Big Brother is an Australian reality television show, and is the Australian version of the Big Brother franchise. Contestants are referred to as "housemates," and live together in a specially constructed house that is isolated from the outside world. The housemates are continuously monitored during their stay in the house by live television cameras as well as personal audio microphones. Throughout the course of the competition, housemates are evicted from the house. The last remaining housemate wins the competition and is awarded a cash prize. The series began airing in 2001, and as of 2023, 15 seasons and 2 spin-off seasons have been broadcast.^[1]

As of Big Brother 15, there have been a total of 291 civilian housemates, 12 Celebrity Big Brother housemates and 12 Big Brother VIP; 10 of which have been housemates on two seasons. There have been 14 winners of Big Brother; ten men and three women (with one woman winning twice), whilst the winners of Celebrity Big Brother and Big Brother VIP were both men.^[2] The youngest winner is Aleisha Lee Cowcher, who was 20 at the time of winning Big Brother 7, and the oldest is Terri Munro, who was 52 when she won Big Brother 8.^[3][4]

Housemates

Key

  Winner

  Runner-up

  Third place

  Walked

  Ejected

  Housemate entered for the second time

Series Housemate Age Hometown Status 1 Benjamin "Ben" Williams 21 Epping, Victoria 1st – Winner Blair McDonough 19 Melbourne, Victoria 2nd – Runner-up Sara-Marie Fedele 22 Perth, Western Australia 3rd – Evicted Christina Davis 27 Sydney, New South Wales 4th – Evicted Jemma Gawned 26 Melbourne, Victoria 5th – Evicted John "Johnnie" Cass 30 Sydney, New South Wales 6th – Evicted Anita Bloomfield 22 Sydney, New South Wales 7th – Evicted Peter Timbs 28 Sydney, New South Wales 8th – Evicted Lisa Standing 24 Melbourne, Victoria 9th – Evicted Rachel Corbett 20 Sydney, New South Wales 10th – Evicted Gordon Sloan 28 Melbourne, Victoria 11th – Evicted Todd James 27 Melbourne, Victoria 12th – Evicted Sharna West 34 Melbourne, Victoria 13th – Evicted Andrea "Andy" Silva 25 Sydney, New South Wales 14th – Evicted 2 Peter Corbett 23 Wollongong, New South Wales 1st – Winner Nathan "Marty" Martin 20 Toodyay, Western Australia 2nd – Runner-up Sahra Kearney 23 3rd – Evicted Jessica Hardy 24 Tweed Heads, New South Wales 4th – Evicted Kieran Tanner 24 Sydney 5th – Evicted Mirabai Peart 21 6th – Evicted Alex Christie 30 Melbourne 7th – Evicted Nathan Morris 25 Perth, Western Australia 8th – Evicted Brodie Young 24 Melbourne 9th – Evicted Turkan Aksoy 30 Sydney 10th – Evicted Nicole Dickmann 23 Adelaide, South Australia 11th – Evicted Shannon Cleary 31 Sydney 12th – Evicted Aaron Benton 24 Wagga Wagga, New South Wales 13th – Evicted Katrina Miani 21 Melbourne 14th – Evicted Damian Hoo 21 Sydney 15th – Evicted 3 Regina Bird 29 Cambridge, Tasmania 1st – Winner Chrissie Swan 29 Melbourne, Victoria 2nd – Runner-up Daniel McInness 28 Adelaide, South Australia 3rd – Evicted Patrick Flanagan 29 Sydney 4th – Evicted Vincent Amato 29 Melbourne 5th – Evicted Jamie O'Brien 22 Melbourne 6th – Evicted Kim Drury 21 Armadale, Western Australia 7th – Evicted Daniel "Saxon" Small 19 Central Coast, New South Wales 8th – Evicted