Grande Fratello (season 12)

Grande Fratello
Season 12
Presented by	Alessia Marcuzzi
No. of days	161
No. of housemates	36
Winner	Sabrina Mbarek
Runner-up	Gaia Elide Bruschini
Release
Original network	Canale 5
Original release	24 October 2011 (2011-10-24) – 1 April 2012 (2012-04-01)
Season chronology
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Grande Fratello 12 was the twelfth season of the Italian version of the reality show franchise Big Brother . The show premiered on 24 October 2011 and concluded on 1 April 2012. Alessia Marcuzzi returned as the main host of the show. The house had been radically renewed from the last season.^{[ clarification needed ]} The winner of the season, Sabrina Mbarek received a €240,000 grand prize.

Housemates

Housemates	Age	Birthplace	Occupation	Day entered	Day exited	Status
Sabrina Mbarek	21	Udine	Student	78	161	Winner
Gaia Elide Bruschini	23	Rome	Model and hostess	1	161	Runner-up
Patrick Ray Pugliese	34	Teheran, Iran	TV personality, Grande Fratello season 4 housemate	113	161	3rd Place
Franco Giusti	30	Rome	Physiotherapist	50	161	4th Place
Martina Pascutti	21	Turin	Photomodel	29	161	5th Place
Armando Avellino	25	Catania	Architect	29	154	26th Evicted
Ilenia Pastorelli	25	Rome	Student	1	154	25th Evicted
Vito Mancini	26	Parma	Student	29	147	24th Evicted
Kevin Cagnardi	20	Borgosesia	Unemployed	78	147	23rd Evicted
Cristina Del Basso	24	Varese	Showgirl, actress and model, Grande Fratello season 9 housemate	113	140	22nd Evicted
Valentina "Vale" Marconi	32	Quarata	Butcher	120	140	21st Evicted
Valentina Lanotte	22	Modugno	Showroom business owner	78	133	20th Evicted
Floriana Messina	22	Potenza	Student	1	133	19th Evicted
Ferdinando Giordano	31	Salerno	TV personality, Grande Fratello season 11 housemate	113	127	18th Evicted
Gaetano De Robertis	32	Bari	Event organizer	78	125	Walked
Giusy Muscia	25	Niscemi	Traveller	78	120	17th Evicted
Enrica Maria Saraniti	23	Catania	Psychologist	8	120	16th Evicted
Fabrizio Conti	31	Viareggio	Tattoo artist	50	113	15th Evicted
Amedeo Aterrano	23	Naples	Salesman and model	1	106	14th Evicted
Chiara Giorgiani	22	Milan	Public relations	1	99	13th Evicted
Daniel Mkongo	21	Sorengo, Switzerland	Model, Secret Story season 5 housemate	78	92	Ejected
Rudolf Mernone	23	Rome	Rugby player	1	92	Walked
Monica Sirianni (†)	25	Sydney, Australia	English teacher	64	92	12th Evicted
Luca Di Tolla	34	Eboli	Student and former scientific informant	1	85	11th Evicted
Yassine Mokdad Mamaar	24	Gavardo	Dancer and personal trainer	50	78	10th Evicted
Caterina Siviero	25	Mestre	Dental Hygienist	1	71	9th Evicted
Kiran Maccali	25	Vythiri, India	Farmer	1	64	8th Evicted
Adriana Peluso	21	Salerno	Rhythmic gymnastics teacher	1	57	7th Evicted
Leone Gucciardini	27	Florence	Waiter	1	50	6th Evicted
Sofia D'Altrui	23	Pescara	Student and receptionist	1	43	5th Evicted
Danilo Novelli	22	Bari	Bartender	1	38	Walked
Mirko D'Arpa	31	Rome	Real estate agent	8	37	Walked
Valeria Molin Predel	34	Bolzano	Student and former ice hockey player	1	36	4th Evicted
Filippo Pongiluppi	30	Rimini	Hotelier	1	29	3rd Evicted
Claudia Letizia	32	Pompei	Burlesque performer	1	22	2nd Evicted
Mario Ermito	20	Brindisi	Model	1	15	1st Evicted

The Invaders

On February 13, 2012, Alessia Marcuzzi communicated to viewers that, from that moment on, three former housemates (with the title of "Invaders") would re-enter in the competition with the aim of hindering the path of the current competing housemates towards final victory, namely, Patrick Ray Pugliese (GF4), Cristina Del Basso (GF9) and Ferdinando Giordano (GF10); in fact, they entered the 17th week of this edition.

