Big Brother Australia 2025: Every contestant who was evicted from the house

Fan favourite Emily narrowly missed out on taking home the $135,000 prize fund during the live final on Monday, December 8.

She made it all the way to the final two, but it was ultimately Coco who was crowned the champion of the 2025 series.

The school teacher, 30, had been an early favourite to win the show, with many of her housemates sharing their desire for her to win.

Many viewers were also left fuming when Emily wasn’t given an exit interview live on stage.

When Coco was announced as the winner, Emily was quickly evicted from the house and was briefly shown waving live on stage.

However, unlike her fellow finalists, she didn’t get the chance to chat with host Mel Tracina, and many viewers were left devastated that she missed her big moment.

Bruce was tempted by an offer to win a Suzuki during the live final, but lost out on the prize to Allana.

Unluckily for him, just moments later, he was evicted from the Big Brother house after receiving the least amount of public votes.

Speaking to New Idea exclusively after his exit, Bruce explained he decided to try and win the car because he didn’t think he was going to win.

“I honestly didn’t think I had a shot of winning, and even if I did, I really didn’t think that I deserved the money to be honest, but the car would have been sick,” he admitted.

“It’s not that I didn’t deserve [the prize money], but Coco is a single mum and [Colin] had a plan to get his mum flowers and get an e-bike and all that, everyone had a really good reason, but it didn’t even cross my mind, getting the money. I didn’t think I’d make it that far.”

Bruce said he simply signed up for the show to “procrastinate coming back to real life after travelling” and confessed he never thought he’d be in the final.

The tradie, 25, famously clashed with some of his housemates over his traditional views on gender, and said he was thankful to have been able to learn and “grow” as a person in the house, as confronting as it might have been.

“It’s a pressure cooker, the amount of stress and pressure, it showed me a side of myself that I haven’t been exposed to in everyday life. It wasn’t ideal but being shown that so I can work on it is a pretty special thing,” he shared.

“I don’t want to say sheltered, but I definitely lived a certain life, and I wasn’t exposed to those opinions, and it has widened my perspective a bit. I’ve got to get a bit more cultured before I weigh in on some things, but nobody is perfect, and you live, and you learn.”

However, he did have one regret from his four weeks on the show, admitting he wishes that he’d handled his tense confrontation with Jane better.

“What I was trying to get across, I stand by, but the delivery and the tone, I have a bit of regret towards that, I wish I’d handled it better,” he shared.

“But I’ll happily shake her hand at the reunion, and I’ll be happy to see her, but we probably won’t go out for a beer, you know?”

Despite the highs and lows of the experience, he said he would do it again in a “heartbeat”, and now has his eye on another reality show, telling us, “I’d love to do The Block. I love hands-on stuff, I’m good with my hands, and it would be a lot of fun.”

As for what’s next for him and Coco? We will have to wait and see.

“I still think she’s a great girl, and tonight will be the first time we’ll be able to hang out without cameras and microphones, so we’ll probably have a chat then, and I’ll have a better answer for you, but right now, I’m just keen to see her,” he teased.

Colin made it to the final but narrowly missed out on the prize fund, coming in third place.

Though he didn’t walk away with any prize money, he was delighted to reunite with his love interest from the house, Holly.

She watched proudly from the live audience and cheered him on during his exit interview with host, Mel.

And he hinted that things aren’t over between him and Holly as he made a very grand declaration live on stage.

When greeted by host Mel Tracina, he was asked if he had any message for Holly, to which the nervous MMA fighter seemed unsure what to say.

However, with his Mum by his side on stage, he then shouted out, “I love you!” prompting her to respond by making a heart symbol with her hands.

Social worker Allana made it all the way to the final, but left in a shock twist before the votes were revealed.

The five final housemates were all offered the chance to win a Suzuki and sacrifice their chance to win in an unexpected twist.

Allana decided to accept the offer and left with the $42,000 vehicle, becoming the first housemate to leave in the final.

Fan favourite Conor narrowly missed out on a place in the final when he was evicted on Sunday, December 7.

He was the last housemate to be evicted before the five finalists were revealed: Bruce, Coco, Colin, Emily and Allana.

