Mikey's been a firm favourite with the bookies since day 1, and remains that way with just a few hours to go...
Rachel's odds may not be as good as they were a few days ago, but she's still second fave...
Rex has climbed to third favourite with the bookies, clambering over Sara, who's now fourth favourite, and Darnell looks like the only housemate not in with a shot of winning the hundred grand (as far as those pesky bookmakers are concerned, anyway)...
Housemates were given a special 'last supper' on Thursday night, and it was time to reflect on their time in the Big Brother house.
It was a bit sickly - here's what Darnell had to say... "I came in here feeling lonely, with nothing, and I'm leaving with a whole lot of things dude. I definitely feel like I'm where I belong now, know what I'm saying?"
And Rex: "I feel like certain people in the House I've got to know actually better than any of my friends on the outside," he revealed. "I think that's the most amazing experience."
"I could honestly sit here and say that I consider everyone at this table a friend," he concluded, before turning to Michael, who he's clashed with the most. "I would consider you a friend, Mikey." (Pass the bucket)
He wasn't in quite such a loving mood later though, as Big Brother didn't provide the vast quantities of alcohol he was after..!
After scratching his eye a bit too ferociously, Darnell visited the diary room on Thursday afternoon to see an optometrist, and came out looking like a pirate - turns out he's scratched his eyeball!
Not the best time to be wearing an eye-patch, 24 hours before the final - he should be able to take it off in time for his exit...
Big Brother set housemates a task on Wednesday - The Rap Battle!
Everyone had to write and perform a rap (Darnell kinda has the advantage here, being a rapper), and if Big Brother was happy with what's done, housemates would get to select an episode of this year's show to watch!
Darnell was first up - "House full of cookie love, House full of Baddy Bees, When one gotta go, it's sad to see." - obviously, his was the most professional, but Big Brother was happy with all performances (Mikey's breakdancing surely helped)
Housemates were given a choice of three different BB episodes to watch - ep1 (where housemates entered), ep7 (electric shock task), ep55 (cops & robbers task) - After a vote, it was decided that ep55 made the most sense, as it was the only episode of the three that Sara was actually in!
Will watching a highlights show back change their attitude/behaviour in the run-up to the final tomorrow night? We'll wait and see...
So how did the housemates take the news of Mohamed and Kathreya getting the boot?
Most were shocked - some were teary - Darnell went for a world record attempt... the most swear words in the space of a few minutes...
He was so mad with Big Brother for evicting them during the cross-dressing task that not even a hamper of food and stack of booze could make up for it... "I didn't want to ******* do the task, 'cause I thought it was ********!"
Those ************* got ******* evicted like that. Kiss my ass! ************. I cannot believe this ****."
"I cannot believe this ****, honestly. And ******* Big Brother ain't gonna be able to throw a ******* song on, and give us some ******* booze to ******* sway me. ********!"
You'd never think he now had a one in five chance of winning £100,000, would you?
It's a 'surprise' eviction tonight, with the two housemates currently polling the lowest number of votes to win heading out the door - it's almost certain that it'll be Mo & Kat, but who knows - it's never a shock to get a shock in Big Brother... if that makes sense!
And if rumours are to be believed, the housemates will be kicked out in the middle of a 'cross-dressing' party... it's on at 8 & 10pm tonight.
Rex was made head chef on Monday for a cooking masterclass - he had to put the others into pairs, and then teach fellow housemates how to cook Steak Béarnaise, Mashed Potatoes and Green Beans, followed by Blueberry Soufflé... they'd be given the ingredients, but not the recipe...
It was down to Rex to choose the winning pair once the meals had all been cooked - and he chose Mo & Sara as Masterchefs, even calling their food 'outstanding'!
They picked up some pretty trophies as a reward...
Sunday. Day of rest. Not the case in the BB house - all day, as Kat & Sara had been the only two remaining housemates never to be Head of House, they'd been waiting on the former HoH'ers... and at the end of it all, went to chat to Big Brother in the diary room.
However, when they came back, the boys jokingly suggested that they'd had to vote one of them out - but Kat wasn't in the mood for jokes, and went off in a huff.
"I'm very, very sad Darnell," she sighed - "Oh my god, get over yourself," said Darnell. "You know damn well we don't want you to go dude."
Well that started it - Darnell went off on one of his usual rants, threatening to leave the house!
