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The sixth series of the Australian television show Big Brother began on 22 April 2006. Auditions for the current set of Housemates were held in November and December 2005. The theme for the show is "smart, strong, and looking for a fight". Reports suggest that the show may be running for 17 weeks, a total of around 120 days, making it the longest season to date. Additions to the Big Brother formula for this series include:

• Viewers are able to vote for Housemates they wish to SAVE, as well as those they wish to EVICT. The results of the two votes are then merged.
• A punishment room, to which Big Brother consigns Housemates who break rules.
• Intruder refers to a housemate that enters the house after the series has started.

The launch of the series was aired the evening of 23 April (a 24 hour delay). 2006 also saw the re-naming of Big Brother: Uncut to Big Brother: Adults Only.

One of the twists this season, frequently referred to by Ten as "Australia's World First", is that fellow housemates Karen and Krystal are mother and daughter. This was not revealed to the housemates until a week into the series. Because the Housemates failed to uncover their secret, Karen and Krystal were exempt from nominations in the first round.

Despite publicity using the term "World First" international versions of the series have previously used similar concepts. The fourth Greek season had a series called Big Mother where nine houseguests participated in the game with their mothers, with whom they had to coexist during the contest. The housemates' mothers were not able to win the prize, but had to stay with their sons and daughters until their eviction. Another Big Brother series had houseguests enter the house with their mothers, but the mothers did not stay.

Housemates

Anna

Anna Hind-Linden (born September 16, 1985) is a PA and promotional model from Frankston, in Melbourne, Victoria. She entered the house on Day 0 with the rest of the original housemates of the series. She was taken to the Revenge Room along with Camilla on Day 9 as part of a fake double eviction. From the Revenge Room, they enacted revenge on the housemates who had nominated them and were allowed to return to the rest of the house on Day 11. After returning for the Revenge Room, Anna seemed to form a tighter bond with the men in the house. She was the 4th evicted from the house on Day 29 with 25% of the merged vote. Her famous catchphrase whilst in the house was "game on moles!" later admitting on UpLate that she forgot she even said the line.

Ashley

Michael Cox (Ashley) is a bricklayer from Perth, Western Australia. He entered the house on Day 0 with the rest of the original housemates of the series. Many of the housemates percieved Ashley like a little brother. He was often seen in the house talking about cars, a passion of his. Ashley revealed on Day 33 that he had never met his brother and sister and finding them was part of the reason why he participated in Big Brother. Ashley was saved from being up for eviction in the first week by Gaelan who used his three-point twist received from winning Friday Night Live; he was later saved from the eviction line-up by David excercising his three-point twist. Ashley has only been up for eviction once.

Camilla

Camilla Halliwell (born October 28, 1983) was a student and nightclub host from Melbourne, Victoria. She entered the house on Day 0 with the rest of the original housemates of the series. She left the House as part of a fake eviction along with Anna on Day 9. From the Revenge Room, they enacted revenge on housemates who had nominated them which including pouring itchy powder on their beds, making them do the clown task to see them fall over in the pool and stealing their clothes. She returned to the house as a surprise Birthday present for John on Day 11 in one of Tilli's dresses and while in the Revenge room said that the first thing she would do was call Tilli a bitch in front of her face. However she did not do this, and instead kindly offered to return the dress to Tilli. Camilla has generally been perceived by her housemates to be annoying, confrontational, bitchy and argumentative. As a result of this, she had been consistently nominated for eviction. This had also given her the nickname of 'the Veteran' from her fellow housemates. She was nominated in Week 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9.

Claire

Claire Madden (born June 17, 1983) is a big cat zookeeper from the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. She entered the house on Day 0 with the rest of the original housemates of the series. She entertained the house with various original songs as the house is forbidden to sing any commercial music. Claire had been nominated for eviction in Week 2. She was also put up for potential nomination in the Under the Radar vote but did not receive enough audience votes to be nominated for eviction.

