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Big Brother 8 Weekly Summary
Week 1 - The Launch (Wed 30th May - Fri 8th June)
Big Brother turned into "Big Sister", as the first 11 contestants who entered the house were all women. The situation remained the same until Friday 2nd June when just one man - "Ziggy" - entered the house.
Tasks
Ziggy, the only man in the house, had to bide his time after a marathon night of wining and dining. For Sunday's task he had to entertain each of the 11 housemates in turn in his own personal dining room, and he was ordered to eat all 11 courses before being allowed out. After six hours Ziggy, was still in good spirits for his final date with Chanelle, who he admitted to Big Brother that he fancied.Their conversation touched upon mutual attraction, and Chanelle's bizarre obsessions with Victoria Beckham and odd numbers.It ended when Chanelle bluntly asked Ziggy: "Shall we get to bed?" He replied "Go to bed? What did you say?" before Chanelle crushed his hopes by clarifying: "I just mean go to the bedroom or into the living room." Ziggy formed a surprising bond with middle-aged sexual health worker and political activist Carole Vincent over a prawn cocktail. The pair talked about their travels and discovered they had a lot in common. Ziggy said: "You're cool as cats, you're a wonderful woman. I enjoy spending time with you."
Shopping Task
The girls had to line up in order 1 - 11, 1 the most and 11 the least for various questions. Ziggy was in the diary room and had to answer the same questions in the order in what he thought the girls would answer. £100 was up for grabs if the girls and Ziggy predicted the same answer. The housemates got two question correct, meaning they had £200 to spend in this weeks shopping.
Nominations
Ziggy was the only housemate who allowed to nominate this week. He nominated Shabnam and Emily.
Punishments
On Day 6, Shabnam was punished for discussing nominations, and Big Brother made the bathroom off-limits to all housemates.
On Day 8, As a result of Emily tricking Ziggy into telling her who he nominated, Ziggy and Emily were punished by being forced to pick another housemate to be punished on their behalf. They chose Shabnam. As a result, Shabnam's clothes, make-up, and belongings were confiscated by Big Brother.
On Day 9 Emily was removed from the house. In the early hours of Thursday morning after using racisit language to fellow contestant Charley, Big Brother ejected Emily from the house. The 19-year-old from Bristol has vehemently denied being racist but conceded the word could have caused offence and shied away from trying to excuse herself over the comment. Speaking on Big Brother's Little Brother programme, Emily's voice cracked as she said: "It was completely wrong. There is no denying that whatsoever. It was wrong, I can't deny that. I am so sorry." Describing the moment the word slipped out as she, Charley and Nicky were in the garden, she said: "As soon as I said it it was just like, what was that? Where did it come from?" When Emily was summoned to the diary room at 3am on Thursday morning to be told she would be removed, she appeared utterly dumbfounded, but on Friday night she said she "completely understood".
She told presenter Dermot O'Leary: "Channel 4, Big Brother, Endemol - I completely understand. I broke a fundamental rule." But she added that she was glad Thursday night's show had shown the context of the comment so people could see it for themselves. She said: "It doesn't make a difference but maybe it does a little bit. I am not a racist, I can't stress that enough. I've got plenty of friends from different backgrounds, I am a very liberal girl living in quite a liberal society. It was wrong, there's no denying it, but its a word that gets chucked back and forth in everyday life."
Evictions
Due to Emily's removal evictions were canelled.
New Housemates Arrive
Two more men entered the Big Brother house on Friday night. Curly-haired Michael Jackson fan Seany O'Kane and art gallery researcher Gerry Stergiopoulos are the latest housemates to join the Channel 4 reality show. Greek-born Gerry, 31, is a self-professed snob and "hedonistic hypocrite" who says he is offended by "uneducated, common people" and believes his life would be vastly improved by a personal butler. His ideal housemate would be Sigmund Freud and he sees Big Brother as a "living specimen installation".The teetotaller and yoga enthusiast, who moved to the UK 12 years ago, says sex is his only vice. He has degrees in history of art and classical archaeology, but is also an admirer of Paris Hilton.
Charity worker Seany, 25, is originally from Derry in Northern Ireland and now lives in Manchester. He is a devoted Michael Jackson fan - even travelling to California for the pop star's child abuse trial in 2005. Seany stood outside the courtroom waving an Irish flag emblazoned with the words: "Michael, Ireland believes in you!" and wept with joy when Jackson was cleared. He sums himself up as "big hair and big attitude", and in five years would like to be living up a tree in the Lake District.
Week 2 (Sat 9th June - Fri 15th June)
Lesley Leaves the House
Big Brother contestant Lesley Brain has quit the reality show, a spokeswoman said. The 60-year-old walked out of the house at 9.15am on Saturday. The retired headhunter from Gloucestershire had complained she was already bored. Earlier in the week she told Big Brother: "I am more bored than is acceptable to me in the sense that I have better things to do." On leaving the house Lesley said she was "very sad".
Talking to Big Brother about why she decided to leave Lesley said: "My reasons are I have been here ten days. I have, during that time, contributed and have felt able to do so. "I feel that I contributed well, but my strength and energy in that department is running out. "I made, not friendships, never got anywhere like that, but you know I've formed slight bonds with people and they were lovely and gracious.
"I would like to say thank you for the opportunity. It has been a wonderful opportunity - however short, in terms of the whole programme - I appreciate that. I think I would like to say that I believe I could have won it or certainly been there towards the end. I actually think one way or another I could have won it." Big Brother replied: "But you are choosing not to try to win it or be there toward the end." Lesley answered: "Yes I have weighed it up" and promptly left the house.
Food Issue
It has been a fraught afternoon in the Big Brother house - as contestants argued over their food budget. In the end the squabbling group decided to divide the money and then pick their own supplies. Chanelle and the twins chose to combine their shopping budgets and share, whilst Charley chose cigarettes over food. "They won't let me starve," said Charley, confident that BB is looking after her. "They just won't." "It's survival of the fattest," declared Gerry later on, as some housemates tucked into their lunch. "Then we start cooking other housemates." "We must be getting 2000 calories," he mused. "Which is less than normal but fine." "I reckon I'm only getting 1000," Nicky added. "But that's all I have normally."S habnam then told Laura that when the shopping comes she can help herself to her hot chocolate and peanut butter. "There are more important things to worry about," she smiled.
Tasks
Charades
Big Brother gave the housemates a charades task with a twist of having to play it under water. As a prize for completing the task successfully, housemates were rewarded with a chinese take away meal.
Interview task
Gerry and Seány were instructed by Big Brother to interview each of their fellow housemates in the "Big Brother Board Room" (the vestibule before the front door of the House) to decide which two housemates would be nominating along side them. They decided that Amanda and Sam would be the housemates to nominate along with them.
Sardines
On day 14 the housemates were given a shopping task which instructed them to remain lying down (but moving), dressed in sardine suits in a sardine tin filled with brine and fish guts. The housemates failed the task after only remaining in the tin for one hour and 26 minutes. Hidden in a small sardine tin in the garden was the magic number, four hours and 20 minutes, this was the time limited Big Brother had set for the housemates to remain in the tin in order to win the task.
Punishments
On Day 14, due to Gerry discussing nominations, Big Brother took away the house's bathroom privileges.
Nominations
Gerry, Seany, Sam and Amanda were the only housemates able to vote this week. Sabnam, Tracey and Carole will face the public vote this week.