After a while, he was called to the diary room to cool off - and ended up spending a good hour or so in there, while the others debated over whether he'd actually left or not.
Of course he hadn't left - and when he came back, he told Rex that he'd cooled off... with a few days to go, it's not the best time to be losing your rag, Darnell!!
Let's be honest, it was gonna be a pretty hectic final night with seven of them to come out - even six would mean each interview with Davina would only last a few seconds, so on Tuesday, two of them will get the boot...
Will it be original favourite Kat? Latecomer Sara? Greedy Mo? It's likely to be two of them, and we'll find out on Tuesday night when a vote count is taken!
Meanwhile, bookies have Michael as the current favourite to win next Friday, with Rachel just behind...
Mikey's been looking for a fight with Rex for days now, and on Thursday lunchtime, he gave it another go - "You don't realise you're a control freak and bullying everybody" shouted Mikey, and although Rex left the room, he soon came back - "I'd prefer it if you didn't talk to me or mention my name, if that's how you're going on..."
Mikey went on to call Rex selfish and materialistic, asking "Why do you think I've nominated you six times, Rex?"...
"I don't mean to be horrible." Rex said, "You're calling me selfish - I cook dinner for everyone every night, and you never say thank you. Maybe you forget, but that's not an action of someone who's selfish."
It wasn't long before they (kind of) cleared the air - remembering that there's only a week to go, and both are after those vital public votes...!
Meanwhile...
It took a few hours, but Darnell and Sara have finally made-up - by the end of Thursday night, Sara was giving Darnell relationship advice... something he possibly needs, going by his recent actions...
Just in time - Sara's the bookies favourite to ge tthe chop tonight over Lisa, but only just!
Housemates were speculating all day as to what would happen on Wednesday night - the majority thought perhaps Lisa & Mario would get hitched in the back garden, but a few also considered the possibility of someone going in a surprise eviction. Turns out they were all wrong!
Big Brother gathered housemates in the living area, and gave them all pens and card - they then each had to write down their final two nominations, and show them to the group when everyone had finished writing theirs down.
With the most noms, Lisa & Sara will be facing eviction this Friday - but that wasn't it...
Nominees Lisa & Sara were then called to the task room...
Ever seen 'Goldenballs'? BB producers clearly have - Lisa & Sara were given £50,000 - they then had to decide (in secret) whether they'd be willing to 'take' the money, or 'share' it, by holding up a gold bar with the corresponding choice written on it.
(Replace 'share' with 'split' and 'take' with 'steal' and you've got an exact replica of the Goldenballs final game!)
If they both chose 'share', they'd get £25,000 each - if one of them chose 'take', that person would win the whole fifty grand, and the other housemate would get nothing. If they both chose 'take', they'd both get nothing... it wasn't a hard decision...
Being the generaous souls that they are, both Lisa & Sara chose to share the cash, so they pick up £25,000 each!
It's not part of the winning fund (£100,000), so whoever survives eviction on Friday still has a shot at the grand prize next week...
For the second part of this week's 'Las Vegas' themed shopping task, on Wednesday afternoon, housemates were given the £280 luxury budget they'd already earnt on Tuesday - in coins! And there was a catch...
If they wanted to keep the luxury budget, they had to gamble the lot away on slot machines within two hours. Anything they won had to go straight back in - if they had any money left at the end of the allocated time, they'd fail this week's shopping task.
All £280 was gone within the two hours, so housemates thought it was an easy pass - however, one of the rules of the task stated that you couldn't insert the next coin into the machine until the slot wheels had finished spinning from the previous game.
Mo seemingly forgot about this rule, and therefore failed the task for everyone, leaving a basic budget for the final week!
It wasn't a great day for Head of House Mohamed - later, Big Brother gave him the chance to redeem himself, by laying on a Las Vegas-style buffet in the diary room. If he managed to eat the lot, housemates would have been treated to a Las Vegas party... he didn't.
It's a live show with Davina tonight, and that can only mean one thing - live nominations!
The regular highlights from yesterday are at 9pm, and then at 11.05pm, Davina will get each of the housemates to nominate face-to-face - the two nominated will not only go head to head for this week's eviction, but will also play a game of jeopardy - the winner picking up £50,000!
Whoever wins the fifty grand will still be eligible to win the entire series next week, providing the public don't boot them out... Mo is the only safe housemate, as he's HoH...
