List of Big Brother Australia housemates (2004 series)

The following is a list of housemates who were contestants on 2004's Australian Big Brother:

Housemates

Trevor

Trevor Butler, from Broken Hill, New South Wales, entered the House on Day 0. He was the winner of Big Brother 2004 and A$1,000,000, and proposed to his girlfriend on stage. Trevor is the only Big Brother Australia housemate to have won $1,000,000. On 10 October 2007, Trevor made a celebrity appearance on the ABC Television series Summer Heights High.

Bree Amer

Bree Amer, (born 17 August 1983) from the Gold Coast, Queensland, entered the House on Day 0. Bree was wrongly evicted during the show and re-entered the house. Amer achieved notable success after the show. Bree was a co-host of Friday Night Live and the Friday Night Games with fellow former housemate Ryan Fitzgerald.

Paul

Paul Dyer, from Wheelers Hill, Victoria, entered the house on Day 0. Paul was involved in an intense argument with Merlin over the issue of becoming an Australian citizen. Paul was evicted on Day 85 and after a short stint riding his 15 minutes of fame now works as a job site laborer.

Ryan Fitzgerald

Ryan Fitzgerald (or "Fitzy"), (born 16 October 1976) a former professional Australian rules football player from Adelaide, South Australia, entered the House on Day 0, and was evicted on Day 83. After being a contestant in Big Brother 2004, Ryan has gone on to co-host Nova 91.9 Adelaide's breakfast show, Friday Night Games, Friday Night Live and Friday Night Download. He has also appeared on Channel 10's AFL program Before The Game. Fitzy then went on to host Nova on the drive home nationally with Wippa and then in late 2011 to present he is the host of Nova's Fitzy and Wippa.

Catherine

Catherine Tremolada is a single mother of two from Albion Park, New South Wales. She entered the House on Day 0, and was evicted on Day 78, the day before the Final Countdown. Catherine become a mother-figure on the show for the younger female housemates.

Ashalea

Ashalea McWalters, (born 7 January 1985) from Perth, Western Australia was evicted on Day 71. Entered competition in 2006 on RSVP seen on the big night in with John Foreman. She was portrayed on the show as a bimbo.^[1]

Mónica

Mónica de Balso, from New South Wales, entered the House as an Intruder, and was evicted in a Double Eviction on Day 71. Although she had a boyfriend on the outside, she showed interested in fellow housemate Ryan.

Wesley

Wesley Dening, (born 14 July 1983) from Brisbane's Kangaroo Point was evicted on Day 68. After the show, Dening started a successful television career, co-hosting children's television show Totally Wild and also working in the United States. He was school captain at Nudgee College during his school days.

Violeta

Violeta Black was from Melbourne, entered the house as an Intruder, and was evicted on Day 59. Violeta had an aggressive, confrontational personality, which did not go over well with the housemates. She was evicted when the housemates had to choose who to go between Violeta and Monica.

Kane

Kane Dignum, (born 26 October 1983) from Queensland was evicted on Day 57. He is now known as a DJ Little Fritter.

Terri

Terri Mann, from Western Australia, entered the House on Day 0 with the original housemates, and was evicted on Day 50. She was dubbed "Terri the Terminator" by her fellow housemates because she continued to be nominated every week and survived every eviction until her 6th one. Terri was bisexual.

Merlin

Merlin Luck, from New South Wales, entered the House on Day 0 with the original housemates, and was evicted on Day 43. During his Eviction, he attracted controversy by taping over his mouth and revealing a makeshift banner which read "Free Th Refugees". The letter E had fallen off and it was intended to read "Free The Refugees", in reference to Australian Government policy of mandatory detention of asylum seekers. He refused to speak throughout his eviction show,^[2][3][4] but later spoke of the incident during the following nomination show.^[5]

Elle

Bree Quartermaine, known in the House as Elle and from Western Australia, entered the House on Day 0 and was evicted on Day 36. She is best remembered for farting in Igor's face on the second day, which later became a popular viral video.^[6]

Krystal

Krystal Ince, from Queensland, entered the House on Day 0 with the original housemates, and was evicted on Day 29. Prior to Big Brother, Krystal worked as an exotic dancer known as Delta.

Igor

Igor Vurmeski, from Melbourne, Victoria, was evicted on Day 22. He is a Macedonian-Australian.

Aphrodite

Aphrodite Vuitton was evicted on Day 15. She garnered publicity after the end of the series upon getting cosmetic surgery, which consisted of rhinoplasty, chin augmentation and breast implants.

References

1. "What the gossip mags say - Entertainment". Smh.com.au. 2004-06-01. Retrieved 2012-09-10.
2. http://web.archive.org/web/20121110130022/http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200406/s1130992.htm. Archived from the original on 10 November 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2012. Missing or empty |title= (help)
3. "Merlin's silent protest - TvRadio". Smh.com.au. 2004-06-14. Retrieved 2012-09-10.
4. "Studio Guest - Merlin Luck:". Abc.net.au. 2004-08-17. Retrieved 2012-09-10.
5. "Merlin breaks silence on Big Brother protest - TvRadio". Smh.com.au. 2004-06-14. Retrieved 2012-09-10.
6. "Girl fart in guys face". YouTube. Retrieved 2012-09-10.