Big Brother 2011 (Sweden)

Big Brother 2011 was the fifth season of the Swedish version of the reality show Big Brother. It was premièred on February 20, 2011, when 17 housemates were locked inside a house located in Årsta partihallar outside TV11 broadcasts program six nights a week. Highlights shows are broadcast from Monday to Friday 22:00-23:00. Weekly Finals are broadcast in Sunday 21:00-22:25. For a fee, the viewer could also follow the participants live on the Internet. Overall, participants were locked up for 106 days (15 weeks). On January 26, 2011, it was announced that Gry Forssell would be the host of the show. The winner of fifth Swedish Big Brother series receives a grand prize 500,000 SEK.

Housemates are incarcerated in the Big Brother House with no contact to and from the outside world. Each week participants competed in various challenges, which they had to perform to make Big Brother satisfied. Housemates were instructed to nominate two fellow housemates for eviction each week. This compulsory vote was conducted in the privacy of "Bikten" (the Confession) and housemates were not allowed to discuss the nomination process or influence the nominations of others. The two that received the most nominations, viewers decided who they wanted to save, the housemate with the least votes was evicted. If one or more participants violated the Big Brother rules the week they were also up for the weekly eviction.

During the season, either the viewers or the housemates will have the chance to vote in wild cards to the Big Brother house.

Between February 19 to 27 four so-called "Wild cards" competed in to be a housemate in the new Big Brother house. They were all staying in "the Glass House", located in Skärholmens centrum. Of the four who were in the house, viewers vote for two, a boy and a girl, who will be moving into the real Big Brother house, where they would become leaders in the house. The Glass House could only be followed by the program's website, but was free to look at. The "wild cards" was (those marked in bold went in the real house):

Henrik Ström, Martin Isberg and Patrik Edvardsson were introduced one week after the show started. In the first weekly liveshow, it was announced that the viewers got the chance to again vote in one participant in the Big Brother house. The three guys, called "the hunks", went to Thailand taking on various challenges in hopes of winning the viewers vote. Every day, they received a new assignment. For a few days before Day 15, you were also able to follow them all the time inside a part of the Big Brother house. These days, they were trained by Drill Sergeant Jimmy Guliano. On Day 15, Patrik Edvardsson was voted in by the public with 41.64% of 21,434 votes to become a new housemate.

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