Big Brother is a Dutch reality competition television franchise created by John de Mol Jr., first broadcast in the Netherlands in 1999, and subsequently syndicated internationally. The show features contestants called "housemates" or "HouseGuests" who live together in a specially constructed house that is isolated from the outside world. The name is inspired by Big Brother from George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, and the housemates are continuously monitored during their stay in the house by live television cameras as well as personal audio microphones. Throughout the course of the competition, they are voted out until only one remains and wins the cash prize.
Ledina Çelo is an Albanian singer and model. She is best known for representing Albania at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv, after winning the 43rd edition of Festivali i Këngës.
Margaret Berger is a Norwegian singer, songwriter, music director, and DJ. She made her debut on Sony BMG after she placed second on the second season of Norwegian Idol in 2004.
Miss World 2007, the 57th edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 1 December 2007 at the Crown of Beauty Theatre in Sanya, China. It was hosted by Fernando Allende and Angela Chow. Zhang Zilin of China won the crown and succeeded Taťána Kuchařová of the Czech Republic.
Sofia Magdalena Mattsson is a Swedish wrestler, who has won a World Championship, four European championships and an Olympic bronze medal.
Big Brother Albania is the Albanian version of the international reality television Big Brother created by producer John de Mol in 1997. The show follows a number of contestants, known as housemates, who are isolated from the outside world for an extended period of time in a custom-built house. Each week, one of the housemates is evicted by a public vote, with the last housemate remaining winning a cash prize.
Anisa Kospiri is an Albanian model who won the title of Miss Universe Albania 2001. She represented Albania at Miss Universe 2002 and made it to the top ten and she is the first Albanian contestant to compete in Miss Universe.
Anita Thallaug is a Norwegian actress and singer.
Egla Harxhi was born in 1991, in Tirana, Albania. She is a beauty pageant contestant who won the Miss Albania 2007 contest at the age of 16. She is the youngest Albanian to win the Miss Albania award and compete in the Miss World pageant. She competed in the 2008 Miss World beauty pageant held in Johannesburg, South Africa. After this experience she stopped her career in modeling and beauty pageants.
Juliana Pasha is an Albanian singer. In 2010, she won Honorary Citizen Award of Burrel from the mayor of the city. After she went into Eurovision in 2010 she won the first prize in the festival "Kenga Magjike" with the song called "Sa e shite zemren". She was a mentor and judge on the first series of Albania and Kosovo's version of The X Factor.
Oliver Jens Schmitt is a professor of South-East European history at Vienna University since 2005. He is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
The Albania women's national football team represents the country of Albania in international football and is controlled by the Albanian Football Association which is headquartered in the city of Tirana. The team is affiliated with UEFA and competes in the two major professional tournaments, the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship.
Taulant Ragip Xhaka is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Swiss Super League club Basel. Born in Switzerland, he plays for the Albania national team.
The Voice of Albania is an Albanian television talent show created by John de Mol and based on the concept The Voice of Holland. It is part of an international series. It began airing on Top Channel on October 21, 2011 and ended after six seasons on May 19, 2017.
X Factor Albania is the Albanian version of The X Factor. The first season started on 8 January 2012 and was broadcast by TV Klan. The judges are: Albanian singer from North Macedonia Altuna Sejdiu, Albanian singer Soni Malaj, Albanian superstar Bleona Qereti, and the famous composer Pandi Laço. The show is hosted by Alketa Vejsiu. She applied to acquire the rights of the show along with Top Channel and TV Klan. Syco TV gave the rights to her, then she sold parts of the rights to TV Klan. After losing the rights of The X Factor, Top Channel acquired the rights of the talent show, The Voice.
Robelis Despaigne is a Cuban taekwondo practitioner.
The Voice Kids is an Albanian television talent show created by John de Mol and based on the concept The Voice Kids Netherlands. It is part of an international series. It began airing on Top Channel on March 29, 2013 and ended on May 24, 2013. After four years of absence, on January 19, 2018 Top channel premiered the second season.
Arba Kokalari, is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 European Parliament election in Sweden.
Melinda Ademi, also known mononymously as Melinda, is a Albanian-American rapper, singer and songwriter.
Anxhela Peristeri, also known mononymously as Anxhela, is an Albanian singer, songwriter and model. Peristeri emerged as the winner of the 19th edition of Kënga Magjike in 2017. After winning the 59th edition of Festivali i Këngës, she represented Albania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021.
