Celebrity Big Brother 7

Celebrity Big Brother 7
Series Information
Presenter:	Davina McCall
Broadcaster:	Channel 4
Series Run:	3 January, 2010 – 29 January, 2010
No. of Days:	27
No. of Housemates:	12
Winner:	Alex Reid
Runner Up:	Dane Bowers
Series Chronology
Previous:	Celebrity Big Brother 6
Next:	Celebrity Big Brother 8

Celebrity Big Brother 7 is the seventh series of Celebrity Big Brother and the final series to air on Channel 4 and E4. It began on Sunday 3 January 2010 and aired for 27 days until the final on 29 January 2010, the longest ever celebrity series in the UK. The series launched with 6.7 million viewers, and went on to become the most watched series of Big Brother UK since 2007, averaging 3.7 million viewers per night Davina McCall returned as main presenter, also hosting Big Brother's Big Mouth. George Lamb also returned to present Big Brother's Little Brother. The show was sponsored by the bed retailer Dreams, who also sponsored the previous celebrity series. Alex Reid won the show with 65.9% of the final vote, hence becoming the final Channel 4 Celebrity Big Brother winner. Alex's percentage equates to 36.88% in real terms, beating the series runner-up by a margin of over 17%.

Pre-series

A Celebrity Big Brother 7 pre-series special show, Top 20 Celebrity Big Brother Moments, featured the series' most memorable moments of the show according to viewers who have voted online. The show aired on E4 on 28 December 2009. Within the special, the new graphics for the upcoming series were introduced. On 13 December 2008, the first trailer was aired on Channel 4, during a screening of film Elf. A hell theme, similar to that of Big Brother 5 and Big Brother 9 was hinted with a tagline in the trailer that said: "Hell Lies in Others". Five days later on 18 December 2009, the first full 30-second long trailer was aired, with the eye present.

Channel 4 has announced that it will resume its tradition of donating some of its income made from the premium-rate telephone lines; votes will be increased to 50p (an increase from 35p), with 15p going to Comic Relief and the donations from the phone votes from the 16th January 2010 to the finale will go to support the relief efforts in Haiti following the recent earthquake.

Eye

The eye logo was revealed on 14 December 2009 on the Channel 4 website. It is the first time that the logo has been based on a real eye since series one in 2000. It is also the first time ever that the Celebrity Big Brother eye was not based on the eye from the summer series before it.

House

Official images of the House's entrance, living area, kitchen, and the bathroom were released on the show's website on 29 December 2009. This was the first time that a brand new House was used for a celebrity series. Usually, Celebrity Big Brother uses the same house as the summer series which preceded it.

Stairs

Diary Room

Living Area

Bathroom

Kitchen

Snug

Housemates

Eleven housemates entered the Celebrity Big Brother 7 House on Day 1. An additional housemate entered the House on Day 6.

Housemate		Entered House/Left House
	Katia Ivanova Model / Singer 21, London	Day 1	1st Person Evicted Day 13
	Heidi Fleiss Entrepreneur 44, Los Angeles, California, USA	Day 1	2nd Person Evicted Day 13
	Lady Sovereign Rapper 24, London	Day 1	3rd Person Evicted Day 16
	Stephen Baldwin Actor / Author 43, Massapequa, New York, USA	Day 1	4th Person Evicted Day 20
	Sisqó Singer / Actor 31, Baltimore, Maryland, USA	Day 1	5th Person Evicted Day 20
	Ivana Trump Entrepreneur / Model 65, Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia	Day 6	6th Person Evicted Day 25
	Nicola Tappenden Model 27, London	Day 1	7th Person Evicted Day 25
	Stephanie Beacham Actress 62, London	Day 1	Fifth Place Day 27
	Jonas Altberg Singer / DJ 25, Halmstad, Halland, Sweden	Day 1	Fourth Place Day 27
	Vinnie Jones Actor / Footballer 44, Dronfield, Sheffield	Day 1	Third Place Day 27
	Dane Bowers Singer 30, Croydon, London	Day 1	Runner-Up Day 27
	Alex Reid Mixed Martial Artist / Actor 34, London	Day 1	Winner Day 27

