Big Brother (Swedish TV series)

For Sweden and Norway joint edition of Big Brother, see Big Brother (Norwegian and Swedish TV series).

Big Brother or Big Brother Sverige was the Swedish version of the Big Brother reality television franchise created by producer John de Mol Jr. in 1999. The show followed a number of contestants, known as housemates, who were isolated from the outside world for an extended period of time in a custom-built house. Each week, one of the housemates was evicted by a public vote, with the last housemate remaining winning a cash prize.

Big Brother
Big Brother logo from 2020 to 2021
Also known as	Big Brother Sverige
Genre	Reality
Created by	John de Mol Jr.
Presented by	Adam Alsing (2000; 2002–2004, 2015) Gry Forssell (2011–2012) Adrian Boberg (2020; Premiere) Malin Stenbäck (2020–2021) Arantxa Álvarez (2021)
Country of origin	Sweden
Original language	Swedish
No. of seasons	9
No. of episodes	913
Production
Production companies	Meter Film & Television AB (2000; 2002–2004; 2015; 2020–2021) Endemol (2011–2012)
Original release
Network	Kanal 5 (2000; 2002–2004) TV11 (2011–2012) Kanal 11 (2015) Sjuan (2020–2021)
Release	4 September 2000 (2000-09-04) – 24 May 2021 (2021-05-24)

The show aired in 2000 and again from 2002 to 2004 on Kanal 5, from 2011 to 2012 and 2015 on Kanal 11, and finally on Sjuan from 2020 to 2021. The show was brought to an end when TV4 cancelled Big Brother Sverige on Christmas Eve in 2021, after 9 seasons and 913 episodes, due to low ratings.

Series overview

Season		Launch Date	Finale Date	Days	Housemates	Winner	Prize money	Presenter(s)	Network
1	Big Brother 2000	4 September 2000	15 December 2000	103	13	Angelica Freij	500,000 kr	Adam Alsing	Kanal 5
Big Brother Stjärnveckan		20 January 2002	25 January 2002	6	7	Anki Lundberg	none
2	Big Brother 2002	26 January 2002	13 May 2002	108	15	Ulrica Andersson	500,000 kr
3	Big Brother 2003	25 January 2003	11 May 2003	107	13	Danne Sörensen
4	Big Brother 2004	23 January 2004	10 May 2004	109	17	Carolina Gynning
5	Big Brother 2011	19 February 2011	4 June 2011	106	21	Simon Danielsson		Gry Forsell	TV11
6	Big Brother 2012	19 February 2012	3 June 2012		22	Hanna Johansson
7	Big Brother 2015	11 October 2015	20 December 2015	70	19	Christian Sahlström	1,000,000 kr	Adam Alsing	Kanal 11
8	Big Brother 2020	10 February 2020	18 May 2020	99	19	Sami Jakobsson		Malin Stenbäck Adrian Boberg	Sjuan (TV4)
9	Big Brother 2021	15 February 2021	24 May 2021		21	Tanja Helen Ingebretsen Kallin		Malin Stenbäck Arantxa Alvarez

Notes

Big Brother 1

The first season of Big Brother Sverige started on 4 September 2000 and ended on 15 December 2000 lasting for 103 days. Being one of the first ten countries to air the format, the show saw several "worlds first" in the game.

After nine original contestants entered the house on launch night, Daniel Hellström would eventually walk only three days later. In the second week Eva Pederson, single mother of four, walked as well which resulted in only seven housemates being eligible for the first nomination and two replacements making their way into the house before the very first official eviction.

Having a diverse cast, the audience witnessed a lot of arguments and misunderstandings between the contestants mainly between the "sexual experiential" housemates and the more conservative ones. Angelica Freij, the 33-year-old mother of six, felt offended by the close relationship between lesbian Anna Bäckelin and bisexual Paula Glantz. However, in a conversation with Anna, she admitted to never having any contact with homosexuals and the experience of living with some of them in the house (many housemates stated to be bisexual in that season) opened some new points of view for her which earned her a lot of sympathy from the viewers.