Initially a "second wave" of "Invaders" was planned for the next episode (i.e. for the 18th week), but then the idea was dropped due to the refusal to participate (due to previous work commitments) of the four former housemates contacted by Endemol Italia. The housemates called to take part in the competition were Roberto Mercandalli (GF 8), the couple made up of Veronica Ciardi and Sarah Nile (GF 10) and George Leonard (GF10).

Nominations table

Week 2 - week 15

	Week 2	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
Sabrina	Not in House											Exempt		Amedeo Giusy	Not eligible	Giusy Amedeo
Gaia	Amedeo	Claudia	Luca	Valeria	Vito	Leone	Amedeo	Amedeo Kiran	Amedeo Vito	Chiara	Yassine	Luca Amedeo	Monica Amedeo	Amedeo Valentina	Not eligible	Amedeo Sabrina
Franco	Not in House						Exempt		Amedeo Caterina	Rudolf	Amedeo	Luca Martina	Monica Chiara	Chiara Kevin	Armando	Martina Giusy
Martina	Not in House			Exempt	Adriana	Gaia	Adriana	Chiara Kiran	Franco Amedeo	Ilenia	Yassine	Monica Franco	Monica Amedeo	Amedeo Giusy	Not eligible	Giusy Valentina
Armando	Not in House			Exempt	Kiran	Gaia	Adriana	Kiran Chiara	Franco Amedeo	Luca	Amedeo	Amedeo Monica	Amedeo Monica	Chiara Giusy	Franco	Giusy Valentina
Ilenia	Sofia	Claudia	Filippo	Kiran	Kiran	Kiran	Kiran	Kiran Chiara	Amedeo Franco	Gaia	Chiara	Luca Monica	Chiara Monica	Chiara Giusy	Not eligible	Valentina Kevin
Vito	Not in House			Exempt	Sofia	Gaia	Adriana	Chiara Amedeo	Amedeo Franco	Rudolf	Luca	Luca Monica	Monica Chiara	Chiara Giusy	Franco	Giusy Valentina
Kevin	Not in House											Exempt		Amedeo Valentina	Armando	Gaetano Valentina
Valentina	Not in House											Exempt		Amedeo Giusy	Not eligible	Amedeo Franco
Floriana	Sofia	Sofia	Mirko	Leone	Kiran	Leone	Amedeo	Martina Kiran	Caterina Armando	Enrica	Martina	Martina Franco	Franco Amedeo	Amedeo Valentina	Not eligible	Franco Sabrina
Gaetano	Not in House											Exempt		Amedeo Kevin	Armando	Kevin Giusy
Giusy	Not in House											Exempt		Amedeo Gaetano	Not eligible	Amedeo Franco
Enrica	Exempt	Gaia	Mirko	Kiran	Vito	Leone	Vito	Kiran Martina	Vito Franco	Floriana	Martina	Amedeo Franco	Amedeo Franco	Amedeo Valentina	Not eligible	Amedeo Sabrina
Fabrizio	Not in House						Exempt		Amedeo Armando	Yassine	Amedeo	Vito Chiara	Amedeo Franco	Not eligible	Gaetano	Amedeo Vito
Amedeo	Sofia	Claudia	Luca	Valeria	Adriana	Gaia	Vito	Vito Martina	Franco Armando	Rudolf	Yassine	Luca Chiara	Chiara Monica	Chiara Kevin	Vito	Giusy Martina	51
Chiara	Mario	Claudia	Valeria	Valeria	Vito	Leone	Vito	Kiran Martina	Franco Caterina	Floriana	Luca	Amedeo Franco	Amedeo Franco	Amedeo Gaetano	Evicted (Day 99)		20