Eviction
Shabnam Evicted
New Arrivals
On Friday Billi, Jonathan, Liam and Brian all entered the house
Week 3 (Sat 16th June - Fri 22nd)
Tasks
YMCA
On Day 18, Billi, Jonathan, Liam and Brian succesfully performed "YMCA" as 'The Big Brother Village People' and won a luxury shopping budget.
Swim Task
Housemates also had to swim the equivalent distance to the width of the English Channel in the swimming pool for this week's shopping task, which they sucessfully completed.
Amanda Wins Swim Task
Amanda has been given the dubious honour of choosing every item on this week's shopping list for the Big Brother house - after she swam the furthest distance in the swimming task. The blonde twin swam 1369 lengths, which is 6.5km - over one fifth of the total distance between Dover and Calais. The housemates were successful in the task of swimming the equivalent distance of the Channel, and were therefore granted a luxury shopping budget for the week. On hearing the news, the pink-loving twin exclaimed "Oh wow!" before disappearing into the Diary Room to make the list, worth over £400. She emerged later saying she'd asked for "loads of chicken", "loads of bread" and "loads of cakes" as well as loo roll, booze, chocolate and cigarettes for the house smokers. The others generally seemed impressed with her choices, and even Charley didn't complain. "I had faith in you," she told Amanda. Gerry said: "You have done very, very, very well. Probably better than if we had all argued over it."
Liam Wins £100,000
Liam has been chosen to win a £100,000 bonanza prize in the Big Brother house on Wednesday night.. The 22-year-old tree surgeon from Lanchester, County Durham broke down in tears when he heard that he was to be the recipient of the money, which he and the other housemates believe to be the grand prize for the entire show.
Channel 4 went live to the house at the end of tonight's first show as the housemates were shown the money, which was in a large box in the diary room. In the second show, also broadcast live, Jonathan, Carole and Seany were told that they had been nominated by their fellow housemates to face the public eviction vote. "Bad luck," said Big Brother before adding, "your luck is about to get even worse". They were told that while they were not eligible to receive the grand prize, they would have one minute to choose one housemate to win the money. This speech, in which Big Brother told them that they were deciding who would receive the prize fund for the entire show, was shown to the rest of the housemates. After considering Ziggy for the prize, the three unanimously agreed on Liam as the winner. When they returned to the other housemates, Carole told the group: "We had one minute to decide who to give the £100,000 to and we chose Liam." A stunned-looking Liam was hugged by his fellow housemates before bursting into tears.
Ziggy and Chanelle Break Up
Ziggy has called an end to his love affair with Chanelle after rumours of her flirtations with fellow Big Brother housemate Billi had him questioning their relationship.
Nominations
Carole, Jonathan and Seany up for eviction
Evicted
Seany, who was booted out after receiving 44.5% of the public vote. The 25-year-old charity worker became the second housemate to be evicted from the house, ahead of fellow nominees Carole and Jonathan, who was the favourite to leave. Seany, sporting a waistcoat, straw hat and small pink flower in his hair, looked genuinely shocked as his name was announced by host Davina McCall. But he quickly regained his composure to repeatedly tell the others: "It's cool, it's cool."
Week 4 (Sat 23rd June - Fri 29nd)
Tasks
Knobbly Knees Contest
On Day 25, the housemates had a Knobbly Knees Contest, in which Brian and Charley won. Their prize was a holiday in the Big Brother caravan.
Sleep Task
On Day 26, they were told that for this week's task, the housemates must stay awake for 60 hours, and were only allowed 3 hours of sleep between them, and if someone closed their eyes for more than a minute, a clock on the wall would begin counting down.[113]. For a mini task on Day 27, Liam and Laura were dressed up as Little Bo Peep, and had to correctly count how many times the other housemates - who were dressed as sheep - jumped over fences placed in the garden. They completed this task successfully, and earned an extra hour on the sleep clock.
Housemates Quit Sleep Task
With tempers fraying as sleep deprivation took its toll, the Big Brother housemates abandoned their attempt to stay awake for three days. The contestants were promised a luxury food budget if they could fight off slumber from Sunday until 10pm today. Between them they were allowed just four hours of sleep, with a "sleep clock" ticking down as soon as one or more of them nodded off. But a night of wakefulness caused friction among the housemates, and last night they voted to quit the punishing task. Welsh nanny Laura was keen to stay awake for as long as possible, hoping that Big Brother might give the contestants a special reward. "They might give us a full-on party if we don't quit this task," she told a meeting of the housemates. Gerry backed her up, saying: "I'm not quitting. I really think we can make it if we take the breaks at a certain time." But Charley was unconvinced, telling her fellow housemates: "I'd rather not argue with anyone and just go to bed, because otherwise I'll be downright rude." Liam, who has already won £100,000 in the show, tried to be diplomatic. "Everybody's here on their individual journey and my journey's not quitting," he said. But the resulting show of hands made it clear that the other housemates were quite happy to be quitters if that meant getting some shut-eye.
Twins Birthday
The Big Brother housemates marked twins Sam and Amanda's 19th birthday with sober - but noisy - celebrations. The contestants had to create their own fun after Big Brother steadfastly refused to provide any music, alcohol or cake for yesterday's festivities. First the blonde twins sang Jingle Bell Rock while the others tried to line dance. Then they played musical chairs and musical statues before starting an "adult" game of Chinese whispers.
Nominated for Eviction
Billi, Carole and Tracey face eviction from the Big Brother house this week. Two-faced Charley, 21, escaped yet again, despite her own vote being discounted as punishment for discussing nominations. Billi, received seven nominations, while Tracey, and Carole, received four each. Bookies make Billi, a newcomer to the house whose votes were also discounted for discussing the nominations, favourite to get the boot on Friday.
Punishments
For failing their sleep task, housemates were forced to live on a diet of 3 portions of slop a day. After Billi and Charley continuously argued, they were sent to the happy room to cheer up.
Eviction
Billi was evicted on Day 31 with 55.1% of the vote to be evicted.
Week 5 (Sat 30th June - Fri 6th July)
Chain Punishment
Big Brother housemates Laura and Nicky have joined a chain gang as punishment for discussing nominations. The pair have been chained to a large weight by their ankles until further notice. If they want to move around the BB house, Nicky and Laura must carry the weight and they are only allowed to unchain themselves to go to the toilet.
Latest Row between Ziggy and Chanelle
On Wednesday night Chanelle had a blazing row with boyfriend Ziggy about his smoking. She asked him to stop smoking and he demanded she stop nagging. But within hours the romance was back on and the couple, wearing swimwear, had a cuddle in the shower.
Jonathan Leaves the House
Jonathan has left the Big Brother house after learning his grandmother has died. The millionaire, 49, was apparently called into the Diary Room and told the sad news, before saying tearful goodbyes to his fellow housemates and leaving just after midnight. A Big Brother spokeswoman said: "Jonathan left the house in the early hours of the morning and it was due to personal circumstances."
The other housemates were in shock after the media mogul walked out. Liam said: "It will be mental waking up to him not being here. He was one of the biggest parts of this. The spokeswoman confirmed that because Jonathan was still a housemate at the time of making nominations on Monday, his nominations for eviction will still count. The housemates will learn their fate when nominations are announced during Big Brother's Little Brother.
Boys Night Only
The Big Brother Diary Room hosted a boys' night in on Monday night. Ziggy Lichman, Liam McGough and Brian Belo went to the Diary Room to ask for a lads' night. Later, they were called to the Diary Room and found a hamper filled with booze on the chair. Big Brother said it was their decision whether to share it with the rest of the housemates but the boys opted to drink the lot themselves. They eventually invited Jonathan Durden in - on the condition he brought a corkscrew to open the wine. Meanwhile, the girls were left fuming when they realised what the boys were doing.
