Big Brother 9

## Opening Sequence

**Big Brother 9**,also known as **Big Brother: Secrets and Lies**, is the ninth season of *Big Brother Croatia* franchise overall to air on RTL. This season premiered on January 27, 2018 on RTL. Antonija Blaće hosting the main shows.

After a two-year hiatus, Big Brother returned to the RTL program. The Big Brother house was built in the Jadran movie and is the biggest so far. Preparations for the most famous reality show lasted from the beginning of October 2017, and 200 people worked on the project. Tenants enjoyed the space of 1150 square meters, and had at their disposal, among other things, a jacuzzi in the middle of the living room. The house was equipped with 50 new 4k cameras that record every step in a fully controlled environment. The only places where candidates will have privacy are the bathroom and the smoking room.

The largest number of candidates participated in this season, as many as 31 of them.

The winner of the season is Antonio Orač - Orky, who won the main prize of HRK 371,000.

## Background

### House

RTL and expect new excitement and publicity unknown tenants in the new season most watched reality show.

Nova, the largest house ever built in Zagreb's Jadran Film recent months. Tenants will enjoy a space of 1150 square meters, and there will, among other things, a jacuzzi and, no less, in the middle of the living room!

50 latest 4K camera will record their every move in a completely controlled environment where they will be at the mercy of Big Brother and the people with whom they will share their new, temporary home. And if you wish to relax in the garden of 250 square meters, tenants will this year have to walk up to the roof of the house where he will be placed.

And this time favorite "nosy" prepared many surprises and the scenarios that you would not be ashamed not the world's greatest writers.

## Broadcasting

The broadcast of Big Brother began on Saturday, January 27, 2018 at 8 p.m. It was preceded by the show Big Brother - Vremeplov, which showed clips from all other seasons of the show broadcast in Croatia.

In advanced weeks, the residents' stay in the House could be followed through three shows on the RTL program and live transmission from the house via the Internet. The daily review was broadcast from Monday to Saturday in the evening. Sunday from 8 or 9 p.m. was reserved for a live program such as the subsequent insertion of candidates, nominations, expulsion of candidates, announcement of the success of the weekly task and the like. That year, RTL also prepared a live broadcast from home on its RTL play platform, where it occasionally showed events from home.

The final show was broadcast on Friday, May 4, 2018, when the number of eight finalists was reduced to five super finalists. The spectacular superfinal was held on Sunday, May 6, 2018, and that evening at around 11 p.m., the new winner of Croatian Big Brother was announced.

### Big Brother - Little Sister

In addition to daily previews, RTL Television also offered a special show Big Brother - Little Sister, hosted by Fil Tilen (Slaven Berić), with special sections of candidates from the show Life on the Scales, but it was canceled on February 7, 2018 due to poor viewership.

## Housemates

Orky Orač
 **Winner**

Lucija Stojak
 **Runner-Up**

Anezi Nezirević
 **Finalist**

Antonio Benček
 **Finalist**

Ana Marković
 **Finalist**

Bojan Mrđenović
 **Evicted**

Marin Novaković
 **Evicted**

Tomislav Roso
 **Evicted**

Lidija Marić
 **Walked**

Nikola Sedlar
 **Evicted**

Ana-Marija Brdek
 **Evicted**

Marijan Lisak
 **Evicted**

Karla Jakelić
 **Evicted**

Petar Stipetić
 **Evicted**

Dubravka Ujević Veron
 **Evicted**

Luciano Plazibat
 **Evicted**

Ante Biuk
 **Ejected**

Ancy Kovačec
 **Evicted**

Luka Rok Medunović
 **Ejected**

Ljiljana Lipovac
 **Evicted**

Krištofka Krištof
 **Walked**

Nikola Vidović
 **Evicted**

Jure Kelava
 **Evicted**

Matija Štainer
 **Evicted**

Zebo Tomić
 **Evicted**

Juraj Golubiček
 **Evicted**

Bojana Lončarević
 **Evicted**

Renata Nemeček
 **Evicted**

Nikita Dajčer
 **Walked**

Antonija Ćatipović
 **Walked**

Aleksandar Neradin
 **Ejected**

## Nominations History

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

## Game History

### Week 1 (January 27, 2018 - February 4, 2018)

On the first day of broadcasting, on January 27, 2018, eighteen candidates were presented in the live show. Fourteen of them are in the main house and four of them in the secret, so-called family house. Their task is to put together a story and one day, upon entering, pretend to the other tenants that they are family. Ana entered the house as the 13th tenant, together with Orki. The two of them were declared a bad couple, which for them means that they don't have their own clothes and bed, but have to sleep together on the floor. The main weekly task of the first week was staying together, getting to know each other, showering and all other common habits together with your partner. Although the relations were bad and the task was not completely successfully completed, Big Brother saw through their fingers and judged that they successfully passed the first weekly task.