Danielle

Danielle Foote (born June 8, 1987) was a host of Supre TV from Adelaide, South Australia. Danielle was the third intruder to enter the house on Day 24, the other two being Rob and Jade. She was the youngest housemate in the 2006 series. Danielle became romantically involved with Dino after Katie's 20th birthday party. However, she had told other housemates that she had similar feelings for John. The situation was openly described as being a love triangle by several housemates, but this situation came to a halt with Dino's eviction on Day 43, after which John refused to pursue Danielle.

Dani's 19th birthday was on Day 47. During her party, she was speaking without her microphone which was discarded when she changed clothes. Because of this, she spent the remainder of her birthday in the Punishment Room cleaning dirty dentures, themed by the Scream Week Task and her Scream Week-themed birthday party.

Danielle was nominated for eviction with Camilla and Rob and was the 8th person evicted from the house on Day 50, receiving 44% of the merged vote, the highest of the series.

The night after her eviction she was on the Nominations show, Dino was also on the show as a special guest. The two made up and made it clear that "everything was alright" between them.

Darren

Darren Bowley is a 19 year old student from Brisbane. He was a replacement intruder for Gina, and may enter the house as an Intruder on June 21.

David

David Graham (born August 28, 1979) is a farmer from Goondiwindi, Queensland. David entered the house on Day 0 with the rest of the original housemates of the series. David came out to the housemates and revealed that he was gay on Day 4. David was up for eviction in Week 4 and Week 8 but survived them both.

Dino

Dino Delic (born April 9, 1983) is a Business student from Melbourne, Victoria. He moved to Australia as a refugee with his family in 1992 from Bosnia after escaping war there. In the house he formed a relationship with Danielle. Dino was seen to be one of the bitichiest housemates. He was the 7th housemate to be evicted from the house on Day 42 with Jade, grabbing 5% of the merged vote. He later admitted regretting forming a relationship with Danielle after seeing footage of her in a 'love triangle' from the outside after being evicted. The 'love triangle' consisted of Danielle, Dino and John.

Elise

Elise Chen (born November 26, 1984) was a student and Finance Analyst from Sydney, New South Wales. She moved to Australia when she was 5 years old and did not speak one word of English. She entered the house on Day 0 with all of the original housemates. Throughout her stay she was seen as one of the quieter housemates and because of this, was put up for eviction in the first round for suspectedly playing a game but simply stated that she was overshadowed by the bigger personalities and therefore could not be herself. She was the 2nd evicted from the house, leaving after Tilli on Day 14 with 5% of the merged vote.

Gaelan

Gaelan Walker (born December 25, 1980) is a carpenter and model from Victoria. He entered the House on Day 0 along with the original housemates. He formed a relationship with Krystal.

Jade

Jade Stack (November 30, 1986) is a student from the suburb of Penrith in Sydney, New South Wales. She entered the house on Day 24 with the two other intruders Rob and Danielle. She entered the house second after Rob and was given an incredibly enthusiastic reception by the women in the house. However, some time after Danielle entered the house Jade began to feel isolated from the rest of the house. She was given the task as the new Insider on Day 24 after the previous Insider, Michael, had his role revealed by Big Brother to the housemates. Jade was the 6th housemate evicted from the house on Day 42 with 8% of the merged vote with Dino in a double eviction.

Jamie

Jamie Brooksby (born June 28, 1983) is a Personal trainer from Perth, Western Australia. He entered the house on Day 0 and formed a romantic relationship with fellow housemate Katie. He was up for eviction for the first time in Week 8, but Katie was evicted.

John

Michael Bric (John) (born May 2, 1985) was a Media and Communications student from Melbourne, Victoria. He was voted by the public on Day 38 along with Krystal as going Under the Radar and was subsequently put up for eviction later that week, but survived the vote. He has mild Tourette syndrome which causes him to have slight facial twitches and tics, something he revealed to his housemates early in the series. John won "Pommy Night", a British-themed Friday Night Live on Day 55, and took Claire to the Rewards Room. While in there, he won a digital camera from Box 3.

