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2001 was the first year for the series of Big Brother Australia. The season running from April 23, 2001 to July 16, 2001, running for a duration of 86 days.

Potential contestants for the show were required to send video applications to the show's producers, selling themselves as being entertaining housemates.

This season presented a rather basic set-up which stuck closely to the traditional Big Brother concept. The main twist to the show was about half-way through the series with the entrance of two Intruders

The winner of the BigBrother series 1 was Ben Williams, and the runner-up was Blair McDonough, who later on got a role in Network Ten's soapopera Neighbours. This was the only series where housemates were allowed to nominate fellow housemates without having a valid reason

001, Big Bother was the first book to examine Big Brother as a world wide pop culture phenomenon.

Some of the memorable moments for the season included:

• Christina and Peter, who formed a relationship early in the series, and their implied sexual behaviour (or "dancing doona" as it was called).
• Housemate Andy Silva, who regularly showered outside in the backyard, and her tales of her various sexual encounters.

• Popular housemates Jemma and Johnnie were discovered by Christina discussing nominations (and their agreed opinion that Christina would be nominated that week). Their conversation was deemed to be collusion - something that is against the rules of the series - and Jemma and Johnnie were subsequently reprimanded by Big Brother, with Jemma punished by not being allowed to nominate that week. In the next two evictions Johnnie and then Jemma were evicted.

Australian Big Brother Series 1 Housemates

Ben

Ben Williams, from Epping,, New South Wales, entered the House on Day 0 and was the winner.

Blair

Blair McDonough, from Melbourne, The runner-up of Big Brother 2001, he went on to becomes a regular cast member of Neighbours from 2001 to 2006 and is now living in the United Kingdom.

Sara-Marie

Sara-Marie Fedele, a strip-club manager from Western Australia, She entered the House on Day 0. Appeared in Celebrity Big Brother Australia, and also a few episodes of the afternoon children's program Totally Wild on Network Ten and also participated in series two of Dancing with the Stars

Christina

Christina Davis, a former ballerina from Sydney, entered the House on Day 0 and was evicted on day 77. She is now works as a stand-up comedian and appeared in FHM's Search for Australia's Funniest Man (or Woman).

Jemma

Jemma Gawned, from Melbourne, entered the House on Day 0 and was evicted on Day 70. She has her own line of make-up products

Johnnie

John Cass, known in the House as Johnnie, is from Sydney, . He entered the House on Day 0, and was evicted on Day 63. He was labelled "Johnny Rotten" in the media for giving consoling hugs to housemates upset that they had been nominated for eviction, where he had himself nominated them.

Anita

Anita Bloomfield, from Sydney, entered the House as an Intruder on Day 36,evicted two weeks later on Day 56.

Peter

Peter Timbs, from Sydney, entered the House on Day 0 evicted on Day 49, and now works for TV Week magazine and is a reviewer on the Foxtel TV program The Know.

Lisa

Lisa Standing entered the House on Day 0 evicted on Day 42. She was often referred to as the "fence sitter" as she never got involved in a conflict

Rachel

Rachel Corbett entered the House as an Intruder on Day 36. She was evicted 4 days later on day 40.

Gordon

Gordon Sloan, an architect, entered the House on Day 0 evicted on Day 35. He became a "human shield" in the Iraq War

Todd

Todd James entered the House on Day 0 evicted on Day 28. . He returned as a roving reporter on Big Brother Australia 2002. Since then he was host of the breakfast show on the melbourne radio station PBS 106.7FM

Sharna West

Sharna West, a flight attendant for Ansett Airlines, entered the House on Day 0 and was evicted Day 21.

Andy

Andy Silva a dominatrix from Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales.