When did you start watching Big Brother?

[lily.]

I don't mean watching back reruns. I mean when was the first year you actually watched the show, whether it was because you weren't interested before or because of your age or whatever. Feel free to post reasons in the thread.

I first watched back in 2000 when it was all new and nobody knew if it was going to ever really work.

[chuff me dizzy]

Series one

[Natalie.]

BB2

[MrWong]

About 2 weeks in to BB1.

A friend kept saying how good it was so I gave it a shot.

[Shaun]

Started halfway during BB2.

[Northern Monkey]

1999 or 2000.Whenever BB1 started.I did'nt even realise until i joined here that was a 'fan' until i realised i've watched every series and not missed many episodes at all.I can't remember every hm etc or events but i have seen them all and when i see clips i remember them.

[Gusto Brunt]

2000. I'll never forget the naked romp. :eek:

[Ammi]

..right from the first one..my favourite was Anna but Craig was a great winner as well...

[LukeB]

BB5

[MB.]

1999.I did'nt even realise until i joined here that was a 'fan' until i realised i've watched every series and not missed many episodes at all.I can't remember every hm etc or events but i have seen them all and when i see clips i remember them.

You've even watched a series that didn't exist if you started in 1999. :laugh:

[Gusto Brunt]

You've even watched a series that didn't exist if you started in 1999. :laugh:

I think it did exist in Denmark...

[Dylan95]

BB5 but my first full series was BB6

[Northern Monkey]

You've even watched a series that didn't exist if you started in 1999. :laugh:

Lol.I just edited.Could'nt remember what year BB1 was.

[Macie Lightfoot]

BB3 for the US version, BB11 for the UK version

[lily.]

..right from the first one..my favourite was Anna but Craig was a great winner as well...

I liked Anna... I also liked Darren... he was funny with the chickens.. :)

.. and Tom... I fancied him. lol

[MattHooper]

In and out since BB9 but not properly until BB13

[Jamesy]

Saw a bit of BB5 when my parents watched it, then BB6 was my first proper series.

[Ammi]

I liked Anna... I also liked Darren... he was funny with the chickens.. :)

...haha..Marjorie..:flutter:..yeah I liked Darren as well..it was also good that they had something to do..(although some housemates hated doing the chickens..)..like caring for something and to focus on but I guess that made for less drama and arguments...I'm not sure that Nasty Nick would seem so nasty now because they all have such contact from outside anyway and it's less a thing to discuss or being seen to influence nominations...

[Lostie!]

BB7 was when I first started properly watching. :)

[Babayaro.]

BB12 :umm2:

[Raph]

BB7, 2006

[Northern Monkey]

...haha..Marjorie..:flutter:..yeah I liked Darren as well..it was also good that they had something to do..(although some housemates hated doing the chickens..)..like caring for something and to focus on but I guess that made for less drama and arguments...I'm not sure that Nasty Nick would seem so nasty now because they all have such contact from outside anyway and it's less a thing to discuss or being seen to influence nominations...

I know right.I remember when writing anything down in there deserved capitol punishment.Nasty nick would'nt even be noticed these days.Back when no outside contact meant you could'nt even communicate to the outside via the cameras.

[Jason.]

BB5.

I remember seeing the promo for Black Friday, and Big Brother Goes Evil, as it was advertised with the last ever Friends.

Originally, I was planning to only watch the last ever Friends, but I left it on Channel 4 after Friends, and the launch was on, and I remember Marco entering, saying he hated Asylum seekers in his VT, then for them to put Ahmed in afterwards, who's an asylum seeker, who also hates gay people. I knew it would be electric after that, and I was intrigued so continued to watch the rest of the launch, and loved it. And have been a BB fan since.

[rionablue]

2002 I didn't have the channel up to then. I said after a few years, I am not going to watch this anymore as it is taking up my whole summer but years later I am still an addict lol

[Adamw92]

BB1

[Heaven = Winner]

BB10 was the first Big Brother that I properly remember watching.

[Morgan.]

I watched the 12pm clean reruns of BB11, then watched HL reruns of UBB, and the live shows live. Since then I have watched it all live.

In 2014 I went on holiday for a week so used all my €1 for 10 minutes of internet each evening to watch all of the clips and see who left. It was the week Zoe left and she was my 2nd fave so I literally went back to the apartment, put my head under the pillow and almost cried.

[erinp5]

Day 1 .

[TomC]

Last year - watched an episode one night as there was nothing else on and stuck with it for the remaining 7 weeks of the series.

Only when I went back and watched some Classic C4 series did I realise what a load a sh*t BB15 was!

