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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 a 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.

Each weekly task will generally be set on a Sunday and resolved over the following days. 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 out if 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 behaviour, or damage the house or its contents.

Housemates who leave voluntarily, or who have been asked to leave, may be replaced at Big Brother’s discretion.

The Eviction Process
Every Monday 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 nominations 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’s 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.

Big Brother reserves the right to change the frequency, times and details of nominations and evictions at any time.