According to unofficial overnights, an average 6.7m tuned into the marathon show that kicked off at 8.30pm with Kinga being the first to be booted out and culminated with Anthony's eviction interview at 11pm.
It marks one of the best weeks in Channel 4 history, with US import 'Lost' securing 6m viewers in its debut night on Wednesday.
Although performing well, 'Big Brother 6' could not outperform the previous year's finale when 9m viewers or 48% of the viewing public watched transexual Nadia take home the £70,000 prize fund.
Pundits had been unable to predict this year's winner with Anthony and geeky Eugene being too close to call. In the end, the Geordie won 57.3% of of the vote and Eugene 42.7%, but the ham radio fan had already pocketed half of the £100,000 prize, making him as much as a winner as his dancing housemate.
After Friday night's finale, Sunday's tabloids brought rounds of mud slinging as the war of words continued between Anthony and cardiac nurse Makosi about whether they had sex in the jacuzzi.
Anthony vehemently denied that the couple had sex in the pool while Makosi, who has signed an exclusive deal with The Sun and sister paper News of the World, claimed the pair did.
During Friday night's eviction show, Makosi was booed by the crowd and branded a liar for saying she thought she was pregnant after sleeping with the 70s dancer after the incident in week six.
Makosi also hit back at presenter Davina McCall for not doing anything to stop the baying crowd during one of the noisiest eviction interviews in the show's history.
"After what she did to me I have lost all respect for her," Makosi said in her interview with The Sun.
The show has been embroiled with more than its fair share of controversy this year with continuous blazing rows between the housemates, a lewd incident between Kinga and a wine bottle and Anthony and Makosi's "did they or didn't they?" saga.
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