List of Big Brother 2009 housemates (UK)
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The following is a list of participants from the 2009 series of Big Brother UK
, sixteen of whom entered the programme during the live launch broadcast. The contestants were not accorded the status of housemate until satisfactorily completing a set task, or following a public vote on Day 4. Ten of the contestants were successful in gaining housemate status through a number of tasks, leaving the other six facing a public vote to decide which five of them would also become housemates. Beinazir received the fewest votes and was evicted. An additional five housemates entered the Big Brother House on Day 44. On Day 56, Noirin's ex-boyfriend Isaac entered the house. On 4 September 2009, Sophie Reade was crowned the Winner of this series with 74.4% of the final vote.
, Russia. A music performer in her homeland, she left in 1997 and now lives in South London where she runs a keep-fit class. She is the adoptive daughter of former British and European light welterweight
boxing champion, Clinton McKenzie
. She was made a housemate as the result of a public vote on Day 4. She kept her birthday a secret from her fellow housemates, celebrating it alone in the Diary Room. On Day 21, in a special live nominations show, she was nominated for the first time. On Day 23, became the fourth housemate to be evicted with 81% of the public vote. Angel later appeared in the first episode of game show Red or Black?
on 3 September 2011, where she finished as a runner-up.
were given asylum in the United Kingdom when she was a year old. On Day 4, Beinazir did not gain full housemate status by public vote and became the first evictee. There was no crowd present as she left the House and she was escorted from the premises in a red Routemaster
Bus.
customer service advisor from Cleadon
. He was Mr Gay Newcastle 2007 and was a runner up for Mr Gay UK
. He became a housemate for successfully walking barefoot on broken sugar glass
, believing it to be real glass. On Day 33, Big Brother told Charlie that he had to remain silent until midnight or automatically face the public vote as a punishment for discussing nominations. He failed to keep quiet and therefore faced eviction along with Dogface, Halfwit, Kris and Marcus. Kris was evicted. On day 48, Charlie broke the rules regarding nominations again, along with 10 other housemates and every housemate in the house at the time faced the public vote (apart from Lisa and Rodrigo). He finished in 4th place.
Charlie had a big argument one day regarding David, continually saying that he was plotting and scheming all of the time.
, near Leeds
in West Yorkshire
. He entered the House on Day 44 with four other new housemates. With them he was tasked with ensuring that Noirin and Halfwit received the most nominations, but the new housemates failed their task and faced the public vote, though the eviction was ultimately cancelled. On Days 60-63, David was the victim of an ongoing argument in which he was accused of being a thief and a bully after Bea accused him of stealing butter. On Day 63, after a heated argument, Marcus said to David that he "punked him out" leading David to believe that Marcus was threatening him. David was later informed by Big Brother that he had misinterpreted Marcus's statement. On Day 91, David celebrated his 29th birthday, and he received a birthday message from fashion designer Vivienne Westwood
, who he claims is his hero.
David has also been on UK television show Golden Balls
. He finished 3rd.
, who lives with his parents at their stately home. He changed his name by deed poll
to Halfwit in order to gain housemate status. On Day 6 Halfwit was nominated for eviction by his fellow housemates and on Day 9 he survived the public vote after receiving 8.8% of the vote. On Day 12 he was nominated for eviction along with Cairon and on Day 16, with 26.84%, he survived his second public vote. On Day 21, in a special live nominations show, he was nominated for the third time, surviving with 19% of the public vote on Day 23. On Day 26, Halfwit was nominated for eviction along with Sree, surviving for the fourth consecutive time on Day 30 with 15% of the public vote.
Halfwit has survived the most consecutive evictions out of anyone in the history of the show, having survived the public vote 5 times in a row and 7 times in total. He gained significant public support through his victim status, most notably due to his failed attempts at seducing fellow contestant Bea Hamill. On Day 72 as a special prize, Halfwit and Dogface legally changed their names back to Freddie and Sophie. On the same day Freddie was evicted from the house over Marcus gaining 53.6% of the public vote to evict.
with her husband. Branding herself a "modern day Muslim", she claims religion is very important to her and she prays five times every day. She is married to her cousin. She entered on Day 44, and was given a secret mission on which she had to brief her fellow new housemates, it involved ensuring that Noirin and Halfwit were nominated. The task was failed, resulting in her nomination along with the other new housemates. On Day 59, she was named the 'Most Entertaining Housemate' by Big Brother. As part of a shopping task on Day 62, she had to dress up as Alice (Alice in Wonderland) and drink a bottle of liquid, find a key
in a cake
and produce some real tears. Hira took five hours to eat her way through the cake until Big Brother informed her that she could use her face or head to break the enormous cake. In week ten it was announced that all housemates would face the public vote due to Siavash and Marcus breaking the nomination rules. In a change to the usual format, it was announced that this week's vote would be a vote to save rather than to evict, on Day 65 Hira became the ninth person to be evicted with 5.65% of the public vote.