It's all about Vegas for this week's shopping task, with housemates being set a series of challenges based around the entertainment capital of the world...
For day 1 of this week's shopping task, housemates completed their challenges in fine style - Kat & Sara were illusionist and glamourous assistant - Kathreya actually appeared to cut Sara into three pieces! (She's fine, in case you were wondering)
Lisa & Rachel completed a series of card tricks, Rex & Mo performed an escapology routine, and then to wrap it all off, Darnell & Mikey wowed the audience with a show-stopping rendition of Elton John & Kiki Dee's 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart'... camper than a row of tents...
Big Brother was impressed, and passed housemates first day of the Vegas challenge... they're one step closer to a final week of luxuries...
He was a favourite to get the boot this week, but Mo's made it to the final week of Big Brother by becoming this week's Head of House!
Instead of the usual weekly HoH task, housemates simply nominated the person who they thought deserved it - everyone was eligible - Mo got four votes, Kat picked up three, Darnell and Lisa got two each, and Rex, Sara & Mikey got one vote each.
Later today, Mario will return to the house to spring a surprise on Lisa - he's gonna propose to her live on the telly! Yuck.
Anyway, housemates are blissfully unaware of this, and Big Brother has decided to send in some presents throughout the day - Rex was first up, picking up a bottle of vintage champagne.
Kat will be given cookies, Rachel will have grapes, Darnell will get an mp3 player for an hour, Mikey is to pick up a giant bar of chocolate, Mo will have pizza, and Sara will receive a bag full of make-up.
But Lisa's in for the biggest treat - a wedding proposal from this fella...
No Head of House challenge on Saturday, but there was still time for a task - welcome to the Grande Fratello Italian Restaurant!
Housemates were given just two hours to finish a giant bowl of overcooked spaghetti in tomato sauce... they weren't at all optimistic - but gave it a good go anyway...
Obviously, it led to chaos - with Darnell covering himself in the spaghetti, and Kathreya throwing most of hers up... then Darnell joined her in the vomiting club - Big Brother said that puking is not digesting, so that's a fail...
What is it with this year's housemates and their obsession with cheap cider?
It all kicked off again on Thursday night when the shopping arrived - Mo was first in, and took four cans of cider for himself.
Head of House Rex told him that just the nominated girls (Sara, Nicole & Lisa) were allowed to drink, and he should give them the cans. He wouldn't, Nicole exploded at him, and all hell broke loose.
Not long afterwards, Mohamed and Sara were chatting about the cider in the garden, when Darnell stormed over and let rip at Sara!
She had a cry in the diary room, and then let it all out for Lisa in the bedroom - while Darnell continued to stomp around the house like a caveman.
It seems like ages since the housemates didn't pass their weekly shopping task, and it'll seem like even longer now, as they've only gone and blimming well passed again!
For the 'Thriller' task, housemates had to recreate the classic Michael Jackson video, and with Rex in charge, and Nicole taking on Jacko's role, they completed the challenge in full costume on Wednesday afternoon...
Big Brother was happy with the final performance, and has given the house a luxury budget of £5 per person, per day, for the next week...
Couple of breaking stories from Tuesday, which will no doubt plague tonight's highlights show - first up, Nicole and Rex had a barny!
Then 'Rex's Girlfriend' decided she was going to leave whatever happens this week... get on with it then!
And in other big news from Tuesday, Mikey went to the diary room to have a good old moan about Rex and Nicole!
Shock!
You don't like them - we get it..!!!
This week's shopping task got underway on Tuesday - housemates will become zombies and recreate Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' video!
As Head of House, Rex won't be dancing - he'll be the main choreographer - and he had to choose somebody to take Jacko's role... who do you think that was? (Then again, the house isn't exactly crying out with dancers at the mo!)
So Nicole will be Michael Jackson, and the rest have to be backup zombies from the video - do a good enough job, and Big Brother will give housemates a luxury budget next week.
Rex is immune this week as HoH, but somehow Rachel and Mo have managed to escape being nominated - it's Lisa, Nicole & Sara who'll be putting on their best frocks this Friday... but does that mean it's a double eviction? Wait and see...
After eating Mikey's bogey (see full story below), Mohamed was clearly up for more challenges, and Rex decided a game of 'Cider Roulette' was called for.
Mo and Darnell were the 'contestants', and the other housemates each had a mug with mystery contents in - well, mystery to Mo and Darnell, who were blindfolded.