Immediately during the first day of stay in the House, Aleksandar left the House (due to violation of the rules of the Agreement), and on the seventh day of stay, Antonija left (voluntarily). Due to the departure of Aleksandar, Daniel (Zebo) enters the House on the second day. On Sunday, February 5, 2018, the nominations were held in the live show. Juraj, Nikita and Renata did not participate in the said nominations due to the baptism of the rules and the discussion about the nominations. The secret family also had the right to vote, and they had to award their two and one points jointly, and they decided on Bojan and Nikita. In the end, the total number of nominations was: Bojan 7 votes, Antonio 6 votes, Renata and Luka 3 votes, Ana, Bojana, Lucija, Tomislav and Zebo 2 votes each, Anezi and Juraj 1 each and Orky who was left without a single roommate nomination. Due to the unsuccessful undercover task of the girls (revealing the secrets of the men), all the girls were nominated, and one male tenant was also nominated according to the number of roommate nominations, and that is Bojan. The telephone lines are open for 7 days, and on Sunday, February 11, one tenant will leave the house.

### Week 2 (February 5, 2018 - February 11, 2018)

At the very beginning of the second week, Nikita leaves the House after only 10 days of stay. The new week brings a new weekly task in the role of Ana. The family chose her as the president of the BB house. Her task is to lead the State according to Big Brother's instructions, not knowing that all decisions are made by the secret family, not the People. During the week, the secret family decided who would be the working class and who would be the President's aides. The working class had to make confetti eight hours a day in two shifts, supervised and controlled by Anina's assistants. Luka Rok was a personal adviser who fulfills all the wishes of the President, Bojana was a personal adviser who controls all requests and convenes daily meetings, Orky was a personal stylist, Jurica a minister and the president's husband, and Antonio a spokesperson. Also, the secret family decided that Anezi will have to publicly nominate until the end of her stay in the house, that Tomislav will be the person who will be nominated all the time, and that Jurica will have a total of four nomination votes by the end of the show. During the week, there were changes in the members of the Government as well as the introduction of new rules, all according to the wishes of the family, and after 13 days, Nikola moves from the Secret House to the Main House among the other tenants, during which he has to pretend that he is on bad terms with Zeba because of YouTube.

On the last day of the live show week, the show started with the nominations. The first nominated Anezi, who, due to President Ana's decision, nominates publicly until the end of the show. By the decision of the BB, due to the violation of the rules and the physical conflict, Ana was deprived of four weeks of immunity, and together with Tomislav, who has an eternal nomination, she was immediately nominated, and Antonio has immunity this week as a compromise due to Ana's physical attack (pushing) towards him, and Nikola due to the recent entering the house. In the end, all the girls were nominated because the men discovered all the secrets of the girls, and Tomislav, who has an eternal nomination, and Bojan. Show left Renata by the decision of the viewers with 11% of support votes, while the first place of support for staying in the House was the president of the BB Republic, Ana. At the end of the live show, the members of the secret family Dubravka, Marijan and Matija enter the main house posing as the Ban family, but Lucija and Antonio immediately reveal that they have been staying in the secret house the whole time, which they deny.

