BIG Brother is coming to Cyprus in a Greek version being beamed into our homes from Greece from September 10.
Twelve contestants, referred to as housemates, will be living together in a house in Athens for 112 days, with one person being ‘evicted’ every 15 days.
The housemates will anonymously nominate three people for eviction, and the public will vote on who will be evicted until there are four people left.
The winner will be voted on by the public and will walk away with 50 million drachmas. The other three housemates will each get a car as consolation prizes.
The six women and six men, all Greek, will be living in a house with a kitchen, sitting room, two bedrooms with six beds each, one toilet and shower, a swimming pool and a large garden with a poultry yard containing a cock and ten chickens.
The whole house, except for the toilet, contains 24 cameras and 48 microphones, which will record for 23 out of 24 hours a day.
The housemates will be cut off from the outside world and will not have access to telephones, television, radio or computers.
Their only communication with the outside world will be with a member of the television studio, Andreas Mikroutsikos, who will speak to them once a week.
A website, www.bigbrother.hellasonline.gr, has been established for up to date information on the show and will begin operation on Monday, September 10, when the show begins.
The first show will be broadcasted live at 10pm on Monday on Antenna, but the rest of the shows will be broadcast at a later time slot.
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