Glen Coroner
Housemate who entered the House Next Door on Day 44.
The seventh series of Big Brother UK featured a title sequence with references to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, including the copyright year MCMIII and the numbers 1984 appearing as camera labels.[1] The series included a "House Next Door" feature, where the additional rooms were linked to the main house only through the Diary Room.[2]
Quick Facts
- Series
- Big Brother 7 (Big Brother 2006)
- Entry day
- Day 44
- Total housemates
- 22
- Winner
- Pete Bennett
- Prize
- £100,000
- Broadcaster
- Channel 4
- Series duration
- 93 days (18 May 2006 – 18 August 2006)
Facts from the source article.
Key facts and history
Two replacement housemates, Sam and Aisleyne, arrived on Day 12 after Shahbaz and Dawn departed.[3] A "golden ticket" promotion with Nestle distributed 100 tickets in Kit Kat bars, allowing winners to bypass standard auditions.[4] Housemate Susie Verrico was chosen from the ticket holders by Aisleyne picking a ball at random.[4] The promotion drew criticism from the Advertising Standards Authority regarding unclear terms and the lack of an independent adjudicator.[4]
Aisleyne was required to "evict" three housemates to the main house, then evicted Jonathan for real on Day 49.[2][5] The series began with fourteen housemates on launch night, and a further eight individuals entered later, resulting in twenty-two participants overall.[3] After a public vote on Day 83, four previously evicted contestants entered the House Next Door; Nikki got 63% of the votes cast.[6] Allowing evicted housemates to become potential winners drew criticism; Channel 4 got 500 complaints, while Ofcom received more than 1,000.[7]
What the cited sources add
A Big Brother spokeswoman denied a ban on Welsh, saying housemates could speak any established language.[8] The Welsh Language Society complained to Channel 4, Ofcom and S4C about the incident.[8] The BBC article notes that Glyn countered "But Welsh is British" to Big Brother's warning.[8] The same source confirms that any Welsh spoken would be translated via subtitling.[8]
References
- Wikipedia, "Big Brother (British TV series) series 7" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Opening Titles The Big Brother Show 2006" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Big Brother (British TV series) series 7" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Digital Spy - "More twist details; BB to stage fake eviction""; "Digital Spy -" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Big Brother (British TV series) series 7" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "NEWSFLASH: New Housemates Arrive", Big Brother Channel 4 website (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Big Brother (British TV series) series 7" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Big Brother contest slammed again ", ITV News. URL last accessed on 11 October 2006. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Big Brother (British TV series) series 7" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Digital Spy - "Aisleyne or Susie to 'evict' new housemates"" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Big Brother (British TV series) series 7" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Meet the Neighbours", Channel 4's official Big Brother site; "Blasts From the Past", Channel 4's official Big Brother site (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Big Brother (British TV series) series 7" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Concerns about voting for previously evicted housemates ", Ofcom. URL last accessed on 9 August 2006.; "Big Brother - A statement from ICSTIS ", ICSTIS. URL last accessed on 9 August 2006.; "ICSTIS begins formal Big Brother investigation ", ICSTIS. URL last accessed on 10 August 2006.; "Big Brother gets the rap", Telecoms.com, 6 October 2006 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "Big Brother's warning over Welsh ", BBC. URL last accessed on 1 June 2006.. facts only, no text reused. news.bbc.co.uk
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Big Brother (British TV series) series 7 (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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