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More info on tonight's new HMs: One is half Kuwaiti One has met Jennifer Lopez One is a model One is an engineer One is currently learning to fly All are under 30 One says he/she has no friends One has 44FF breasts One has a fear of spiders and water tanks One says he/she dislikes vain, self-obsessed people All are single One describes him/herself as an exhibitionist One is a self-confessed Atheist One describes him/herself as a snob One describes him/herself as a two-faced bitch I wonder if this will be the thing that unites the original HMs. Last year the Lip Gloss Bitches and Jungle Cats were in all out war trying to pick one another off, but when Becki arrived they very much united to ensure they got rid of her. Should be a fantastic show tonight - the eviction is far too close to call with some bookies saying Derek, others saying Roberto.

It's been confirmed three new housemates will move in after tonights eviction. We've only ever had new housemates enter individually before, usually one per series but two in series 3, entering about 2 weeks apart to replace quitters / escapees, so though new housemates were expected, we weren't expecting three. It's rumoured to be two girls - a sexy Irish model and an exhibishionist, and one bloke with very few friends!

Should be C4 exec - Big Brother has nothing to do with the BBC. I found that quite funny when I first read it. I've always defended Big Brother - but comparing it to the biblical values is a bit of an insult really - to Big Brother!

This weeks nominees are Derek (6 votes) and Roberto (4 votes). They both faced the public vote last week but it was Sam who was evicted. This week one will go - the bookies say Derek, though I think Roberto. Everytime you turn on the live feed he moans about food - and can even start an argument in a silent room, as he did at dinner the other night! Derek isn't the nicest of people, but he's alot more watchable when he's socialising with HMs other than Roberto. I do think Derek will have people wanting him to stay, so voting out Roberto - but I can't see many voting out Derek just to keep Roberto in! Wrapping up the Room 101 twist: For Maxwell's final shift in Room 101, he was peeling prawns - in a hot windowless 3 ft square room! However, this time the other HMs didn't know his task and couldn't watch him on the screens. Instead, they just had to enjoy their garden games and wine. Before Maxwell leaves Room 101, BB informs the HMs they have five minutes to hide the evidence - but one thing can't be hidden - Makosi has got very drunk on the wine. BB then calls the other HMs to Room 105 and presents them with prawns, manure and liver to cover their tracks - but they don't know what Maxwell has been doing. Maxwell also plays his own game as HMs exit, telling them he's been listening to his favourite songs and enjoying pizza and Coke. Makosi comes out and claims to have been peeling prawns. Derek tells her that Maxwell has been peeling prawns too - with Makosi then wanting to tell everyone that she's peeled two prawns as part of her task. Drunk - but very funny! There's been a couple of near slip-ups, when Anthony mentioned wrestling with Saskia, which had occured when Maxwell was in Room 101. Also, on jogging round the garden Anthony found an instruction sheet left over from the garden party. With Maxwell in the room, Roberto also stated his surprise to Derek that he didn't play chess - something he'd discovered during yesterdays games. This happened just minutes before the task ended, but Maxwell didn't click. So before the results are announced, Maxwell is questioned about the task in the diary room and shows no signs of suspecting his HMs (who are all watching him!). BB then announced they've passed the task, but doesn't reveal the twist. Within seconds though Makosi reveals all, leaving Maxwell feeling like a "muppet", but taking it very well. Later Makosi revealed she told Maxwell about the twist so quickly as she wanted to beat Saskia to it! So next week it's luxury food all round - but not quite. On Day 1 of the task Vanessa was selected as Room 101, but on hearing maggots awaited her, refused to enter Room 101 and was replaced by Maxwell - before the twist was revealed. Therefore, BB has instructed Vanessa that she cannot consume anything bought on the luxury food budget, with BB providing her with meals in the diary room next week. And finally - there seems to be another twist around the corner. Friday nights eviction show has been extended by 30 minutes at the last minute - with the most likely reason being the introduction of at least one new HM, almost certainly female, as only 3 women remain, compared with 6 men! P.S. In six years of BB I have never seen a group of HMs so petty about food. There is very little group unity this year - or in fact few rival groups. Food is being claimed left right and centre, with an ongoing trading market going on in the house, with alcohol being swapped for biscuits and sweets. Every bit of food down to the last grain of rice seems to belong to someone, rather than the group as a whole!

