In a few short hours, one of six housemates will go down in the Big Brother history books as the 15th winner of the show (alright, so it's not like they'll be studied in schools or anything, but it's something, right?). But where will they fit in the record? Will they be a worthy winner, or a disappointment? Will they be looked back on with glee or with grimaces?
That remains to be seen, but in the meantime we have 14 winners to rank. Who is the best? Who is the worst? We're not going to claim this is definitive - we switched our own minds around about 27 times just while compiling our running order - but take to the comments to give us your views. And so, in order from worst to best, here we go...
14. Nadia Almada
Oh dear. Well, someone had to be at the bottom of the list,...
That remains to be seen, but in the meantime we have 14 winners to rank. Who is the best? Who is the worst? We're not going to claim this is definitive - we switched our own minds around about 27 times just while compiling our running order - but take to the comments to give us your views. And so, in order from worst to best, here we go...
14. Nadia Almada
Oh dear. Well, someone had to be at the bottom of the list,...
- 8/15/2014
- Digital Spy
Big Brother contestant Sam Evans, a 23-year-old partially deaf Welsh footballer, has been named the early favourite to win after the first show of this year's double launch last night (June 13).
But with a good three months or so still to come and six more housemates going in tonight, should we even bother listening to the bookmakers? Intrigued, Digital Spy went back over the last five years of Big Brother to see how the launch night odds matched up with the eventual results of the series - and found some surprising results...
Big Brother 2012
Launch night favourite: Luke Anderson (5/1)
Eventual finish: Winner
Congratulations bookmakers, last year you got it spot on by naming eventual winner Luke Anderson as the early favourite. But don't go slapping yourselves on the back too soon - reports claimed that the South African-born chef was an outsider at 16/1 before the game-changing revelation that he was born a woman.
But with a good three months or so still to come and six more housemates going in tonight, should we even bother listening to the bookmakers? Intrigued, Digital Spy went back over the last five years of Big Brother to see how the launch night odds matched up with the eventual results of the series - and found some surprising results...
Big Brother 2012
Launch night favourite: Luke Anderson (5/1)
Eventual finish: Winner
Congratulations bookmakers, last year you got it spot on by naming eventual winner Luke Anderson as the early favourite. But don't go slapping yourselves on the back too soon - reports claimed that the South African-born chef was an outsider at 16/1 before the game-changing revelation that he was born a woman.
- 6/14/2013
- Digital Spy
Ultimate Big Brother winner Brian Dowling has admitted that he would be interested in fronting Bb, if it moves to Channel Five.
The 32 year old has previously presented Smtv Live, ITV’s Brian’s Boyfriends, as well as narrating the Channel 4 reality show The Salon. In a chat with The Sun he revealed that he is keen to get back to TV work and said:
“Vernon Kay asked me why I’m not on TV the other day and I just don’t know. I hope it happens.”
When asked about rumours that Five wanted him to front Bb next year, he added:
“I’d be a d**k to say ‘No’. But by the time it comes back, people might say, ‘Brian who?’”
Five is thought to be in talks with Endemol about buying the reality TV show format and the Total Big Brother fansite recently discovered that...
The 32 year old has previously presented Smtv Live, ITV’s Brian’s Boyfriends, as well as narrating the Channel 4 reality show The Salon. In a chat with The Sun he revealed that he is keen to get back to TV work and said:
“Vernon Kay asked me why I’m not on TV the other day and I just don’t know. I hope it happens.”
When asked about rumours that Five wanted him to front Bb next year, he added:
“I’d be a d**k to say ‘No’. But by the time it comes back, people might say, ‘Brian who?’”
Five is thought to be in talks with Endemol about buying the reality TV show format and the Total Big Brother fansite recently discovered that...
- 9/13/2010
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
Brian Dowling has become not only the winner of Ultimate Big brother, but the final Bb champion ever! (Well unless Channel Five buy it and run the format into the ground….)
With 49.21% of the current vote total Brian was the viewers chosen one and left the house to join the crowds and the queen of Big Brother, Davina McCall.
The Irish star first won the reality TV show in 2001. He went on to present children’s tv show Smtv Live, ITV’s Brian’s Boyfriends, as well as narrating the Channel 4 reality show The Salon.
He will be remembered for… his catchphrases ‘Oh, no you didn’t’ and ‘hold me Bubble’, being reunited with old housemates for his dancing task, for telling Big Brother that being in the house has defined his life and has been like therapy, for stubbing his toe and throwing up milk at the same...
With 49.21% of the current vote total Brian was the viewers chosen one and left the house to join the crowds and the queen of Big Brother, Davina McCall.
The Irish star first won the reality TV show in 2001. He went on to present children’s tv show Smtv Live, ITV’s Brian’s Boyfriends, as well as narrating the Channel 4 reality show The Salon.
He will be remembered for… his catchphrases ‘Oh, no you didn’t’ and ‘hold me Bubble’, being reunited with old housemates for his dancing task, for telling Big Brother that being in the house has defined his life and has been like therapy, for stubbing his toe and throwing up milk at the same...
- 9/10/2010
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
Big Brother five star Marco Sabba returned to the show today.