Seven Deadly Sins task
Carole had to match the seven deadly sins to housemates. She picked Laura as sloth, Tracey as greed, Ziggy as gluttony, Liam as lust, Amanda as pride, Nicky as envy, and Charley as wrath. Each housemate was given their own task. Four or more housemates must pass this task to receive a luxury shopping budget. So far Amanda has to wear a hot dog costume, Charley has been asked not to argue, raie her voice or swear, Ziggy was locked in the Room of gluttony where he could not eat any food. Tracey turned down £1,000, two extra chances to nominate and an unlimited supply of tobacco as part of the Seven Deadly Sins task. Laura was made to walk around a athletic track. All but Charley passed the task. As a reward, The contestants were given a party with a chocolate fountain, alcohol and "Seven Sin costumes" while Charley sat in the Sin Bin watching them and missing the party.
Nominated
Chanelle and Laura
Evicted
Laura was evicted on Day 38 with 68% of the public vote.
Week 6 (Sat 7th July - Fri 13th July)
Fake Week
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As part of Fake Week 'Fake' Big Brother housemate Pauline entered the house on Day 40. Pauline's real name is Thaila Zucchi and although she was pretending to be from Australia, she was actually from Swindon. The shopping task to win next week's luxury shopping budget involved the unaware housemates guessing that pauline was a fake housemate. The housemates rightly guessed that the 'most fake' contestant among them was Pauline. When asked to line-up on podiums from the most fake to the least fake, Brian spoke out and said Pauline should be "at the end". Brian was told the truth about Pauline's secret in the diary room earlier this week and he had to tread carefully so that the other housemates did not discover he knew. "Nothing against you Pauline," he added quickly before saying it made sense to pick her because they knew her the least. Pauline, or Thaila, was then called to the diary room where Big Brother made an announcement that the actress was not Australian and was in fact from the UK. |
"Well done housemates," Thaila said on a large plasma screen in front of the housemates. "You worked out that I was the fakest housemate in the house. It was so nice to meet you all and I've had an amazing time." Fake week continues on Friday with a mocked-up eviction that will see whoever is voted out put straight back in.
Nominations
Nicky and Charley
The knives were out for Charley and Nicky as their fellow housemates gave their reasons for their nominations which have led to the pair facing BB's fake eviction. Whichever of the two gets the most public votes will leave the house on Friday - only to go straight back in after an interview with Davina McCall. But unaware of the cruel twist, housemates laid into the pair in the Diary Room.
Gerry said of Charley: "She's got away with murder so far." He added: "She hasn't been up for nominations for six weeks now and I think it's unacceptable. "She's had a fight with the vast majority of the people in this house and I even found myself dragged into a huge fight with her that was out of character. So she managed to turn a calm person close to being a beast."
Liam said: "She's argumentative. She plays people against each other. "She's a very clever lass but she's a boiling pot and I don't want to live with someone as explosive."
Ziggy said: "I just find she plays a lot of games, plays games with people and with their heads. Maybe that's what she's here for. "It's been a difficult decision because I have found myself growing closer towards her. She's a pain in the arse, she really is but she's got some funny sides to her."
Gerry said Nicky was a manipulator with a "grumpy attitude", Liam dubbed her "spiteful" and "vindictive" and Ziggy said of his reason for nominating her: "I believe she's behind a lot of the stuff that has gone on in the house."
Punishments
As part of fake week, the housemates were punished for crimes they did not commit. Carole, Brian and Amanda had to glue sweetcorn back onto corn on the cob, Chanelle, Charley and Gerry had to measure 3 balls of string with a 3cm ruler, Liam, Nicky and Sam had to paint a wall and watch it dry, and Ziggy, Tracey and Amanda had to cut grass with nail scissors. For talking about nominations, Charley and Nicky's suitcases, and all their clothes and makeup, were confiscated.
Fake Eviction
Charley was evicted from the House on Day 45. However, the eviction was actually fake (as a climax to "fake week") and Charley was interviewed and then put back into the House. The rest of the housemates watched Charleys fake eviction in the house on the plasma screen.
Week 7 (Sat 14th July - Fri 20th July)
Big Brother Party Task
Housemates must have a party for Big Brothers birthday, where five housemates will party, and the remaining six must provide the entertainment. They must party until Big Brother tells them to stop.
It's Big Brother's party and he can humiliate the housemates if he wants to. The birthday boy has made his five guests dress up in children's outfits for his party. Gerry and Ziggy were given pink and yellow polo t-shirts, bright checked shorts, socks and sneakers, while the twins and Nicky have to don ruffly babydoll dresses. "I think the theme of this party is let's humiliate the boys," observed Carole, who will be entertaining the guests as the party artist. "I quite like it," said Gerry, admiring his little boy look. "You're very big for an eight-year-old," Carole teased Sam, "what has your mother been feeding you?"
The girls then gathered in the bathroom, pulling their hair into bunches and squealing when they realised Big Brother had given them hair clips! Meanwhile, musical entertainer Brian felt he ought to get Big Brother some kind of gift: "He keeps asking me for a present, maybe I'll bring him bog roll," he mused to housemates.
Let the party fun begin!
Big Brother might be enjoying his party but the housemates aren't after they were forced to play an agonisingly long game of musical statues. Gerry, Ziggy, Nicky and the twins all tried to coax Big Brother into re-starting the music, when they were made to stand completely still for more than 10 minutes. But the housemates didn't dare move a muscle because they feared they would fail the task.
Meanwhile, Charley and Tracey got changed into their clown outfits, complete with red and green wigs and white face make up and comedy baggy trousers. Liam looked very smart in his magician's outfit and Chanelle wore a sparkly backless number to be his assistant. Carole is due to entertain the partygoers by painting their faces and making balloon animals, while poor Brian was still struggling to make music with his one man band kit.
The entertainers have to complete their acts to win this week's luxury shopping budget and no partygoers are permitted to leave the party or they will automatically fail. Housemates passed this task.
Mini Tasks
Nicky had a personal task to perform a stand-up routine to win the housemates a takeaway, and Gerry had to answer questions to win alcohol to go with the takeaway.
Punishments
Charley was given a third and final warning by Big Brother on Day 55 when she called housemate Gerry a paedophile. Over 300 people complained to Ofcom when Charley said that Gerry liked to "sleep with 15-year-olds".
Nominated
Nicky and Gerry
For discussing nominations, Chanelle and Ziggy were restricted to only one nomination each
Eviction Night
Nicky was evicted on Day 52 with 76% of the public vote.
Week 8 (Sat 21st July - Fri 27th July)
Nominated for Eviction
Charley and Tracey
Liam announced the news on the in-house TV station bulletin live during E4's Big Brother's Little Brother. Charley reacted by saying she was happy to go, while Tracey simply raised her arms in the air and grinned.
Nominating Charley, Brian said in the Diary Room: "It was just nasty. I can't live with someone who's just gonna switch on me just like that. Even now, she can't take on board that it upset me. You wouldn't treat a dog the way she treated me... If you're gonna treat people like s***, expect to be nominated."
Tracey and Charley lead the housemates in the total amount of nominations so far, with 23 and 24 respectively.
6 New Housemates
On Friday, six new housemates will enter the house (though maybe not the main house!)
