Author: Tim

Michael is wearing Angie’s Rolling Stones t-shirt and is dancing for the housemates. Stacey suggests he dances like chicken.

Zoe is in the diary room saying she’s feeling obsessed about Michael. She would never like a guy like that on the outside “the fact that I can’t have him, makes me want him”. “I will see him and eyes are straight on him and I watch him go past and I’ll say love you”. But he’ll walk on by.

Later on Angie asks Bradley how he’s feeling. Bradley is giving very short answers and he seems very melancholy. He says “I’d hate to go home and feel it’s been a terrible week”. However he doesn’t know what will make him feel better “something from home or the Dark Knight (movie)”.

Afterwards Michael tells Ben he’s concerned about Bradley. Ben says they can’t talk about nominations but they can acknowledge there’s a 19 year old boy in the house who has collected a lot of nomination points based on a generation gap and that’s unfair”.

Later (the footage keeps cutting), Ben has talks to Sam about how he feels they don’t know each other much and wonders if Ben has been lazy in getting better or what. Sam says he thinks that he’s maybe putting up a bit of a wall and he does that, and he thinks that’s why he’s never fallen in love. He’s scared of being thrown back at him.

Layla and Zoe are inside talking about the same thing. Zoe comments that Sam came into the house not looking for anything, but Layla is looking for a fairy tale. They both joke about how they over-analyse things like text messages when it comes to guy and have a big laugh.

Sam continues with Ben that they haven’t bonded very much in the house, along with Estelle, Stacey and Michael. Ben say they’re his closest friends – Stacey wants to be more fit so if you helped her out she’d appreciate it, Michael is up for nomination so ask him how he’s feeling. Afterwards Sam says “I really needed that chat” (while pumping iron) “I really hope I don’t go this week, I’ve still got a lot to learn”.

Later on Stacey asks Ben how he went with chatting to Sam. Ben says “yeah he’s boring as bat shit, just kidding he’s lovely”. In the kitchen Ben relays the chat he had with Sam to Michael, Stacey and Josh. Ben says he’s happy with his little group and Stacey agrees. The whole group agrees there is an element of “oh I have to get along with everyone”, especially with Sam because he’s an intruder.

Michael has been called to the naughty corner again for repeatedly swearing. Inside he finds a canvas which he must paint one colour then watch the paint dry, and not look at anything else. Michael paints the canvas like a crazy abstract artist. He then paints his face all blue and makes jokes. While watching the paint dry, Stacey tries to distract him by pushing her buttocks up against the naughty corner glass wall.

Zoe has come to the diary room where she explains she’s noticing cracks in her friendship with Stacey. “I think I just need to take myself away from her when she gets a bit crazy, I just can’t be around crazy people all the time”.

Michael has drawn a duck into his blue canvas and is now talking about how pretty the duck is.

Sam and Layla are cuddling in bed and Sam discusses the conversation he had earlier with Ben. Sam says “I need to put more time into people, it’s hard being the intruder”. He feels glad he had the chat with Ben and tomorrow he will focus on spending time with Stacey.

8.56am – Big Brother is waking housemates with bagpipes, to the annoyance of Michael and Stacey. Delilah jumps on Zoe to wake her up. Sam is already up and cleaning the house.

Later in the morning Ben and Stacey are lounging and both agree that to come into the house as an intruder would be difficult. They wonder how “Mr Potato Head” (Sam) is doing – Ben comments he isn’t really showing any signs of handling it good or bad.

Michael is in the diary room and Big Brother asks him who will win, but Michael doesn’t really know. A “dream result” would be if he was amongst the finalists.

The latest task deal comes through from Big Brother. The housemates only have to spend $1 more to pass the task, and this deal is the last one for the week. The offer is a group hug for $1. All housemates run and hug each other in the living room. Big Brother asks if they are satisfied with their purchase, and of course they are. They have passed the task and cheer, Delilah is looking very excited.

Afterwards Angie comes to the diary room and BB asks why Angie didn’t take the call from her Dad the day before (she hung up for the sake of the task). She says she knew it would have been held against her especially since Layla hung up on her aunty in the previous yes/no task. She goes on to say she wishes she had a break from being nominated because she needed that week to find her zen. It’s very stressful. “I’m happy and bubbly but this week hasn’t reflected it”.

