Big Brother 2010 is the first season with the name "Big Brother" and seventh season of the Big Brother franchise

Big Brother (TV series)

Big Brother is a television show in which a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world but continuously watched by television cameras. Each series lasts for around three months, and there are usually fewer than 15 participants. The housemates try to win a cash...

 on V in the Canadian province of Quebec

Quebec

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. In December 2009 it was announced by the network, which was formerly called TQS, that instead of a new season of Loft Story, it would explore the original format of Big Brother.

The host is TV presenter Chéli Sauvé-Castonguay and will last 63 days. The season launched on March 14, 2010 with fifteen housemates entering the house on Day 1. This series is the first international version to follow the American format in which the game is played internally, but with minor differences.

Aside from the main show, there is an accompanying show that airs every Sunday on V. The show is hosted by journalist Pascale Levesque. The winner of Loft Story: La Revanche, Sébastien Tremblay, blogs daily about the show on its official website.

Format

Big Brother Quebec loosely follows the format of the American version in that the public do not decide who to evict; only the housemates decide who will stay and who will go. However, there are slight differences:

Numéro 1

The Numéro 1 (English

English language

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: Number 1) is similar to the Head of Household position in the American version. Numéro 1 is exempt from eviction and enjoys certain luxuries. They also must nominate two housemates for eviction.

Numéro 2

The Numéro 2 (English: Number 2) is a unique feature to Big Brother Quebec. Numéro 1 chooses a second person to become Numéro 2. This person also is immune from eviction and enjoys certain luxuries as well. In addition, Numéro 2 must choose a third housemate to nominate for eviction.

Pouvoir de Véto

The Pouvoir de Véto (English: Power of Veto) works similarly to the Power of Veto in the US, in that the winner may use it to save a nominee, however, unlike the American version, the Veto winner decides on a replacement nominee. Sometimes, there may be two Vetos up for grabs instead of the normal one available to win.

Food Competitions

Food competitions are similar to the current Have and Have Not competitions in the US. The winners receive desired food items, such as steak, bread, vegetables, and dairy, while the losers dine on slop.

Evictions

Unlike the American version, there are three nominated housemates instead of two. As well, the nominated housemates remain in a separate room for the results of the vote, instead of sitting in designated chairs in the living room. Finally, all housemates except Numéro 1 vote to evict, unlike the US, where the two nominees cannot vote, and the HoH votes only in a tiebreaker situation. There are exceptions to this, however; the public on occasion has the opportunity to evict a housemate.

Grenade

Used in other international formats like the Australian version, the Grenade is used by the newly evicted housemate to throw at any housemate of their choice. The Grenade has different powers and these powers change every week. One such power is the ability to automatically put a housemate up for eviction the following week; if that happens, Numéro 1 for the upcoming week will only nominate one person.

Finale

The finale of Big Brother is completely different from the American version. Several housemates (six in the first season) remain in the house on the final, unlike 2 or 3 in the American version. As well, a certain number of evicted housemates do not form a jury to decide on a winner; like the original format

Big Brother (Netherlands)

The Dutch Big Brother is the original version of the TV reality shows. It created the format in which contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of a prize at the end...

, the viewing public decides on the winner.