The girl-girl relationship between Paula and Anna got troubled when female's favorite Christoffer Jensen re-entered the house after being evicted and started to fancy Paula, who then decided "to go hetero" for the rest of the season and concentrated on Christoffer, mostly to Anna's disappointment.

Together with Christoffer, two new housemates entered the house on Day 61 with only one of them eventually being allowed to stay in the house as the replacement contestant for Johan Hellström, who had, recently, voluntarily left the house. When the housemates voted for Christoffer to stay in the house, he became the first contestant to replace two different housemates (he has also been the replacement for Daniel Hellström earlier that series) and Big Brother saw its first double eviction with Camilla Björk and Dieck leaving the house at the very same time.

It was also the first time in Big Brother history that a replacement housemate made it to the final day (again Christoffer Jensen, who achieved the second runner up position) and most prominently, that Angelica became the first woman worldwide to win the show.

Being responsible for the very first reality TV show Expedition Robinson, Sweden embraced its first local Big Brother season and the show was a huge rating hit. Per Holknekt who finished fifth place in the first season became a well-known fashion designer.

Nominations table

	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	#7	Final
Angelica	?	?	?	?	?	?	Anna Paula	Winner (Day 103)
Paula	?	?	?	?	?	?	Angelica Christoffer	Runner-Up (Day 103)
Christoffer	?	?	Evicted (Day 35)		Nominated	?	Anna Paula	Third Place (Day 103)
Anna	?	?	?	?	?	?	Angelica Christoffer	Evicted (Day 96)
Per	?	?	?	?	?	?	Evicted (Day 82)
George	Not in House				Nominated	Evicted (Day 68)
Camilla	Not in House				Nominated	Evicted (Day 68)
Ole	?	?	?	?	Evicted (Day 61)
Johan	?	?	?	Walked (Day 60)
Karin	?	?	?	Evicted (Day 47)
Jessica	?	Evicted (Day 21)
Eva	Walked (Day 12)
Daniel	Walked (Day 3)
Note	1, 2	none	none	none	3, 4	none	none	none
Up for eviction	Anna Jessica	Angelica Christoffer	Johan Karin	Angelica Ole	Camilla Christoffer George	Angelica Per	Angelica Anna Christoffer Paula	Angelica Christoffer Paula
Walked	Daniel Eva	none		Johan	none
Evicted	Jessica	Christoffer	Karin	Ole	Camilla	Per	Anna	Christoffer	Paula
					George			Angelica

Notes:

• ^1 : Daniel voluntarily leaves the House on Day 3. Christoffer enters as a replacement Housemate for Daniel.
• ^2 : Eva voluntarily leaves the House in Week 2. Karin enters as a replacement Housemate for Daniel.
• ^3 : Johan voluntarily leaves the House. Camilla and George enter the House. Christoffer re-enters the House. Only one of them will be able to stay as replacement for Johan.
• ^4 : Camilla and George are evicted following a Housemate vote. Christoffer survives.

Big Brother Stjärnveckan

After being off-air for more than a year, Big Brother Sverige returned with a spin-off called Big Brother Stjärnveckan (Week of the Stars) on 20 January 2002 lasting for six days only and is, therefore, the shortest version of any Big Brother series worldwide. Seven former Swedish contestants from several reality shows lived together in the house with daily evictions. The show was aired in the week before the start of the actual second season of Big Brother Sverige and was supposed to create excitement between the viewers.

The contestants that entered the house were Anki Lundberg from The Bar 3, Johan "Godzilla" Lennström and Anneli from Villa Medusa, Elizabeth "Lelle" Anderzén from Expedition Robinson 1998, Henric Olsson from The Bar 2, Robert "Robban" Andersson from Expedition Robinson 1999 and Karin Stor from the first Big Brother Sverige season. However, being the only person that already experienced to be in the house did not work in Karin's favor as she was the first person to be evicted.