UPDATE: Maxwell is currently matching up sets of nuts and bolts (all soaked in oil), while the others are enjoying champagne, strawberrys and cream. PICTURES: Room 101 The other HMs (from Sunday):

Hardly a first I'm afraid. BB Australia have done variations of this in 2003 and 2004 as well. It's a weakened version of the Rich-Poor divide concept which has been used in most European versions of Big Brother at some point, including the third UK series back in 2002. To read about a true BB first, check out the BBUK thread (end of page 1 / beginning page 2) where this week's task sees the HMs having to lie through their teeth to one unfortunate HMs who is suffering a week of hell in Room 101, believing the other HMs are also suffering the same fate: http://mortystv.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1506

The HMs have now had to begin lying through their teeth to Maxwell. As BB removed the evidence of the party, BB sent all HMs to Room 105, where the tools were provided to add to the lie. One by one Big Brother then asked the workers to leave their rooms and enter the house through the corridor. Being in Room 101, Maxwell leaves first. Craig is next to enter the house, having to lie in response to Maxwell's questions about how well he'd done. With Craig saying to have done 3 jars of maggots, Derek claims he did four, then Saskia fails to raise any suspicion upon returning to the clutches of Maxwell. A shrieking Makosi claims she cried throughout the challenge, before throwing up the fake vomit. And Vanessa, who originally was "The Sap" but left Room 101 within seconds of entering (before the twist was revealed) to be replaced by Maxwell, told the HMs she took one for the team - when in fact she'd been enjoying a sugar-rush at the kids party provided by BB.

Generally that sort of thing doesn't happen with BBUK as most the challenges are the house working together to pass a task, so being poor at challenges wouldn't be to her advantage. She also said yesterday when telling Vanessa about her week 1 secret mission that when she made her nominations, she refrained from nominating the competition. Back on to Room 101 - all has been revealed as the Big Brother Workhouse opens for business. HM have been numbered in the Big Brother Workhouse from number 1 to 10. The HMs have been informed that each day HM will complete a shift in the workhouse. Worker number 1 will enter room 101, with the other HMs move onto room 102 etc. To pass the Workhouse task, HMs must complete the challenge set in the workhouse... Each day HMs must clock in for a day of solitary confinement in their individual work rooms Well - that's what worker no.1 (aka The Sap) believes - but there is a twist!!! Only worker number 1 will suffer five days of hell in Room 101. The other HMs will get to live a life of luxury with party food and games. Before worker no. 1 leaves Room 101, all other HMs must enter Room 105 and await further instruction. The only way for HMs to pass the Workhouse challenge is for the other HMs to convince worker no. 1 that they to are suffering a week of hell completing shifts in the workhouse. If worker no. 1 discovers the other HMs are lying, the task is failed! Vanessa was originally selected as worker number 1 ("The Sap") - but freaked out on discovering her challenge, and I don't think she even managed to get into Room 101. Somehow, Maxwell has now replaced Vanessa as worker number 1. The other HMs have now been given the real instructions as Maxwell gets to work in Room 101 sorting out coloured maggots into jars! The other HMs are watching him on the plasma screen and have been given a childrens party in the garden.

Thanks for the comments - I appreciate the replies as much as you seem to appreciate the updates. I also like the American viewpoint considering how different your BB is now! I'm going to stick to the one thread with summaries once a week or so now as it's working far better than posting a new thread for every major development. I will post the next update though in a couple of days when the "Room 101" twist is unveiled. As for the chickens, Makosi is the only HM to fail the task, so won't be joining the barn dance tonight. She was the "Unlucky" HM in week 1, and her bad luck continues, finishing just outside the winning 3 in the cardboard box challenge and now not completing this week's challenge.

An update: This week's food task saw the housemates become shipmates as the house was turned into a Pirate Ship. Through a short sword challenge, Science became captain of the ship, with the other ten his Seamen. The Seamen has to complete a number of challenge over the week, including having two people man the crow's nest 24 hrs a day, looking out for pirates and land. Each time they saw Pirate or Land, they had to alert their Shipmates and get them gathered on deck within 5 minutes. They lost the task with a massive 28 fails (they were permitted 2 a day). On to nominations and another shocker. Unlike the US, HMs are not permitted to discuss nominations - something Craig, Derek and Roberto did hours before this weeks nominations. On calling each HM to the diary room to give this weeks nominations, Craig, Derek and Roberto were overlooked by BB - but then the reason was revealed to all on the plasma screen, as BB played back the incriminating footage of Craig, Derek and Roberto saying that Saskia needed to go. The nominees this week were Derek, Roberto and Sam. Wednesday night saw each HM go Speed Dating in the Love Loft. There were snogs for Anthony & Makosi, Makosi & Sam(antha) and Maxwell & Saskia. Sam did the worlds worst lapdance for Anthony, Anthony turned up to his date with Kemal in boxers and tie - while Saskia got revenge on Derek, questioning his views on women and making him bark like a dog. The eviction this week and it could be anyone - but it turns out to be Sam with a whopping 59% of the vote. Sam, who only seemed to wear bikinis in the house, whatever the weather, was then interviewed by Davina - who stripped off to reveal a rather fetching black bikini. Davina also got a snog from Sam as well as a lapdance - something I can't imagine Julie Chen ever doing. Today's Saturday Challenge sees the HMs dressed as chickens and having to hold onto their eggs for a few hours to gain entry to a special Barn Dance. Further challenges include an aerobics workout, without dropping the egg - and nesting. Doesn't sound evil - but HMs are dressed in full chicken outfits on the hottest day of the year so far! And on Monday it's the next big Unlucky twist - one housemate will suffer a week of hell in Room 101!

