Big Brother (British TV series) series 9

Template:Big Brother housemates Big Brother 9 in 2008 is the ninth series of the British reality television series Big Brother currently airing on Channel 4 and E4. The series was launched on 5 June 2008, and it is due to run for 13 weeks until 5 September 2008. This series started later than normal. It is rumoured that this was so that it did not clash with Britain's Got Talent, which was being aired on ITV during May. }}</ref>

The weekly podcast made by the housemates in BB8 has been axed for BB9, with a 60 minute radio show Big Brother's Big Ears as its replacement. Like the podcast, it will be available for download on the Channel 4 website and is to be hosted by Iain Lee and Gemma Cairney. It will air twice a week on a Tuesday and Friday (after the Live Eviction) at 11:30pm.

Logo

The official "eye" logo was revealed on 12 May 2008, on the official Big Brother website. On 15 May the eye started its televised comeback with clips interspersed throughout the breaks, being first broadcast during the break of Come Dine With Me. 10 days before the Thursday a countdown began that featured the number of days left to wait in the new eye style. These adverts aired everyday until June 5th. Each Big Brother show shares the same logo but with a different coloured shard to reflect the show, Big Brother's Big Mouth is green,Big Brother Live is red, Big Brother's Little Brother is orange and Big Brother's Big Ears is purple

House

, the House is located in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, just north of London, and has been completely rebuilt with a new look for the 2008 series. The first images of the House were released in late May and showed the kitchen, living area, bathroom, one of the two bedrooms, and parts of the garden.

House split

On Day 37, just after Mario was evicted, Davina announced that over the weekend, housemates will elect Head of House, who would be in control the whole house. It was also revealed that the house would be split in two, with one side being 'heaven' and the other 'hell'.

On Day 38, Big Brother asked the housemates to In week 6 housemates called all housemates induvidually to the diary room, and the gave them 8 chillies to eat, with each chilli having a number of points, the housemate that scores the most points by eating the chillies will win the title of Head of House.

Week 6! Number				Side	Housemate	Side	Housemate	Points	Side
Belinda	Luke		Dale	Heaven	Dale	6	style="background:#CCFFCC;" | Heaven	Kathreya	Hell	Lisa	Hell	Lisa
Lisa	Darnell		Hell	Luke	Heaven	Luke
Maysoon
Maysoon	Darnell		Heaven	Michael	Hell	Michael
Michael	Darnell		Hell	Mohamed	Hell	Mohamed
Mohamed	Darnell		Heaven	Rachel	Hell	Rachel		style="background:#FBF373;" | Heaven	Hell	Rex	Heaven	Sara
Rex	Darnell		Heaven	Sara	Hell	Stuart|-

Housemates

Main article: List of Big Brother 2008 housemates (UK)

On Day 1, the original sixteen housemates entered the Big Brother House., which they refused to eat . As the winners, they were required to perform the week's shopping task: they must guide a wand around a wire sneaking throughout the house that shocks the other housemates whenever the wand hits the wire. After two hours, the housemates failed the task because they ran out of time having already incurred two fails because Alexandra and Sylvia took off their costumes. |- | Entrances ||

• Mario, Lisa, Luke, Stephanie, Rachel, Dale, Sylvia, Dennis, Michael, Alexandra, Rex, Mohamed, Rebecca, Darnell, Jennifer and Kathreya entered the House on Day 1.

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• Stephanie became the first person evicted on Day 9 with 48% of the public vote.

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to learn Japanese, proper chopstick etiquette, karate, and perform karaoke. The housemates passed the task on Day 14.

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• On Day 15, Rebecca opened an envelope containing a "Go to Jail" card and was sent to the jail cell in the garden. During her time in jail, Rebecca used make-up to Life Class," wherein housemates had to either paint or sculpt new housemate Stuart nude. If Big Brother appreciated the housemates' art, . Stuart chose Jennifer's portrait of him as his favourite.
• On Day 20, Big Brother assigned housemates with their shopping task, in which the housemates had to recreate the video of "Here It Goes Again" by OK Go, by hopping around the treadmills in unison. Housemates were allowed a maximum of three mistakes. The housemates

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• Early in the morning on Day 23, a majora104639/dennis-i-could-be-removed.html Dennis: "I could be removed"] DigitalSpy Retrieved 2008-06-26</ref> The resulting argument involving many of the housemates caused not only the live feed of the house to be suspended but the ejection of Dennis.

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• On Day 19, Dennis, Jennifer, Kathreya, Rebecca, Rex, Stuart and Sylvia were punished for discussing the audition process by being forced to select two of the culprits to spend time in jail. They chose Dennis and Jennifer to be imprisoned.