Voting History

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8		Week 9	Vote disability to win
								Day 51	Day 56
Numéro 1	Christian	Fey	Christian	Lyvia	Vincent	Vickie	Christian	Vinny	Éric	Christian
Numéro 2	Fey	Marie-Élaine	Jean	Jonathan	Vickie	Vincent	Vinny	Jean	Josée	(none)
Nominations (pre-veto)	Amélie Andy Sandra	Éric Josée Jonathan	Lyvia Stéphanie Vincent	Christian Fey Jean	Éric Jean Vinny	Jonathan Josée Lyvia	Éric Josée Vickie	Jonathan Stéphanie Vickie	Christian Jean Vinny
Veto Winner	Sandra	Éric	Vincent	Lyvia Vincent	Éric Jonathan	Stéphanie	Éric Vickie	Éric	Christian Jean
Nominations (post-veto)	Andy Josée Sandra	Andy Josée Jonathan	Fey Lyvia Stéphanie	Christian Fey Jean	Christian Marie-Élaine Vinny	Éric Josée Lyvia	Jean Josée Vincent	Jonathan Stéphanie Vickie	Stéphanie Vickie Vinny
Vinny	Sandra	Andy	Lyvia	Jean	No Voting	Josée	No Voting	Numéro 1	No Voting	Winner (Day 63)	Jean
Christian	Numéro 1	Josée	Numéro 1	Fey	No Voting	Josée	Numéro 1	Stéphanie	No Voting	Runner-Up (Day 63)	Jean
Vickie	Sandra	Andy	Fey	Fey	No Voting	Lyvia	No Voting	Jonathan	No Voting	Third Place (Day 63)	Jean
Jean	Andy	Jonathan	Lyvia	Christian	No Voting	Josée	No Voting	Stéphanie	No Voting	(Day 63)	Josée
Éric	Josée	Andy	Fey	Jean	No Voting	Lyvia	No Voting	Jonathan	Numéro 1	Fifth Place (Day 63)	Jean
Josée	Sandra	Andy	Fey	Fey	No Voting	Lyvia	No Voting	Jonathan	No Voting	Sixth Place (Day 63)	Jean
Stéphanie	Sandra	Andy	Fey	Fey	No Voting	Lyvia	No Voting	Jonathan	No Voting	Evicted (Day 56)	Vinny
Jonathan	Sandra	Andy	Fey	Fey	No Voting	Lyvia	No Voting	Stéphanie	Evicted (Day 51)		Vinny
Vincent	Andy	Andy	Fey	Christian	Numéro 1	Éric	No Voting	Evicted (Day 49)			Josée
Lyvia	Sandra	Jonathan	Fey	Numéro 1	No Voting	Josée	Evicted (Day 42)				Josée
Marie-Élaine	Sandra	Jonathan	Lyvia	Jean	No Voting	Evicted (Day 35)					Josée
Fey	Sandra	Numéro 1	Lyvia	Jean	Evicted (Day 28)						Josée
Andy	Sandra	Jonathan	Evicted (Day 14)								Josée
Sandra	Josée	Evicted (Day 7)									Josée
Amélie	Sandra	Walked (Day 7)									Vinny
Slop	None	Christian Éric Jonathan Marie-Élaine Stéphanie Vinny	None	Josée Vickie Vincent	None	Christian Éric Jean, Jonathan Josée Vincent Vinny	None
Notes	None	See note 1	See notes 2,3	See note 4	See note 5	See notes 6,7	See note 8	See notes 9,10		See note 11,12
Walked	Amélie	none
Evicted	Sandra 10 of 14 votes to evict	Andy 7 of 12 votes to evict	Eviction canceled	Fey 5 of 11 votes to evict	Marie-Élaine Public's vote to evict	Lyvia 5 of 9 votes to evict	Vincent Public's vote to evict	Jonathan 4 of 7 votes to evict	Stéphanie Public's vote to evict	Christian Runner-Up
										Vinny Winner

• :Following her eviction, Sandra used the power of the Grenade to nominate Josée. Because of this, Numéro 1 Fey only nominated one housemate for eviction.
• :Following his eviction, Andy used the power of the Grenade to put Vickie in 24-hour confinement.
• :Fey, with 7 of 11 votes, was supposed to be evicted. But as the result of the group challenge, she was spared from eviction and nobody was evicted that week.
• :During week 4, there were two vetos won. The first one was won by Vincent and the second by Lyvia. However, both of the vetos were unused.
• :Following a vote to decide the use of the Grenade, it was decided that the public would vote to evict instead of the housemates. Therefore, nobody could vote for someone to evict in Week 5.
• : The power of the Grenade in week five was that the evicted housemate could grant immunity to 5 people of their choice. As Marie-Élaine was this housemate, she gave immunity to Christian, Jean, Vickie, Vincent and Vinny.
• :Vickie, as Numéro 1, had to vote to break a tie on Day 42.
• :Following a vote to decide the use of the Grenade, it was decided that the public would vote to evict instead of the housemates for the remaining weeks.
• :Following week seven's eviction, Big Brother announced that the theme of the following week would be the Pressure. Thus, two weeks would be compressed in only one. So two evictions would take place: one eviction would be made by the housemates, and the other one would be made via a public vote.
• :Following his eviction, Jonathan used the power of the Grenade to nominate Christian.
• :Following week eight's eviction, Big Brother announced that all the housemates would vote for the person who deserves the least to win. That person won't be able to win the grand prize. However, during the week, guests were awarded points during different challenges. The person who collected the most points would receive immunity and thus is excluded from the disability to win voting.
• : Christian collected the most points during the challenges and he was immune. Then, all the housemates casted their vote for the disabilty to win vote. The results were: Josée 7 votes, Jean 5 votes and Vinny 3 votes. Thus Josée was excluded from the final vote.

External links

• (Official Site) http://vtele.ca/emissions/bigbrother/