Big Brother VIP (Albanian TV series) season 4

Big Brother VIP 4, was the fourth season of Big Brother VIP, hosted by Ledion LiÃÂ§o. The season began airing on 21 December 2024 on Top Channel, and ended after 120 days on 19 April 2025. The whole season, live from the house, was viewed in two live pay-per-view channels, with the name Big Brother VIP 1 and Big Brother VIP 2, which are available on Albanian television platform DigitAlb. ArbÃÂ«r Hajdari returned as opinionist in the live evictions shows and was joined by Neda Balluku, replacing Ori Nebijaj.

For the first time in Big Brother Albania history, there would be civilian who live in the house alongside celebrities housemates.

The spin-off show Big Brother VIP Ã¢ÂÂ Fans' Club was hosted this season, by season 3 finalist Heidi Baci. The two opinionists were season 2 housemate Ronaldo Sharka and Big Brother VIP Kosova season 2 finalist Shqipe Hysenaj. The 60-minute radio show Big Brother Radio returned for the third season, with Elona Duro and Atalanta KÃÂ«rÃÂ§yku.

On 19 April 2025, Besart "Gjesti" Kelmendi was announced as the winner of the season, with Rozana Radi as the runner-up.

Production

On 16 June 2024, Top Channel renewed the show for a fourth season.

In June 2024, the host of the show, Ledion LiÃÂ§o was asked in his interview for the show Top Arena on Top Channel, when will Big Brother VIP 4 start and LiÃÂ§o answered "We will wait a little longer". In August 2024, the executive producer, Sara Hoxha has shared her morning coffee on social networks, where it is written Big Brother VIP 4 is coming. In October 2024, on Instagram were posted the designs from the new house. On 22 October 2024, it was announced that the fourth season will begin airing in December 2024. On 13 November 2024, Big Brother VIP producer Sara Hoxha, released footage for the first time, showing what the Big Brother VIP 4 house will look like. On 17 November 2024, was announced that Ledion LiÃÂ§o would return for the fourth season, as host.

On 6 December 2024, Top Channel announced that ArbÃÂ«r Hajdari will be returning for his fourth season as a opinionist and it was also announced that the new opinionist will be Neda Balluku, who was a housemate on the fourth season of Big Brother Albania.

Celebrities and civilians

On 26 November 2024, Top Channel announced that in addition to the celebrities who participated in the three previous seasons, ordinary people will also take part this season. ÃÂn the same day, applications for the show were open. On 24 December 2024, six additional housemates entered the civilians house where the public voted for two of them to move into the main House.

Housemates

On Day 1, sixteen celebrity housemates entered the house during the launch show. On Day 4, six civilians housemates entered the civilians house, where the public voted for two of them to move into the Big Brother VIP house. Besart "Gjesti" Kelmendi previously participated on the third season of Big Brother VIP Kosova, he entered the Big Brother VIP Albania house a day after his eviction.

Format

Housemate exchanges

On 20 December 2024, Ledion LiÃÂ§o announced on the show on Top Channel ShqipÃÂ«ria live, that for the first time on the Albanian version would be a housemate exchange with another country. It was revealed the exchange will be with the Italian version Grande Fratello, which current broadcast the eighteen season. The housemate exchange, however, never took place.

Round Trip Ticket

Like in the last seasons, the housemates would have the Round Trip Ticket, which would allow the Housemates who picked it to re-enter the house immediately following eviction. Envelopes could only be opened by a Housemate following their eviction. If a Housemate opened their envelope prior to their eviction, their card would be voided. Unlike last season not all housemates would have the Round Trip Ticket. On Day 8, Big Brother has organized a game during prime show, in which Aldo, Egli and ZebÃÂ«rvoki have raced to secure the Round Trip Ticket that will serve the housemates. The three housemates had to find as many tickets as possible within one minute, but taking care to get the packages that had tickets inside and not coffee. At the end of the challenge, only 9 Lori Caffe bags had tickets inside them and it was Egli who had to choose who to share them with. Egli gave tickets to Aldo, Amber, Laert, Livia, Loredana, Ols, Rozana and ZebÃÂ«rvoki and kept the last one for herself. On Day 12, after the eviction of Jozi, Valbona broke the Emergency glass, with the name "One Way Ticket/Round Trip Ticket", and Jozi returned on the house, but the 9 housemates that have the tickets would lost them and no one could return on the house, after their elimination. On Day 63, Gjesti as Head of Household, had the power to give to 5 housemates the Round Trip Ticket, but only one ticket was Round Trip Ticket, the other four tickets were One Way Ticket. He gave the tickets to Aldo, Danja, Kelly, Livia and Tiri.

