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Originally Posted by JohnnyBB

There are twelve basic rules regarding life inside the Big Brother House. They are set out in their simplest terms below. Details regarding the rules are set out in more detail later in the document. In agreeing to take part in Big Brother you agree to abide by the rules.

1. There is no contact with the outside world. This includes the internet, newspapers, phone calls and conversations with anyone outside the House except for Big Brother.

2. You are filmed 24 hours a day and must wear your personal microphones at all times.

3. The Diary Room is the only place in the House where Big Brother will engage in a conversation with you. Visits to the Diary Room are compulsory.

4. When requested you will be required to go to the Diary Room and nominate - you must give frank and honest reasons for your nominations. You are not permitted to discuss your nominations or try to influence anyone else's nominations.

5. The public will decide who is evicted.

6. You must not threaten or use physical violence towards any other Housemate.

7. Big Brother will intervene and may remove you from the House if you break the rules, threaten or use physical violence, or behave in an unacceptable way that could cause serious offence to any other Housemate or to the viewing public.

8. All tasks are compulsory.

9. You may not move any of the furniture, or tamper with any of the fixtures and fittings.

10. You must get up whenever you hear the alarm.

11. You may not discuss any previous series of Big Brother or Celebrity Big Brother or Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack. You may not discuss any members of the Production.

12. Big Brother reserves the right to change the rules at any time.

NO CONTACT WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD


While you are in the House you will have no contact with the outside world - no telephones, television, radio, computers, newspapers, magazines etc. Big Brother will never discuss with Housemates how they're shown on television, how they're being represented in other forms of media, or anything else that has happened in the outside world. Big Brother will not enter into any negotiations about what actions, conversations or events in the House will be shown on television.

Big Brother will not discuss anything that may be going on in the outside world with Housemates.

Housemates are not permitted to make any attempts to communicate personal messages to anyone in the outside world by any means (this includes verbal messages, written messages or symbols). You may not make any attempt to communicate personal messages to the outside world when you know that Big Brother is broadcasting live. Big Brother does not guarantee that anything said in the Diary Room will be broadcast. If Big Brother deems that you have attempted to communicate with the outside world, Big Brother will take appropriate action.

Big Brother will exercise the utmost care to ensure that intrusions do not occur. If there is any sort of breach of security, Housemates must follow the following procedures for their own safety.

- Housemates must ignore any noise they hear from outside the Big Brother compound.

- If any objects appear in the garden the Housemates MUST NOT touch or go near them.

- If people appear in the garden the Housemates MUST NOT communicate with them.

- In the event of any of the above occurrences Housemates must make their way immediately inside the House and close the patio doors, even if not specifically asked to do so by Big Brother. One member of the group must go immediately to the Diary Room to inform Big Brother so that security guards can remove the items/intruders.

The only exceptions to the rules about no contact with the outside world are set out in the EMERGENCIES section later in this document.
FILMING & PERSONAL MICROPHONES


It is a fundamental principle of Big Brother that everything you say or do in the Big Brother House may be recorded.

It is strictly against the Rules to interfere for any reason with the camera or sound equipment installed in the House and garden or to do anything that may hinder the working of the equipment in any way (this includes tapping, scratching or covering microphones or obscuring the view of cameras).

You will be required to wear a personal microphone at all times except for when you are asleep in bed, taking a shower or bathing in water. Wearing a microphone is compulsory for every Housemate.

There are also microphones positioned above the beds. Housemates must sleep at the allocated end of the bed. Radio microphones can be taken off while sleeping at night but they must be placed in the spaces provided by the beds. Housemates must not take off their microphones while lying on the beds at any other time.

When washing or showering you must wear your microphones to the wash areas. Microphones must be put on again immediately afterwards, as soon as you are dry, regardless of whether or not you are fully dressed. Spaces for microphones are provided near showering and bathing areas.

Never enter water wearing a microphone. Please avoid getting your microphone wet.

The microphones are very delicate and expensive pieces of equipment. They must be worn in accordance with the information you were given before you entered the House. Fiddling or tampering with them, or refusing to wear them, can result in ejection from the House. The cable is delicate and thin and the weight of the transmitter must not be suspended from the cable. Pouches will be provided to ensure that they can be worn safely. You will each be allocated a pouch. Please make sure you do not lose it.

You will be asked to change the batteries for the microphones twice each day. When given the fresh batteries you must do this immediately.

If you think for any reason that you may have broken or damaged your microphone you must report it to Big Brother immediately.
THE DIARY ROOM


The Diary Room is provided for you and your fellow Housemates to share your experiences with Big Brother. As it is an important part of life in the Big Brother House, it is compulsory for all Housemates to come to the Diary Room when specifically requested to do so by Big Brother. You are also free to come and talk to Big Brother in the Diary Room, at any time.