, USA. He is Noirin's boyfriend and entered the house disguised as a fish and chips delivery-man on Day 56 and later walked 158 minutes after girlfriend, Noirin, was evicted. He originally met Noirin during his time as a castmate on MTV
's The Real World: Sydney
. Noirin and Isaac eventually broke up, after which he returned to the United States.
Top High Street Honeys. She became the seventh housemate after being tricked into believing that she had a motorbike ridden over her stomach. On Day 39, Karly was nominated for eviction by her fellow housemates. Karly was evicted on Day 44, the same night as her boyfriend, Kenneth, entered the house as a new housemate.
, Katy Perry
, Sophia Bush
, Simon Cowell
and Rochelle Wiseman
before he admitted to hoaxing the scandal as a result of a bet between friends.
Tong was accused of a sex assault on a woman at a Glasgow flat in 2009.
, Birmingham
who entered the House with a distinctive pink mohican
haircut, which she shaved off during the series. She became the third person to be rewarded with housemate status when she answered a ringing telephone. She was evicted on day 90 in the final eviction of the series with 68.59% to evict. Lisa currently lives in Redditch
, Worcestershire near Birmingham.
from the comic book series X-Men
, rather that the character Wolverine is based on him. Marcus is a high level karate
practitioner and has successfully completed a 100-man kumite
. On Day 29, Marcus was warned about comments he made to fellow housemate Sree, which Marcus hotly denied. On Day 33, Marcus and Halfwit were nominated and faced the public vote alongside fellow housemates Charlie, Dogface and Kris. On Day 50, he helped Kenneth Tong escape from the Big Brother house. Marcus was the twelfth housemate to be evicted with 64% of the vote on day 86. He holds the record for most nomination votes cast against him, with 46 (fellow housemate Freddie/Halfwit comes in a close second with 45).
. She is a former All Ireland athletics champion. She also appeared on The Real World: Sydney
in 2007 as the girlfriend of Isaac Stout. Her mother was shocked to hear she had entered the house; Noirin had said she was going to America. She was granted housemate status when she allowed Rodrigo to shave her eyebrows and draw a moustache and glasses with permanent marker on her face. She had to do this every day until further notice. On Day 10, Noirin asked Big Brother's permission to wash the ink from her face. When told she would be punished if she removed the moustache and glasses she proposed to protest with a hunger strike, sparking a heated argument between Marcus and Lisa. On Day 18, thanks to Halfwit's birthday gift, Noirin was released from her daily obligation to draw on her face. On Day 21, Angel caused offence by saying Noirin looked three months pregnant and in doing so provided six housemates with a reason for nominating her. On Day 58, Noirin was evicted from the Big Brother house with 60.0% of the public vote after being nominated by her fellow housemates for eviction. Outside of the house in September 2009 Norin appeared on the front cover of Nuts
and 10 pages of the magazine consisted of pictures of her and an interview with her.
ian student living in Leeds
. He was the twelfth person to enter the house and earned housemate status after convincing Noirin to let him remove her eyebrows and draw a moustache and glasses on her face under the order of Big Brother. He once played a cameo role in teen soap Hollyoaks
as a student at Hollyoaks College graduation. He also played a love interest in the music video "Liquid Lover" by the band Bad Pollyana. He has spoken of his ambition to drink tea with the "Queen of Britain"
. On Day 61, Big Brother gave Rodrigo the opportunity to send a letter to the Queen. On Week 10, all of the housemates were put up for eviction as a punishment caused by Marcus
and Siavash
, this was Rodrigo's first time facing the public vote. Rodrigo was unhappy with the rulebreak, sparking an argument between him and Marcus. Big Brother offered him a chance to have tea with the "Queen". However, all of the other housemates had to trick Rodrigo into thinking the Queen lookalike was actually the Queen. They passed and Big Brother told him of their trick in the diary room. Rodrigo has been called to the diary room twice to calm down after arguing with Charlie. During the first of these arguments, Rodrigo threw a plastic bottle at Charlie's head, and during the second, he poked Charlie in the face. He finished in 5th place.
