Gran Hermano (Spanish TV series) season 18

*Gran Hermano*
Gran Hermano
Season 18
Presented by	Jorge Javier Vazquez
No. of days	89
No. of housemates	21
Winner	Hugo Sierra
Runner-up	Rubén Valle
No. of episodes	14
Release
Original network	Telecinco
Original release	September 19 –; December 14, 2017
Season chronology
	← Previous; Season 17

Gran Hermano 18, also known as Gran Hermano Revolution is the eighteenth season of Gran Hermano, the Spanish version of the reality television series franchise Big Brother.

The 18th season started airing on September 19, 2017 on Telecinco with Jorge Javier Vázquez hosting the main live shows or "Galas". The season ended on December 14, 2017 with Hugo Sierra emerging as the winner. At the age of 44, he became the oldest winner of Gran Hermano and the second foreigner to win after Naiala in season 8.

Housemates

On Sunday, September 17, 2017 (Day -2), a total of 100 potential housemates entered the house. It was revealed on the next day, Monday, September 18, 2017, during a special pre-launch show called "Llega La Revolution", that on the following day, September 19, 2017, the actual Live Launch date, that only 20 of the 100 initial candidates would survive the experiment and will become the final housemates of the series. On Launch night, only 18 (Carlos, Carlota, Christian, Cristian, Hugo, Javier, Juan, Laura, Maico, Miguel, Mina, Miriam, Petra, Pilar, Nerea, Rubén, Yangyang & Yolanda) were announced by producers. After the remaining 82 candidates failed to pick one of their own to move-in, the remaining 2 spots were automatically given to the public to choose their favorites (Daniel & José María), who entered on Day 2 (Thursday, September 21, 2017).

Housemates	Age	Residence	Occupation	Official entrance	Exited	Status
Hugo Sierra	43	Palma	Personal trainer and pilates instructor	Day 1	Day 89	Winner
Rubén Valle	21	Vigo	Automation robotics technician	Day 1	Day 89	Runner-up
Christian Gabaldón	29	Sagunto	Driver and waiter	Day 1	Day 89	3rd Place
Yangyang Huang	30	Arrecife	Chinese teacher	Day 1	Day 89	4th Place
Pilar Marcellán	19	Zaragoza	Student	Day 1	Day 82	17th Evicted
Miriam Santiago	21	A Coruña	Martial arts instructor	Day 1 Day 47	Day 26 Day 82	3rd Evicted
Miriam Santiago	21	A Coruña	Martial arts instructor	Day 1 Day 47	Day 26 Day 82	16th Evicted
Carlos Bernal	27	Barcelona	Chef and gastronomy advisor	Day 1	Day 82	15th Evicted
Maico Barzagui	42	Murcia	Gardener	Day 1	Day 75	14th Evicted
Lorena Gómez	22	Cádiz	Model and motorcycle racing hostess	Day 61	Day 75	13th Evicted
Carlota Prado	24	Estepona	Pub promoter	Day 1	Day 68	12th Evicted
Mina Navarro	34	Ibiza	Hotel clerk	Day 1	Day 61	11th Evicted
Laura Velasco	25	Sevilla	Pharmacy technician	Day 1 Day 47	Day 40 Day 59	5th Evicted
Laura Velasco	25	Sevilla	Pharmacy technician	Day 1 Day 47	Day 40 Day 59	Walked
Miguel Del Villar	42	Navarra	Shoemaker	Day 1	Day 54	10th Evicted
Cristian Fernández	30	Barcelona	Salesman	Day 1	Day 54	9th Evicted
Daniel Sánchez	27	Madrid	Zumba instructor	Day 5	Day 54	8th Evicted
José María López	24	Torre-Pacheco	Farmer	Day 5	Day 49	Ejected
Juan Labory	26	Berlin	Graphic and fashion designer	Day 1	Day 47	7th Evicted
Petra Adrover	30	Ibiza	VIP event organizer	Day 1	Day 40	6th Evicted
Javier Eneme	29	Barcelona	Lawyer and dancer	Day 1	Day 33	4th Evicted
Yolanda Garrote	21	Valencia	Gastronomy businesswoman	Day 1	Day 19	2nd Evicted
Nerea Montaraz	20	El Vendrell	Administration student	Day 1	Day 12	1st Evicted