Daniel	Not in House											Exempt		Ejected (Day 92)			N/A
Monica	Not in House								Exempt			Vito Martina	Martina Vito	Evicted (Day 92)			13
Rudolf	Amedeo	Valeria	Filippo	Valeria	Sofia	Gaia	Amedeo	Chiara Amedeo	Caterina Armando	Vito	Martina	Luca Monica	Monica Chiara	Walked (Day 92)			0
Luca	Sofia	Gaia	Mirko	Leone	Vito	Gaia	Adriana	Kiran Vito	Vito Franco	Armando	Vito	Amedeo Vito	Evicted (Day 85)				12
Yassine	Not in House						Exempt		Vito Amedeo	Fabrizio	Amedeo	Evicted (Day 78)					3
Caterina	Mario	Valeria	Valeria	Valeria	Vito	Gaia	Kiran	Kiran Chiara	Amedeo Franco	Evicted (Day 71)							5
Kiran	Mario	Claudia	Valeria	Sofia	Sofia	Gaia	Vito	Chiara Vito	Evicted (Day 64)								18
Adriana	Valeria	Valeria	Valeria	Valeria	Vito	Leone	Amedeo	Evicted (Day 57)									7
Leone	Sofia	Claudia	Luca	Valeria	Sofia	Gaia	Evicted (Day 50)										7
Sofia	Mario	Claudia	Filippo	Valeria	Vito	Evicted (Day 43)											15
Danilo	Valeria	Claudia	Luca	Valeria	Sofia	Walked (Day 38)											0
Mirko	Exempt	Claudia	Filippo	Valeria	Vito	Walked (Day 37)											4
Valeria	Sofia	Kiran	Caterina	Adriana	Evicted (Day 36)												19
Filippo	Sofia	Gaia	Mirko	Evicted (Day 29)													4
Claudia	Amedeo	Gaia	Evicted (Day 22)														9
Mario	Sofia	Evicted (Day 15)															4
Notes	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10		10 , 11	10	10 , 12	10 , 13
Nominated	Mario Sofia	Claudia Gaia	Filippo Luca Mirko Valeria	Kiran Leone Valeria	Sofia Vito	Gaia Leone	Adriana Amedeo Vito	Chiara Kiran	Amedeo Armando Caterina Franco Vito	Amedeo Martina Yassine		Amedeo Luca Monica	Amedeo Chiara Monica	Amedeo Chiara Giusy	Amedeo Franco Giusy Sabrina Valentina
Walked	none				Mirko Danilo	none							Rudolf	none
Ejected	none												Daniel	none
Evicted	Mario 59.19% to evict	Claudia 79.78% to evict	Filippo 37.19% to evict	Valeria 53.60% to evict	Sofia 59.27% to evict	Leone 54.35% to evict	Adriana 55.07% to evict	Kiran 55.24% to evict	Caterina 41.78% to evict	Yassine 66.30% to evict		Luca 52.65% to evict	Monica 38.12% to evict	Chiara 58.76% to evict	Amedeo 34.34% to evict
Survived	Sofia 40,81%	Gaia 20,22%	Luca 25,01% Mirko 23,27% Valeria 14,53%	Leone 26.41% Kiran 19.99%	Vito 40.73%	Gaia 45.65%	Amedeo 30.98% Vito 13.95%	Chiara 44.76%	Vito 16.86% Armando 15.35% Franco 14.04% Amedeo 11.97%	Martina 18.85% Amedeo 14.85%		Monica 40.85% Amedeo 6.50%	Chiara 35.80% Amedeo 26.08%	Amedeo 35.00% Giusy 6.24%	Valentina 31.57% Giusy 15.19% Sabrina 12.61% Franco 6.29%

