.
John James Parton	Big Brother 11	Evicted		Recorded a message for Josie. However, she walked before receiving it.
Stuart Pilkington	Big Brother 9	Evicted	Day 5	Chosen by Michelle and Victor to be Nadia's slave for an hour.
Craig Phillips	Big Brother 1	Winner	Day 7	Competed against the housemates in the "Team Building" task.
Ahmed Aghil	Big Brother 5	Evicted	Day 9	Recreated his plate smashing incident from Big Brother 5.
Anthony Hutton	Big Brother 6	Winner	Day 10	To have a date with Makosi.
Marco Sabba	Big Brother 5	Evicted		Took part in Brian's "Bubble, Hold Me" task
Amanda Marchant	Big Brother 8	Runner-up
Sam Marchant
Glyn Wise	Big Brother 7	Runner-up
Pete Bennett	Big Brother 7	Winner	Day 11	Took part in Nikki's "PA" task.
Rex Newmark	Big Brother 9	Fourth place	Day 12	Took part in the "Enjoy the Silence" task.
Jon Tickle	Big Brother 4	Evicted		Took part in Michelle's part of the "Enjoy the Silence" task.
Davina McCall	Big Brother presenter 2000-2010		Day 16	To complete the Tree of Temptation's "Letters from Home" task.
Marcus Bentley	Big Brother narrator 2000-2010		Day 17	Took part in the "Big Brother's Funeral" task.
George Lamb	Big Brother's Little Brother presenters		Day 18	Presented the final Big Brother's Little Brother from inside the House.
Emma Willis

Summary

Day 1- On Launch Night, 11 housemates entered the Ultimate Big Brother House. The Tree of Temptation set John McCririck a secret task to be "Mr Nice Guy" by complimenting other housemates, not moaning and not getting into arguments.

Day 2- For the week's Shopping task, named "Who is she" (A phrase which Nikki became famous for among other things during her original stint in Big Brother), Nikki had to identify ex-housemates by touch only. She got 3 out of a possible 5 correct thus earning £150 for that weeks shopping budget. In addition to this she had to identify the actual ex-housemate from a line up of 4 people claiming it was them. She identified correctly and added £500 to the budget, having a total of £650 to the budget.

Day 3- The first nominations of Ultimate Big Brother began. All housemates nominated except Josie due to her exit. John decided that because Big Brother had threatened to make him immune from that weeks eviction that he would remain silent until the public had their chance to vote for him, but later that day following John's "Mr Nice Guy" task, the house was asked to vote on whether they thought he was a nice guy, the majority voted that he was nice, therefore he was still allowed to be nominated. Despite this he held his silence. Also on this day Nick was set a task by the tree of temptation to write down the names of those who would face the public vote (he was told by the tree) and hide the two pieces of paper. Later that day, Darren, an ex-housemate also of BB1, was sent into the house to find the pieces of paper and announce that Coolio and John would face eviction that week. Josie also left voluntarily as nominations were happening.

Day 4- Nikki received another task, dubbed "The Scoop". She had just 3 hours to interview all the housemates and type up the result for her column in the News of the World in order to win a party. Later that day in the first eviction of Ultimate Big Brother, John left the house with 50.6%, the closest result in Big Brother history. In a surprising twist just after the eviction two new housemates, Michelle and Victor, entered a bedsit next to the house something that became famous in BB5. Their presence was unknown to the other housemates. Their task was to both play pranks on and reward their fellow housemates. Their first prank was to send in "Mr Snuggles" an annoying and rather frightening looking clown who would make one housemates evening miserable. They chose Nikki and the clown was sent in.

Nominations table

	Day 3		Day 7	Day 13	Final Day 18		Nominations received
Brian	John, Coolio		Makosi, Nick	Nick, Preston	Winner (Day 18)		4
Nikki	Coolio, John		Chantelle, Nick	Ulrika, Michelle	Runner-Up (Day 18)		4
Chantelle	John, Ulrika		Nadia, Nikki	Nick, Nikki	Third Place (Day 18)		4
Victor	Not in House		Exempt	Brian, Chantelle	Fourth Place (Day 18)		0
Nick	John, Makosi		Makosi, Nadia	Ulrika, Vanessa	Fifth Place (Day 18)		8
Preston	John, Makosi		Ulrika, Makosi	Vanessa, Michelle	Sixth Place (Day 18)		1
Ulrika	John, Nick		Nick, Nikki	Michelle, Nikki	Seventh Place (Day 18)		5
Vanessa	Not in House			Brian, Chantelle	Evicted (Day 16)		3
Michelle	Not in House		Exempt	Nick, Vanessa	Evicted (Day 16)		3
Nadia	John, Coolio		Chantelle, Nick	Evicted (Day 11)			4
Makosi	Nadia, John		Brian, Ulrika	Evicted (Day 11)			5
Coolio	John, Nadia		Ejected (Day 5)				4
John	Josie, Coolio	Coolio, Brian	Evicted (Day 4)				9
Josie	Walked (Day 3)						1
Nomination note	See note 1		See note 2	See note 3	See note 4
Against public vote	Coolio, John		Chantelle, Makosi, Nadia, Nick, Nikki, Ulrika	Michelle, Nick, Vanessa	Brian, Chantelle, Nick, Nikki, Preston, Ulrika, Victor
Walked	Josie		none
Ejected	none		Coolio	none
Evicted	John 50.6% to evict		Makosi 47.7% to evict	Michelle 39.3% to evict	Ulrika 1.73% (out of 7)	Preston 1.95% (out of 7)
					Nick 5.72% (out of 7)	Victor 8.86% (out of 7)
			Nadia 33.2% to evict	Vanessa 31.3% to evict	Chantelle 20.51% (out of 3)	Nikki 30.28% (out of 3)
					Brian 49.21% to win
Source