Joanne Ashton 23 Adelaide, South Australia 9th – Evicted Claire Bellis 24 Gold Coast, Queensland 10th – Evicted Benjamin "Ben" Archbold 28 11th – Evicted Belinda Thorpe 20 Queensland 12th – Walked Leah White 18 13th – Evicted Carlo Marino 21 14th – Evicted Jaime Cerda 18 Melbourne 15th – Evicted Irena Bukhshtaber 29 16th – Evicted 4 Trevor Butler 30 Broken Hill, New South Wales 1st – Winner Bree Amer 21 Gold Coast, Queensland 2nd – Runner-up Paul Dyer 31 Victoria 3rd – Evicted Ryan Fitzgerald 27 Adelaide, South Australia 4th – Evicted Catherine Tremolada 33 Albion Park, New South Wales 5th – Evicted Ashalea McWalters 19 Perth, Western Australia 6th – Evicted Monica De Bolso 32 New South Wales 7th – Evicted Wesley Dening 20 Brisbane, Queensland 8th – Evicted Violeta Black 20 Melbourne 9th – Evicted Kane Dignum 20 Queensland 10th – Evicted Terri Mann 31 Western Australia 11th – Evicted Merlin Luck 23 New South Wales 12th – Evicted Bree "Elle" Quartermaine 22 Western Australia 13th – Evicted Krystal Ince 20 Queensland 14th – Evicted Igor Vurmeski 27 Melbourne 15th – Evicted Aphrodite Vuitton 25 16th – Evicted 5 David and Greg "Logan" Matthew 23 Wagga Wagga, New South Wales 1st – Winner Tim Brunero 27 Sydney 2nd – Runner-up Vesna Tofevski 27 Melbourne 3rd – Evicted Melanie Smerdon 19 Adelaide, South Australia 4th – Evicted Richelle "Kate" Benson 21 Perth, Western Australia 5th – Evicted Christie Mills 19 Gold Coast, Queensland 6th – Evicted Rita Lazzarotto 29 7th – Evicted Dean Glucina 24 Melbourne 8th – Evicted Simon "Hotdogs" Deering 27 Western Australia 9th – Evicted Heath Tournier 20 Grovedale, Victoria 10th – Evicted Glenn Dallinger 21 Stawell, Victoria 11th – Evicted Geneva Loader 19 Sydney 12th – Evicted Rachael Burns 21 13th – Evicted Michelle Carew-Gibson 24 Queensland 14th – Evicted Michael Farnsworth 27 New South Wales 15th – Evicted Jane "Gianna" Pattison 24 South Australia 16th – Evicted Angela Aiken 29 Victoria 17th – Evicted Nelson Russell 23 Queensland 18th – Evicted Constance Hall 21 Melbourne 19th – Evicted 6 Jamie Brooksby 22 Claremont, Western Australia 1st – Winner Camilla Halliwell 22 Victoria 2nd – Runner-up David Graham 26 Goondiwindi, Queensland 3rd – Evicted James "Max" Panebianco 20 Sydney 4th – Evicted Chris Everden 22 Sydney 5th – Evicted Krystal Forscutt 19 Batemans Bay, New South Wales 6th – Evicted Claire Madden 22 Sunshine Coast, Queensland 7th – Evicted Darren Bowley 24 Brisbane, Queensland 8th – Evicted Perry Apostolou 39 New South Wales 9th – Evicted Gaelan Walker 26 Melbourne 10th – Evicted Michael "Ashley" Cox 20 Rockingham, Western Australia 11th – Ejected Michael "John" Bric 20 Melbourne 12th – Ejected Rob Rigley 26 Wollongong, New South Wales 13th – Evicted Lauren Clayton 22 New South Wales 14th – Evicted Katie Hastings 19 Perth, Western Australia 15th – Evicted Danielle Foote 18 Adelaide, South Australia 16th – Evicted Dino Delic 21 Melbourne 17th – Evicted Shoshana "Jade" Stack 19 Penrith, New South Wales 18th – Evicted Michael McCoy 25 Sydney 19th – Evicted Anna Lind-Hansen 20 Melbourne 20th – Evicted Karen Forscutt 36 Batemans Bay, New South Wales 21st – Evicted Elise Chen 21 Sydney 22nd – Evicted Matilda "Tilli" Clapham 19 Adelaide, South