To be honest though alot of the previous contestants have been playing for the $50,000 - doing whatever neccessary to get into the final two, even eliminating their chance of winning $500,000 rather than risking going home with nothing. As I said in opening this thread, I do think having the jackpot begin at $1,000,000 - but fall each time they fail a special "Jackpot challenge" would work well. You could also have the obligatory Big Brother bribe one week in which HMs are offered a guaranteed cash prize, but the prize being deducted off the jackpot.

It's all over! Makosi quit a couple of hours ago, leaving just Anthony, Derek and Roberto. As the time in the box hit 27 hours Big Brother declared the contest over and that all three remaining HMs would be declared winners for "commitment to living in a cardboard box". Thing is though, they didn't believe him! Eventually they agree to all exit the boxes on the count of five. Derek and Roberto did - and Anthony tried, but with Maxwell holding down his box he was the last man standing. They will now share the luxury food for the next three days - but if they share it with the others, they will lose it!

Yes they do have feeds and yes they charge The feeds are restricted to the UK though. The C4 website is updated continuously though - http://www.channel4.com/bigbrother Digital Spy also has a Mortys TV style live coverage from the house: http://bigbrother.digitalspy.co.uk Update on the challenge: After 12 hrs Big Brother ordered all HMs remaining in their boxes to take a ten-minute break. They were permitted to use the toilet and change clothing, but not take food. A second "Survival kit" was issued to them. Soon after returning to the boxes Craig quit, realising the other four were more determined than he was. He's found new respect amongst his HMs though. There were a couple more five-minute breaks overnight, but apart from that 25 hours into the task and four HMs are still in their boxes. They haven't been out of them since early this morning - and are showing little signs of quitting now!

An update on the challenge - and I think we've see a new Big Brother record for any endurance challenge with five housemates remaining in their boxes after eleven hours! This beats the US record for endurance challenge on Big Brother, with Diane surviving the HoH challenge in week 4 last year for around nine and a half hours. All five boxed housemates are now inside (seeing them move inside without removing their boxes was rather amusing!) and the challenge continues.

An update on the challenge... After nine hours (which I think is close to your endurance challenge record) we have five contestants remaining in their cardboard boxes. Saskia had a little accident when she quit after about four hours, bursting the condom she'd had a wee in over the living room floor as she exited the box. Maxwell quit early this evening after around six hours, leaving Roberto and Derek inside and Anthony, Craig and Makosi outside - all couped up in their boxes nine hours later. Roberto has said he'll concede to Derek if they reach the final two, while Anthony and Makosi are plotting with the HMs who've quit to somehow convince Roberto and Derek the three housemates outside have quit. Kemal has also been sent to the naughty step for pouring defrosted guerkin ice cream into Roberto's box.

ROOM 101 - see bottom of this page for details (Pictures on page 2) 3 New HMs, No Clothes, No food and one secret Garden - page 2 The secret Garden / Makosi's mission - page 3 Maxwell vs Saskia - page 4 BB promises to lie / Triple twist to nominations / VIDEO: THE EVICTION TWIST - page 5 Close Eviction / Double Agent / Another close eviction / Orlaith quits - page 6 Kinga is BACK! Derek falls at final hurdle - page 7 BB kidnaps a HM, Surprise eviction, Jackpot slashed to

God, your testing my memory. I think he said Anthony and Saskia as the two HMs he wanted to stay - but can't recall who he'd share the money with. He wanted to evict Science as he threw a bin at him the night before. Just to update you on how this twist developed... Saskia won Maxwell some underwear as he'd only bought in two pairs. However, on discover they were Tottenham Hotspurs undies, the die-hard Arsenal fan set fire to them. For this he had to be punished - and as Big Brother, Saskia got to choose the punishment. This involved sitting on the "naughty step" in just a nappy(diaper), bib and bonnet for the duration of the nominations process (which took over two hours!). The final part of the reward was that Saskia got to discover which housemate had broken the rules over discussing nominations (which isn't permitted in the UK) and as a result, put all the housemates up for eviction. Finally, a bizarre twist to events. This weeks task saw the house turned into a hospital, with the HMs divided into nurses and patients. Everytime an alarm goes, a patient must rush to the diary room where they are diagnosed and given instructions on how the nurses must treat them. Hemmeroids, broken limbs, repetivie strain injury and even male pregnancy have featured - but the strangest thing is that Saskia ended up tearing her ligaments in her foot playing football with Anthony - and ended up going to hospital for real!

