The second season of Big Brother in Croatia

Big Brother (Croatia)

Big Brother is a reality show shown on RTL Televizija in which a number of contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize at the end of the run...

 ran for 118 days, from 4 September to 30 December 2005.

Second season had radical changes in the format of show—the number of contestants was initially raised from 12 to 14; the pace of evictions and nominations was accelerated, and number of contestants were introduced at later stages.

The composition of contestants was different—they were much younger, less educated and generally perceived to be less mature. They also tended to represent various sections of Croatian population, missing in previous season. This was most evident with Matko Okmažić from Omiš

Omiš

Omiš is a town and port in the Dalmatia region of Croatia, and is a municipality in the Split-Dalmatia County. The town is situated approximately south-east of Croatia's second largest city, Split. Its location is where the emerald-green Cetina River meets the Adriatic Sea...

, 25-year-old son of restaurant owner, later revealed to be candidate of far-right parties at local elections. Okmažić, although popular with contestants, outraged many liberal Croatians with his chauvinist views and later had to publicly apologise after singing "Jasenovac i Gradiška Stara

Jasenovac i Gradiška Stara

"Jasenovac i Gradiška Stara" is a Croatian song promoting the Ustaše. The lyrics celebrate the World War II crimes against the Serbs...

", controversial song of Croatian far right singer Joško Tomičić. He outraged feminist and gays rights groups after a statement that he would kill his girlfriend if he found out she is cheating on him. In 2001 local elections for Omiš

Omiš

Omiš is a town and port in the Dalmatia region of Croatia, and is a municipality in the Split-Dalmatia County. The town is situated approximately south-east of Croatia's second largest city, Split. Its location is where the emerald-green Cetina River meets the Adriatic Sea...

 city council he was 14th on the list for HB/HKDU

Croatian Christian Democratic Union

Croatian Christian Democratic Union is a right wing political party in Croatia.It was founded in 1992 after the merger of Croatian Democratic Party and Croatian Christian Democratic Party ....

 hard right coalition.

Despite this, Okmažić gradually evolved as the front-runner for the prize. He never got nominated and was part of unofficial clan of self-declared "finalists". One of those was Hamdija Seferović, the only Roma contestant in the show. Mild-mannered and soft-spoken Seferović gradually won great deal of sympathies among Croatian public, first by publicly admitting his lack of primary education, then by cultivating the image of dedicated family man.

Because of this, the actual finals proved to be quite unpredictable. This was also due to Daca Bosančić, candidate who entered finals despite her female gender, status of replacement candidate and ethnic Serb background. In the end Seferović finished first and Bosančić finished second.

This result was often perceived as the victory of liberal-minded and pro-European Croatians over the right-wingers embodied in Matko Okmažić.

The second season, just like first, also had its share of criticism—mostly due to lack of creativity among producers—but surprisingly the rating were higher than the first seasons. There were also complaints about bet shops influencing the ultimate result by publishing low odds for evictees early in the week and many conspiracy theories about huge bets being used as a tool for manipulations.