Nomination table

	Week 1		Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5		Week 6	Week 7		Week 8	Week 9	Week 10		Week 11	Week 12 Final
	Day 3	Day 5	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Day 33	Day 40	Week 6	Day 47	Day 54	Week 8	Week 9	Day 68	Day 75	Week 11	Week 12 Final

Hugo	Housemate	Nominated	Mina Petra Cristian	Cristian Petra Mina	Carlota Petra Cristian	Laura Mina Carlota	Nominated	Mina Daniel Cristian	Mina Carlos Cristian	Nominated	Mina Carlos Laura	Carlota Carlos Pilar	(6) Lorena (1) Carlos (1) Pilar	No Nominations	No Nominations	Winner (Day 89)
Rubén	Housemate	Nerea	Mina Yolanda Petra	Petra Yangyang Juan	Juan Petra Carlota	Laura Juan Mina	Nominated	Mina Daniel Cristian	Yangyang Mina Carlos	Nominated	Mina Yangyang Carlos	Yangyang Carlos Carlota	(3) Carlos (3) Lorena (3) Yangyang	No Nominations	No Nominations	Runner-up (Day 89)
Christian	Housemate	Nerea	Yolanda Petra Mina	Yangyang Miriam Juan	Javier Maico Yangyang	Hugo Maico Laura	Nominated	Juan Hugo Maico	Maico Yangyang	Nominated	Maico Yangyang Laura	Yangyang Miriam Maico	(2) Maico (1) Yangyang (1) Lorena	No Nominations	No Nominations	Third Place (Day 89)
Yangyang	Housemate	Nerea	Maico Hugo José Maria	Maico Christian José Maria	Maico Javier Christian	Maico Miguel José Maria	Nominated	Maico Miguel José Maria	Maico Rubén Miguel	Nominated	Maico Christian Rubén	Maico Rubén Christian	(1) Maico (1) Rubén (1) Christian	No Nominations	No Nominations	Fourth Place (Day 89)
Pilar	Housemate	Nerea	Hugo Yolanda Laura	Laura Miriam Hugo	Laura Hugo Rubén	Laura Rubén Hugo	Nominated	Mina Maico Rubén	Mina Maico	Nominated	Mina Maico Miriam	Miriam Maico Hugo	(1) Maico (2) Hugo (1) Rubén	No Nominations	No Nominations	Evicted (Day 82)
Miriam	Housemate	Nominated	Yolanda Juan Maico	Petra Daniel Mina	Evicted (Day 26)				Guest	Exempt	Pilar Maico Christian	Carlota Pilar Maico	(2) Christian (3) Pilar (6) Hugo	No Nominations	No Nominations	Evicted (Day 82)
Carlos	Housemate	Nerea	Miguel Hugo Maico	Hugo Laura Javier	Javier Maico Hugo	Hugo Maico Miguel	Nominated	Juan Maico Miguel	Maico Daniel Hugo	Nominated	Maico Yangyang Hugo	Maico Hugo Yangyang	(1) Maico (1) Yangyang (1) Rubén	No Nominations	No Nominations	Evicted (Day 82)
Maico	Housemate	Nominated	Mina Cristian Yangyang	Yangyang Javier Carlos	Javier Yangyang Carlota	Carlota Laura Yangyang	Nominated	Mina Daniel Cristian	Mina Carlos Yangyang	Nominated	Laura Yangyang Mina	Carlos Carlota Yangyang	(3) Carlos (3) Christian (2) Yangyang	No Nominations	Evicted (Day 75)
Lorena	Not chosen (Day 5)	Not in House										Exempt	(1) Maico (1) Hugo (2) Rubén	Evicted (Day 75)
Carlota	Housemate	Nerea	Hugo Yangyang Juan	Yangyang Hugo Maico	Maico Hugo Yangyang	Maico Hugo Yangyang	Exempt	Maico Hugo Rubén	Maico Yangyang	Exempt	Maico Hugo Laura	Miriam Maico Yangyang	Evicted (Day 68)
Mina	Housemate	Nerea	Yolanda Miguel Hugo	Hugo Miriam Laura	Javier Hugo Maico	Hugo Maico Rubén	Nominated	Hugo Pilar Maico	Pilar Hugo Maico	Nominated	Pilar Maico Rubén	Evicted (Day 61)
Laura	Housemate	Nerea	Juan Yolanda Hugo	Petra Cristian Juan	Maico Hugo Yangyang	Maico Hugo Rubén	Evicted (Day 40)		Guest	Exempt	Pilar Carlos Maico	Walked (Day 59)
Miguel	Housemate	Nerea	Javier Mina Hugo	Daniel Yangyang Hugo	Javier Yangyang Daniel	Hugo Yangyang Laura	Nominated	Carlos Mina Daniel	Yangyang Mina	Nominated	Evicted (Day 54)
Cristian	Housemate	Nerea	Hugo Yolanda Maico	Hugo Laura Yangyang	Hugo Javier Maico	Hugo Maico Rubén	Nominated	Juan Maico Hugo	Daniel Maico Hugo	Nominated	Evicted (Day 54)
Daniel	Chosen (Day 5)	Nerea	Hugo Miguel Yolanda	Laura Miriam Hugo	Maico Hugo Laura	Maico Rubén Hugo	Nominated	Cristian Maico Hugo	Mina Maico	Evicted (Day 54)
José María	Chosen (Day 5)	Nerea	Juan Yangyang Mina	Yangyang Juan Maico	Yangyang Maico Javier	Maico Hugo Yangyang	Nominated	Maico Mina Juan	Maico Yangyang	Ejected (Day 49)
Juan	Housemate	Nerea	Laura Yolanda Miguel	Laura Miriam Rubén	Rubén Laura José Maria	Rubén Laura Maico	Nominated	Carlos Cristian Christian	Evicted (Day 47)
Petra	Housemate	Nerea	Hugo Miguel Yolanda	Hugo Miriam Laura	Hugo Rubén Laura	Hugo Rubén Maico	Nominated	Evicted (Day 40)
Javier	Housemate	Nerea	Miguel Yolanda Maico	Maico Yangyang Hugo	Maico Yangyang Christian	Evicted (Day 33)
Yolanda	Housemate	Nerea	Mina Laura Javier	Evicted (Day 19)
Nerea	Housemate	Nominated	Evicted (Day 12)

