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Celebrity Big Brother (South African TV series)

first season of the South African Celebrity Big Brother

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ5057677 ↗
Source-derived summary

Celebrity Big Brother is the celebrity season of the Big Brother. In it, the Housemates were only local celebrities. The show followed the main Big Brother rules, but with some changes. For example, the celebrity season's duration was much shorter, lasting only eight days.

The show started on 23 June 2002 and ended on 30 June 2002. The hosts were Mark Pilgrim and Gerry Rantseli. It was aired on M-Net. The winner was Bill Flynn. He won the chair from the diary room. All the money raised from voting was given for charity.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Celebrity Big Brother (South African TV series)” is first season of the South African Celebrity Big Brother. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Celebrity, Brother and South, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Celebrity, Brother and South is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5057677. The first chronological checks are 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “Celebrity Big Brother (South African TV series)” 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.