Big Brother (Serbian TV series) season 1

Big Brother
Season 1
Presented by	Marijana Mićić Irina Vukotić Marina Miščević Trifunović
No. of days	107
No. of housemates	19
Winner	Ivan Ljuba [1]
Runner-up	Edin Kolenda
Participating countries	Serbia Bosnia and Herzegovina Montenegro
Release
Original network	B92 Pink BH Pink M
Original release	15 September (2006-09-15) – 31 December 2006 (2006-12-31)
Season chronology
Next → Season 2

Veliki Brat 2006 is the first season of Serbian version of Big Brother . The show premiered on 15 September 2006 and ran for 107 days, concluding on 31 December 2006. 14 housemates entered the house on Day 1. During the season, five more housemates were brought in. The winner of the season is Ivan Ljuba, a medical student and pianist from Belgrade. The season quickly became a ratings hit on Serbian television, but has also received plenty of criticism.

Generalna Proba

A month prior to the start of the first season, a special smaller week-long edition called Veliki Brat: Generalna Proba was held for seven days, where twelve hopefuls entered the house for a chance to win a spot on the first season of Veliki Brat. The hopefuls were pre-recorded with the episodes shown a week later. In the end, the public voted to decide which male and female hopeful would win the prize of becoming an official housemate in the first season. The winners were announced on 15 September 2006, the evening that the first season launched.

Viewers crowned Jelena and Marko as the winners, and they became the official housemates of Veliki Brat 2006.

Hopefuls

Name	Age	Residence	Occupation
Aleksandra Đukić	21	Vrnjacka Banja	Unemployed
Antal Skendžić	19	Zrenjanin	Student
Jelena Provči	26	Petrovaradin	Promoter
Kesa Keserović	27	Belgrade	Champion of Serbia and Yugoslavia in Taekwondo
Marko Miljkovic	22	New Belgrade	DJ at Green Bar in Belgrade
Milana Nenin	21	Veternik	Waitress
Mirjana Evetović	27	Tavankut	Taxi driver
Nataša Gocić	23	Niš	Student
Predrag Krunić, "Peda"	28	Novi Sad	Owns a shop
Slobodan Velicki	25	Ada	Owns a shop
Tamara Zornić	28	Knjazevac	Sells jewelry
Vanja Petrović	20	Jagodina	Chef

Housemates

Fourteen housemates entered the house on launch night. On day twelve, one housemate entered the house. On day twenty-nine, one more entered the house. On day fifty, three housemates entered the house. Out of 19 total housemates, 16 were from Serbia, two from Bosnia and Herzegovina and one from Montenegro.

Housemate	Age	Occupation	Resident	Day entered	Day exited	Status
Ivan Ljuba	25	Pianist	Belgrade	1	107	Winner
Edin Kolenda	25	Unemployed	Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina	1	107	Runner-up
Dragana Vranješ	25	Student	Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina	1	107	3rd Place
Aleksandra Vrbajac	27	Unknown	Novi Sad	50	107	4th Place
Daliborka Milanković	28	Nutritionist and masseuse	Zemun	1	106	Evicted
Jadranka Živanović	45	Unknown	Konatice	29	106	Evicted
Nikola Ðurović	29	Unemployed artist	Ulcinj, Montenegro	1	99	Evicted
Ena Popov	19	Student	Novi Sad	1	92	Evicted
Sava Radović	31	Unknown	Šabac	50	85	Walked
Marko Miljković	22	DJ at Green Bar in Belgrade	New Belgrade	64	85	Evicted
				1	50	Evicted
Maja Ðorđević	30	Butcher	Nis	64	78	Evicted
				1	43	Evicted
Sanja Vasović	19	Unknown	Kula	50	71	Evicted
Ðankarlo Kanduti	41	Painter/designer	Belgrade	1	57	Evicted
Jelena Provči	25	Promoter	Novi Sad	1	36	Evicted
Branislav "Bane" Cvetković	47	Unknown	Belgrade	12	29	Evicted
Veselina Mihajlović	58	Pensioner	Belgrade	1	22	Evicted
Miroslav "Miki" Đuričić	29	Wood cutter	Kupinovo	1	14	Walked
Anamarija Kikoš	24	Model	Belgrade	1	7	Evicted
Srba Josiljević	41	Traffic officer	Jagodina	1	1	Evicted

Preview

The 1st season lasted for 107 days.

• Day 2: The housemates publicly evicted Srba.
• Day 3: The housemates got their first task, "Best friends".
• Day 8: The first love began to show. Marko and Daliborka gave each other massages and shared intimate conversations, which made people believe they were in love, but they both denied this.
• Day 12: A new housemate, Branislav entered the house. The housemates, or the viewers didn't like him and he was evicted after 2 weeks.
• Day 14: The favourite for the victory, Miki, left the house. He said he couldn't handle the separation from the world. This made him an even bigger celebrity.
• Day 15: The housemates gave Marko an amazing birthday party, with striptease and sexy dances between couples that everyone remembered.
• Day 20: Marko started separating from Daliborka, and got together with Ena.
• Day 29: Jadranka, who was presented as a Gold Woman, with gold hands entered the house. Many people criticized this, because she was too old, and said she wouldn't stay in the house for more than 2 or 3 weeks. Still she managed to get to the semi-final and left on day 106, one day before the Grand Final.
• Day 50: Three more housemates - Sanja, Aleksandra and Sava entered the house. They would compete for half of the prize - 50.000 euros.
• Days 57 - 63: There was a vote to bring back one housemate. Marko had the most votes. Maja was the runner up.
• Day 64: Marko entered the house again, and Nikola and Sanja were evicted. However, Nikola and Sanja, together with Maja (Which was 2nd place for returning in the house), were put in a room inside the house, that nobody but them knew about - "The secret garden of second chance". They were to stay there for three days and take food and other needed things secretly from the house. Later, Big Brother gave Sava a secret task - to help secret housemates and provide them with groceries.
• Day 65: Marko and Ena started showing their love to the public. Many people thought they had sex under the sheets, but they denied this.
• Day 76: The future winner Ivan succeeded in breaking one of the "Big Brother World Records" by memorizing all 202 items from given memory cards and surpassed the necessary number of 81 by far. He succeeded in two out of four tries and came close to breaking the record from the 'Guinness World Records' memory challenge.
• Day 85: Sava left the house voluntarily.
• Day 89: There was a big party in the house. It stayed remembered by the girls licking and sucking a banana, acting as if it were a penis. The public reacted to this scene and evicted Daliborka on Day 106, the first time she was nominated after it.
• Day 106: The presenter surprised the housemates by telling them two of them would leave the house. Daliborka and Jadranka were evicted.

