Big Brother (Australian season 3)

Big Brother 2003, also known as Big Brother 3, was the third season of the Australian reality television series Big Brother. The season lasted 86 days, starting on 27 April 2003 and ending on 21 July 2003. The season was the most complicated to date with housemates starting in two separate houses - a "round house" and a "square house". Housemate Benjamin Archbold was sent in first and spent the entire first day by himself. Other housemates were progressively admitted. On Night 22, all Housemates were locked into their respective bedrooms and a construction crew spent the night merging the two houses and revealing the hidden swimming pool and kitchen that had been in between the two smaller houses. Housemates were released into their new combined house on the morning of Day 23. Later in the day, a bathroom linking the two bedrooms was revealed.

Big Brother
Season 3
Presented by	Gretel Killeen
No. of days	86
No. of housemates	16
Winner	Regina Bird
Runner-up	Chrissie Swan
Companion shows	Big Brother Nominations Big Brother: Uncut Big Brother: UpLate The Insider
Country of origin	Australia
Release
Original network	Network Ten
Original release	27 April – 21 July 2003
Season chronology

In the Square house (which was on the right of the compound) were Belinda, Jaime, Irena, Carlo and Claire with Vincent and Saxon joining later in the week. After Ben entered the Round house on Day 1, Joanne, Regina, Chrissie, Daniel, Patrick and Leah were progressively admitted over the first week. The cameras were completely hidden for the first time in this season. Previously some cameras were visible to housemates and at times housemates were aware of the camera tracking their movements. On Day 68, Anouska Golebiewski who was the first to be evicted from Big Brother UK 4 series showing at the time, was brought in for a little over a week. The winner of season 3 was Regina Bird. Regina earned public admiration with her down-to-earth charm and work ethic.[1]

New programs

Two new shows were introduced:

• UpLate hosted by Mike Goldman. Mike Goldman was best known for doing the voiceovers in the daily show. UpLate was broadcast late at night showing live vision from the house with minimal editing.
• The Insider hosted by Tim Ferguson was a panel-type show with additional gossip and discussion about the show. Frequently the week's evicted housemate would be one of the show's guests.

Opening sequence

The Tower of Terror is displayed, and the logos of Dreamworld, Big Brother Australia, Network Ten and a map of Australia turns into a housemate-selection machine. We go through the orange bedroom, through the blue bathroom for a shower, through to the blue control room, to the edit section where footage from the diary room is being edited to be shown on the Big Brother Australia yellow stage. We then go to the purple kitchen, and three housemates are up for nomination the red housemate gets the most votes. The pink dining room is broadcast to a person on the internet at home. After 85 days, a winner is selected.

Incidents

An incident of Big Brother 2003 involved housemate Belinda Thorpe in what was later dubbed "Belindagate". After a night of drinking, an intoxicated Belinda confided in housemate Carlo that her younger sibling had been involved in the murder of a homosexual man.[2] The information was not immediately revealed by Belinda as she whispered it to Carlo and house microphones did not pick it up, however after she left the room Carlo passed the information on to the other housemates.

The incident sparked a legal crisis for Endemol Southern Star and Network Ten as the identification of a minor involved in a court trial is illegal in Queensland, where Big Brother is produced.[3] Within seconds of the information being revealed the live Internet feeds were cut and left blank for several hours. Users watching the feeds began discussing the incident on the official website discussion boards. Moderators began deleting these messages but could not keep up with the large amount being posted and eventually the messages boards were closed down. They were re-opened for a short period before being closed again permanently. As a result, there were no official message boards during the following 2004 series.

The information spread out to unofficial Big Brother websites and several days later the show producers acknowledged the incident. An edited version of the nights events was shown on Big Brother Uncut, except in Queensland where it was cut entirely. Brett Jensen, the 15th original housemate (a policeman) left lockdown before Big Brother 3 began.[4] Tamara, a travel agent and the 16th housemate, appeared on the Launch show but did not enter the house as she was a decoy for the public. Both were from Queensland.

Housemates

Name	Age	Day entered	Day exited	Result
Regina Bird	29	3	86	Winner
Chrissie Swan	29	4	86	Runner-up
Daniel McInnes	28	4	85	Evicted
Patrick Flanagan	29	3	78	Evicted
Vincent Amato	29	2	71	Evicted
Jamie O'Brien	22	37	64	Evicted
Daniel "Saxon" Small	19	5	57	Evicted
Kim Drury	21	37	57	Evicted
Joanne Ashton	23	2	50	Evicted
Claire Bellis	24	1	43	Evicted
Benjamin "Ben" Archbold	28	1	36	Evicted
Belinda Thorpe	20	1	31	Walked
Leah White	18	5	29	Evicted
Carlo Melino	21	1	22	Evicted
Jaime Cerda	18	1	19	Evicted
Irena Bukhshtaber	29	1	15	Evicted

Nominations Table

The first housemate in each box was nominated for two points, and the second housemate was nominated for one point.