, believing it to be real glass. She walked from the House on Day 8, because of arguments with Sophia and because she apparently missed her children. However many believe that the real reason was that she had to accept that she was not going to have a relationship with fellow housemate Kris.
sufferer from London who works as a private banking assistant. She was made a housemate as the result of a public vote on Day 4. On Day 6 Sophia was nominated for eviction by her fellow housemates. On Day 8 she had a major argument with Saffia and was called to the Diary Room to calm down. On Day 9 she became the second evictee with 91.2% of the public vote.
and was the winner of the series. She changed her name by deed poll
to Dogface in order to become a housemate. On Day 33, Big Brother told Dogface that she had to remain silent until 2 a.m. as punishment for discussing nominations. She failed to keep quiet and therefore faced the public vote. Dogface had a romantic relationship with Kris in the House. On Day 39, she and Siavash were punished for talking about nominations by Big Brother who told them they were not allowed to swear before 3 pm. They both failed and faced eviction. On Day 72 as a special prize, Halfwit and Dogface legally changed their names back to Freddie and Sophie. Since Day 88, Sophie was the bookies' favourite to win.
Sophie was announced the winner of the show on 4 September with 74.4% of the final vote.
studying for a masters degree in International Business at the University
of Hertfordshire
in Hatfield
. He was made a housemate as the result of a public vote on Day 4. On Day 30, with 85% of the public vote, Sree became the fifth evictee. He has recently been in the news for slashing his wrists.
Big Brother 2009 (UK)
Big Brother 2009, occasionally referred to as Big Brother 10, was the tenth series of the British reality television series Big Brother. It began on 4 June 2009 and was aired on Channel 4 and E4 for 93 days, concluding on 4 September when Sophie "Dogface" Reade was crowned the winner with 74.4% of...
, sixteen of whom entered the programme during the live launch broadcast. The contestants were not accorded the status of housemate until satisfactorily completing a set task, or following a public vote on Day 4. Ten of the contestants were successful in gaining housemate status through a number of tasks, leaving the other six facing a public vote to decide which five of them would also become housemates. Beinazir received the fewest votes and was evicted. An additional five housemates entered the Big Brother House on Day 44. On Day 56, Noirin's ex-boyfriend Isaac entered the house. On 4 September 2009, Sophie Reade was crowned the Winner of this series with 74.4% of the final vote.
Angel
Angel McKenzie (born Elena Chebotareva on 10 June 1978) is a professional boxer and artist from MoscowMoscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, Russia. A music performer in her homeland, she left in 1997 and now lives in South London where she runs a keep-fit class. She is the adoptive daughter of former British and European light welterweight
Light welterweight
-Professional boxing:The light welterweight class is a weight division in professional boxing that has a limit of 63.5 kg or 140 pounds...
boxing champion, Clinton McKenzie
Clinton McKenzie
Clinton McKenzie is a former professional boxer. He fought in the light welterweight division and became the British light welterweight title holder and lost to European title fights.-Background:...
. She was made a housemate as the result of a public vote on Day 4. She kept her birthday a secret from her fellow housemates, celebrating it alone in the Diary Room. On Day 21, in a special live nominations show, she was nominated for the first time. On Day 23, became the fourth housemate to be evicted with 81% of the public vote. Angel later appeared in the first episode of game show Red or Black?
Red or Black?
Red or Black? is a British television game show that is broadcast on ITV. In each round the contestants chose red or black, with those that chose the incorrect colour being eliminated. During the first series, four finalists guessed the colour correctly in the final round and became millionaires...
on 3 September 2011, where she finished as a runner-up.
