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Big Brother is a reality show shown on RTL Televizija 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. It is based on the international Big Brother format produced by Endemol.

The house was situated in Jadran Film studios, in Dubrava section of Zagreb.

There were three seasons - 2004, 2005 and 2006

[edit] First season (2004)

The first Croatian season of Big Brother ran for 100 days, starting on 2004-09-18 and ending on 2004-12-26. It received high ratings and proved to be one of the rare successes for RTL Televizija in its first six months on Croatian television markets.

Despite huge commercial success and becoming cultural phenomenon of its season, the first season was subjected to much criticism. Andrija Hebrang, Croatian health minister at the time, complained about contestants smoking while the programme on air, which was against Croatian laws. In response to this, later live broadcasts were time-delayed. The show also created minor controversy due to a single homophobic statement made by Zdravko Lamot.

Other critics complained about lack of diversity among contestants who didn't represent the average of Croatian population. They were mostly all in mid-20s, attending college, having liberal mindset and coming from well-to-do or upper-middle class families. Another exception was Saša Tkalčević, 32-year old biker from Bjelovar, husband and father of two children. He almost immediately established himself as frontrunner, indicating that the audience for the show and pool of potential voters was much older than previously thought.

The surprise eviction of Sanja Kvastek, a contestant whose image embodied various alternative lifestyles, also indicated that the audience was much more socially conservative than many observers had thought.

In this first season, there were 12 original housemates. Later, two new housemates entered the house. Here all the participants:

Saša Tkalčević (32) - Winner on Day 100
Zdravko Lamot (23) - Runner-up on Day 100
Alen Macinić (24) - 3rd place on Day 100
Marina Bajlo (24) - 4th place on Day 100
Antonija Blaće (24) - 8th evicted on Day 91
Valentina Tasić (23) - 7th evicted on Day 84
Ana Gotovac (30) - 6th evicted on Day 77
Željko Mađarić (29) - 5th evicted on Day 70 (He entered on Day 28)
Sanja Kvastek (23) - 4th evicted on Day 63
Vlatka Kraljić (24) - 3rd evicted on Day 49 (She entered on Day 28)
Filip Voloder (25) - 2nd evicted on Day 35
Ozren Petrić (29) - Left the house on Day 23
Krešo Jengić (24) - Expelled by Big Brother on Day 22
Egle Brožić (25) - 1st evicted on Day 14

	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	#7	#8	#9	FINAL
Saša	Egle Filip	Alen Marina	Alen Marina	Antonija Vlatka	Antonija Sanja	Antonija Marina	Antonija Marina	Antonija Valentina	Antonija Marina	Winner
Zdravko	Ozren Sanja	Krešo Ozren	Antonija Sanja	Sanja Vlatka	Marina Sanja	Antonija Marina	Antonija Valentina	Antonija Valentina	Antonija Marina	2nd
Alen	Ana Filip	Ana Ozren	Filip Valentina	Vlatka Željko	Sanja Valentina	Ana Valentina	Ana Antonija	Antonija Valentina	Antonija Saša	3rd
Marina	Egle Ozren	Ozren Sanja	Sanja Zdravko	Vlatka Željko	Sanja Željko	Saša Željko	Alen Ana	Antonija Saša	Saša Zdravko	4th
Antonija	Alen Zdravko	Alen Ozren	Filip Zdravko	Saša Zdravko	Alen Željko	Alen Željko	Alen Zdravko	Marina Saša	Saša Zdravko	Evicted
Valentina	Egle Ozren	Krešo Ozren	Alen Filip	Alen Vlatka	Ana Željko	Alen Željko	Alen Ana	Alen Zdravko	Evicted
Ana	Alen Egle	Filip Ozren	Filip Marina	Vlatka Željko	Alen Željko	Alen Željko	Alen Marina	Evicted
Željko	Not in the house		skipped	Ana Antonija	Alen Marina	Alen Valentina	Evicted
Sanja	Alen Egle	Marina Zdtavko	Marina Zdravko	Ana Vlatka	Marina Željko	Evicted
Vlatka	Not in the house		skipped	Marina Zdravko	Evicted
Filip	Antonija Ozren	Krešo Ozren	Antonija Valentina	Evicted
Ozren	Krešo Zdravko	Marina Zdravko	Left voluntarily
Krešo	Egle Ozren	Ana Ozren	Escaped
Egle	Krešo Ozren	Evicted
Up for eviction	Egle Ozren	Krešo Marina Ozren	Filip Marina Zdravko	Vlatka Željko	Sanja Željko	Alen Željko	Alen Ana Antonija	Antonija Valentina	Antonija Saša	Alen Marina Saša Zdravko
Evicted	Egle 71%	Krešo escaped from the House Ozren left volontairly	Filip 55%	Vlatka 84%	Sanja 73%	Željko 64%	Ana 51%	Valentina 63%	Antonija 80%	Marina 6% Alen 7% Zdravko 10%
Not evicted	Ozren 29%	Marina	Marina 26% Zdravko 19%	Željko 16%	Zeljko 27%	Alen 36%	Alen 13% Antonija 26%	Antonija 37%	Saša 20%	Saša 77%

