Season 13 of Big Brother has come to an emotional end for more than 1.1 million viewers to see.
The season that returned to the infamous Dreamworld location all came to a teary end as Big Brother announced the winner Coco, who left the house with pockets full of $135,000.
A national average audience of 690,000 people watched on as five housemates—the remaining finalists—were in for a major night of evictions. But before Big Brother fired up the eviction pyrotechnics, the finalists sat down for one last dinner to look back and reflect on their time in the house. The final five toasted their evicted housemates and reflected on the highs and lows of their journeys, ahead of rejoining the real world.
But this is Big Brother, and there was still one more surprise left to turn the house on its head. Before the first evictee was farewelled, host Mel Tracina gave the housemates one last temptation: a brand-new Suzuki Jimny XL.
Both Bruce and Allana wanted their shot at the car, facing an exceptionally tense game of chance, but it was Allana who won the keys to her brand-new car, ending her time in the house.
Speaking to Mel after her win, an excited Allana said, “I’ve never won anything! I was just pretending that I was on a TV show that everyone was watching,” before someone in the crowd reminded her she was!
The mood in the house quickly shifted as the first eviction of the night occurred, and unfortunately it was time for Bruce to go.
In a shock to the final three housemates, the next to face eviction was Colin, leaving Coco and Emily as the final two.
Finally, it came down to just two housemates, Coco and Emily. And there was just one thing left to do—announce the winner.
“Thank you so much, you don’t know how much this means to me. Thank you, every single one of you… I’m honestly lost for words,” Coco said to the adoring crowd, following her Big Brother win.
“I went in there and I was myself. My whole life I’ve been myself and it was never accepted, so to be accepted by all of you… my kids finally get their mum full time! There’s going to be presents under the Christmas tree, you name it!”
Over on Nine and its broadcast of Travel Guides took home the most popular entertainment program of the night, edging out Big Brother. The program that had a reach of 1,651,000 and an average audience of 713,000 saw the guides motorhome road trip through rural NSW.
Seven reached 1,168,000 people waiting for day Five of the Ashes to begin. Checking out the reach of 215,000, it’s fair to say that the viewers (clearly not fanatics) quicky cottoned on to the fact that the Aussies only needed four days to dust up the Poms.