•   Housemates living in the round house
•   Housemates living in the square house

		Week 2		Week 3		Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12		Nomination points received
		To evict	To stay	Nominations	Intruder Eviction									Day 85	Finale
	Regina	Leah Joanne	Patrick Daniel	Leah Daniel	Nominated	Vincent Leah	Vincent Joanne	Joanne Vincent	Joanne Daniel	Saxon Chrissie	Jamie Patrick	Vincent Patrick	Daniel Patrick	No nominations	Winner (Day 86)	16
	Chrissie	Leah Ben	Daniel Regina	Leah Ben	Jaime	Leah Patrick	Ben Saxon	Claire Saxon	Regina Saxon	Vincent Patrick	Vincent Patrick	Vincent Patrick	Patrick Regina	No nominations	Runner-Up (Day 86)	21
	Daniel	Leah Patrick	Chrissie Ben	Ben Leah	Jaime	Leah Saxon	Ben Vincent	Saxon Vincent	Joanne Patrick	Vincent Saxon	Patrick Vincent	Patrick Vincent	Patrick Regina	No nominations	Evicted (Day 85)	35
	Patrick	Leah Chrissie	Joanne Regina	Leah Chrissie	Claire	Leah Daniel	Ben Belinda	Saxon Chrissie	Saxon Chrissie	Saxon Chrissie	Chrissie Jamie	Chrissie Regina	Chrissie Regina	Evicted (Day 78)		26
	Vincent	Saxon Irena	Carlo Belinda	Belinda Carlo	Regina	Belinda Daniel	Ben Regina	Daniel Saxon	Chrissie Regina	Patrick Kim	Jamie Patrick	Regina Chrissie	Evicted (Day 71)			26
Jamie		Not in House							Exempt	Kim Vincent	Daniel Vincent	Evicted (Day 64)				9
	Saxon	Vincent Jaime	Carlo Claire	Jaime Belinda	Jaime	Belinda Daniel	Belinda Chrissie	Patrick Daniel	Daniel Regina	Jamie Kim	Evicted (Day 57)					21
Kim		Not in House							Exempt	Jamie Vincent	Evicted (Day 57)					4
	Joanne	Leah Daniel	Patrick Chrissie	Leah Daniel	Jaime	Leah Daniel	Ben Daniel	Daniel Claire	Daniel Regina	Evicted (Day 50)						9
	Claire	Saxon Belinda	Carlo Vincent	Belinda Jaime	Nominated	Belinda Daniel	Belinda Ben	Daniel Saxon	Evicted (Day 43)							9
	Ben	Leah Chrissie	Patrick Regina	Daniel Chrissie	Nominated	Daniel Belinda	Chrissie Belinda	Evicted (Day 36)								17
	Belinda	Vincent Carlo	Jaime Claire	Carlo Vincent	Claire	Saxon Leah	Saxon Ben	Walked (Day 31)								22
	Leah	Ben Daniel	Patrick Regina	Daniel Ben	Ben	Daniel Joanne	Evicted (Day 29)									19
	Carlo	Vincent Belinda	Claire Irena	Belinda Jaime	Jaime	Evicted (Day 22)										13
	Jaime	Saxon Carlo	Vincent Claire	Carlo Belinda	Nominated	Evicted (Day 19)										6
	Irena	Belinda Vincent	Carlo Claire	Evicted (Day 15)												1
Notes		1		2	3	4	none
Against public vote		Belinda, Ben, Irena, Leah, Saxon		Belinda, Carlo, Daniel, Leah	Ben, Claire, Jaime, Regina	Belinda, Daniel, Leah	Belinda, Ben, Chrissie, Saxon, Vincent	Claire, Daniel, Saxon	Daniel, Joanne, Regina	Chrissie, Daniel, Jamie, Kim, Patrick Regina, Saxon, Vincent	Jamie, Patrick, Vincent	Chrissie, Patrick, Regina, Vincent	Chrissie, Daniel, Patrick, Regina	Chrissie, Daniel, Regina	Chrissie, Regina
Walked		none					Belinda	none
Evicted		Irena 33% to evict		Carlo 66% to evict	Jaime 5 of 9 votes to evict	Leah 41% to evict	Ben 73% to evict	Claire 60% to evict	Joanne 86% to evict	Kim 29.07% to evict	Jamie 50% to evict	Vincent 62% to evict	Patrick 50% to evict	Daniel 51% to evict	Chrissie 72% to evict
										Saxon 18.83% to evict
Saved		Ben 32% Leah 22% Belinda 8% Saxon 5%		Leah 15% Belinda 12% Daniel 7%	Claire 2 votes Ben 1 vote Regina 1 vote	Belinda 35% Daniel 24%	Vincent 8% Chrissie 8% Saxon 7% Belinda 4%	Saxon 28% Daniel 12%	Daniel 9% Regina 5%	Chrissie Daniel Jamie Patrick Regina Vincent	Vincent 31% Patrick 19%	? 20% ? 10% ? 8%	? 22% ? 20% ? 8%	Chrissie Regina	Regina 28% to evict

Notes

• ^Note 1 : Housemates could only nominate others from their respective house. This week, Housemates nominated to evict and to stay. Unknown to the Housemates, the nominations to evict had no value, and the Housemates nominated for eviction were the ones with the fewest points to stay.
• ^Note 2 : Housemates could only nominate others from their respective house.
• ^Note 3 : On Day 17, both houses were tasked with choosing a male and female Housemate who were not nominated to be intruders to the other house. Big Brother informed them that all four intruders would face eviction, but the survivors of the eviction would have immunity the following week. Ben and Regina were sent from the Round House to the Square House, while Claire and Jamie went from Square House to the Round House. On Day 19, the Housemates voted in the Intruder Eviction; the Housemates ranked the intruders in the order they wish to evict, resulting in Jamie's eviction.
• ^Note 4 : The Houses merged on Day 22. As a result of surviving the Intruder Eviction, Ben, Claire, and Regina were immune from eviction this week.

Special shows

References

1. Usher, Michael (3 July 2009). "Reggie's Biggest Battle". 60 Minutes Australia. nineMSN. Archived from the original on 13 December 2009.
2. "Teen jailed for six years over Doig murder". ABC News. 17 March 2003. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
3. "Children and Court Processes". Queensland Law Handbook Online. 12 April 2016. Archived from the original on 26 March 2020. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
4. "Big Brother's men in blue". The Age. AAP. 29 April 2003. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 19 April 2020.

External links

• Behind Big Brother Archive - Season 3; Updates, Daily Shows and Diary Room Visits