There will be both men and women and some of them will be able to earn housemate status, as long as they can stand the twists and turns along the way!
Chanelle wants to Leave
Big Brother housemate Chanelle threatened to leave the show in an outburst over playing the violin in the group's latest task. In a fraught night for the housemates, they discovered Charley and Tracey were the latest housemates nominated for eviction. Chanelle's claim came as she was ordered to play a section of Vivaldi's Four Seasons on the violin as part of the BBTV Talent Show Task.
After Gerry and Liam pleaded with Chanelle to reconsider, and Ziggy offered to dress up as Chanelle's female violin teacher, the 19-year-old from Wakefield appeared to calm down, but insisted she still wanted to "go home". She said: "I'm being the bigger person by leaving - I'm not prepared to let myself talk to anyone the way I did to Charley ever again, ever ever."
While the other housemates prepared for their own performances, Charley said it was pointless trying to persuade Chanelle to complete hers. In a thinly-veiled reference to the self-proclaimed It Girl and Chanelle's arch enemy, Liam said: "You've got to bear in mind that there's only one person in this house that you don't get on with and that person's not likely to be here much longer."
Meanwhile, Carole fired hints that Chanelle might be facing nomination next week if she refused to perform for the task. If the housemates failed the task, "it will have far reaching consequences for one member of this house", she said. Big Brother decided which of the Channel 4 reality show contestants would be performing in the talent show task.
Chanelle and Charley Argue
It all started when Ziggy and Gerry were reading the news for BBTV. They mentioned Rhianna's number one and the two girls had a disagreement about Rhianna's age. Then the argument turned personal.
"Charley, to be quite honest I'm sick of listening to conversations where everything gets turned around to you and what you think. Have you not noticed that when you walk into a room and talk s**t, they walk out of it?"
Charley turned to the twins and spoke as if Chanelle wasn't there, "I'm sorry to get you involved; I wouldn't even argue with it, it's a state."
"Well f*** off then."
"No, you f*** off."
"I love the way you said you weren't going to argue again, you've done such a good job of it."
They then went on to argue about Wakefield (where Chanelle lives), as Charley hadn't heard of it. It was so petty!
As the argument continued... Chanelle shouted across the house, "Who the f*** is she?" and Charley replied, "Chanelle, who the f*** are you, darling?"
Charley had obviously had enough, "You wanna be Posh Spice, I don't think so. You look f*** all like her, darling. You're gonna day your hair blonde and your face is round!"
"...at least I'm prettier than you!"
"I don't think so, darling... What about you, you came in here wanting to be a WAG!"
Chanelle replied, "Not now I've seen the state of one."
At this point Brian stepped in and ushered Charley out into the Garden. Chanelle stormed into the diary room and screamed blue murder! "Aaaagggghhhh! I AM FURIOUS! Remove her from the house, she's so see through she's like a bloody window!. One minute she is kicking off and the next she's crying and saying she feels remorse."
Later Chanelle came looking for Charley to apologise. "I have never spoken to anyone and said mean things like that. I don't know if you thought that it was out of order but I personally think it was out of order…I've never said things like that to anyone." Chanelle tried to talk it through, but Charley just spoke over her and brought her Friday night eviction up again. Chanelle couldn't get a word in. When she did get a chance to speak they both agreed never to talk again. Charley refused to accept Chanelles apology and Chanelle was forced to leave the bedroom without a resolve. As she left she said, "I'm just trying to apologise. The apology has been made..." Charley said, "I'm not accepting it... Get over yourself, silly cow!" Charming!
As Amanda was present (and heard it all), she tried to encourage Charley to accept Chanelle's apology. Unfortunately Charley wasn't having it and that's that!
BBTV Task
For their weekly task, housemates have to run a TV Channel, BBTV. The housemates have been taking turns becoming news readers for BBTV, they are given costumes and go into a mocked-up studio to read a news bulletin to the rest of the house, who watch via the plasma screen in the living room. On Sunday Carole and Charley are clad in shoulder padded suits, wigs and pearls, ready to read the news. Carole reads out news about David Beckham's first game played for LA Galaxy, and Chanelle is stunned to hear that the Spice Girls have reformed. She then reads out another news story which is in fact a message to Ziggy from his family, sending him love and support. He cries as he listens to the message delivered by Carole. Charley starts to read a news story from South East London which soon transpires to be a message from her sister. On Monday's BBTV news Ziggy read a message from Liam's Dad. An emotional Liam sat listening. Gerry then read out a message from his friend Elena and one from his mother. Both Carole and Chanelle understand the importance of the message from his mother and started to cry.
On Monday Chanelle and Brian received a task from BBTV, to present an ad for Slop. They practise together, Chanelle pretending to be Victoria Beckham and Brian adopting an American accent.
Big Brother has called Ziggy and his chosen housemate (Liam) to the Diary Room. Big Brother announces that as part of this week's shopping task, the two of them will take part in One Man and Ziggy's Dog. As it dawns on Ziggy that this could mean a reunion with his beloved Molly he shouts, "No, no, no, have you got my dog in?" Gerry is talking about how he is the most well known Greek person in the UK at the moment and that it is, "Quite a responsibility." Liam is to be the presenter of One Man and Ziggy's Dog and, after changing, the two step into the garden where Molly, Ziggy's Shar Pei, is waiting, along with an activity course. After an initial distinct lack of recognition to her owner, Ziggy and Molly enjoy a rapturous reunion.
The rest of the housemates are at the Living Area window watching Ziggy, Liam and Molly. Liam explains the instructions for the course saying: "Some owners look like their dogs but Molly is better looking." Ziggy and Molly have five minutes to complete the course in the garden. The course will see her walk over a miniature see-saw, weave around some cones, jump over three low fences and finally through a tunnel. Ziggy admits: "God, I'd wish I'd taken her to dog classes." After mixed success with the activity, Liam and Ziggy are called back into the house. The housemates look on as Ziggy says an emotional goodbye to his beloved dog.
Eviction Night
Loud-mouth Charley was finally given her marching orders on Friday, becoming the sixth, and most-hated, housemate to be evicted from Big Brother. The 22-year-old It girl from South London hugged and kissed all the contestants goodbye then left the house to enormous boos. On the catwalk, she stopped and angrily yelled at the crowd: "Hey! Hey! Hey!" Despite a negative reception, she kept her head up, blew kisses to the photographers and posed for shots.
In her bizarre exit interview, Davina asked her what it felt like to walk through the booing crowd: "It felt strange," replied Charley. "I was like: Oh God, they hate me! But at the same time, I heard lots of cheers and they were like: 'Charley!' And I was like: 'Oh, I love you too'." Yes, she'd even managed to turn the recent boos into a form of adulation.
Davina asked her about the fake eviction, and the fact that her account of it to her fellow housemates bore little resemblance to what actually happened. "Maybe I exaggerated a little bit guys," she told the audience. Having seen clips of her recent arguments, she seemed more concerned with what she was wearing than the fact she hurt people's feelings. But when asked what's next for her, she remarked: "Anger management maybe?" The leggy contestant was definite about who she wanted to win, she said: "Carole. She's got a heart of gold that woman." Charley, who argued with everyone during her time in the house, was nominated for eviction by Brian, Carole, Chanelle, Gerry and Ziggy who called her nasty, lazy, fake and selfish. And viewers voted in droves for the cousin of footballer Kieran Richardson, who liked to brag about her celebrity pals, and frequently change her outfits. She scored 86 per cent of the public vote, over other nominee Tracey. She was the bookies' hot favourite for eviction and was in fact the most unpopular housemate in the show's history, on odds of 1/500 with bookies Ladbrokes, who paid out 24 hours before she'd even gone. But the feisty madam sneakily survived eviction a total of five times and even left the house in a 'fake' eviction only to return knowing who had nominated her, which sparked rumours that producers were going out of their way to keep her in. Wearing tight hot pants and a striped blue shirt, Charley was the fourth housemate to enter the Big Brother house after the twins and Lesley.
