Day 9

9.00am – The hot water is now on, and Trevor is um.. getting ready imaginarily(?).

10.36am – The housemates all gather outside to organise their weekly shopping. They have one hour. Krystal has some quick ideas about how to organise th shopping list. Some housemates think they should pre-organise a weekly menu, but eventually end up going through each item one by one.

In the kitchen, Krystal is annoyed at buying so much cereal when they can’t eat it without milk. She explains how much cereal Merlin eats in the morning (which apparently, is a lot). There is talk of drinking too much milk before the discussion is quickly moved onto toilet paper, and how much people are using. They work out they are using about 6 rolls of toilet paper every day.

Wes goes to talk to Big Brother. He says he knows he blew up at Bree about each items and he feels it’s a good way to fuel the fire for tonight’s nominations. He says that Krystal was annoying him a lot and making smartass comments. Later he apologises to Bree.

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3.26pm – In the kitchen Merlin is telling Trevor he finds Ashalea’s attention a little too much. He thinks she doesn’t understand the parameters of their friendship. He said that last night in bed he had to pretend to roll over and fall asleep. Ashalea comes in, and Merlin leaves without saying much.

Bree is reading out their task – the housemates are to get married to each other! The girls select their partners. The couples are:

Elle and Paul
Terri and Trevor
Bree and Wesley
Ashalea and Ryan
Catherine and Merlin
Aphro and Kane
Bree and Igor

Each time Big Brother plays the wedding music for a particular couple they must dress up and walk down the isle in 90 seconds.

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8.17pm – Nominees are to be announced. They are Terri, Igor and Aphrodite. Bree is shocked at Aphro’s nomination. Igor says he’s fine to no one in particular (they didn’t ask at all). Terri is comforted by Catherine, but she says she doesn’t want to talk about it: “It’s like being on death row”. Catherine says “we’re all going to have our turn Terri, it’s inevitable”.

In the kitchen Merlin says to Aphro “there is no way in the world you will be nominated, I promise”. They then talk about the ‘obvious’ person to go (of course, Igor). Igor comes over to hug Aphro and Merlin is quick to leave (hah).

Back in the house Ash hits Merlin with a pillow, when he asks what that was for, she says “because you love me”. She then says he hates her because he never talks to her anymore and gives her weird looks. He makes an explosion sound. They have a pillow fight and Merlin leaves. Ash says “you better run”.

Suddenly Bree and Wesley’s marriage song is played, they quickly get dressed, with the help of the other housemates. The all run outside to the wedding isle, and fleefully walk down to Trevor, who is the minister. All the other housemates are in their seats cheering on the couple. Wesley thanks everyone for coming to their wedding. He picks Bree up and twirls her around, falling down. Big Brother pronounces them husband and wife.

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8.10pm – Kane is doing some sweeping in his boxer shorts. Merlin and Aphro walk into the kitchen. They talk about what type of girls Merlin likes. Aphro says that he likes blondes, and Merlin says he likes princesses. Aphro wants to help Merlin determine what type of girl he likes. Aphro says she has to work him out before she leaves.

Later in the bedroom, Terri announces to everyone that she will now be showering in her bikini, just incase it was something making the other housemates uncomfortable. With the lights out, Terri tells Elle that she is quietly confident Igor will be evicted.

In the kitchen Ashalea is telling Igor off for picking his teeth in the kitchen. She says he needs to be more hygienic. After he leaves, she says “my god, what a pig.. thats disgusting”.

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Day 8

9.52am – The housemates are wishing Cath a happy Mothers Day. Krystal, Wesley and Ashalea are the last to get up. Krystal explains that Igor is so not on her Christmas card list. Meanwhile Aphro is teaching Kane to walk in her high-heel shoes. Kane has a bit of difficulty at first, but quickly gets the hang of it, struting his stuff down the pool side.

Merlin and Ashalea are having an “intimate” conversation in the bedroom, and Merlin jokes that he spent the night snuggling with Terri. Ash is not impressed, but Merlin is entertained by how gullable she is. They thumb wrestle to pass the time. Aphro and Elle are stressing about nominations, particularly Elle. They wonder if crying is a good enough excuse for nominating or being nominated.

With all the housemates in cleaning mode, Ryan does a good job of cleaning the house rugs. Igor is trying to help out more now, helping cool a bbq – perhaps because nominations are later today?

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1.28pm – Lunchtime. As the housemates eat, Aphro confronts Igor about his lack of participation in house activities. Later, it’s cleaning time, with most of the housemates cleaning the house mirrors. Cut to some footage of Igor sleeping on the couch – can we be certain this is happening at the same time? I suspect sneaky editing by Big Brother.

4.31pm – Terri is explaining the financial problems of the past. She was in a lot of debt trying to repeat her TEE exams after high school and during university. Her worst day of her life was when she spent her last $10 on petrol, and some one had stolen the petrol out of her tank. She ended up going to the Salvation Army for goods. Ashalea gets confused with shopping at op shops, but soon realises they are talking about food shortages.

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8.42pm – Catherine is called to the diary room, all the housemates singing “Happy Mothers Day” to the tune of Happy Birthday. Catherine is given a phone that’s deactivated, can’t send or recieve calls, but can play an existing video. All the housemates huddle around the phone in the bedroom. It’s a message from her children, saying they miss her and hope she gets to the end. Catherine is brought to tears, but says they don’t look like they miss her all that much. Bree suggests a group facial session. The boys are quick to join in.

Ryan, Trevor and Aphrodite aren’t too hot about facials, and Trevor starts yelling about not liking them. Aphro says she’s probably the blokiest guy in the house. All the blokes who had facials start “rough-housing” on Trevor (more homoexoritca!).

