Day 20

9.58pm – Michael and Ashley are in the rewards room. They toast to winner Mike. He cheers to his boy Ash “big man from WA”. Since tomorrow is mothers day the housemates propose a wedding between Jamie and Katie. Dino suggests they have a bucks night tonight. Back in the rewards room Michael says he thinks this will be the end of his journey – and goes on to tell Ashley about his fake son named Rueben and how he recently found out he’s no longer his father and there’s a custody battle going on. He adds that he’s been caring about Rueben for 8, nearly 9 years. His motto with Rueben was “we don’t quit, never quite”.

Jamie and Katie come to the diary room. BB asks them if they are nervous ahead of their big day. Kaite says she’s petrified and hopes she makes it to the alter. Jamie comments she shouldn’t be saying stuff like that infront of him. “Out of all the decisions I’ve made in my life this would have to be the most certain”.

Back in the rewards room Michael goes to pick one of his boxes. He chooses box number 3 – inside is a voucher to have his laundry done. In the main bedroom Katie tells Karen she is nervous about being with Jamie because he sees him looking Krystal, but Karen assures Katie her daughter wouldn’t go near him – “he’s not her type, I’m telling you now”. Katie felt like a fool when the two were staring at each other earlier. Karen doesn’t seem to think Krystal would look at Jamie that way, but Katie is positive she saw it.

Dino walks in and wants to know what the gossip is. Katie says she’s just having cold feet about the marriage.

BREAK

12.15am – Karen doesn’t want to be Jamie or Katie in this situation. Dino says he doesn’t like being around them – it makes him uncomfortable when they hug. He says they are going to be in the house a while the last thing he wants is conflict between the two because it would be a damper on the other housemates. Katie meanwhile is in the bathroom with Claire continuing to explain her Jamie paranoia. Claire reckons thats crazy and not happening at all. “Jamies only got eyes for you”.

Jamie is working out a surprise proposal method with John – they plan to use the diary room somehow. John goes to Katie and tells her she HAS to go to the diary room with him – so they go. Meanwhile Jamie rallys all the housemates to the lounge room to meet Katie when she comes back out. Jamie positions himself at the bottom of the stairs to the diary room.

Meanwhile Katie and John are asking Big Brother for chocolates. Big Brother says no. When Katie emerges from the diary Jamie walks up and asks her if she would marry him.

Katie: Maybe.. nah yes!

All the housemates cheer.

BREAK

1.05am – Katie and Jamie talk about their upcoming marriage. She is still worried about Jamie liking Krystal more than her because she’s a brunette and Katie is blonde. “You don’t kiss me, you look at others.. what would you think if you were me?”. Jamie says “I haven’t done anything… with all of these girls, you say I’m flirty, but I’m equally flirty with all of them”. Dino walks over

Dino: Jeez you listen well, you’d make a good wife. Hah hah!

Over the rewards room Michael and Ash talk about Krystal. Ash doesn’t think Krystal has any care of whats going on in the house – she’s never herself and she’s always got makeup on. Michael totally agrees. Her looks fade and her real personality shows through.

Jamie tells Katie to follow him to the toilet. Inside the toilet Jamie flushes the toilet so no one will hear them, and asks Katie again if she’s nervous about the Krystal thing. Jamie consulted John about it but John didn’t think he’d been flirting. Katie says “of course he’d say that!”. Meanwhile David and Camilla are sneaking up to the toilet door to listen in on whats happening.

In the toilet Jamie accidentally calls Katie Anna .. “oh you’re not Anna”. Katie calls out in frustration.

Katie: bad, bad, bad, bad, bad

Jamie: That was a bad… a little bit. This whole thing is wrong. This doesn’t happen when you’re outside this place.

Katie: Maybe we should have tomorrow for Claire and just leave it.

David and Camilla move away from the toilet door laughing silently. Jamie is annoyed that Katie might want to leave it, and goes to leave but Katie tells him to stay in talk. Jamie doesn’t know whats going on anymore everything is coming out of nowhere. He just needs time to sit by himself yet. “I haven’t done anything, this is crazy”. He leaves the toilet and Katie starts crying. He sits down outside and is shortly joined by Karen, who asks whats going on. Jamie has no idea how things got so complicated. He explains to Karen how she’s been accusing him of flirting with other girls. “My words weren’t good enough for her so I said screw it, you dont want to hear me talk”.