Notes

• ^1 As Josie walked during the nomination process, all nominations for her became invalid and any housemates who nominated her had to later choose a replacement nominee.
• ^2 As new housemates, Michelle and Victor were exempt from nominations. Whilst nominating, housemates had to endure various individual tasks from past series of Big Brother in "Nostalgic Nominations". This week there was a double eviction, meaning the three or more housemates with the most nominations faced eviction. Had this been a single eviction, only Makosi and Nick would have faced the public vote.
• ^3 During Day 13's nominations, housemates had to spin a roulette wheel which decided how they nominated in "Nominations Roulette". As with the previous week, this week was a double eviction, meaning the three or more housemates with the most nominations faced eviction. Had this been a single eviction, the same housemates would still have faced the public vote. Even though she was a new housemate, Vanessa was permitted to nominate and could be nominated so that she did not have a free pass to the final.
• ^4 For the final two days, the public were voting for who they wanted to win.

Final series commemorations

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Rest In Peace Big Brother.

Additional programming

During the final week of Ultimate Big Brother, two special edition programs aired on Channel 4. The first of these was a Come Dine with Me special episode, called Come Dine with Me: Big Brother Winners, which aired on 6 September 2010. This episode featured Brian Dowling (Big Brother 2 winner), Nadia Almada (Big Brother 5 winner), Brian Belo (Big Brother 8 winner) and Sophie Reade (Big Brother 10 winner). Dowling came first in this competition, winning £1000 for charity. The second of these special edition programmes was an 8 Out of 10 Cats special; 8 Out of 10 Cats: Big Brother Special, which aired on 9 September 2010. This episode featured Big Brother winners Brian Belo and Josie Gibson as panelists, ex-housemates John James Parton, Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace, Eugene Sully, Makosi Musambasi, Mario Marconi and Amanda and Sam Marchant as special guests and a voice-over from Big Brother narrator Marcus Bentley. Gibson's team beat Belo's with scores of 4 and 3 respectively. In addition to these programmes, Davina McCall was a guest on Alan Carr: Chatty Man on 5 September 2010 to discuss Ultimate Big Brother. The first series of Big Brother was also a major discussion topic on the one-off Channel 4 programme My Funniest Year: 2000, which featured Craig Phillips and Nick Bateman as guests and aired on 4 September 2010.

Two special, one-off programmes also aired on Channel 4 on the final night of Ultimate Big Brother on 10 September 2010. Dermot O'Leary, former Big Brother's Little Brother presenter, was joined by former housemates in Big Brother: Dermot's Last Supper to discuss the most memorable moments from the last 11 regular Big Brother series. Following this, Davina McCall relived some of her most unforgettable moments from Big Brother history in front of an audience of fans and former housemates, including Celebrity Big Brother 4 contestant Pete Burns, in Davina's Big Send Off.

Jade Goody: Ultimate Housemate

During the first show of the Ultimate Big Brother final, a 15 minute documentary was shown in memory of Big Brother contestant Jade Goody, who died in March 2009 from cervical cancer. Goody appeared in the UK Big Brother series Big Brother 3, Celebrity Big Brother 5 and Big Brother Panto and in the second series of Bigg Boss, the Indian version of Big Brother.

DVD release

To commemorate the 11 regular Big Brother series, Channel 4 released Big Brother's Big DVD on 30 August 2010. The DVD contains three fan favourite episodes as voted for by viewers and Davina McCall; Emma and Michelle move into the bedsit in Big Brother 5, the electric shock task from Big Brother 9 and robots take over the House in Big Brother 11. The DVD also includes a rundown of the best bits of all 11 Big Brother series from 2000 to 2010.

External links

• Official Website (same used for BB11)
• Big Brother at IMDb
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• Big Brother on YouTube
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