Some of the surprises included raw egg, chilli, vinegar and olive oil. Nice!
Each took it in turns to select a mug - one of which (Kat's) was predetermined as the winning mug - whoever drank the contents of that one won the cider.
Incredibly, Mo and Darnell managed to down everything - although Darnell did have to down a second mug of mayonnaise and chilli sauce, after he threw the first one up!!
Darnell was the eventual winner, blagging one can of cheap cider for his troubles...
This is grim - the things Mo will do for cider reached new levels on Monday evening when Darnell dared him to eat somebody else's bogey in return for a can of cider!
Step up, Mikey - king of the bogeys...
Unbelievably, Mohamed accepted the challenge, and ate the green monster in one - washed down with the cider he'd just 'won'!
Everyone screamed, understandably.
Except Kat. She was busy being sick in the toilet...
It had been a pretty good day - she'd won the earlier task (see below), and Big Brother had given housemates a few cans of cider and lager, plus everyone had enjoyed a few party games... but that's not enough for 'princess' Nicole...
Chatting with Kat in the garden late on Sunday night, Nicole explained that she was fed up of simply being known as 'Rex's Girlfriend'... yawn...
For this week's Head of House competition, housemates had to keep still. For as long as possible... this meant no eating for Mo, no singing for Kat, and no drooling all over your girlfriend for Rex!
Housemates painted each other to look like statues, and then simply had to strike a pose.
And keep it striked.
One by one, the housemates dropped out of the running, until we were left with just Rex and Mo battling it out to take control for the week.
But Mo moved slightly and got disqualified, leaving Rex this week's winner - he'll be immune from next week's nominations, and in charge of the house all week...
On Wednesday night, Mo & Kat had a conversation about nominations using a not-so-secret code, so on Thursday afternoon, Big Brother sent them to the slammer. Not the first time for Mo, but it's a whole new experience for Kat!
Kat took it pretty well - Big Brother doesn't let them out until they've spent the night, but Kat was still pretty cheerful about it all... Mo, on the other hand, was in a miserable mood all day, and even refused his evening meal from Rachel!
What?!? Mohamed refusing food?!?
Meanwhile, back inside, the rest of the housemates had some air guitar fun to 'Bohemian Rhapsody'.
During the record (which is about three hours long), Rachel & Mikey went outside to sing along to Mo & Kat... Mo was asleep (or at least pretended to be asleep!)...
It was a busy Wednesday in the house, with the continuation of the Big Brother Games 2008 - events included 'Slow Running', 'The Throwing Feather' and Rex and Kat took part in the 'Floating-On-Water-With-A-Small-Tropical-Island-Attached-To-Your-Groin' event.
Meanwhile, Mikey had earlier had to predict the results of all events to Big Brother - he was then left in a room while the events took place.
Turns out he correctly predicted the results for three of the races, and that was enough to win housemates a luxury budget for next week!
This week's shopping task is underway, and to celebrate the start of the Olympics, Big Brother has it's own 'games' for the housemates!
Much to the annoyance of most, HoH Mikey has been given a megaphone - as if he wasn't loud enough - to instruct the housemates throughout their challenges this week.
There are several different events to compete in, including press ups, star jumps, sit ups, circuit training and swimming - there's even a special running track in the garden.
They even had to choreograph and perfect their own opening ceromony to the Big Brother Games 2008 - which they did!
Keep it up, and a luxury budget is on the cards for next week...
Ever since Nicole entered the house, her and Rex have been mostly snapping at each other - sexual frustration, no? Now the divide's gone they can lap up each other's company as much as they want, no?
Just as the lovebirds were getting cosy in bed late on Monday night, Big Brother decided to call Rex to the diary room. Not for any particular reason, of course...
There's a new divide emerging in the BB house now that Mikey is in control - those who like the 'water wake-ups' and those who don't!
Mo was the first to take a splashing, but others have been caught since, and although Darnell and Stuart are with Mikey on his way of getting sleeping housemates up, others aren't so happy... Rex, Nicole and Kat have all shown their disapproval - but that's probably just gonna encourage him to do it even more...
If you'd seen any of the live feed on Sunday, you're probably confused as to why the Mitchell Brothers have moved in... alright, a much weedier Phil & Grant anyway,,,
Don't worry - it's just Mikey & Darnell!