[edit] Second season (2005) -ended-

Second season ran for 118 days, from 4th September to 30th December 2005.

Second season had radical changes in the format of show - the number of contestants was initially raised from 12 to 14; the pace of evictions and nominations was accelerated, and number of contestants were introduced at later stages.

The composition of contestants was different - they were much younger, less educated and generally perceived to be less mature. They also tended to represent various sections of Croatian population, missing in previous season. This was most evident with Matko Okmažić from Omiš, 25-year old son of restaurant owner, later revealed to be candidate of far right parties at local elections. Okmažić, although popular with contestants, outraged many liberal Croatians with his chauvinist views and later had to publicly apologise after singing "Jasenovac i Gradiška Stara", controversial song of Croatian far right singer Joško Tomičić.

Despite this, Okmažić gradually evolved as the frontrunner for the prize. He never got nominated and was part of unofficial clan of self-declared "finalists". One of those was Hamdija Seferović, the only Roma contestant in the show. Mild-mannered and soft-spoken Seferović gradually won great deal of sympathies among Croatian public, first by publicly admitting his lack of primary education, then by cultivating the image of dedicated family man.

Because of this, the actual finals proved to be quite unpredictable. This was also due to Daca Bosančić, candidate who entered finals despite her female gender, status of replacement candidate and ethnic Serb background. In the end Seferović finished first and Bosančić finished second.

This result was often perceived as the victory of liberal-minded and pro-European Croatians over the right-wingers embodied in Matko Okmažić.

The second season, just like first, also had its share of criticism - mostly due to lack of creativity among producers - but surprisingly the rating were higher than the first seasons. There were also complaints about bet shops influencing the ultimate result by publishing low odds for evictees early in the week and many conspiracy theories about huge bets being used as a tool for manipulations.

Hamdija Seferović (26) - WINNER on Day 118
Daca Bosančić (21) - (entered on Day 55, runner-up on Day 118 )
Matko Okmažić (25) - (3rd place on Day 118)
Ivan Grgec (24) - (4th place on day 118)
Tatjana Čehić (25) - (entered on Day 76, 17th evicted on day 111)
Matea Matić (22) - (entered on Day 55, 16 th evicted on Day 104)
Željka Lukić (23) - (entered on Day 55, 15th evicted on Day 97)
Maroje Sabljić (28) - (entered on Day 76, 14th evicted on Day 90)
Kristian Stojić (28) - (13th evicted on Day 83)
Sanja Močibob (22) - (12th evicted on Day 76)
Dominik Rožić (24) - (11th entered on Day 55, evicted on Day 69)
Lana Škurić (24) - (10th evicted on Day 62)
Duje Katalenić (28) - (9th evicted on Day 55)
Hana Šoljan (20) - (entered on Day 27, 8th evicted on day 48)
Kristina Abolić (25) - (7th evicted on Day 41)
Igor Knežević (29) - (6th evicted on day 34)
Monika Maleš (28) - (5th evicted on day 27)
Brankica Čonda (25) - (4th evicted on Day 20)
Nataša Gajić (21) - (3rd evicted on Day 13)
Biserka Dolenec (42) - (2nd evicted on Day 6)
Rene Nemarnik (20) - (1st evicted on Day 6)

