Teen Big Brother: The Experiment

Template:Big Brother endgame Teen Big Brother was a United Kingdom spin off of the popular television programme Big Brother in which teenagers inhabited the house. The show was presented by Dermot O'Leary.

Overview

Featuring eight 18-year-olds, it was broadcast in October 2003 on Channel 4 and E4. Trailed as 'The Experiment', Teen Big Brother was originally shot in advance over the course of ten days during July and August 2003, to air in 2003 as an educational item, screened as part of Channel 4's 4Learning programming. The tasks were created so as to promote such values as cooperation and team spirit, and topics like politics and religion were discussed. After editing, however, the footage was felt to be compelling enough for a more mass-market time slot, so the show was moved ahead to October 2003 and formatted to be shown over one week (five episodes).

Teen Big Brother was different from the original Big Brother UK series in a number of ways. Since it was pre-recorded, the contestants themselves and not the audience decided which housemates were to be voted out. At the end, the eventual winner of a grand prize was decided by group decision (a cash prize was replaced by a round-the-world trip). No alcohol or cigarettes were allowed. The basic premise of the show, however, remained the same, and no special treatment was made for the housemates.

On Day Six/Seven, Jade Dyer and Tommy Wright became the first Big Brother UK contestants to have sex on the show in its history. According to The Independent, this was the first real-life sexual act shown on British television (although nothing explicit was seen; the two were under bedcovers). This sparked controversy in the British media and comment on teenage safe sex education.

Paul Brennan was voted the winner, and selected Caroline Cloke to accompany him in sharing the prize of a fully paid three-month round-the-world tour. A programme about the tour was mentioned on the final episode, and was to be broadcast on E4 a few months later, but never was due to lack of interest. In addition he won a period of work experience selected for his interests, with a New York fashion designer.

An edited version of Teen Big Brother – The Experiment was eventually broadcast in January 2004 as part of 4Learning's morning schedule and was designed with formal curriculum teaching in mind. The incident featuring Jade and Tommy did not appear in this edit.

Housemates

Paul Brennan

Paul Brennan was voted as the winner of Teen Big Brother on day 10, meaning he won a trip around the world.

Caroline, Tracey and Jade voted for him to win Teen Big Brother. Since September 2009, Paul lives in Belfast and has established himself in the adult film world. In a recent television interview Paul quelled rumours of a rift between him and transsexual business partner, Belfast model agency owner, Tracy Hall. Paul lives with his long term partner and local makeup artist Michael Curran. Paul and Michael recently announced their plans for a civil partnership with a view to adopt it is rumoured that wedding guests would include local celebrities Louis Walsh, Julian Simmons and Daniel O'Donnell.

Caroline Cloke

Caroline Cloke came second. Paul chose her to go on the trip with him.

Tracey Fowler

Tracey Fowler came third, she received one vote from Tommy.

Tommy Wright

Tommy Wright came joint fourth with Jade, receiving no votes to win.

Jade Dyer

Jade Dyer came joint fourth with Tommy, receiving no votes to win.

James Kelly

James Kelly was disqualified from the competition, meaning that he could not win Teen Big Brother. He did, however stay until the final day and despite being unable to win himself, he was able to vote for another person to win.

Shaneen Dawkins

Shaneen Dawkins was the second housemate to be evicted on day 8, she was nominated against everybody except for Caroline. The housemates had to nominate one housemate they wanted to save, she received no votes and left the house.

Hasan Shah

Hasan Shah was the first housemate to be evicted on day 5, being nominated against Shaneen. He has since gone on to do various acting work, notably being the face (and voice) of Chilli Talk calling cards. along with other film and TV work.

