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Big Brother UK series 6 in 2005 is the sixth and current series of Big Brother in the UK, a reality show on Channel 4 in which a number of contestants live an isolated existence in a purpose-built house who try to avoid being evicted by public vote, with the aim of winning a large cash prize at the end of the run. This series will last for 11 weeks.

The sixth series began on 27 May 2005. The broadcaster, Channel 4, made their previously subscription-only E4 channel available on Freeview from the start of this series.

Chronology

Weeks 1 and 2

The first housemate to enter the house was Derek Laud, a well-known political figure on the right of the Conservative Party who was the first black Master of Foxhounds.

The "unlucky thirteenth" housemate was chosen randomly on day one as Makosi, when she was first to respond to a call by Big Brother for "a housemate" to go to the diary room. Makosi was told she would automatically be up for eviction that week unless she managed to get the most nominations from her housemates, in which case she could nominate two people for eviction. She was to keep this task secret. Makosi succeeded in her secret mission and chose Craig and Mary to be up for eviction on 3 June 2005. Mary was the viewer's choice for eviction.

During week 2, in a conversation with Lesley, Vanessa broke the game rules by discussing whom she would be nominating. Although the nominations still took place, Big Brother decided to ignore the results and ruled that, for the first time in the UK series, every housemate would be up for eviction in the public vote. On 10 June 2005, Lesley was chosen to leave the house, although, if the nominations had not been nullified, she would not have been up for eviction. Davina McCall had been hinting at it being a "popularity contest", and the housemates all became aware of the public view of them because they could hear their individual names being called out, whereupon the crowd cheered or booed.

Weeks 3 and 4

In Week 3, Craig, Derek and Roberto were banned from nominating after talking about the nomination procedure, breaking a key rule. Clips of their discussions were played into the house via the plasma screen. Derek, Roberto and Sam were announced as the nominees for eviction on Day 19. Sam was the least popular housemate out of the three, and was evicted to a mixed reception on Day 22.

Week 4 saw the first traditional set of nominations of the series when, for the first time, all of the housemates' nominations were taken into account, and there was no twist to the format. Derek and Roberto received the most nominations from their fellow housemates, and Roberto was evicted on Day 29.

Weeks 5 and 6

On Day 30, less than 24 hours after Kinga, Eugene and Orlaith had entered the Secret Garden, a red button appeared in the main house, with a sign saying "Don't press this button" above it, and the words "Press here" around it. After much discussion amongst the housemates, Makosi pressed the button and was immediately called to the Diary Room. She entered the Secret Garden, met Kinga, Eugene and Orlaith, and was instructed to help them by stealing food and other supplies from the main house. If she failed to do so or was discovered by her fellow housemates, she would be automatically put up for the public vote. Before completing the task, Makosi had to evict one housemate from the secret garden. As Makosi chose Kinga to leave, Kinga never entered the main house.

In Week 5, for the third time, nominations had been discussed, this time between Maxwell and Anthony, so they were barred from nominating. Maxwell and Saskia, the "love birds", were put up for the public vote. As new housemates, Orlaith and Eugene were exempt, and as Makosi (who received only two nominations anyway) completed another secret mission, she was also immune. Saskia was evicted to a mixed reception on Day 36.

In Week 6, Maxwell was evicted, having received 57 per cent of the public vote, much to the surprise of the other housemates. Both Maxwell and Science were booed by the crowd when Davina announced their names before the result of the public vote.

Weeks 7 and 8

In Week 7 Big Brother played mind games with the housemates, informing them that during the week Big Brother would lie twice. Big Brother then told housemates that nominations that week were optional. This was Big Brother's first lie. All nominations are compulsory, so the housemates who did not nominate were put to the public vote as punishment. When the results of the nominations were announced Big Brother stated that Anthony, Craig and Kemal were up for eviction. This was Big Brother's second lie. In fact, these three were the only ones to nominate, so it was everyone else who was subject to the public vote. As an extra twist, the housemates had to pick whom to evict out of the two people with the most votes. These turned out to be Makosi and Vanessa. All of the housemates with the exception of Kemal chose Vanessa to be the 7th person to leave, so on Day 50, a tearful Vanessa was evicted from the house.

