Ashley's Big Brother 5

**Big Brother 5**, also known as **Ashley's Big Brother 5**, is the fifth season of *Ashley's Big Brother*, which aired from February 28 to April 4, 2014. Twelve housemates entered the house on launch night, alongside an additional four returning housemates who entered the newly-built "White Room", where they'd endure several tasks to earn themselves a place in the house. Their existence was revealed to the housemates shortly after the first House Captain competition on Day 3, where the two remaining in the White Room, LeQuisha and Megan, entered the house. A seventeenth housemate, Jacob, entered the house on Day 11 as a replacement for Tom, who walked from the house earlier in the week. Benny L. emerged as the winner on finale night with 37.7% of the public vote, despite Megan being the favourite to win.

Benny and Chris returned to compete in *Big Brother 8: All-Stars*, with Chris emerging as the winner of the season.

## Production

Excluding the White Room, the series featured fewer twists than its accompanying seasons. Week 8 featured a variation of "reverse week" from *Big Brother 4*, in which each housemate would save just *one* housemate from potential eviction, with the housemate who received the most votes being immune from the public vote. As well as this, there was no *House Captain* competition and all housemates were eligible to face eviction.

### Format

Each week lasts four days and comprises of four different events: the *House Captain* competition, nominations, the *Power of Veto* competition and an eviction of a housemate at the end of the week. The *House Captain* competition takes place on the second day of the week and decides which housemate would be in power for that week. This housemate is given immediate immunity from eviction for the week, and holds the responsibility of nominating one other housemate for eviction. The housemates begin nominating soon after the competition has finished; they are given 22 hours to visit the Diary Room and nominate two other housemates for eviction, and the two or more housemates who receive the most nominations face eviction alongside the Captain's nomination. Following the nominations reveal, the housemates compete in the *Power of Veto* competition, which allows the winning housemate to save one of the nominated housemates for eviction and replace them with someone of their own choice, or choose not to use it at all. Following the announcement of the final nominees, a poll opens in which the public decide which housemate should be evicted. The eviction take place on the final day of the week, and the cycle continues.

## Nominations table

### Notes

* **Note 1** : On Day 1, four ex-housemates LeQuisha, Megan, Natalie and Sam moved into the "White Room", a secret hidden room separate to the main house. Throughout their stay during the first week, they endured several tasks which would decide which of them would be allowed to become a housemate again, and join the housemates in the main house. Sam and Natalie failed tasks on Day 2 and Day 3 respectively; LeQuisha and Megan entered the house.

* **Note 2** : As they had only just joined the house, LeQuisha and Megan were exempt from the first nominations and could not nominate or be nominated this week.

* **Note 3** : As a result of failing to nominate, Matthew, Porsche and Tom all received an automatic penalty vote against themselves.

* **Note 4** : As a new housemate, Jacob was exempt from nominations and could not nominate or be nominated this week.

* **Note 5** : There were no nominations or competitions in Week 8. Instead, the housemates were required to vote to save one other housemate of their choice, with the housemate with the most votes being made immune from the public vote. Benny received the most votes, thus all the housemates except from him faced the public vote.

* **Note 6** : There were no nominations in the final week. Instead, on Day 29, *House Captain* Chris was asked to save one housemate from eviction, with the remaining three housemates facing a double eviction. He chose to save Benny. Rather than voting to evict, the public were voting for the housemate they wanted to become a finalist.

* **Note 7** : For the final three days, the public were voting for the housemate they wanted to *win*, rather than evict.