Emergency Kit Glass

New this season was the Emergency Kit Glass, where there are six boxes of advantages in the house, which housemates can take advantage of. During the first prime show of this season, host Ledion LiÃÂ§o warned that opening the box could lead to a punishment. On Day 92, three new Emergency Kits were put on the house, the Golden Power Box, the Key and the Telefon.

Nominations table

Key

Ã¢ÂÂ Celebrities

Ã¢ÂÂ Civilians

Ã¢ÂÂ 2-in-1 housemate called 'Laert & Valbona', their nominations counted as one. (Week 10 - Week 13)

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Notes

: Arsida, Bernard, Briseida & Jori, Eda, Ejona and Gramos, entered the Civilians House on Day 4, where the public voted to choose two of them to become part of the cast. Arsida and Gramos received the most votes and moved into the main house on Day 8 with the remaining housemates. Rozana had the power to take one civilian on the Big Brother VIP house. She chose Bernard.
: Arsida, Bernard and Gramos, as the new housemates had immunity.
: Jozi was evicted by the public votes, but Valbona broke the Emergency Kit Glass, which was the "One Way Ticket/Round Trip Ticket" for Jozi and he returned on the game.
: The housemates were divided into two groups. Both groups had a leader, Ols and Rozana were the leaders. Ols choose for his team: Aldo, Arsida, Bernard, Jozi, Klajdi, Laert, Xum and Zebervoki. Rozana choose for her team: Amber, Egli, G-Bani, Gerta, Gramos, Livia, Loredana and Valbona. The viewers voted for the two teams. The team with Ols, as the leader, had the fewest votes and then his team were against the public vote and the housemate with the fewest votes was eliminated from the house.
: Danja and Petro, as the new housemates had immunity.
: Gert, Gjesti and Igli, as the new housemates had immunity.
: The viewers voted for their favorite housemate. The two housemates with the fewest votes, were eliminated and the housemates with the most votes had immunity. Gramos and Petro had the fewest votes and Amber and Rozana had the most votes.
: After Aldo has broken the Emergency Kit Glass, and will meet his daughter, he had the power to nominate one housemate and that whoever he chose would automatically face every eviction of the season until they were evicted. Aldo chose to nominate Gerta, meaning she also could not be nominated by her fellow housemates in following weeks.
: On Day 22, as punishment for breaking the rules, G-Bani was banned from nominating.
: On Day 25, Amber, G-Bani and Jozi were automatically nominated due to breaking the rules, but the eviction was cancelled, because Amber left the game. Then Big Brother decided to send all the housemates against the public votes and on day 29 one housemate will be evicted from the house.
: On Day 29, Egli was being tempted by the Pandora's Box, and she choose to open the box. The good consequence was: won two free trip tickets by Globus travel to Turkey, while the bad consequence was: Egli had the power to send 2 housemates against the public votes. She could also choose herself. Egli choose Xum and herself.
: Indrit, Krisa and Tiri, as the new housemates had immunity.
: On Day 36, the viewers voted for their favorite housemate. The three housemates with the most votes were G-Bani, Gerta and Gjesti, who all three received immunity and had the power to give to three other housemates also immunity. G-Bani choose Danja, Gerta choose Klajdi and Gjesti choose Egli. All other housemates were nominated for eviction.
: G-Bani, Gjesti, Klajdi and Rozana were automatically nominated due to breaking the rules.
: On Day 46, Gerta was ejected from the house, but the viewers voted for her to either eject her or let her return into the house. She received the most votes and returned to the house.
: On Day 46, were opened the lines for one week and the viewers voted for their favorite housemate. The housemate with the fewest votes, was eliminated. After the ejection of Jozi on Day 47 the viewers continued to vote, until on Day 51 where the eviction was cancelled, after the ejection of G-Bani.
: Laert as Head of Household, had the power to send two more housemates to face the public vote, he chose Gjesti and Rozana.
: Krisa as Head of Household, had the power to send either all the Men or all the Women to face the public vote, she chose the Women.
: Kelly, Ola, Rizarta and Vserlo, as the new housemates had immunity.