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• On Day 24, housemates had to trim topiaries into various randomly selected shapes. If the housemates were able to trim their plants to the required standard, Big Brother would grant them one token. Lisa and Stuart were flamingos and had to stand on one leg for twenty minutes. Jennifer and Rebecca were seals who had fishy water thrown on them by zookeeper Mario every time Big Brother played a snippet from the song "Kiss from a Rose" by Seal. Elephants Luke10 Wild Life] Channel 4 official site Retrieved 2008-07-04<for discussing and trying to influence nominations. He was also banned from nominating. However, because he used a "Get Out of Jail Free" card, he was allowed to nominate.
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• Sara, Maysoon and Belinda entered the House on Day 30. Housemates were reward for being the only team to complete the task whilst following all rules.
• On Day 34, Big Brother announced that for this week's shopping task, housemates must learn a traditional Irish dance as a group. Dale was chosen as choreographer, Belinda, Luke, Mario and Michael were drummers, and the rest of the housemates danced. Housemates failed this task on Day 35, due to three mistakes from the drummers, and countless mistakes from the dancers.

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• On Day 32, Michael was sent to jail for discussing nominations.

|- | Exits ||! rowspan=3 style="width: 6%;" | Week 6 | Tasks ||forced to peel potatoes in order to be able to nominate for the week., Dale and Mohamed had to identify wine by taste and bouquet, and Maysoon and Rachel had to master the craft of mime. The "housemates from Hell" had to pedal a total of 1040 km on two stationary bikes (later reduced to 520 km due to one of the bikes not working). As Head of House, Darnell.channel4.com/bigbrother/news/newsstory.jsp?id=7682&position=11 Vive Le France!] Channel 4 official siRetrieved 2008-07-16</ref> Housemates passed the mime and biking tasks, but failed the wine and food tasks and were given a basic shopping budget.

• On Day 43, the "housemates from /news/newsstory.jsp?id=8662&position=31 Belinda Evicted] Channel 4 official site Retrieved 2008-07-20</ref>

|- ! rowspan=3 style="width: 6%;" | Week 7 | Tasks ||tire swing dressed as gorillas, with nothing to eat but bananas. Whomever could hang on the longest would win. The housemates chosen to compete were Dale, Maysoon and Rebecca, the latter of whom fell from her swing in under five minutes. Dale eventually won the task and was named Head of House for Week 7. He chose Luke, Maysoon, Rebecca, Rex and Stuart to join .jsp?id=8824&position=6 Dale Chooses Heavenlies] Channel 4 official site Retrieved 2008-07-20</ref>

• On Day 47, the housemates from Hell were forced to peel and chop onions in order to nominate.
• For the shopping task, housemates had 5 tasks relating to time. The Hell Housemates, on the sounding of a warning throughout the house, had to rush into the task room and switch off the alarm of one clock amongst hundreds of clocks, this part was passed. The one task involving all of the housemates (except the head of house) involved each of 12 housemates standing in the garden with a number strapped to their head. they had estimate, without the use of counting out loud or other means, 5 minutes. All housemates estimates would be totalled up and if the total fell outside an allowed error of +/- 2.5 minutes the task would fail, this task was failed. The task of putting together a clock from component parts by Stuart and Maysoon was passed, as was the task of making sure a giant egg timer was not allowed to empty by continually pouring in sand. The archaeological dig task was failed. However, it was revealed on Day 49 that housemates had passed enough modules of the task and will receive a luxury shopping budget./news

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• During the "Hanging Around" task on Day 45, Kathreya and Mohamed crossed the fence into Hell to eat the bananas that were being used as decor for the task. As housemates had been explicitly warned not to do this, Kathreya and Mohamed were forced to spend the week in Hell as punishment. Big Brother then asked housemates to pack Kat and Mohamed possesions and return them to the store room, implying that Kathreya and Mohamed may be ejected from the Big Brother house. Big Brother also confiscated their suitcases and their possessions. Later during the task, Darnell also consumed a banana and disqualified himself from living in Heaven for the week.

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• On Day 51, Rebecca became the sixth person to be evicted from the Big Brother House with 65.4% of the public vote.