### Week 3 (February 12, 2018 - February 18, 2018)

Through online voting, it was decided that Antonio, Lucija and Tomislav will be servants in the new weekly task of the Ban family estate. Their task is to be fully at the service of all guests, but the weekly task was not successfully completed and next week the tenants will not have a luxury budget. During the week, production decided that an emergency eviction would take place on Tuesday. The tenant with the least number of votes was Bojana and she left the house, and at the same time a new tenant Anči ​​entered the house, who in the weekly task represents an exclusive guest who is not allowed to do anything alone, but Antonio is her assistant. This week's daily tasks were love letters and a love nest in the confessional, but also a striptease dance task for girls and men. On Thursday, the secretive family reveals part of their secret to the tenants: that they have been in the show since day one, that they were occasionally followed on the TV screen, and that Nikola and Matija are not brothers, but that Dubravka and Marijan are married. Big Brother decided that Nikola and Matija will have immunity as early as next week - but later it was revoked, and Dubravka and Marijan until they reveal themselves to the tenants. On Friday, the 20th day of their stay in BB House, two new tenants enter: Ljiljana and Lidija, and their task is to get to know the tenants so that they can choose their teams for the next week's task in the live show on Sunday. On Sunday, the 22nd day of their stay in BB House, Juraj and Zebo left the company of the other tenants. At the end of the live show, a public nomination was held, and six tenants were nominated based on the votes of their roommates, and two based on Big Brother's punishments.

### Week 4 (February 19, 2018 - February 25, 2018)

The new weekly task is Team Battle. The teams are led by Lidija (red team) and Ljiljana (blue team). The red team consists of Lidija, Tomislav, Nikola, Lucija, Anči, Ana and Orky, and the blue team consists of Liljana, Antonio, Bojan, Anezi, Matija, Marijan and Dubravka. The prize is winning a luxury budget for the mentioned team, and the others a standard budget and automatic nomination. In the weekly task Battle of teams - Guinness records, the victory is won by the blue team with captain Ljiljana.

### Week 5 (February 26, 2018 - March 4, 2018)

The new week begins with a new weekly task: SpačkaTV. The task will be successfully completed if the viewership of RTL Play increases by 10%, otherwise the portal where the program from the House is broadcast live in two parts: in the morning from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The goal of the task is to produce a real television program without a break, with talk shows, knowledge quizzes, soap operas and children's programs. The tenants successfully completed the task, but due to major violations of the BB rules, Big Brother takes away their luxury budget and assigns them a basic one. During the weekly show, Nikola (Nixara) left the house according to the audience's votes. According to the tenant's choice, Luciano enters the main house, and Tomislav leaves the House according to his wishes - later it is learned that he moves to the Secret House. During the live show, BB introduces four more candidates from the "Casting" task into the Secret House.

### Week 6 (March 5, 2018 - March 11, 2018)

The new weekly task is "Military service". Big Brother chose Orki as the commander-in-chief, and Dubravka is his deputy. The goal of the daily task is not to make mistakes more than four times a day and listen to all the instructions of the commander, his deputy and General Big Brother. Due to a large number of mistakes by Luka and not saluting in the army, sleeping on guard duty of Lucijan and Ribica and other mistakes, the tenants did not successfully solve the weekly task. At the beginning of the week, the secret information was to Marijan (Max) and Dubravka (Duda) that if they fail the weekly task next week, they are automatically nominated, and if they pass, they have immunity. Luciano and Ribica had a secret task - to steal food and throw it over the fence to their secret roommates, which they ultimately successfully completed. In the evening's live show, the tenants publicly state the name of one tenant they want to evict. Bojan leaves the House with four votes, who moves to the Secret House, and Karla and Bogo move from the Secret House to the main House thanks to the highest number of votes from the audience.

### Week 7 (March 12, 2018 - March 18, 2018)

The new weekly task is "elite society". The first members of the elite society are Karla and Bogo (former tenants of the Secret House) and Orky, who is chosen first. On Monday, the first regular day of the weekly task, Antonio is chosen as a member of the elite society because he finds it difficult to eat a particularly healthy meal, and the other tenants constantly break the weekly task, and in addition to the failure of the weekly task, they also lose thousands of kunas, which are deducted from the winner's prize. On Tuesday, the new members of the elite society become Dubravka (Duda) and Anezi, and Orky loses his title, as well as Antonio moved to the Secret House. By the decisions of the elite and the Secret Tenants, in the elite society were: Anezi, Bogo, Dubravka, Karla, Marijan, Petar and Tomislav. They are not nominated next week, and the rest of the tenants who are nominated choose one of them to save. With two votes it was decided that Orky will not be the nominated tenant in week 8.

