I was going to my first V-Festival and I missed Nasty Nick leaving

What year did it start?

I was only 11 years old when BB1 was on.

god I think it was 1999 Croc

Id just moved into the house i went on to reactivate, loved that house . I had a 2 year old I was friends with people who ive lost contact with, life was completely different.

BB started in 2000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...rother_2000_%28UK%29

better or worse though?

I remember I was hooked from the 1st episode...


I was married with 4 kids ranging from 10 to 8mnths...still had one living parent though hadn't spoken to him for about a year at that point....

Now kids much older and the then baby is leaving primary school in a couple of weeks...still married and now an orphan..

In some ways worse but in most ways better, I like my life better now, the freinds I have now are my friends where then they were my x's friends (i moved from the other end of the country).

ah well.. only a year out.. BUT same rules apply. I didn't watch the first series - got hooked on the second.

*nods*
I like ME better

Went to Lithuanian and visited with family ,it was the first time I had ever seen them,ever.I t was one of the most emotional days of my life .I met one uncle who looked exactly like my late father.

I was planning my wedding.

Had an almost 6 year old and a 2 year old, lived in a house that I loved. I got married August bank holiday...we didn't have a night time do, just a daytime reception.  We spent the night at home with our friends (my Sis in Law took our kids for the night)

While the boys were talking about music and getting steadily more drunk the girls watched BB

Our daughter's just left school, we moved house...a house I hate with venom.

Loads of other stuff, people died...people got sick...I got fat   And I have my Tin wedding anniversary soon.

I was busy being an eight year old. That's so bizarre, I've gown up with Big Brother, haha.

I was living in Birmingham, my children were young and we had a busy home-life, I was a size 12,  my husband was fun, and we had a good social life with a fab group of friends.

I'm living in Scotland now, and spending at least half the week away from home due to work. My children are in their twenties and although they are both living at home, I hardly ever see them, I'm not a size 12 anymore , hubby has moved into grumpy old man mode, we've lost touch with most of our friends from then (most of them have split up or divorced) and my social life is mostly on here

 Very different - the next 10 years can only get better lol

Me too...I'd been meaning to watch, I'd seen the adverts.  I forgot to watch ep.1 but I think my Mam's friend had taped it or someone had...watched it and then ep.2 the night it went out.

I've probably only missed maybe 2 or 3 HL shows ever.

blimey i was   a teen....with acne and long hair..

ahh i didn't have acne then..

Same here....I think I've only ever missed a couple....It always used to start the night we drove to Cornwall but I alway maged to watch it in the caravan

I'd just moved into a new house, my boy was 2. I started watching about the 4th or 5th show in (cos my mum was banging on about it) - back then it was advertised as a social experiment and didn't have all the glitz and glam it does now. The house was dead plain and we used to be able to see them live in the diary room aswell. I distinctly remember Mel plucking her pubes in the garden (funny what sticks in your head), Anna playing a song on the guitar about being on the TV and the Nasty Nick confrontation.

I'm still in touch with people from back then, but have met loads more since. Although I've moved house again I'm still in the same area so doesn't feel all that different to me. Life is 10 times better now than it was back then though.

I remember being in a caravan in Berwick when fight night kicked off...we'd caught all the HL shows but travelling home the next day we heard on the radio about what had kicked off on live feed.

First thing I did when we got home was look for a torrent, I think Flossie found me one...

Oh fight night with Victor and Emma was a classic! I was working in Croydon at the time and used to have to leave at silly o clock to drive to the office from West London, but I stayed up till about 4am watching that (and was mullered the next day )

I was married with a 4 year and another on the way....was very ill having her and spent loads of the first BB in and out of hospital...missed Mel being evicted and was gutted



I am now seperated, with a 14 year old and a 9 year old, and very glad to be seperated thank you very much

They used to be able to take a book in in the firs one didn't they?
Or was it one luxuy tem which was book for some  bt not others, hence Anna's guitar.

Awww Jackson I remember the first pic I saw of you....all long hair and cute holding a bottle of Stella I think

Yeah they were allowed to bring in luxury items - I remember Anna reading (think it was Anna)

 

Someone, a man, took in a pop up laundry basket as their luxury item...can't remember who.

Graduated from uni as a mature student. one daughter and one OH...still one daughter and one OH

Didn't watch BB until series 3 when I broke my foot and was stuck on the sofa with my chalk on and feet up...became addicted then

good question! 

I vividly remember the first BB starting..    I was unmarried, with a 7 year old & a 3 year old...  Pondlife (the ex) still lived in my house... but we didn't spend any time in the same room.   (it took bloody ages to get him out of my house )...  I used to spend all my free time up in my bedroom on my pooter, talking to people in the MSN & Yahoo Chatrooms.

All the chatrooms were talking about BIg Brother, so I started watching and I was hooked.

Twas in the days when people basically thought you were mad if you admitted to talking to people online..   

oh.. and all online conversations begain with A/S/L? 

oh... I am now married... to a bloke I met in an MSN chatroom...  and moved to a much nicer location...   

I have no idea whether I am fatter or thinner than then.....  these things tend to fluctuate with alarming regularity!

oh god... I have just re read other peoples...   especially the bits about losing touch with RL friends, but socialising on here....

I have been mainly socialising on the interweb for over a decade now!!!

Just call me Tron!

I used to be on MSN Grapevine...we might have spoken years ago

I was nursing my Mum through her final months - she died in the October of cancer.

Blackpud!

Sorry to hear that.

Ten years ago (Happy 10th Birthday BB), I had also just moved house and was pregmunt with my fourth.

Now, we've nearly finished the house, definitely finished having kids, and I'm bigger than when I was pregmunt.

I also blame you lot for everything.

Sorry to hear that, Blackpud x

unlikely.... I mainly lurked & waited for the pm boxes to flash up with ASL in them!

I didn't talk to wimmin  

In 2000 I celebrated my 9th wedding anniversary and daughter was 4 in the May and son 6 in the September. We lived in a large 4 bedroom detached house with a shiny new 4x4 in the drive, took regular foreign holidays and enjoyed an absolutely stonking social life with 3 other couples.

I really got into BB in 2003, the year after my marriage imploded (one affair on his part too many). Come 7.30pm the kids were in bed and I was on my tod until morning. By accident I stumbled across GBBF when nosing around for BB highlights one lunchtime in work. There was this thread called "Why Big Brother...?" I lurked for weeks before my opinions got the better of me so I ended up joining. 

I have to say GBBF kept me sane through 2003 to 2006. For that - and to all of you who were about then I can only say a huge thank you and    since ex became very vindictive and virtually drove me to bankruptcy - not quite but it was a very tough time. I look back at the person I was in 2000 and I barely recognise her.

The big house and the new car have gone of course ... as have all the holidays and the social life I had then. Some friends have stayed close but most have drifted off ... single women virus I assume.  Sod 'em ... I met people through GBBF I'd never have spoken to before and it has enriched my life beyond all expectation.

In part that's why I got this tatt yesterday - after 11 years Cariad is so much a part of me I felt she needed recognition. 
Anyway - enough mindless emotional drivel. Anyone else for a top up?