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==Controversy==FUCK YOUUUUUUUWithin the first week of the series, med watchdog Ofcom and Channel 4 had collectively received over 433 complaints about alleged bullying from housemate Alexandra, after an argument broke out between her and the other housemates regarding oven chips. Channel 4 defended its housemate selection, claiming that the production team were closely watching the housemates as they normally do to ensure the safety of the housemates. The broadcaster also noted that Alexandra had been warned that her behaviour could be deemed threatening. On Day 14 she was ejected from the house after apparently threatening to have housemates who nominated her for eviction dealt with by her "gangster friends".</a104639/dennis-i-could-be-removed.html Dennis: "I could be removed"] DigitalSpy Retrieved 2008-06-26</ref> Although she accepted , fellow housemates Dale and Stuart were visibly enraged and demanded Rex apologise, which he had already done. Shortly after apologising, Stuart's opinion that it was done out of "spite" led to Mohamed's comment of "it's just a painting". This caused Rebecca to confront Mohamed about his involvement in the argument, and eventually Dennis to say "f**k off" several times before appearing to spit in his face. Dennis claimed however that no spit had actually left his mouth and hit Mohamed.<ref name="draw fight 2">Live feed cut over clash Inside Big Brother to his actions, which were deemed as unacceptable behaviour by Big Brother.

Nominations table

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4! style="| style="background:#FBF373; text-align:center" | Passed Task	Mario, Alexandra	Rex, Mohamed	Rex, Mohamed	Rex Mohamed	Belinda, Lisa	Mohamed, Darnell
Darnell	Passed Task	Mario, Lisa	Sylvia, Jennifer	Mario, Jennifer	Mario, Rebecca	Rex, Rebecca	Rebecca, Luke
Kathreya! Luke! Michael	Passed Task	Alexandra, Dennis	Sylvia, Rex	Darnell, Rex	Rebecca, Rex	Belinda, Rex	Darnell, Kathreya
Mohamed	Passed Task	Alexandra, Dennis	Sylvia, Dennis	Rebecca, Jennifer	Rebecca, Mario	Rebecca, Stuart	Rebecca, Stuart
Rachel	Passed Task	Alexandra, Sylvia	Sylvia, Luke	Jennifer, Rebecca	Luke, Rebecca	Lisa, Luke	Luke, Rebecca
Not in house				Exempt	Rex, Rachel	Evicted (Day 44)
Mario	Failed Task	Sylvia, Dennis	Sylvia, Rebecca	Rex, Mohamed	Rex, Darnell	Evicted (Day 37)
Jennifer	Passed Task	Mario, Lisa	Michael, Mohamed	Rachel, Kathreya	Evicted (Day 30)
Sylvia	Passed Task	Alexandra, Mario	Rex, Michael	Evicted (Day 23)
Dennis (Day 23)
Failed Task	Evicted (Day 9)
Nomination />Rebecca
Ejected	style="background:#FFE08B; text-align:center" |Dennis	none
Evicted (% of public vote)	Stephanie 48% to evict	eviction cancelled	Sylvia 90.2% to evict	Jennifer 89.7% to evict	Belinda 65% to evict	Rebecca 65.4% to evict	rowspan=5 style="Template:Fnb There were no nominations the first week. Instead, the result of the secret mission given to Mario, Lisa, Stephanie and Luke determined whether they or the remaining 12 housemates would face the public vote. As they failed the task, they all faced eviction. Template:Fnb Stuart was exempt from the nomination process in Week 3 as he was a new housemate; he couldn't nominate or be nominated. > Template:Fnb Belinda, Maysoon and Sara were exempt from the nomination process in Week 5. As new housemates they could not nominate or be nominated.</smll> Template:Fnb As Dale was Head of House he could nominate but could not be nominated. Hell Housemates had to chop onions in order to nominate. Nominations totals from BARB, a consortium that announces viewing figures that are considered "official," that is, take into account not only overnight figures but also recordings. BARB figures are usually released about a week after each episode; however, percentages are from overnight sources. Week 1 includes the launch week, which consists only of a Thursday and Friday show. Alexandra Belinda Dale Darnell Dennis Jennifer Kathreya Luke Mario 9 5 0 12 5 9 3 8 7 14 Maysoon Michael Sylvia 0 4 19 9 20 21 0 0 4 12 Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 style="width:6%! Saturday no show 2.9m 14% 2.0m 10% 2.5m 11% 2.6m 13% 2.68m 12% 2.20m 10% (2.4m) 12% Monday 3.61m 19% 3.81m 21% 3.57m 20% 3.55m 21% 3.58m 20% 3.40m 20% (3.3m) 19% (3.3m) 19% Wednesday 3.01m 15% style="background:#87CEEB" | 5.59m 25% 3.18m 16% 3.82m 18% 3.00m 14% 3.36m 16% 3.25m 17% colspan=2 style="background:#FADADD;" | 3.62m 18% 3.19m <small 18% 3.41m 17% 3.28m 16% 3.31m 17% 3.32m 17% 3.03m 16% 16% Series average 3.03m 16% NB: figures in parentheses are overnight figures used as placeholders; they are not counted in averages once official ratings are released blue-coloured boxes denote live shows References External links Official Website Big Brother UK Series Nine Website