Big Brother (Albanian TV series) season 9

Big Brother Albania 9, also known as Big Brother - Love Edition, was the ninth season of the Albanian television series of the worldwide franchise of Big Brother. It started on March 18, 2017 and ended on June 24, 2017 on Top Channel. The show ran for 99 days. The winner received 15,000,000 lekë (€100,000) and for the first time in the Big Brother Albania history the winner would be a couple. The winner couple was Danjel Dedndreaj & Fotini Derxho. The main host is again Arbana Osmani who returned for the eighth time, after taking the previous season off due to pregnancy.

Big Brother Fans' Club returned with the main host Albana Osmani, and Olti Curri being part of the show. The Fans' Club show featured dialogues with evicted contestants, housemates from the previous series and fans of the show. Big Bastards the new show for Big Brother Albania 9, it was airing after the Live Eviction Show.

The live eviction show was every Saturday at 21:00 CET, while every day of the week at 16:00 was a one-hour episode, that showed what happens into the house. Fans' Club was every Sunday from 13:00 to 15:00. Big Bastards was after the live eviction show for about 15 to 20 minutes.

Like all the previous seasons, two 24/7 live PPV channels, with the name Big Brother 1 and Big Brother 2, were made available on DigitAlb since the start of the show.

Auditions
Auditions for Big Brother Albania 9 was taken in Tirane and Pristina.

Open auditions
Producers auditions commenced on 6 January in Tirane and ended on 30 January again in Tirane.

Housemates

 * On Day 1, 10 single housemates and 5 couples entered the house.
 * Viewers will have three weeks to decide who will be the new couples.
 * From Day 1, the 10 singles housemates were in another house and the 5 couples in another house.
 * 8 couples entered the house on Day 50.
 * From Week 10, Ambra and Elsamed no longer a couple. They are playing the game separately.

Summary

 * On Day 1, the 10 single housemates were entered the Bachelor House and the 5 couples were entered the Couple House.
 * On Day 8, Damiano coupled with Donjeta, Danjel coupled with Fotini and they moved to the Couples House.
 * Also, Dona, Egnajt, Kleodiana & Musa entered the Big Brother House as singles, and they lived in the Bachelor House.
 * On Day 11, Donjeta and Damiano walked, due to Donjeta who wanted to leave the house so Damiano left the House with her.
 * On Day 15, Damiano returned by the most public votes, but he was single so he entered the Bachelor House again.
 * The same day, Sidrita coupled with Ervin and they moved to the Couples House.
 * On Day 22, Armela coupled with Damiano, Xheni coupled with Benard, Dona coupled with Musa and they moved to the Couples House.
 * Liridon wasn't coupled with any of the girl housemates so he was evicted.
 * And Kleodiana and Egnajt didn't accept to be a couple with each other, so they were ejected by Big Brother.
 * From week 4 all the housemates (couples) lived together.