Big Brother 4 (Australia)

Big Brother Australia

◄ ►  Season 4 (2004)

Housemates Name Entered Exited       Trevor Day 1 Day 86 Bree Day 1 Day 65  Day 64 Day 86    Paul Day 1  Day 85    Ryan Day 1  Day 83    Catherine Day 1  Day 78    Ashalea Day 1  Day 71    Mónica Day 55  Day 71    Wesley Day 1  Day 68    Violeta Day 55  Day 59    Kane Day 1  Day 57    Terri Day 1  Day 50    Merlin Day 1  Day 43    Elle Day 1  Day 36    Krystal Day 1  Day 29    Igor Day 1  Day 22    Aphrodite Day 1  Day 15    Winner Runner-Up Evicted Evicted after secret housemate vote

Big Brother 2004, also known as Big Brother 4, was the fourth series of Big Brother Australia, and was aired on Network Ten, starting on Sunday 2 May 2004, with the housemates entering the day before, and ended on Monday 26 July 2004, lasting 86 days. The season was billed as "back to basics, but with one small secret". In a return to the basic format of Big Brother 1 and Big Brother 2 that had been eschewed in favour of twists and surprises in Big Brother 3, all housemates were let into the house together and former surprise elements such as swimming pools and gym equipment were all exposed from the beginning.

Two Intruders entered the house later in the game, and Miriam, the transsexual star of the show There's Something About Miriam, entered as a houseguest near the end. The prize money was raised from $250,000 to $1,000,000, but this was kept hidden from housemates until later in the series. Evicted housemates also received larger prizes than any season before, with every evictee receiving a top of the range Mitsubishi Lancer VR-X. The two Intruders were some of the least liked in all the four series, with Violeta being chosen for eviction by every single housemate, and then Monica, who already had a boyfriend outside, immediately started falling for Ryan, and she and Bree developed rivalry towards each other. When Monica was finally up for eviction, she was evicted with a large percentage of the votes. The final contestants in 2004 were Bree Amer and Trevor Butler. Trevor won, and then proposed to his girlfriend on stage. Mid-season, The housemates were able to see the unofficial premiere of The Day After Tomorrow.

The winner announced of the finale was watched by 2.864 million Australian viewers.

Opening sequence

The same as the 2003 opening sequence with some minor sound changes. The background colour is more gradient than last years. A scene of a green backyard appears between the diary room and kitchen scenes. The diary room chair is orange instead of red. Also the evicted housemate in the titles was changed to blue. Lastly the 84 days was changed to the series 86 days. The theme also was slightly remixed with the introduction of a guitar component.

Housemates

Main article: List of Big Brother Australia housemates (2004 series)

Nominations Table

The first Housemate in each box was Nominated for Two Points, and the second Housemate was Nominated for One Point.

	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9		Week 10	Week 11	Week 12			Nominations points received
								Intruders	Normal nom.			Day 83	Day 85	Day 86 (Finale)
Trevor	Igor Terri	Igor Paul	Paul Ashalea	Paul Ashalea	Merlin Paul	Terri Ashalea	Wesley Ashalea	Violeta	Paul Ashalea	No Nominations	Paul Catherine	Paul Bree	No Nominations	Winner (Day 86)	10
Bree	Terri Igor	Terri Igor	Terri Kane	Terri Paul	Terri Paul	Wesley Ryan	Kane Paul	Violeta	Paul Wesley	No Nominations	Paul Ryan	Paul Ryan	No Nominations	Runner-Up (Day 86)	24
Paul	Aphrodite Igor	Elle Merlin	Merlin Krystal	Elle Trevor	Merlin Catherine	Ashalea Catherine	Trevor Bree	Violeta	Trevor Bree	No Nominations	Trevor Ryan	Ryan Trevor	No Nominations	Evicted (Day 85)	37
Ryan	Igor Aphrodite	Igor Terri	Krystal Terri	Terri Ashalea	Catherine Terri	Bree Terri	Ashalea Bree	Violeta	Ashalea Paul	No Nominations	Catherine Bree	Bree Paul	Evicted (Day 83)		17
Catherine	Ashalea Igor	Igor Terri	Paul Ashalea	Paul Terri	Merlin Trevor	Terri Ryan	Kane Ryan	Violeta	Paul Ashalea	No Nominations	Ryan Bree	Evicted (Day 78)			15
Ashalea	Igor Paul	Elle Merlin	Elle Trevor	Elle Kane	Merlin Kane	Wesley Kane	Wesley Ryan	Violeta	Ryan Catherine	No Nominations	Evicted (Day 71)				40
Mónica	Not in house							Nominated	Ashalea Bree	No Nominations	Evicted (Day 71)				N/A
Wesley	Aphrodite Krystal	Ashalea Krystal	Ashalea Bree	Elle Ashalea	Bree Catherine	Bree Catherine	Ashalea Catherine	Violeta	Ryan Catherine	Evicted (Day 68)					9
Violeta	Not in house							Nominated	Ashalea Bree	Evicted (Day 59)					N/A
Kane	Elle Catherine	Krystal Elle	Krystal Terri	Elle Terri	Ashalea Catherine	Ashalea Terri	Bree Ashalea	Evicted (Day 57)							11
Terri	Igor Catherine	Igor Bree	Merlin Krystal	Bree Ryan	Bree Ashalea	Ashalea Kane	Evicted (Day 50)								37
Merlin	Igor Terri	Igor Terri	Paul Terri	Paul Terri	Paul Terri	Evicted (Day 43)									15
Elle	Igor Kane	Igor Terri	Ashalea Krystal	Ashalea Ryan	Evicted (Day 36)										19
Krystal	Igor Aphrodite	Igor Terri	Terri Merlin	Evicted (Day 29)											13
Igor	Krystal Ashalea	Elle Kane	Evicted (Day 22)												32
Aphrodite	Terri Paul	Evicted (Day 15)													6
Nomination note	none										none
Against public vote	Aphrodite, Igor, Terri	Elle, Igor, Terri	Ashalea, Krystal, Paul, Terri	Elle, Paul, Terri	Bree, Catherine, Merlin, Paul, Terri	Ashalea, Bree, Terri, Welsey	Ashalea, Bree, Kane, Wesley	Monica, Violeta	Ashalea, Bree, Catherine, Paul, Ryan, Trevor, Wesley	Ashalea, Bree, Catherine, Monica, Paul, Ryan, Trevor	Catherine, Paul, Ryan	Bree, Paul, Ryan	Bree, Paul, Trevor	Bree, Trevor
Evicted	Aphrodite 45% to evict	Igor 47% to evict	Krystal 41% to evict	Elle 36% to evict	Merlin 46% to evict	Terri 41% to evict	Kane 36% to evict	Violeta 7 of 7 votes to evict	Wesley 20% to evict	Mónica 43% (out of 7) to evict	Catherine 41% to evict	Ryan 37% to evict	Paul Most votes to evict	Bree Most votes to evict
										Ashalea 24% (out of 6) to evict
Saved	Igor 35% Terri 20%	Terri 35% Elle 18%	Paul 32% Terri 21% Ashalea 6%	Terri 34% Paul 30%	??? 19% ??? 18% ??? 13% ??? 4%	??? 24% ??? 21% ??? 14%	??? 28% ??? 19% ??? 17%	Mónica 0 votes	Bree 19% ??? 17% ??? 17% ??? 15% ??? 8% ??? 4%	??? 22% ??? 21% ??? 16% ??? 14% ??? 3%	??? 33% ??? 26%	??? 35% ??? 28%	Bree Trevor	Trevor Fewest votes to evict

