Big Brother 2002 (UK)

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Big Brother 3 was the third season of Big Brother UK. The season started on May 24, 2002, and ended on July 26, 2002.

Big Brother is 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 third series saw two early walkouts, by housemates Sunita Sharma and Sandy Cumming; Sandy surprised his fellow housemates as well as the production team by urinating in a bin, scaling a wall and escaping over a roof whilst the rest of the housemates watched the England vs Nigeria World Cup match (It was latter claimed by Sandy to be the "Most exciting thing to happen in the house"[1]). Sunita was replaced by Sophie Pritchard, and Sandy by Tim Culley.

Also this year the house was split into two for a time: those on one side had more luxuries and better food than those on the other. A weekly task, shown live on Saturday nights, determined which housemates lived on which side of the Rich House / Poor House divide. Kate Lawler and Jonny Regan spent more time on the poor side of the house than any other contestant, which may have fostered sympathy for them from the viewers.

Jade Goody was has since become a celebrity in her own right began her TV career as a housemate in this series, gaining notoriety for her apparent lack of general knowledge. Amongst other things, she thought that Sherlock Holmes invented the toilet, that Rio de Janeiro was a person and that East Anglia was a foreign country. Jade was also involved in bullying fellow housemate Sophie Pritchard.

Tabloid newspapers took an instant dislike to Jade. Within the first 10 days of the start of the series, The Sun had nicknamed her Miss Piggy^[1], installed her as favourite for eviction^[2] and branded her a "big mouth"^[3]. TV presenter Graham Norton was an early driving force in the campaign against Jade^[4] with monologues in his chat show focused on her rather porcine features ("Jade is afraid to eat fruit. She thinks if the others see her with an apple in her mouth, they'll roast her")^[5].

The hate campaign launched against Jade had so much momentum that The Sun branded her Public Enemy No 1 ^[6]. Jade was hot favourite to be evicted^[7] and yet on July 8th, The Sun published an article in which it accused Big Brother makers of toning down its coverage to show a quieter Jade — and a bitchy Adele Roberts 'amid fears Jade may crack up or try to sue when she leaves the show and learns how viewers see her.'^[8]

Channel 4 denied that they manipulated the coverage of Jade to keep her in the house ^[9] Nevertheless, that week many opinion forming Channel 4 TV shows (RI:SE, SO Graham Norton) made a U-turn and campaigned to keep Jade in the house and evict Adele^[10]. Graham Norton began to champion Jade saying "Jade may be a stupid pig but she’s by far the most entertaining person in the house - and at least she’s not evil like Adele^[11]. The following week, Jade was saved from eviction again when nominations were cancelled and PJ was evicted after having to draw lots.

As a result of Channel 4's alleged pro-Jade campaign, public opinion changed towards Goody and she eventually came 4th and enjoyed success as a public personality after the end of the series, admitting in Sky One's show Why reality TV is good for you that she is a millionairess.

Alex also became a popular figure due to his obsession with cleaning the house, and ended up in Domestos commercials, singing along to KC & The Sunshine Band's hit That's the Way (I Like It), following a famous, in-house incident in he sang along to the song to a camera as a door closed.

By far, the largest fad in the house was a game called Follow the Van. In one of the weekly shopping deliveries was a fluorescent Mystery Machine van, from cereal brand Sugar Puffs' Scooby Doo promotion. It was finally revealed on the reunion show that it involved following the van with your lips, and kissing where it came into contact with someone.

The eventual winner of the £70,000 prize was Kate Lawler, who went on to co-present Channel 4's breakfast TV show, RI:SE; she also dated footballer Jonathan Woodgate and is now a DJ. Two other housemates, Sophie Pritchard and Lee Davey, later got married and had a child, but separated in 2006.

The final of this series drew 10 million viewers, the highest ever audience for a Channel 4 programme (excluding feature films).

Total number of votes in the final week: 8.6 million

Contents 1 Nominations, evictions and percentages 2 Notes 3 External links 4 References

[edit] Nominations, evictions and percentages

The following is a table of nominations for Big Brother 2002.

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Final Week 9
Kate	Lynne	Alex, Sandy	Alex, Sandy	Alex, Jade	Alex, Jade	Alex, Jade	No nominations	Tim, Alex	Winner
Jonny	Lynne	Sandy, Alex	Sandy, Alex	Alex, Spencer	Alex, Tim	Adele, Jade	No nominations	Tim, Alex	2nd place
Alex	Lynne	Jonny, Alison	Jonny, Lee	Spencer, PJ	Jonny, Kate	Jade, Jonny	No nominations	Jade, Jonny	3rd place
Jade	Nominated	Jonny, Alex	Lee, Sophie	Banned	Sophie, Jonny	Kate, Tim	No nominations	Tim, Alex	4th place
Tim	Not in house			Exempt	Sophie, Jonny	Jade, Kate	No nominations	Jade, Jonny	Evicted (Day 57)
PJ	Lynne	Alex, Sandy	Lee, Sophie	Alex, Sophie	Sophie, Adele	Adele, Jade	No nominations	Evicted (Day 50)
Adele	Lynne	Alison, Kate	Jonny, Lee	PJ, Spencer	Jonny, PJ	Jade, Jonny	Evicted (Day 43)
Sophie	Not in house	Exempt	Alex, Sandy	Spencer, Jade	Jade, Tim	Evicted (Day 36)
Spencer	Lynne	Alex, Alison	Jonny, Lee	Sophie, Alex	Evicted (Day 29)
Lee	Lynne	Jade, Kate	Jade, Jonny	Evicted (Day 22)
Sandy	Lynne	Jonny, Alison	Jonny, Kate	Walked (Day 20)
Alison	Lynne	Alex, Sandy	Evicted (Day 15)
Lynne	Nominated	Evicted (Day 8)
Sunita	Walked (Day 7)
Nomination twist	See note 1	None	None	See note 2	None	None	See note 3	None	See note 4
Against public vote	All housemates	Alex, Alison, Sandy	Jonny, Lee	Alex, Spencer	Jonny, Sophie	Adele, Jade, Jonny, Kate	Kate, PJ	Alex, Tim	Alex, Jade, Jonny, Kate
Walked	Sunita	None	Sandy	None	None	None	None	None	None
Evicted	Lynne	Alison 38.52%	Lee 84%	Spencer 55%	Sophie 84.7%	Adele 62.08%	PJ 80.7%	Tim 81.48%	Jade 20% (out of 4)	Alex 27% (out of 3)
									Jonny 42% (out of 2)	Kate 58% to win

[edit] Notes

Note 1: All the housemates faced the public vote this week. Jade and Lynne received the most votes. The remaining housemates then voted to evict one of the two, and they unanimously voted to evict Lynne.

Note 2: In week 4, Jade was banned from nominating, after discussing nominations.

Note 3: There were no nominations in Week 7. Kate and PJ were selected for eviction by drawing lots during the live Saturday task.

Note 4: There were no nominations in the final week. Also, the viewers voted on the housemate to win, rather than evicted.

[edit] External links

• Big Brother - Series 3 at channel4.com

[edit] References

Big Brother in the United Kingdom
Big Brother	2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007
Celebrity Big Brother	2001 | 2002 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007
Teen Big Brother	2003