Nominations table

	Week 1		Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12	Week 13	Week 14	Week 15		Nominations received
	Day 2	Day 7
Ivan	Srba	Anamarija, Nikola	Member in task	Jelena, Nikola	Not eligible	No nominations	Marko, Nikola	Ena, Nikola	Ena, Nikola	Aleksandra, Ena	Marko, Sava	No nominations	Ena, Nikola	Daliborka, Nikola	Winner (Day 107)		19
Edin	Veselina	Anamarija, Nikola	Non-member in task	Nikola, Branislav	Not eligible	No nominations	Daliborka, Marko	Daliborka, Đankarlo	Aleksandra, Nikola	Daliborka, Ena	Ena, Nikola	No nominations	Ena, Nikola	Dragana, Nikola	Runner-up (Day 107)		7
Dragana	Srba	Đankarlo, Ivan	Member in task	Nikola, Branislav	Not eligible	No nominations	Đankarlo, Nikola	Đankarlo, Nikola	Aleksandra, Jadranka	Aleksandra, Jadranka	Jadranka, Maja	No nominations	Aleksandra, Edin	Edin, Jadranka	Third place (Day 107)		5
Aleksandra	Not in House							Ivan, Nikola	Banned	Dragana, Sanja	Maja, Marko	No nominations	Dragana, Ena	Edin, Nikola	Fourth place (Day 107)		13
Daliborka	Srba	Anamarija, Đankarlo	Member in task	Branislav, Đankarlo	Not eligible	No nominations	Banned	Đankarlo, Jadranka	Aleksandra, Jadranka	Aleksandra, Jadranka	Aleksandra, Jadranka	No nominations	Aleksandra, Jadranka	Edin, Jadranka	Evicted (Day 106)		4
Jadranka	Not in House				Nikola, Ena	No nominations	Marko, Nikola	Đankarlo, Nikola	Edin, Nikola	Dragana, Sanja	Ena, Maja	No nominations	Daliborka, Nikola	Daliborka, Nikola	Evicted (Day 106)		19
Nikola	Srba	Edin, Ivan	Non-member in task	Ivan, Branislav	Not eligible	No nominations	Ivan, Jadranka	Đankarlo, Ivan	Banned	Ivan, Jadranka	Ivan, Jadranka	No nominations	Ivan, Jadranka	Banned	Evicted (Day 100)		21
Ena	Srba	Marko, Miroslav	Member in task	Branislav, Đankarlo	Not eligible	No nominations	Banned	Đankarlo, Jadranka	Ivan, Jadranka	Ivan, Jadranka	Ivan, Jadranka	No nominations	Aleksandra, Edin	Evicted (Day 93)			11
Sava	Not in House							Ivan, Nikola	Banned	Ivan, Sanja	Aleksandra, Ivan	No nominations	Walked (Day 86)				2
Marko	Ena	Ivan, Miroslav	Member in task	Banned	Not eligible	No nominations	Banned	Evicted (Day 51)		Edin, Ivan	Ivan, Sava	No nominations	Re-evicted (Day 86)				7
Maja	Srba	Anamarija, Miroslav	Non-member in task	Đankarlo, Branislav	Not eligible	No nominations	Evicted (Day 44)			Jadranka, Sanja	Aleksandra, Jadranka	Re-evicted (Day 79)					5
Sanja	Not in House							Đankarlo, Dragana	Banned	Aleksandra, Jadranka	Evicted (Day 72)						4
Đankarlo	Srba	Anamarija, Miroslav	Member in task	Maja, Branislav	Not eligible	No nominations	Dragana, Edin	Edin, Ena	Evicted (Day 58)								16
Jelena	Veselina	Đankarlo, Veselina	Member in task	Ivan, Đankarlo	Not eligible	Evicted (Day 37)											2
Branislav	Not in House		Non-member in task	Marko, Maja	Evicted (Day 30)												7
Veselina	Srba	Jelena, Miroslav	Non-member in task	Evicted (Day 23)													2
Miroslav	Exempt	Anamarija, Veselina	Walked (Day 15)														6
Anamarija	Srba	Đankarlo, Miroslav	Evicted (Day 9)														6
Srba	Veselina	Evicted (Day 2)															N/A
Nomination notes	1	none	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	none	12	13
Against public vote	none	Anamarija, Miroslav	Branislav, Edin, Maja, Nikola, Veselina	Branislav, Đankarlo, Marko	Ena, Jelena, Nikola	Daliborka, Đankarlo, Dragana, Edin, Ena, Ivan, Jadranka, Maja, Marko, Nikola	Marko, Nikola	Đankarlo, Nikola	Aleksandra, Jadranka, Nikola, Sanja, Sava	Aleksandra, Ivan, Jadranka, Sanja	Aleksandra, Jadranka, Maja	Aleksandra, Daliborka, Dragana, Edin, Ena, Ivan, Jadranka, Marko, Nikola	Aleksandra, Ena, Nikola	Edin, Nikola	Aleksandra, Daliborka, Dragana, Edin, Ivan, Jadranka
Walked	none		Miroslav	none								Sava	none
Evicted	Srba 9 of 13 votes to evict	Anamarija Most votes to evict	Veselina Most votes to evict	Branislav 43% to evict	Jelena 55.1% to evict	Maja 35.3% to evict	Marko 64.7% to evict	Đankarlo 71.3% to evict	Nikola 35.1% to move	Sanja 36.7% to evict	Maja 72.5% to evict	Marko 30.3% to evict	Ena 84.5% to evict	Nikola 57.7% to evict	Jadranka Fewest votes (out of 6)	Daliborka Fewest votes (out of 6)
															Aleksandra Fewest votes (out of 4)	Dragana Fewest votes (out of 3)
									Sanja 24.6% to move
															Edin 33.2% (out of 2)
Saved	none	Miroslav	Branislav Edin Maja Nikola	Marko 38% Đankarlo 19%	Nikola 35% Ena 9.9%	Jadranka 19.8% Marko 12.3% Others 32.6%	Nikola 35.3%	Nikola 28.7%	Jadranka 23.7% Aleksandra 13.9% Sava 2.7%	Jadranka 30.1% Aleksandra 19.3% Ivan 13.9%	Jadranka 20.3% Aleksandra 7.2%	Ena 25% Jadranka 14.6% Others 30.1%	Aleksandra 9.5% Nikola 6%	Edin 42.3%	Ivan 66.8% to win