NOMINATIONS	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	#7	#8	#9	#10	#11	#12	#13	#14	#15	#16	FINAL part1	FINAL part2	SUPER FINAL
Hamdija	automatically nominated	Kristina Nataša	Brankica Monika	Kristina Lana	Lana Sanja	Kristian Kristina	Hana Kristian	Big Brother punishment	Lana Sanja	Daca Dominik	Matea Sanja	Daca Matea	Maroje Matea	Daca Matea	Matea Tatjana	Daca Tatjana	participated	participated	WINNER
Daca	Not in the House								Skipped	Hamdija Kristian	Hamdija Ivan	Hamdija Ivan	Maroje Tatjana	Matko Željka	Matea Tatjana	Ivan Matko	participated	participated	2nd
Matko	automatically nominated	Kristina Nataša	Kristina Monika	Kristina Monika	Igor Kristina	Ivan Kristina	Hana Sanja	Big Brother punishment	Lana Sanja	Daca Dominik	Daca Matea	Daca Matea	Daca Maroje	Matea Željka	Matea Tatjana	Daca Tatjana	participated	3rd
Ivan	automatically nominated	Brankica Kristina	Brankica Igor	Monika Sanja	Lana Sanja	Kristian Sanja	Kristian Sanja	Big Brother punishment	Lana Sanja	Dominik Matea	Matea Sanja	Daca Željka	Maroje Tatjana	Matea Željka	Matea Tatjana	Daca Tatajana	4th
Tatjana	Not in the House											Skipped	Ivan Maroje	Ivan Matea	Daca Ivan	Daca Ivan	Evicted
Matea	Not in the House								Skipped	Hamdija Ivan	Hamdija Matko	Hamdija Željka	Maroje Tatjana	Hamdija Tatjana	Ivan Matko	Evicted
Željka	Not in the House								Skipped	Dominik Hamdija	Hamdija Matea	Ivan Matea	Maroje Tatjana	Matea Tatjana	Evicted
Maroje	Not in the House											Skipped	Matea Željka	Evicted
Kristian	automatically hominated	Kristina Monika	Kristina Monika	Kristina Monika	Ivan Igor	Ivan Kristina	Hana Kristina	Big Brother punishment	Hamdija Ivan	Dominik Matea	Daca Matea	Big Brother punishment	Evicted
Sanja	automatically hominated	Monika Nataša	Duje Kristina	Duje Kristina	Ivan Igor	Duje Ivan	Duje Hamdija	Big Brother punishment	Matko Hamdija	Hamdija Ivan	Ivan Kristian	Evicted
Dominik	Not in the House								Skipped	Ivan Kristian	Evicted
Lana	automatically hominated	Kristina Monika	Igor Kristina	Igor Kristina	Duje Igor	Duje Ivan	Hana Ivan	Big Brother punishment	Hamdija Ivan	Evicted
Duje	automatically hominated	Kristina Nataša	Kristina Sanja	Igor Monika	Igor Lana	Kristina Sanja	Hana Lana	Big Brother punishment	Evicted
Hana	Not in the House				skipped		Hamdija Kristian	Evicted
Kristina	automatically hominated	Brankica Igor	Duje Matko	Igor Matko	Igor Kristian	Duje Ivan	Evicted
Igor	automatically hominated	Brankica Kristina	Brankica Kristina	Kristina Monika	Kristina Lana	Evicted
Monika	automatically hominated	Duje Nataša	Duje Kristina	Duje Igor	Evicted
Brankica	automatically hominated	Kristina Igor	Kristina Igor	Evicted
Nataša	automatically hominated	Hamdija Kristina	Evicted
Biserka	automatically hominated	Evicted
Rene	automatically nominated	Evicted
Nominated	Biserka Duje Brankica Hamdija Kristina Igor Lana Ivan Monika Kristian Nataša Matko Sanja Rene	Kristina Nataša	Duje Brankica Kristina Igor Monika	Kristina Monika	Igor Lana	Kristina Ivan	Kristian Hana	Duje Hamdija Lana Ivan Kristian Matko Sanja	Lana Sanja	Hamdija Dominik	Hamdija Ivan Kristian Sanja Daca Matea	Kristian Daca Matea	Maroje Tatjana	Matea Željka	Tatjana Matea	Daca Tatjana	Hamdija Ivan Matko Daca	Hamdija Matko Daca	Hamdija Daca
Evicted	Rene (29%)Biserka (19%)	Nataša (55%)	Brankica (43%)	Monika (66%)	Igor (70%)	Kristina (75%)	Hana (57%)	Duje (35%)	Lana (53%)	Dominik (54%)	Sanja (28%)	Kristian (58%)	Maroje (68%)	Željka (64%)	Matea (52%)	Tatjana (81%)	Ivan (22%)	Matko (30%)	Daca (48%)
Not evicted	Duje Brankica Hamdija Kristina Igor Lana Ivan Monika Kristian Nataša Matko Sanja	Kristina (45%)	Duje Kristina Igor Monika	Kristina (34%)	Lana (30%)	Ivan (25%)	Kristian (43%)	Hamdija (16%) Lana (15%) Ivan (3%) Kristian (4%) Matko (14%) Sanja (13%)	Sanja (47%)	Hamdija (46%)	Hamdija (19%) Ivan (9%) Kristian (20%) Daca (12%) Matea (12%)	Daca (15%) Matea (27%)	Tatjana (32%)	Matea (36%)	Tatjana (48%)	Daca (19%)	Hamdija Matko Daca	Hamdija Daca	Hamdija (52%)

