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Template:Current television series Template:Big Brother housemates Big Brother Australia 2007 is the seventh season of the Australian reality television series Big Brother Australia. Episodes are broadcast on Network Ten in Australia, and the first episode aired on April 22, 2007.

Auditions were held throughout November and December 2006, taking place in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Darwin.

The 2007 launch had the smallest ever opening night audience in all seven Big Brother Australia series, and a 14% drop from last year's opening night. Network Ten came second overall but lost the night to Nine Network's 60 Minutes. With an average of 1.549 million viewers, the opening night was nevertheless Ten's best Sunday night of the year.[1]

Changes to the format

Big Brother 2007 introduced several new elements not seen in previous seasons of the series.

Big Brother Starburst Golden Key

On January 29 2007, Network Ten, Endemol Southern Star, and Masterfoods announced "Australia's biggest ever integrated television promotion", the Big Brother Starburst Golden Key, which would allow a member of the public to enter the Big Brother House as a housemate.[2]

Unique alphanumeric codes were included in packs of Starburst, a confectionery manufactured by Masterfoods. One hundred codes gave people obtaining them the opportunity to audition for the BB season after it began. Of these people, one had become a housemate, and will be eligible to win the season and all prizes.[2] The winner of this competition was selected during a special episode called "Golden Key".

Prize money

Big Brother originally informed the housemates that there was zero prize money. Later they were informed that they can earn prize money by completing various tasks. The prize money is currently at $120,000.[3]

Friday Night Live winner's twist

This year the winner of Friday Night Live has a greater privilege in nominations. As a replacement from previous series' "3-point twist", the Friday Night Live winner MUST now choose one nominated housemate to be removed from the nomination lineup, and another to replace them.

Storeroom

All staple foods provided to housemates this year are vegan. The housemates can supplement this with milk and eggs supplied from the farm yard and herbs and mushrooms from the herb garden.[4]

Telephone

Situated in the lounge room of the Big Brother house is a telephone. This is the first time that a telephone has been put inside the Big Brother house in Australia. It was shown on the Opening Night broadcast before the housemates entered the house, but no explanation regarding its use or purpose has been given as yet.

Chill Out Room

Adjacent to the kitchen is a new room called the "Chill Out Room". This room allows no more than three housemates at a time. It provides a quiet place to talk or relax, away from the rest of the housemates. Entry is by a small door.

White Room

On 23 April, the four remaining wild-card housemates not selected to enter the House via the public vote on Days 1 and 2 were isolated in the "White Room".

The housemates put in isolation were Cruz, Demet, Kara, and Harrison. As the name suggests, the White Room is painted in white, contains white furniture, and the housemates have only white clothes to wear. In the centre of the room is a red button. At any time, a housemate may press the red button if they wish to leave. However, this decision is final and the quitting housemate may not return to the Big Brother House or the White Room. The housemate who stays inside the White Room the longest without pressing the red button will become a genuine Big Brother housemate and enter the main house with the rest of the housemates.

On all the monitors in the Big Brother House, the housemates can now watch the White Room housemates 24/7, but cannot hear any audio. The White Room housemates are also unaware that they are being watched by the Big Brother housemates.

It was revealed on Day 4 that the White Room housemates are provided with a white porridge for their nutritional needs keeping within the white room theme.[5]

Cruz was the first evicted when Big Brother offered $750AUD if someone pushed the red button.

To determine who was going to be the new housemate, the three remaining white room contestants were faced with challenges. First, Kara was evicted when Harrison and Demet nominated her. Then, the housemates had to choose one, and picked Demet who is now an official housemate.

Secret Relationships

It was revealed on the Game On episode that a secret relationship between Hayley and Andrew exists and has been hidden from the other housemates. Big Brother set the task to both housemates to enter the house and keep secret their relationship for one week. If they succeed, then both of them can stay in the house; if they fail then one of them will be evicted. On the 29 April episode, Big Brother revealed the secret relationship of Hayley and Andrew and 3 housemates had guessed correctly regarding the relationship. Both housemates will stay in the house as a majority of the housemates had to guess correctly for one of them to be evicted. Big Brother also revealed that the housemates had completed the task successfully and awarded $50,000 into the prize pool.