Notes

• ^Note 1  : Miroslav won immunity from the first eviction on Day 1 by being the first Housemate to enter the diary room. On Day 2, all Housemates, excluding Miroslav, voted to evict another Housemate.
• ^Note 2  : Over the course of Week 3, Housemates that were able to gain membership into the VB Fan Club were given immunity from eviction that week. Branislav was required to choose the first member of the Fan Club, however, in doing so he automatically faced the public vote. Branislav chose Đankarlo and more Housemates were chosen until only Edin, Maja, Nikola, & Veselina weren't chosen. They then faced the public vote alongside Branislav.
• ^Note 3  : As punishment for rule-breaking, Marko was banned from nominating and automatically faced the public vote.
• ^Note 4  : As punishment for not wearing her microphone on numerous occasions, Jelena was automatically nominated by Big Brother. As a new Housemate, Jadranka was the only Housemate able to nominate this week.
• ^Note 5  : This week, all Housemates automatically faced the public vote.
• ^Note 6  : As punishment for discussing nominations; Daliborka, Ena, & Marko were all banned from nominating.
• ^Note 7  : As new Housemates; Aleksandra, Sanja, & Sava were allowed to nominate, but could not be nominated by their fellow Housemates.
• ^Note 8  : As punishment for discussing nominations; Aleksandra, Nikola, Sanja, & Sava were all banned from nominating. As further punishment, Big Brother put Sanja and Sava up for eviction alongside Aleksandra, Jadranka, & Nikola. Aleksandra and Nikola would have also automatically faced the public vote if they had not already received the most nominations. This week also had a fake double eviction. The two Housemates with the most public vote would move into the Secret Garden alongside Maja who received the 2nd most votes of all the evicted Housemates to re-enter the House. Marko received the most votes and re-entered the House on Day 65 following the fake double eviction.
• ^Note 9  : On Day 68, Maja, Nikola & Sanja returned to the Main House from the Secret Garden. As Maja and Marko had only just returned, they could not be nominated by their fellow housemates but were allowed to be nominated.
• ^Note 10  : Ivan won a memory task after nominations had taken place for the week. For winning the task, he received immunity. Had he not received immunity, himself and Jadranka would've faced the public vote.
• ^Note 11  : This week, as a punishment, Sava had to clean the whole House. However, he gave up before finishing the punishment. The other Housemates then finished the cleaning without permission from Big Brother. As further punishment, all Housemates, except for Sava, faced the public vote this week.
• ^Note 12  : As punishment for discussing nominations, Nikola was banned from nominating.
• ^Note 13  : For the final week, the public was voting to win, rather than evict. There was a double eviction on Day 107 where Jadranka and Daliborka were evicted after receiving the fewest votes. This left Aleksandra, Dragana, Edin, & Ivan as the four finalists.

References

1. Milošević, Đorđe (24 August 2024). "POBEDIO U VELIKOM BRATU, PA NESTAO BEZ TRAGA! Za njega kažu da je najkulturniji rijaliti učesnik ikada, promenio život iz korena". alo.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 6 June 2025.

External links

• Production website (English)