Katie is washing her face in the bathroom and Michael randomly says “I think its time for me to leave the house, I gotta get out”. He explains he has family stuff on the outside, and just keeps saying “I just think I gotta go”.

3.08am – Jamie is in the diary room. He doesn’t know what to do just yet but he will just step back and give them some space. He will let her know that when she’s ready he’ll be there, but he doesn’t know what he did to deserve this. Katie meanwhile is in the kitchen when Karen asks her how she’s going, and recommends she needs to go to sleep. “Stop thinking about thing so much”. Karen gives Katie a hug. Jamie tells BB he’ll let her come to him, “but when she’s ready”.

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Day 18 Uplate

11:25pm: Out at the task. Katie is one of the people on duty. She is saying she got no sleep last night and is looking forward to going to bed. Claire is the other person on duty. Ashley is keeping an eye on them. He says that everyone seems tired, and the whole house is on a ‘monotone’ level. Claire says she gets teary when she’s tired. Ashley agrees, saying everyone gets emotinal. Katie does some noises, and wonders whether it sounds like someone giving birth. Dino comes out. He wonders how long they’ve been going for. Claire says an hour. Big Brother tells Dino that he must clean the entire bathroom floor. Dino says damn. He explains to the housemates that he had done the area where everyone walks near the basin etc, but not the shower. He says he knew he would have to do it, but was trying to get away with it. Dino says that he has done it pretty quickly though. Claire starts talking about stars and making wishes. Ashley thought it had to be a shooting star to be able to make a wish. Katie says that she sucks at this task. She goes onto say that Michael is so good at stuff like this. Comm break.

11:35pm: Dave and Ashley are talking in the bedroom (Have a feeling that it might’ve been Gaelan and not Ashley outside in the previous paragraph.) Ashley is saying that he doesn’t like being just a bricklayer, he wants to be more. He see’s this as a real oppourtunity to break into a new ‘world’. He says he wants to live life, not ‘die’ everyday like he’s doing. He says something about ‘and when the court case is over’ and then it’s bleeped, and we cut back outside. Katie is saying that they’ll be famous soon. Claire says that even if there not it won’t matter. Katie hopes that nothing got out that she doesn’t want to get out, citing photos some guy has of her. But they aren’t completely nude. BB can’t win at the moment. We cut back to the bedroom, but thats basically all bleeped out too, so we just can’t win. Mike cuts in for now. Back finally out to the girls. Camilla walks by so they yell out to her, and tell her that Jamie is going to take over soon. Camilla starts doing some running around the backyard. (It was Gaelan earlier, apologies.) Camilla says that she runs like such a girl. Claire makes an excellent point, saying she would be worried if she didn’t look like a girl. Katie says that their dinner routine is stuffed because they stay up so late and feel like something else before going to bed. She thinks that they go to bed later than previous series. Katie says she is busting, and Gaelan says it’s time, and he goes and gets Michael. Comm break.

11:52pm: Claire and Katie are calling for Gaelan. Katie wants to know if Krystal is nice to sleep with. Claire says that Krystal gives off more body heat than Elise did, but she might need a spooner soon. Gaelan reappears and says that Michael is coming. Camilla wonders if they are allowed to go in the spa. She wonders if she can go in. Claire seems to think you can. Gaelan and Katie talk about bodyboarding. Katie says she can’t feel her toes. Claire thinks that Michael must be wanting them to get sick. Cut to watching Dino scrubbing the bathroom floor with a toothbrush. Back outside again. Michael has appeared and talks to Gaelan about what side they each want. Michael takes over for Katie, Gaelan takes Claire’s side. Michael has the harder side. The changeover went actually really well. The girls leave, and Camilla is left with the boys. Michael says “Hello there!” They talk about the ducks which are in the fish tank. Camilla says she is bored. Gaelan has discovered a duck which doesn’t have stickytape on it’s ass. Head inside to John and Krystal. John says Sydney doesn’t interest him at all. Krystal says she’ll go there to get a job. Krystal describes the bad part of the Sydney city. Krystal and John realise that there is a Surrey Hills and an Oxford Street in Melbourne and Sydney. John reassures Krystal that Melbourne’s Oxford street isn’t gay. Comm break.