Mr. X (Billy) who is a former partner of Hayley, has been brought into the Big Brother house to "stir" up the relationship of Hayley and Andrew to see if he can make them reveal their secret relationship to the housemates before the week's end. Each day he received a mission from Big Brother to put pressure on their relationship. It was revealed on the 29 April episode that Billy was Hayley's ex-boyfriend.

Billy's Tasks

  1. Day 2: Before Billy went to bed, he had to say "Goodnight Hayley, sweet dreams".
  2. Day 3: From the moment Hayley woke up, Billy had to "wait on her hand and foot" and become her best friend. He also had to pick a bunch of flowers from the garden and give them to Hayley, and ask her to help pick the herbs.
  3. Day 4: When Billy was asked to take a housemate with him to tend the animals, he had to choose Hayley.
  4. Day 5: Billy had to become Andrew's best friend.

Big Brother confirmed on Day 8 that Billy's mission was an overall success, and his reward was becoming a proper housemate on Day 16.

No housemates on Rove

Housemates this season have not be featured as guests on variety/talk show Rove. Previously housemates would appear on Rove in the days following their eviction. Rove is now aired on Sunday nights, at 8:30, immediately after the Big Brother eviction show, so it is impossible for the housemates to travel so quickly (as Rove is filmed in a different state) to appear on both shows. [6]

Housemates

During the first week of the season fifteen housemates were added to the house. Twelve went into the house on opening night while viewers could vote in two extra housemates, one male and one female from a group of six. The following night, Susannah and Zoran entered the house along with an extra housemate, Billy (also known as Mr. X), who became a housemate to put Hayley and Andrew's secret relationship into jeopardy.

Aleisha

Aleisha Lee Cowcher[7] (born May_22, 1987) is a hairdresser from Cobram, Victoria and grew up in the country with seven other siblings. She describes herself as hyperactive, energetic and modest. She claims that she often day-dreams about men.[8]

Andrew

Andrew Temment (born 1979) is an MFB firefighter from Victoria. Andrew cannot stand messy, lazy and irresponsible people. He describes himself as happy, confident and tidy.[9] He is currently in a relationship with fellow housemate Hayley, which was being kept secret to the other housemates as a week one challenge set by Big Brother.

Billy

Chris "Billy" Bentley[10] (born 1983) (also known, in publicity, as Mr. X prior to his entry into the house) is a former boyfriend of housemate Hayley. He was brought into the house to stir up the hidden relationship of Hayley and Andrew.[11] Billy states his occupation as being an insurance broker. He was traveling in Canada when approached by Big Brother producers to enter the house. Billy was not originally a legitimate housemate however was granted this position on Day 16 for the success of his task in challenging Hayley and Andrew's secret couple task.

Bodie

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The starting Big Brother Australia 2007 housemates. From left to right, back row to front row: Jamie, Kate, Aleisha, Thomas, Hayley, Rebecca, Joel, Emma, Bodie, TJ, Andrew and Travis, on the announcement that there will be no prize money for the 2007 series.

Bodie Czeladka[12] (born 1983) is an electrical designer from Western Australia and is of Polish-Croatian heritage. He is also an underwear model and describes himself as grateful, abundant and driven. He believes that he knows what a woman wants - he is a ladies' man.[13] He described himself as an "undiagnosed ADHD sufferer".[14] Bodie was the first Australian housemate to be designated by Big Brother as a "non-housemate" because he broke rules about discussing nominations. He was not permitted to make contact with the rest of the housemates and was to be separated from them at all times. He was reinstated by Big Brother as a "housemate" before the end of Day 10. Bodie was evicted on day 22, with 7% of the total vote.