[edit] Third Season (2006) -ended-

It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Big Brother Croatia 3. (Discuss)

Third season began airing on 8th September 2006 and lasted for 99 days.

The prize is increased from 1 million HRK (134 000 EUR) to 1.5 million HRK (200 000 EUR), but it is expected that the actual winner would get significantly lower amount due to penalties for various House rule violations. Producers introduced this as a response to criticism of the second season, when they were perceived to be too tolerant of contestants' misbheaviour.

In the third season, the housemate were originally 12. Later, 2 new housemates - selected by the candidates from the pool of 4 - entered the House.

Tanja Jovanović was the "guardian angel" and had the power to save one of her Housemates from being nominated. On the 2nd nominations, on Day 21, by votes of the Housemates Lea and Zoran were suppose to be nominated. Tanja saved Lea from being nominated. Instead of Lea, Ana and Dragica were nominated. 7 days later Dragica left the House. Tanja lost her power 'cos she disrespected Big Brother's order not to mention anything to the other Housemates. On 3rd nomination,m on Day 35 she was nominated by Big Brother. On that Day Lea and Simon were also nominated from the side of their Housemates.

The 3rd nominations were also Public Nominations. On these nominations Housemates had to nominate 2 Housemates in front of the rest of the Housemates. On these nominations everyone nominated the same Housemates they have nominated on the day before; during the False Nominations, except Yameisey who has CHANGED HER MIND and had nominated Zoran instead of Simon and Simon who TOOK THE CHANCE TO REVENGE and had nominated Ana and Ante instead of Danijel and Zoran. 7 days later, Simon left the House.

Lea Lemo in the 1st week of the show received a secret mission from BigBrother. She had to sabotage the Housemates and had to be nominated when the nominations come. Lea, also as Tanja, received an order not to mention anything about her secret mission or she will be evicted. She disrespected the order by hinting something to her Housemates and on Day 7 BigBrother told her that her secret mission was sucsessful, but Big Brother took 20 000 HRK (2670 EUR) from the Main Prize 'cos Lea had hinted something to her Housemates.

On Day 56 Violeta Halitaj received her secret mission which gives her big power. On Day 55 Big Brother told the Housemates that they have to compose the order on which they will enter the Confessions Room and nominate 2 Housemates. Violeta was placed last on that list. VIOLETA became the JUDA of BigBrother House.If she tells or hints something to her Housemates she will lost her power and be nominated on the next nominations.How does her power work? On nominations Violeta will always nominate last. When she enters the Confessions Room Big Brother will tell her who are the nominated Housemates.She has to choose 1 Housemate who isn't nominated. That Housemate also becomes nominated. On Day 56 that Housemate was Tanja who had 0 votes of the rest of the Housemates.