Big Brother created a special 'barber shop' in the task room - HoH Mikey had to nominate someone to become barber for the day, and fill a jar with housemates hair in order to win a special reward. It was up to housemates how much hair they had cut off...
Lisa was the barber.
Once Mikey & Darnell's hair was in the jar, it was pretty much full, and as a reward, Big Brother gave the housemates fancy-dress wigs, alcohol & music for the evening - Sara and Nicole looked like they enjoyed it, anyway...
Take a look at the two cakes above.
The one on the left was prepared by housemates in heaven, and it a replica of St. Paul's Cathedral.
And on the right is the housemates from hell effort - the Millennium Dome.
Outgoing head of house Rachel had to decide which was best. She chose the dome. Odd.
Anyway, it meant the housemates from hell had to pick one of them to be the new HoH. Mikey decided it should be him. So it is - Mikey's the new HoH!
Housemates also all had to switch sides for the night... but it won't be long until the divide is gone, and everyone can be reuinited again...
Head of House Rachel was in charge of the shopping list this week, and unlike Rex last week, didn't spend it all on 'ever changing special prize tokens' - she did however get Mo, Kat & Nicole their suitcases back for £60...
She didn't completely boycott the tokens though - Rex bagged some dry cleaning, and Rachel herself ended up with messages from home on the video screen... her mum, dad, boyfriend and dog all had something to say...
Good news for the housemates - both tasks this week were passed with flying colours! Not a single fail in the group means it's a luxury budget next week...
For a laugh (or perhaps unitentionally), Big Brother played in the sounds of a baying crowd whilst revealing the results to the house - putting housemates in a miserable mood, assuming there'd be an eviction. There wasn't!
Get the feeling BB's got a bit stale since Luke was evicted and Nicole ('my girlfreind') was put into the house? Hopefully this week's shopping task will bring some laughs...
Heavenly housmates will learn to perform a theatrical sequence in the style of Bunraku - Japanese puppetry performed by puppeteers dressed in black, who 'invisibly' manipulate objects and people while standing against a black background...
The housemates from Hell, on the other hand (and shoved up a sock), must perform a hand puppet show over a period of approximately 24 hours.
So even though they're in hell, Kat, Mikey & Nicole get the better part of the task this week - and suddenly everyone wants to 'go to hell'... see if they pass on Thursday!
Nominations are officially announced later, but lookie - we already know!
It's Dale vs Stu this week... Dale is the bookies favourite to get the boot...
Ah, Monday. Nominations day. And once again this week, housemates from hell had to pass a task in order to earn the right to nominate... the task?
Sprout eating!
There were 300 sprouts given to the three housemates in hell (Mikey, Kat & Nicole), and Big Brother reckoned it'd take them about three hours to scoff them all back. This was at midday.
At 8pm, Mikey was still insisting he'd make it.
He didn't, and just before 9pm he threw the towel in - Nicole & Kat had already given up, so for the first time since the divide went up, the housemates from hell will not be nominating this week...
Housemates were given letters from home on Sunday - well, the housemates in heaven were anyway...
Head of House Rachel was given a difficult decision to make - she could sacrifce her own letter (from her mum) in order for the housemates living in hell (Kat, Mikey & Nicole) to get their letters... which of course she did - this is Rachel we're talking about!
For this week's Head of Household competition, housemates were each called to the diary room on Saturday, and asked to recite the alphabet. Backwards.
Big Brother didn't tell them if they'd made a mistake until they were finished, and if they had, they had to start from the beginning.
The fastest (eligible) housemate would become HoH, and the slowest three housemates would spend the week in hell, while the rest would all move to heaven...
The results came in, and for the first time, it's a female head of house - Rachel!
Darnell actually completed the task in the fastest time, but as he's already had a week in charge, he's not eligible to become HoH again, so second fastest, and new Head of House is Rachel...
The slowest three were Mikey, Nicole and Kat - they'll be living on the hell side this week...
Rumours are rife that should Rex survive tonight's eviction, his girlfriend will enter the house as a new permanent housemate! Check back later for details...
As Stuart lost his role as HoH earlier this week, it meant somebody else needed to step up for the shopping list... and that somebody was Rex.
Surely a trained chef can make the most of the £1 per person, per day budget?
After a few essentials (Tea, coffee, milk, sugar, and one pack of custard creams) were selected, Rex decided to do something a bit unusual... spend the entire remainder of the budget on 57 of Big Brother's ever changing special prize tokens.