Week 16 - final

	Week 16		Week 17		Week 18			Week 19	Week 20		Week 21		Week 22			Week 23		Week 24 Final		Nominations received
Sabrina	Vito	Gaia Gaetano	Giusy	Gaia Valentina	Nominated	Ferdinando	Valentina Kevin	Ilenia Gaia	Nominated	Ilenia Gaia	Nominated	Ilenia Gaia	Vito	Nominated	Ilenia Franco	Not eligible	Patrick	Winner (Day 161)		41
Gaia	Fabrizio	Sabrina Gaetano	Gaetano	Sabrina Valentina	Not eligible	Ferdinando	Sabrina Valentina	Sabrina Cristina	Not eligible	Sabrina Cristina	Not eligible	Sabrina Patrick	Ilenia	Ilenia	Sabrina Patrick	Not eligible	Patrick	Runner-Up (Day 161)		20
Patrick	Not in House		Exempt		Not eligible		Valentina Gaia	Floriana Valentina	Cristina	Gaia Vale	Nominated	Gaia Kevin	Martina	Not eligible	Ilenia Armando	Franco	Sabrina	Third Place (Day 161)		13
Franco	Armando	Fabrizio Enrica	Martina	Enrica Valentina	Nominated	Ferdinando	Valentina Martina	Floriana Sabrina	Vale	Sabrina Martina	Nominated	Sabrina Martina	Armando	Patrick	Ilenia Sabrina	Not eligible	Sabrina	Fourth Place (Day 161)		37
Martina	Armando	Fabrizio Valentina	Not eligible	Valentina Kevin	Not eligible	Ferdinando	Valentina Franco	Valentina Franco	Not eligible	Vale Sabrina	Not eligible	Franco Sabrina	Ilenia	Nominated	Sabrina Franco	Sabrina	Armando	Fifth Place (Day 161)		20
Armando	Franco	Fabrizio Giusy	Franco	Valentina Enrica	Giusy	Ferdinando	Valentina Kevin	Floriana Valentina	Ilenia	Sabrina Vale	Sabrina Cristina	Sabrina Patrick	Ilenia	Franco	Sabrina Patrick	Franco	Sabrina	Evicted (Day 154)		6
Ilenia	Vito	Fabrizio Enrica	Gaia	Enrica Valentina	Sabrina	Ferdinando	Valentina Sabrina	Floriana Sabrina	Not eligible	Sabrina Vale	Franco Patrick	Sabrina Patrick	Gaia	Armando	Patrick Franco	Evicted (Day 154)				3
Vito	Sabrina	Fabrizio Enrica	Sabrina	Enrica Valentina	Valentina	Ferdinando	Valentina Kevin	Floriana Valentina	Martina	Vale Cristina	Not eligible	Kevin Patrick	Sabrina	Nominated	Evicted (Day 147)					26
Kevin	Gaia	Gaetano Martina	Not eligible	Valentina Sabrina	Not eligible	Ferdinando	Sabrina Valentina	Sabrina Cristina	Gaia	Sabrina Cristina	Not eligible	Sabrina Patrick	Evicted (Day 147)							15
Cristina	Not in House		Exempt		Not eligible		Gaia Kevin	Valentina Vito	Not eligible	Kevin Vito	Nominated	Evicted (Day 140)								7
