Big Brother 3 (Bulgarian season)

Big Brother 3 was the third season of the reality show Big Brother in Bulgaria. It was aired on Nova Television and Nova+. The show launched on 18 September 2006 and ended on 11 December 2006. Originally, the season was planned to air for 11 weeks (78 days), 2 weeks shorter than the previous two seasons. However, the season was extended by 7 days and aired for 85 days in total. For the first time, the show was only hosted by Niki Kanchev.

This season, the prize was 500 000 leva. However, the Housemates were being punished with 5,000 leva for each break of the rules (not wearing microphones, discussing the nominations, etc.), the prize dropped to 200,000 leva, the same as in Big Brother 1 and Big Brother 2.

Big Brother 3 also introduced the first Big Brother talk show in Bulgaria - Big Brother's Big Mouth, hosted by former VIP Brother 1 housemate Dim Dukov. It was aired four (initially three) times a week.

This season was also known as "the season of the secrets" - there were many secret tasks during its run.

Big Brother 3 was the first season of the show in Bulgaria, the winner is a female - Lyubov Stancheva, who is one of the Stancheva triplets.

Housemates
18 Housemates entered the House on Day 1.

Borislav
Borislav Borisov is from Sofia. He entered the house on Day 1 and was the fourth evicted on Day 50. During the show he started romantic relationships with one of the other housemates - Lilyana. They are not together any more.

Boyan
Boyan Angelov is from Sofia. He entered the house on Day 1 - he was shocked to see his ex-girlfriend Diyana entering the show immediately after him. Boyan remained the last male housemate in the house - he finished fifth in the finale on Day 85.

Diyana
Diyana Nikolova is from Sofia. She entered the house on Day 1 and was the second evicted on Day 37. She is the ex-girlfriend of Boyan.

Eva
Eva Miteva is from Pleven. She entered the house on Day 1 and left voluntarily on Day 47. Eva is the ex-girlfriend of Marian from Big Brother 2. They have a daughter - Evana.

Garo
Garo Papazyan is from Plovdiv. He entered the house on Day 1 and was the third evicted on Day 43. Before entering the house, Garo was given the secret task to help Penyo with his task - pretending to be a woman.

Lilyana
Lilyana Angelova is from Plovdiv. She entered the house on Day 1 and finished third in the finale on Day 85. In the house, she started relationships with Borislav. However, they are not together any more. It was announced that Hugh Hefner personally asked her photos from the Bulgarian edition of Playboy to be published in the American one.

Lyubov
Lyubov Stancheva is from Blagoevgrad. She entered the house on Day 1 with her sisters. She is one of the triplets. She became a winner on Day 85.

Mariola
Mariola Indzhova is from Sliven. She entered the house on Day 1 and walked on Day 16. On the first nominations Big Brother announced that the two housemates with most negative votes will be automatically evicted. These two were Mariola and Panayot. In the studio, they were told that it was a fake eviction and the two were given a secret task - to stay in the two secret rooms in the house for a week. They had to steal clothes and food from their housemates without their notice. Initially, both Mariola and Panayot agreed to return in the secret rooms, but later the same evening Mariola decided to leave voluntarily.

Nadezhda
Nadezhda Stancheva is from Blagoevgrad. She entered the house on Day 1 with her sisters. She was the first one of the triplets to leave the house - she was the seventh evicted on Day 64.

Paloma
Paloma Santana is from Pleven. She entered the house on Day 1 and finished fourth in the finale on Day 85. Paloma and Radomira from Big Brother 2 are the youngest housemates in the history of Big Brother Bulgaria. During their stay in the house they were both 18 years old.

Panayot
Panayot Kyuchukov "Patso" is from Galabovo. He entered the house on Day 1 and was the first evicted on Day 29.

Pavel
Pavel Takov is from Burgas. He entered the house on Day 1 and was the eighth evicted on Day 71.

Penyo
Penyo Daskalov is from Chirpan (born in Stara Zagora). He entered the house on Day 1 and was the sixth evicted on Day 64. Before entering the show, Penyo was given the secret task to pretend for a week that he was a woman. He was told that if his task was successful, he would be given a plastic surgery on his nose. Garo was given the task to help him with the task. However, it was unsuccessful, but later in the show he had the surgery on his nose.

Plamen
Plamen Varbanov is from Varna. He entered the house on Day 1 and walked on Day 8. On the first days in the house, when Plamen asked to leave, Big Brother offered him 5 000 leva to stay in the house for at least 14 more days. However, Plamen broke his promise and he returned the money.

Svetlana
Svetlana Stoycheva is from Popovo. She entered the house on Day 1 and was the fifth evicted on Day 57. Svetlana was pregnant when she entered the show. On the sixth week of Big Brother 3, she gave birth to her daughter Amber. They both returned in the House on Day 40 and lived in it until Svetlana's eviction.

Todor
Todor Karagiozov is from Sliven. He entered the house on Day 1 and was the tenth evicted on Day 80.

Violeta
Violeta Kondova "Vili" is from Brusartsi. She entered the house on Day 1 and finished second in the finale on Day 85. She is one of the oldest contestant in the history of Big Brother Bulgaria. During her stay in the show she was 57 years old.

Vyara
Vyara Stancheva is from Blagoevgrad. She is one of the triplets. She entered the house on Day 1. During her and her sisters' secret task it was Vyara's identity, under which they had to live - during one of them was with the other housemates, pretending to be Vyara, the other two were in the secret rooms in the house. Their task was to trick the others that they were one and the same person. The mission of the triplets was successful, and they were allowed to stay in the house. She was the ninth evicted on Day 78.

Nominations table
The first housemate in each box was nominated for two points, and the second housemate was nominated for one point. The triplets - Lyubov, Nadezhda and Vyara were nominate together, but be nominated separately by their fellow housemates.