### Week 8 (March 19, 2018 - March 25, 2018)

Secret tenants Bojan and Antonio enter the House with masks on their faces, which is Big Brother's secret task. The goal is to scare the tenants as an introduction to the new weekly task. On the first day, they learned that three curses were placed on the House: the curse of water - there is no water in the shower during the weekly task, the curse of the Sahara - the temperature in the House gradually increases to the point of unbearableness, and the curse of the Titanic - the ship's siren sounds every five minutes after the lights are turned off in the bedroom. Each of the curses can be removed, but a sacrifice must be made: store all make-up in one place and not use it until the end of the weekly task, all men must shave and all cigarettes must be unused for 24 hours. In addition, strange things will happen in the House that they must not react to. Screaming and refusing Big Brother tasks are also prohibited. Every reaction to unusual things, screaming and refusal of the Big Brother task will deprive the tenants of the HRK 50,000 bonus. If they make less than 50 mistakes during the week, the entire amount of HRK 50,000 will be increased for the main prize, and if they fail and make more than 50 mistakes, Big Brother will reduce the main prize by HRK 50,000. During the week, Big Brother provoked the residents with horror rooms, trying to attract attention by introducing a cow into the yard and tourists visiting the House. Among the immoral tasks, he offered listening to loud music with constant dancing for several hours, unusual haircuts and eating cake. In the end, the tenants successfully solved the mentioned task and won 50,000 kuna to the winner's account and a luxurious budget for the next week.

### Week 9 (March 26, 2018 - April 1, 2018)

This week's weekly assignment is "humanitarian week". The tenants donated one week's budget from the seventh week that they did not use to the Dječji dom Zagreb - branch "Laduč" at Nazorova 49, all the work will be assigned to the Zagreb children's home without parental care. During this week, the elders make Easter gifts for the children and a theater performance. At the beginning of the weekly show, each of the tenants gave two and one point for the two tenants they want to save from the nominations. The nominated tenants are Lidija (Ribica), Bogo, Anezi, Ana-Marija, Marijan (Max), Petar, Karla and Bojan. After the telephone vote, Petar leaves the House.

During the humanitarian week, the tenants set aside HRK 5,900 from their weekly budget, and the total amount that RTL Television donated to the Zagreb Children's Home is HRK 75,842 intended for the purchase of a van.

### Week 10 (April 2, 2018 - April 8, 2018)

The new weekly task is "BB talent show". The tenants are divided into four groups where they will perform two songs each: one in Croatian and the other in a foreign language. Exercises and training were held every day in the Secret House, where they had vocal coaches and choreographers. The winners of the BB Hrvatska Talent Show are Anezi and Tomislav, who achieved immunity, Anezi for this week's eviction, and Tomislav for next week.

### Week 11 (April 9, 2018 - April 15, 2018)

This week's task is male-female relations or stereotypes. Men compete against women in a number of tasks, with the leader of the men being the "Alpha Male" Antonio while the "Alpha Female" is Lucia. They were chosen by luck, they were the first to pick up the phone and call the stripper. The men got their part of the House, more precisely in the yard where they have a small gym, a soccer field and can consume an unlimited amount of beer. The women were given a bedroom, where they have a corner for editing and an unlimited amount of chocolate and cakes. They are not allowed to enter each other's spaces, and the battle of the sexes is ongoing until Thursday. The winners (male or female) will receive immunity for the next week. They fought each other in the tasks of changing tires on a car, in the stereotype that women need more time to get ready for a trip, in the stereotype that men are not able to do multiple jobs at the same time, in the stereotype that men are more dexterous in arranging furniture, that women they have a stronger intuition than men, that women are better at twerking, throwing axes, pretending to have an orgasm and the like. The final score is 7-7. On Sunday, four more games were played in the live program: waitering through the training ground, eating ice cream without hands, drinking beer through a straw and making up (a tie in two games). In the end, the final score was 8-8, so Big Brother decided that each Alpha would choose two people from the opposite team who have immunity next week. Lucia chose Antonio and Orkyi, and Antonio chose Lucia and Anezi. At the end of the live show, Marijan (Max) leaves the show according to the viewers' decision.