Later at dinner, Ryan tells Merlin that he really likes Bree, and Krystal is totally not his type of girl. Merlin explains what happened earlier with his joke on Ashalea.

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11.13pm – Merlin comfronts Igor about how he speaks to women. Igor says that that he’s just joking, but Merlin says he needs to be careful because some jokes can be taken the wrong way. Igor brushes it off and suggests they all go have a beer. Later Merlin discusses what happened with Ryan.

Kane, Paul and Igor are called to the diary room. They are warned about nomination colluding.

Later Ryan is talking about Bree again, this time to Merlin and Trevor. He says they are really similar and he would like to get close to them in that kind of sense to see where they are both coming from. The overall concensus is “not now, but you never know”.

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Day 6 Uplate

Evening All,

That time of the night again folks. The last for a week. I’ve had a sneak peak at the feeds, and half of them are turning in for the night, but we’ll manage I think. Credits roll, and we’re into the house. Lights are out in the bedroom, so Mike pops up and welcomes us to BB Uplate. Switch to outside, and they are talking out there while playing B’Ball. It seems that Aphro has been contemplating leaving throughout the day, although tonight Mike tells us that she is leaning towards staying tonight. He says that last night was the best UpLate ever. And we run the first update.

Back from the update, Mike sends us back to the house, out to the BBall court. Merlin, Wesley, Aphro and Ashalea are outside still. 10 people inside trying to get to sleep, and Wesley wasn’t tired, so he has come outside. Aphro says she doesn’t eat a lot of chocolate outside the house, but she is in here, and thus she is getting pimples. Aphro says her whole frame of mind has changed – she says if people are pissed off because she is loud she is happy, because she is being herself. Merlin says it would be bad if she got chosen for her loudness, and then come in and be the quiet one. Aphro says that she is not going to tone it down for anyone. The boys make a plug for the beer – James Boags and Sons. Mike cuts in and goes trough the trivia for the night, but quickly are sent back to the house.

Back inside, they are still talking about beer. It’s been 6 days in there, and they’ve had beer 5 nights so far. Tonight is the first without it. They are making jokes about BB turning them into alocoholics. Aphro says she wants to make a Channel 10 ad, the one where you press the button. They all do a ‘seriously’ ad for the camera. Merlin wasn’t too far away from the perfect shot, in the middle and everything. Merlin tells everyone he has to go to the bathroom. Aphro says “isn’t this better than sleeping.” Wesley says he’ll regret it in the morning. Wesley says that he has been sleeping like a log. Ashalea doen’t like Igor sleeping where he is sleeping. Aphro suggest they move him to her bed. Why I wonder!? The others say ‘nah don’t worry about.’ Aphro says she loves talking to people, if they hadn’t noticed! They are talking about Merlin, and then he soons reappears. They say they’ve been talking about how shit he is at basketball, so he shoots, and scores! Merlin says they are all dead in the bedroom. Merlin says that they will have to adjust to their routine sooner or later, talking about going to sleep. Aphro doesn’t think so. Mike reappears and says stay awake! Then he’s gone. Aphro says there is a group thats gets up really early and go to bed early, then there is the group that gets up early, but stay up fairly late, then the group (them) that get up a bit late, and go to bed very late. Mike reappears, and gives us a clue for the trivia. Back to the house though now. The boys start a competition with the BBall, the most shots in, in a row. The girls have gone. Cut to the girls in the kitchen. They want a microwave in the kitchen. They are talking like Big Brother would. Ashalea says the hottest guy is Wesley, then Ryan, then Merlin, Kane, then Paul and poor Trev last. She can’t even remember the poor guys name! First brain teaser is closed. Back to the kitchen we go. Ashalea says she has to stop eating barbecue food. Mike is back with Steve from NSW on the phone. He wins the cash, and then throws to our first commercial break.

Back from the break, Mike comes on ands goes through the trivia before we are sent to the kitchen where Aphro is telling Ashalea to not expect her boyfriend to have been faithful. Weird conversation going on here! Ashalea explains they have been together for 2 and a half years, but they’ve broken up about 5 times. Because they are talking about outside people, they cut the feed and head for the silence of the bedroom. Mike comes on and talks in the corner for a bit, then he gets some emails out to read. He then goes through the brain teaser. Mike then goes on to say he was reading some unofficial sites today, namely BBBA, and he was looking at the forums and saw a drinking game for BB Uplate. It made people have a drink if Mike said um, was looking at a wrong camera, or if he snores as if he’s asleep etc. Mike goes on to say that a few people at BBBA think that Big Brother hates the site. Mike says that they love the site. (We know you like it Mike, but Channel 10 aren’t our best friends, lets be serious!) He adds as the last comment that ‘we do deserve a little spank’ because we go to far sometimes. Oh well :) Go back to the house now, and it’s only the bedroom, so we get to the break very quickly.

Back from the break, we go through thr trivia again, and then go to the second BB Uplate Update. He’s padding time here, something interesting is going on in the kitchen for sure! Moves onto more emails. God this is exciting. They are quite happy to show the guys in the bedroom, but surely they could easily tell us the truth – that they can’t show the convo in the kitchen. Oz.org #bigbrother got a mention this time round. He then goes on to say that the OS of Big Brother is great this year. Brain teaser game is closed, and they will check out the OS now. Another commercial break now.

At 12:31am it’s Mike again, who is giving Carol some money now. He trys to keep her on the line for a while. She thinks Trevor will win. She thinks Aphro will go. Mike finally lets her go the poor girl! Another game of brain teasers is up and away now. Finally, we are back to the kitchen. No we’re not. In the bedroom where everyone is asleep. Ooah yeh now we are! Aphro is saying she was so relieved that she got an easy question in the quiz. They start talking about Merlin’s answer. Wesley’s question they all thought was the easiest. The other easy one was Krystal. Aphro says the next task will probably be hard. Ashalea says that when this is all over she is going to hook up with Wesley’s girlfriend, cause she has contacts in the model industry. Aphro says that she won’t need contacts when she gets out, she’ll be huge. Comm break.