Bea
Rebecca "Bea" Hamill (born 28 September 1984) is a recruitment consultant from Bristol who describes herself as a "bohemian" and scatty although she received the highest IQ score of all the housemates. She is the daughter and heiress to a multi-millionaire mining tycoon and attended the prestigious posh girls' school Cheltenham Ladies College before being expelled. She later joined a performance art group and lived on a bus in Worcestershire touring festivals before moving to Ibiza to study yoga. She has a first class masters degree in clinical psychology and hopes to become a sex therapist. She entered the House on Day 24 with four other new housemates. Alongside them she was tasked with ensuring that Noirin and Halfwit received the most nominations but refused to participate claiming it went against her morals. At first Bea was very popular with the public and quickly became bookies favourite to win for putting Noirin in her place and for standing up to Kenneth Tong who had made threatening remarks towards her. However later in the show after Noirin was evicted Bea became the most hated female housemate of the series due to her hosile reaction to fellow housemate Freddie Fisher who claimed to have fallen in love with her. Viewers reported that Bea had led Freddie on and was only interested in him for his money, however it later emerged that Bea is is heiress to one of Britian's wealthiest families a fact that she did not mention during her time on Big Brother and has refused to comment on since her eviction. She was labelled the biggest bitch of the series after Freddie "Halfwit" appeared to have a panic attack following Bea's decision to move beds and sleep separately from him. Despite being strongly disliked by the public, Bea appeared to be very popular with her fellow housemates and did not receive any nominations however she automatically faced the public vote after Big Brother punished housemates for breaking house rules. She was evicted on Day 79, in week twelve just one week before the final to boos that Davina described as 'deafening'.Beinazir
Beinazir Lasharie is a study support assistant from Pakistan. Her family, after receiving death threats due to their support of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir BhuttoBenazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto was a democratic socialist who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996....
were given asylum in the United Kingdom when she was a year old. On Day 4, Beinazir did not gain full housemate status by public vote and became the first evictee. There was no crowd present as she left the House and she was escorted from the premises in a red Routemaster
Routemaster
The AEC Routemaster is a model of double-decker bus that was built by Associated Equipment Company in 1954 and produced until 1968. Primarily front-engined, rear open-platform buses, a small number of variants were produced with doors and/or front entrances...
Bus.
Cairon
Cairon Reon Austin-Hill (born 5 July 1990) is a student and the youngest contestant in this year's Big Brother. He was born in South London, but brought up by his mother in Florida, United States. He moved back to live with his father, after his mother was involved in a car accident. He became a housemate after winning the biscuit dunking task on Day 3. On Day 12, Cairon received four nominations by his fellow housemates which was just enough to be up for eviction against Freddie. On Day 16, he became the third evictee with 73.16% of the vote. Cairon is also a rap artist.Charlie
Charles Andrew "Charlie" Drummond is a 22 year-old JobcentreJobcentre Plus
Jobcentre Plus was a government agency for working-age people in Great Britain. The agency was formed when the Employment Service, which operated Jobcentres, merged with the Benefits Agency, which ran social security offices, and was re-named Jobcentre Plus on 1 April 2002...
customer service advisor from Cleadon
Cleadon
Cleadon is a suburban village in South Tyneside, North East England in the county of Tyne and Wear. The population of Cleadon is 4,795, and there are a few shops including Bon Appetit Deli, Boutiques store and a Post Office. Cleadon is a short walk from the local East Boldon Metro Station. Nearby...
. He was Mr Gay Newcastle 2007 and was a runner up for Mr Gay UK
Mr Gay UK
Mr Gay UK is a British annual beauty contest for gay men, with regional heats held in gay nightclubs with a grand final usually at a gay venue. The contests is owned and promoted by gay entrepreneur Terry George....
. He became a housemate for successfully walking barefoot on broken sugar glass
Sugar glass
Sugar glass is used to simulate glass in movies, photographs and plays. Although it is much less likely to cause injuries than real glass, it breaks convincingly, making it an excellent choice for stunts...
, believing it to be real glass. On Day 33, Big Brother told Charlie that he had to remain silent until midnight or automatically face the public vote as a punishment for discussing nominations. He failed to keep quiet and therefore faced eviction along with Dogface, Halfwit, Kris and Marcus. Kris was evicted. On day 48, Charlie broke the rules regarding nominations again, along with 10 other housemates and every housemate in the house at the time faced the public vote (apart from Lisa and Rodrigo). He finished in 4th place.
Charlie had a big argument one day regarding David, continually saying that he was plotting and scheming all of the time.
David
David Ramsden (born 2 September 1980) is a clothing recycler from DewsburyDewsbury
Dewsbury is a minster town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Huddersfield and south of Leeds...
, near Leeds
Leeds
Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...
in West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....