After a week, Anki Lundberg won the show on the day of the start of the second season.

Nominations table

	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Day 6 Final
Anki	? ?	? ?	? ?	? ?	Winner (Day 6)
Godzilla	? ?	? ?	? ?	? ?	Runner-up (Day 6)
Robban	? ?	? ?	? ?	? ?	Third place (Day 6)
Lelle	? ?	? ?	? ?	? ?	Evicted (Day 5)
Anneli	? ?	? ?	? ?	Evicted (Day 4)
Henric	? ?	? ?	Evicted (Day 3)
Karin	? ?	Evicted (Day 2)
Nominated	Henric Karin	Anki Henric	Anneli Anki	Anki Godzilla Lelle Robban	Anki Godzilla Robban
Evicted	Karin	Henric	Anneli	Lelle	Godzilla	Robban
					Anki

Big Brother 2

Season two of Big Brother Sverige started on 26 January 2002, exactly on the final day of Big Brother Stjärnveckan lasting for 108 days until 13 May 2002.

To follow the footsteps of season one, the cast of the sophomore season included even more exotic and mostly very attractive contestants which saw more sexual interactions than any other Big Brother season of that time with once again a threeway relationship, this time between Dominique Pons and both Emma-Maria Carlsson and punk Kitty Jutbring. But when Emma-Maria voluntary left the house and Dominique was evicted in one of the earlier rounds the focus turned on other showmances such as between Elin Nilsson and Jacob Heidrich or Benjamin Sorani and Marie "Picasso" Pettersson.

Marie was earlier voted to become the replacement for Emma-Marie between three different girls that entered the house together and Benjamin has been originally evicted on Day 62 but was allowed a return a week later after several viewers were unable to vote in what has been a close vote between him and fellow-nominee Jacob. However, when Big Brother offered the housemate that would walk 50,000 kronor Benjamin left the house voluntary only two weeks after his comeback.

For the third time in a row, the Swedish audience chose a female to win their Big Brother season - this time it was Ulrica Andersson from Karlstad but the most famous housemate resulting from that season was undoubtedly Marie Picasso, who tried to break into music business with recording two singles and becoming the host of a call-in show without any significant success. In 2007 she auditioned for Sweden's local version of Pop Idol called Idol 2007 which she won resulting in a no.1 single called This Moment.

Nominations table

	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	#7	#8	#9	Final
Ulrica	Peter Anette	Benjamin Jacob	Benjamin Peter	Jacob Benjamin	? ?	Jacob Benjamin	Jacob Alex	Jacob Alex	No Nominations	Winner (Day 108)
Alex	Anette Peter	Kitty Ulrica	Adriana Kitty	Kitty Ulrica	? ?	Marie Ulrica	Kitty Ulrica	Ulrica Elin	No Nominations	Runner up (Day 108)
Jacob	Anette Peter	Dominique Kitty	Adriana Peter	Peter Elin	? ?	Peter Marie	Kitty Ulrica	Ulrica Elin	No Nominations	Third place (Day 108)
Peter	Anette Dominique	Adriana Ulrica	Adriana Ulrica	Elen Dominique	? ?	Elin Alex	Elin Alex	Elin Jacob	No Nominations	Evicted (Day 104)
Elin	Peter Anette	Kalle Dominique	Benjamin Peter	Benjamin Dominique	? ?	Marie Benjamin	Peter Alex	Peter Alex	Evicted (Day 97)
Kitty	Peter Dominique	Kalle Dominique	Benjamin Dominique	Dominique Benjamin	? ?	Benjamin Jacob	Alex Jacob	Evicted (Day 90)
Benjamin	Adriana Peter	Kitty Ulrica	Kitty Peter	Kitty Ulrica	? ?	Ulrica Kitty	Walked (Day 83)
Marie	Not in House				Exempt	Ulrica Kitty	Evicted (Day 76)
Dominique	Anette Adriana	Adriana Ulrica	Adriana Ulrica	Ulrica Kitty	Evicted (Day 48)
Adriana	Peter Dominique	Dominique Kitty	Dominique Peter	Evicted (Day 34)
Emma-Marie	Peter Anette	Kalle Ulrica	Peter Benjamin	Walked (Day 32)
Kalle	Anette Peter	Kitty Ulrica	Evicted (Day 20)
Anette	Peter Dominique	Evicted (Day 6)
Notes	none				[1], [2]	none	[3]	none	[4]	none
Up for eviction	Anette Peter	Dominique Kalle Kitty Ulrica	Adriana Banjamin Peter	Benjamin Dominique Kitty Ulrica	Benjamin Jacob Kitty Ulrica	Marie Ulrica	Alex Kitty	Elin Ulrica	All housemates	All housemates
Walked	none		Emma-Marie	none			Benjamin	none
Evicted	Anette	Kalle	Adriana	Dominique	Benjamin	Marie	Kitty	Elin	Peter	Jacob	Alex
										Ulrica