12:44am and Mike comes back on again. Fancy that! He tells us again that Sara Marie will be back on UpLate next week. It’s money time. Mike tells us that he just did sme push ups on the floor. He goes through the trivia, and gives a clue. Finally sends us back to the house. They are eating a bit of food, having a few laughs still. They wonder whether they would be on TV now. Aphro says it’s late but it’s on early. They all think that they wouldn’t be on right now. Ashalea asks if there is a show on every night. Aphro says this is Big Brother, not Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. She starts doing the intro of Days of Our Lives….weird girl. She says “How can I help it if Centrelink pays me for watching the Bold and the Beautiful.”. Hmm, my opinion just went down of her, even lower. The game is closed for trivia. Mike is talking, but back we are in the kitchen. Ohhhh, thats yuk. She’s speaking with half an banana in her mouth. They decide to hide all the food from everyone asleep. Mike cuts in again, Darren in Victoria is the winner this time round. last game is started, and then we get a comm break. It’s 12:54am.

Mikey G is back again. He says if your playing the BB Game talked about earlier, they would be plastered! We go to the bedroom, where Paul is asleep. Time for emails. He goes onto talk about SuperDave who does all the technical aspects of BB Uplate. Back to some more emails. Back to the kitchen we travel now. They have planned a joke to pull on the other housemates, but we’ve come in too late. Mike can’t understand it, so he pops his head up and gives us a clue. They are going to hide the chocolates though. Merlin suggest they say that todays challenge is to not pick up anything in there right hand, and if they do, fines are attracted. LOL. They are hiding them, and they say if something goes wrong, they would be screwed. They decide to leave it after all that, and wait for a different time. They all decide it’s time to hit the hay. They change there mind and hide the chocolates now. They put them in doors in the kitchen – “no one will look in there!” Aphro is going to do something to the toilet or something. I don’t understand. Merlin tries to talk her out of it, but Aphro says she is doing it. Wesley gives Ashalea a kiss, and the boys are outta there. So are we, cause it’s a comm break.

Back at 1:10am, Mikey runs through the last brain teaser of the night. He makes a new clue up because “he’s so clever” Mike is in fine form tonight! Now it’s time to go through the last uplate update. Back with Mike, who runs through how they have 3 updates per night etc. Oh dear, Aphro has put glad wrap over the toilet. Can’t wait for someone to get up and go to the toilet. They are laughing, but at the same time, trying to stay quiet. Aphro says “I can’t believe I’m doing this.” Ashalea says that she hopes someone doesn’t get the runs in the middle of the night. Mike fills us in that there is a boys and a girls toilet – they are putting it over the guys. Mike then sends us to a break.

It’s 1:23am and Mike is standing up. Shane is on the phone and wins the money. back in the house, the girls are going ready to sleep. Mike is just mucking around now, he’s really funny tonight. He reads some emails now. He then cuts to a heap of video messages that are sent through via the 3 mobile network. Aphro still hasn’t gone to bed. Mike wraps it up for the week. At 1:33am, Dreamworld says goodnight!

Where’s Warren?
Dave!

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Day 5 Uplate

Evening All,

Credits roll and straight into the house. Aphro talking about Igor, and that he is the only problem in this house. Mike comes on, tells us that they are having a 60’s party. He runs through the usual speel about Uplate Updates, the trivia etc. Straight to a Uplate Update. Back from that, we launch into the first of the trivia teasers. Now we go into the house. Back to Aphro, who is telling the girls to tell him to shut up (Igor) if he talks about Aphro behind her back. Oh my god, this girls life is sooo obsessed by Igor. Get over him. Let the housemates get on with the game.

Ash is making a bit of a fool of herself over with the boys judging by the noise. Elle says “here we go – a bit more late night tv.” They are dancing in the cage – well rather Ashalea is, with Krystal. Terri wants one of the guys to go in there with her. Kane says for her to go in ‘The tighter the better!’ That game ends soon after however. They start singing, so we are whisked away to the kitchen. Aphro is talking to Catherine. Cath says that Aphro said she was going to pack her bags and leave. Cath says she wouldn’t have let her. Elle starts singing in the kitchen too – LOL, we might be watching the garden in a minute. Mike saves us and goes through the trivia for us, slower than usual cause of the singing. He finds some emails to waste some time, before we go back to the house. Mike says “Lets see if Aphro is stilll having a bitch.” First line we here from Aphro “and thats how i know he’s talking shit.” Catherine makes sense when she says “Let it go.” A bit of silence in the kitchen, Elle wants to keep her wig. She says she has a red wig at home. We get a break from them, and go to Igor for the other side of the coin. They are going through the whole Virgin Blue G Strings rubbish. He says that he was just asking a question, but Aphro got angry and took it as a statement and said that was crap. Back in the kitchen, the girls are missing the pure innocence of love. Aphro says in here it’s the complete opposite of that. Mike cuts in again, and goes through the brain teaser, and gives us a clue. Aphro crying again, she says she gave up something really big to be on here, but she can’t say it. She’s really crying now.

Now into the living room, Ryan is talking with Krystal about her job. Krystal says if someone is touching her breasts, she doesn’t feel it. It’s a mental function. Ryan asks about girls in the massage parlours that he has been to. Krystal says she would rather an old guy touch her boobs than tug a guy’s penis. Ryan suggests it’s a very similar game she is playing in regards to these massage parlours. We missed his story. Ryan says “So your saying it’s alright for women to let men touch their bobbies, but women can’t help a guy get off if they are gonna get double the money?”. Krystal instantly replied yes. Ryan thinks they are one and the same. Krystal says no, it’s a genetailer thing. I know thats not how you spell it, but bear with me. Krystal says that when she lets a guy touch her boobs, she can’t see the guys privates, but if she was tugging him off, she could see it. She is basically saying that boobies aren’t the private part for the girls, only the vagina is. Ryan says “thats disgraceful.” Krystal says more loudly “Whats disgraceful?” Ryan says it’s disgraceful that she doesn’t believe that what Ryan thinks is wrong. She says it’s different. Ryan says then I could go over and touch Ashalea breasts and it would be alright. Krystal says no you can’t go up to any girl and do that, but Ryan says “why not, it’s not there genetial region” Krystal says you can’t have sex with breasts. Ryan says he classes the breasts in the same class as the vagina. She asks Wes about the two levels, and Wes says that it’s the same game. Krystal storms out at this point, and Merlin says “It’s like Super Mario Bros. One person is on level a and one is on level b”. He loves his Nintendo doesn’t he! Krystal heads over to the kitchen. Bree and Aphro argue over whether she is crying or bullshitting. They soon realise she’s crying. Aphro says “I think she’s a really good actress though.” Then she says “ooh, no she’s not.” Aphro asks who said what. She says Ryan. Aphro says to let it out. Bree just hugs her. When she is about to start talking, we cut to a break!

Alright, back from the break and straight into the tension filled BB House. Mike says the shit has hit the fan, the trivia is closed, and we are sent back to the house straight away. Now, Krystal is retelling the encounter with Ryan mentioned above to the girls. She says that when young guys walk in, they aren’t impressed, because they think that the younger type have no money. Krystal thinks that Ryan actually likes giving the old men satisfaction.

Aphro asks Krystal if she would be fine to cut back on the alcohol, so that the guys would stop getting pissed and getting back to the Krystal topic. Everyone is yelling galore now, it’s very strange. She starts balling cries again. Terri says that we have to very mindful of what they say – She says that people are watching this at home right now, and they have to be mindful of what the family are witnessening. She says she bullshitted her way through the get to know you task for a reason – to protect themselves. Mike cuts in and does the trivia. It’s quick, and we are back straight away.

Aphro says that Ryan is the only one with the balls to actually say it out loud. Bree is in with the guys. She is saying she bullshitted through the get to know you game. Krystal was meanwhile very upfront about herself. Bree says that Krystal is crying her eyes out over there. The guys are suprised. It’s Ryan’s turn to talk now. He says that we all know what she has bought it up. He says she might cope it when she gets out. He says that he told a story about how he was invloved in a similar industry, and then says that she came up to him and payed him out. He starts talking about a massage parlour and there are beeps galore, and we cross back to the girls. Terri says it will make it worse if she walks out crying. Comm break cuts in.

Back again at 12:17am. Mike is very excited about the action in the house. He runs through the brain teaser quicker than lightning, and back we go. Catherine and Elle are in the bathroom. Elle says it’s only day 5. Bree is still in the living room talking to Ryan. Terri buts in and says that the different age groups can cause a few problems in the house, and that they have to understand and respect that. Ryan can’t believe he is getting the blame for this! He says that she came over to him. However, Ryan being the bigger man, will apologise for affending her, he didn’t mean it. Ryan says we got into this house to be honest.

LOL Trevor says to Ryan that he isn’t gonna go to the massage parlour with the boys when they come to Adelaide. Merlin is talking to Krystal at the moment, but his mic isn’t turned up enough to hear what he is saying. Bree pulls her away though, and tells her that she went to talk to Ryan, and fills her in. They hug while talking. Bree says that Ryan does have a heart of gold, and he really didn’t understand the difference. It’s only his opinion. Bree says that Ryan will apologise, but she must understand he didn’t mean to get her upset. She says she had no choice but to come out and tell everyone about her job. Mike cuts back in and gives a clue for the trvia, and then we get a commercial break :)

Back in the house, we’ve missed the apology! LOL. They are hugging and we catch Ryan saying he’s sorry he upset you. Ryan says that we’ve been here 5 days and she must know that he is a good down to earth, honest guy. Ryan says he understands where she comes from. Krystal says that Ryan has had other things done from other females that Krystal doesn’t do. They hug again. Then Krystal steps on his foot, and things that the friendship is gone again! Group hug all of a sudden! LOL Aphro says “don’t expect me to hug that thing out there” referring to Igor. Straight after one problem, we’re back to Aphro. She says he needs to stop bullshitting. LOL Aphro keeps interrupting saying Ryan should teach him to understand. Krystal is just upset that she is regarded as a sex animal because she is a stripper. She says she had the least amount of sex in her life when she was a stripper. She says they’ll wake up tomorrow and everything will be fine again. Krystal lifts Ryan off the ground, and she says she is 69kgs and strong. She says she is going to get changed now and go to bed. She decided against Ryan’s advice when he said “Go and have a drink!” Mike is back on, the game is closed, and we will now move back to the house. Wesley joins Ryan in the bathroom and asks what went on. Ryan fills him in on the talk to Krystal. He says that Merlin said “I would have thought the same but I wouldn’t have said it”, and that is wrong according to Ryan, because he’s not being honest with himself. Wes says he said shit tonight that he wishes he didn’t say, and then comm break cuts in.

Back at 12:44am, with Mikey who has John on the phone. He wins the cash, and again we launch into the third game of the evening. After that, we enter the house once again. Bree and Ashalea are talking outside. We’ve missed the majority of the conversation, but Bree is trying to make sure she doesn’t say too much or something. She says the Jessica Simpson style she has is great, but so is the other side of her, and they need to be mixed in moderation or something. Can’t tell what it’s about, I think we came in too late. Ash says that she appreciates her talking to her about it. Bree says perhaps go and talk to her about it. No idea who they are talking about – I assume Krystal. Bree says she has already told the boys that the jokes about Krystal’s job has to stop. I assume from the convo that with the group she owned up to a lot of actitives in fronto f the group, and she probably told people more than she wanted too. Mike cuts back in and gives us a clue for the brainteaser. I dunno if he did give the clue actually, but that doesn’t matter, because he has thrown to a break.

Mike is back yet again. He says that a lot of people have said that this ep of UpLate is good. He runs through the brainteaser this time with a clue, and then runs the Uplate Update! LOL. After that we return to the house, wher Mike tells us that Igor is talking to someone about Aphro. However, we return to see Ashalea doing a Brittney Spear’s song, with underwear and a tight top on. She looked alright too :) Mike cuts in again for some emails, and then we’re right back to the house. They are in the kitchen saying they won’t have any footage for the daily show tomorrow cause all the arguments are too rude. They say the uncut show is complete though now! However, they believe that it’s on next Thursday. Wrong fella’s, next Wednesday.

Into the bedroom, Aphro and Igor arguing again. She is yelling her head of to him, he is remaining calm, very calm. Why does Mike cut in at the wrong time! He has Mike from Victoria on the phone, and he wins some cash. We go to a commercial break at the end od it.

1:10am and we are back. Mike joins us again, but we are straight into the house. Aphro and Igor are making UP. LOL. Oh i’m sorry this is too good. She has been crapping about the guy for 24 hours, and suddenly she can get back to the friend stage with him. Igor puts it all on the line – he says tell him now to make her mind up. He says to let him know if they can continue their friendship , or whether they should just ginore each other. OMG. Aphro says she doesn’t feel she deserves to be here. I’m sorry, she’s gotta go people. Mike comes back on and runs through the last trivia, and we are back to the hugging and making up of Aphro and Igor. They are hugging and talking softly, very hard to hear them. They are both apologising to each other over and over again. She says she’s really sorry, she really called him some bad things. LOL She drags per Merlin into it by asking him if she called Igsy some bad names! Merlin is still dressed, but Igsy says “Fuck I’m ready to go to bed!” They decide to get a drink. They check on Kane who is in bed on the way through, when Mike comes back on and closes the last trivia game. He says that the show is drawing to a close, 10 minutes left, but he says “might be another fight”. It’s just priceless. Comm break.

1:23am and we’re in the living room. Trevor is on the screen. Don’t blink people, you’ll miss him. Sound went weird for a sec, but we’re back now. Merlin is talking to Wesley and says “Everyone has worked everything out tonight now”. Major feed dropout. Mike comes back on and he’s going to give Simin a $1000. This guy thinks Igor might win it. Dream on buddy. He wins the cash, and wraps up the show, but there is one more uplate update first. More dropouts in this episode than ever before. Mike is not aware he is cutting in and out on everyone’s set. He says goodnight, and we return to the house one last time. Bree is tucking Krystal into bed. Aphro and Bree are talking to her, saying “How are you” while touching her breasts…weird! Mike comes back on in the bottom left hand corner, and the feed goes again. G’nite Mike! When the feed comes back, Dreamworld has just said goodnight at 1:33am.

Stuff it, this is too good, so I’m on the live feeds now. Bree, Trevor and Merlin are talking while playing a bit of basketball. Merlin is stressed out totally. He has just got out of the DR and is upset that Aphro has made up with Igor I think. Aphro comes out and starts talking to him. He says he thinks they will be fighting again in 2 days. She tells him that she is friends again with him, because he actually cares for her, cause when he heard that she was ready to pack her bags, he came to try to sort things out. Anyway, moving on a bit, Aphro says that Merlin is the smartest person in here, so she asks him why he’s mad. Merlin says he thinks of her as a threat, and it brings out the strenght and argumentive behaviour in other people. And then she says – you know what it is – “It’s a whirlpool!” LOL. Aphro and Bree reenact their first night introduction to each other – they both are nice but turn away thinking they will hate them. Aphro says that Elle has heaps of self discipline. She has a heart of gold Aphro says. You will learn a lot from her. Igor has joined the group now, Trev seems to have gone. Bree is saying that she spoke to Ashalea cause she was concerned about her recent behaviour. She reminded Ash that her family were watching it. She said she had to think before she stood up and said on the couch “I want to fuck Rove.” She says to Merlin that he has been a great friend for her. Merlin says he is really worried about her too. They say she is so young at 19. igsy interrupts to say goodnight. Merlin says that she would have been overwhelmed the first few days with all the outgoing girls in the house – Merlin says even he was. “This is BB – You haven’t been wearing your microphone – you have incurred a fine.” LOL, they want to know how much, but BB doesn’t tell. Bree and Merlin are in the kitchen, Aphro is sitting beside them. Bree is saying that Ashalea was thanking her so much at the end of their convo cause she didn’t really realise what she was doing. merlin says he’s been really worried about her since day two. Bree said to her that she is worried about her appearance 24/7, and she is looking for a modelling career out of this. Bree loves her a lot, but she was talking to her the other day, and she was looking at her lip gloss in the mirror. Bree says when she is talking to someone she never thinks about what she looks like. It’s now 2:11am.