The former law student joined Brian Dowling in the garden for today’s ‘Retrospective’ task, they had to complete a dance routine on a specially erected podium.
Preston liked Marco’s new hairdo and said:
“Doesn’t he look really different?”
While Victor claimed that he knew all along Marco would be back. He said:
“We’ve now had Ahmed, Anthony, Marco… I knew Marco would come in!”
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The former law student joined Brian Dowling in the garden for today’s ‘Retrospective’ task, they had to complete a dance routine on a specially erected podium.
Preston liked Marco’s new hairdo and said:
“Doesn’t he look really different?”
While Victor claimed that he knew all along Marco would be back. He said:
“We’ve now had Ahmed, Anthony, Marco… I knew Marco would come in!”
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- 9/2/2010
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
Brian Dowling re-entered the Big brother house tonight.
The 32 year old Irish star won the second series of the Channel 4 reality TV show in 2001. He beat Helen Adams in the final and polled 4,231,660 votes (58%) out of a total 7,255,094.
Brian went on to become a television presenter. He has presented Smtv Live, his own show on ITV, Brian’s Boyfriends, as well as narrating the Channel 4 reality show The Salon. He participated in Irish reality television series, Fáilte Towers, in August 2008.
On his original Bb experience Brian said:
“I do remember laughing a lot.”
And on who he wouldn’t want to be cooped up with he added:
“Nick Bateman. he said I looked like Eamon Holmes recently!”
As Brian faced the crowd tonight, he shouted:
“Why am I doing this again?”
And on seeing Nadia Almada already there he laughed:
“I knew you’d be here, I can’t get rid of you!
The 32 year old Irish star won the second series of the Channel 4 reality TV show in 2001. He beat Helen Adams in the final and polled 4,231,660 votes (58%) out of a total 7,255,094.
Brian went on to become a television presenter. He has presented Smtv Live, his own show on ITV, Brian’s Boyfriends, as well as narrating the Channel 4 reality show The Salon. He participated in Irish reality television series, Fáilte Towers, in August 2008.
On his original Bb experience Brian said:
“I do remember laughing a lot.”
And on who he wouldn’t want to be cooped up with he added:
“Nick Bateman. he said I looked like Eamon Holmes recently!”
As Brian faced the crowd tonight, he shouted:
“Why am I doing this again?”
And on seeing Nadia Almada already there he laughed:
“I knew you’d be here, I can’t get rid of you!
- 8/24/2010
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
Brian Dowling has hinted that he will be appearing on tonight’s Ultimate Big Brother, admitting that he would be ‘angry’ if he missed it.
The 32-year-old tv presenter, won the second series of the Channel 4 reality TV show in 2001. He is expected to be in the lineup for the show’s final stretch this evening.
“If I didn’t go on I’d be so angry,” he told Star magazine.
“It’d be me with a bottle of vodka watching it until the show ended.”
However, he added: “But it can all change, even up until the last minute, because they want it to be a surprise.”
Dowling also insisted that he would never have sex in the Bb house.
“I would never, ever, even for a million pounds, have sex with someone on television,” he said.
“I would never even kiss someone on television unless I was acting.
The 32-year-old tv presenter, won the second series of the Channel 4 reality TV show in 2001. He is expected to be in the lineup for the show’s final stretch this evening.
“If I didn’t go on I’d be so angry,” he told Star magazine.
“It’d be me with a bottle of vodka watching it until the show ended.”
However, he added: “But it can all change, even up until the last minute, because they want it to be a surprise.”
Dowling also insisted that he would never have sex in the Bb house.
“I would never, ever, even for a million pounds, have sex with someone on television,” he said.
“I would never even kiss someone on television unless I was acting.
- 8/24/2010
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
Former Big Brother winners Cameron Stout and Brian Dowling will be returning to the show when it launches next week.
After winning the reality TV show in 2001, Dowling went on to present children’s tv show Smtv Live, ITV’s Brian’s Boyfriends, as well as narrating the Channel 4 reality show The Salon.
Cameron won the 2003 series of Big Brother. He now writes regular columns for The Sunday Post and the Aberdeen Evening Express, plus a guest column for The Sunday Post, when the Channel 4 reality TV show is on air.
The pair will be in a crowd of 40 hopefuls competing for a spot in the final Bb house on next Wednesday’s launch show. After the result has been decided, Davina McCall will announce the 20 chosen ones who will star in the last ever series of the long running Channel 4 reality TV show.
Joining Brian and...
After winning the reality TV show in 2001, Dowling went on to present children’s tv show Smtv Live, ITV’s Brian’s Boyfriends, as well as narrating the Channel 4 reality show The Salon.
Cameron won the 2003 series of Big Brother. He now writes regular columns for The Sunday Post and the Aberdeen Evening Express, plus a guest column for The Sunday Post, when the Channel 4 reality TV show is on air.
The pair will be in a crowd of 40 hopefuls competing for a spot in the final Bb house on next Wednesday’s launch show. After the result has been decided, Davina McCall will announce the 20 chosen ones who will star in the last ever series of the long running Channel 4 reality TV show.
Joining Brian and...
- 5/29/2010
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
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