Big Brother Brasil 20

Big Brother Brasil 20
Season 20
Hosted by	Tiago Leifert
No. of days	98
No. of housemates	20
Winner	Thelma Assis
Runner-up	Rafa Kalimann
Companion shows	Rede BBB A Eliminação
No. of episodes	98
Release
Original network	TV Globo Multishow Globoplay
Original release	January 21 (2020-01-21) – April 27, 2020 (2020-04-27)
Season chronology
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Big Brother Brasil 20 was the twentieth season of Big Brother Brasil which premiered on TV Globo on January 21, 2020. The show was produced by Globo and hosted by Tiago Leifert, who returned for his fourth season as the host.

The grand prize is R$1.5 million without tax allowances and a Fiat Toro Ultra car, plus a R$150.000 prize offered to the runner-up and a R$50.000 prize offered to the third place.

For the first time, the show is divided into two groups: "Celebrities", composed of actors, singers, professional athletes, and social media personalities, and "Civilians", composed of everyday Brazilians.^[1] On week 2, four new potential housemates entered the game as part of a twist, but only two of them actually moved into the house, bringing the total number of housemates up to 20.^[2]

On March 12, TV Globo suspended all live audiences for their shows due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. On March 16, or Day 56 inside the house, the housemates were notified of the current events outside of the house. The channel also moved the show's broadcast timeslot from 10:30 p.m. to 10:45 p.m. due to the extent of news coverage on their primetime national newscast. Sunday's live nominations shows were also moved from 11:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. due to the channel cutting some of their entertainment programs (such as the fifth season of The Voice Kids) for that day.^[3][4][5][6]

As of March 31, 2020, the season broke three worldwide voting records. Guilherme's eviction against Gizelly and Pyong on week 6 reached the mark of 416 million votes, surpassing the old mark of 202 million votes cast in the previous season. Pyong's eviction against Babu and Rafa on week 8 broke the record of simultaneous voting with 1.4 million votes cast per minute, with 385 million votes counted. Then, on week 10, a new record-breaking number of 1.5 billion votes resulted in Felipe's eviction against Manu and Mari,^[7] and entered the Guinness World Record for "Most public votes received by a television programme".^[8][9]

In order to celebrate the show's 20th season anniversary, competitions and twists from previous seasons were revived and scattered again throughout this season. The season was originally planned to last 94 days, the longest of the series, ending on April 23, 2020. On April 13, 2020, TV Globo announced that the season was extended in 4 days, with the live finale moved to April 27, 2020, for a total of 98 days.^[10]

On April 27, 2020, anesthesiologist Thelma Assis won the competition with 44.1% of the public vote over digital influencer Rafa Kalimann and actress & singer Manu Gavassi. According to Ibope (Brazilian Institute of Public Opinion and Statistics), this season had an average of 25 million views in the 15 largest metropolitan areas in Brazil, with a 43% share. This means that 4 out of 10 television sets in the country were tuned to the reality show.^[11][12] In addition, a total of 165 million people were reached during the three months that the program was aired.^[13]