Notes:
^1 Amelie, Lisa, and Marie were exempt from nominations and automatically nominated for eviction as they were new housemates. The two who received the most votes would be evicted.
^2 Due to technical problems with the fifth eviction, a number of viewers were unable to vote. As voting numbers between Benjamín and Jacob were close, it was decided to allow Benjamín to return.
^3 On day 83 Big brother made an offer to the seven remaining housemates. The offer was that if any housemate would leave the house they would receive 50,000 kronor, Benjamin accepted the offer.
^4 The public were voting for a winner. Peter received the fewest votes and was evicted.

Big Brother 3

Season three of Big Brother Sverige started on 25 January 2003, lasting for 107 days until 11 May 2003.

Nominations table

	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	#7	#8	Final
Danne	Not in House		Marika Lina	Caroline Kajsa	Christian Lina	Kajsa Lina	Kajsa Larssa	Kajsa Larssa	Winner (Day 107)
Kajsa	?	Malin Lina	Marika Linda	Linda Lina	Linda Lina	Linda Lina	Linda Micke	Micke Danne	Runner up (Day 107)
Larssa	?	Marika Malin	Maricka Christian	Caroline Linda	Linda Christian	Linda Lina	Linda Kajsa	Micke Danne	Third place (Day 107)
Micke	Not in House		Maricka Christian	Caroline Lina	Lina Larssa	Lina Kajsa	Kasja Larssa	Larssa Kasja	Evicted (Day 104)
Linda	?	Malin Mattias	Christian Marika	Caroline Mattias	Mattias Kajsa	Lina Kajsa	Kajsa Larssa	Evicted (Day 90)
Lina	?	Malin Mattias	Micke Christian	Caroline Kajsa	Kajsa Mattias	Kajsa Larssa	Evicted (Day 76)
Mattias	?	Malin Marika	Marika Linda	Linda Micke	Linda Lina	Walked (Day 63)
Christian	?	Malin Linda	Marika Micke	Walked (Day 37)	Linda Micke	Evicted (Day 62)
Caroline	Not in House			Micke Lina	Evicted (Day 48)
Marika	Nominated	Mattias Malin	Micke Kajsa	Evicted (Day 34)
Malin	?	Christian Kajsa	Evicted (Day 20)
Patrick	?	Walked (Day 9)
Peter	Nominated	Evicted (Day 6)
Notes	[5]	none	[6]	none	[7]	none	[8]	none
Up for eviction	Marika Peter	Malin Mattias	Christian Marika	Caroline Linda	Christian Lina Linda Mattias	Kajsa Lina	Kajsa Linda	Kajsa Larssa Micke	All housemates
Walked	none	Patrick	none	Christian	none	Mattias	none
Evicted	Peter	Malin	Marika	Caroline	Christian	Lina	Linda	Micke	Larssa	Kajsa
									Danne

Notes:
^1 In the first round of nominations the public voted for the housemates they wanted to be nominated. Since Marika and Peter received the most votes they were nominated for eviction and the housemates had to vote to evict one of them.
^2 Big brother awarded nomination points for rule breaking.
^3 Christian and Mattias were nominated by Big brother for rule breaking.
^4 Big Brother awarded Micke 4 points for rule breaking.