She walked past the crowds to boos as Davina revealed she had once dated a premiership footballer and had packed 60 pairs of knickers.Once inside, she immediately asserted herself as the alpha female, by flashing her breasts at the camera and strutting around in endless bikinis and high heels. From day one she started making enemies in the house, including 60-year-old Lesley, who she accused her of going for a wee in the shower. Emily had her pinned as a name-dropper before her dramatic expulsion, and she fell out with spectacularly with Chanelle on countless occasions, because the Posh Spice wannabe saw her as a rival for Ziggy. But she had some of her biggest arguments with male model Billi, regularly trading insults. Big Brother punished the pair for discussing nominations, by discounting their votes, which let Charley off the hook - again. The show invented a more unusual scheme to stem their bickering, when it sent them to the Happy Room where bubbles filled the air. She had regular bitching sessions with Nicky in the caravan, until Nicky got booted out and she became friendly with Brian, who she looked out for as a younger brother. But even this friendship turned sour when she turned on him in an argument earlier this week. "You wouldn't treat a dog the way she treated me... If you're gonna treat people like s***, expect to be nominated," Brian told Big Brother. Charley took to some of the tasks, easily beating Lesley at break-dancing, but she moaned about having to play a dog in the Aussie soap Housemates and wangled herself the role of Kylie in a tribute song to the pop Princess to make up for it. For Big Brother's birthday party, she had to dress up as a clown to entertain the five housemate party guests, but she initially refused, storming out of the house and saying clowns scared her. Early on, before her dinner date with Ziggy, she bragged to the other girls she would suggest they skip the food and just have sex. Ziggy burst her bubble, telling her over their short date that she was too "high maintenance" for him. When fake Aussie housemate Pauline arrived, she tried to be her best friend, although actress Thaila mocked her for aggressive behaviour. Soon after she arrived in the house, Charley announced to everyone: "They really like me, Big Brother. I hope they like me enough so I'm not evicted." Unfortunately they didn't. And nor did the viewers - who sent her packing.
Week 9 (Sat 28th July - Fri 3rd August)
Chanelle leaves the house
Chanelle left the Big Brother house on Day 62. The move follows days of deliberation, during which the Posh wannabe actually left the house, only to return minutes later. Chanelle left a note for the housemates, which read "Sam, Mand, Brian, good luck, luv you, see you soon, Chan". She then took her suitcase into the diary room, without saying goodbye. She was in the diary room for around half an hour when the door flashed from red to green and the housemates realised she was no longer in there.
Chanelle has had a string of rows with fellow housemate Ziggy over their on-off relationship. The former boybander said he questioned their relationship "every day", adding: "It's your character. You like the attention. You're way over the top, a hypochondriac, you crave attention, not just from me, from everyone." He added: "On a daily basis I'm depressed in here. And I'm afraid to say it has something to do with us. And it's not you, it's me and that's it." Stunned Chanelle shrieked: "Oh my God, you just said, 'It's not you, it's me' on national TV. Oh my God, how embarrassing is that?" "She couldn't live with Ziggy, but she couldn't live without him. I think she was quite jealous," mused Carole, wisely. "Both of them have been getting more and more unhappy and lonely."
On Sunday evening she had promised to sleep on her decision to walk out before confirming her departure, but a shouting match with Ziggy on Monday lunchtime was the last straw. "I'm excited to be seeing my Mum but I also feel embarrassed as I've made a fool of myself," she added. "Thank you for having me. I really appreciate that you've let me on to the programme." Chanelle also joked: "Now I can meet Victoria Beckham and catch the Spice Girls tour before it finishes!"
Sam one of Chanelle's closest friends in the house, cried and had to be comforted by Carole, who told her and Amanda: "You two need to know that you've been the best, supportive friends." Ziggy went to bed, holding the note to Sam, Amanda and Brian that Chanelle left behind. He has commandeered the single bed, saying that it would be too difficult to move back into the double bed he shared with her. "It would be like jumping in someone's grave," he explained. Ziggy confided in Tracey and Amanda that he was upset that Chanelle didn't say goodbye to him, and that he felt responsible for her departure. "That is very harsh on you," said Tracey. "People get stressed out in here and she just couldn't handle it," reasoned Amanda.
Meanwhile Tracey and Carole seemed unbothered by the day's events - and mostly concerned with who would take over Chanelle's job of drying the dishes. "Amanda also does it, perhaps Brian would like to do it with her," said Carole, before going on to discuss tonight's dessert of bananas and custard.
Liam Fancies Amy
Liam has admitted that he is a fan of new Big Brother halfway-housemate Amy. The tree surgeon told Tracey and Brian last night that he found it easy to talk to her and that she was similar to girls he had dated before - although he added that, unlike Amy, his dates had not been glamour models. And during a game of Truth or Dare last night, Liam was asked who in the house he fancied most. He said: "I think you're all beautiful in your own individual ways. Umm, you've got to bear in mind you're talking to a man who hasn't had sex in a long time." He then turned to Amy and added: "I think you're a bit hot." Teetotal Amy got the chance to spend some time in the main Big Brother house in the hope of being asked to move in permanently. But what will the other girls think of her being the centre of the boys' attention?
HalfWay Housemates
The first of five potential housemates got the chance to spend some time in the main Big Brother house in the hope of being asked to move in permanently. David Parnaby, a 25-year-old store manager from Ayr, was the first of the halfway housemates to enter the real house in an attempt to persuade the existing ones to let him stay.
Over the weekend each of the newcomers will get the chance to spend some time in the house in an attempt to become fully-fledged housemates. On Monday the existing housemates will pick the two halfway housemates they like best to join them on a permanent basis. The kilt-wearing Scotsman, who practises witchcraft, was the first of the recent arrivals through the door - and appeared to go down a storm.
Gerry was particularly taken with David, revealing to Carole that he had "stole my heart already". When his time was up David went back to his halfway housemates - but not before he gave the low-down on the existing ones. Speaking to Big Brother in the Diary Room David revealed that he thought Carole was the "mother of the house". "Tracey is like the older sister who's never grown up; I like her," he said. Ziggy and Liam were "fantastic guys" he said adding: "Gerry is so open, that's a good thing. Chanelle is a good looking girl, sweet." However not everyone got rave reviews. David confessed he found excitable twins Sam and Amanda "just too much for me". "I like a bit of cynicism," he said. And Brian was "a male version of the twins", he said.
Next up was glamour model Amy who told the housemates she reckons she already has a halfway house nemesis in Shanessa. It would seem the Amy could already be causing further friction between house lovebirds Ziggy and Chanelle. After lunch, Amy bonded with Ziggy over their love of their pet pooches. Telling him that her terrier had jumped on her bed the morning she left as if he knew she was leaving, Ziggy replied : "They won't tell you anything except for how amazing you are." Unfortunately the conversation wasn't to jealous Chanelle's liking who stomped off to the bedroom to sulk under the duvet. As always Gerry was on hand to offer words of advice. On any new female housemate attacking an original housemate, he dramatically warned her: "These girls looks sweet in here but they will slaughter her. They will eat her alive because this is their jungle."