[Flamingjoe]

I started around halfway through BB10 because my sister watched it. I've obviously gone and watched every old series before that.

[VanessaFeltz.]

bb15 (2014) :S

[zakman440]

Posted this in another thread, but I watched the last few weeks of BB7, 8, 9 & 10 (I used to go on holiday to Spain in the summer so I couldn't watch the full series). BB11 was the first full series that I watched, and I loved it. I remember skipping quite a lot of BB12 as it clashed with X Factor, but I watched the full series of BB13 and every series since. I was 8 when I first watched an episode of Big Brother!

[cookiemonster]

bb5, and what a series that was

back when there was live feed all day. i did spend far too long watching it though

[mizzy25]

A tiny bit of bb1 but got addicted bb2

[jennyjuniper]

I think it did exist in Denmark...

No the Danish BB started in 2001. The Dutch one started in 1999 though.

[Suze]

BB5.

I remember seeing the promo for Black Friday, and Big Brother Goes Evil, as it was advertised with the last ever Friends.

Originally, I was planning to only watch the last ever Friends, but I left it on Channel 4 after Friends, and the launch was on, and I remember Marco entering, saying he hated Asylum seekers in his VT, then for them to put Ahmed in afterwards, who's an asylum seeker, who also hates gay people. I knew it would be electric after that, and I was intrigued so continued to watch the rest of the launch, and loved it. And have been a BB fan since.

Then you will remember the housemates feeling sorry for Kitten then practically shoving Kitten out the door as the prize money went down :laugh2:

[ruiphillips]

BB1

[y.winter]

BB11 online in 2011, since then I've been doing "anuual maratons" watching each year from C5 regular series till January CBB, filling the gap inbetween with a random C4 series (still haven't finished all C4s).

[Beetlejuice]

Came in one night and flicked through the channels and saw Dean, Bubble, Amma and I think Narrinder up in the early hours keeping a camp fire going. Started to like them so I continued watching.

The importance of the live feed...

[BigBrotherfan4ever]

BB1 - 2000

[Doogle]

2010 - CBB7 and then BB11, UBB

[Drew.]

I can't even remember.. i watched bits of the older series when i was younger. I think BB5 is one of the first ones i really got into.

[Jack_]

BB6, it's almost been ten years since I started watching.

Me and my mum were flicking through the channels one night trying to find something to watch and I came across the launch night and Davina doing her house tour and I fell in love with it all straight away and was hooked ever since. I remember I used to see Big Brother listed in the TV mag as a kid maybe in the BB3/4/5 days and the synopsis about seeing 'what the housemates are up to' made me think it was some kind of drama :laugh:

[iRyan]

I watched bits and pieces of BB7 online when it was airing because I was fascinated by Nikki's antics. Then I properly watched that in full in 2010. 2011 was the first series I watched live as it happened.

[mrmattybeck1]

Bb5 watched the launch show my mum had watched since the beggining she loved it after i watched the launch I've been hooked ever since

[Benjamin]

From the start

[mrmattybeck1]

I miss the live feed so much through its badly needed

[mrmattybeck1]

Weird to think some have only watched properly since the c5 era a great mix of ages still watch this show hint c5 :)

[Benjamin]

God I remember all the hype about BB before it first started in 2000 :flutter:

[mrmattybeck1]

God I remember all the hype about BB before it first started in 2000 :flutter:
And the critics slagged it off before it began :(

[Firewire]

I watched bits of BB6, have seen some episodes so I guess I started in 2005. First full series was CBB4 and then BB7.

[lily.]

Quite an interesting result in this poll so far.

[Razor]

First series

[aman201]

End of BB1/Start of BB2.

[andybigbro]

I watched The finale of BB2 and decided to watch BB3 the next year.

[Rob!]

BB5. End of friends, my auntie kept it on because she was intrigued to watch the launch. She's only watched it in the first two years and was really disdainful about it, but I was hooked. After she'd gone to bed, I snuck downstairs and watched live feed till I feel asleep on the sofa. :flutter:

[newsbb]

at bb9

[Josiah.]

BB12 for the UK, BB13 for the U.S.

[Jords]

I was very young... saw bits of BB3 and BB4 but BB5 was my first full series.

[Niamh.]

BB1 but I didn't love BB until BB2

[Mike]

From BB3 onwards. Always had people telling me to watch it etc so did and been hooked ever since. Favourite series being BB5.

[Gillian-73]

From the very beginning!!

[aj2463]

BB2, but wasn't too into it, got more into BB3