. He entered the House on Day 44 with four other new housemates. With them he was tasked with ensuring that Noirin and Halfwit received the most nominations, but the new housemates failed their task and faced the public vote, though the eviction was ultimately cancelled. On Days 60-63, David was the victim of an ongoing argument in which he was accused of being a thief and a bully after Bea accused him of stealing butter. On Day 63, after a heated argument, Marcus said to David that he "punked him out" leading David to believe that Marcus was threatening him. David was later informed by Big Brother that he had misinterpreted Marcus's statement. On Day 91, David celebrated his 29th birthday, and he received a birthday message from fashion designer Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Westwood, DBE, RDI is a British fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream.-Early life:...
, who he claims is his hero.
David has also been on UK television show Golden Balls
Golden Balls
Golden Balls was a British daytime game show on the ITV network, presented by Jasper Carrott. It was filmed at the BBC Television Centre. From 25 February 2008 to 13 February 2009, the show was sponsored by ITV Bingo ; and from 2 November to 18 December 2009, the show was sponsored by Carpet Right...
. He finished 3rd.
Freddie/Halfwit
Frederick "Freddie" George Fisher, born 21 June 1985, is an Oxford graduate and entrepreneur from Market DraytonMarket Drayton
Market Drayton is a small market town in north Shropshire, England. It is on the River Tern, between Shrewsbury and Stoke-on-Trent, and was formerly known as "Drayton in Hales" and earlier simply as "Drayton" ....
, who lives with his parents at their stately home. He changed his name by deed poll
Deed poll
A deed poll is a legal document binding only to a single person or several persons acting jointly to express an active intention...
to Halfwit in order to gain housemate status. On Day 6 Halfwit was nominated for eviction by his fellow housemates and on Day 9 he survived the public vote after receiving 8.8% of the vote. On Day 12 he was nominated for eviction along with Cairon and on Day 16, with 26.84%, he survived his second public vote. On Day 21, in a special live nominations show, he was nominated for the third time, surviving with 19% of the public vote on Day 23. On Day 26, Halfwit was nominated for eviction along with Sree, surviving for the fourth consecutive time on Day 30 with 15% of the public vote.
Halfwit has survived the most consecutive evictions out of anyone in the history of the show, having survived the public vote 5 times in a row and 7 times in total. He gained significant public support through his victim status, most notably due to his failed attempts at seducing fellow contestant Bea Hamill. On Day 72 as a special prize, Halfwit and Dogface legally changed their names back to Freddie and Sophie. On the same day Freddie was evicted from the house over Marcus gaining 53.6% of the public vote to evict.
Hira
Hira Habibshah is a 24-year-old Pakistani unemployed fashion designer who lives in Dublin, Republic of IrelandRepublic of Ireland
Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...
with her husband. Branding herself a "modern day Muslim", she claims religion is very important to her and she prays five times every day. She is married to her cousin. She entered on Day 44, and was given a secret mission on which she had to brief her fellow new housemates, it involved ensuring that Noirin and Halfwit were nominated. The task was failed, resulting in her nomination along with the other new housemates. On Day 59, she was named the 'Most Entertaining Housemate' by Big Brother. As part of a shopping task on Day 62, she had to dress up as Alice (Alice in Wonderland) and drink a bottle of liquid, find a key
Key (lock)
A key is an instrument that is used to operate a lock. A typical key consists of two parts: the blade, which slides into the keyway of the lock and distinguishes between different keys, and the bow, which is left protruding so that torque can be applied by the user. The blade is usually intended to...
in a cake
Cake
Cake is a form of bread or bread-like food. In its modern forms, it is typically a sweet and enriched baked dessert. In its oldest forms, cakes were normally fried breads or cheesecakes, and normally had a disk shape...
and produce some real tears. Hira took five hours to eat her way through the cake until Big Brother informed her that she could use her face or head to break the enormous cake. In week ten it was announced that all housemates would face the public vote due to Siavash and Marcus breaking the nomination rules. In a change to the usual format, it was announced that this week's vote would be a vote to save rather than to evict, on Day 65 Hira became the ninth person to be evicted with 5.65% of the public vote.
Isaac
Isaac Stout is a 23-year-old entertainer/bar owner from Cleveland, OhioOhio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
, USA. He is Noirin's boyfriend and entered the house disguised as a fish and chips delivery-man on Day 56 and later walked 158 minutes after girlfriend, Noirin, was evicted. He originally met Noirin during his time as a castmate on MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
's The Real World: Sydney
The Real World: Sydney
The Real World: Sydney is the nineteenth season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras document their lives and interpersonal relationships...
