Pinoy Big Brother 1

Pinoy Big Brother 1
Season Information
Country	Philippines
Host	Toni Gonzaga, Mariel Rodriguez
Prize Money	₱6,000,000
No. of Housemates	13
No. of Days	112
Winner	Nene Tamayo
Runner(s)-up	Jason Gainza Cassandra Ponti Uma Khouny
Production
Season Run	August 21, 2005 - December 10, 2005
Cast
Series Chronology
Next Season	Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition 1

Pinoy Big Brother 1 was the first ever season of the reality-television series Pinoy Big Brother aired over ABS-CBN for 112 days from August 21, 2005 to December 10, 2005.

Nene Tamayo of Romblon emerged as the winner of the season, taking home the grand prize worth ‎₱6,000,000 (approx. $111,000) all-in-all; including a house and lot worth ₱2 million, cash prize of ₱1 million, livelihood showcase worth ₱2 million and a brand-new Nissan Frontier Titanium.

Season Twists

• 100 Seconds Encounter:A housemate got the chance to talk to their loved one inside the Diary Room for 100 seconds.

• Replacement Housemate: A new housemate entered when the other one was ejected or walked for various reasons.

• Previously Evicted Housemate: An evicted housemate would get a chance to come back to the house, that would be decided by the public.

The House

The Big Brother House is a multi-room studio designed with walls painted with pastel colors. For the housemates security and the essence of being locked away from the outside world, the garden area is covered with a camouflage-type of fabric. It also boasts of a multi-faith altar in one wall of the house (one which has a Bible, a Koran, and twelve rosaries), making the house the only Big Brother house that has a room set aside for religious purposes (although it is said that the Arab Big Brother house had prayer rooms). And although any form of communication from the outside world is banned inside the house, there is a large flat-screen television set in the living room, used for only two purposes:

• The Original Floor Plan of the Pinoy Big Brother House
• Garden Area
• Kitchen & Dining
• Living Room
• Bedroom
• Diary Room
• Pinoy Big Brother House Facade in 2005

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• Airing videos Big Brother want to show to any or all housemates, especially that of the TV Mass every Sunday, and
• To announce the names of nominees for eviction directly to the housemates and the person evicted from the house.

To complete the set up, 26 surveillance cameras are positioned all over the house to watch the housemates' every move, including the bathroom. For modesty's sake, however, images from the bathroom will be shown if the bathroom is used for any purpose other than bathing (such as gossiping).

A car is used to transfer the evicted housemate from the Big Brother house to the ABS-CBN main building.

The Housemates

Winner    Nene

Runner-Up    Jason

Finalist    Cass

Finalist    Uma

Evicted    Say

Forced Evicted    Franzen

Evicted    Jenny

Evicted    Sam

Evicted    Chx

Forced Evicted    Bob

Evicted    Racquel

Evicted    JB

Evicted    Rico

Nominations History

	Week 3	Week 5	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 11	Week 12	Week 13	Week 15	Week 16
										Finale
Nene	2-Cass 1-Say	2-Cass 1-JB	2-Say 1-Cass	No Nominations	2-Uma 1-Cass	2-Say 1-Sam	2-Cass 1-Uma	No Nominations	2-Uma 1-Say	Winner
Jason	2-Nene 1-Bob	2-JB 1-Nene	2-Uma 1-Cass	No Nominations	2-Sam 1-Uma	2-Sam 1-Uma	2-Cass 1-Say	No Nominations	2-Say 1-Cass	Runner-Up
Cass	2-Franzen 1-Racquel	2-Racquel 1-Bob	2-Racquel 1-Jason	No Nominations	2-Jason 1-Nene	Nene Jason	2-Jenny 1-Jason	Auto Nom	2-Nene 1-Jason	Third Place
Uma	2-Racquel 1-Bob	2-Racquel 1-Bob	2-Racquel 1-Bob	No Nominations	2-Nene 1-Jason	2-Franzen 1-Nene	2-Jason 1-Nene	No Nominations	2-Nene 1-Jason	Fourth Place
Say	2-Racquel 1-Bob	2-Racquel 1-Jason	2-Bob 1-Racquel	No Nominations	2-Jason 1-Cass	2-Jason 1-Jenny	2-Cass 1-Jenny	No Nominations	2-Cass 1-Jason
Franzen	2-Racquel 1-Uma	2-JB 1-Uma	2-Cass 1-Uma	No Nominations	Auto Nom 2-Sam 1-Cass	Sam Cass	Auto Nom 2-Cass 1-Uma	Auto Nom
Jenny	2-Franzen 1-Racquel	2-Franzen 1-Racquel			Exempt	2-Sam 1-Franzen	2-Say 1-Cass
Sam	Not in the House		2-Racquel 1-Bob	No Nominations	2-Chx 1-Say	2-Jason 1-Say
Chx	2-Franzen 2-JB	2-Cass 1-Franzen	2-Cass 1-Franzen	No Nominations	Auto Nom 2-Cass 1-Sam
Bob	2-Uma 1-Cass	2-Uma 1-JB	2-Uma 1-Cass
Racquel	2-Uma 1-Franzen	2-JB 1-Cass	2-Cass 1-Say
JB	2-Bob R1-acquel	2-Racquel 1-Bob
Rico	Auto Nom 2-Racquel 1-Nene

Key:

Winner

Runner-Up

Finalist

Nominated

Re-Entered

Walked

Immune

Ejected

Evicted

The Big Switch

Notes:

• Jenny Suico made a voluntary exit on Day 28 on Week 4. However, since she was able to vote for the 2nd Nomination Ceremony, her nomination votes were still valid. The nomination announcement took place after her exit.

Trivia

• During the live premiere of the series, the housemates were greeted and welcomed by Big Brother Australia 5 Housemates through a video message, welcoming their inclusion in the Big Brother family and the start of a brand new Big Brother Franchise in Asia-Pacific.
• Being the first ever season of the new reality series, many conservative groups in the country opposed the idea of Big Brother being aired in Philippine television due to the show's negative reputation in some countries. However, ABS-CBN managed to differentiate the Philippine version which became the reason for its success in the following years.
• On its first week alone, the show was already given a stern warning by the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB), the Philippine censoring body for cinema and television, saying that the show airs content that is definitely not suitable for children, such as talk on contraceptives and very "intimate scenes". ABS-CBN is reported to have acknowledged this and had promised to make an "improved" show more suitable for younger audiences in the coming weeks. As a result, as scenes like these are unavoidable at times without interference, each episode begins with a warning reminding viewers that some scenes in the show that are not suitable for young audiences. In spite of this, though, the scenes that were deemed to be way beyond the parental guidance rating given by the Board were still shown. In this light, MTRCB ordered the program suspended for one episode. As compliance, the program was not aired on September 25, 2005, the day after the 2nd eviction night.