Speaking exclusively to New Idea, Conor admitted he wasn’t overly upset not to have made the grand final.

“I knew going into that eviction that Coco and Colin were big powerhouse personalities, so I knew it was going to be difficult,” he shared.

“I was a bit surprised when [I was evicted], but then there was relief immediately. I wasn’t in it for the money, I was in it for the advocacy.”

Conor spoke openly about living with Tourette’s Syndrome in the Big Brother house, and revealed the reception has been more positive than he could have hoped for.

“It’s not my first time bringing my Tourette’s to the media, so I knew what the gamble was going in,” he admitted.

“Being in there for four weeks and not knowing how it was going on the outside was pretty difficult at times. I struggled at times with knowing if I was doing my community proud, but coming out and seeing the reception has been amazing.”

“I experience so much negativity in my day-to-day life sometimes that I’m not able to have conversations and explain it to people, but the housemates were wonderful and so accepting,” he added.

Conor was a very vocal personality in the house and kept his housemates “in check”, but he insisted he doesn’t regret any of his actions and hopes nobody holds any grudges outside the house.

“That’s just how I am in my real life and I really appreciate direct and clear communication, and sometimes people do struggle with that. It was difficult at times, having to feel like I was the bad guy, keeping everyone in check, but to be honest, I don’t regret a single moment,” he admitted.

“For the most part, once you are released from the pressure cooker that is the Big Brother house, everything seems a lot more trivial. Small things become massive things inside those four walls. Anyone who is holding on to anything, I think it will just evaporate in the real world.”

But will Conor be keeping in touch with everyone?

“I’ll definitely be keeping in touch with Abiola, Vinnie and Ed, and I think the rest of them, I’ll keep in touch. Maybe we won’t be best friends, but I can’t see why we won’t get along now we’re all back in the real world,” he teased.

As for his plans going forward, he is hoping to propose to his long-term girlfriend after he had to postpone his plans to do so to enter Big Brother.

“The plan was to go to Japan on Christmas Day with my partner, we’ve been together five years,” he explained.

“I regularly faux propose to her on the toilet, but that’s not how I want to do it! I want to do it somewhere really beautiful, somewhere really special, so she might have to wait a bit longer until we can rebook our trip to Japan.”

“It’s been our dream destination for a few years, and we were really excited, but then Big Brother came up,” he added.

“She is my absolute rock and my biggest supporter. The minute [Big Brother] was possible, she said, ‘you have to do this’, and she helped me push through my nerves.”

We hope to hear wedding bells for Conor soon!

Ed was evicted from the Big Brother house during a shock surprise on Sunday, December 9.

His fate was sealed during the “letters from home” segment, when he believed he was hearing a letter from his mother, before a brutal eviction bombshell was dropped.

“I hope you’ve enjoyed your time with your new friends, because that time is coming to an end right now,” the letter explained.

A tearful Ed then said goodbye to his housemates, as they were all left floored by the unexpected twist.

Speaking exclusively to New Idea, Ed admitted he wasn’t totally shocked at the turn of events, because he didn’t think the letter sounded like how his mother would write.

“I’m very grateful for my time in the house. A lot of people have said it’s brutal, but look, it’s Big Brother, you don’t know what’s coming next,” he said.

Of his time on Big Brother, Ed insisted he plans to remain close friends with all of the housemates and won’t be holding any grudges in the real world.

“I’ll stay in touch with everyone! I loved all my other housemates; they’re all fantastic people. They were my family for the weeks I was in there, so I’ve gained 12 more family members for life, they’re amazing,” he gushed.

“I tried not to be in too many arguments, I don’t really like controversy like that. I prefer to have a bit of banter and a joke with people, and I’m a big believer in ‘if you’re not laughing, you’re crying!'”

Mia notably had an unrequited crush on Ed in the house, and he has now broken his silence on the drama, revealing that he has already been in touch with her after his eviction.

“It’s all good, we’ve got a group chat on Instagram with a few of the crew who are out, so it’s all good,” he said.