Nomination notes	1	2	3, 4	4	4	none	5	none	6, 7	8	none	9	10, 11	12
Nominated (pre-save & replace)	none	Nerea Yolanda Maico	Hugo Mina Yolanda	Hugo Laura Yangyang	Hugo Javier Maico	none			Maico Mina Yangyang	none
Saved		Yolanda	Mina	Laura	Hugo	none			Yangyang	none
Nominated for eviction		Hugo & Miriam Maico Nerea	Hugo Miguel Yolanda	Hugo Miriam Yangyang	Javier Maico Yangyang	Hugo Laura Maico	Carlos Cristian Christian Daniel Hugo José Maria Juan Maico Miguel Mina Petra Pilar Rubén Yangyang	Juan Maico Mina	Carlos Daniel Maico Mina	Carlos Christian Cristian Hugo Maico Miguel Mina Pilar Rubén Yangyang	Maico Mina Pilar	Carlota Maico Yangyang	Carlos Hugo Lorena Yangyang	All Housemates		Christian Hugo Rubén Yangyang
Walked	none										Laura	none
Ejected	none								José Maria	none
Evicted	Daniel Most votes to enter (out of 82)	Nerea 16 of 16 votes to evict	Yolanda 52.7% to evict (out of 2)	Miriam Most votes to evict (out of 2)	Javier Most votes to evict (out of 2)	Laura Most votes to evict	Petra 1% to save	Juan 51.9% to evict	Daniel 52.15% to evict (out of 2)	Cristian 3% to save	Mina 69.9% to evict (out of 2)	Carlota 60.5% to evict (out of 2)	Lorena 80% to evict (out of 2)	Maico Fewest votes to save	Carlos Fewest votes to save (out of 7)	Yangyang Fewest votes to win (out of 4)	Christian Fewest votes to win (out of 3)
	Daniel Most votes to enter (out of 82)									Cristian 3% to save					Miriam Fewest votes to save (out of 6)	Yangyang Fewest votes to win (out of 4)	Christian Fewest votes to win (out of 3)
	José Maria Most votes to enter (out of 82)									Miguel 3% to save					Miriam Fewest votes to save (out of 6)	Rubén 30.5% to win (out of 2)	Hugo 69.5% to win (out of 2)
	José Maria Most votes to enter (out of 82)									Miguel 3% to save					Pilar Fewest votes to save (out of 5)	Rubén 30.5% to win (out of 2)	Hugo 69.5% to win (out of 2)