On the final, 99th Day the 10 Housemates that left the House are BACK IN THE HOUSE, but not as participants, but as friends on the finalists so they can help them to "cut" time while the show is running and the final results aren't announced.

On Day 57 a famous Croatian boxer Stipe Drviš became the "Susprise Guest in Big Brother House". He tought the Housemates the basics of boxing. Boxing was their Daily Task. For a test match Tanja and Tomislav were in the ring. Tanja won the match. After that Stipe has chosen who'll be in the Ring by pulling balls with the names of the Housemates.Here are the matches:

Tanja vs. Yameisy - Yameisy WON
Ana vs. Violeta - TIE
Tomislav vs. Zoran - Zoran knocked out Tomislav
Ante vs. Nikša - Ante won
Danijel was only left without a pair and fought vs. Stipe. Stipe was a gentleman and let Danijel win
After that Stipe and Tanja had a match. By techincal KO Tanja won the match.

In the Confessions Room Stipe congratulated Yameisy 'cos she is tiny and has no condition but still won the match and Violeta who he admires for her streight.

Danijel received a secret mission to sabotage the Week Task. The Task was to make wine. Danijel had to spilt some wine everytime when Big Brother asks Yameisy to come to the Confessions Room. Thanks to Danijel Housemates passed the Week Task. If Danijel had failed the Housemates would have fallen the Wekk Task. Bravo Danijel!

From Days 71-77 Violeta had a secret mission to break 14 plates, hide the House credit card and to stock Ante. Violeta was sucsessful in her secret mission! For reward Big Brother applted the Housemates requestes for buying cigaretes, entering in the Surprise Room and playing music quiet than louder while waking the Housemates.

Big Brother told that every housemate will be hypnotised by a hypnotiser Leon The Great. Actually none of the housemates were hypnotised. They all were not hypnotised on the excuse that thay have a secret mission. It was a great joke! It was one of the greatest joke from the side of Big Brother. All of the secret missions were sucsessful! LOL

When the hostesse Antonija Blaće (Housemate from season 2004) in the studio said that Ante is leaving the House, Tanja fell in tears, but she swore that she won't cry and that she won't matter if he will leave the House. That was one of the most dramatical evictions in this season.

Housemates last weekly task was heavy physical labour. But, only Tomislav worked and Violeta, Yameisy, Tanja and Danijel were relaxing and having good time. While they were relaxing, they were a bit too relaxed and half of the kitchen burned while they were making pop-corn. The housemates that were relaxing and having a good time mannaged not to wake any suspicion and thanks to them housemates passed their weekly task. If the housemates woke any suspicion with Tomislav the housemates would fail the weekly task.

Big Brother oprepaired Yameisy a surprise and brought her mother Julia from Cuba. It was a huge and a great surprise for Yameisy. Yameisy told that she won a miion only by seeing her mom. It was a very touching moment!