Demet

Demet (born 1981) belly dancer from Victoria with a Turkish background. Raised as a Muslim, she has never had a drink of alcohol in her life. She turned twenty-six during her time in the White Room. On Day 11, Demet entered the house officially after she was voted in by the Big Brother housemates. Demet was seen as being hypocritical for supposedly lying during a heated argument involving herself, Hayley, Andrew, Emma, Nick, Zoran and (very briefly) Susannah on Day 22 (Eviction Night).[15]

Emma

Emma Cornell[16] (born 1983) is a personal trainer from New South Wales. She is the eldest of seven and believes she is the black sheep of her family. She describes herself as daring, stubborn and vivacious.[17] She underwent breast enlargement surgery more than six months before entering the house to enhance her modelling career (similar to Krystal from BB 2006).[16] She has also shot a nude pictorial for Zoo Weekly before entering the Big Brother house which was featured in the 14 May edition.[18]

Hayley

Hayley Zalewski[19] (born February 22, 1983) is a lawyer from Victoria and was a body sculpture champion.[20] She describes herself as intelligent, fun and compassionate. She is currently in a relationship with fellow housemate Andrew, which was being kept secret to the other housemates as a week one challenge set by Big Brother.[21]

Jamie

Jamie McDonald (born 1978) is a karaoke host and self-proclaimed nerd from Ballarat, Victoria. He grew up in an orphanage until the age of six. Jamie once worked as a singing waiter. He is also the host of Channel 31 Melbourne video game show, Level 3.[22]

Joel

Joel Scalzi[23] (born 1983) is a restaurant manager from South Australia. He is the son of politician Joe Scalzi[19] and describes himself as charismatic and hilarious. Joel claims never to have had a girlfriend ever in his life.[24]

Kate

Kate Gladman[25] (born 1981) is an enquiry officer and law graduate from Victoria, was once offered a position at Oxford University in Britain. She describes her perfect relationship as "being single" and describes herself as heavenly and fabulous.[26] On Day 11, Kate revealed that she had a child – who died in birth, eighteen months before entering the house in 2007. The revelation came after the housemates were assigned a task involving the care of artificial babies. On Day 15, she was evicted from the house by public voting.

Nick

Nick Sady[27] (born 1982) is a nurse who entered the house on day 18 via the Starburst Golden Key promotion. He has a phobia of spiders and is an openly gay man[28]. He was randomly selected from the five chosen finalists taken from the pool of 100 Starburst Golden Key winners.

Rebecca

Rebecca Dent[29] (born 1983) is an events manager from Queensland. She is a Mormon, who has never drunk alcohol or worn a bikini. She describes herself as vibrant, bubbly and open.[30]

Susannah

Susannah (born 1977) is a fraud analyst who works for the National Australia Bank in Melbourne, Victoria[citation needed]. According to the Big Brother website, she used to work in several dating agencies and has arachnophobia and fears getting trapped in large bodies of water. She is one of the two housemates voted into the house by public SMS vote.[31]

Thomas

Thomas Haynes (born 1980) is a real estate agent from Western Australia. He was a former professional basketballer who holds degrees in chemistry and human biology. Thomas is known to be very tall in height at 6 feet 6 inches (198cm). He describes himself as fun, confused and genuine.[32]

TJ

Theresa Jane "TJ" (born July 1, 1985) is a bar attendant from the Northern Territory. She describes herself as "unique, bizarre, and complex". TJ was evicted on Day 22 from public voting, along with off-again on again boyfriend Bodie.[33]

Travis

Travis Perkins[34] (born 1975) is a truck driver from Pakenham, Victoria. He was a child model and is a father, and describes himself as straight up, honest and caring.[35]

Zoran

Zoran Vidinovski[36] (born 1984) is a club coordinator from Queensland. He says that the best feature about his body is his eyes. He is one of the two housemates voted into the house by public SMS vote and is of [macedonian] heritage. He lost 15kg prior to entering the house.[37]

White Room Wild Cards

Cruz

Travers "Cruz" Chue[38] is a twenty-three year old fashion designer from Queensland. He was the first wildcard to press the red button and leave the White Room on Day 8, after being tempted by Big Brother to leave for $AU750. Gretel Killeen later hinted that the money would have greatly increased if he had delayed. [39]

Demet

For Demet, refer to housemate section of this article.