Jonty entered the main house on Saturday night, he creeped out Liam by his Teddy obsession, and got drunk when fellow housemates supplied him with alcohol.
Kara-Louise was the final wannabe housemate to enter the main building, and she made quite an impression on the regulars. Earlier, in the Halfway House, Shanessa told her fellow hopefuls about her time next door. The sight of Jonty and the others in black plastic dresses and bikinis seemed relatively normal compared to the events of the past few hours.
Meanwhile, Chanelle's on/off departure had clearly taken its toll on Brian. He felt he wasn't allowed to have an opinion on who would come into the house. At 4.16pm, Kara-Louise was called to the Diary Room, and four minutes later, she greeted Ziggy and the other contestants in the main house. The Harrow student couldn't stop smiling as she was given a guided tour. The newcomer was shocked to discover Chanelle was going home, and Liam couldn't help winding Kara-Louise up that it was her fault. "You musn't go," pleaded the halfway housemate. "There's not much longer to go."
The Twist
Kara-Louise and David moved into the main house on Day 62, after they were chosen by the current Housemates. The Housemates then had to choose one of themselves to move to the Halfway House, to which Ziggy said he wanted to go. Shanessa entered the main house on Day 63, after winning the Jack-in-a-Box task, and had to choose a current Housemate to replace her. She chose Liam. Amy, Jonty, Liam and Ziggy moved back into the house on Day 64, in exchange for David, Kara-Louise, Shanessa and Tracey.
Nominated for Eviction
Tracey, David, Kara Lousie, and Shanessa
Evicted
Shanessa with 38% and with David 37% of the vote to be evicted on Day 66.
There was a hint of how things might go when Davina announced their names at 8.31pm and they were greeted with a cacophony of boos from the crowd. Kara-Louise got a mixture of boos and cheers, while Tracey seemed to be the most popular of the four facing the chop. The 27-year-old care assistant and the 25-year-old visual manager looked disappointed as the news sank in.
Stripper Shanessa became the seventh housemate to be voted out of Big Brother 8. The 27-year-old single mum looked understandably let down when Davina called out her name, and later asked: "What did they all boo at me for?" She also told the others: "I think I made a big impact in the week but for the wrong reasons."
Shanessa left the house hand in hand with David, and although the crowd booed them, they managed smiles and waves. In her exit interview, the Cardiff girl told Davina her first thoughts on being back in the real world: "I had a few boos when I came out but met loads of people in there. We all got on really well." However, she was far from happy at being nominated: "It broke my heart because I was really upset. I didn't think it was very fair, but they had to do what they had to do." As for getting on with the other housemates she explained: "It was quite strange. They'd bonded so well in there. "I got on with the twins, got on with the guys, hoped for a couple of snogs with the girls or the guys but I didn't get any," she laughed. When asked who she thought would win, Shanessa replied: "Brian", which attracted many cheers from the crowd. Shanessa was determined to be herself in the house, from the moment she walked in wearing a tiny pink catsuit. "Rather than thinking I wanna be just like them, I'm thinking 'I wanna be just like me'," she announced.
Shanessa quickly made some friends - and tried to avoid making enemies. After winning the jack-in-the-box task, she had to select a housemate to replace her in the halfway house, and picked Liam to leave. But she tried to explain her decision to expel the 23-year-old tree surgeon in the best possible light. "He was nice to me and all that, but we didn't gel. He's a lovely man and Amy really, really likes him, and apparently he likes Amy, and Ziggy's really fond of Liam." Shanessa quickly buddied up with Carole and the other housemates, and the part-time care assistant and self-confessed stripper treated Brian and Liam to a topless lapdance - despite claiming to have plenty of blokes on the go outside the house. Liam looked embarrassed but desperate Brian couldn't get enough of the saucy strip she treated them to. Shanessa took quite a fancy to Brian, even referring to him as "my man". After only a day in the main house though, Shanessa was voted back to halfway by Amy, Jonty, Ziggy and Liam.
David became the eighth Big Brother housemate to be evicted after failing to make any impact on the viewers or their fellow housemates during his brief time on the show. He looked dejected when Davina called out his name. Kara-Louise was first to offer her condolences, but he replied rather sadly: "That's all right babe," before hugging his fellow housemates from both abodes. "We're lambs to the slaughter," he sighed as he and Shanessa walked up the steps to the outside world.
Davina later asked: "How are you both feeling?" "Anticlimactic," David replied. "I never expected to win it because we got in halfway through, but you did at least expect to spend a couple of weeks, especially since I got a lot of friendships with the guys." Amy proved to be quite a controversial figure in recent days. When asked if he thought she was playing a game, David replied: "I think she's watched it. She knows what she was doing. But you're here to win a game. She's doing it better than we are." A darker side of David was revealed after a few days, as Davina pointed out. "I think it was just because I was relaxing a bit more," he laughed. "The real me. Everybody's got that duality to them and I've never denied it." When asked if he fancied Gerry, David replied: "No, no. He's my mate and that's it. He's funny. He's so funny." Davina asked him who he thought would win, and he remarked: "Brian or Liam, but I want Carole as Carole needs the money."
David was the first of the halfway housemates to enter the real house in an attempt to persuade the existing ones to let him stay. David said that camp Gerry made him laugh, but made it clear any relationship between them would be strictly heterosexual. The pair spent hours lying in bed together though when David moved into the main house, but he was not such a hit with other housemates. Ziggy was unimpressed when he discovered the chubby stylist had criticised boy bands, especially after he himself had been relegated to the halfway house. David had some other teething troubles. He said: "I see Liam as somebody I really like. I still have the twins to get round, I still have Brian to get round." He redeemed himself though when he performed a task that would earn the housemates in the main house a luxury shopping budget. David was the first to be called to the Diary Room as all the housemates gathered on the sofas to watch the proceedings on the plasma screen. They all cheered as David munched his way through luncheon meat mixed with jam.
Week 10 (Sat 4th August - Fri 10th August)
Fashion Show
The fun started in the house when Big Brother asked the two most judgmental housemates to come to the Diary Room. The group agreed on Brian and Carole. "I'm very honest with what I think about people," said house mum Carole. The pair came out brandishing instructions, telling them to select the two "best-looking and most model-like" housemates to be model team leaders for the latest task. They were reminded that twins Sam and Amanda would count as one housemate.Carole read on: "Teams must design and create their own fabulous fashion creation, and model their creations in a catwalk show later today. The judges must decide which is the most fabulous. "One team should be led by Amanda and Sam," declared Carole immediately. "Can people be excused from this task by having balding hair and a big fat tummy?" enquired Jonty. Amy, who clearly wanted to be picked, said: "It's like being picked for football at school, isn't it?" Ziggy was chosen by Brian though, and was dubbed the "most fabulous housemate" alongside 'Samanda'. Team Sam and Amanda were told they had to create a fashion collection based on "teenage pop star working at a tyre garage". Team Ziggy's theme was "nu-rave garden party". "Woo - I love gardens!" yelled the former boybander.