Now in past weeks, the tokens have provided fake boobs, inflatables for the pool and 'get out of jail free' cards. So what did they end up with...?
A framed photograph of suspect number six in this week's identity parade - in other words, the girl who WAS'NT Rex's girlfriend, a pram, a panto horse, blow-up globe, and a freezer!
But in the freezer.... ice-cream? Veg? Ready meals? Nope, just a lamb carcass....
Housemates gathered round to hear the results of this week's shopping task on Wednesday evening - not that it made a great deal of difference, because only Dale's secret task actually counted towards getting a luxury budget...
Firstly, the cops (Mo, Rex, Stu & Mikey) were called to the diary room and had to give the two names of the robbers they think stole the token on Tuesday night. They correctly guessed Dale & Maysoon, unintentionally losing the entire house their budget for the week!
The other tasks this week were all failed - apart from the cops stakeout task - and when Big Brother revealed that it all depended on Dale & Maysoon getting away with their 'robbery', housemates looked less than impressed...
You know how Rex keeps banging on about his girlfriend? Well last night, she visited the house! Sadly for Rex, he didn't even know about it...
As part of this week's shopping task, Rex's girlfriend Nicole and Mohamed's brother Nas took part in a line-up in the task room, and Lisa & Luke had to identify them from sight alone.
They won't find out how they did until the results of the whole shopping task are revealed, but I can tell you they correctly identified Mo's brother (well, Lisa did - Luke is unable to do anything when it comes to tasks!), but not Rex's girlfriend...
Meanwhile, when Rex found out that Nicole had been in the house, he was over the moon - just a bit gutted he didn't get to see her...
This year in the house, there's a jail - housemates are sent there when they break the rules.
But even that's not deterring them from talking about nominations, so Big Brother got tough with the housemates on Tuesday afternoon, stripping Stuart of his Head of Household crown after he was one of those involved in (a very bad) nominations-talk-code.
Housemates were apparantly talking about football teams being knocked out, but it was clear to everyone that they meant certain housemates.
For example, 'Wigan' was Luke and 'Arsenal' was Darnell...
But that's not all - following Monday's nominations, it should be Dale & Luke facing the boot this week, but the rule-breakers have also been put up by Big Brother!
So facing the axe this Friday - Dale, Darnell, Kathreya, Luke, Maysoon, Mohamed, Rachael, Rex and Stuart - a total of NINE housemates!
This week's shopping task has been given to housemates by Big Brother - if they want to stay on a luxury budget, they'll need to pass this over the next couple of days...
Housemates from heaven have become cops, and those in hell are robbers - a series of challenges will be set, including a stake-out for the cops - two housemates will have to stay in the cop car at all times.
Robbers will have a selection of challenges, including The Counterfeiters Challenge, The Safe-Crackers Challenge, and The Identity Parade Challenge - in order to pass the shopping task, as usual, housemates will only be allowed a certain number of fails throughout the task...
Housemates from heaven saw the profile videos on Sunday night, and 24 hours on, Darnell's still mad about Dale's...
After a restless day, he let his frustrations with Dale out: "That s*** makes me mad. Who the f*** do you think you are to say that you hate kids, that you would stab anyone in the back for £100,000, and you don't like mouthy, ugly people?"
Somebody who wanted to get on Big Brother, perhaps?
While the heavenly housemates were sweating it out in the nominations pod talking about who should get the boot this week, the housemates from hell once again had to earn the right to nominate - by seperating 14,000 sprinkles of hundreds and thousands into SIX seperate colours!
Housemates from heaven were given pizza, beers and some videos to watch on Sunday night... nice?
Not really. The vids were of the other housemates audition tapes!
Stuart, Rex, Mo & Mikey were surprised at some of the things they saw...
The two audition tapes that angered them the most were Rachel (who was acting more like Bex on her tape than Rachel!) and Dale (who looked like a knob in his tape, basically).
Dale was lost for words when the boys confronted him about it...
On Saturday, housemates were given chilli's to eat - the four who ate the most would live in heaven for the next week, leaving the rest to slum it on the hell side of the house.
Stuart ate the most, giving him the HoH accolade, and he's joined by Mikey, Mohamed and Rex (who's the only housemate not to have lived in hell now).
Big congrats to Rachel & Luke - neither managed a single chilli!
