• ^Note 1 : Makosi was told on Day 1 that the housemates who received the most nominations that week would be immune from the first eviction. She was therefore given the secret mission of trying to get the most nominations that week. She succeeded in her task, receiving the most nominations along with Roberto and Sam, who were now immune. She then had to nominate two housemates to face eviction, as all the other housemates' nominations became voided. She nominated Mary and Craig.
• ^Note 2 : As punishment for Vanessa discussing nominations, all housemates automatically faced eviction and their nominations were voided. Had this not happened, Derek and Sam would have faced the public vote.
• ^Note 3 : As punishment for discussing nominations, Craig, Derek and Roberto were banned from nominating.
• ^Note 4 : As punishment for discussing nominations, Anthony and Maxwell were banned from nominating. After Roberto's eviction, three new housemates entered the secret garden, where they secretly lived alongside the original housemates. As Makosi was on a secret mission, she had to evict one person from the secret garden, the other two entered the house. Makosi chose to evict Kinga, and Eugene and Orlaith entered the house.
• ^Note 5 : Big Brother set the housemates a task, telling them Big Brother would lie to them twice. Big Brother told the housemates that the week's nominations were optional. This was the first lie. As always, nominations were compulsory; those that did not nominate would face the public vote. Only Anthony, Craig and Kemal nominated – saving them from the public vote. Big Brother then told the second lie by announcing that the housemates up for eviction were Anthony, Craig and Kemal, when in fact they were the only housemates not up. On eviction night, Makosi and Vanessa were announced to have received the most votes and the remaining housemates had to decide who to evict. Vanessa was evicted with six votes, with only Kemal voting to evict Makosi.
• ^Note 6 : Instead of nominating those that they wanted to evict, the housemates had to nominate those who they wanted to stay in the house, with the two or more housemates with the least nominations facing the public vote.
• ^Note 7 : After Orlaith walked, Kinga entered the house. She was instantly set a secret mission in which she needed to get at least one person not to nominate her. If one person failed to nominate her, she would gain immunity and would definitely appear in the final week. She passed her task as none of the housemates nominated her.
• ^Note 8 : There were no nominations in the final week. There was also a mid-week eviction. The housemate who had received the fewest votes from the public (to win) by Wednesday night would finish in fifth place, leaving four housemates in the final. This housemate was Craig, leaving Anthony, Eugene, Kinga, and Makosi in the final four.

Reception[edit]

Big Brother 6 received mixed reviews from professional critics. While one critic called the show "dull and unlikeable",^[21] another called it "refreshing viewing".^[21]Charlie Brooker called the series "foul and unsettling",and wrote an article criticising most of the housemates individually.^[22]

Eleven years after the conclusion of Big Brother 6columnist Rupert Hawksley opined that the series potentially marked "the moment when Big Brother began its ongoing gurgle in the gutter".^[23]

Viewership[edit]

These viewing figures are taken from BARB.^[24]

Criticism and controversy[edit]

Throughout the sixth series, Big Brother was subject to numerous complaints from the viewing public.^[25][26][27] While some were generalised concerns about the welfare of the housemates,^[25] others referred to specific incidents, including but not limited to: Maxwell's claim to have put scabs from his feet into Science's food;^[28] scenes filmed in the pool that led some viewers, and housemates, to believe that Anthony and Makosi had sex;^[29] Craig allegedly making "unwelcome advances"^[25] towards Anthony; Kinga allegedly masturbating with a wine bottle;^[25] hostility directed towards Makosi by the live crowd and, allegedly, Davina McCall during the Live Final;^[25][30][31] and Channel 4 breaking the Advertising Standards Authority's code.^[32] There was also commentary by some viewers, and by some housemates themselves, on what appeared to be a clear racial divide between groups that formed in the House.^[33] In one group were Anthony, Craig, Maxwell and Saskia (all of whom are white British). In the other were Derek (Jamaican descent), Kemal (Turkish Cypriot), Makosi (Zimbabwean), Roberto (Italian), Science (black) and Vanessa (black).

Media regulator Ofcom, which received over 900 complaints about the series, opined in response that Big Brother "offers viewers, unpalatable though it may be, a window on what some complainants believed to be the unacceptable attitudes of some members of society".^[25] Although Ofcom did not uphold any of the viewers' complaints about the series as a whole, they were particularly critical of the pool scenes and the scene involving Kinga and the wine bottle, stating that such scenes "operated at the limits of acceptability in terms of potential harm and/or offence for a programme of this nature, broadcast on this channel and at this time".^[25]

In 2008, Charlie Brooker created and wrote the horror mini-series Dead Setset during a fictional series of Big Brother. It featured several former Big Brother contestants in cameo roles, including Eugene Sully, Kinga Karolczak, Makosi Musambasi and Saskia Howard-Clarke from Big Brother 6.

Housemates Makosi and Craig returned to Big Brother in 2009 as part of a retrospective week of that series, involving tasks from all previous series of Big Brother. They competed against Siavash Sabbaghpour in a recreation of the sixth series' Box task, where housemates had to remain in a cardboard box for the longest period of time.

In 2010, Makosi was a contestant in the show's final series, entitled Ultimate Big Brotherwhich featured memorable housemates from the first 11 series of Big Brother and its celebrity spin-off. She entered on Day 1 and became the second Ultimate housemate to be evicted on Day 11. Anthony also returned as a guest to have a picnic date with Makosi.^[34]

The first three seasons of the Serbian Big Brother series, Veliki bratused the Big Brother eye logo and the opening titles from this series.

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Flynn, Paul (2005). Big Brother: Access All Areas. Channel 4 Books, a division of Transworld Publishe. ISBN 978-1-9050-2608-1.

External links[edit]

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