Big Brother: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Big Brother Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
LIVE Launch Show
May 28, 2004
In this, the totally LIVE Launch Programme of Big Brother 5, Davina introduces us to all 12 brand new contestants. And it couldn't be a more controversial list. A transsexual, a le
LIVE Task
May 29, 2004
The 12 new contestants face their first task, live. And to their surprise, just two days into the show the housemates made their first votes. All of them voted for the person they
Day 1/2 Highlights
May 30, 2004
An hour long highlights programme, airing the most memorable moments from the first two days in the house. They include the contestant's entering their new home and their first nig
Day 3 Highlights
May 31, 2004
In the first of the half hour highlight shows in the series, a selection of the best moments from Day 3. They include extrovert Jason cooking the meal, with nothing but a chef's ap
Day 4 Highlights
Jun 1, 2004
The housemates continued their attempted rebelling, when Stuart came up with the idea of nominating the two housemates at the time that was right for them. Kitten then went on to n
Day 5 Highlights
Jun 2, 2004
Kitten continues to challenge Big Brother's authority when she pulls the alcohol fridge out from the kitchen and proceeds to try and remove the lock on it. Her actions result in a
Day 6 Highlights
Jun 3, 2004
In an especially extended episode, to cover all of Day 6's incredible action, Big Brother makes a shocking announcement that none of the contestants wants to hear. After writing of
LIVE Show: Day 7 Highlights & Pre-Eviction
Jun 4, 2004
After a night of fun and games, the housemates were reminded that Big Brother was in control. Big Brother had stated that one Housemate would be evicted because of Kitten's contin
LIVE Show: Eviction
Jun 4, 2004
The Saturday Night Task featured the 11 Housemates taking part in a task that could cost them to loose up to £9,000 of their Cash Price. The housemates were told to choose the most
Day 8/9 Highlights
Jun 6, 2004
Highlights from the second weekend in the Big Brother House. The build up to Kitten's eviction is profiled, including one of her last protests. Demanding more alcohol, better food
Day 10 Highlights
Jun 7, 2004
The Drama continued in the Big Brother house with yet another outburst between two of the Housemates, by Emma walking in on Victor on the toilet. Meanwhile, a relationship betwee
Day 11 Highlights
Jun 8, 2004
This Episode marked the Housemates first Nominations in the Big Brother House. But this week, Big Brother will create another twist, as the two housemates chosen to leave the hou
Day 12 Highlights
Jun 9, 2004
The housemates are told the results of the first nominations by Big Brother. Michelle takes the news badly and cries twice during the day, to be comforted by Nadia and Marco and la
Day 13 Highlights
Jun 10, 2004
Ahmed completely loses his temper when the wake-up call [the sound of a car alarm going off] pushes him over the edge. In a fit of rage, he throws a stack of china plates, making t
LIVE Show: Fake Eviction
Jun 11, 2004
In a first for the UK Edition of Big Brother, a "fake" eviction was staged. Davina guides the viewers around what will become, for the two "evicted" contestants, their new home for
LIVE Task
Jun 12, 2004
The 9 remaining housemates get ready for their 3rd live Saturday task. The housemates were gathered in the living room where a housemate was told to read envelope 1 to the rest of
Day 15/16 Highlights
Jun 13, 2004
Big Brother gets evil, with the introduction of the bedsit. Before the pending eviction, Michelle and Marco discuss their other contestants and who they think is ""playing a game""
Day 17 Highlights
Jun 14, 2004
The bedsit duo, Emma and Michelle are set a task by Big Brother. They must pick one of their fellow housemates to receive cool showers. For all of the day, the housemate they pick
Day 18 Highlights
Jun 15, 2004
The contestants make their all-important nominations for the second time. After receiving the most votes from their housemates, it's Vanessa and Daniel who will be facing the chop.
LIVE Show: Day 19 Highlights
Jun 16, 2004
In this special episode, the bedsit duo return to the house. Informed by Big Brother, the other contestants believe they are just enjoying a special fancy dress party. Special it w
Day 20 Highlights
Jun 17, 2004
On the night June 16th 2004, Day 20 of the fifth season of Big Brother UK, an argument broke out on a scale never before witnessed in the reality show. This episode, especially ext
Day 21 Highlights
Jun 18, 2004
Davina McCall hosts the LIVE Friday night programme, but only this time there is no crowd and no eviction. When events in the house took a sensational turn during the week, Big Bro
Day 22 Highlights
Jun 19, 2004
Highlights from Day 22 in the Big Brother House. The contestants continue to speculate about what has happened to Emma and wonder if she's been ejected or not, following events on
LIVE Show: Day 23 Highlights & Emma Interview
Jun 20, 2004
The contestants are told of Emma's departure from the house. After some silence, out of respect for their friend, the contestants pretty much end in agreement that it might be for
Day 24 Highlights
Jun 21, 2004
In the first of the Psychoanalysis programme's of Season Five, the resident Big Brother psychologists analyse and comment on the housemate's behaviour over the past 24 hours, and r
Day 25 Highlights
Jun 22, 2004
With no nominations due to the delayed eviction, their is a positive and cheerful mood in the house. Big Brother sets the contestants a new challenge. They must all make a clay cas
Day 26 Highlights
Jun 23, 2004
The housemates are set another task for the day. They must, in groups of two, put on a play about their time in the house and their Big Brother experiences. Vanessa vents her annoy
Day 27 Highlights
Jun 24, 2004
While the Housemates did their weekly shopping list, Stuart noticed that there was a Cowboy Hat priced at £20.00. He gave up hope in buying it, until Big Brother informed him that
LIVE Show: Day 28 Highlights & Pre-Eviction
Jun 25, 2004
In the first true eviction night of Big Brother 2004, house beauty Vanessa was shown the door by the public. Highlights from the past 24 hours in the house were aired in the first
LIVE Task
Jun 26, 2004
Tonight's live task risks another £10,000 of the housemate's remaining £77,000 prize fund in a game of intelligence, skill and strength called Big Brother's Human Games Challenge.
