Since the start of Big Brother in 2000 there have been a total of 253 civilian, ten Panto, eight teen, 12 Celebrity Hijack and 14 ultimate housemates; 151 men and 170 women. There have been 19 winners of Big Brother; eleven men and eight women. The youngest winner is Cameron Cole, who was 19 at the time of winning Big Brother 19 , and the oldest is Jason Burrill, who was 45 when he won Big Brother 17 . Winners Nadia Almada and Luke Anderson have both had gender correcting surgery.
Big Brother is the British version of the international reality television franchise Big Brother created by producer John de Mol in 1997. Originally broadcast between 2000 and 2018, the show followed 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. The series takes its name from the character in George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The series premiered on 18 July 2000 on Channel 4, and immediately became a ratings hit. The series also featured a 24-hour live feed, in which fans could view inside the house at any time. Big Brother aired for eleven series on Channel 4, followed by one final special edition, Ultimate Big Brother, which ended on 10 September 2010. Following this, Channel 5 acquired the rights to the series, and it was officially relaunched on 18 August 2011. In 2014, Emma Willis announced that the show would be back for a sixteenth series in 2015. It was announced on 19 March 2015 that the show would remain on air until at least 2018.
Big Brother Panto is a special series of Big Brother that brought together ten housemates from previous Big Brothers to produce the pantomime Cinderella. It aired from 20 December 2004 to 5 January 2005 on the Channel 4 network.
Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack was a special series of Celebrity Big Brother, a spin-off series of the British reality television programme Big Brother. It was broadcast on E4 from 3–28 January 2008. A number of closely associated programmes also aired on the same channel. Dermot O'Leary – who had hosted Big Brother's Little Brother since 2001 – was the main host of Celebrity Hijack, and it was his final series of Big Brother.
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The average age of the winners of Big Brother is 25 years old. 16 housemates from Big Brother have been housemates twice, in their own series and Big Brother Panto or Ultimate Big Brother . A total of 177 housemates have been evicted, 15 have been ejected, one left due to injury and 23 have walked from the Big Brother House. Only one housemate, Nikki Grahame, has been voted back into the house after being evicted. Nick Bateman and Victor Ebuwa are the only people to have been housemates in three series; Big Brother, Big Brother Panto and Ultimate Big Brother. Jade Goody had also been in three different series and is to date the only civilian housemate to have been a housemate in Celebrity Big Brother , as well as appearing in Big Brother and Big Brother Panto. Furthermore, Nikki Grahame has appeared in 4 series of the show in total, Big Brother 7, Ultimate Big Brother, Big Brother 16 and Big Brother Canada. In 2010, Big Brother 2 winner Brian Dowling was crowned Ultimate Champion over the first 11 series of Big Brother on Channel 4.
Ultimate Big Brother was the final series of the UK reality television programme Big Brother to air on Channel 4. It has now ended. The series was produced by Remarkable Pictures, a division of Endemol. It featured memorable housemates from previous series of Big Brother, and a smaller section of housemates from Celebrity Big Brother. A 24-hour live streaming service was also 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".
Nicola Rachel-Beth Grahame is an English television personality, writer, model, and fashion designer. Grahame rose to public prominence after appearing on Big Brother 7, and went on to star in her own reality television series, Princess Nikki. In 2006, she won a National Television Award for Most Popular TV Contender. In 2010, she finished as runner-up in Ultimate Big Brother. In 2016, Grahame appeared in the fourth season of Big Brother Canada. She finished in sixth place, being evicted on Day 63.
Nicholas Bateman, also known as "Nasty Nick", is a British media personality and a former contestant on the first series of the British version of Big Brother.
The best placed housemate of all time is Brian Belo, placing first out of a record 23 housemates in Big Brother 8. The worst placed housemate is Emily Parr, also of Big Brother 8, who came 23rd after being ejected from the house.
There have been 40 housemates born outside of the United Kingdom, originating from countries such as Ireland, Somalia, Morocco, Portugal, South Africa, Turkey, Poland, Zimbabwe, Italy, China, Canada, Nigeria, Greece, India, Uganda, Thailand, Egypt, Australia, Sierra Leone, Pakistan, Brazil, Iran, Georgia, Singapore and the United States. Nadia Almada from Portugal, Brian Dowling from Ireland, Brian Belo from Nigeria and most recently Luke Anderson from South Africa have all become winners.