On Sunday, it was time for a Big Brother first - the luxury jail in the garden became the BB 'Nominations Pod'... housemates in heaven were able to go in (2 at a time) and discuss their nominations! Both past and present nominations were allowed to be discussed...
The four boys were planning on voting together tactically, but it took a hell of a long time sweating it out with each other in the pod to come up with two housemates to nominate this week they'd all agree on... it looks likely Dale, Darnell, Luke & Kat could all be in the firing line from heaven this week...
When Luke entered the house, he thought he knew exactly what would happen (he's watched every previous series) - but he was soooo wrong! After Bex was evicted on Friday night, the poor lad was gutted. But then he started moaning about others...
Luke was criticising Kat in particular for singing her 'Happy House' song as Rebecca was about to leave, and couldn't understand why the public would vote out somebody so entertaining, but Rex stepped in and put him in his place, simply saying - "Rebecca wasn't liked" - then he warned him not to slag others in the house off, or "you'll pi** me off, Luke".
During a game of the party classic 'pass the orange' on Thursday night, things got a bit heated when, after dropping the fruit, Mo had to take a forfeit... without hesitation, Bex piped up: "You've got to snog me!"
Once everyone got their breath back from the shock, they went at it. Big time.
And guess who was a little gutted...?
Even though there's 'nothing between them', as they insist on pointing out every five minutes (between tounge sessions under the covers), Luke was far from pleased at the forfeit!
But one good thing did come out of it - during a heart to heart in the bedroom after 'said incident', they both finally admitted to having feelings for one another... aaahhhh!
Better make the most of it - Bex is red-hot fave to get the chop later!
The luxury shopping arrived on Thursday afternoon, and amongst it all was one of Big Brother's ever-changing special prizes, which Mohamed nabbed.
It was for a trip to heaven - whoever had it was able to visit the heavenly side for the night... he was gonna cash it in, when Rex pointed out that he could give it to someone else if he wanted...
So, after a bit of deliberation, Mo decided not to use it himself, but to give it to Sara, who's never actually been to heaven. Aww, bless.
She was even given a camcorder to film her 'experience' as a tourist...
Dale was with Bex and Luke in the luxury bedroom on Wednesday night, checking out his pictures of Jen from the old days in the BB house, and telling them how much he missed her.
So much so, that he really wants to be up for eviction now - who needs to win when you've got Jen? (Which he probably hasn't)
Meanwhile, Bex and Luke had better get ready for just one more night of smooching - she's hot favourite with the bookies to get the boot this week...
The results of this week's shopping task are in...
First up was the Human Clock Challenge - housemates were required to form a human clock and work out how much time had passed over the course of an hour. They overran by 12 minutes and 5 seconds, and therefore failed this part of the task.
Next, were the reults for the Archaeological Dig part of the task - this was failed too. As housemates were only allowed to fail two sections of this week's task, they had to pass everything else... but did they?
The Clock Building Challenge completed by Stuart and Maysoon was a pass, as was the Giant Sand Timer - so it all came down to the final part of the shopping task...
Housemates from hell had to deactivate alarms in the task room whenever they sounded within 45 seconds - they passed!!
This means it's a luxury budget for housemates next week - plus Big Brother treated everyone to a party! Although there was of course a divide between heaven and hell...
Housemates living in luxury were treated to a gourmet feast, and MP3 players for a silent disco - those living on hell were not so lucky, with naff snacks and dodgy cassette players that regularly malfunctioned... they still enjoyed themselves...
There are a selection of tasks revolving around time for this week's shopping task... lookie:
Human Clock
All housemates (except HoH) have to form a human clock, and try to keep track of time - they must be within two-and-a-half minutes of correctly guessing when an hour has passed.
Alarm Challenge
Check out the pic above - at random points over the next couple of days, alarms will go off - when this happens, housemates from hell have to go and turn them off.
Sands of Time
Another challenge just for the housemates from hell - they simply have to keep a sand timer going, without letting it run out.
Archaeological Dig
Luke, Rebecca & Rex will be doing a dig in the garden, dating historical objects they find.
Clock Making
Maysoon and Stuart have to construct a giant pocket watch using bits provided by Big Brother.
As HoH, Dale isn't permitted to take part in any of the tasks.
Get the impression the housemates from hell have the rough end of this task? Not that it comes as a surprise..!!