Harrison

Harrison Rhoades is a twenty year old carpenter from Sydney, New South Wales. He is also a scuba-diving instructor. He was the third housemate to be eliminated from the White Room through voting by the current housemates.

Kara

Kara Otter is an eighteen year old retail assistant from New South Wales who finished year 12 last year at Domremy College in Five Dock. She was the second person to be eliminated from the White Room, by nomination.

Weekly summary and highlights

Main article: Big Brother Australia 2007 Highlights

Nominations and evictions

The first person listed is nominated for two points, while the second is nominated for one point.

Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15
Aleisha Kate
Jamie		 Jamie
TJ		 Zoran
Thomas
Andrew Exempt Bodie
TJ		 Demet
Emma
Billy Exempt TJ
Zoran		 Zoran
Thomas
Demet White
Room		 Exempt Susannah
Thomas
Emma Kate
Jamie		 Rebecca
Jamie		 Thomas
Rebecca
Hayley Exempt Bodie
TJ		 Demet
Emma
Jamie Emma
TJ		 Emma
Bodie		 Emma
Aleisha
Joel Kate
TJ		 TJ
Susannah		 Susannah
Travis
Nick Not in
house		 Exempt
Rebecca Bodie
TJ		 Emma
Bodie		 Emma
Zoran
Susannah Jamie
Bodie		 Bodie
Aleisha		 Emma
Aleisha
Thomas Kate
Aleisha		 Zoran
Aleisha		 Demet
Hayley
Travis Zoran
Emma		 Zoran
Emma		 Emma
Thomas
Zoran Bodie
Aleisha		 Bodie
Emma		 Rebecca
Jamie
Bodie Kate
Rebecca		 Zoran
Rebecca		 Evicted
(Day 22)
TJ Zoran
Kate		 Susannah
Hayley		 Evicted
(Day 22)
Kate Emma
Bodie		 Evicted
(Day 15)
Nomination twist See
note 1		 See
note 2		 See
note 3
Up for Eviction Bodie
Jamie
Kate		 Bodie
Joel
TJ
Zoran		 Demet
Zoran
Emma
Evicted
(% of merged vote) 		Kate
55%
to evict 		TJ

54%
to evict

Bodie

7%
to evict

Nomination notes

Template:Fnb For passing their task, Hayley and Andrew are exempt from nominations. However, in future they must nominate as a couple but they can be nominated as individuals. Billy is also exempt as he is not an official housemate. Also, Emma won the Friday Night Live award of discussing nominations with Aleisha. Emma used her new Friday Night Live winner's twist to save herself from nomination, and to nominate Jamie.

Template:Fnb Because Demet was new to the house, she was exempt from nominations. Billy became an official "housemate" and nominated for the first time. Both Hayley and Andrew nominated together. In the nominations twist, Hayley used her status as winner of Friday Night Live to save Emma from nomination, and to nominate Joel. Four housemates were nominated instead of three, and this sunday's eviction is a double eviction.

Template:Fnb Because Nick was new to the house, he was exempt from nominations. Both Hayley and Andrew nominated together. In the nominations twist, Andrew used his status as winner of Friday Night Live to save Thomas from nomination, and to nominate Demet.

Friday Night Live

For the main article, please see Friday Night Live (Big Brother Australia).
For the Friday Night Live 2007 article, please see Friday Night Live 2007 (Big Brother Australia).
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15
Theme Gladiator Japanese Game Show Bling Bling On the Beach
Winner Emma Hayley Andrew Demet
Winner's Choice Aleisha Andrew Travis Joel
Major Prize New Zealand Holiday Domestic Holiday Watches Holiday
Minor Prize Scooter Scooter Scooter Scooter
Booby Prize Baby Shoes Porridge Zebra Underpants Bucket & Spade

Italic denotes prize won.