Karen

Karen Forscutt (born August 19, 1969) was a Postal worker from Batemans Bay, NSW. She entered the house on Day 0 with her daughter Krystal and were immediately given the task to not let the other housemates find out that they were mother and daughter. They successfully passed the task and were immune from nominations the following week. In Week 3, Karen stated that she was sick of the game and was disappointed when Big Brother told the housemates that they were not guaranteed prizes. Her negative reaction to this provoked some of her housemates to nominate her for eviction that week. She was the clear favourite to leave that week and did so becoming the 3rd evicted from the house on Day 21 with 36% of the merged vote.

Katie

Katie Hastings (born May 23, 1986) is a promotional model from Perth, Western Australia. She entered the house on Day 0 and formed a romantic relationship with fellow housemate Jamie. She won Friday Night Live on Day 41, and chose to take Jamie to the Rewards Room with her. In Week 7, Camilla, Rob, and Dani were up for eviction. Katie used her three-point twist on Camilla, but the eviction line-up did not change. Katie was up for eviction in Week 8 with David and Jamie, and became the 9th evictee, leaving the house on Day 57 with 64% of the merged vote.

Krystal

Krystal Forscutt (July 12, 1986) is a promotional model from Batemans Bay, New South Wales. She entered the house on Day 0 with her mother Karen, who have both had matching breast implants, and they were given the task of keeping their relationship a secret for a week. They successfully passed the task and were immune from nominations the following week. After being immune, Krystal was up for nomination in Week 3, 4 and 6. While in the house, Krystal has entered a relationship with Gaelan.

Krystal appeared on the cover of the June Issue of Ralph Magazine (Australians Men Magazine).

Lauren

Lauren is a 22 year old make-up artist from NSW. She may enter the House as an Intruder on June 21.

Michael

Michael McCoy (born June 16, 1980) is a political science student from Sydney. He was Filipino on his mother's side. Michael was the first housemate to enter the Big Brother House this year. On Day 2 he was given the task of the Insider by Big Brother but chosen by the viewing public. He failed his first mission within minutes of being assigned the task, which was to secretly spill water on a bed that was occupied by two housemates. Michael opted to spill water on Gaelan's bed which at the time was only used by Gaelan himself. Because of that, and because he also didn't empty the whole bottle, he was awarded his first strike. Soon after, he was given other missions, one of which included getting at least 8 of his fellow housemates to nominate him at the next round of nominations. His technique to complete this mission was to fabricate a story about a son named Reuben that he had in the outside world. It was revealed on Michael's eviction night that Reuben is actually the name of one of Michael's real life friends. He received a backlash of conflict after Big Brother ousted him as the Insider especially from housemate Anna who had distant contact with her father. Despite no longer being the Insider, Michael continued to cause house conflict in Week 5 by hiding the housemates toothbrushes from them. He was the 5th housemate to be evicted from the house on Day 36, with 20% of the merged vote. The day after he was evicted, Michael appeared on the Nominations show and had a heated discussion with Gretel Killeen about the producer's use of editing regarding a scene where Michael and housemate David appeared to be kissing. The outfall resulted in media attention.

The day after this incident Michael appeared on Rove Live and bluntly told host Rove McManus that he was not as funny as the show's recurring guest Peter Helliar.

Recently, he assulted music student Tristan Bauer, punching him in the head at the Eastern Hotel in Bondi Junction, Sydney.

Perry

Perry Apostolou is a 39 year old estate agent from NSW. She will be entering the House on June 21. Once she enters the House, she will officially be the oldest housemate ever on Big Brother Australia.

Rob

Rob Rigley (born July 18, 1979) is a gay hairdresser from Wollongong. He entered the house on Day 24 as an intruder, along with Danielle and Jade. He was up for eviction in Week 7.

Rob has Lebanese hertiage and has stated he knew he was a homosexual from a very young age (4 years old). He lives with his grandmother.

Tilli

Matilda Clapham (Tilli) (born August 18, 1986) is a Psychology student from Adelaide Hills, South Australia. She entered the house on Day 0 with all the original housemates and was straight away seen to be bitchy. Tilli had a pash with housemate David on Day 4 soonafter he came out which caused conflict with Camilla who was still recovering from the announcement that David was not attracted to her because he was gay. When prompted about who she found annoying in the diary room, she commented that Camilla was "forced and fake", which Camilla eventually watched replayed back to her when she was in the Revenge Room. Tilli was the 1st evicted from the house on Day 14 with 20% of the merged vote along with Elise in a double eviction.

Gina

Gina from New South Wales was intended as the sixteenth official Housemate, but withdrew from the show at the last minute (before the season began) due to a diagnosis of glandular fever. She was given a second opportunity to enter the house as one of the Intruders set to enter the house on June 21's Intruders - Incoming show, but she did not arrive for lockdown at the Gold Coast as arranged, so she has been replaced by Darren, a stand-by housemate.

Weekly summary and highlights

Week 1

(up to and including Sunday night)

• Soon after entering the house, Housemate Michael was issued with, and accepted, the challenge by Big Brother to act as a secret saboteur in the house, known officially as The Insider. He is to play specific pranks at Big Brother's command, to work against and to annoy Housemates, and to attempt to stymie the Housemates' attempts to successfully complete assigned tasks. He must remain undetected in these strategies and must keep his role as The Insider a secret, or automatically go up for eviction.

• Michael failed his first mission within minutes of receiving it, and received his first strike because of it.

• It was revealed to viewers that Housemate David is actually gay, but had closeted himself to his fellow Housemates. David came out on Wednesday 26 April.

• Gaelan wins the first Friday Night Live challenge, choosing runner-up Katie as his partner in the Rewards Room. The theme is Cavemen.

• A new twist is revealed to the Housemates; a fourth prize is awarded to the winner of Friday Night Live. Three sealed boxes are presented to the winner, marked 1, 2 and 3. The winner selects one box only before being allowed to open the box of their choice. The three boxes inevitably contain a major prize (an overseas holiday), a medium-sized prize, and a booby prize. The three prizes follow some kind of theme or are linked in some manner by the way the prizes sound when they are read aloud (eg. Cambodia, camera, Camembert).

• The three boxes are presented to Gaelan. They contain a trip to Thailand, a Thai banquet for all the Housemates for the following night, and a large red bow tie. Gaelan chooses the box containing the novelty bow tie.

• Krystal revealed to the house that Karen is her mother.

• Housemates nominate, resulting in Anna and Camilla being sent to a "Revenge Room" in a fake early eviction.

• Prize money at the end of Week 1 is $820,000

Week 2

• Monday 1 May saw the first official nominations of series 6. Elise, Tilli, Claire and Dino were nominated. Michael was also up for nomination after failing his Insider task.

• On May 2, the two isolated Housemates, Anna and Camilla, were returned to the House in a special daily show entitled Big Brother: Revenge Room Return. Both have one week's immunity from eviction.

• Dino wins the second Friday Night Live and takes runner-up Claire to the Rewards Room. The theme for the night is the Farmyard. The three boxes contain a trip to Cambodia, a digital camera, and some Camembert cheese. Dino chooses the box containing the Camembert cheese.

• Tilli and Elise were evicted in a double eviction on May 7.

• Prize money at the end of Week 2 is $665,000

Week 3

• Karen, Krystal and Camilla were nominated.