Vale	Not in House						Exempt		Not eligible	Martina Ilenia	Evicted (Day 140)									4
Valentina	Fabrizio	Franco Martina	Nominated	Martina Franco	Not eligible	Cristina	Gaetano Sabrina	Armando Sabrina	Nominated	Evicted (Day 133)										35
Floriana	Enrica	Franco Gaetano	Enrica	Franco Sabrina	Franco	Patrick	Franco Sabrina	Cristina Franco	Evicted (Day 133)											5
Ferdinando	Not in House		Exempt		Not eligible	Nominated	Martina Sabrina	Evicted (Day 127)												10
Gaetano	Armando	Kevin Giusy	Not eligible	Valentina Kevin	Not eligible	Ferdinando	Valentina Sabrina	Walked (Day 125)												9
Giusy	Kevin	Franco Sabrina	Not eligible	Sabrina Franco	Nominated	Ferdinando	Evicted (Day 120)													16
Enrica	Floriana	Franco Gaetano	Kevin	Franco Sabrina	Evicted (Day 120)	Patrick	Evicted (Day 120)													7
Fabrizio	Gaia	Franco Martina	Evicted (Day 113)																	5
Amedeo	Evicted (Day 106)																			51
Notes	14		15	none	16	17 , 18		none	19		20		21			22
Nominated	Fabrizio Franco Gaetano		Valentina	Enrica Franco Sabrina Valentina	Franco Giusy Sabrina	Ferdinando Kevin Sabrina Valentina		Floriana Sabrina Valentina	Sabrina Valentina	Sabrina Vale	Cristina Franco Patrick Sabrina	Gaia Kevin Patrick Sabrina	Martina Sabrina Vito		Franco Ilenia Patrick Sabrina	Armando Patrick Sabrina		Franco Gaia Martina Patrick Sabrina
Walked	none					Gaetano		none
Evicted	Fabrizio 54.47% to evict		Valentina 75.69% to save	Enrica 71.08% to evict	Giusy 12.11% to save	Ferdinando 39.94% to evict		Floriana 74.17% to evict	Valentina 58.37% to evict	Vale 65.08% to evict	Cristina 4.89% to save	Kevin 42.12% to evict	Vito 31.95% to save		Ilenia 53.12% to evict	Armando 47.59% to evict		Martina 2.18% (out of 5)	Franco 5.10% (out of 5)
																		Patrick 14.96% (out of 5)	Gaia 24.37% (out of 2)
Survived	Franco 36.06% Gaetano 9.47%		Valentina 24.31% to evict	Franco 17.96% Valentina 5.57% Sabrina 5.39%	Franco 25.57% Sabrina 62.32%	Sabrina 35.17% Kevin 13.82% Valentina 11.07%		Sabrina 19.09% Valentina 6.74%	Sabrina 41.63%	Sabrina 34.92%	Franco 13.93% Patrick 14.03% Sabrina 67.15%	Gaia 27.71% Sabrina 20.29% Patrick 9.89%	Martina 32.45% Sabrina 35.60%		Sabrina 38.31% Franco 7.39% Patrick 1.18%	Sabrina 33.86% Patrick 18.55%		Sabrina 75.63% to win

