Big Brother (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.[citation needed]

Big Brother
Big Brother logo from 2020 to 2021
Also known asBig Brother Sverige
GenreReality
Created byJohn de Mol Jr.
Presented byAdam Alsing (2000; 2002–2004, 2015)
Gry Forssell (2011–2012)
Adrian Boberg (2020; Premiere)
Malin Stenbäck (2020–2021)
Arantxa Álvarez (2021)
Country of originSweden
Original languageSwedish
No. of seasons9
No. of episodes913
Production
Production companiesMeter Film & Television AB (2000; 2002–2004; 2015; 2020–2021)
Endemol (2011–2012)
Original release
NetworkKanal 5 (2000; 2002–2004)
TV11 (2011–2012)
Kanal 11 (2015)
Sjuan (2020–2021)
Release4 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.[citation needed] 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.[1]

Series overview

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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[a]
Sjuan
(TV4)
9 Big Brother 2021 15 February 2021 24 May 2021 21 Tanja Helen Ingebretsen Kallin Malin Stenbäck[b]
Arantxa Alvarez
Notes
  1. ^ Adrian Boberg only co-hosted the Premiere show with Malin Stenbäck.
  2. ^ Malin Stenbäck stopped hosting the live show after 18 March 2021, because her schedule collided with Big Brother.

Big Brother 1

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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

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#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

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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

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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

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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

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#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

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Season three of Big Brother Sverige started on 25 January 2003, lasting for 107 days until 11 May 2003.[2]

Nominations table

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#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

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

Nominations table

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#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.

References

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  1. ^ "Avslöjar: TV4 skrotar "Big brother"". 24 December 2021. Archived from the original on 28 March 2022. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  2. ^ "Linda blev chockad". Aftonbladet. 25 April 2003. Archived from the original on 18 February 2015. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
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