“Mia is a wonderful person, she’s a great friend, and I can’t wait to catch up with everyone, including her. There’s no hard feelings or personal vendettas there, it’s all good.”

So, does he have any regrets about any of his antics in the house?

“You can’t live life regretting things. Obviously, it’s a pressure cooker in there and you say things that you wouldn’t normally say, and do things that you wouldn’t normally do,” he cryptically shared.

“But you can’t get away with anything in there; there’s no such thing as a bad edit because it’s all livestreamed. You have to be accountable for everything you did and said.

“Maybe when you look back, there’s things you might have approached differently, but you can’t regret anything.”

Barber Vinnie was sent home in the first overnight snap eviction on Tuesday, December 2.

Vinnie, Coco and Emily were all in the firing line for eviction after Colin decided to save Allana in his role as head housemate.

However, in a brutal twist, the vote lines were only open for mere hours before Vinnie was evicted in the middle of the night.

Speaking to New Idea after his exit, Vinnie admitted he had so much “fun” in the house but that it was “bittersweet” to leave.

Though he had his fair share of drama in the house, Vinnie insisted he isn’t holding any bad blood against anyone.

“I’ll keep my lifeline open to anyone, although there are people I’d prefer not to live with again, I don’t have a hating bone in my body,” he told us.

However, he did shed light on the one thing that hurt his feelings most in the house – Jane’s exit message.

Vinnie, Bruce and Colin had a row with Jane before her eviction, but Vinnie was quick to patch things up with her and insisted he was one of her biggest supporters.

Comparing it to Holly’s “fake” vibe in her own parting message, he explained, “The Holly comment didn’t hurt as much as the Jane one, probably.

“The Holly comment, I saw coming because we’d had conversations alluding to it before. What you see is what you get with Holly.

“But the Jane thing blindsided me because I was a big supporter of hers in the house, so for her to drop that bombshell was a bit shocking.”

As for those “fake” allegations, Vinnie insisted his only “game plan” in the house was to be his authentic self.

“Anyone who says they weren’t playing a game is lying to you. What that game is is for them to make up in their heads,” he said.

“My game plan was to be me, so that if I was in the kitchen talking to someone, and they then saw me in the bathroom with someone else, there was no difference.

“I think that got taken for being fake, maybe that was a reflection of other people’s game plan; I don’t know. But my game plan was to be me and not cause too many arguments or drama, and to be friends with everyone.”

However, he brushed off the criticism and said he vowed not to let the opinions of people he’d only known for 23 days shake his self-confidence.

And as for those love triangle rumours? Vinnie admitted he had found Holly attractive before she started pursuing a romance with Colin.

“When she walks in the house, I literally say, ‘Oh my god’ because she’s a very gorgeous woman, that’s literally her job,” he dished.

“I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t attracted to her, but I fully backed her and Colin in terms of exploring that. I’m a bloke’s bloke as Bruce would say, so when Colin started to make moves with Holly, I was fully supportive of him, and I’ll let them do their thing.”

Though he was evicted from Big Brother, he walked away with $10,000 after winning the prize in a previous challenge, and he plans to treat his family to some amazing Christmas presents and travel around Europe.

As for who he wants to win, he said Bruce deserved it because of his authenticity in the house, while he also wanted Emily to take home the prize money to help her start a family.

So, did he have any regrets about not making the final?

“I would go on there and do the exact same thing that I did,” he added.

Holly was evicted from the Big Brother house on Sunday, November 30, in an unexpected turn of events.

She wasn’t initially nominated by her housemates, but was put up for eviction after head housemate Allana decided to save Abiola.

This then put Holly in the firing line for eviction, and she received the least amount of public votes, securing her fate.

Colin was left devastated upon her exit, and it remains to be seen whether their budding romance will continue in the outside world.

However, in a final show of solidarity, Holly nominated Colin as head housemate, saving him from one vital round of nominations before the final.

Speaking exclusively to New Idea after her eviction, Holly insisted she has no “hard feelings” about going home after Abiola was saved, insisting she was happy her housemate was then given the chance to leave with $15,000.

