Pinoy Big Brother, retroactively known as Pinoy Big Brother: Season 1 is the first season of the Philippine reality show, Pinoy Big Brother.
The season ran for 112 days with Willie Revilliame, Toni Gonzaga and Mariel Rodriguez hosting the show. It premiered on August 21, 2005, on ABS-CBN.
The finale aired on December 10, 2005, with Nene Tamayo being named the show's first ever Big Winner over Jayson Gainza and two other finalists.
Development
At the time of the launch of the franchise, the local version was the 31st version being broadcast among all the Big Brother franchises in the world. It was the second in Asia after Thailand.
Auditions
The show's producers stated that the housemates were chosen from 25,000 people who auditioned in Metro Manila, Cebu, and Davao. However, there were allegations that some of them did not audition at all and were chosen by network management.
Prizes
The winner of this season took home the grand prize worth PHP6 million (approx. $111,000) all-in-all, including the one-million peso cash prize (about $18,000), a house and lot, a Nissan Frontier, an entertainment component system, a Yamaha motorcycle, and a livelihood showcase.
Overview
The House
The house is located in front of the ABS-CBN studios in Quezon City.
A car is used to transfer the evicted housemate from the Big Brother house to the ABS-CBN main building.
The Big Brother House is a multi-room studio designed with walls painted with pastel colors. For the housemates security and the essence of being locked away from the outside world, the garden area is covered with a camouflage-type of fabric. It also boasts of a multi-faith altar in one wall of the house (one which has a Bible, a Koran, and twelve rosaries), making the house the only Big Brother house that has a room set aside for religious purposes (although it is said that the Arab Big Brother house had prayer rooms). And although any form of communication from the outside world is banned inside the house, there is a large flat-screen television set in the living room, used for only two purposes: Airing videos Big Brother want to show to any or all housemates, especially that of the TV Mass every Sunday, and To announce the names of nominees for eviction directly to the housemates and the person evicted from the house.
To complete the set up, 26 surveillance cameras are positioned all over the house to watch the housemates' every move, including the bathroom. For modesty's sake, however, images from the bathroom will be shown if the bathroom is used for any purpose other than bathing (such as gossiping).
Housemates
The show's 12 housemates all entered during a live premiere on August 21, 2005. They were introduced in a special segment during which hosts Toni Gonzaga and Mariel Rodriguez visited their houses and asked the housemates (whose faces were pixelized) to pack up their gear, giving them a special key to signify their entry in the House.
The ages stated below are their ages at time of entry inside the Big Brother House. Origin indicates where the housemates were born or based before joining the program. Thus, August 21, 2005, is stated as Day 1.