### Week 12 (April 16, 2018 - April 22, 2018)

The new weekly task is a trip around the world. Tenants visited five countries in five days. In order, they were: Japan, Texas, Kenya, Brazil and Iceland. The tenants were divided into three teams: "blue team:" Orky, Bojan, Antonio and Lidija; Green team: Marin, Bogo, Ana and Ana-Marija and Red team: Tomislav, Anezi and Lucija. They needed a BB passport to travel across countries, and if they lose it or someone steals it, they are not allowed to participate in one task during the day. Throughout the week, they fought in various tasks that are traditional in the countries in the countries they visited. Victory in the task carries HRK 10,000, and second place HRK 5,000.

Two more tasks were held on Sunday: the fastest eating of traditional Croatian food and BB Alka. In the end, the victory was won by the blue team, which added HRK 77,000 to the main prize and earned them immunity for the final week. The second-placed team (red) received +2 votes for new nominations, and the third-placed team (green) +4 points for new nominations. At the end of the week's show, Nikita and Renata, former tenants of the House, enter the House, who have to introduce themselves to the tenants as new candidates in the fight for the main prize because the viewers returned them, so the slogan of Big Brother 2018 "Truth and Lies" finally comes into its own in the penultimate broadcast week.

### Week 13 (April 23, 2018 - April 29, 2018)

The new weekly task is an emotional journey, confrontations and surprises. This week also offers a chance to win back some of the top prize that tenants lost by breaking the rules. Every tenant experienced their own emotional moment with their friend, parent or sibling. They were offered a conversation with their favorite person and taking away the prize or rejecting the offer. All the tenants agreed, and thus the main prize was further reduced. They had the opportunity to increase the main prize in the tasks of ranking according to certain categories (who most wants to become a winner, the biggest manipulator, the most intelligent person, the most honest tenant, etc.), and for an additional 2,000 kuna on the prize, it was only necessary to be honest. In addition, Big Brother also showed them Facebook comments and rewarded them with HRK 1,000 for each relevant hit.

### Week 14 (April 30, 2018 - May 6, 2018)

The fourteenth week is the final week in the ninth season of Big Brother. This week there was no weekly task, but the only task was to learn and perform the Big Brother anthem for this year, for which the lyrics were thought up by Bogo. The extraordinary expulsion took place on Friday 4. May. Tomislav, Marin and Bojan had the fewest votes in the cut-off moments. They will not see Sunday's finale of the ninth season of Big Brother, which took place 6. May 2018 at 8 p.m. The super finalists were Lucija, Ana, Anezi, Antonio and Orky. The person with the least number of votes that evening was Ana, who left the House as fifth place, Antonio as fourth place, Anezi as third place and Lucija as second place. Antonio Orač is the winner of Big Brother Croatia in 2018 and wins the main prize of HRK 317,000.

## Trivia

* This season, even three tenants were evicted from the House according to Big Brother's decision: Aleksandar for violating the provision in the Contract where he signed to guarantee that he was not criminally prosecuted or legally convicted, Ante for declaring that he had beaten a woman in the outside world and Luka Rok who insulted the production and destroyed the inventory of the House.
* Bad viewership canceled the show Big Brother - Little Sister after a few weeks, and the show with daily previews is from the 8:00 p.m. slot, broadcast mostly around 9:30 or 11 p.m., but often after midnight.
* This year's season was created according to the Slovenian version of Big Brother broadcast in 2016.
* The age rating of the television show was increased from 12 to 15 years, which according to the current laws prohibits the showing of such content before 8 p.m., but this did not change the way the show was broadcast, which continued to include censorship of curses in the form of chirping tones and blurring of private parts of the body.
* A record number of housemates passed through the House this season, 31 of them - 14 of them girls and 17 men.
* The choice of finalists (four of them out of eight) depended solely on winning the weekly task, and the teams were chosen by Big Brother himself.
* In the final week, there was only one person left who was not part of the first set of tenants in the main house, which means that since the third week of broadcasting, not a single tenant has been eliminated from the first set of the main house.
* This year's Big Brother can only be watched via the official pages of RTL Television, and all YouTube channels that rebroadcast and published content from the House have been shut down.
* Luka Rok used the Internet when visiting the hospital and openly recounted what he had read, but he did not receive any punishment for it. Marin also had such an opportunity during an extraordinary trip to Split due to a death in the family that the production allowed.
* During their stay in the House, most of the residents contracted an infection that they most likely picked up by bathing in the jacuzzi, after which their use was limited to a few hours a day.