Big Brother Australia - Notable Contestants

Notable Contestants

2001

• Rachel Corbett is currently heard across the Triple M and Southern Cross Austereo Local Works Radio Networks co-hosting Merrick and The Highway Patrol with Merrick Watts and Julian Schiller. She had previously co-hosted the All New Paul Murray show with Rachel Corbett across the Triple M Networks in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane until Paul Murray signed on with Sydney AM talkback station 2UE, to do his own show.
• Christina Davis is a stand-up comedian, actress and voiceover artist.
• Sara-Marie Fedele enjoyed significant celebrity status after the series, releasing a CD single, pyjamas, a book, and endorsed Nicorette Patches in television advertisements. She was a celebrity contestant in Celebrity Big Brother Australia in 2002 and Dancing with the Stars in 2005.
• Blair McDonough had an on-going acting role with daily serial Neighbours from 2001 to April 2006, then worked as a television presenter, and acted in Winners and Losers.
• Gordon Sloan from Big Brother Australia 2001 died in Beijing on 13 September 2007, supposedly of a drug overdose.
• Pete Timbs is a journalist for TV Week magazine, co-hosts The Know on the subscription channel MAX and is part of the breakfast radio show on Triple M 4MMM in Brisbane. He also appeared on the chat show The Catch-Up as the gossip columnist.

2002

• Jess Hardy was a contestant on the second season of The Mole prior to her famous Big Brother appearance. Hardy was eliminated in the first episode of The Mole.
• Nathan Morris is now a radio host in Perth on Nova 93.7's breakfast show "Nathan and Nat"; was a regular guest on Big Mouth in 2008.
• Brodie Young, an intruder in Big Brother 2002, hosted Quizmania.

2003

• Regina Bird taped a pilot for her own show for Network Ten which never made it to air. Was a frequent guest on Big Brother UpLate, and a contestant on Nine Network's celebrity skating competition series Skating on Thin Ice in 2005.
• Chrissie Swan is currently doing breakfast radio for Melbourne radio station Mix 101.1 FM. She was previously a talk show host on The Circle and replaced Ian Dickson as host of Can of Worms, among other television appearances. She has been nominated for a Gold Logie.

2004

• Bree Amer was a regular co-host of Big Brother Friday Night Live and Friday Night Games.
• Wesley Dening hosted children's television show, Totally Wild
• Ryan Fitzgerald was a regular co-host of Big Brother Friday Night Live and Friday Night Games. He is also a radio host on the breakfast show on Nova 96.9 in Sydney, and appears frequently on Network Ten's Before The Game and The Project (he is a former AFL Footballer having played for the Sydney Swans and Adelaide Crows.)

2005

• Tim Brunero wrote a weekly column on The Chaser; was a regular guest on Big Mouth in 2008
• Simon Deering hosted The Uplate Game Show in 2005-2006.
• Greg and David Mathew, the Logan twins from Big Brother 2005, filmed a trek to the North Pole and had selected segments aired on Big Brother UpLate in May 2006.

2006

• Danielle Foote released a single, a cover of the song Underneath the Radar in 2006.
• Krystal Forscutt had a one year contract in 2006 with Zoo Weekly to feature in a weekly column. In 2007 Forscutt was a contestant on It Takes Two. She also appeared as a character in the video game Need for Speed: ProStreet.
• Rob Rigley was a regular co-host of The Uplate Game Show with Simon Deering
• Camilla Severi was one of the three hosts of Labby, Camilla and Stav on Brisbane's B105 but now works on Brisbane's Nova FM.

2007

• Jamie McDonald went from "Australia's favourite nerd" hosting a low-rating video games TV show to hosting breakfast radio with the Southern Cross/Austereo network.

2008

• Michael Crafter, previously a member of metalcore band I Killed The Prom Queen.
• Nathan Strempel currently is a presenter on Adelaide's Life FM and on Australia Live TV Xtreme Sports Hour.