Big Brother UK

**Big Brother UK** is a spin-off season of Big Brother, being eighth in the franchise and airing directly before Big Brother 5. It features 14 houseguests, and began airing on 21 October 2023.

## Background

The season was announced near to the final of Music Wars 2, alongside the renewal of the main season Big Brother 5. The seasons are paired, the casting proccesses occuring simultaneously and Big Brother 5 being set to air directly after the finale. The season aired from 21 October to 7 December 2023. It was won by Chung Ha, who won by a landslide voting percentage of 54.46%, against Mrs. Hernandez runner-up vote of just 20.53%.

## Format

The format is different to the standard Big Brother format, taken from the international editions of Big Brother.

* During the game, the players complete tasks with punishments and prizes that usually aren't game related.
* During the week, players socialize and have conversations like normal.
* Towards the end of the week, each player nominates two people. The people with the most nominations are nominated for eviction.
* At the end of the week, the public votes between the nominees for who they want to evict. The most public votes is evicted from the house.
* Players are not allowed to influence others nominations. This includes telling people who to nominate, creating agreements not to nominate eachother, and other similar topics.

## Twists

* **Returning Champion:** Winner and America's Favourite Player of Big Brother 4, Yoichi Yukimura, entered the house as the 14th contestant.
* **Previous Relationships:** Half of the housemates knew eachother from 3 seperate groups prior to entering the season.
	+ **West Covina:** Josh, Mrs. Hernandez and Valencia all came from West Covina, California, with Valencia and Josh being exes.
	+ **Camp Buddy:** Aiden & Yoichi went to the same summer camp in the Japanese countryside prior to Yoichi's BB4 appearance.
	+ **ENHYPEN:** Jake & Ni-ki were both members of the K-pop group ENHYPEN prior to entering the house.
* **Vote-To-Save Double Evictions:** In weeks 3 & 4, the public voted to save rather than to evict, with the two housemates with the least amount of votes being evicted.
* **Week 1:**
	+ **Premiere Ultimate Nomination & Immunity:** On night 1, Aiden was tasked of picking the person he thought would be the hardest to live with. He picked Jake, resulting in an instant nomination for Jake. Later in the week, during another task, it was revealed that if Jake was ranked as one of the top 7 most entertaining housemates by Josh, he would be saved from nomination and be made immune for the week. He was ranked 1st, saving him.
	+ **Nomination Swap:** In week 1, as part of a task, Victoria could only nominate one housemate, and Yandere Dev could nominate three.
* **Week 3:**
	+ **Ultimate Nomination:** In week 3, as part of a task, Jake won the ability to select one housemate to put up for nomination, ensuring they would face the public vote. He selected Chung Ha.
* **Week 4:**
	+ **Serial Killer Eviction:** On Day 22, a competition took place in which Chung Ha won the Serial Killer power. This gave her the power to nominate 3 housemates, who would then immediately get voted to evict on by their fellow housemates, rather than by a public vote. She nominated Jake, Addison and Yoichi, with Addison being evicted.
* **Week 5:**
	+ **Callout Task:** During a task on Day 30, each housemate was tasked with calling out housemates and something they didn't like about them, with each name called out earning them one bag of sweets. Unbeknownst to them, the housemate with the most callouts would be instantly nominated. This ended up being Nozomi, who was called out by 4 people. Additionally, the people with the least callouts would be immune for the week - being Dream & Ni-ki, each with just 1 callout.
	+ **Possession Nomination:** On Day 32, Big Brother asked the house to send one housemate into the Diary Room. Yoichi volunteered, and upon entering, was 'possessed' by Big Brother. He had the choice between either nominating himself, and volunteering to face the public vote, or to nominate one housemate to their face, instantly putting them up for eviction. He chose to nominate someone to their face, and put Chung Ha up for eviction.
	+ **Single Nominations:** Due to 2 housemates being nominated as part of tasks, and 2 housemates winning immunity, only 3 housemates were eligable for nomination. As a result, Big Brother reduced nominations to just 1 nomination per person, with the housemate with the most nominations joining Nozomi & Chung Ha as the third nominee. This became Jake, who received 4 nominations.
* **Week 7:**
	+ **Hit The Road:** After Dream's eviction at the end of week 6, the final vote opened. On Day 47, two days before the finale, the 3 housemates who had received the lowest votes by that stage would compete in a Hit The Road eviction competition, in which the loser would be instantly evicted. To hide the vote tallies up to that point, all 5 housemates competed, with only the 3 lowest vote receivers being actually eligable to be evicted. While not announced at the time, it was later revealed that the bottom 3 was Jake, Ni-ki and Yoichi. Yoichi lost the competition, and was instantly evicted, sending Chung Ha, Jake, Mrs Hernandez & Ni-ki to the final.

## Houseguests

 **Winner**

 **Runner-Up**

 **Third Place**

 **Fourth Place**

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

## Overview

### Week 1

 **NominatedUltimate NommedSaved / Immune**

 **Nominated3 Nominations**

 **Nominated3 Nominations**

 **Nominated3 Nominations**

 **Nominated6 Nominations**

 **Evicted3 Nominations90% to Evict**

### Week 2

 **Nominated3 Nominations**

 **Nominated3 Nominations**

 **Nominated3 Nominations**

 **Nominated4 Nominations**

 **Nominated3 Nominations68% to Evict**

### Week 3

 **NominatedUltimate Nommed33% to Save**

 **Nominated6 Nominations29.1% to Save**

 **Evicted4 Nominations20.8% to Save**

 **Evicted4 Nominations16.7% to Save**

### Week 4

#### Round 1

 **Serial Killer**

 **Nominated0 Votes**

 **Nominated3 Votes**

 **Evicted6 Votes**

#### Round 2

 **Nominated4 Nominations**

 **Nominated4 Nominations**

 **Nominated3 Nominations**

 **Evicted2 Nominations**

 **Evicted2 Nominations**

### Week 5

 **NominatedKiller Nom8% to Evict**

 **Nominated4 Nominations12% to Evict**

 **EvictedTask Nom80% to Evict**

### Week 6

 **Nominated3 Nominations**

 **Nominated3 Nominations**

 **Nominated2 Nominations**

 **Evicted2 Nominations**

### Week 7

 **Bottom 3HTR Winner**

 **Bottom 3HTR Winner**

 **Bottom 3Evicted**

#### Finale

 **Winner54.46% to Win**

 **Runner-Up20.53% to Win**

 **Third Place16.07% to Win**

 **Fourth Place7.14% to Win**

* *It was revealed that, over both combined voting stages in Week 7, Yoichi received 1.78% of the vote.*