Tasks

Days Lasted	Task	Reward	Result
Day 1	Housemates had five minutes to fit inside a Mini. Any housemate not inside the car was "warned".	2 Champagne Bottles	Passed
Day 2	Housemates participated in a William Tell style shooting task to try to win bonus shopping items. Sov, Vinnie, and Stephanie alternated being human targets, and the other housemates had to shoot paint-filled balloons at chosen food items on a platform above the target's head with a leg-operated slingshot. To win the food item, the shooter had to hit the board above the target's head or the food item itself.	Food	Milk, Fresh Cheese, Mayonnaise, Ketchup, Salt, Fajitas
Day 3	Big Brother called Vinnie to answer a ringing telephone inside a booth that was placed in the garden. Housemates had to free him – as the door to the booth was locked – by performing a series of tasks. Each task successfully completed would reveal one or more digits which was part of a code Vinnie had to relay over to Big Brother to 'learn his fate.'	Birthday Party	Passed
Day 4	The "Tree of Temptation" in the garden set Jonas a secret task to pour sand over another housemate's bed.	Egyptian Cotton Bedsheets for Stephanie	Failed
Day 5	The male housemates took part in the "Hunk-Off 2010", a contest involving an evening wear round, a swimwear round and a talent round. The female housemates gave each male points in every round.	Title of Hunkiest Housemate	Sisqó
Day 6	On the live special, all housemates performed in their own variety show, with the surprise that a new housemate would enter at the end of the performance. Heidi, Jonas, Katia and Nicola wore frilly dresses for a can-can dance. Stephanie performed a lone stand up routine. Vinnie performed ventriloquism with the help of his dummy, Stephen. Alex and Dane performed the song, "Especially for You". And finally, Sisqó performed a Vegas style magic show with help from his assistant, Sov. During Sisqó's act, Sov disappeared (she was actually in the Diary Room), with Ivana taking her place.	1 New Housemate	Passed
Day 7	The "Tree of Temptation" set Alex the task of kicking down the snowman in the garden - built by Jonas on Day 4.	Alex's Punch-bag for 1 Hour	Passed
Day 9 – Day 10	For this weeks shopping task housemates had to run "Last Legs Retirement Home" for two days. Stephanie and Ivana were carers to the rest of the housemates, who were old age pensioners. The OAPs had to eat liquidised food throughout the task and had to take part in an armchair aerobics session with Mr Motivator. For the first challenge, five residents of the home had to take part in a game of Countdown against the 2009 champion Chris Davies. For the second challenge all the residents of the home completed a pensioner themed assault course - containing obstacles such riding a stairlift and finding a personalised bus pass in a tank of blue rinse - in a total time of under 30 minutes. In the final challenge of the task, residents had to complete a crossword with all the answers being words housemates have used to describe each other.	Luxury Shopping Budget	Failed
Day 11	Vinnie took part in a Mastermind-style quiz on the Big Brother Welcome Pack, which he had read at least twice every day during his stay in the House. For every question he answered correctly he would receive a special prize for each member of the group.	Treats	Framed Photo of Jonas for Katia, Framed Photo of Sisqó for Sisqó, Purple Hair Dye for Lady Sovereign, Beer for Stephen, Teddy Bear for Nicola
Day 15	Big Brother asked the most vocal housemate to come to the Diary Room. This housemate, Sisqó, was required to sing karaoke songs with missing words in them. For every song he gets completely correct he would receive a luxury prize. Six of the housemates were sat on a turntable with cold custard, cat food, liquid curry, fish guts and greasy gravy on another. If he got a lyric wrong, one housemate on the turntable would be sprayed with one of the items on the other turntable.	Luxury Condiment, Mystery Hamper	Passed
Day 16	Big Brother set the housemates a life drawing task. Two models, Ivana and Nicola, were given flesh-coloured underwear and had to pose for the rest of the housemates to draw them. For completing their part in the task, Ivana won ten steaks and Nicola won a photograph of her daughter. The housemate with the best drawing, Dane, won a cocktail.	10 Steaks for Ivana, Photograph of her Daughter for Nicola	Passed
		Cocktail	Dane
Day 17	The "Tree of Temptation" told Dane to make the housemates' dinner inedible by pouring extra-hot chili powder onto it.	Replacement Key, Stopping of Punishments	Failed
	The "Tree" gave Dane a second chance to earn a replacement key by making him wait until every housemate was asleep before pretending to wake up as if he had just had a nightmare. If he woke up every housemate with his scream and made one of them give him a sympathetic hug, the punishments would stop.		Passed
Day 18	The housemates were split into three teams, who were required to fit the offal of a cow into a wire mesh cow.
Day 20	Housemates were given a task of building a corner workstation with a chair using flat-pack furniture in 45 minutes. As Jonas was deemed to have an unfair advantage due to him being Swedish, he was given the task to sabotage the task.	Swedish Spa	Passed
Day 21	The first task of the day was given to Nicola by the "Tree of Temptation". To receive a message from home, Nicola had to tell a home truth to each of her fellow housemates and give them a kiss.	Video Message from Home	Passed
	Later in the day, housemates had to play a game of "Celebrity Hell Charades", where they had to mime infamous and embarrassing celebrity faux pas. They had one hour to mime 14 charades and for every correct mime they would receive an extra 5 minutes in bed in the morning.	Extra 1 Hour 10 Minutes in Bed	Passed
Day 22	Big Brother set housemates the task of staying chained together in groups of two or three. Vinnie & Ivana, Alex & Dane and Stephanie, Nicola & Jonas stayed chained together for 6 hours and 45 minutes.
Day 23	Ivana was told she had been nominated for a magazine show 'Kugel Fresh'. However she didn't know it was fake. The other housemates had to convince her it was real. Ivana won the fake award and the housemates had to spoil it for her by saying it was rubbish, at least three people had to drink out of it and at least one of them smash it. They achieved all three.	Awards Ceremony, Goody Bag	Passed
Day 24	Housemates were set the task of creating a bust of Lionel Richie blindfolded and using clay. While they were blindfolded, a Richie lookalike entered the House.		Stephanie
Day 25	The "Tree of Temptation" set Vinnie the task of telling Alex he had cross dressed before and enjoyed it. Then, he had to tell the housemates over lunch how much he had bonded with them all with tears.	Viewing of the FA Cup Fourth Round	Passed
	The next task required housemates to dress up as farm animals and make animal noises everywhere in the House except for a pen in the living area. This task allowed Davina to enter the House dressed as a chicken.