Summary

Day 1	Entrances	Caroline, Hasan, Jade, James, Paul, Shaneen, Tommy, and Tracey entered the House.
	Tasks	As a test for the housemates, Big Brother blocked the toilet and the housemates had to unblock it themselves.
Day 2	Tasks	Big Brother set the teenagers their shopping task, that would determine their budget for the next 8 days. Housemates had to fully crew a simulated flight from London to Birmingham without crashing. Housemates gambled 75% of their shopping budget on the task. They failed the task as they crashed on landing.
Day 4	Tasks	Today, all housemates were split into pairs and each person had to teach something personal to them to their partner in 5 hours. At the end of the 5 hours, Big Brother tested them on their new skills. The pairs were Shaneen/Caroline, Tommy/Hasan, Tracey/James and Paul/Jade. Everyone passed the task and they won two food hampers.
Day 5	Exits	By a vote of 4 to 2, Hasan was the first housemate to be evicted from the Teen Big Brother House.
Day 6	Tasks	At 18, the housemates's personalities are defined by what they wear. Big Brother provided every housemate with a boiler suit and they were only allowed to wear this suit and underwear. Housemates were also only allowed a toothbrush, one toothpaste and a bottle of shower gel each until further notice. During the day, Big Brother set housemates a series of mini-tasks to challenge gender stereotypes. Housemates would be eliminated if they lost their match and in the end there would be one winner of the task. Tracey and James played a game of basketball to challenge their aim and accuracy. James theoretically should have won due to the stereotype, but Tracey won the game. Tracey and Jade were challenged to build a tower of building blocks, with the tallest tower winning. Jade won and picked Tommy to challenge her in the next round. Jade and Tommy had to play a game of tag. Jade won the game. Caroline defeated Jade in a test of awareness but the details of this task are unknown, other than it involved watching something on the plasma screen. In the final challenge, Caroline faced Paul at answering a series of questions to get the combinations of a number of safes. The person to open the most number of safes (Caroline) won the task and her reward was to be pampered by her fellow housemates with various beauty products and exemption from the eviction process in the next round of nominations.
Day 8	Tasks	Today, housemates had to paint a group portrait to test their interpretation skills.
	Exits	Shaneen was evicted on Day 8, receiving no votes to save in the nominations.
Day 9	Tasks	On the morning of Day 9, Big Brother ordered the housemates to clean the House thoroughly. In the afternoon, housemates were required to form a pop group and write and perform a song in Spanish. Housemates passed this task and won a party.
Day 10	Punishments	James was disqualified because he had received 3 official warnings from Big Brother. Big Brother allowed him to stay until the end, since it was the last day.
	Exits	The final 6 exited the House with Paul as the winner and Caroline as the runner-up.

Nominations table

	Day 3	Day 5	Day 7	Final Day 10
				Round 1	Round 2
Paul	Tracey, Hasan	Hasan	Jade	Caroline	Winner (Day 10)
Caroline	Paul, Jade	Hasan	Exempt	Paul	Runner-up (Day 10)
Tracey	Paul, Shaneen	Shaneen	Tommy	Paul	Third place (Day 10)
Jade	Hasan, Tommy	Hasan	Paul	Paul	Fourth place (Day 10)
Tommy	Jade, Shaneen	Shaneen	Tracey	Tracey	Fourth place (Day 10)
James	Hasan, Shaneen	Hasan	Tommy	Caroline	Disqualified (Day 10)
Shaneen	Hasan, Tracey	Nominated	James	Evicted (Day 8)
Hasan	Shaneen, Paul	Nominated	Evicted (Day 5)
Nomination note	See note 1		See note 2	See note 3
Up for eviction	Hasan, Shaneen		Jade, James, Paul, Shaneen, Tommy, Tracey	Caroline, Jade, Paul, Tommy, Tracey
Disqualified	none			James
Evicted	Hasan 4 of 6 votes to evict		Shaneen 0 of 6 votes to save
				Jade 0 votes to win	Tommy 0 votes to win
				Tracey 1 vote to win	Caroline 2 votes to win
				Paul 3 votes to win

^Note 1 : Housemates nominated two housemates for eviction. Hasan and Shaneen were the two housemates receiving the most nominations. The other six housemates were asked to discuss amongst themselves who should be evicted, and they chose Hasan.

^Note 2 : Housemates nominated one housemate to save from eviction. Caroline was exempt, because she had won a task. Shaneen received no votes, therefore she was evicted.

^Note 3 : Housemates nominated a fellow housemate to win. James was disqualified from winning, although he was allowed to vote. Paul received the most votes, therefore he won. Big Brother asked Paul to choose another housemate to share the prize. Paul chose Caroline.

External links

• Teen Big Brother at Channel4.com
• Teen Big Brother - From UKBB.Net
• The Big Brother Forum at DigitalSpy.co.uk