Big Brother (British TV series) series 4

Template:Big Brother endgame Big Brother 4 in 2003 was the fourth series of Big Brother in the UK, a reality show shown on Channel 4 in which a number of contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize at the end of the run. The series ran from Friday 23 May to Friday 25 July 2003.

The fourth series saw several surprises. Four housemates were nominated on the opening night after the housemates were told to make instant nominations based on first impressions, with every housemate receiving even one nomination facing the public vote; of the four, Anouska was evicted one week later. One housemate, Cameron Stout, accepted a challenge from Big Brother and discovered it meant spending a week in the Big Brother Africa house (one of the African housemates, Gaetano, spent some time in the UK house in return). There was a surprise double eviction, new housemate, and return by evicted housemate Jon Tickle for the last two weeks (he was not eligible to win, though he opted not to tell his housemates this). The £70,000 prize was eventually won by Cameron. Several housemates later had presenting or acting jobs.

The reaction to this series was poor, the press and viewers finding the housemates boring. Endemol turned "evil" and selected more extreme housemates the next year.

After Big Brother, Cameron Stout, Jon Tickle and Ray Shah went on to have successful careers in the media industry. Cameron Stout is an occasional columnist with The Sunday Post newspaper and has appeared in panto in Aberdeen, Jon Tickle co-presents Brainiac: Science Abuse on UK television's Sky One, now in its fourth series and Ray Shah now works in the radio, television and entertainment industry in Ireland. He presents radio shows on Dublin's Q102 and TV shows on City Channel. Ray also works as a club DJ playing at venues around Ireland.

In a poll aired on E4 on 13 May 2006, Gos was voted the least popular housemate of all time.

Total number of votes in the final week: 4.3 million

Housemates

Anouska

Anouska Golebiewski (born 8 November 1982) was a nursery assistant from Greater Manchester. She became the victim of the shock nominations on Day 1 being nominated by 6 housemates and she was the first evictee of the series on Day 8. She then went on appear in the Big Brother house in Australia which she stayed for 10 days. In December 2004, She was one of the ex-housemates who appeared in the Big Brother Panto.

Cameron

Cameron Stout (born 8 March 1971 in Stromness, Orkney) was the winner of Big Brother 2003. Before the contest, Stout had worked as a fish trader for an American company in Orkney in Scotland. Stout was known for his strong fundamentalist evangelical Christian beliefs and was proud in admitting his virginity. For this, and his belief that sex should only take place within marriage, he was mocked by the British tabloid press as a 'bible basher'. Whilst sewing a shamrock — a symbol of Ireland — Stout was heard whistling The Sash [1][2].

During the series he accepted a challenge from Big Brother and discovered it meant spending a week in the Big Brother Africa house (one of the African housemates, Gaetano, spent some time in the UK house in return)..

Federico

Federico Martone (born 2 April 1980) was a waiter from Glasgow and he got evicted during a double eviction with Jon on Day 29.

Went to Bannerman High School, Glasgow. Later appeared in a cameo on Bo Selecta.

Gaetano

Gaetano Kagwa (born 1971) from Uganda was the housemate from the Big Brother house in Africa which he swapped place with Cameron for 4 days. He later finished 5th in the African programme. He was only Guest on UK Version of Big Brother and was not eligible to win.

Gos

Herjender "Gos" Gosal (born 28 July 1971) is a chef from London. He got evicted on Day 44 beaten by Ray and Nush, the day after the bomb scare in front of no crowd.

Jon

Jonathan "Jon" Tickle (born 8 May 1974, in Staines) previously appeared as a contestant on the game show Blockbusters in 1991. He was evicted along with Federico on Day 29 but returned to the house on Day 50 when viewers voted him back into the house where he stayed until the full 64 days.

Voted 13th most popular housemate of all time, Tickle has more fan websites than any other housemate, most notably "Jon Tickle - The Legend". He is also, famously, the object of devotion of the Brethren of the Church of Jon - a still thriving organisation set up in his honour on the Channel 4 Big Brother forums during Big Brother 4. He was also a contestant on a celebrity edition of Distraction winning roughly £3,200 for cancer research.

Tickle, a physics graduate of the University of Leicester, has gone on to co-present Brainiac: Science Abuse, a series of science-based shows on the UK television station Sky One, in which he is the 'sciencey one' and the most daring of all Brainiacs, in contrast to Richard Hammond who was a more entertainment focused presenter.

Justine

Justine Sellman (born 17 November 1975) was a sales assistant from Leeds. She is self confessed as not being able to cook. She got evicted on Day 15. She later dated 2000 contestant Nick Bateman and used to sell chain mail to the fetish industry.

Lisa

Lisa Jeynes (born January 1968) was a shop manager from South Wales. She was once voted the 46th most beautiful woman in Wales. She arrived on Day 30 and got evicted on Day 50. Lisa did however attempt to reapply to enter the following year's show, from which she was automatically turned away.

Nush

Annuszka "Nush" Nowak (born September 1979) is a sales assistant and a hippy girl from Malvern. She got evicted on Day 57. She had a brief relationship with Scott in which she was later dumped by her real boyfriend during the series. Following Big Brother she dated J-Roc from Big Brovaz. After attending a Big Brother reunion party she was mugged.

Ray

Ray Shah (born January 1978) was an IT Systems Administrator and was the runner-up of the series. He is from Dublin. He now works in the radio, television and entertainment industry in Ireland. He presents radio shows on Dublin's Q102 and TV shows on City Channel. Ray also works as a club DJ playing at venues around Ireland.

Scott

Scott Turner (born 23 September 1975, Liverpool) finished 3rd place in the series. He had a brief relationship with Nush.

Sissy

Joanne "Sissy" Rooney (born 17 October 1976) is from Liverpool and she was evicted on Day 22.

