Big Brother UK series 3

Big Brother UK series 3 in 2002 was the third season of Big Brother in the UK, a reality show shown on Channel 4 in which a number of contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize at the end of the run.

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2002 - Big Brother - UK - Reality show - Channel 4

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The third series saw two early walkouts, by housemates Sunita Sharma and Sandy Cumming; Sandy surprised his fellow housemates as well as the production team by urinating in a bin, scaling a wall and escaping over a roof. Sunita was replaced by Sophie Pritchard, and Sandy by Tim Culley.

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Also this year the house was split into two for a time: those on one side had more luxuries and better food than those on the other. A weekly task, shown live on Saturday nights, determined which housemates lived on which side of the Heaven and Hell divide. Kate Lawler spent more time on the Hell side than any other contestant which made her more popular with the viewers.

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Housemate Jade Goody became notorious for believing that East Anglia was "abroad", amongst other Jadeisms. Alex also became a popular figure due to his obsession with cleaning the house.

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Jade Goody - East Anglia

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The eventual winner of the £70,000 prize was Kate Lawler, who went on to co-present Channel 4's breakfast TV show, . Two other housemates, Sophie Pritchard and Lee Davey, later got married.

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The final of this series drew 10 million viewers, the highest ever audience for a Channel 4 programme (excluding feature films).

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Total number of votes in the final week: 8.6 million

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