Australia 23rd – Evicted 7 Aleisha Lee Cowcher 20 Cobram, Victoria 1st – Winner Zach Douglas 24 Echuca, Victoria 2nd – Runner-up Travis Perkins 32 Pakenham, Victoria 3rd – Evicted Chris "Billy" Bentley 23 Sydney 4th – Evicted Zak "Zoran" Vidinovski 23 Queensland 5th – Evicted Joel Scalzi 24 South Australia 6th – Evicted Daniela Da Silva Pola 24 Western Australia 7th – Evicted Michelle Olsen 33 Western Australia 8th – Evicted Jamie McDonald 29 Ballarat, Victoria 9th – Evicted Thomas Haynes 27 Western Australia 10th – Evicted Andrew Temment 28 Victoria 11th – Evicted Laura Haas 20 Tasmania 12th – Evicted Rebecca Dent 23 Queensland 13th – Evicted Emma Cornell 24 New South Wales 14th – Evicted Susannah Murray 30 Melbourne 15th – Evicted Nick Sady 25 Victoria 16th – Evicted Hayley Zalewski 24 Victoria 17th – Evicted Demet Sahan 25 Victoria 18th – Evicted Bodie Czeladka 24 Western Australia 19th – Evicted Theresa-Jane "TJ" Whitlock 22 Darwin, Northern Territory 20th – Evicted Kate Gladman 25 Geelong, Victoria 21st – Evicted Harrison Rhoades 20 Sydney 22nd – Evicted Kara Otter 18 New South Wales 23rd – Evicted Travers "Cruz" Chue 23 Queensland 24th – Evicted 8 Terri Munro 52 Sydney 1st – Winner Rory Ammon 21 Geelong, Victoria 2nd – Runner-up Benjamin "Ben" McCallum 19 Western Australia 3rd – Third place Alice Redwood 25 Bendigo, Victoria 4th – Evicted Travis Keyser 20 Sydney 5th – Evicted Edward "Cherry" Cherry 22 Gold Coast, Queensland 6th – Evicted Brigitte Stavaruk 20 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 7th – Evicted Bianca Benigno 18 Queensland 8th – Evicted Terrence Hardie 51 Perth, Western Australia 9th – Evicted Nobuyuki "Nobbi" Tanaka 21 Victoria 10th – Evicted Rhianna Baxter 25 New South Wales 11th – Evicted Renee Black 22 Dubbo, New South Wales 12th – Evicted Dixie Crawford 21 Dubbo, New South Wales 13th – Evicted David Tchappat 32 Gosford, New South Wales 14th – Evicted Nathan Strempel 27 South Australia 15th – Evicted Rebecca Morgan 22 Western Australia 16th – Evicted Saxon Pepper 22 South Australia 17th – Evicted Craig "Barney" Barnett 32 Western Australia 18th – Evicted Michael Crafter 26 Victoria 19th – Evicted Rima Hadchiti 25 Victoria 20th – Walked 9 Benjamin Norris 32 Melbourne 1st – Winner Layla Subritzky 24 Brisbane, Queensland/Hambleton, England 2nd – Runner-up Estelle Landy 24 Morwell, Victoria 3rd – Third place Michael Beveridge 26 Brisbane, Queensland 4th – Evicted Zoe Westgarth 23 New South Wales 5th – Evicted Sam Wallace 21 Gold Coast, Queensland/ Tamworth, New South Wales 6th – Evicted Stacey Wren 24 Sydney 7th – Evicted Angela (Angie) Murray 21 Gold Coast, Queensland 8th – Evicted Josh Moore 28 South Australia 9th – Walked Bradley Darke 19 Coraki, New South Wales 10th – Evicted Ava David 29 Victoria 11th – Evicted George Baramily 25 Western Australia 12th – Evicted Ray Baxter 25 Brisbane, Queensland 13th – Evicted Sarah Wentworth-Perry 30 Wagga Wagga, New South Wales 14th – Evicted Ryan Buckingham 22 Victoria 15th – Evicted Charne Louise 31 Gold Coast, Queensland 16th – Evicted 10 Tim Dormer 27 Sydney 1st – Winner Jade Albany Pietrantonio 22 Ballina, New South Wales 2nd – Runner-up Tahan Lew-Fatt 24 Darwin, Northern Territory 3rd – Third place Anthony "Drew" Drew 24 Victoria 4th – Evicted Alex "Boog" Roe 23 Melbourne, Victoria 5th – Evicted Ed Lower 26 Adelaide, South Australia / Melbourne 6th – Evicted Madaline Cogar 24 Sydney 7th – Evicted Mikkayla Mossop 24 New South Wales 8th – Evicted Benjamin "Ben" Zabel 30 Queensland 9th – Evicted Nathan Little 35 Victoria 10th – Walked Katie and Lucy Mercer 21 & 22 Perth, Western Australia 11th – Evicted Justynn Harcourt 33 New South Wales 12th – Evicted Tully Smyth 25 Sydney 13th – Evicted Matthew "Matt" Filippi 27 Sunshine Coast, Queensland 14th – Evicted Heidi Anderson 29 Newcastle, New South Wales 15th – Evicted Caleb Geppert 33 Melbourne 16th – Evicted Jasmin Aguilera 24 Victoria 17th – Evicted Xavier Holland 27 Victoria 18th – Evicted Rohan Mirchandaney 24 Melbourne 19th – Evicted Sharon Smith 41 Victoria 20th – Evicted 11 Ryan Ginns 26 Sydney 1st – Winner Travis Lunardi 24 Melbourne 2nd – Runner-up Skye Wheatley 20 Gold Coast, Queensland 3rd – Third place Priya Malik 27 Adelaide, South Australia 4th – Evicted Penny Higgs 30 Melbourne 5th – Evicted Lina Grant 24 Melbourne 6th – Evicted David Hodis 31 Sydney 7th – Evicted Ryan "Leo" Burke 30 Gold Coast, Queensland / Canada 8th – Evicted Richard Hordern-Gibbings 25 Sydney 9th – Evicted Tom Mackay 26 Sydney 10th – Evicted Kate "Cat" Law 31 Melbourne 11th – Evicted Aisha Mckinnon 22 Sydney / New Zealand 12th – Evicted Lawson Reeves 23 Perth, Western Australia 13th – Evicted Marina Rakovskaia 30 Adelaide, South Australia / Kazakhstan 14th – Evicted Jason Roses 26 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 15th – Evicted Sandra Nixon 30 Wagga Wagga, New South Wales 16th – Evicted Sam Bramham 26 Melbourne 17th – Evicted Lisa Clark 29 Sydney 18th – Evicted Jake Richardson 25 Brisbane, Queensland 19th – Evicted Katie Schepis 25 Sydney 20th – Evicted Dion Kallis 24 Brisbane, Queensland 21st – Evicted Gemma Kinghorn 29 Perth, Western Australia 22nd – Evicted 12 Chad Hurst 27 Campbelltown 1st – Winner Daniel Gorringe 27 Melbourne 2nd – Runner-up Sophie Budack 25 Darwin Mat Garrick 30 Broken Hill 4th – Evicted Sarah McDougal 19 Melbourne 5th – Evicted Kieran Davidson 21 Adelaide 6th – Walked Casey Mazzucchelli 25 Perth 7th – Evicted Marissa Rancan 61 Sydney 8th – Evicted Xavier Molyneux 23 Sydney 9th – Evicted Hannah Campbell 26 Perth 10th – Evicted Angela Clancy 37 Perth 11th – Evicted Shane Vincent 39 Tweed Heads, New South Wales 12th – Evicted Zoe George 39 Melbourne 13th – Evicted Garth Saville 50 Sydney 14th – Evicted Ian Joass 25 Perth 15th – Evicted Danni Keogh 34 Townsville 16th – Evicted Talia Rycroft-Sommariva 21 Adelaide 17th – Evicted SooBong Hwang 48 Adelaide 18th – Evicted Allan Liang 30 Sydney 19th – Evicted Laura Coriakula 25 Melbourne 20th – Evicted 13 Marley Biyendolo 25 Melbourne, Victoria 1st – Winner Christina Podolyan 21 Melbourne, Victoria 2nd – Runner-up Sarah Jane "SJ" Adams 65 Sydney, New South Wales Ari Kimber 22 Sydney, New South Wales 4th – Evicted Daniel Hayes 48 Geelong, Victoria 5th – Evicted Sid Pattni 34 Perth, Western Australia 6th - Evicted Adriana Fernandez 53 Wollongong, New South Wales 7th – Evicted Tilly Whitfeld 20 Sydney, New South Wales 8th – Evicted Charlotte McCristal 