Celebrity Big Brother 15 was the fifteenth series of the British reality television series Celebrity Big Brother. The series launched on 7 January 2015 on Channel 5 and ended after 31 days on 6 February 2015; at the time it was the longest ever celebrity series. The seventeenth series in 2016 lasted a day longer with 32 days. It was the eighth celebrity series and the twelfth series of Big Brother overall to air on the channel. Emma Willis returned to host the series, whilst Rylan Clark continued to present the spin-off show Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side alongside Willis. Repeats of the series aired on MTV, the first to do so. Willis decided to leave Big Brother’s Bit on the Side after the end of this series, hosting her final show on 2 February 2015.
On 6 February 2015, Katie Price won the series, with Katie Hopkins finishing as the runner-up. This was the first series of Celebrity Big Brother where both the runner-up and the winner were women. Price also became the first female Housemate (and second overall after Brian Belo in Big Brother 8) on any series of Big Brother or Celebrity Big Brother to win the series after entering late. Price entered the House nine days after the original fourteen Housemates, and left 21 days later as the winner.
This series was the focus of much controversy after housemates Jeremy Jackson and Ken Morley were ejected within the first week. With an average audience of 3.09 million, this is the highest-rated series of Big Brother or Celebrity Big Brother to date on Channel 5.
Calum Best returned to the house for Celebrity Big Brother 19 as an All-Star, representing this series. He was the tenth housemate to be evicted.
Celebrity | Age on entry | Notability | Day entered | Day exited | Status |
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Katie Price | 36 | TV personality and glamour model | 10 | 31 | Winner |
Katie Hopkins | 39 | TV personality and columnist | 1 | 31 | Runner-up |
Calum Best | 33 | Model and TV personality | 1 | 31 | 3rd Place |
Keith Chegwin† | 57 | Actor and presenter | 1 | 31 | 4th Place |
Michelle Visage | 46 | Singer and presenter | 1 | 31 | 5th Place |
Perez Hilton | 36 | Blogger and TV personality | 1 | 29 | Evicted |
Kavana | 37 | Singer | 1 | 29 | Evicted |
Cami-Li | 28 | Model | 1 | 27 | Evicted |
Nadia Sawalha | 50 | Actress and presenter | 1 | 24 | Evicted |
Patsy Kensit | 46 | Actress | 1 | 21 | Evicted |
Alicia Douvall | 35 | Media personality | 1 | 17 | Evicted |
Alexander O'Neal | 61 | Singer | 1 | 11 | Walked |
Chloe Goodman | 21 | Reality TV star | 1 | 10 | Evicted |
Ken Morley | 71 | Actor | 1 | 6 | Ejected |
Jeremy Jackson | 34 | Actor | 1 | 4 | Ejected |
Day 3 | Day 8 | Day 11 | Day 19 | Day 22 | Day 26 | Day 31 Final |
Nominations received |
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Katie P | Not in House |
Calum | Patsy, Cami-Li |
Katie H, Calum |
Katie H, Kavana |
Winner (Day 31) |
6 | ||
Katie H | Perez | Not eligible |
Perez, Nadia |
Patsy, Katie P |
Katie P, Keith |
Keith, Katie P |
Runner-up (Day 31) |
12 | |
Calum | Ken | Not eligible |
Perez, Alicia |
Nadia, Patsy |
Nadia, Keith |
Katie P, Keith |
Third place (Day 31) |
4 | |
Keith | Perez | Not eligible |
Perez, Kavana |
Patsy, Kavana |
Katie H, Kavana |
Cami-Li, Kavana |
Fourth place (Day 31) |
10 | |
Michelle | Ken | Not eligible |
Perez, Alicia |
Patsy, Nadia |
Nadia, Keith |
Keith, Katie P |
Fifth place (Day 31) |
2 | |
Perez | Ken | Chloe, Michelle |
Katie H, Cami-Li |
Cami-Li | Katie H, Cami-Li |
Cami-Li, Katie H |
Evicted (Day 29) |
10 | |
Kavana | Ken | Not eligible |
Perez, Nadia |
Patsy, Nadia |
Nadia, Keith |
Keith, Cami-Li |
Evicted (Day 29) |
5 | |
Cami-Li | Ken | Alexander, Alicia |
Alicia, Perez |
Patsy, Nadia |
Nadia, Keith |
Keith, Katie P |
Evicted (Day 27) |
9 | |
Nadia | Katie H | Not eligible |
Katie H, Michelle |
Katie H, Patsy |
Katie H, Calum |
Evicted (Day 24) |
12 | ||
Patsy | Ken | Not eligible |
Perez, Nadia |
Katie H, Nadia |
Evicted (Day 21) |
9 | |||
Alicia | Calum | Not eligible |
Cami-Li, Katie H |
Evicted (Day 17) |
4 | ||||
Alexander | Perez | Not eligible |
Walked (Day 11) |
3 | |||||
Chloe | Ken | Not eligible |
Evicted (Day 10) |
1 | |||||
Ken | Cami-Li | Ejected (Day 6) |
7 | ||||||
Jeremy | Patsy | Ejected (Day 4) |
0 | ||||||
Notes | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||
Against public vote |
Alexander, Chloe, Ken |
Alexander, Alicia, Chloe, Michelle |
Alicia, Calum, Nadia, Perez |
Cami-Li, Katie H, Nadia, Patsy |
