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Big Brother (Finnish TV series) season 7

season of the Finnish television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ12533 ↗
Source-derived summary

Big Brother 2011 is the seventh season of the Finnish reality television series Big Brother. The season premiered on 31 August 2011, on Sub and the finale was aired on 11 December 2011. The show is produced by Endemol Finland Oy. The seventh season was confirmed on 8 March 2011, in a press release issued from Sub.

Elina Viitanen and Susanna Laine both returned to host the show, though it was originally reported that Laine would not continue. Viitanen is the host of Big Brother Extra and Big Brother Talk Show, and Laine hosts Big Brother Talk Show alongside Viitanen. Viitanen also joined the House as a Guest Housemate on Day 70.

Housemates

Housemate exchange

A housemate exchange happened between Big Brother Suomi and Big Brother Norge. 24 years old ambulance driver and a student Siv Anita from the Norwegian Big Brother house exchanged with Janica for a period of time.

Straw Swap

Straw Swap (Oljenkorsi) is a competition, where nominated housemates compete with each other.

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“Big Brother (Finnish TV series) season 7” enters the record as season of the Finnish television series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Brother, Finnish and series can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q12533. The first chronological checks are 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Big Brother (Finnish TV series) season 7” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.