• Michael's 'Insider challenge' for the week is to ensure that he is nominated by eight Housemates in next week's nominations. Success will mean immunity from eviction for the week. He spins a complex and fictitious tale of a son called Reuben and a paternity test supposedly taken shortly before he entered the House that revealed he was not (as he had believed for nearly nine years) Reuben's biological father, in a bid to make other Housemates think he wants to leave the house.

• Michael wins Friday Night Live, choosing Ashley to join him in the Rewards Room. The theme for the night is Back To Work (an office theme). The three boxes contain a trip to China, complimentary Chinese laundry services for three Housemates for the week, and a Chinese fortune cookie. Michael chooses the box containing the laundry services.

• Housemates hold a mock wedding for Jamie and Katie.

• Karen was evicted on May 14.

• Prize money at the end of Week 3 is $610,000

Week 4

• Michael succeeds in his Insider task to get eight housemates to nominate him and therefore is safe from eviction. Michael also uses his three-point twist to save Dino from eviction. Camilla, Ashley, Anna, David and Krystal were up for eviction.

• Michael's 'Insider' role was revealed to the house by Big Brother. Many housemates felt that Michael had betrayed them.

• All three intruders, Rob, Jade and Danielle, go into the house at different times during the night.

• Michael and David nearly share a kiss in the bathroom. It was later revealed by Michael on Rove Live that it was a joke.

• Gaelan wins the rockstar-themed Friday Night Live for the second time and invites Krystal to the Rewards Room. They receive a special prize, which is a dinner at Tiger Island (situated inside Dreamworld, but outside the Big Brother House). This prize was hailed as a Big Brother "world first", due to the notion that these two Housemates left the confines of the House (as part of the game) and were returned an hour later.

• Anna was evicted on May 21.

• Jade was voted as the new Insider by the public and was notified that night.

• Prize money at the end of Week 4 is $545,000

Week 5

• Originally, Michael, Camilla and David were nominated. Because he won the Friday Night Games, Gaelen used his three point twist on David, changing the final eviction line-up to Michael, Camilla, and John.

• Katie gives Dino the challenge of having to remain within 5 metres of Camilla for half the day in exchange for Katie's bread rations. When Camilla found Dino spending most of the day with her she thought he might have been interested in her.

• Katie celebrated her 20th birthday on May 23. Big Brother threw a surprise birthday party for her in the Rewards Room. The party had a Hawaiian beach theme where all the housemates dressed in Hawaiian costumes. Dino and Intruder Danielle pash at Katie's party. Camilla was upset because she thought Dino was interested in her.

• Jade's first Insider mission was on May 23, where she was only allowed to sing and not speak in her usual manner from sunrise to sunset. She spent the day in silence in an effort to complete her task, only having to resort to singing on a few occasions.

• On May 24, Michael stole a number of Housemates' toothbrushes and hid them in a sock under a bed in an effort to create conflict and entertainment within the House. The housemates have since located the toothbrushes after Michael informed them of their whereabouts in his farewell video. However, he did not say he was the one responsible for them being stolen, implicating that it was another housemate. Michael did all of this of his own accord, having been relieved of his Insider role the previous week.

• Intruder Danielle wins Friday Night Live, choosing John to join her in the Rewards Room. The theme for the night is Horror. The three boxes contain a trip to South Africa, a motor scooter, and a salad sandwich. Danielle chooses the box containing the sandwich.

• Michael is evicted from the House on May 28. After his name was read out he jumped off the couch, threw the bowl on the coffee table to the roof and ran outside, where he was chased and tackled by John and Gaelan.

• The housemates watch Michael's eviction message and find he is still creating tension within the house even after he has been evicted.

• Prize money at the end of Week 5 is $500,000

Week 6

• Originally in general nominations, Jade, Dino, Camilla and Krystal were nominated. Because Danielle won the Friday Night Games, Danielle used her three point twist on Krystal. The three point twist removed Krystal from the list of nominees.

• "Under the Radar" nominations took place on Day 38 May 29. This allowed the public to nominate a housemate on the basis of whether they have been using