Special shows

Game On

"Game On" was a live show that was broadcast on Day 2 (2007-04-23). The results of the overnight wild-card SMS vote were revealed. Susannah and Zoran were the chosen two out of the six wild-card housemates. The remainder of the wild-card housemates were isolated in the White Room. The Daily Show was incorporated into the first part of the live show. Hosted by Gretel Killeen.

Full House

Full House was a live show that was broadcast on Day 8 (2007-04-29). It was aired in the timeslot usually occupied by Eviction shows. The relationship between Andrew and Hayley was revealed to the house, as was Billy's role to cause tension on Hayley's relationship. Because Hayley and Andrew had been able to keep their relationship a secret from the housemates for the week (as less than 50% of the housemates guessed their relationship), Big Brother revealed that they had earned $50,000 to be added to the prize money, which was previously set at zero. Big Brother also tempted the wildcard housemates to leave the White Room by offering a sum of money to them ($AUD 750), which Cruz accepted. Hosted by Gretel Killeen.

Wild Card Entry

"Wild Card Entry" was a live show that was broadcast on Day 11 (2007-05-02). The White Room housemates had left the room and one of them would enter the Big Brother house as a housemate. Hosted by Gretel Killeen.

Challenges

  • The first round was determined by nominations from the White Room housemates and Kara was eliminated with two votes.
  • The second round challenge was that each housemate had to pick up three major items of clothing and dress a model while airborne on a large steel frame.
    • Big Brother announced that the third round will be decided by the Big Brother housemates - it would determine the WR final housemate that enters the house.
  • The third round was determined by nominations from the Big Brother housemates. To cast their vote, they were to place a plastic ball into the corresponding tube for either Harrison or Demet.
    • After counting all the votes, the housemate that would enter the house as a wildcard was Demet, with 8 votes against 6.

Golden Key

"Golden Key" was a live show that was broadcast on Day 18 (2007-05-09). During this episode, a winner of the Starburst Golden Key promotion was selected from five finalists after a series of challenges. The finalists' names were:

#38: Carolyn
#61: Nick
#32: Natalie
#66: Angie
#17: Laura

For the mini-challenge, the finalists had to pick one of five discs in a bag which determined the lineup for the potential housemates to choose a golden key box to stand behind. After the contestants searched their boxes, which were filled with Starburst lollies, for the golden key, Nick found the key in his box and thus became the new Big Brother housemate. He entered the house during the weekly task performance. Hosted by Gretel Killeen.

Intruder Alert!

This will be a 90 minute special, airing on Tuesday 22 May that will put two new housemates in the house as intruders.[40]

Controversy

  • The Daily Telegraph had reported on 21 April 2007 - the day before the show's launch - that an internet hacker claimed to have obtained the names of the 18 housemates from the official website: "Aleisha, Andrew, Brodie, Cruz, Demet, Emma, Harrison, Hayley, Jamie, Joel, Kara, Kate, Rebecca, Sussanah, Thomas, TJ, Travis and Zoran".[41]
  • Because of the pre-recorded nature of launch shows, members of different forums and websites decided to have live streams using mobile phones allowing people to listen to the show before it was broadcast on national television. Because of this, recording of the show stopped until the streaming was stopped. Eventually, production staff offered prizes if audience members would pick out people from the crowd using phones to broadcast the show.[42]
  • The Daily Telegraph had reported that Big Brother producers had failed to "bleep" out offensive language when housemate Bodie told other housemates he was "dense cunt" during the PG-rated Daily Show on Tuesday 24 April, 2007.[43]
  • The Sunday Mail on 29 April 2007 had reported that the parents of Mormon housemate Rebecca, were upset that their daughter is under siege from fellow housemates over her decision not to join in their party antics.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

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  8. ^ Aleisha's Biography Ten official site
  9. ^ Andrew's Biography Ten official site
  10. ^ Mr X actually "Chris" Behind Big Brother Australia URL accessed 2007-04-29
  11. ^ "Billy the Big Brother bombshell". The Daily Telegraph. April 24, 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-25. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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  17. ^ Emma's Biography Ten official site
  18. ^ Emma Cornell - Babe of the Day Zoo Weekly, 14 May edition (Issue 63)
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