3.41pm – Housemates are waiting for Angie to come back from the diary room before they do this week’s luxury shopping. Ben doesn’t think the process will go well so calls Josh aside, asking him to do shopping separately with Angie and Estelle. Layla won’t do the shopping when Angie is there because there is tension. Josh feels it’ll go ok.

Angie eventually returns and housemates notice she’s been crying. She walks into the store room without answering any of their questions. Estelle follows and behind the closed door Angie tells her that she really wanted to speak to her Dad. Estelle suggests she take a second to calm down. Ben puts his ear up against the door but it quickly opens and he runs away without being noticed. Estelle and Angie emerge with the shopping white board.

Angie: Ok I have the shopping letter here

Ben: Just a question first – why were you crying?

Angie: Oh I just had a debrief with Big Brother and he asked how her week is going and I said not that great.

Most of the housemates have agreed that Angie, Estelle and Josh will do all of the shopping this week. The rest leave, but Ben goes on to say that he’s not happy that Estelle pushes her way into being involved in shopping every single week.

After the shopping trio are finished Angie comes to find Ben who is lying behind the couch for some reason. She tells him they did a really good job and she’s pleased with the shopping. She goes on to talk about her third nomination in a row – she’s not coping and has cried a lot in the toilet by herself. Ben’s advice is that sometimes when Angie goes to do something she takes over “I can’t say that I’ve seen it myself, but I’ve heard”. Angie says she’s not being herself in the house and she feels like she’s being pushed to the outer and she doesn’t know why. Ben says “be really happy with who you are”. Angie announces that she doesn’t want to be ‘the Estelle’ who floats around trying to fit into a group.

Ben counsels Angie some more and she’s in a better mood afterwards.

6.01pm – Sam and Layla are chatting by the pool when Sam asks if she’d miss him if he was evicted this week. She says yes she would “because you are normal!” Sam goes on to say he can’t wait to go to Bali “see I’m only 21, I know once I start travelling I won’t come back”. Layla says he’d love England because they have the hottest girls in the world. Sam then goes on to talk about a really hot girl he once worked with – Brazilian, wears hot pants.

After the conversation Layla tells Stacey she feels her and Sam are moving into friend territory. “I thought I’d test the waters”. “It felt like he was emphasising things to really say they could talk about anything (as friends)”. Layla is glad that her and Stacey didn’t swap beds because she can now move back to her bed and not have to sleep next to Sam.

7.03pm – The nominees are all cooking the weekly family dinner. Michael keeps talking about being nominated and asks them all to mention why they think they were nominated:

Sam: maybe people haven’t gotten to know me or maybe think that I’m not being me.

Bradley: it could be twofold: 1. I am kind of a dick, I say some comments 2. I do not help out, they could also be a reason.

Angie: I think the housemates may not like me as much because I can tend to take over things when I get excited about doing stuff.

Michael: I think people find it difficult to get along with me because sometimes I can be a bit of a know-it-all and condescending.

Michael then suggests they talk about reasons why they think the other three people are nominated. Bradley says this is “brutally awesome”. Michael starts them off by saying to Angie to make a concerted effort to make it look like you don’t care as much. Bradley “there is nothing you can do because who you are is who you are” and you should collect plates when everyone is around (not just a few people). Sam should do the opposite and stop cleaning.

Angie tells Michael to stop being so hypocritical. For example he’ll borrow a toothbrush but flip out about the pork he cooked the other day (he had a fight with Angie about it).

After 8.54pm – Michael is called to the diary room. He’s won a video message from his brother via a poll on the Big Brother Facebook page.

His brother tells him his family all miss him (he jokes “I don’t”). They’re all proud of him.

Outside Ben asks Bradley if he’s ever cried in the house. Bradley says he was on the verge of tears after nominations last week and he didn’t want anyone to come and comfort him because “you put me up to this”.

Meanwhile Michael is crying in the diary room.

He says he didn’t think it would be hard to be away from his family for only this short amount of time. When he moved away from his family at a young age for school it was “the worst” but his older brother was always there for him. “Time just slows down in here”.