Notes

^Note 1 : On September 17, 100 potential housemates entered the house. 18 official housemates were selected by Gran Hermano. The viewers will choose the final two housemates. The two potential housemates who received the most votes will enter the house on Day 2 (September 21). It was revealed they are Daniel Sánchez & José María López. They were exempt from nominations as they were new housemates.
^Note 2 : In Gala 2, Nerea, Yolanda & Maico were nominated by the public. Carlos won the power of salvation. He decided to save Yolanda. Hugo received the next highest number of votes and he was nominated for eviction with Miriam.
^Note 3 : After being saved by the housemates, Hugo and Miriam were separated and could participate individually.
^Note 4 : A member of the public entered the house and saved a nominated housemate. The next housemate with the most votes at the nominations was put up for eviction afterward.
^Note 5 : A twist was unleashed on the house: all contestants were given the option to press a button and whoever did it first will be immune for three weeks. However, if one (or more) press the button a new eviction will be held and the person with the fewest votes will leave. Carlota pressed the button first, earning immunity, and Petra was evicted as the one with the fewest votes to save.
^Note 6 : The housemates were split into two teams, the Black team (Mina, Yangyang, Hugo, Rubén, Maico, Cristian and Carlos) and the Red team (Carlota, Pilar, Christian, Daniel, Miguel and José María). They competed in a task and the losing team would nominate just with 2 and 1 points. The black team won and was able to nominate with 3, 2 and 1 points.
^Note 7 : On Day 44, due to the low number of women in the house, the evicted female housemates faced public voting and the two with most votes re-entered the house for a week. Laura and Miriam were chosen to re-enter and they could save a nominated housemate along with the rest of the female housemates. They saved Yangyang. Carlos and Daniel received the next highest number of votes and they were nominated for eviction.
^Note 8 : On Day 51, the public decided that Laura and Miriam could stay in the house as official housemates. However, two housemates would be evicted to replace them through voting to save.
^Note 9 : Lorena was exempt from nominations as she was a new housemate.
^Note 10 : Before nominations, Miriam won immunity in a task.
^Note 11 : The housemates could nominate in three rounds, earning in each round several points in a race.
^Note 12 : Lines were opened to vote for the winner. The housemate with the fewest votes would be evicted.