Time Machine Task
Housemates have been given this week's shopping task - to "change the future". Kara-Louise delivered the news via "a message from the future" when she travelled to the year 3049 . The Diary Room had been turned into a futuristic wonderland - and housemates will have the opportunity to travel through time to pass a series of tasks to get their luxury shopping budget. Housemates have to 'travel through time' and each complete mini-tasks. Carole, Gerry, Tracey and Ziggy were sent back to victorian times and had to to 'invent' electricity, bob for apples and polish 300 shoes. On Day 68, Sam and Amanda had to decide whether they would become one housemate. As a result, they were automatically put up for eviction this week. Kara-Louise and Brian had to battle against Big Brother 3 housemates Alex and Adele for their task. Liam, Amanda, Sam and Amy were sent back to prehistoric times and dressed up as cave men and women where they had to skin rabbits.
Nominated this Week
Amanda and Sam, Amy, Jonty and Kara-Lousie
Big Brother twins Sam and Amanda are hoping to avoid being booted out of the show in an eviction showdown with halfway housemates Amy, Jonty and Kara-Louise. If they manage to stay, the pair will be treated as one person for the rest of the reality programme and have the right to nominate, be evicted and win together. They were told earlier this week that they could choose whether they were treated separately or together but that, whatever happened, one or both of them would face eviction. The girly twins, predictably chose to stick together, which means they are now battling with new additions to the house Amy, Jonty and Kara-Louise to stay.
Evicted
Amy evicted on Day 73 with 58% of the the vote
The departure of former halfway-housemate Amy seems to have had next to no impact on the Big Brother house. Within ten minutes of her departure, one-time beau Liam was tucking into a bowl of cereal and telling twins Sam and Amanda how delighted he was the pair had avoided eviction. Despite sharing a number steamy moments with glamour model Amy, the Geordie tree surgeon went on to reveal he had no plans to date her if they met on the outside world. In a late night chat he said: "No. She's a lovely lass, but no."
Friday night's eviction paved the way for some outrageous behaviour in the house, including one of the most unlikely pairings the show has ever seen. Former boyband member and male model Ziggy jumped on the chance to lock lips with 37-year-old cleaner and rave fan Tracey. Tracey was telling the group a story about former housemate Shanessa, who claimed she kissed Ziggy. "This is what she said Zig," she explained, "on the lips." At this point, Ziggy decided to demonstrate what a kiss on the lips was, using Tracey as his model, and gave her a passionate smacker. A stunned Tracey could utter only one word: "Wrongage."
To relax after the stresses of eviction night the housemates indulged in a late-night dip in the pool. Liam, Ziggy and Brian found themselves sandwiched between the twins, Kara-Louise chose to wrap her arms around fellow academic Gerry, while house elders Jonty and Carole gracefully glided through the water. Tracey and the twins then pounced on Liam, with Tracey managed to whip off his swimming trunks, twirling them around Sam's head before throwing them on to the
Week 11 (Sat 11th August - Fri 17th August)
Spiritual Task
This week, the housemates will be given a series of spiritual tasks which will test their honesty, strength and intelligence - and the housemate who does the best in each task will be awarded 'guru' status. Big Brother has removed all material possessions from the House, and has provided simple, basic clothing. Big Brother has constructed a special Circle of Life in the garden. When Big Brother plays the sacred sound of the didgeridoo into the house, housemates have 60 seconds to gather at the Circle of Life. They then have to crouch at the tree stumps, unfurl their body towards the sun, and dance around the tree trunk, depending on which sounds Big Brother plays into the garden.
In the IQ tests housemates received a collective score of 42% in their IQ tests. They will later have another test and will have to improve their score by 10% to pass the task as a group. In addition, the most improved housemate will win Guru status, this was later announced as Ziggy who became the Mind Guru.
Housemates had to complete the course, then train to improve their strength and agility, before tackling the course for a second time. Meanwhile, Gerry was having to sit out the big event - because he's pulled a muscle. Twins Sam and Amanda Marchant won immunity from this week's Big Brother eviction by winning an assault course task and becoming Body Guru's.
To test their honesty the housemates were given a lie detector test in the diary room, watched by the other housemates in the living room. Brian and Tracey were the only housemates to answer all of their questions honestly. The rest of the housemates then had to choose between Brian and Tracey to become the next Guru, they picked Tracey. Amanda and Sam, Ziggy and Tracey are all immune from eviction this week.
Twist
In a shock twist, all housemates will be up for eviction this week, except for the Gurus, who will be immune from eviction.
Brian and Amanda
Big Brother housemates Brian and Amanda have revealed they have no regrets about their kiss. In the diary room, lovesick Brian came to the conclusion the pair will just be friends "and see what happens with everything on the outside world". "I waited five, six, seven, eight weeks for that night," he told Amanda
Punishment
The bleak prospect of facing another week on basic rations in the Big Brother house has proved too much for Ziggy. The former boyband star made his feelings clear in a Diary Room rant after the luxury food budget was taken away as a punishment for eating a packet of biscuits that had been stashed in the house. The chocolate digestives were consumed by the hungry group earlier in the day, despite having been instructed to return all food to Big Brother last Thursday. Carole was given the "devastating" news shortly after dinner. Having been called to the diary room, she was told: "Today you left the living room, entered the bedroom, and returned to the living area with a packet of chocolate digestives." But Big Brother was having no excuses and took away the luxury grocery budget the housemates had won in this week's task as punishment
Freddy and Munkitty Tunkitty
The housemates have clearly been getting on each other's nerves recently - but now, it seems, even the teddy bears in the Big Brother house have had enough of the bickering. he reality TV residents discovered on Thursday morning, the 79th day of the series, that their furry friends Freddie and Munkitty Tunkitty were packing their bags and going on holiday. The teddies will be sending regular postcards to the Diary Room and the housemates' task will be to work out, in pairs, where they are posted from, to win themselves a meal for two. Gerry seemed genuinely glad for the teddies taking a trip. "Freddie always wanted to travel," he said. "Freddie has already been to Greece and Prague." "Munkitty Tunkitty has only been in England," said Jonty. "Has he travelled abroad?" asked Gerry. "I don't think he has. He came with me to Wales," Jonty replied.
In a practice guessing game that followed, twin Amanda showed off her impressive geographical knowledge, correctly answering that the Eiffel Tower is in Paris and the Leaning Tower of Pisa is in Italy. Brian and Liam, ("the greediest housemates", Liam joked) were first up for the Teddy Bear Task. Liam read out the first missive from Freddie and Munkitty Tunkitty. The boys gladly received a plate of cookies for rightly guessing the bears were in Los Angeles. But Brian remarked that Freddie was "proper annoying" and seemed to prefer the idea of a burger.
Up for Nomination
All housemates who did not receive Guru Status, Gerry, Carole, Brian, Liam, Kara-Lousie and Jonty.
Eviction Night
Gerry Evicted after receiving 24% of public vote, and 3 of 3 Guru Votes
Gerry was one of six of the contestants up for the public vote this week, along with Carole, Brian, Liam, Kara-Louise and Jonty. But in another Big Brother twist the remaining housemates - the "gurus" who had escaped the eviction vote by winning this week's tasks - got to make the final decision.
Tracey Barnard, Ziggy Lichman and twins Sam and Amanda Marchant had to decide who to save out of the two housemates who got the most votes from the public - Carole and Gerry. Gerry asked Ziggy and Tracey and the twins to nominate him to go, insisting he was happy to leave the Big Brother house. When they chose him for eviction, the 31-year-old said: "That's fine, that's fine. Guys, I know it would have been a twist and I'm perfectly fine. I want Carole to win this award." Gerry said he would campaign to ensure the 53-year-old youth health worker would win Big Brother, saying the rest of them were young and had plenty of time to work for the money. "I'm proving that I didn't come here for the money," he added. The other housemates gave him a round of applause for the move, which left fellow nominee Carole in tears.
