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Over One Million Viewers Vote in the First Big Brother Eviction


During tonight’s 8.30pm show, the housemates finally learnt that one of them would be leaving the house tonight. DAVINA McCALL informed the shocked housemates that the nation had been voting all week to select two nominees for eviction. Which one, was entirely up to them.

By the time phone lines closed at 8pm this evening, 1,214,014 viewers had nominated*.

Of the votes cast, 509,062 (42%) chose Jade and 303,770 (25%) chose to evict Lynne.

Of the total votes cast, 70% (853,643) were made by phone, 27.5% (333,082) were made up of interactive votes and 2.5% (27,289) were made by text.

Jade and Lynne were immediately asked to go to the boys bedroom whilst the remaining housemates had the agonising task of deciding between them live on air. They had only 3 minutes to make their decision. Once the decision was made, Kate, the chosen spokesperson for the group, went into the diary room to tell Big Brother their decision. They had decided unanimously on Lynne.

Davina then informed the whole house of the decision. On hearing the news Lynne said, “I’m fine. It’s not a problem” whilst Jade burst into floods of tears. But Lynne stayed dry-eyed saying “it’ll take a lot more than that to make me cry”.

Lynne will be leaving the Big Brother House at 10.00pm this evening.

* Excluding votes cast for Sunita.