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| Network: | RTL |
Big Brother 1 is the first season of the Croatian reality television series Big Brother that premiered on 18 September 2004 and ending on 26 December 2004, and ran for 100 days. It received high ratings and proved to be one of the rare successes for RTL Televizija in its first six months on Croatian television markets.
Despite the huge commercial success and becoming a cultural phenomenon of its season, the first season was subjected to much criticism. Andrija Hebrang, Croatian health minister at the time, complained about contestants smoking while the programme on air, which was against Croatian laws. In response to this, later live broadcasts were time-delayed. The show also created minor controversy due to a single homophobic statement ("If I knew I had a fag friend, I would kill him. I would kill him") made by Zdravko Lamot.[1] [2]
Other critics complained about lack of diversity among contestants who didn't represent the average of Croatian population. They were mostly all in the mid-20s, attending college, having a liberal mindset and coming from well-to-do or upper-middle-class families. Another exception was Saša Tkalčević, a 32-year-old biker from Bjelovar, husband and father of two children. He almost immediately established himself as the frontrunner, indicating that the audience for the show and pool of potential voters was much older than previously thought.
In this first season, there were 12 original housemates. Later, two new housemates entered the house.
Antonija Blaće who was evicted one week before the final is since then one of the most popular TV hosts in Croatia.
| Week 2 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 7 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 | Week 12 | Week 13 | Week 14 Final | Nominations received | ||
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| Saša | Egle, Filip | Alen, Marina | Alen, Marina | Antonija, Vlatka | Antonija, Sanja | Antonija, Marina | Antonija, Marina | Antonija, Valentina | Antonija, Marina | Winner (Day 100) | 7 | |
| Zdravko | Ozren, Sanja | Krešo, Ozren | Antonija, Sanja | Sanja, Vlatka | Marina, Sanja | Antonija, Marina | Antonija, Valentina | Antonija, Valentina | Antonija, Marina | Runner-up (Day 100) | 13 | |
| Alen | Ana, Filip | Ana, Ozren | Filip, Valentina | Vlatka, Željko | Sanja, Valentina | Ana, Valentina | Ana, Antonija | Antonija, Valentina | Antonija, Saša | Third place (Day 100) | 20 | |
| Marina | Egle, Ozren | Ozren, Sanja | Sanja, Zdravko | Vlatka, Željko | Sanja, Željko | Saša, Željko | Alen, Ana | Antonija, Saša | Saša, Zdravko | Fourth place (Day 100) | 17 | |
| Antonija | Alen, Zdravko | Alen, Ozren | Filip, Zdravko | Saša, Zdravko | Alen, Željko | Alen, Željko | Alen, Zdravko | Marina, Saša | Saša, Zdravko | Evicted (Day 91) | 18 | |
| Valentina | Egle, Ozren | Krešo, Ozren | Alen, Filip | Alen, Vlatka | Ana, Željko | Alen, Željko | Alen, Ana | Alen, Zdravko | Evicted (Day 84) | 9 | ||
| Ana | Alen, Egle | Filip, Ozren | Filip, Marina | Vlatka, Željko | Alen, Željko | Alen, Željko | Alen, Marina | Evicted (Day 77) | 10 | |||
| Željko | Not in House | Exempt | Ana, Antonija | Alen, Marina | Alen, Valentina | Evicted (Day 70) | 12 | |||||
| Sanja | Alen, Egle | Marina, Zdravko | Marina, Zdravko | Ana, Vlatka | Marina, Željko | Evicted (Day 63) | 9 | |||||
| Vlatka | Not in House | Exempt | Marina, Zdravko | Evicted (Day 49) | 7 | |||||||
| Filip | Antonija, Ozren | Krešo, Ozren | Antonija, Valentina | Evicted (Day 35) | 7 | |||||||
| Ozren | Krešo, Zdravko | Marina, Zdravko | Walked (Day 23) | 14 | ||||||||
| Krešo | Egle, Ozren | Ana, Ozren | Ejected (Day 22) | 5 | ||||||||
| Egle | Krešo, Ozren | Evicted (Day 14) | 6 | |||||||||
| Notes | none | 1 | 2 | none | 3 | |||||||
| Nominated | Egle, Ozren | Krešo, Marina, Orzen | Filip, Marina, Zdravko | Vlatka, Željko | Sanja, Željko | Alen, Željko | Alen, Ana, Antonija | Antonija, Valentina | Antonija, Saša | Alen, Marina, Saša, Zdravko | ||
| Ejected | none | Krešo | none | |||||||||
| Walked | none | Ozren | none | |||||||||
| Evicted | Egle 71% to evict | Eviction cancelled | Filip 55% to evict | Vlatka 84% to evict | Sanja 73% to evict | Željko 64% to evict | Ana 51% to evict | Valentina 63% to evict | Antonija 80% to evict | Marina 6% to win | Alen 7% to win | |
| Zdravko 10% to win | Saša 77% to win | |||||||||||