The new housemates will live in a purpose built House,
cut off from the outside world. For the duration of the
series, cameras will watch their every move, and
microphones will record their every sound, 24 hours a
day, seven days a week.
There are 14 basic rules regarding life inside the Big
Brother House. They are set out in their simplest terms
below. In agreeing to take part in Big Brother, the
housemates are agreeing to abide by the rules.
1) There is no contact with the outside world.
2) Housemates are filmed 24 hours a day and must wear
personal microphones at all times.
3) The Diary Room is the only place in the House where
Big Brother will acknowledge housemates individually.
4) Visits to the Diary Room are compulsory.
5) Nominations are compulsory.
6) Housemates must give frank and honest reasons for
nominations.
7) It is not permitted to discuss nominations, or try to
influence anyone else's nominations.
8) It is not permitted to discuss details of how they'd
spend the prize money (if they were to win).
9) Eviction is decided by public vote.
10) All tasks and challenges are compulsory.
11) Housemates must not act violently towards any other
housemate.
12) Housemates are free to leave the House at any time.
13) If any housemate breaks the rules they may be asked
to leave the House.
14) THE MOST IMPORTANT RULE OF ALL: Big Brother
reserves the right to change the rules at any time.
Personal Belongings
The housemates are restricted as to what personal
belongings they can bring into the House.
Housemates will be allowed to take one suitcase and one
small bag into the house. The suitcases will be the same
size for all participants and no additional bags or
baggage will be allowed.
The Big Brother team will check the contents of the
suitcases before the housemates enter the House and
inventories will be compiled.
As in past years, housemates will be allowed to take up
to six bottles or cans of beer, or two bottles of wine
into the house.
Housemates are allowed to bring in a reasonable quantity
of toiletries, but they will need to prioritise which
items they want to bring in.
Any additional items needed during the duration of the
stay must be purchased out of the joint weekly food
budget.
Items banned from the house include; musical
instruments, books, games, writing materials, mobile
phones, radios, walkmans, CDs or CD players, computers,
PDAs (Psion, Palm Pilot, etc), calendars, clocks and
watches, drugs and narcotics, personal medication
(except in consultation with Big Brother), weapons, any
electronic equipment or items requiring batteries and
clothes with prominent logos.
Other House Rules
Participants must wear their radio-microphones at all
times during waking hours.
Microphones can only be taken off in bed, in the shower
and in the pool.
Housemates are responsible for changing the batteries in
their mics at regular intervals.
If housemates attempt to communicate without the cameras
or microphones recording the communication (e.g.
tampering with microphones, writing secret messages,
mouthing words off-camera) or if they try to tamper
with, or cover recording equipment, then Big Brother
reserves the right to expel them from the House.
Prior to entering the Big Brother House, the housemates
are not allowed to talk to the media. Neither are they
permitted to know the identities of their fellow
housemates.
Food, Housekeeping, Weekly Tasks and Challenges
Food and alcohol in the House is supplied only by Big
Brother.
The housemates will participate in compulsory weekly
tasks to determine their weekly shopping budget. If the
housemates fail the weekly task, they will each lose an
amount per head to spend on shopping that week. If they
pass, they have the luxury of spending more money per
head that week.
The housemates will be set weekly tasks and will have a
few days to resolve them. As soon as the nature of the
task is announced by Big Brother, the housemates will
have to work together as a team to complete it and they
will find outif they have successfully completed the
task, later that week.
Leaving The House/The Eviction Process
Housemates can leave the House in three ways:
They may be evicted, they can leave of their own free
will (and may do so at any time) or in exceptional
circumstances they may be asked to leave by Big Brother.
Once a housemate leaves they forfeit any claim to the
prize money.
Voluntary/Involuntary Departure
If a housemate wants to leave they must first report to
the Diary Room and give their reasons for leaving.
Big Brother may ask a housemate to leave the House if
they behave inappropriately, for example, if they engage
in violent or abusive behaviour, or damage the House or
its contents.
Housemates leaving voluntarily or being asked to leave
may be replaced at Big Brother's discretion.
The Eviction Process
Every week each housemate will be called to the Diary
Room to nominate two fellow housemates for eviction. Any
housemate refusing to make a nomination or failing to
provide Big Brother with a satisfactory reason for their
nomination will be reprimanded at Big Brother's
discretion.
The Diary Room nominations will not be streamed on the
website or E4 - instead the nominations will be
announced to the housemates live, during Big Brother's
Little Brother each Tuesday. The results of the
nomination process will be announced to the participants
every Tuesday and will be included in the Channel 4
highlights show every Wednesday night.
E4 viewers can watch the nominations at length on E4
Nominations Uncut show each Tuesday evening.
The housemates who receive the most eviction votes at
this stage are then subject to the public vote,
conducted via telephone, text message and interactive
TV.
Viewers and housemates will only find out who is to be
evicted during the first of Channel 4's live Friday
night shows and the evicted housemate will leave during
the second live show. During the final week of the
series viewers will be asked to vote for who should be
the winner of Big Brother.
REMEMBER: Big Brother reserves the right to change
the frequency, times and details of nominations at any
time.
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