Bree reveals why she applied for BB. Her best friend said to her “Bree, apply for BB, because your one of a kind.” This girl is growing on me day after day. Bree reveals that she had a friend who she loves to death – he makes her laugh more than anyone else in the world – he understands her more than anyone in the world – problem is he is gay. Sheldon is his name. They worked in the same place “Dracula’s” and they both have decided if they are still unattachted at 35, they will get married. Catherine says goodnight. They met in Romeo and Juliet fashion, with the guy calling out to her from upstairs “How old are you”. Soo cute. The guy didn’t know he was gay at the time. Ashalea has entered the kitchen now. Bree says it’s weird – she hasn’t had many relationships, she is 21, but she would marry this guy at the drop of a hat. Someone is saying they will all be in Melbourne together for Rove. Well thats a damn long way off. Bree loves Rove. She has a story for him planned. When she was doing Dracula’s in Melbourne, Rove was there. But thats all she says about that I think. They start talking about “Who’s line is it anyway.” Bree says it’s all planned. Trevor thought it was Ad-libbed. Trev mate, get with the real world. It’s 2:23am and thats all from me guys.

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Day 5

8:56am – Kane is up and about and doing some weights. Trevor is also having a work out, while talking to Ryan. He fills Ryan in on the argument between Igor and Aphro in the kitchen overnight. Trev says it was funny. “I laughed my head off.” Meanwhile, in the bedroom, Merlin is saying to Aphro that the two (aphro and Igor) have been really close since the beginning. He goes onto say that Aphro shouldn’t let this one aspect effect the relationship. Aphro interrupts him, and says that there is something else that has happened, and that she is not going to go into again. She tells Merlin to watch the tapes for the truth after this is all over. Igor and Krystal are in the bathroom. Igor says that Igor almost went too far last night. Krystal suggests talking to Aphro. He replies “i don’t talk.”

Back in the bedroom, the topic has turned to Merlin. Both Aphro and Bree think the world of him. Merlin says that he doesn’t want to hear it. Merlin says he has heaps of flaws, but Bree suggests he show them all one. Aphro says “I don’t think I can find one in there.”

11:56am – Housemates gather by the pool to listen to an annoucement read by Elle. She tells the housemates that Big Brother has had no choice but to introduce a fine system because of repeated microphone breaches and referring to banned discussion topics. As soon as the annoucement is read, BB comes over the house and says “Ashalea, your microphone.” She says “it’s right here.” Unfortunately, she is carrying it, and doesn’t have it on. Afterwards, Krystal and Ashalea chat in the bedroom. Krystal says she hasn’t had a microphone breach yet. Krystal is pissed off because she has been caught out twice in the space of five minutes. When Ashalea says she has had it in her hands, Krystal says “Gee, he’s tough ins’t he.” Ashalea moves onto say that everyone has become bitchy towards each other in the last day or so. She says that if anyone gets a fine, she won’t care. “I don’t know why everyone cares so much because we’re here to have fun.” Moving outside, Krystal starts talking to Bree about her conversation to Ashalea. Krystal says that she told Ashalea to just try to keep the microphone on. She says that Ashalea replied “I will, but If I have it off, too bad.

Commercial Break.

5:22pm – Wesley is trying to teach Merlin the finer arts of the freestyle action in the pool. “That’s not bad mate, not bad!” Merlin just laughs. Inside, Igor is still upset about Aphro. Aphro says he’s just going to be himself. If that gets him put up for eviction and booted, then so be it, he says. Kane tries to get a laugh by saying that if it was him he was angry at, Igor would back down because of how tough he (Kane) is. Back on topic, he says “I’m not going to talk to her.”

Over in the kitchen, Aphro is getting dinner ready. Ryan asks if there is anything that can be done. About 4 people over there in that tiny cooking area. Wesley, who was just in the ktichen, returns to the living area and says “Steer clear of the kitchen.” They ask why, and he just says there are too many people trying to help. Ashalea are Wesley sit and talk on the couch. Ashalea says there has been so much tension in the house since yesterday between certain people. They both say the obvious pair of Igor and Aphro. Wes suggests that there is also tension between the two of them. Ashalea says there has been since day one! They both laugh, then Ashalea reveals that someone snapped at her this morning. Wesley asks who, and Ashalea replied “Krystal.” Back in the kitchen, dinner is ready. Aphro can tell by chucking the pasta on the mirror and seeing how hot it is. Weird stuff.

8:12pm – Housemates are gathered on the couch in the living room, with Wesley standing on the coffee table situated in the middle. He reads a letter from BB. “Dear Housemates, Paris Hilton is about to enter the BB House.” He gets cushions thrown at him from everywhere, no one believing the letter is real. Kane gets up and shakes his hand. He finally reads the real letter, which lets them know that there will be a 60’s party tonight to welcome them back to the house, and that the storeroom is now open with costumes. We see them run over to the storeroom to get their clothes. Quickly back to the bedroom, some are pleased with their outfits, while some hate theirs (Krystal). Trevi is dressed and sitting down. He says “I’m the biggest jaffa in the world.” He has a red suit on with a black shirt. Later, music is beamed into the house, and the dancefloor is alive with housemates making fools of themselves. Also, a cage is in the corner if anyone wants to get into any sexier action.

Commerical Break.

10:37pm – Paul comes to the diary to talk to Big Brother. He says that BB has chosen a great group of housemates. The blokes all seem to get on together. He says the girls are out of control however, with a competition between them for the spotlight. In the livingroom Igor is taking orders for coffee. When he gets to Paul, Paul suggests that “Krystal is moving in for the kill” on Ryan. Krystal has a laugh. Topic of conversation moves back to Krystal’s job in the real world, and there is far too much editing for a recap. Please check out the “Up Late recap, Day 4” posted elsewhere on the site. When Krystal has had enough, she goes to the girls in the kitchen and begins crying. After helping Krystal out over there, Bree returns to tell the boys to just be a little bit more sincere in their comments towards her job. Again, there is a lot of editing around the subject, and it is best to look at the other recap.