Katie H, Keith, Nadia, Perez |
Cami-Li, Katie P, Keith, Perez |
Calum, Katie H, Katie P, Kavana, Keith, Michelle, Perez |
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Walked | none | Alexander | none | ||||||
Ejected | Jeremy, Ken |
none | |||||||
Evicted | Eviction cancelled |
Chloe Fewest votes (out of 2) to save |
Alicia Fewest votes to save |
Patsy Fewest votes to save |
Nadia Fewest votes to save |
Cami-Li Fewest votes to save |
Kavana Fewest votes (out of 7) |
Perez Fewest votes (out of 7) |
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Michelle Fewest votes (out of 5) |
Keith Fewest votes (out of 4) |
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Calum Fewest votes (out of 3) |
Katie H Fewest votes (out of 2) |
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Katie P Most votes to win |
^Note 1 : On Day 1, shortly after entering the House, Katie H was given a secret mission by “The Enchanted Mirror”. She had to select two of her fellow Housemates who she thought was the least entertaining. Unbeknownst to her, they would then automatically face the first eviction. She chose Alexander and Chloe. On Day 3, Housemates nominated face to face, with each Housemate nominating only one person as opposed to the usual two. Following Ken’s ejection on Day 6, the live eviction scheduled to take place on Day 7 was cancelled.
^Note 2 : On Day 7, following a twist, Cami-Li was made Queen of the Fairies and was told she was immune from the next eviction and that she’d be able to give immunity to other housemates. That night, she selected Perez as King of the Fairies, granting him immunity. On Day 8, they chose to give immunity to Keith and Nadia through a task. The same day, Cami-Li and Perez were asked to cast a nomination curse on four of the remaining housemates. These four Housemates would face eviction on Day 10. Perez chose Chloe and Michelle, while Cami-Li chose Alexander and Alicia.
^Note 3 : Alicia, Katie H, Nadia, and Perez were initially nominated for an eviction due to take place on Day 14, but it was postponed to Day 17, due to Alexander’s voluntary departure.[49] As Alexander walked during the nomination process, all nominations for him became invalid and any housemates who nominated him had to later choose a replacement nominee. Keith and Nadia originally nominated Alexander but replaced their nominations with Kavana and Michelle, respectively. While Katie P was not able to be nominated as she was a new housemate, as part of the live twist that replaced Day 14’s planned eviction, she had to save one nominated housemate and replace them with another who she thought was the least entertaining. She saved Katie H and replaced her with Calum, claiming that she assumed he would be saved by the public.
^Note 4 : Shortly before nominations took place Perez staged a fake walk out and moved into a secret room. As Perez was living in the secret room he was not able to be nominated, however, he was able to cast one tie-breaker nomination vote to either Cami-Li, Katie P and Kavana as they had received one vote each. He chose Cami-Li.
^Note 5 : Shortly after Patsy’s eviction on Day 21, Perez returned to the house and viewers had been voting via the official app since Day 20 on whether he should “be blessed with a pass to the final” or “cursed with eternal nomination”. It was revealed that he would be eternally nominated for every eviction for the rest of the series. On Day 22, Housemates nominated face-to-face.
^Note 6 : On Day 27, the voting lines were open for approximately an hour during the live show for a surprise instant eviction. As Perez had received “eternal nomination” he was automatically nominated.
^Note 7 : This was a to win rather than to save, and the two Housemate with the fewest votes were evicted on Day 29. The voting lines then reopened for the remaining Housemates until the final.
Official viewers (millions) | |||||
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Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | ||
Saturday | 2.6 | 2.61 | 2.32 | 2.29 | |
Sunday | 2.86 | 3.21 | 2.84 | 2.68 | |
Monday | 2.57 | 2.46 | 2.67 | 2.35 | |
Tuesday | 2.47 | 3.11 | 2.74 | 2.67 | |
Wednesday | 3.44 | 2.16 | 2.28 | 2.92 | 2.69 |
Thursday | 2.82 | 2.79 | 2.83 | 3.13 | 2.82 |
Friday | 2.59 | 3.04 | 2.64 | 2.91 | 2.81 |
Weekly average | 2.73 | 2.73 | 2.79 | 2.62 | |
Running average | 2.73 | 2.73 | 2.75 | 2.72 | |
Series average | 2.72 | ||||
blue-coloured boxes denote live shows. |