Total votes and nominations received

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5		Week 6	Week 7		Week 8	Week 9	Week 10		Week 11	Final	Total
Hugo	0	22	18	17	26	-	9	4	-	3	3	9	-	-	Winner	111
Rubén	-	0	1	6	12	-	2	2	-	2	2	5	-	-	Runner-Up	32
Christian	-	0	2	2	0	-	1	0	-	3	1	6	-	-	3rd Place	15
Yangyang	-	5	19	12	5	-	0	9	-	8	9	7	-	-	4th Place	74
Pilar	-	0	0	0	0	-	2	3	-	9	3	4	-	-	Evicted	21
Miriam	0	0	12	Evicted				-	-	1	8	-	-	-	Evicted	21
Carlos	-	0	1	0	0	-	6	5	-	5	7	7	-	-	Evicted	31
Maico	0	7	8	23	25	-	19	17	-	19	12	6	-	Evicted		136
Lorena	Not in House										-	10	Evicted			10
Carlota	-	0	0	5	4	-	-	-	-	-	9	Evicted				18
Mina	-	16	2	0	3	-	16	13	-	10	Evicted					60
Laura	-	6	15	7	15	Evicted		-	-	6	Walked					49
Miguel	-	13	0	0	3	-	3	1	-	Evicted						20
Cristian	-	3	5	1	0	-	8	1	-	Evicted						18
Daniel	-	0	5	1	0	-	7	5	Evicted							18
José María	-	1	1	1	1	-	1	0	Ejected							5
Juan	-	9	5	3	2	-	10	Evicted								29
Petra	-	5	11	4	0	-	Evicted									20
Javier	-	4	3	20	Evicted											27
Yolanda	-	23	Evicted													23
Nerea	16	Evicted														16

Debate: Blind results

Week	1st place to evict	2nd place to evict	3rd place to evict	4th place to evict	5th place to evict	6th place to evict	7th place to evict
2	52.9%	37.4%	9.7%
3	65.9 %	22.7 %	11.4 %
	60.4%	27.3%	12.3%
	43.9%	42.6%	13.5%
	47.1%	41.0%	11.9%
	57.8%	42.2%
4	77.8%	12.1%	10.1%
	58.2%	37.4%	4.4%
	49.8%	47.4%	2.8%
5	56.6%	42.6%	0.8%
	49.7%	49.5%	0.8%
	53.1%	46.2%	0.7%
	54.3%	44.2%	1.5%
6	79.8%	15.4%	4.8%
6	65.2%	31.5%	3.3%
7	44.1%	43.0%	9.1%	3.8%
	49.4%	41.9%	5.8%	2.9%
	49.3%	42.1%	5.5%	3.1%
8	69.9%	27.5%	2.6%
8	69.8%	27.8%	2.4%
9	80.5%	17.3%	2.2%
10	74.6%	16.7%	5.5%	3.2%
	41.4%	27.1%	19.3%	12.2%
	72.7%	18.1%	9.2%
	80.8%	19.2%
11	44.5%	13.5%	13.4%	10.2%	7.6%	7.4%	3.4%
	40.2%	16.8%	13.8%	11.7%	7.7%	7.2%	2.6%
	40.3%	16.1%	13.4%	12.5%	7.7%	7.1%	2.9%
	33.8%	17.1%	13.3%	12.1%	11.7%	9.8%	2.2%
12	46.6%	21.9%	16.8%	14.7%
	46.6%	23.2%	16.1%	14.1%
	54.2%	25.5%	20.3%

Repechage

On Day 44, due to the low number of women in the house, the evicted female housemates faced a public voting and the two with most votes re-entered the house for a week. Laura and Miriam were chosen to re-enter and they could save a nominated housemate along with the rest of female housemates, and they will play a key part in this week's food task. After Jose María's departure, it was announced that Miriam and/or Laura would be given a second chance to enter the house again as official housemates. The public will decide which one will enter, having the chance to vote for the two of them and also for none of them to enter. If one of them enter the house, one housemate will be evicted as a replacement. If both of them enter the house, then two housemates will be evicted.

Ex-housemate	%
Laura & Miriam	38%
None of them	30%
Miriam	25%
Laura	7%

Twist

You are inside

After the first eviction, every week a viewer chosen by the random phone call from Gran Hermano, will go into the house with the mission of saving one of the nominated housemates. The housemate who receives the next number of nominations will be nominated for eviction.