	| #1	| #2	| #3	| #4	| #5	| #6	| #7	| #8	| #9	| #10	| #11	| #12	| #13	| #14	| #15	| #16	| Final
Hamdija	No nominations	Kristina Nataša	Brankica Monika	Kristina Lana	Lana Sanja	Kristian Kristina	Hana Kristian	Nominated	Lana Sanja	Daca Dominik	Matea Sanja	Daca Matea	Maroje Matea	Daca Matea	Matea Tatjana	Daca Tatjana	Winner
Daca	Not in House								Exempt	Hamdija Kristian	Hamdija Ivan	Hamdija Ivan	Maroje Tatjana	Matko Željka	Matea Tatjana	Ivan Matko	Runner up
Matko	No nominations	Kristina Nataša	Kristina Monika	Kristina Monika	Igor Kristina	Ivan Kristina	Hana Sanja	Nominated	Lana Sanja	Daca Dominik	Daca Matea	Daca Matea	Daca Maroje	Matea Željka	Matea Tatjana	Daca Tatjana	Third place
Ivan	No nominations	Brankica Kristina	Brankica Igor	Monika Sanja	Lana Sanja	Kristian Sanja	Kristian Sanja	Nominated	Lana Sanja	Dominik Matea	Matea Sanja	Daca Željka	Maroje Tatjana	Matea Željka	Matea Tatjana	Daca Tatajana
Tatjana	Not in House											Exempt	Ivan Maroje	Ivan Matea	Daca Ivan	Daca Ivan
Matea	Not in House								Exempt	Hamdija Ivan	Hamdija Matko	Hamdija Željka	Maroje Tatjana	Hamdija Tatjana	Ivan Matko	Evicted (Day 104)
Željka	Not in House								Exempt	Dominik Hamdija	Hamdija Matea	Ivan Matea	Maroje Tatjana	Matea Tatjana	Evicted (Day 97)
Maroje	Not in House											Exempt	Matea Željka	Evicted (Day 90)
Kristian	No nominations	Kristina Monika	Kristina Monika	Kristina Monika	Ivan Igor	Ivan Kristina	Hana Kristina	Nominated	Hamdija Ivan	Dominik Matea	Daca Matea	Nominated	Evicted (Day 83)
Sanja	No nominations	Monika Nataša	Duje Kristina	Duje Kristina	Ivan Igor	Duje Ivan	Duje Hamdija	Nominated	Matko Hamdija	Hamdija Ivan	Ivan Kristian	Evicted (Day 76)
Dominik	Not in House								Exempt	Ivan Kristian	Evicted (Day 69)
Lana	No nominations	Kristina Monika	Igor Kristina	Igor Kristina	Duje Igor	Duje Ivan	Hana Ivan	Nominated	Hamdija Ivan	Evicted (Day 62)
Duje	No nominations	Kristina Nataša	Kristina Sanja	Igor Monika	Igor Lana	Kristina Sanja	Hana Lana	Nominated	Evicted (Day 55)
Hana	Not in House					Exempt	Hamdija Kristian	Evicted (Day 48)
Kristina	No nominations	Brankica Igor	Duje Matko	Igor Matko	Igor Kristian	Duje Ivan	Evicted (Day 41)
Igor	No nominations	Brankica Kristina	Brankica Kristina	Kristina Monika	Kristina Lana	Evicted (Day 34)
Monika	No nominations	Duje Nataša	Duje Kristina	Duje Igor	Evicted (Day 27)
Brankica	No nominations	Kristina Igor	Kristina Igor	Evicted (Day 20)
Nataša	No nominations	Hamdija Kristina	Evicted (Day 13)
Biserka	No nominations	Evicted (Day 6)
René	No nominations	Evicted (Day 6)
Nominated	All HMs	Kristina Nataša	Duje Brankica Kristina Igor Monika	Kristina Monika	Igor Lana	Kristina Ivan	Kristian Hana	Duje Hamdija Lana Ivan Kristian Matko Sanja	Lana Sanja	Hamdija Dominik	Hamdija Ivan Kristian Sanja Daca Matea	Kristian Daca Matea	Maroje Tatjana	Matea Željka	Tatjana Matea	Daca Tatjana	Hamdija Ivan Matko Daca
Evicted	Rene 29% Biserka 19%	Nataša 55%	Brankica 43%	Monika 66%	Igor 70%	Kristina 75%	Hana 57%	Duje 35%	Lana 53%	Dominik 54%	Sanja 28%	Kristian 58%	Maroje 68%	Željka 64%	Matea 52%	Tatjana 81%	Ivan 22% (out of 4) ---- Matko 30% (out of 3) ---- Daca 48.5% (out of 2)
Not evicted		Kristina 45%	Kristina 23% Duje 14% Igor 11% Monika 9%	Kristina 34%	Lana 30%	Ivan 25%	Kristian 43%	Hamdija 16% Lana 15% Matko 14% Sanja 13% Kristian 5% Ivan 2%	Sanja 47%	Hamdija 46%	Kristian 20% Hamdija 19% Daca 12% Matea 12% Ivan 9%	Matea 27% Daca 15%	Tatjana 32%	Matea 36%	Tatjana 48%	Daca 19%	HAMDIJA 51.5% (out of 2)