In Week 8 nominations were made without any twists to the format. Science and Orlaith were the two housemates up for eviction with five and four votes respectively. Anthony and Eugene were the only housemates not to receive any votes this week. On Day 57, Science became the 8th housemate to be evicted from the house.

Weeks 9 and 10

For Week 9 the housemates were given a secret agent task to complete. Amusingly, Kemal, who had been convinced of there being a mole in the house ended up randomly being selected to be a double agent for this task. The housemates failed to realise this so passed the task. Derek, whom they thought was the Double Agent, was sent into hiding. Nominations were slightly altered this week, instead of housemates nominating who they wanted to put up for eviction they were nominating for those they wanted to save from the vote. Kemal and Orlaith gained just one vote each and so faced the public vote, with Kemal losing out and becoming the ninth evictee.

The next morning, Orlaith carried out her promise to leave the house voluntarily if not evicted by the public. She became the third contestant in UK Big Brother series to leave of their own accord.

Housemates

Official

Anthony Hutton

Anthony Hutton is a 23-year-old 70s dancer from Consett in County Durham.

Craig Coates

Craig Coates is a 20-year-old from Cromer in Norfolk and works as a hairdresser in nearby Sheringham. He calls himself the best liar in the world.

Derek Laud

Derek Laud is a 41-year-old speechwriter for the Conservative Party originally from Battersea but now living in Kensington.

Eugene Sully

Eugene Sully is a 27-year-old service planning engineer for the BBC in the Research & Development department from Crawley in West Sussex. He entered the house on Day 32 after being voted in by Makosi (see Day 30).

Lesley Sanderson

Lesley Sanderson is a sales assistant from Huddersfield.

Kemal Sahin

Kemal Sahin is a 19-year-old Turkish Cypriot from London. He is a university student living in Liverpool and a part time belly dancer.

Makosi Musambasi

Makosi Musambasi is a cardiac nurse originally from Zimbabwe but now living in High Wycombe.

Mary O'Leary

Mary O'Leary is a psychic white witch from London although claiming to have originally come from Atlantis.

Maxwell Ward

Maxwell Ward is an engineer from Islington, North London who supports Arsenal F.C..

Orlaith McAllister

Orlaith McAllister is a 26-year-old business studies student and runner up in the 1999 Miss Northern Ireland contest to Zöe Salmon, the winner. She entered the house on Day 32 after being voted in by Makosi (see Day 30).

Roberto Conte

Roberto Conte is a teacher originally from Italy but now living in Liverpool.

Sam Heuston

Sam Heuston is a marketing student from Cheam.

Saskia Howard-Clarke

Saskia Howard-Clark is a "promotions girl" from London.

Kieron "Science" Harvey

Science is an entrepreneur and musician from Chapeltown, Leeds. He has a band called Urban Productions and won a BBC award for documentary making.

As one of the loudest and argument-prone of the housemates, Science found himself up for eviction a number of times during his Big Brother stay. He was finally evicted in week eight when up against Orlaith McAllister in the closest public vote in Big Brother history (50.5-49.5%)

Vanessa Layton-McIntosh

Vanessa Layton-McIntosh is a student from Croydon.

Not Official

Kinga Karokzak

A 20 year old market researcher from London. Kinga began her stay in the Secret Garden but never actually entered the main house and therefore cannot technically be classed as a housemate.

See also

• Big Brother 6 Nominations Table

External links

• Official Big Brother UK website
• Digital Spy UK Big Brother site
• Big Brother UK Website - Big Brother UK fansite
• Big Brother Online - Big Brother UK fansite
• Big Blagger - Big Brother UK fansite
• All the latest updates on Big Brother 6 from the Jade Goody website

• Current events
• Channel 4 television programmes
• Big Brother (UK)