Big Brother Canada 1

**Big Brother Canada 1** is the first season of *Big Brother Canada*.

This season was known as the first ever season of the Big Brother Canada franchise, or as some people might call it, Canada's Big success. This season was known for having the first ever drag queen to compete on the franchise, as well as it's incredibly diverse cast, amazing gameplay, and strong speeches that left viewers to tears. In the end due Ariana Silva's perfect gameplay and him never being put up on the block, gave him the win in a 5-0 vote against Brayden Prince, making Ariana the first person in Brother history to play a perfect game. Rekha Udayakumar won Canada's Favorite Player due to her strong gameplay during the season and incredible personality.

## Background

### Development

It is based upon the American series of Big Brother. It was confirmed that more than 10,000 people applied to be on the series. Due to a high amount of applicants for the show, thirteen houseguests were allowed to enter, rather than the original intended twelve. In March of 2022, it was revealed that Mariana Anderson will host the series.

The format for the series is similar to the US version, in which a group of contestants, known as "Houseguests," compete to win the series by voting off fellow Houseguests and being the Houseguest to receive the most jury votes. Houseguests vie to win the HoH, PoV, and avoid staying off the block. If a houseguest makes it past a certain number of evictions, they reach the jury stage, where they vote for the houseguest they wish to win the game and the grand prize.

For the house development, including the house, there were around 97 cameras and 105 microphones installed around the whole house. The production on the house started around December 19th, 2021 and finished on February 2nd, 2022, after builders were given a deadline to complete. The house consists of 2 bedrooms, 1 HOH bedroom, 2 bathrooms, 1 Have-Not room, 1 Living Room and Dining Room, 2 Diary Rooms (One for the HOH to make their nominees), and the backyard. This season there wasn't a specific theme for the house, however, there would be a clash of twists that would shake up the whole game.

### Casting

For the debut of the Canadian version of Big Brother, around **251,210** people around Canada applied, as this is a record-breaking application count over so many different sites such as CBS Network. The applicants had to go through 10 stages in the application process, where 13 letters were finally sent for the debut of the Canadian version of Big Brother. They wanted to aim for an incredibly diverse cast with many different personalities.

## Twists

* **Small Jury:** This season, the Jury phase would start at the final 7, meaning the final 2 would face a jury of 5, instead of a jury of 7, 9, or 11.
* **Day 1 Instant Eviction:** During the first day of the game, it was revealed that Day 1 would be an instant eviction, meaning someone would be going home in a span of only 3 hours.
	+ **Shorter Season:** Due to the Day 1 twist, this season would span for only 59 Days, 33 Days shorter than Big Brother 1 (US).
* **Double Eviction:**On Week 6, Big Brother Canada had a double eviction for the first time ever, it featured 2 people going home in 1 week.

## HouseGuests

 **Winner**

 **Runner-Up**

 **Jury: *Ariana***

 **Jury: *Ariana***

 **Jury: *Ariana***

 **Jury: *Ariana***

 **Jury: *Ariana***

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

## Trivia

* This is the first ever season of Big Brother Canada.
* *Big Brother Canada 1* holds the record for the least amount of jurors with only 5.