The Big Breakfast was given a role as an extra presenter while Zig and Zag returned for the final six weeks in their former slot, The Crunch, for which a new bathroom set was installed in the house. The final Big Breakfast aired on 29 March 2002 and included a retrospective that included contributions from Evans, Roslin, Vaughan and van Outen. Both Evans and Vaughan declared the cancelling of the show a bad idea. The show ended with a tribute from the Prince of Wales before the last ever Friday song. When the show finished, the house again became a private residence, now
The Big Breakfast never again was anyone allowed to blatantly break the rules of the game. Unusually for a live British TV show at the time of its creation, "The Big Breakfast" was broadcast entirely from a real house. Located alongside the River Lea, in east London, the property became informally known as 'The Big Breakfast House'. Filming would frequently take place within the large grounds of the property and the closely surrounding area. The cottages are in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Built in 1947, the property originally comprised three cottages which housed the lock keepers, toll takers, and navigation operators