12:28: Ryan comes into the bathroom to apologise to Krystal. He wants to be as a team while in this house, and thus he apologises. He says he got a bit cut when she bought up that point (no idea). He says he doesn’t want to ignore her like Aphro and Igor are doing at the moment. He says “I think your a top bird, and it’s nothing against you.” They hug, but it soon turns into a group hug, and in the process, Krystal gets headbumped! Ryan tries to tell Aphro to make up with Igor. But she says that Ryan is a gentlemen, and Igor isn’t. At this, Krystal just say “oh god” and is to say “not again.” Aphro says that Krystal has just had an argument with a great guy, while she is having an argument with a two faced little shit. BB cuts to Igor playing basketball by himself outside.

Commercial Break.

12:43 – Merlin has come to the diary room. He says the happy family has been falling apart in the last few days. He says the tension between Aphro and Igor is a big part of this. He says he can’t believe that two people who hit it off so well, could be so far apart now. Cut to the bedroom where another argument between the pair is underway. Aphro says “Be honest. You bullshit people.” Back in the diary room, Merlin is nearly in tears saying he can’t believe that it’s like this after just 4 days. Back in the bedroom, Aphro says “I’m asking Big Brother to get me my bags out.” Ashalea and Bree both try to convince her to stay, but she says “Please let me do this.” “I’d rather leave with pride” also comes from her mouth. At this point, Igor says “Aph, Aph”. Aph tells him to shut up. About a minute of arguing more, Igor has her in the bathroom to try to get her sense back. “we came in here and we bonded ASAP”. It’s like a little love story isn’t it? He apologises a few times and says “sometimes I’m just stubborn.” We finally get a hug from the pair, and thank god for that. Aphro starts to cry while hugging him.

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Day 4 Uplate

It’s right on 11:30pm tonight when the credits roll and BB Up Late rolls around for another night. They are back in the house so hopefully they have some enthusiam tonight :) End credits and we are taken straight to the action, OUTSIDE lol. I’ve got no idea where they are etc. Mike comes up in the bottom corner and runs through the usual Up Late speel. The housemates are looking directly into the camera. Anyway, inside, Elle is talking about how she loves her sister but they don’t get along. Sorry, make that Terri. The people from outside come inside and again you can hardly understand anyone. Elle says that it’s sad that when people get old, it’s usually not the family that visit, it’s other friends. Family doesn’t go as often as they probably should is what she is trying to get across.

They look to be all sitting down in the lounge room, and they start talking about the Spa. It smells bad apparently. They think it needs a bit of chlorine but are unsure. Kane will go into the DR soon to ask BB about it. Aphro is ‘soo in love with this furniture.’ LOL. Bree has just bought out a dress which basically covers nothing. It looks basically like a top. Someone asks her if she would ever where it as a dress, to which she replies “Yeh, if I was a slut.” Ah, I like the girl :) Now she is wearing it as a beanie, it looks so much better up there. Someone asks if any of them has any money on them – Trevor has $5 on him, but thats about the only person. It’s soo weird for none of them to have any money. Ryan says he had $2000 in his pocket on launch night and gave it to ‘a fan, the motorcycle driver’. Yeh right mate! Krystal reveals she has met Gretel twice previously – at a live nomination show and then they had a few drinks together one night at Surfers! About there, Mike comes on and then goes through the trivia quickly, before giving us an Uplate Update.

Back to the house though now. They talk about Bree talking back to Gretel on opening night. It was good television that night. The housemates think she might be out first now, Gretel campaigning against her! Igor tells everyone what happened with him on stage. He was on cloud nine he says, it was such an experience with all the crowd. Terri recounts her experience now, and she wasn’t too pleased with her introduction! Bree asks Catherine and Paul if their kids were there, to which they reply yes. Trevor doesn’t say much in group conversations does he? Elle meanwhile in a little window down the left hand bottom corner takes her top off in the bedroom and puts something different on, in preparation for bed I would assume. She had a bra on, so we had no nudity. Merlin and Ashalea are talking, saying it’s been a week since they have been locked up (in isolation included). He laughs a heap now, saying that her little dummy which lights up is not battery operated. LOL. It’s another blonde moment for her. She has a necklace which has a dummy on the end of it, and it lights up. She thought it just glowed in the dark, and didn’t have a battery. Merlin can’t beleive that she thought it didn’t have a battery. He is still laughing a lot 2 minutes later. Mike cuts in and tells us she is actually an Auatralian of the Year. Trivia goes on, and we are taken back to the house, where things have quietened down, no more laughing from Merlin anyway.

In the bedroom, Bree is getting changed, takes her bra off after she has changed her top. Krystal is also there, with Elle. She takes her pants off and BB decides we’ve seen enough and takes us back to the living room. Ashalea is lying on Merlin’s tummy now, looking very relaxed. They are talking amongst themselves, while Igor talks to someone else over the other side of the room. Comm break cuts in.

Back again, the game is over for the first trivia. Trevor is walking round outside, and Igor is going to see if the spa really does stink. Ashalea says that everyone goes to bed early around this place. She can’t sleep this early. Merlin says he is going to have a great sleep tonight, back in real beds. Ashalea says she normally sleeps at around 12:30am, falling asleep in front of the tv. Ryan is back in the room, and they start talking about weird nicknames. Terri has to go to the diary room before bed, and she can’t think of anything to say. Elle comes along and jumps on her! That’s something to talk about! On the line back with Mike is Lee from NSW, who answers Terri, and wins the money. She has her fave as Ryan. Conversation doesn’t last long, Brain teaser number two is up and running, and we are back in the house. Ashalea is standing up and saying that Merlin can go to sleep, it’s ok. They seem to be the only people still left in the house. He starts saying little music things to himself after Ashalea goes into the bedroom.

Over in the kitchen, Catherine, Aphro and Bree I think, but feed doesn’t last long, and they go back to the lungue where Bree has just walked back to, and Paul is going to read on the couch for a bit. Bree is going to get changed. Actually, strike that, it was Ashalea. Sorry! Wow, I am bad lol. They look nothing alike. Comm break.