Well, my BBUK posts seem to be getting a significant number of views, if not replies, so I'll continue passing on my thoughts on a show you can't watch (officially!) Would love to hear more of your thoughts! In a twist that offers the winner of this weekend's counting challenge possibly more power than the bedsit* did last year, Saskia has become Big Brother. Her secret mission is to question the other housemates in the diary room. She can ask them three questions via Big Brother and must visit the diary room to inform BB of who she wants to ask and the questions. Saskia can then view the questioning via a secret monitor and headset in the bedroom toilet, and can communicate further with Big Brother via a two-way radio. Using her new powers immediately, Saskia instructed that Maxwell be summoned to the diary room. Davina mentioned on Friday night that she thought there was a spark between these two - and it seems our hostess knows what shes talking about. The questions Saskia posed were: In a further twist to events, having been informed by Big Brother that the winner of yesterdays counting challenge had been informed and rewarded, Maxwell began conducting enquiries into who had won and why they had not come forward. Paranoia has set in, with HMs wondering if the task is linked to another eviction. Saskia passed off Maxwell's questioning sweatly, with Derek finding himself prime suspect. Saskia then tried an incredible double bluff by accusing Maxwell of being the secret winner. Whether Saskia will get any power over this weeks nominations remains to be seen, but it looks like secret missions are a key feature of this year's Big Brother. * Bedsit: Last year Emma and Michelle were evicted in a fake double eviction and moved into a secret bedsit, where they could watch the BB house live 24 hours a day before returning five days later.

"Big Brother House this is Davina" "Craig, Mary. The lines are now closed and the votes have been counted and verified." "I can now reveal the first housemate to be evicted from the Big Brother house is..." * Davina attempts to build the suspense with seconds of silence - only for it to be spoiled by the crowd chanting in the background * "... Mary!" One week in and the viewers have already made a mistake. Unfortunately, with 60% of the votes Mary is the first evictee - despite Craig being hot favourite to go 24 hours earlier. In the 30 minutes before she leaves the house Makosi offers her sympathy - but doesn't reveal her secret. She'll leave that for Davina to do. Mary leaves to a pretty decent reception by the standard of recent years. In the studio (now complete with studio audience!) Davina conducts a pretty decent interview with Mary coming across very well. The big moment is obviously Mary discovering the twist to the nominations - with the footage of Makosi in the diary room on Wednesday night played. Mary understands the twist without explanation - though immediately calls Makosi a snake in the grass. She then learns only Saskia nominated her in the regular round of nominations. The only other clips played are a compilation of her best bits at the end of the interview. From a presentation point of view - the new studio is nice and though not as intimate as having the friends and family sat around, the studio audience were kept under control. However, they need to move the eviction announcements back inside the studio. Once again the suspense was ruined (for housemates and viewers alike!) by the crowd pre-empting Davina announcing the evictee with chants of Mary! So in conclusion - a disapointing result, but a pretty decent eviction interview.

Amazingly, I found this out first on an Aussie fansite. Apparantly it's not aired on all CBS stations yet, but is on the CBS website: http://video.cgi.cbs.com/video/video_smil.pl/? The ad gives nothing away really - just has scenes from BB5 with summer type phrases like "Gonna get hot"