She confessed it was “ironic” that Abiola ended up going home the same week that she was saved, adding: “If Allana hadn’t saved her, she would have been up for nomination; therefore, she wouldn’t have been able to qualify for the $15k. So, it worked out as it was supposed to.”

Holly also reflected on the backlash she received from her housemates, insisting she was unfairly “judged” and not given a second chance in the house.

“People did really judge me in there, and I didn’t appreciate that, and my whole point was not to judge a book by its cover,” she said.

“But people made their minds up and didn’t want to give me a second chance or open their minds to it. They just buckled down whenever they could.”

“I’m very unapologetically me, and I just wanted to come in and be the big sister and be there for people, but they didn’t want that,” she continued.

“Anything I said was used against me, and I’m not perfect. I do say words the wrong way from time to time, especially when you’re under that pressure and stress 24/7.”

She admitted that one of the only people who truly understood her in the house was Colin, and said the difficult times in the house only made them closer.

“When you’re in such a high-pressure situation, and you find someone that you click with like that, it means a lot,” she said.

“There’s a lot of Karen mentality in the house and not a lot of compassion.”

Holly insisted she “can’t wait” to see Colin in the outside world and gushed that he is an “exceptional human being”.

The model was accused of being a “game player” in the house, but she insisted she never had a plan, something that she doesn’t think is true for all the housemates.

“I think people need to remember that it is a game,” she dished. “The point of Big Brother is a game, and some housemates are playing it harder than the others, and some are playing it more to their advantage and questioning their inner morals than others.

“I think some people really want the money, so they’re prepared to do things that other people wouldn’t do normally. And that’s the point, right?”

Even though she had a rocky time in the house, Holly has no regrets and is now looking ahead to the future.

“I gave it my all, I couldn’t have done anything more, and I’m just really happy that I have a little bit of time now to sit back and reflect on the lessons I’ve learnt in the past three weeks,” she added.

Read our exclusive interview with her here.

Musician Abiola narrowly avoided the nominations after being saved by head housemate Allana.

Instead, Holly, Vinnie, Bruce and Conor were all at risk of going home during the evictions on Sunday, November 30.

However, in a shock twist, Abiola was then sent home anyway after accepting a gift from Big Brother.

Abiola, Allana, Coco, Colin, Ed and Emily were all offered $15,000 from the overall prize fund in exchange for immediately leaving the house.

Despite Allana saving her from eviction, Abiola instantly said she was going to take the deal.

She left the house with the $15,000 gift, lowering the overall prize fund to $110,000 and forfeiting her own chance of winning.

She decided to take the money so she could fix and service her car, which was left to her by her mother before she died when Abiola was 13 years old.

“It means everything, for real,” Abiola admitted upon her exit.

In a brutal double eviction, two housemates were sent packing during the second week of the competition.

Jane was voted out of the Big Brother house as she failed to avoid elimination for the second week in a row.

Upon her exit, Jane exclusively told New Idea that she wasn’t upset about being evicted, and that at least she could now focus on her family and attend her granddaughter’s kindergarten graduation.

Jane, 67, said she was “proud” to have been the oldest housemate and said she has no regrets about her time in the house, however brief it was.

“I’m so happy and proud that the show, the ratings have been huge, and I wouldn’t want to be part of something that was a failure,” she quipped.

During her time in the house, she had an infamous row with Colin, Bruce, and Vinnie, but she revealed they got over their clash for the most part.

“Colin and I became really good [during] the last week,” she shared. “He just got caught up in all the boys’ ear-bashing Jane, and that’s why he lost it.

“Bruce is Bruce. Vinnie was very kind and caring, but he was a camera-watcher, whenever the cameras were moving or pointing, he’d join in the conversation, he was always there. He didn’t want to miss out on anything.”

She also addressed Vinnie’s decision to take $10,000 for himself rather than put $25,000 extra into the winning prize pot after a surprise call from Big Brother, and admitted she would have done the same thing.

However, she did claim that Vinnie had a “game plan” in the house and managed to fly “under the radar”, marking him as a hidden threat in the competition.

As for who Jane will be staying in touch with after the show?

She revealed she already has plans to host Conor’s wedding on the Gold Coast, once he pops the question to his girlfriend.