25 Melbourne, Victoria 9th – Evicted Mary Kalifatidis 55 Melbourne, Victoria 10th – Evicted Jess Trend 29 Melbourne, Victoria 11th – Evicted Brenton Balicki 31 Sydney, New South Wales 12th – Evicted Mitch Giles 26 Perth, Western Australia 13th – Evicted Gabe Christe 27 Brisbane, Queensland 14th – Walked Charlotte Hall 23 Brisbane, Queensland 15th – Evicted Alex McCristal 25 Melbourne, Victoria 16th – Evicted Katie Williams 26 Sydney, New South Wales 17th – Evicted Melissa McGorman 33 Cambrai, South Australia 18th – Evicted Nick Benton 29 Adelaide, South Australia 19th – Evicted Mitchell Spencer 26 Cairns, Queensland 20th – Evicted Carlos Castro 39 Perth, Western Australia 21st – Evicted Christopher Wayne 37 Brisbane, Queensland 22nd – Evicted Michael Brown 29 Perth, Western Australia 23rd – Evicted Renata Bubeniene 45 Adelaide, South Australia 24th – Evicted Lillian Ahenkan 26 Sydney, New South Wales 25th – Evicted Max Beattie 28 Gold Coast, Queensland 26th – Evicted 14 Regina "Reggie" Sorensen 48 Queensland 1st – Winner Johnson Ashak 25 Maroubra, New South Wales 2nd – Runner-up Taras Hrubyj-Piper 34 Bondi Beach/Clovelly, New South Wales Brenton Parkes 26 Sydney, New South Wales 4th – Evicted Aleisha Campbell 24 New South Wales 5th – Evicted Tim Dormer 37 Sydney, New South Wales 6th – Evicted Estelle Landy 33 Queensland 7th – Evicted Gabbie Keevill 22 Central Coast, New South Wales 8th – Evicted Jaycee Edwards 23 Perth, Western Australia 9th – Evicted Anthony Drew 33 Victoria 10th – Evicted Tully Smyth 34 Melbourne, Victoria 11th – Evicted Jules Rangiheuea 28 Sydney, New South Wales 12th – Evicted David "Dave" Graham 42 New South Wales 13th – Evicted Sam Manovski 31 Peregian Beach, Queensland 14th – Evicted Lulu Oliveira 39 Brisbane, Queensland 15th – Evicted Trevor Butler 48 Broken Hill, New South Wales 16th – Evicted Joel Notley 27 Newcastle, New South Wales 17th – Evicted Lara Phillips 52 Bateau Bay, New South Wales 18th – Evicted Layla Subritzky 34 Brisbane, Queensland 19th – Evicted Mel Todd 41 Melbourne, Victoria 20th – Evicted Josh Goudswaard 32 Byron Bay, New South Wales 21st – Evicted 15 Dion Prasad 26 Melbourne, Victoria Graciemae Sinclair 26 New South Wales Josh Everett 20 Sydney, New South Wales Lewis Beers 26 Victoria Louis Phillips 23 Melbourne, Victoria Mineé Marx 22 Perth, Western Australia Tay & Ari Wilcoxson 23 & 20 Queensland Taylah Davies 27 Victoria Oli Walton 24 Perth, Western Australia 10th – Evicted Jake Vella 25 Victoria 11th – Evicted Maddi-Rose McGuire 19 Central Coast, New South Wales 12th – Walked Bella Sommers 25 Melbourne, Victoria 13th – Evicted Zach Davis 22 Victoria 14th – Evicted Luke Hallinan 33 Sydney, New South Wales 15th – Evicted Annelise Drake 24 Gold Coast, Queensland 16th – Evicted AnnaSophia Lambrou 30 New South Wales 17th – Evicted Quan Ja 33 Victoria 18th – Evicted

Rachel Corbett, Season 1 Regina Bird, Season 3 winner and Season 14 winner Chrissie Swan, Season 3 runner-up Ryan Fitzgerald, Season 4 Jamie McDonald, Season 7 Jess Trend, Season 13

Spin-off housemates

Key

  Winner

  Runner-up

  Third place

  Walked

  Ejected

  Housemate entered for the second time

Contestants competing in International versions

References