Late on Monday night, Bex & Luke ended up splashing about in the swimming pool after throwing lager and water all over each other in the bedroom.
If today's tabloids are to be believed, Bex & Luke have also gone 'all the way'... which in tabloid terms means they were seen lying next to each other.
Check back here later to see who's nominated - rumours suggest it won't be these two, so we've got another week of their canoodling to look forward to. Hooray.
Housemates from hell get it pretty tough in the BB house, with fewer luxuries, less parties, and uncomfortable beds... but at least they get to nominate come Monday afternoon... don't they?
This week, Big Brother instructed the housemates from hell to chop up 65kg of onions - if they completed it to BB's satisfaction, they'd get to nominate!
So did they? Of course... giving Rex the chance to do his usual 'I don't wanna be here' Monday speech... before wrestling a crocodile...
Dale became the new HoH at the weekend, and his first task was to select who'd be living in Heaven & Hell for the week... so who's where?
Following Saturday's 'Bananagate' incidents, Big Brother forbid Dale from selecting Kat, Mo or Darnell from living in luxury - they were automatically sent to hell, and he had to select five of the remaining housemates to join him in heaven... they are: Stuart, Maysoon, Luke, Rex... and following a bit of suspense, Bex.
This means along with Kat, Mo & Darnell, Rachel will be in hell for the first time, and Lisa, Mikey & Sara remain there for a second week!
Housemates in hell got straight to cleaning the house, but although Mikey & Lisa sounded off about not being picked, there were other arguments happening - namely Dale & Darnell sounding off about each other, but then Dale & Mohamed had a massive barney... over a toothbrush!
Dangerously, BB laid on a party for the heavenly housemates on Sunday night - those in hell weren't invited, but thats not the problem with a BB party... this is:
Belinda, Belinda, Belinda's been evicted with 65% of the public vote.
Rex tried to make out he was gutted, by putting his head in his hands.
Then all the housemates were worrying as they heard boos in the crowd when she left. They reckon it'll be the same for everyone now, until they get down to the final 5.
As if cycling for hours and then losing out on the task because of the heavenly housemates wasn't enough, the housemates from hell have had to shovel around poo now!!
After a muck-spreading task, Big Brother called them to the diary room to tell them they've passed.
But who's going to benefit from the rewards this time? In Big Brother's words... 'All will be revealed'.
Uh oh, the housemates have failed their French task.
But it wasn't down to the guys on the bikes. They passed their bit! The heavenly lot failed to eat all of a 5 foot-long french baguette and couldn't identify a single wine.
Poor Luke thought he was forgotten about on his birthday.
But Darnell was called into the diary room and had to choose 2 housemates from hell (inlcuding Luke) and 2 from heaven, to celebrate his 21st birthday in the BB wine cellar.
He obviously chose Bex to get the party going, but instead of letting one of his heavenly angels in, he chose himself and Dale to go to the bash.
Rex was happy when Big Brother announced his name. He'd been pleading for himself to be nominated.
But they weren't expecting it to only be 2 housemates again this week, when Belinda was the second and last person to be announced. She apparently 'knew' she'd be up though.
The housemates in hell have been given the task to ride bikes for 30 hours, while they watched the heavenly lot eat Gallic delights and take part in wine tasting. Gutted!
Apparently it's the first time Belinda's ever ridden a bike as well, describing it as worse than childbirth!
We don't know for sure yet... but it looks like Rex and Belinda are up for the chop this week.
Poor Rex, we saw him tell Big Brother last night, that the show has only just started for him now that heaven and hell has broken out. So could it all end this week for him?
Or will Belinda Belinda Belinda's snoring have annoyed the viewers as much as it has the housemates?
The Big Brother housemates, who've ended up in 'heaven', are loving it!
They've watched the guys in 'hell' peel a mountain of potatoes and then they got the reward for it... which was a portion of fish and chips each, while hell's housemates watched them eat over the fence.
Rebecca didn't hang around though, she stormed off to tell Luke about it.
Just like the American version, Big Brother's introduced a Head of House. The housemates had to hold an election and Darnell won the crown, which means he's immune from this week's eviction.
It now means the house has been split into heaven and hell though. Darnell's first task was to choose 6 people to live in 'heaven' with him. They're Dale, Rex, Mohamed, Kathreya, Rachel and Maysoon.
They're the only ones who are allowed to use the luxury bedroom and bathroom and have use of the tokens, while the