“I’m doing Conor’s wedding, he hasn’t proposed yet, but Conor and his partner will be getting married, and I’m doing their wedding pro bono on the Gold Coast,” she dished.

“He already has the ring; it’s his grandmother’s, I think.”

She said Emily plans to attend Conor’s wedding, while she also has plans in her diary to meet up with Holly, Mia, Allana and Ed.

Jane was sent packing alongside Mia, as Allana narrowly avoided the evictions after all three of them were at risk during the nominations.

The Bunnings Warehouse worker, 23, failed to get enough public votes to save herself and sadly went home.

Her exit came just days after she confessed her feelings for her housemate Edward, 30, but he clarified that they were just friends.

Speaking to New Idea after her eviction, Mia said she has left the house with her “head held high” and she is happy she was “fully” herself on the show.

“I have no regrets, I just followed my heart and my feelings. I was open to romance coming into the show. My family were like be mindful of it, but I don’t think that’s what sent me home.

“I felt my shine dimming, so it was definitely time for me to go. We can’t all stay until the end.”

Mia hit back at speculation that her crush on Ed was a “game plan” as she was trying to follow in the footsteps of Holly and Colin, and Coco and Bruce, but she insisted there was no “threat” to her housemates in her crush.

“[Romances are a bit of an alliance as well, a threat, and there’s definitely benefits of being attached to someone. I never thought about it like that,” she explained.

“Jane was flirting more with Ed than I was! I don’t think the romance was a threat at all. It was me having an unrequited crush.”

Mia famously had a clash with Michael and Bruce on the show, and she also made some telling comments about who she will be staying in touch with.

“I don’t want to hold a grudge against anyone. I want to be a forgiving person, but at the same time, I need to remember who is giving me the time of day and who really wants to get to know me,” she dished.

“I have to take things as they come. I probably will see everyone at some point because of the scenario, I will watch the episodes and see what people have to say about me and make up my mind for my own well-being. I’ll take on board what my family and friends think, too.”

Despite developing feelings for Ed, she admitted she doesn’t know whether they will be able to continue a friendship outside of the show.

“Ed’s a hard one, I just really need to process a little, the good and bad emotions and the feelings, and give myself a reality check,” she said.

“It’s such an intense thing experiencing so many emotions in a short space of time. I need to do a bit of self-reflection and healing there and reevaluate what the friendship looks like and if that’s possible without falling into old patterns and feelings.”

But one person whom she surprisingly doesn’t have tension with is Michael, revealing she felt it was important to speak to people who had conflicting opinions to her.

She admitted they developed a fun “banter” despite their differences, and insisted she doesn’t hold any “vendetta” against him, adding, “I admired him for being so brutally honest and authentic.”

In what turned out to be an accurate prediction, Mia wanted Emily and Colin to make it to the final, describing them as “two people that Australia are obsessed with and loves”.

Michael was the first housemate to be evicted from the house on Sunday, November 16.

He was up against Jane and Holly for eviction, but ultimately received the least amount of votes from the public.

The publisher caused a stir during his first week in the Big Brother house with his outspoken views on gender roles.

Viewers accused Michael of being “sexist” after a divisive conversation with tradie Bruce, 25, about relationship dynamics.

However, after his eviction, he doubled down on his comments and insisted he had no regrets about his time in the house.

“I wouldn’t have changed it if I did it over again,” he told New Idea in an exclusive interview. “I knew I’d be nominated first up because I went in there with a bit of a mission.

“With the nominations only being two or three days in, I don’t really have a chance to warm to people after I dropped what I consider to be truth bombs.”

Michael also broke his silence on the sexism row and revealed whether he believes the backlash against him was warranted.

“How do you define sexist? I don’t know, I certainly do have opinions based on gender, so if that makes me sexist, I don’t know,” he said.

“I was just raised in a family for years where my dad worked and my mum had dinner on the table, that was just my upbringing. It worked just like a Swiss watch. I see families these days falling apart, including my own, when everybody is trying to do everything and trying not to offend anybody.

“The world is a mess at the moment; you can’t deny that.”

Read our full interview with Michael here.