Week	Name	Residence	Age	Entry Day	Saved
2	Margarita Suárez	Canarias	82	Gala 3 28 September 2017	Mina
3	Alba Aparicio	Badajoz	19	Gala 4 5 October 2017	Laura
4	Elena	Tenerife	28	Gala 5 12 October 2017	Hugo

Ratings

"Galas"

Show N°	Day	Viewers	Ratings share
1 – Launch	Tuesday, September 19	1.809.000	16.2%
2	Thursday, September 21	1.516.000	15.7%
3	Thursday, September 28	1.639.000	15.7%
4	Thursday, October 5	1.485.000	14.8%
5	Thursday, October 12	1.596.000	15.3%
6	Thursday, October 19	1.384.000	13.6%
7	Thursday, October 26	1.519.000	15.0%
8	Thursday, November 2	1.276.000	12.2%
9	Thursday, November 9	1.581.000	15.0%
10	Thursday, November 16	1.400.000	13.5%
11	Thursday, November 23	1.252.000	12.0%
12	Thursday, November 30	1.256.000	12.2%
13	Thursday, December 7	1.428.000	13.8%
14 - Final	Thursday, December 14	1.633.000	15.0%

"Debates"

Show N°	Day	Viewers	Ratings share
1	Sunday, September 24	1.401.000	11.5%
2	Sunday, October 1	1.040.000	8.2%
3	Sunday, October 8	1.231.000	9.9%
4	Sunday, October 15	560.000	11.7%
5	Sunday, October 22	727.000	14.0%
6	Sunday, October 29	499.000	13.0%
7	Sunday, November 5	735.000	14.8%
8	Sunday, November 12	857.000	14.0%
9	Sunday, November 19	843.000	16.4%
10	Sunday, November 26	509.000	9.7%
11	Sunday, December 3	405.000	9.8%
12 - Final	Sunday, December 10	484.000	11.4%

"Última Hora"

Show N°	Day	Viewers	Ratings share
1	Monday, September 25	1.201.000	6.7%
2	Tuesday, September 26	1.039.000	5.5%
3	Tuesday, October 3	1.100.000	6.1%
4	Tuesday, October 10	904.000	4.8%
5	Tuesday, October 17	897.000	4.6%
6	Tuesday, October 24	1.143.000	6.1%
6	Tuesday, October 24	352.000	7.5%
7	Tuesday, October 31	436.000	6.3%
8	Tuesday, November 7	1.151.000	6.2%
9	Tuesday, November 21	918.000	4.7%
10	Tuesday, November 28	1.211.000	6.3%
11	Tuesday, December 4	1.000.000	5.5%
12 - Final	Tuesday, December 12	1.161.000	6.2%

Controversies

On 19 November 2019, digital newspaper El Confidencial published a video showing that Carlota Prado would have allegedly been the victim in the house of sexual abuse while drunk, perpetrated by her then partner José María López. Production team continued recording the reaction after showing her the video footage.^[1]^[2] Many (at least 30) sponsor companies retired advertisement from Gran Hermano VIP 7 after this incident.^[3]

On 18 April 2023, José María López was sentenced to 15 months in prison for sexually assaulting a reality show contestant.^[4]

References

^ "Vídeo - 'GH' siguió grabando a Carlota Prado tras mostrarle su presunto abuso sexual" (in Spanish). El Confidencial. 2019-11-19.
^ "Presunto abuso sexual a Carlota Prado en 'GH': verdades y mentiras del caso" (in Spanish). El Confidencial. 2019-11-30.
^ "Estas son las marcas que abandonan 'Gran Hermano'" (in Spanish). La Vanguardia. 28 November 2019.
^ "Assédio sexual no Big Brother da Espanha leva a condenação de participante à prisão" (in Portuguese). G1. 18 April 2023.

External links

Official site on Telecinco.es
Gran Hermano main site

[1] "Vídeo - 'GH' siguió grabando a Carlota Prado tras mostrarle su presunto abuso sexual" (in Spanish). El Confidencial. 2019-11-19.

[2] "Presunto abuso sexual a Carlota Prado en 'GH': verdades y mentiras del caso" (in Spanish). El Confidencial. 2019-11-30.

[3] "Estas son las marcas que abandonan 'Gran Hermano'" (in Spanish). La Vanguardia. 28 November 2019.

[4] "Assédio sexual no Big Brother da Espanha leva a condenação de participante à prisão" (in Portuguese). G1. 18 April 2023.

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