Back again with Mikey G on BB Uplate. Another trivia run through, and we join Elle saying that the guys shouldn’t pee on the floor, and put the toilet seat down! They are looking at someone’s photo’s now, Krystal hasn’t seen a bigger smile on someone in Ryan’s photo. Aphro is over in the kitchen saying she doesn’t ever want to go back to her old life. Catherine doesn’t think she will have to. She goes on to say that you have to decide to go on living with excitement, or contempt. Something like that anyway. Just the two of them over in the kitchen. Aphro says she wants to find that ‘little world’ she has never had. She says she really needs to be in here for a while, she hopes people (public) understand this. She doesn’t want to win, she just wants to be in BBWorld for a lenght of time.

Back we go to the bathroom, where Elle and Merlin are talking. There is a tap running and it’s impossible to hear anything. Elle says she feels like crying again. Ashalea has joined convo (suprise suprise!) and says she is beautiful and not to worry about anything. Comm break time!

It’s 12:30am at the moment, Mike is talking to us, the BB Trivia is closed for the second time round. Back to Aphro and Catherine in the kitchen we go. Aphro says that her mum and dad aren’t affectionate. We cross back to the bedroom, where Ryan has hot feet. Someone says they always have cold feet. Krystal says they love Body Shop stuff. LOL, Bree says straight away she thinks it’s bullshit. Wesley says goodnight to the cams by hitting a wall (mirror). Ryan when giving presents, just goes for the old flowers. Mike comes back on, and he has Belinda from Qld on the phone. She wins the $1000. Mike says that a comp later in the series will give away a car via their sponser 3. Back to the house though now, Aphro is still talking to Catherine. Merlin has joined the convo as well. Elle is there, Ashalea must be there surely ;) But I can’t see her. The girls talk about squeeing zits in the mirror, and they hope that a cam isn’t behind it. They talk about girls with Merlin. He is soo fussy. He wants his girl to be the one that stands out from the crowd and he knows from the instant he mets her that she is the one. That’s how he plans for it anyway. Comm break.

At 12:44am we are back. He shows us the 3 mobile phone, and shows us the highlights package on the phone, the quality does look quite good. He goes on to give us a clue for the trivia, (eating) very easy this one, before we return to the house. Igor is talking about his girlfriend outside and why he broke up with her to come into the house. They both think (Igor and his girl) that they will be together again once back outside, but they still decided to break it off. Moving on, Igor can’t believe that it’s only been 4 days in the BB house. There are quite a few people over there now. Ashalea has made her way over there. Aphro says she is in no rush to see her friends and her mum. She wants this to last forever. Yes we understand, you’ve only said it 45 times!

Aphro says “If the world was more gay”, Merlin then chips in “It would be a happier place.” Interesting Merlin…interesting! Igor says it’s not normal to see gays out in the street, wheras it is up in Sydney. He thinks it’s because of the Mardi-Gras. Merlin thinks that when you define people via their sexualality, your going down the wrong path. He has a good argument actually. Merlin says that Igor is calling gays like a ‘herd of cattle.’ It is interesting that Merlin is sticking up for the gay population so strongly and passionatly. Comm break (includes Sunday special and also Monday night nomination special)

Mike is back, the teaser game is closed, but back to an uplate update. Now we are back with the action, in the bedroom, with people getting ready for bed. Elle is in bed, Ryan is too I think. Whispers in the bedroom, before we go to Trevor in the diary room, on mute, but then Mike comes on pretty quickly, where Dennis wins the $1000. Straight back to the streaming now. They are still on the gay issue in the kitchen. Merlin says what would Igor’s father say if Igor said he was gay. Igor said his dad would say ‘cya later!’. Merlin continues the debate, Everyone else is laughing because Merlin is soo passionate on this topic. Aphro and Igor are arguing in the kitchen over whether family would actually chuck someone out of the house if they were gay. Igor says that a lot of people would do that, but Aphro can’t see why. Mike starts the 4th brainteaser, and we head to a break.

Mike is back at 1:10am, and he reads a few emails, before we go back to the action. Mike has hosted it well tonight, quickly running through what he has too, cause of the housemates actually being awake. Back into the house now, the lights are off in the bedroom and there is silence there. Now back to the kitchen. Igor says he’s sorry for his loud voice. Aphro says she has one too. Still on the gay topic. Merlin has withdrawn from the convo for a sec, but now he’s back. Igor says he knows a guy who is gay, and he still talks to him till this day. He says he uses the word gay wrongly, but it’s the only way he can say it. It was actually his neighbour who was gay. It keeps going on and on, everyone going over the same things. Comm break. Nearing the end of this episode…or show. I dunno what to call it :)

Back again, it’s 1:23am, and they are still up! Believe it or not :) The last trivia is closed, and he sends us to the last uplate update. Back from that, we’re back to the kitchen. Igor is talking about her family background, saying he doesn’t care if he fell in love with a Greek girl, he would be fine with it. LOL Aphro just left saying that “if people can’t put up with multiculuturial societies in Australia, they should go back to where they came from….and I’m a wog.” Ashalea is just sitting there bored out of her brain listening to the interesting conversation between Igor and Merlin. This is by far the best convo I’ve heard to date, both guys respecting each others opinion. Mike cuts back in for the last brain teaser winner, who is Holly from Victoria. She sounds very young, but awake, which is a bit of a change. She wins then we say goodnight to Mike, but we return to the house. In the bedroom, Terri is chatting to someone, then tries to find the camera behind the wall. Aphro is back and worked up in the kitchen, but before we can figure out the conversation, Dreamworld says goodnight at 1:33am.

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