	#1	#2	#3 false	#3 true	#4	#5	#6	#7	#8	#9	FINAL part 1	FINAL part 2	SUPER FINAL
Danijel	Lea Romina	Lea Ana	Lea Violeta	Lea Violeta	Lea Ana	Yameisy Ana	Ana Yameisy	Yameisy Tomislav	Yameisy Tomislav	Yameisy Tomislav	participated	participated	WINNER
Tomislav	Not in the house	Zoran Lea	Violeta Lea	Violeta Lea	Lea Violeta	Zoran Nikša	Zoran Danijel	Danijel Ante	Danijel Ante	Violeta Danijel	participated	participated	2nd
Tanja	Zoran Mathias	Zoran Dragica	Lea Simon	Lea Simon	Danijel Lea	Zoran Danijel	Danijel Zoran	Danijel Ana	Danijel Violeta	Danijel Violeta	participated	3rd
Yameisy	Zoran Lea	Zoran Lea	Lea Ante	Zoran Lea	Zoran Ante	Zoran Ana	Ante Danijel	Ante Ana	Ante Danijel	refused	4th
Violeta	Mathias Romina	Ana Dragica	Danijel Tomislav	Tomislav Danijel	Zoran Ante	Tanja (secret mission)	Zoran Danijel	Ana Ante	Danijel Ante	Tanja Danijel	Evicted
Ante	Ana Lea	Lea Tanja	Lea Simon	Lea Simon	Lea Ana	Nikša Danijel	Danijel Yameisy	Ana Yameisy	Yameisy Danijel	Evicted
Ana	Lea Simon	Lea Simon	Lea Simon	Lea Simon	Danijel Zoran	Danijel Nikša	Danijel Ante	Tanja Ante	Evicted
Zoran	Lea Romina	Nikša Simon	Nikša Simon	Nikša Simon	Lea Nikša	Yameisy Nikša	Violeta Danijel	Evicted
Nikša	Zoran Mathias	Ante Zoran	Ante Zoran	Ante Zoran	Ante Zoran	Zoran Ana	Evicted
Lea	Mathias Ana	Danijel Dragica	Danijel Ana	Danijel Ana	Ante Zoran	Evicted
Simon	Nikša Danijel	Zoran Ana	Zoran Danijel	Ana Ante	Evicted
Dragica	Not in the house	Ante Lea	Evicted
Mathias	Lea Violeta	Evicted
Romina	Lea Zoran	Left voluntarily
NOTICE	Lea received imunity	Lea saved by "guardian angel" Ana & Dragica nominated instead Lea	false nominations	Tanja nominated by Big Brother; failed secret mission		Zoran nominated by Big Brother- disrespected rules				Yameisy nominated by Big Brother- refused to nominate
Nominated	Mathias Zoran	Ana Zoran Dragica		Lea Tanja Simon	Lea Ante Zoran	Zoran Tanja Nikša	Danijel Zoran	Ana Ante	Danijel Ante	Yameisy Danijel Violeta	Yameisy Danijel Tanja Tomislav	Danijel Tanja Tomislav	Danijel Tomislav
Evicted	Mathias (55%)	Dragica (41%)		Simon (44%)	Lea (83%)	Nikša (46%)	Zoran (51%)	Ana (52%)	Ante (55%)	Violeta (38%)	Yameisy (13,2%)	Tanja (21%)	Tomislav (48,3%)
Not evicted	Zoran (45%)	Zoran(19%), Ana(40%)		Lea (36%), Tanja(20%)	Zoran (9%), Ante (8%)	Zoran (24%), Tanja (30%)	Danijel (49%)	Ante (48%)	Danijel (45%)	Yameisy (32%), Danijel (30%)	Danijel (35,5%), Tanja (18,2%), Tomislav (33,1%)	Danijel (41%), Tomislav (38%)	Danijel (51,7%)

Friday, 15 December 2006, was the 99th day of the show and the FINAL day

WINNER :

Danijel Rimanić (24) - WINNER on Day 99

EVICTED HOUSEMATES :

Tomislav Šimićević (28) - He entered on Day 7, runner-up on Day 99 SUPER-FINALIST
Tanja Jovanović (20) - 3rd ranked on Day 99 FINALIST
Yameisy Sanchez Hernandez (24) - 4th ranked on Day 99 FINALIST
Violeta Halitaj (20) - 9th evicted on Day 92 SEMI-FINALIST
Ante Seljak Jakovčev (23) - 8th evicted on Day 85
Ana Vrdoljak (22) - 7th evicted on Day 78
Zoran Stupa Ljubas (19) - 6th evicted on Day 71
Nikša Kekezović (27) - 5th evicted on Day 64
Lea Lemo (19) - 4th evicted on Day 57
Simon Hamoui (28) - 3rd evicted on Day 43
Dragica Vulić (25) - she entered on Day 8, 2nd evicted on Day 29
Mathias Gašparić (24) - 1st evicted on Day 15
Romina Prar (24) - left voluntarily on Day 13

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