Steph

Stephanie Coldicott (born 28 May 1975) was a visual merchandiser from Redditch and was married to a footballer. She finished 4th place in the series. She now works as as a discipline and learning officer in a school in Worcestershire.

Tânia

Tânia do Nascimento (born July 1980), was from London. The Sunday Mirror later confirmed during her time in the house that she once had a relationship with singer Peter Andre.

She got evicted on Day 36. She later had a baby and moved to Germany.

Nominations table

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9
Cameron	Anouska	Jon, Tania	Jon, Federico	Jon, Federico	Tania, Nush	Nush, Ray	Not eligible	Nush, Ray	Winner
Ray	Jon	Jon, Justine	Jon, Cameron	Jon, Cameron	Tania, Steph	Nush, Gos	Cameron, Lisa, Steph	Nush, Cameron	2nd place
Scott	Anouska	Steph, Jon	Steph, Jon	Jon, Cameron	Steph, Tania	Gos, Steph	Not eligible	Steph, Cameron	3rd place
Steph	Federico	Scott, Federico	Jon, Sissy	Federico, Ray	Ray, Nush	Ray, Nush	Not eligible	Scott, Nush	4th place
Nush	Scott	Ray, Jon	Jon, Federico	Federico, Jon	Gos, Steph	Steph, Gos	Not eligible	Steph, Cameron	Evicted (Day 57)
Lisa	Not in house					Exempt	Not eligible	Evicted (Day 50)
Gos	Anouska	Justine, Jon	Federico, Sissy	Federico, Scott	Ray, Nush	Ray, Nush	Evicted (Day 44)
Tania	Jon	Cameron, Sissy	Jon, Sissy	Cameron, Jon	Gos, Scott	Evicted (Day 36)
Jon	Anouska	Justine, Federico	Sissy, Nush	Federico, Ray	Evicted (Day 29)			Guest (exempt from nominations)
Federico	Jon	Justine, Tania	Cameron, Steph	Tania, Cameron	Evicted (Day 29)
Sissy	Anouska	Ray, Scott	Scott, Federico	Evicted (Day 22)
Justine	Anouska	Jon, Ray	Evicted (Day 15)
Anouska	Jon	Evicted (Day 8)
Nomination note	See note 1	None	None	See note 2	See note 3	See note 4	See note 5	See note 6	See note 7
Against public vote	Anouska, Federico, Jon, Scott	Jon, Justine	Federico, Jon, Sissy	Cameron, Federico, Jon	Nush, Steph, Tania	Gos, Nush, Ray	Cameron, Lisa, Steph	Cameron, Nush	Cameron, Ray, Scott, Steph
Evicted	Anouska 45.9% to evict	Justine 57% to evict	Sissy 45% to evict	Federico 40.1% to evict	Tania 72.02% to evict	Gos 46.3% to evict	Lisa 82.25% to evict	Nush 66.87% to evict	Steph 7% (out of 4)	Scott 26.7% (out of 3)
				Jon 37% to evict					Ray 42.5% (out of 2)	Cameron 57.5% to win

Nomination totals

Anouska	Cameron	Federico	Gos	Jon	Justine	Lisa	Nush	Ray	Scott	Sissy	Steph	Tania
6	11	12	5	21	4	1	10	11	6	5	10	6

Notes

• Template:Fnb All housemates had to nominate one fellow housemate on Day 1, only a short while after they had entered the house. Every housemate who received a nomination faced eviction.
• Template:Fnb In Week 4, there was a "double eviction".
• Template:Fnb Cameron made his nominations from the Big Brother House in South Africa over the phone to Gaetano. Even though he was allowed to nominate, nobody could nominate him.
• Template:Fnb As Lisa had only entered the house a couple of days earlier, she was exempt from nominations. As Cameron had only recently returned to the house from South Africa, he was allowed to nominate, but not be nominated. On Day 43, the night the eviction was supposed to be on, a bomb scare forced all housemates to be evacuated. The eviction, therefore, happened the next day, on Day 44 (a Saturday). When Gos was evicted, there was no crowd outside due to Health & Safety precautions.
• Template:Fnb Ray, as leader of the house in Week 7, had to choose the three housemates to face eviction. When Lisa was evicted, Federico, Gos, Jon, Justine, Lisa and Sissy, had the opportunity to be a guest in the Big Brother house. Anouska couldn't go back because she was a guest in the Big Brother Australian house. Tania didn't want to go back into the Big Brother house. The public voted for Jon to go back in, but he wasn't eligible to win.
• Template:Fnb Because Jon was a guest in the house, and was not eligible to win, he was exempt from nominations.
• Template:Fnb There were no nominations in the final week.

The series averaged 4.7 million considering the bad press it was getting.

Bomb scare

At 7:58 on Day 43, Big Brother had asked all housemates to go to the boys' bedroom until further notice because of a security alert inside the studios and staff left 20 minutes earlier, except for senior members of the production team who watched the house mates behind the mirrors, as the Big Brother gallery is unmanned after police advised to leave the house.

At 8:43, Police advised the house be evacuated. But since the Gallery is unmanned, Big Brother had no method of communicating with the house, so they had to enter the house.

Senior members of the production team lead the house mates out via the camera runs, and taken to a secure area on the perimeter of the studio complex, with 2 chaperons and 4 security guards.

At 9:35pm, Marcus Bentley told the viewing audience that Big Brother had been continuously recording for 1009 hours and 15 minutes. Each set of tapes have a maximum recording time of just over 3 hours. The tapes were put in at 6:30pm. Moments later, the cameras went off.

At 12:49am, the Housemates were allowed to go back into the house after the police gave the all clear. The eviction took place the following day.

External links

• Big Brother - Series 4 at Channel4.com