. Noirin and Isaac eventually broke up, after which he returned to the United States.
Karly
Karly Ashworth (born 14 April 1988) is a part-time glamour model from Fife in Scotland. She was polled as one of FHM'sFHM
FHM, originally published as For Him Magazine, is an international monthly men's lifestyle magazine.- History :The magazine began publication in 1985 in the United Kingdom under the name For Him and changed its title to FHM in 1994 when Emap Consumer Media bought the magazine, although the full For...
Top High Street Honeys. She became the seventh housemate after being tricked into believing that she had a motorbike ridden over her stomach. On Day 39, Karly was nominated for eviction by her fellow housemates. Karly was evicted on Day 44, the same night as her boyfriend, Kenneth, entered the house as a new housemate.
Kenneth
Kenneth Tong is a 25-year-old self-declared "playboy" from and millionaire from Hong Kong who claimed "money is everything to me." He famously advised hippie contestant Bea Hamill that she needed to find herself a "man like him to look after her properly" however it was later revealed that Bea's personal fortune dwarfs his own. He entered the house on Day 44, minutes before his girlfriend Karly was evicted. Alongside his fellow new housemates, he had to ensure that both Noirin and Halfwit were nominated for eviction but the new housemates failed their task so faced the public vote. Kenneth blamed fellow housemate Bea Hamill for the task's failure as she had refused to participate on "moral grounds." Following an argument between the pair, Kenneth was warned by Big Brother for language that "could be perceived as threatening" when he said he would "pay someone to deal with her". On Day 50, Kenneth fled the house via the rooftop with Marcus' assistance. As a result, the eviction for week eight was cancelled. In 2011 Kenneth became the subject of controversy across the world after advertising a slimming pill over Twitter, using offensive and disruptive statements to persuade young girls to endorse a 'controlled anorexia' scheme to become a size zero. He was blasted by numerous celebrities, including RihannaRihanna
Robyn Rihanna Fenty , better known as simply Rihanna, is a Barbadian recording artist. Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, Rihanna moved to the United States at the age of 16 to pursue a recording career under the guidance of record producer Evan Rogers...
, Katy Perry
Katy Perry
Katy Perry is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Born in Santa Barbara, California, and raised by Christian pastor parents, Perry grew up listening to only gospel music and sang in her local church as a child. After earning a GED during her first year of high school, she began to pursue a...
, Sophia Bush
Sophia Bush
Sophia Anna Bush is an American actress, director and spokesperson. She currently stars in the CW television series One Tree Hill where she portrays Brooke Davis. Bush is additionally known for her film portrayals in the 2007 remake The Hitcher, John Tucker Must Die and The Narrows.-Early...
, Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell
Simon Phillip Cowell is an English A&R executive, television producer, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is known in the United Kingdom and United States for his role as a talent judge on TV shows such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and American Idol...
and Rochelle Wiseman
Rochelle Wiseman
Rochelle Eulah Eileen Wiseman is an English singer, actress and television presenter. She is best known for her work in pop groups S Club 8 and The Saturdays...
before he admitted to hoaxing the scandal as a result of a bet between friends.
Tong was accused of a sex assault on a woman at a Glasgow flat in 2009.
Kris
Kris Donnelly is a visual merchandiser from Shrewsbury. He became the fourth person to be confirmed as a housemate when he was selected by Lisa, who had earned the privilege to choose by answering a ringing phone. On Day 33, Big Brother told Kris to remain silent until 2 a.m. as punishment for discussing nominations or automatically face the public vote. He failed to keep quiet and faced eviction. On Day 37, he was evicted with 63% of the public vote. During his time in the Big Brother house, Kris started a relationship with fellow housemate Sophie.Lisa
Lisa Elizabeth Wallace is the oldest contestant in the series. She is unemployed and is from KingstandingKingstanding
Kingstanding is an area in north Birmingham, England. It gives its name to a ward in the Erdington council constituency. Kingstanding ward includes the areas; Perry Common, St. Mary's College, Witton Lakes and parts of Kingstanding, Wyrley Birch and New Oscott...
, Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
who entered the House with a distinctive pink mohican
Mohawk hairstyle
The mohawk is a hairstyle in which, in the most common variety, both sides of the head are shaven, leaving a strip of noticeably longer hair...
haircut, which she shaved off during the series. She became the third person to be rewarded with housemate status when she answered a ringing telephone. She was evicted on day 90 in the final eviction of the series with 68.59% to evict. Lisa currently lives in Redditch
Redditch
Redditch is a town and local government district in north-east Worcestershire, England, approximately south of Birmingham. The district had a population of 79,216 in 2005. In the 19th century it became the international centre for the needle and fishing tackle industry...
, Worcestershire near Birmingham.
Marcus
Marcus Akin is a window fitter from Brentford, West London. He was made a housemate as the result of a public vote on Day 4. Marcus has never publicly stated on the show that he models his appearance and life-ethos on the action hero WolverineWolverine (comics)
Wolverine is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Born as James Howlett and commonly known as Logan, Wolverine is a mutant, possessing animal-keen senses, enhanced physical capabilities, three retracting bone claws on each hand and a healing...
from the comic book series X-Men
X-Men
The X-Men are a superhero team in the . They were created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, and first appeared in The X-Men #1...
, rather that the character Wolverine is based on him. Marcus is a high level karate
Karate
is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands in what is now Okinawa, Japan. It was developed from indigenous fighting methods called and Chinese kenpō. Karate is a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes, and open-handed techniques such as knife-hands. Grappling, locks,...
practitioner and has successfully completed a 100-man kumite
100-man kumite
100-man kumite is an extreme test of physical and mental endurance in Kyokushin karate. Kumite , one of the three main sections of karate training, involves simulated combat against an opponent. The 100-man kumite consists of 100 rounds of kumite, each between one-and-a-half and two minutes in...
. On Day 29, Marcus was warned about comments he made to fellow housemate Sree, which Marcus hotly denied. On Day 33, Marcus and Halfwit were nominated and faced the public vote alongside fellow housemates Charlie, Dogface and Kris. On Day 50, he helped Kenneth Tong escape from the Big Brother house. Marcus was the twelfth housemate to be evicted with 64% of the vote on day 86. He holds the record for most nomination votes cast against him, with 46 (fellow housemate Freddie/Halfwit comes in a close second with 45).
Noirin
Noirin Kelly is a retail manager from Dublin, Republic of IrelandRepublic of Ireland
Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...
. She is a former All Ireland athletics champion. She also appeared on The Real World: Sydney
The Real World: Sydney
The Real World: Sydney is the nineteenth season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras document their lives and interpersonal relationships...
in 2007 as the girlfriend of Isaac Stout. Her mother was shocked to hear she had entered the house; Noirin had said she was going to America. She was granted housemate status when she allowed Rodrigo to shave her eyebrows and draw a moustache and glasses with permanent marker on her face. She had to do this every day until further notice. On Day 10, Noirin asked Big Brother's permission to wash the ink from her face. When told she would be punished if she removed the moustache and glasses she proposed to protest with a hunger strike, sparking a heated argument between Marcus and Lisa. On Day 18, thanks to Halfwit's birthday gift, Noirin was released from her daily obligation to draw on her face. On Day 21, Angel caused offence by saying Noirin looked three months pregnant and in doing so provided six housemates with a reason for nominating her. On Day 58, Noirin was evicted from the Big Brother house with 60.0% of the public vote after being nominated by her fellow housemates for eviction. Outside of the house in September 2009 Norin appeared on the front cover of Nuts
Nuts (magazine)
Nuts is a weekly lad mag published in the United Kingdom. It was the first weekly lads magazine to be published in the UK and is sold every Tuesday...
and 10 pages of the magazine consisted of pictures of her and an interview with her.
Rodrigo
Rodrigo Lopes (Rodrigo Trisuzzi Lopes) is a BrazilBrazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian student living in Leeds
Leeds
Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...
. He was the twelfth person to enter the house and earned housemate status after convincing Noirin to let him remove her eyebrows and draw a moustache and glasses on her face under the order of Big Brother. He once played a cameo role in teen soap Hollyoaks
Hollyoaks
Hollyoaks is a long-running British television soap opera, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was originally devised by Phil Redmond, who has also devised shows including Brookside and Grange Hill...
as a student at Hollyoaks College graduation. He also played a love interest in the music video "Liquid Lover" by the band Bad Pollyana. He has spoken of his ambition to drink tea with the "Queen of Britain"
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Elizabeth II is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize,...