Makosi has successfully completed her secret mission to get the most nominations from her housemates. Yesterday each HM made their first nominations, believing they were nominating the HMs they wanted evicted. Only Makosi knew this wasn't the case. The nominations in full: Anthony: Derek and Makosi Craig: Makosi and Kemal Derek: Sam and Saskia Kemal: Maxwell and Sam Lesley: Sam and Makosi Makosi: Roberto and Anthony Mary: Saskia and Roberto Maxwell: Makosi and Vanessa Roberto: Science and Vanessa Sam: Vanessa and Derek Saskia: Mary and Craig Science: Roberto and Maxwell Vanessa: Sam and Roberto With four nominations each Roberto, Sam and crucially Makosi had the most nominations, so are all immune for eviction. Lesley is the only HM not to receive a nomination. In the final part of last night's live special Makosi was called to the diary room and informed she had passed her secret mission. She was then told it was now up to her to decide the two nominees for eviction this week. She choose Craig and Mary. Makosi was then told she was free to discuss her secret mission - if she want's to! She immediately told Kemal, but hasn't told anyone else. A few minutes later Craig and Mary discovered they were nominated and were under the belief their housemates didn't like them at all. In fact, in the original nominations they each only got one nominations, both from Saskia. Last night's nominations has lead to events being dubbed by some as "Fight Night II", with accusations flying at all housemates, especially from Craig and Mary, that HMs are performing and hiding behind masks. Further arguments erupted over a treacle sponge! And it wasn't until this morning that it was discovered that one resident of the house had been murdered - and how significant gnome stabbed in the back proved to be!

Have the housemates rumbled Makosi - well, Kemal is very close to the truth. Tonight's show, which centered around Mary's birthday, ended with Kemal questioning whether Makosi is a mole? He believes she is - but on her insistance rather than Big Brother's - while Science doesn't think she's a mole, but believes she has a secret mission. Makosi best plan of defence was to neither confirm or deny the accusations in the conversation with a few housemates who Makosi may struggle to get nominations from. Meanwhile today Kemal attempted to heal rifts between Makosi and the HMs by asking them to ignore her pranks - but this seemed to result in HMs ignoring her completly. Later today the HMs made their crucial first nominations - will they nominate Makosi and save her from eviction? P.S. A line I never thought I'd hear Big Brother say... "For health and safety reasons please don't allow other housemates to ride on your broomstick" Mary agreed it was inappropriate to allow amateurs to ride on her broomstick, but assured Big Brother she was licenced to do so.

That is why I think it be ideal for viewers to vote on the "fake eviction" described above. Within a week it would be clear to the HMs once the "evictees" return that the voting is being done in-house.

Well I think the basic format (HoH, Nominations, Veto, Eviction) will remain, but there will be a twist to the format itself, rather than the housemates (as in The X Factor, Project DNA). The US Big Brother is generally more of a stand alone show and doesn't borrow ideas from other versions as much as other countries versions do - but last year we had one the best twists ever here in the UK as part of the "Big Brother Gets Evil" theme. In the UK the public determines who is evicted. We had a "fake double eviction", with the two evicted housemates ushered to a secret bedsit within the BB compound. In this room was a live feed from the house, meaning they could watch their fellow HMs 24 hours a day. Five days later they returned to the house, armed with information. Unfortunately, they didn't keep their cool and the infamous Fight Night erupted! Adapting for the US version, I'd suggest the two fake evictees are chosen by viewers in America's Choice (at last, one that matters!) The voting would open on the first night, with a special live show on the Saturday to cover the eviction. This would get some brilliant reactions from the HMs - with the HMs discovering there is a surrpise double eviction - and that it's been determined by the public! The first HoH challenge would take place at the end of this show. The two "evictees" would then watch the house in secret for the next five days. The Nominations and Veto Challenge take place in this time, as does the voting (by the HMs) for the first evictee. However, unknown to the HMs the "evictees" in the bedsit also get a vote each for the first eviction. The next Thursday the first live eviction takes place - then the biggest shock of all as the two HMs return from the bedsit and enter the house in time for the next HoH comp! That would make for a fantastic first week of BB6 with a twist that I don't think the US housemates would expect - especially as since BB2 all voting has been done in-house. It does mean no Head of House competition in the first show - but I think revealing the plans for the secret bedsit is more than enough compensation. The first show could include a food comp with a twist though. As for other twists. I think later in the series it's about time we had a Veto comp (though just a one-off) where the Veto winner also gets to nominate the replacement. I'd also like to see a twist that could see the Head of House lose their position and find themselves on the block!

After clarification of the rules of her secret mission from Big Brother, Makosi is playing a blinder and is certainly notching up the votes. Upon returning to the loft, she responds to questions about events in the diary room with a rant about the housemates being so nosey, and then made her way to the lounge - where she found herself repeating the rant and getting labelled a drama queen. When in bed she kept attacking Science for talking as she tried to sleep - though he wasn't - and then went on to explain she snored, slept-talked and sleep-walks - before attacking Science again. Meanwhile tonight Big Brother has delivered the housemates suitcases with 13 locks and 13 keys. All the HMs managed to unlock their suitcase - except Makosi. BB told her to try again, and eventually gave her the key - on a key-ring with 99 other keys, and earning Makosi some unwanted sympathy in her quest to be nominated.