Week 12 (Sat 18th August - Fri 24th August)
Nominated for Eviction This Week
Kara-Louise, Jonty and Tracey are at the mercy of voting viewers after the latest round of nominations. They will learn their fate on Friday evening, with only one able to stay for the show's final week. The two departures will leave nine housemates - or eight if twins Sam and Amanda are counted as one person - slugging it out to win the show. Student Kara-Louise received five nominations from fellow housemates, museum assistant Jonty got four while cleaner Tracey got three.
Brain and Amanda
It became spicier in the Big Brother house as Brian finally uttered those three little words to Amanda before the housemates launched into a series of controversial drinking games. Brian and Amanda were on the sofa in the bathroom when he finally said: "I love you."
Earlier, the pair were on the sofa in the bathroom. Their conversation began with an argument over how to pronounce the word irritable. "You speak more slowly than I do," said Brian. "Wow," said Amanda, "No-one's ever said that. Everyone says I speak way too fast." "Irr-it-able," said Brian trying to slow down his pronunciation. "Irr-it-a-bull." "Give me a cuddle," said Brian. Amanda obliged and this prompted Brain to speak the magic words. "I love you," he said. "You're a good girl, you are." Amanda smiled and then moved the conversation on.
But BB didn't allow the hot atmosphere to cool down and the contestants were later plied with alcohol and told to play some games. Reading the instructions to her housemates, Tracey said: "We gotta play Kiss, Marry or Evict, Truth or Dare or Have You Ever... Which one d'you wanna play first?" They opted for Kiss, Marry or Evict - where each player has to ask the housemate next to them who they'd like to kiss, marry and evict. Kara-Louise was quick to say: "I'd have to marry Tracey..." "Get in!" Tracey grinned. "... Kiss Brian and 'bye bye' twins," Kara-Louise concluded. Speaking as one, the twins decided to "kiss Carole, marry Liam and evict Jonty".
Shopping List Nightmares
Junk Food
The Big Brother housemates gathered round the blackboard to compile their list after winning a luxury budget of £330 by completing the Finishing Academy task. But with meals ordered including burgers, nuggets and fish fingers, Kara complained to Brian: "For you it's fun food, but for me it's nightmare food!"
And Kara wasn't the only one who needed to let off steam. At one point during the list making, Liam took time out and flopped on a bed."I just got annoyed," he explained. Later, Liam joined Brian and Ziggy for a debrief in the garden. "It went really good that - it went well considering," said Brian. "Again we ended up with all the crap that we didn't want," he added. "If Carole's happy then everyone's happy," said Ziggy. But Liam said sagely: "I don't think Kara's happy because she kept suggesting ideas and Brian was shooting them down." Back in the living room, Brian bravely tried to convince a pouting Kara she would survive on junk food. "One week of eating burgers, you'll be alright," he said.
Jonty showed unusual levels of comic timing when he bravely ventured into a very girly chat about food. After the excitement of completing the shopping list, Kara was banging on about hating junk food, saying: "With takeaways, you don't really know what goes in them." And Jonty cunningly replied: "It could be submarine oil." Boom boom. But his flash of comedic inspiration didn't last sadly, as the conversation drifted on. "I try to make sure I have food at home that's healthy," said Kara. "One of my favourite foods is those avocado and mozzarella wraps you can get - they're very, very nice," mumbled Jonty. Then Kara revealed her guilt-complex over chocolate. "I can't actually go into a shop and buy a chocolate bar, I just feel too guilty about it," she confessed. "You're probably sensible, because I go into a shop and buy two or three a day, which can't be good," said Jonty. But don't worry, Kara doesn't deprive herself entirely. "I go home to my mum on Sunday and I eat whatever I want," she added. "Treat day!" beamed Carole.
Shopping List Over Spent?
Amanda didn't do so well with the shopping list after all, it seems, in a day when food tension was rife throughout the Big Brother house. No sooner had the twin left the Diary Room boasting of all the extra treats she had added to the list, than BB announced the gang had overspent by £70. House mum Carole was galvanised into action, and gallantly saved the list, saying: "Let's take the jam roly polys off because I can make one of those." She summed up to Jonty: "I think the alcohol probably wasn't counted in which was about £30 and we've taken off about £30 with various extra things."
Later, Amanda was grilled by the boys about what luxuries remained on the all-important list. "You didn't knock off my noodles did you?" said Brian, looking vexed. "I had to knock off the expensive gateaux and just get normal ones," Amanda replied. "Are the red laces there?" Ziggy piped up. "No," said Amanda. "Aw!" he said, feigning sadness. "You've still got giant cookies," Amanda consoled him.
Carole's Attitude Noticed by Housemates
Ziggy led the tirade about Carole's domineering attitude this morning. In a boys-only chat, he said: "She's like a young girl in an old woman's body. She wants the attention. That's why she wants to shop and cook all the time. She wants to take it away from all of us." "I just don't like being spoken down to," said Liam "We get told off, it's like stepping into Carole's kitchen. We've got to live it how we want to live it," whined Ziggy. Brian added: "It's all of our kitchen..."
The moaning then turned to low supplies of something other than food - toiletries. Liam complained: "When I arrived in the house I had absolutely loads of toiletries. I had a massive bottle of shampoo, aftershave, everything. "By week two, all the shampoo was gone, all the shaving foam was gone, and four of my razors were gone. And Charley had the smoothest shaved legs." He went on: "And Chanelle was at it too. I'd hear 'rustle, rustle' and she'd have been putting on my aftershave, my deodorant, my antiperspirant, my body lotion... I never made a fuss about it though."
Finishing School Academy Task
It was time for the Big Brother housemates to stand up and be counted to become ladies and gentlemen in Big Brother's Finishing Academy, with a luxury food budget up for grabs. The housemates have been given rules to follow to improve their manners in this weeks task. The first part of the task was elocution lessons where housemates had to read out statements in the diary room pronouncing their words completely and correctly. Another part of the finishing school academy task involved slouching, lurching and tripping were out and deportment was in as they were asked to complete a mini-obstacle course in the garden with book firmly balanced on their heads, while carrying a large gin and tonic. Dressed in fetching tweed jackets for the event, all housemates completed the course successfully apart from Carole, who dropped her book once.
The housemates were then saved from the onset of boredom when Big Brother announced their next task - perfecting their table manners.The group were called to the posh chairs, where they had to watch a lesson in fine dining that appeared in black and white on the plasma screen. As part of the finishing academy task, all housemates will be given a dinner etiquette handbook and must practise their table manners before the Big Brother ball.
Brian picked up the task instructions from the Diary Room and told the group they will be tested individually throughout the day. "If a housemate fails their individual dinner etiquette test they will incur one fail for the house," he read. But they will also face a final test on dinner etiquette at the Big Brother ball. Moments later, they collected a table laid with numerous glasses and pieces of cutlery from the store room and started learning what everything was for. Tracey started reading the rules, telling housemates they must "not slurp their food" and, when eating soup, "scoop the soup in motions away from yourself". "Just because you have a fish knife it doesn't mean you'll have fish," said the rather posh Kara-Louise, admiring the table.
The housemates incurred 3 fails this weeks but were allowed 4 meaning they have won a luxury shopping budget.
Punishments
Amanda, who had broken her twelfth microphone, had to talk through a loud hailer.
Evicted
Tracey with 38.4% of the public vote to evict and Kara-Louise with 30.8% of the vote to evict were evicted on Day 87.
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