La casa de los famosos Colombia

La casa de los famosos Colombia (LCFC) is a Colombian reality television program, presented by Cristina Hurtado and Carla Giraldo. The program premiered on 11 February 2024 on Canal RCN and has a 24-hour broadcast through the streaming platform Vix which allows viewers to watch the day-to-day activities of the cast at all times; this follows the format pioneered by the Dutch franchise Big Brother. Big Brother, known as Gran Hermano in Spanish speaking countries, was created by John de Mol Jr. in 1999 and has run over 500 seasons worldwide.

La casa de los famosos Colombia is the second version of the show held in Colombia, being preceded by two seasons of Big Brother, broadcast by the Caracol Televisión and Citytv channels in 2003 and 2012, respectively. However, it is the first edition of the franchise developed in Colombia using competition between celebrities as a primary audience draw. The show is a direct adaptation of the American program of the same name which premiered in 2021 on the Telemundo network, and is the second version of this format to be carried out globally, after the broadcast of La casa de los famosos México in 2023.

The first season concluded on 17 June 2024, after 128 days of competition with Karen Sevillano being crowned the winner, and Julián Trujillo as the runner-up. The series has been renewed for a second season.

Format
As in the international franchise Big Brother, La casa de los famosos Colombia follows a group of contestants, in this case celebrities, who stay inside an expansive mansion for a predetermined period of time. During their time in the mansion, the celebrity contestants compete in weekly physical and logical tests, puzzles and competitions in order to avoid elimination. Contestants are eliminated by an online viewer ballot. The challenges are categorized according to their level of importance; the five categories are as follows:


 * Prueba de líder (Head of Household Competition): The contestants compete to become the "leader" of the house. Being leader gives the contestant a set of rewards and benefits for the development of the game.
 * Prueba de presupuesto (Budget Task): This competition determines the distribution of the resources available to competitors throughout the week.
 * Nominación (Nomination): All contestants cast a ballot to nominate one of their opponents for elimination. If a contestant is nominated they can be eliminated at the Elimination Gala.
 * Prueba de salvación (Salvation Competition): This gives nominated contestants the ability to prevent their name from being available to viewers in the Elimination Gala.
 * Gala de eliminación (Elimination Gala): On the last day of every week, viewers vote on which nominated contestant is eliminated from the show. Elimination means removal from the mansion and an inability to win the grand prize.

Production
The construction of the mansion began at the end of 2023 in Bogotá, Colombia. The space has an area of approximately 2,000 square meters and is equipped with 40 cameras which livestream and film any events within the mansion. The premiere occurred on 11 February 2024. On 17 June 2024, Canal RCN renewed the series for a second season.

Housemates
The participants are made official during the broadcasts of the morning show Buen día, Colombia on Canal RCN and through social media. On 9 January 2024, the first announcement was made, in which the actress Martha Isabel Bolaños was confirmed as the first contestant. Later, figures such as the actress and singer Diana Ángel, the actors Sebástian Gutiérrez and Julián Trujillo, and the influencers Natalia Segura and Ornella Sierra were named.

On 15 January, the Panamanian television channel TVN announced its partnership with Canal RCN for the distribution of the show in Panama. The partnership included the addition of a Panamanian contestant. The chosen contestant was the singer Miguel Melfi, also known for having won the first season of the international reality show El poder del amor in 2021. On 31 January, during a press conference about the format, the Venezuelan actress and former beauty queen Isabella Santiago was introduced as the eleventh contestant. Contestant names continued to be release through the day of the premiere.