The Diary Room is a confidential room where you will make your nominations, you can vent your frustrations and share your concerns and your feelings, safe in the knowledge that they will not be overheard by the other Housemates. For this reason, Big Brother will expect you to keep all conversations in the Diary Room confidential. When Big Brother does ask you to pass on information to other Housemates written instructions may be provided for you to read aloud.

Housemates may only enter the Hallway when going to and from the Diary Room. It is against the rules for Housemates to remain in the Hallway while another Housemate is in the Diary Room. Housemates are not allowed to remain in the Hallway after leaving the Diary Room. Big Brother will not conduct a conversation in the Diary Room with any Housemate until the Hallway is empty.

Images of live conversations in the Diary Room will not be streamed on E4 unless the Diary Room is being used as the integral part of a task. In addition, the following rules apply:

- The Diary Room is the only place in the House that Big Brother will engage in a conversation with Housemates or acknowledge what they say.

- Smoking and eating is not allowed in the Diary Room at any time.

- You may not wear sunglasses or hats in the Diary Room, unless medically required and pre-arranged with Big Brother before entering the House.

- The Diary Room is essentially designed for the comfort of one person. Although it is not forbidden for more than one Housemate to enter the Diary Room, if two or more enter the Diary Room at the same time, Big Brother may request that one or more housemates should leave so that a private conversation may take place.

- The Diary Room can only be entered if there is no one else in the room. If you wish to enter you should press the button ONCE (there will be no sound). Big Brother may not always respond to your request to enter the Diary Room immediately. The door will be locked while you are in the room so that no one else is able to enter and intrude on your conversations with Big Brother (a green and red light will indicate when the door is locked/unlocked).

- Big Brother can also call individual Housemates in to the Diary Room to talk. Housemates must come promptly when called - failure to do so could result in ejection.

- New batteries for the radio mics will normally be placed in the Diary Room twice a day.

- Big Brother may not always answer questions immediately. Big Brother will not answer personal or general knowledge questions.

- If a Housemate decides to leave voluntarily, they must explain their reasons in the Diary Room.

- Occasionally Housemates may need minor medical treatment (e.g. dentist). On these occasions professionals will usually treat them in the Diary Room. It is prohibited to try and seek information about the outside world from these professionals.

- If a Housemate is having a consultation with the psychologist (either at their request or at the suggestion of Big Brother) then this conversation will be confidential. It will not be recorded or broadcast, and members of the production team will not be able to hear or see the consultation.

THE NOMINATION & EVICTION PROCESS


The people who enter the Big Brother House do so completely voluntarily. However, for security reasons the front door is locked remotely. Housemates leave the House in one of three ways: they may be evicted; they can leave of their own free will; or they may be required to leave by Big Brother.

The normal way for Housemates to leave the House will be through the nomination and eviction process.
NOMINATIONS


Every week you must nominate two fellow Housemates for eviction, giving your full and frank reasons to Big Brother in the Diary Room. If you or any Housemate does not give frank and valid reasons for nomination� this includes the excuse that you get on better with other Housemates than the person you are nominating, or that you have nothing in common with the person that you are nominating - , Big Brother reserves the right to issue a punishment.

If you persist in giving invalid reasons for your nominations, you may be asked to leave the Big Brother House and may be replaced with a standby Housemate.

Housemates are not allowed to nominate themselves or an inanimate object.

Times and days of nominations may be changed without notice.

The two or more Housemates who receive the most nominations will face the public eviction vote that week. The minimum number of people available for eviction each week may be changed without notice.

In the event that any Housemate refuses to comply with these rules Big Brother reserves the right to issue a punishment the most serious of which would be ejection from the House.

The results of Nominations will be announced at Big Brother's discretion.

NB. Big Brother reserves the right to change the frequency or number of evictions at any time.
DISCUSSION OF NOMINATIONS


It is against the rules for Housemates to discuss their nominations with each other. This includes:

- Any discussion with another Housemate that could be interpreted as a deliberate attempt to influence their nominations.

- Discussing or hinting at who you might nominate in the future or have nominated in previous weeks.
- Predicting or guessing who may be nominated.

- Discussing the reasons you might use for nominating someone for eviction.

- Asking or intimating fellow Housemates to nominate you.

- Writing down or using materials at your disposal to form names, initials or other symbols - this is why the use of pens, pencils or any written communication is strictly against the rules.

- Any conversation, which Big Brother deems to be a coded discussion or any other method of hidden communication relating to nominations e.g. writing initials with your finger.

To clarify, as Housemates, you are free at any time to talk to each other about how you feel about your fellow Housemates - what you like and don't like about them - but NOT as part of a discussion about nominations.

It is entirely at Big Brother's discretion to determine whether the nominations rules have been breached and what punishment to bestow.
EVICTIONS






Big Brother's decision is final.

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