: On Day 60, a new nomination method was followed, where the opinionists played the main role. The housemates were divided into two groups and each of the opinionists chose the most at-risk housemate, who were nominated for eviction. The red group were Aldo, Danja, Gerta and Loredana. The blue group were Egli, Gjesti, Laert, Livia, Rozana, Tiri and Valbona. ArbÃÂ«r Hajdari chose Loredana and Neda Balluku chose Livia.
: On Day 64, Gjesti as Head of Household, had the power to put 7 evicted housemates in the race, of which 3 will be able to return into the game again through a televote. The 7 evicted housemates that Gjesti chose were: Klajdi, Krisa, Redon, Gert, Amber, G-Bani and Jozi.
: Egli's disruption of the ropes game consequently, Aldo, Egli, Gerta, Rizarta, Rozana and Tiri, as losers of the ropes game, were nominated and the housemate with the fewest votes would be eliminated.
: A televoting was opened within the show, where all the housemates were nominated due to breaking the rules.
: 7 Housemates went to the televote after opening the black envelope at home, for hiding personal belongings.
: Rizarta as Head of Household, had the power to choose three housemates to give them immunity. She chose herself, Kelly and Mikela, thus leading all the remaining housemates to the nomination. Meanwhile, after this announcement Gjesti broke the Emergency Kit Glass, for immunity. The envelope said "you can choose to exchange yourself with three housemates". But like every good thing that has a bad thing, with Gjesti's exit from the nomination, all the housemates went to televoting.
: On Day 78, Gerta was being tempted by the Pandora's Box, and she choose to open the box. Gerta had the power to nominate 3 housemates, without including herself. Gerta's choice was to nominate Rozana, Laert & Valbona and Amber.
: On Day 78, a new nomination method was followed. All the boys were nominated, except for two boys, who were able to save, by the girls in two groups. Rozana, Gerta, Danja and Rizarta saved Kelly, while Valbona, Ola, Loredana and Mikela did not unanimously agree on a name and could not save any of the boys. Valbona also goes to the nomination since, she and Laert are a single player.
: Gjesti was automatically nominated due to breaking the rules.
: In a lifeline to choose the Head of Household of the week, where the last one in the chain was Gerta, who is automatically chosen as the Head of Household of the week had the power to send a housemate to the nomination, she chose Laert & Valbona.
: By majority vote, the public decided to return Egli to the house. It was Egli's request to continue competing for the grand prize, so she was re-entered the house, 9 days after she left, due to her deteriorating health and psychological condition.
: Egli has immunity after re-entry on Day 85.
: Divided into three groups, the housemates have decided on the names that will go to the nomination. Each group had 30 seconds to choose one by majority vote to take to the televoting. The first group decided on Laert & Valbona, the second group on Ola, while the third group did not agree on a majority vote, going to the televoting fourth, namely Danja, Egli, Gjesti and Rozana.
: Laert and Valbona were faced with a choice if they decided to split up as two different contestants. If one of them chose to split up, then they would both go head-to-head in a nomination and one of them would leave the house. Valbona did not accept this "offer", deciding to be a single contestant with Laert. On the other hand, Laert accepted the challenge to split up from Valbona, so they both went to the nomination.
: Aldo was evicted by the public, but he was revealed to have picked the Return Ticket, therefore he went back into the House.
: Two housemates will face each other for the first finalist. Divided according to the sofas they sit on, the housemates had to choose a representative from the sofa opposite them to go to the nomination. The red sofa chose Rozana, while the blue sofa chose Gerta. One of them will go to the final automatically, while the other will learn her fate on day 106.
: The first finalist, Rozana, was given the opportunity by 'Big Brother' to choose the names of two housemates who would face each other to become the second finalist. She chose Egli and Laert.
: Gerta, after facing Rozana for the first finalist, cannot face 'Big Brother's' other challenges head-to-head for the final, she can only go to the final if she is chosen from a standard televoting.
: Only 2 housemates out of the last 6 will be able to reach the Final, the other 4 will be eliminated on day 113.
: At the final round, the public voted for the winner.

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References

External links

Official Website