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First episode date January 2002 | 2.8/10 IMDb Program creator John de Mol Jr. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast Grazi Massafera, Pedro Bial, Sabrina Sato, Vanessa Mesquita, Íris Stefanelli Similar A Fazenda, Malhação, TV Fama, Vídeo Show, A Lei do Amor Profiles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Big Brother Brasil (BBB) is the Brazilian version of the Big Brother reality television show based on the Dutch television series of the same name that was created in 1999 by John de Mol. It is the third one with more finished seasons (only after the American and Spanish versions) and the only one with 15 years of uninterrupted annual transmission in the same channels and by the same presenter.
Contents
- The House
- Launch night
- Head of Household
- Power of Immunity
- Estaleca or food competition
- Sunday live nominations
- Tuesday live eviction
- Live Final and the winner
- Brazilian ratings
- Celebrities
- Game
- Controversy and criticism
- References
The show is based on a group of strangers, known as housemates, living together twenty-four hours a day in the "Big Brother" house, isolated from the outside world (primarily from mass media, such as newspapers, telephones, television and the internet) while having all their steps followed by cameras around-the-clock, with no privacy for three months.
The housemates compete for the chance to win the grand prize by avoiding weekly eviction, until the last housemate remains at the end of the season that can claim the grand prize. The show's host is journalist Pedro Bial.
Rede Globo's website and a Globo-owned pay-per-view channel offer round-the-clock coverage. The Seasons 5 and 7 were the most popular seasons. Sabrina Sato (Season 3) used to be one of the hosts of Panico na TV and now hosts her own TV program, Juliana Alves (Season 3), Grazi Massafera (Season 5) and Munik Nunes (Season 16) are soap opera actresses at Rede Globo and Íris Stefanelli (Season 7) is a reporter for TV Fama. The five can be considered the most successful contestants of the show, although none of them, but Munik, have won the show. The only other successful show winner is Jean Wyllys, who has been pursuing a quite successful political career since having won the 5th Season.
But Big Brother Brasil 10 had the biggest participation in the world of callings at the final, reaching over 154 millions of votes.
On March 5, 2012 the show was renewed for the 13th and 14th seasons which will premiere in the summers of 2013 and 2014.
The House
The Big Brother Brasil house is located inside Globo's production center in Rio de Janeiro, "Estúdios Globo". The house is considered by most Big Brother Specialists as the biggest and most extravagant house of all Big Brothers.
The external area of the house is approximately 700 square meters (m²) while the internal areas is about 200 m². The house has 4 bedrooms (3 for the normal contestants and one for the Leader), a living room, one bathroom, a big garden, one kitchen, a gym, a jacuzzi, a pool, a special room called Confessionário (Diary Room) and a secret area, which was once the white bedroom (9th and 10th editions) and the surprise bedroom (11th edition).
Launch night
On the night of the Live Launch several members of the public, who have passed through several audition processes, enter the House to become Housemates of the Big Brother House. Once inside the house the Housemates will live together and have no contact with the outside world.
Head of Household
After each eviction (except the first week), housemates compete to become the "Head of Household", by winning a weekly physical endurance challenge, based on a specific skill, a general knowledge quiz or, even sometimes through a luck event.
The HoH receives perks such as their own private bedroom, photos or gifts from home, and maid service. The HoH is safe from the week's nomination (except in season 15 and 16) and also has the power to directly nominates one housemate for eviction, in addition the HoH is the tiebreaker for the house's nomination vote. Although one housemate normally retains the Leader rewards and responsibilities for the week, exceptions have occurred.
In a "double eviction" week, the first HoH only reigns for a short period (between an hour and three days) while the second HoH reigns for the rest of the week. When this occurs, the first HoH is normally not provided the benefits such as use of the "HoH Room". Another exception is when two housemates share a HoH, such as in the third week of Season 6 and in the first week of Season 7. It is common that the Leader during the week of Carnaval is allowed to go to the Samba school parades or go to Salvador during the Brazilian carnival week.
Power of Immunity
In Season 3, a weekly "Power of Immunity" is introduced and determined. This housemate may choose any other housemate to protect from facing the eviction. However, in Season 7, another selected house mate was given the "Power of Veto" to nullify the saving power.
Since Season 8, Power of Immunity winner was also given a bad side, where that housemate, besides protecting someone from elimination, must "punish" one or more contestants, obliging them to do an unpleasing task or forbidding them to go to the party.
Estaleca or food competition
On Sundays, a competition allow the housemates to win food (until Season 4) or estalecas (from Season 5 ownwards) for the week. Most competitions are games of skill, although the housemates may work individually, in teams, or as one group.
Introduced in Season 5, the "Estaleca" (Z$) is the official currency of the house. Each contestant has their own credit card with a set amount of Estalecas. Contestants may use their currency to purchase needs for the house, such as food, rent items for personal use, such as hairdryer, or even purchase luxury items, like a helicopter ride.
The winners of the week's Estaleca competition earn the right to do all the shopping, choosing what the entire house will eat for the upcoming week. As in the real stock market, the Estalecas can suffer some speculative attacks and thus the value of the groceries may inflate or deflate.
Sunday live nominations
First the PoI winner and HoH nominate their choices for their respective abilities. Then, each one of the remaining contestants go into the Diary Room, and vote on the contestant they wish to face an elimination match. The highest voted contestant is sent to the elimination match to face the person nominated by the HoH and an audience poll starts (either by telephone, SMS or Internet) to pick which of the two or three contestants shall be eliminated.
Tuesday live eviction
On Eviction Night, the poll result is shown and the highest voted housemate is eliminated and evicted from the house. The evicted housemate must to get ready to leave immediately. Once they leave the House they are greeted by the live crowd, which will boo or cheer according to the popularity of the evicted Housemate.
Live Final and the winner
In the Live Final, only two to three housemates remain in the house, after surviving numerous evictions. The public are then asked to vote for their favourite surviving Housemate to win the prize. The winner is announced and the final three surviving housemates leaving the house together, treated to a cheering crowd.
Brazilian ratings
All numbers are provided by IBOPE.
Celebrities
Usually Big Brother contestants are already forgotten by the time of the next season, most of the women (and some of the men, as well) posing naked to get some extra cash, but there are a few exceptions of contestants who became national stars. Juliana Alves, Sabrina Sato, Grazi Massafera and Íris Stefanelli are probably the biggest celebrities coming out of the reality show.
Sabrina Sato became a personality on the country after appearing on Season 3. She posed naked twice for Playboy magazine and is one of the hosts of Pânico na TV, a very popular TV show among teenagers and Rede TV!'s most-watched show. She now has one of Record Network's biggest contracts and is also the spokesperson for several companies.
After her participation on Season 5, where she was billed as extremely charismatic and nice, Grazielli Massafera also became a huge celebrity appearing in over 130 magazine covers, posing naked for Playboy magazine, starring in over 13 commercials and winning an important role on Rede Globo's 9 o´clock soap opera "Páginas da Vida", where she received bad critics. Grazi is now a little more respected as actress,becoming one of the most popular celebrities in the country and was married Cauã Raymond, one of Brazil's most popular and eligible young actors.
Íris Stefanelli attracted huge attention during her time in the house and achieved extreme popularity, thanks to her charisma. She became a personality in the country after appearing on Season 7, She received a big paycheck to pose naked for Playboy. Globo decided not to take into consideration "Siri" (as she was nicknamed in the house) huge popularity and decided not to give her a long-term contract. She was contracted by small RedeTV! to co-host celebrities show TV Fama. Her lucrative deal was highlighted by the media. Íris is still a host on the show after the huge buzz that ensued her participation on the house.
Another contestant, male, Jean Wyllys began a career in politics after being in the show and was elected a federal MP in 2010.
Game
A mobile version of Big Brother was released in 2005, called My Big Brother, and reproduced the entire show, in real-time, inside mobile phones. Big Brother Brasil is also on software and is manufactured by Continuum Entertainment and Brasoft Studios.Abid AM
Controversy and criticism
Big Brother Brasil 3 began on January 14, 2003, and was controversial. One of the contestants was the current Miss Brazil, Joseane Oliveira. Rules of the Miss Brazil contest forbid participation of married women but Joseane stated she was single. As a consequence of the exposure during the reality show, some magazines discovered she was married even before winning the beauty contest.
Once the marriage was proven, Joseane was stripped of her crown, and Thaisa Tomsem was crowned Miss Brazil 2002. Also, contestant Dilson Walkarez wasn't aware of Joseane relationship's status and tried to start a romantic relationship with her during the show. Due to her refusals, he felt unmotivated and left the show voluntarily. Participant Harry Grossman replaced him at February 26 and became the first participant not to enter the show on its first day.
During Big Brother Brasil 8, the contestant Juliana Goes fainted during an endurance task where the contestants had to remain perfectly still inside a glass chamber. Newspapers and websites accused the show of being inhumane. However, the show was unaffected by the negative press.
In Big Brother Brasil 10, Marcelo Dourado, a returning contestant from BBB4, was accused of being homophobic but that was ignored and he eventually won his second season.
But the biggest scandal of the show happened on Big Brother Brasil 12 when contestant Daniel Echaniz was accused of raping one of the contestants, Monique Amin. He was expelled during the first week but denied the accusations.