Nominations table

	Day 8	Day 14	Day 16	Final Day 27
Alex	Heidi, Lady Sovereign	Lady Sovereign, Sisqó	Sisqó, Dane	Winner (Day 27)
Dane	Katia, Stephen	Lady Sovereign, Ivana	Ivana, Stephen	Runner-Up (Day 27)
Vinnie	Heidi, Stephen	Alex, Nicola	Sisqó, Alex	Third Place (Day 27)
Jonas	Heidi, Sisqó	Sisqó, Lady Sovereign	Ivana, Sisqó	Fourth Place (Day 27)
Stephanie	Jonas, Katia	Lady Sovereign, Jonas	Stephen, Ivana	Fifth Place (Day 27)
Nicola	Sisqó, Katia	Stephen, Lady Sovereign	Stephen, Ivana	Evicted (Day 25)
Ivana	Exempt	Jonas, Nicola	Jonas, Stephen	Evicted (Day 25)
Sisqó	Heidi, Dane	Ivana, Nicola	Ivana, Alex	Evicted (Day 20)
Stephen	Lady Sovereign Jonas	Nicola, Dane	Nicola, Dane	Evicted (Day 20)
Lady Sovereign	Heidi, Alex	Ivana, Stephanie	Evicted (Day 16)
Heidi	Lady Sovereign Stephanie	Evicted (Day 13)
Katia	Nicola, Stephanie	Evicted (Day 13)
Nomination note	See note 1	none	See note 2	See note 3
Against public vote	Heidi, Katia, Lady Sovereign	Lady Sovereign, Nicola	Ivana, Sisqó, Stephen	Alex, Dane, Ivana, Jonas, Nicola, Stephanie, Vinnie
Evicted	Katia 44% to evict	Lady Sovereign 69.5% to evict	Stephen 50% to evict	Ivana 5.74% (out of 7)	Nicola 6% (out of 7)
				Stephanie 8.6% (out of 5)	Jonas 12.8% (out of 5)
	Heidi 28.6% to evict		Sisqó 29% to evict	Vinnie 20.2% (out of 3)	Dane 34.1% (out of 2)
				Alex 65.9% to win

Notes

Note 1: As a new housemate, Ivana could not nominate or be nominated on Day 8.
Note 2: Immediately following the eviction on Day 16, housemates were required to make their nominations live on Channel 4.
Note 3: There were no nominations in the final week. Instead the public were voting for who they wanted to win. On Day 25, a vote count was taken and the two housemates with the least votes - Ivana and Nicola - were evicted. Any votes for the remaining housemates were carried to the final

Nominations totals

	Day 8	Day 14	Day 16	Total
Alex	1	1	2	4
Dane	1	1	2	4
Vinnie	0	0	0	0
Jonas	2	2	1	5
Stephanie	2	1	0	3
Nicola	1	4	1	6
Ivana		3	5	8
Sisqó	2	2	3	7
Stephen	2	1	4	7
Lady Sovereign	3	5		8
Heidi	5			5
Katia	3			3