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Big Brother gets political
Big Brother is back and set to deliver more trivia, but in other countries the show has made more of a political impact:

In Poland in 2001, former housemate Sebastian Florek was elected to the Polish Parliament, where he's known as a feminist and has campaigned for free contraception.

In 2004 a housemate in Australia used his eviction interview to protest at Australia's harsh policy of interning refugees. Merlin Luck taped his mouth shut in a vow of silence and held up a smuggled banner - but alas an "e" had fallen off.

Ahead of the 2005 vote in Spain on the draft European Constitution, contestants had to memorise chunks of the 325-page text. But maybe that was for a cheap laugh.
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