Known as The Battle, the third season Big Brother was broadcast by the new station Yorin

Yorin

Yorin was a Dutch television channel. Yorin disappeared and most programs of this channel went to RTL 5. The programs of RTL 5 moved to a new channel called RTL 7....

. It lasted from 6 September to 30 December 2001 (114 days). The presenter was Patty Brard

Patty Brard

Patty Brard is a famous Indo entertainer. She is a TV personality and a singer notable as a member of the girl group Luv'...

 (member of girl group

Girl group

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 Luv'

Luv'

Luv is a Dutch pop girl group that scored a string of hit records in Continental Europe as well as South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Mexico in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1979, Luv' was "Holland's best export act" and thus received the "Conamus Export Prize"...

). Due to a better cast of characters, this Big Brother-series became the talk of the town again.

The format underwent some changes. Contrary to the former seasons the viewers were only able to vote for their favorite nominee, and not for the one they wanted to leave. This system was introduced to prevent that the most controversial housemates would be evicted

Eviction

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 first. Equally important for the producers was that the new system would generate more phonecalls, and thus more revenue

Revenue

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.

The housemates were divided in two permanent groups. One group lived in a luxurious part of the house, the other group lived in poverty

Poverty

Poverty is the lack of a certain amount of material possessions or money. Absolute poverty or destitution is inability to afford basic human needs, which commonly includes clean and fresh water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter. About 1.7 billion people are estimated to live...

. On unexpected times a battle was announced, in which the two groups could fight for the right to live on the rich half. Each group had a captain

Captain (sports)

In team sports, a captain is a title given to a member of the team. The title is frequently honorary, but in some cases the captain may have significant responsibility for strategy and teamwork while the game is in progress on the field...

 with special duties and privileges (a Head of Household before that name was coined). At any moment each participant was free to challenge his leader in a captains-battle.

The series started out with only six housemates. The others were secluded in a villa in Spain

Spain

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 and were only gradually introduced. Each new twosome started with a battle to determine which group they became part of. In Spain, where there were no cameras, a relation developed between Nancy and Richard. But when Richard finally arrived in Almere

Almere

Almere is a planned city and municipality in the province of Flevoland, the Netherlands, bordering Lelystad and Zeewolde. The municipality of Almere comprises the districts Almere Stad, Almere Haven, Almere Buiten, Almere Hout, Almere Poort and Almere Pampus .Almere is the youngest city in the...

, Nancy was voted out at the same time. Another contestant never made it to the real house at all. Ellen was removed from the Spanish villa because she had made disallowed telephonic contact

Communication

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 with the outside world. Rumor said she had gained possession of the telephone by having sex with a security guard

Security guard

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.

The first week the occupants were only visible on streaming video. The producers thought that it would be prudent to start the television broadcast in the second week, so they could save up interesting material for a jump start. They were wrong. During that first week 9/11 happened in the US. Because of the magnitude of the event the housemates were informed. Antillian

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 Aldrico, who had many friends in New York

New York

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, took the news bad and had to be removed after he started to behave confused. On the other hand, some housemates for a while had the feeling the event was not real. Even after they received newspapers and saw images, they thought they were the victim of a very cruel joke.

The outspoken personalities of this season yielded much viewing-pleasure

Pleasure

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 but also lots of complaints about the high content of swearing

Profanity

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, boozing

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 and sex

Sex

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. Young teacher Andries ended up in bed with the transsexual Kelly

Kelly van der Veer

Kelly van der Veer is a Dutch television personality, singer and actress. She is regarded the most prominent transsexual person in the Netherlands and rose to fame after competing in Big Brother - The Battle, a Dutch version of the Big Brother-format.-Early life:During her childhood, Van der Veer...

, snogged with Audrey and had a sexual relationship with Diane. Before that, a very drunken Diane had forced sex with Frank. Streamwatchers

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 who were witness

Witness

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 to the event filed a complaint. However, neither the Ministry of Justice nor Big Brother took action. Housemate Gert-Jan gathered a big fanbase after he had been much maligned by the manipulative Coos and Pascal and had proposed to his girlfriend in the outside world.

The final battles, in which the last contestants had to collect the prize money

Prize money

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, were copied from Fear Factor

Fear Factor

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 (another Endemol

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 production). The lesbian

Lesbian

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 beauty Sandy won the last popularity vote. Inspired by Kelly, she later used the money to pay for breast implants for her girlfriend and herself. Kelly

Kelly van der Veer

Kelly van der Veer is a Dutch television personality, singer and actress. She is regarded the most prominent transsexual person in the Netherlands and rose to fame after competing in Big Brother - The Battle, a Dutch version of the Big Brother-format.-Early life:During her childhood, Van der Veer...

 herself gained a photo shoot in the Playboy

Playboy

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 in which she could show off her newly gained feminity.

Nominations Table

	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 7	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12	Week 13	Week 14	Week 15	Week 16	Week 17
Sandy	Not in house		No nominations	No nominations	Coos	Coos	Coos	Pascal Diane	Gert-Jan	Gert-Jan	Andries	Andries	Winner
Daniëlle	No nominations	No nominations	No nominations	No nominations	Priscella	Frank	Leo	Leo	Ed	Andries	Gert-Jan	Leo	Runner up
Gert-Jan	No nominations	No nominations	No nominations	No nominations	Coos	Coos	Pascal	Pascal	Kelly	Kelly	Diane	Andries	Third Place
Andries	No nominations	No nominations	No nominations	No nominations	Priscella	Frank	Leo	Leo		Daniëlle	Sandy	Sandy	Fourth Place
Leo	Not in house			No nominations	Priscella	Frank	Daniëlle Coos	Diane	Kelly	Kelly	Diane	Andries	Evicted (Day 111)
Diane	No nominations	No nominations	No nominations	No nominations	Priscella	Leo	Leo	Ed	Ed	Daniëlle	Sandy	Evicted (Day 104)
Kelly	No nominations	No nominations	No nominations	No nominations	Pascal	Pascal	Coos	Pascal	Gert-Jan	Leo	Evicted (Day 97)
Ed	Not in house			No nominations	Coos	Kelly	Daniëlle	Diane	Diane	Evicted (Day 90)
Pascal	No nominations	No nominations	No nominations	No nominations	Kelly	Kelly	Gert-Jan	Gert-Jan	Evicted (Day 83)
Coos	Not in house	No nominations	No nominations	No nominations	Kelly	Kelly	Gert-Jan	Evicted (Day 76)
Frank	No nominations	No nominations	No nominations	No nominations	Leo	Leo	Evicted (Day 69)
Priscella	Not in house			No nominations	Leo	Evicted (Day 62)
Tania	Not in house			No nominations	Evicted (Day 48)
Audrey	Not in house		No nominations	Evicted (Day 34)
Richard	Not in house	No nominations	Evicted (Day 27)
Nancy	No nominations	Evicted (Day 20)
Aldrico	Walked (Day 5)
Nominated For Eviction	All Housemates				Priscella Coos	Frank Kelly	Coos Leo	Diane Pascal	Ed Gert-Jan	Daniëlle Kelly	Diane Sandy	Andries Leo Sandy	Andries Daniëlle Gert-Jan Sandy
Evicted	Nancy 3.0% to save	Richard 3.1% to save	Audrey 3.4% to save	Tania 1.3% to save	Priscella 47.7% to save	Frank 43.2% to save	Coos 19.6% to save	Pascal 37.5% to save	Ed 14.1% to save	Kelly 19.9% to save	Diane 18.4% to save	Leo 14.1% to save	Andries 4.3% to win	Daniëlle 38.9% to win
													16.0% to win	Sandy 40.8% to win