Notes

• ^1 The public voted for their favourite housemate. Adriana, Danilo and Kiran were the favourite housemates. The producers decided that only Amedeo, Mario, Leone, Sofia and Valeria could be nominated that week.
• ^2 The producers decided that only Claudia, Gaia, Kiran, Sofia and Valeria could be nominated that week.
• ^3 This week the producers decided that every housemate could be nominated.
• ^4 The producers decided that only Adriana, Kiran, Leone, Sofia and Valeria could be nominated that week. Armando, Martina and Vito were immune as they were new housemates.
• ^5 The producers decided that only Adriana, Kiran, Sofia and Vito could be nominated that week.
• ^6 The producers decided that only Adriana, Gaia, Kiran and Leone could be nominated that week.
• ^7 The producers decided that only Adriana, Amedeo, Kiran and Vito could be nominated that week.
• ^8 The producers decided that only Amedeo, Chiara, Kiran, Martina and Vito could be nominated that week. Ilenia was the favourite housemate of the public and she could save one of the nominees. She saved Martina.
• ^9 The producers decided that only Amedeo, Armando, Caterina, Franco and Vito could be nominated that week. Ilenia was the favoutire housemate of the public and she gave immunity to Rudolf.
• ^10 The next 6 housemates received immunity for a month. Floriana and Rudolf were immune because of the housemates. The public gave immunity to Gaia and Ilenia. The producers gave immunity to Enrica and Fabrizio.
• ^11 Amedeo received 3 extra points as he was given a letter of his girlfriend.
• ^12 Fabrizio could not be nominated as he was ill.
• ^13 As Rudolf left the house and he gained immunity some weeks ago, the male housemates voted to give Rudolf's immunity to another male housemate. They gave immunity to Armando.
• ^14 The next 4 housemates received immunity for three weeks. Armando was immune as he was chosen by his fellow housemates. The public gave immunity to Ilenia and Vito. The producers gave immunity to Floriana.
• ^15 The exempt housemates must save one housemate. The housemates who were saved must save another housemate. Valentina was the only one who was not saved and for this reason, she was nominated.
• ^16 The exempt housemates must nominate four housemates. Randomly, Floriana got the safe card so she could save one of the four nominees, she saved Valentina.
• ^17 The housemates must nominate one housemate between Cristina, Ferdinando and Patrick. The nominated housemate, Ferdinando, joined to the final nominees at the end of the night.
• ^18 Cristina and Patrick were immune as they were not nominated the previous round.
• ^19 On round 19 the male housemates had to save a female housemate the only two with no votes were nominated. Sabrina and Valentina didn't receive any vote and were nominated.
• ^20 Armando and Ilenia were chosen by their fellow housemates to be the only ones who could nominate. Armando nominated two female housemates, Cristina and Sabrina. Ilenia nominated two male housemates, Franco and Patrick.
• ^21 On the first part of round 22, the housemates voted to give a place in the final to another housemate. Ilenia was the most voted and she received to immunity. The producers told her that she could keep her immunity, give to other housemates or open a public vote. Ilenia gave her immunity to Gaia. On the second part of round 23, each housemate saved another housemate until three housemates were not saved.
• ^22 The housemates selected Franco to be the second finalist between him and Sabrina. Then the housemates nominated Sabrina, who was the first nominee with the most votes and she chose Patrick to be the second nominee. Patrick chose Armando to be the third nominee.

Controversy

Role of the "Invaders" and management of the edition

The critics did not particularly appreciate the Invaders' entry: the authors of Grande Fratello have totally rejected the complaints made by the critics, and by the public, reaffirming the full and total regularity of the program and the televoting.

Margherita Zanatta (GF11) revealed that she had been contacted before the start of the season by Endemol Italia to participate, as an "Invader" in the twelfth edition, but she refused the proposal: a few weeks before, also Guendalina Tavassi (GF11) had also declared that she had received the same proposal, but she then refused to be able to participate in the ninth season of L'isola dei famosi. From the statements just mentioned by Zanatta and Tavassi, it can be deduced that the Invaders' entry had already been premeditated before the start of the twelfth season of Grande Fratello and not after, as the authors had publicly declared of the program at the time of the Invaders' entry.

On 4 July 2012, Patrick Ray Pugliese, one of the Invaders, gave some interviews in which he made controversial statements about the relationships between the authors, the housemates (including himself as the Invader) and the regulation of Grande Fratello. The controversial statements have aroused various controversies as part of the critics read in them an alleged piloting of the game by the authors of the program through a presumed piloting of the Invaders.

Alleged influence of call centers on televoting

Alfonso Signorini, opinionist of the twelfth edition, in an interview he stated, a few days after the Grade Fratello 12 final, the following: "I believe that within Grande Fratello 12 there was the influence of a few call centers too many: otherwise it is not possible to explain how it is possible that Ilenia, with a fan club of 80,000 people who have not voted all but almost, may have lost to a certain Martina who has 10,000 fans. Maths is not an opinion […] It would be time and time to get organized to ensure that call centers do not interfere with the outcome of a final vote."

Furthermore, Signorini, also in that interview, declared that he had doubts about the fact that Sabrina Mbarek, winner of the twelfth season, did not deserve, in his opinion, this title as Gaia Elide Bruschini, the runner-up, was greeted with a roar from the studio audience while the italian-tunisian coolly. Therefore, the so strong difference in preference between the two competitors, between the studio audience and the one at home, cannot be explained.

References

• Official site (in Italian)
• World of Big Brother