'BIG Brother' The reality show BIG time

Interesting snippets from the Reality Show 'Big Brother'

* Besides 'Big Boss' the other 'Big Brother' adaptations include 'Celebrity Big Brother', 'Big Brother VIP' and 'Teen Big Brother'.
* There are 5 pan-regional versions of 'Big Brother', ie. contestants come from different countries. They versions are Africa, Balkans, Middle-East, pacific and Scandinavia.
* Jade Dyer and Tommy Wright from the show 'Teen Big Brother' became the first contestants from UK to be involved in a real-life sexual act.
* The German version 'Das Dorf' lit. 'Big Brother' ended after 363 days. In contests were in a small artificial town that had a dummy church, a marketplace, a pub, a match arena, fitness room, 3 houses and 3 working places.
* In the Dutch version the House is divided into a luxurious half and a poor half. here two teams of housemates fight to spend time on the luxurious half.
Big Brother Facts
* First Big Brother - Netherlands 1999
* First Big Brother VIP - Netherlands 2000
* First Big Brother mole - Silvia Leder, Germany
* Shortest Big Brother - 6 days, Sweden
* Most successive times of eviction survived - 11 Taitiana Madureira, Portugal
* Oldest Big Brother winner - Bill Flynn, 53, South Africa
* First pregnant housemate - Michelle, South Africa
* First Big brother with Teenage contestants - UK 2003
* First 'Evil' Big Brother - UK 2004
* Oldest contestant - Jackie Stallone, 81, UK 2005
* First to contest in two different countries - Brigitte Nielsen, Denmark 2003 and Uk 2005
* Youngest contestant - Aldred Gatchalian, 15 years, 10 months and 12 days, Philippines 2006