. On Day 61, Big Brother gave Rodrigo the opportunity to send a letter to the Queen. On Week 10, all of the housemates were put up for eviction as a punishment caused by Marcus
Marcus
Marcus, Markus, or Márkus is a common given name and a family name. See Marcus .Marcus may also refer to:In places* Marcus, Iowa, United States* Marcus, Washington, United States...
and Siavash
Siavash
Siavash or Syavash is a Persian male given name.The following people have the given name Siavash:*Siyâvash, a character in the Persian epic Shahnameh*Siavash Alamouti, Iranian scientist*Siavash Akbarpour, Iranian footballer...
, this was Rodrigo's first time facing the public vote. Rodrigo was unhappy with the rulebreak, sparking an argument between him and Marcus. Big Brother offered him a chance to have tea with the "Queen". However, all of the other housemates had to trick Rodrigo into thinking the Queen lookalike was actually the Queen. They passed and Big Brother told him of their trick in the diary room. Rodrigo has been called to the diary room twice to calm down after arguing with Charlie. During the first of these arguments, Rodrigo threw a plastic bottle at Charlie's head, and during the second, he poked Charlie in the face. He finished in 5th place.
Saffia
Saffia May Corden is a beauty consultant from Hucknall, Nottingham and single mother of two children. She became a housemate for successfully walking barefoot on broken sugar glassSugar glass
Sugar glass is used to simulate glass in movies, photographs and plays. Although it is much less likely to cause injuries than real glass, it breaks convincingly, making it an excellent choice for stunts...
, believing it to be real glass. She walked from the House on Day 8, because of arguments with Sophia and because she apparently missed her children. However many believe that the real reason was that she had to accept that she was not going to have a relationship with fellow housemate Kris.
Siavash
Siavash Sabbaghpour (born 1986) is an event organiser who left his homeland Iran at an early age and currently lives in London. He is known in the house to wear eccentric clothes and has admitted he is a "slave to fashion". Siavash was made a housemate as the result of a public vote on Day 4. He finished in second place.Sophia
Sophia Davinia Brown is a 4'11" lupusSystemic lupus erythematosus
Systemic lupus erythematosus , often abbreviated to SLE or lupus, is a systemic autoimmune disease that can affect any part of the body. As occurs in other autoimmune diseases, the immune system attacks the body's cells and tissue, resulting in inflammation and tissue damage...
sufferer from London who works as a private banking assistant. She was made a housemate as the result of a public vote on Day 4. On Day 6 Sophia was nominated for eviction by her fellow housemates. On Day 8 she had a major argument with Saffia and was called to the Diary Room to calm down. On Day 9 she became the second evictee with 91.2% of the public vote.
Sophie/Dogface
Sophie Victoria Reade (born 18 May 1989) is a glamour model from Nantwich, CheshireNantwich
Nantwich is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The town gives its name to the parliamentary constituency of Crewe and Nantwich...
and was the winner of the series. She changed her name by deed poll
Deed poll
A deed poll is a legal document binding only to a single person or several persons acting jointly to express an active intention...
to Dogface in order to become a housemate. On Day 33, Big Brother told Dogface that she had to remain silent until 2 a.m. as punishment for discussing nominations. She failed to keep quiet and therefore faced the public vote. Dogface had a romantic relationship with Kris in the House. On Day 39, she and Siavash were punished for talking about nominations by Big Brother who told them they were not allowed to swear before 3 pm. They both failed and faced eviction. On Day 72 as a special prize, Halfwit and Dogface legally changed their names back to Freddie and Sophie. Since Day 88, Sophie was the bookies' favourite to win.
Sophie was announced the winner of the show on 4 September with 74.4% of the final vote.
Sree
Sree Dasari is from India. A students' union president, he is in the United KingdomUnited Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
studying for a masters degree in International Business at the University
University
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
of Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England. The county town is Hertford.The county is one of the Home Counties and lies inland, bordered by Greater London , Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and...
in Hatfield
Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Hatfield is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England in the borough of Welwyn Hatfield. It has a population of 29,616, and is of Saxon origin. Hatfield House, the home of the Marquess of Salisbury, is the nucleus of the old town...
. He was made a housemate as the result of a public vote on Day 4. On Day 30, with 85% of the public vote, Sree became the fifth evictee. He has recently been in the news for slashing his wrists.