Nomination Notes

^1 The two Intruders faced the Housemate Vote, in which the Housemates would decide which one of them should go home. The Housemates unanimously chose to Evict Violeta.
^2 All Housemates were Nominated by Big Brother after failing to give reasonable Nomination reasons. Had this not happened, Ashalea, Ryan, and Paul would have faced the public vote. Monica, as a new Housemate, was exempt from this process.
^3 For the second week running all Housemates were automatically Nominated by Big Brother - this was due to the fact that at the last Eviction there was a voting error and Bree had been incorrectly Evicted. Bree later returned to the House, and the correct Evictee, Wesley, was Evicted on Day 68, four days too late. This left no time for Nominations, so all Housemates were put up for the Public Vote. For fun, Big Brother asked each housemate who they wanted to save from eviction.

Controversy and incidents

Housemate Merlin Luck staged a protest at his live eviction show. Upon entering the arena, he revealed a makeshift banner which read "Free Th Refugees". The letter E had fallen off and it was intended to read "Free The Refugees" in reference to Australian Government policy of mandatory detention of asylum seekers. Merlin placed gaffer tape over his mouth and refused to speak during the live show. The following night, when he returned to appear as a guest on the Nomination show, he apologised to Killeen for putting her on the spot and making her job difficult by refusing to speak during the eviction show. On this show Merlin spoke about his actions in the highest rating show of the timeslot for that night.

The producers were criticized for making a deal with housemate Ryan Fitzgerald who was permitted to wear a T-shirt that was branded with "MLS" (acronym for Massive Loser Squad). The T-shirts were being sold while the show was running and Ryan's friends admitted that a proportion of the profits was going towards votes to keep him in the house, thus giving him what was perceived to be an unfair advantage. However the producer pointed-out that many housemates had companies or local communities rally support for them, which was little different, and that there was nothing stopping any other housemate's supporters doing a similar thing to Ryan's friends.

Housemate Bree Amer was incorrectly evicted instead of Wesley due to a vote counting error. The error was discovered after the Sunday night eviction show. Bree had already met up with friends and family. She was returned to the house the following night (Monday). Wesley was evicted in a special show on the following Thursday.

Reception

Australian TV ratings

MONDAY - FRIDAY DAILY SHOW

WEEK	Sydney	Melbourne	Brisbane	Adelaide	Perth	TOTAL	WEEKLY RANK
01	356,000	343,000	256,000	137,000	152,000	1,243,000	46
02	299,000	281,000	222,000	115,000	145,000	1,062,000	58
03	312,000	268,000	199,000	110,000	148,000	1,037,000	70
04	, 000	, 000	, 000	, 000	, 000	, 000
05	311,000	296,000	208,000	121,000	146,000	1,082,000	65
06	325,000	278,000	195,000	116,000	148,000	1,063,000	66
07	341,000	294,000	221,000	132,000	131,000	1,119,000	49
08	289,000	272,000	233,000	126,000	133,000	1,052,000	65
09	302,000	287,000	242,000	135,000	133,000	1,100,000	57
10	309,000	322,000	234,000	141,000	132,000	1,138,000	45
11	328,000	302,000	231,000	143,000	121,000	1,124,000	53
12	357,000	307,000	249,000	1,000,000	124,000	2,191,000'	46