Big Brother 4

Season four of Big Brother Sverige started on 23 January 2004, lasting for 109 days until 10 May 2004.

Nominations table

	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	#7	#8	Final
Carolina	Jean Ulrika	Olga Ulrika	Stefan Ulrika	Ulrika Rebekah Henrik	Nominated	Stefan Henrik	Heidi Stefan	No Nominations	Winner (Day 107)
Stefan	Ulrika Jean	Carolina Marlene	Marlene Carolina	Carolina Ulrika Rebekah	Nominated	Carolina Sirwan	Heidi Carolina	No Nominations	Runner up (Day 107)
Caroline	Robin Olga	Olga Jocke	Carolina Marlene	Henrik Carolina Sirwan	Nominated	Sirwan Henrik	Carolina Heidi	No Nominations	Third place (Day 107)
Henrik	Not in House			Carolina Sirwan Olivier	Exempt	Henrik Carolina	Heidi Caroline	No Nominations	Evicted (Day 105)
Heidi	Not in House						Stefan Henrik	Evicted (Day 98)
Sirwan	Not in House			Olivier Carolina Ulrika	Nominated	Sirwan Carolina	Evicted (Day 84)
Christian	Not in House						Walked (Day 80)
Olivier	Marlene Ulrica	Carolina Olga	Marlene Carolina	Ulrika Rebekah Carolina	Nominated	Walked (Day 75)
Rebekah	Not in House			Carolina Sirwan Olivier	Nominated	Evicted (Day 70)
Ulrika	Stefan Carolina	Caroline Angela	Carolina Marlene	Olivier Carolina Stefan	Evicted (Day 56)
Marlene	Ulrika Jean	Jocke Jean	Stefan Ulrika	Evicted (Day 42)
Angela	Robin Olga	Marlene Jean	Walked (Day 33)
Foffo	Caroline Angela	Marlene Caroline	Walked (Day 33)
Jocke	Caroline Robin	Marlene Olga	Walked (Day 32)
Olga	Angela Jocke	Caroline Marlene	Ejected (Day 31)
Jean	Marlene Carolina	Marlene Carolina	Evicted (Day 28)
Robin	Olga Jcoke	Evicted (Day 14)
Notes	none	[9]	[10]	[11]	[12]	[13]		[14]
Up for eviction	Robin Ulrika	Carolina Jean	Carolina Caroline Marlene Olivier Stefan Ulrika	Carolina Olivier Ulrika	Carolina Caroline Olivier Rebekah Sirwan Stefan	Sirwan Henrik	Heidi Stefan	All housemates
Walked	none		Jocke Angela Foffo	none		Olivier Christian	none
Ejected	none		Olga	none
Evicted	Robin	Jean	Marlene	Ulrika	Rebekah	Sirwan	Heidi	Henrik	Caroline	Stefan
									Carolina

Notes:
^1 Owing to rule breaking, Big brother gave Carolina two extra nomination points, Foffo, Olivier, and Stefan eight extra points and Jean ten extra points.
^2 The nominations were voided by Big Brother and all six housemates were put up for eviction.
^3 The three or more Housemates with the most points were up for eviction.
^4 Henrik won immunity from eviction, all other housemates were put up for eviction.
^5 In round six and seven of nominations only two Housemates could be up for eviction, so the housemate who received the most points could save one of the others.
^6 Two days before the final an eviction took place based on the number of votes to win housemates had received so far. Since Henrik received the fewest votes he was evicted.

External links

• Official website on TV4
• Official website
• World of Big Brother