Day 29/30 Highlights
Jun 27, 2004
The housemates reacted badly when they heard the abuse that Vanessa had received from the crowd. And for the first time since Big Brother started, Jason was the first to go to bed.
Day 31 Highlights
Jun 28, 2004
Big Brother's resident psychologists delve deeper into the housemates thoughts and emotions, and give viewers at home a unique insight into how the contestants are really feeling.
Day 32 Highlights
Jun 29, 2004
Jason was given his 2nd official Warning from Big Brother, as he left the seating area during Nominations. Jason and Ahmed spoke to the housemates after wards, explaining that they
Day 33 Highlights
Jun 30, 2004
The Housemates received the news of the Nominated housemates. Which caused all three of the Harem to react in different ways. At first, Michelle demanded that Big Brother would l
Day 34 Highlights
Jul 1, 2004
For the third part of the Weekly Task, the Housemates had to write a song, in which they would then perform. The housemates were split in to two groups, and both successfully compl
LIVE Show: Day 35 Highlights & Pre-Eviction
Jul 2, 2004
Marco was the 4th Housemate to leave the Big Brother House. Which now leaves just Michelle and Nadia as the remaining members of the Harem. Meanwhile, Jason, Victor and Ahmed wer
Day 37 Highlights
Jul 4, 2004
This weeks Saturday Challenge featured 8 of the Housemates taking part in a Cow & Farmer Race. Dan chose who would be the farmers and who would be the cows. All of the housemates c
Day 39 Highlights
Jul 6, 2004
An aeroplane, sponsored by tabloid newspaper The Sun, flies over the house, and the housemates see it's banner that reads 'Only Becki Nominated Michelle!'. The contestants are conf
Day 40 Highlights
Jul 7, 2004
Big Brother reveals to the housemates which of them will be facing eviction in the sixth week. Ahmed and Becki are told they will face possible eviction on Friday. Ahmed, having as
LIVE Show: Day 42 Highlights & Pre-Eviction
Jul 9, 2004
In the fourth public vote of the season, viewers at home decided that new girl Becki Seddiki should leave the Big Brother House. Before the important announcement was made, several
Day 43 Highlights
Jul 10, 2004
Highlights from Eviction Day in the Big Brother house. Becki and Ahmed await news of their fate in the house. Becki says to both the group and Big Brother in the Diary Room she doe
Day 45 Highlights
Jul 12, 2004
The housemates continue their weekly task, in which the house has been transformed into the Big Brother Boot Camp. The housemates are becoming increasingly annoyed with Ahmed's ref
Day 48 Highlights
Jul 15, 2004
The contestants are told of the huge twist in nominations in this, the seventh week of Big Brother. For three days they struggled on with their Boot Camp Task, with the best intent
LIVE Show: Day 49 Highlights & Pre-Eviction
Jul 16, 2004
It's the public's fifth chance to evict another housemate. As usual, Davina McCall presides over the evening's events. Highlights from the previous 24 hours in the house include on
Day 51 Highlights
Jul 18, 2004
Resident Psychologic Experts analyse further the contestants behaviour in these final weeks of the programme and as end-game begins. As talk moves to the final night, and possibili
Day 52 Highlights
Jul 19, 2004
Shell and Michelle are freaked out by a large spider they discover in the bedroom and Stuart 'rescues' them from the unwanted visitor. Nadia is upset, and speaks to Big Brother in
LIVE Show: Day 56 Highlights & Pre-Eviction
Jul 23, 2004
In tonight's eviction, Victor was told that he had become to 6th housemate to be evicted from the big brother house. While Jason was gutted that he was evicted, Dan was surprised a
Day 61 Highlights
Jul 28, 2004
Housemates learn the secret, that all of them faced the public vote. Davina finally announces the result, as Michelle becomes the 7th housemate to be evicted from the big brother h
Day 64 Highlights
Jul 31, 2004
Highlights from Day 64 in the house, during which previous favourite to win, Michelle, was surprisingly booted out by the viewers. The housemates are also told all of them had face
Day 67 Highlights
Aug 3, 2004
Monday highlights saw Big brother playing with the housemates minds, as early in the morning, Big brother informed housemates the store room is now open with their suitcases, and m
LIVE Show: Day 68 Highlights & Pre-Eviction
Aug 4, 2004
A quick update of Tuesday, saw the housemates pay for their refusal of nominating, as they were shown nominations, their fellow housemates made. Shell was slightly upset over Stuar
LIVE Finale (Part 1)
Aug 6, 2004
After ten weeks of bitching, rowing, romance, passion, scheming and just about everything else in between, Big Brother 5 finally comes to a close in the biggest Reality TV finale o
LIVE Finale (Part 2)
Aug 6, 2004
After ten weeks of bitching, rowing, romance, passion, scheming and just about everything else in between, Big Brother 5 finally comes to a close in the biggest Reality TV finale o