12:09am: Michael and Gaelan still doing the task in the backyard. John has joined them watching on, Camilla has gone somewhere else. Michael wonders if Dino is still cleaning the floor. Krystal comes out as well now. Michael says it’s gets more comfortable after a while. Krystal wants to know if they want to switch. Gaelan says they just got on, saying “you want to get on and go to bed!”. They realise than Krystal isn’t wearing any makeup. Michael tells her she looks so different. Krystal sas she looks ugly. Camilla splashes water at them. Michael tells her that her face looks really clear. Krystal says she has never ever had a facial. They start talking about the blackhead on Ashley’s back that Dave popped the other night, and how big it was. We cut away to Dino for a bit, then back. Camilla is still trying to convince people that if people want to stay up they should be able to just keep going with the task. Krystal says that it’s better if only one of the next crew have to sit out and keep the current people doing the task company. Krystal says that her and Anna are next, and she’ll wake Anna at the last minute. Camilla is washing her clothes in the backyard, listening in as well. Jamie comes out and hugs Krystal. Dino comes out as well. They tell Jamie that he slept through his shift. He says he feels bad, and he’ll double shift or something. They tell him he’s with Camilla a bit later on. Comm break.

12:25am: Gaelan, John, Michael and Krystal around the task. All laughing. Krystal and Michael seem to be getting on much better after the argument a couple of days ago. They talk about how it would be good to do a mother/daughter combo or a twin combo. Michael says if they were hot twins, he’d go for the twins. Cut to the kitchen, it’s Jamie, Anna and Dino talking. Dino is telling them about how he had to do the bathroom. Anna looks like she just woke up. All pretty silent in the kitchen. Back outside, Krystal says she has never had a one night stand. Gaelan says that she will like Melbourne. Krystal says she’s slept with 9 guys. They ask Camilla and she says 30ish. Before answering she asks “In one day!?” They ask Krystal when she turns 20, and it’s July 12th. They talk about how the order is for the task. Michael asks who Krystal and Karen would rather go home if one has to. Krystal says Karen would rather go if they are evicted. Krystal says if it’s her to go, she’ll have to look after the kids. Michael says that at least they would have a good cook. Krystal says she thinks Gaelan is a bit of a charmer. He tells Camilla that he’s highest in a day is only 2 girls. Gaelan says he is very selective. Gaelan admits that he only has one night stands, although they aren’t frequent. He says he doesn’t even have sex buddies. Comm break.

12:40am: In the kitchen/living room we have John, Camilla, Dino and Anna. Gaelan is inside now, so it seems Krystal has gone with Jamie. They wonder why people change, and then they suggest they all go in girl/boy combo. John says he should go with Anna! Camilla can’t find a partner. Anna comes and lies on John, who is on a chair. We head outside, where Krystal and Jamie are talking music. There is a bit of bleeping out too. Quickly cut back inside. Anna looks so tired, and John and Michael are annoying her by saying that she doesn’t last very long when it’s her turn on the task. Camilla wonders who dislikes her in the house, but no one shares their thoughts. Camilla wonders whether it’s the girls who dislike her. Anna comes over and tells her that everyone probably thinks nicely of her because she has the balls to stand up and stay stuff. Camilla wishes people could tell her what they dislike about her so she could try and change it. Dino comes over with some fresh batteries for the clan. Comm break.

12:56pm: Krystal and Jamie chatting while doing the task. Talking about relationships. Krystal says she believes that you have more than one soulmate in your lifetime. Krystal says she likes a challenge in a relationship. Jamie says that Krystal hasn’t been herself. She says she hasn’t, she is normally louder. She says she doesn’t want to be the girl who is ‘fake’, regarding the boob job. She says she doesn’t regret having it done. Jamie says that she will change people’s perception because she’s so lovely. He says it took a week to get Jamie to change his mind, but now she is nowhere near the stupid fake girl. He says she is really sweet and natural. Jamie says that he was so worried about his intro video on launch night. He says that he really isn’t anything like the video. Krystal says that in some regards it makes or breaks you that intro package. Jamie agrees. Jamie says that since she has come out (mother/daughter), she has been very consistent. Krystal says that the fight with Anna has calmed down now and she’s glad of that. She says she has only recently started sticking up for herself. Dino comes out. Dino says he’s on yard duty, and they talk about bin duty back in high school. Comm break.

1:09pm: Dino, Camilla and someone else have joined the people doing the task. They are talking about people’s names they know, famous people….anyway, feed has quickly changed. Into the living room, Anna, Michael, John are there. Michael tells Anna that he loves her. John sees it’ll be interesting to see who stays on Sunday and how they cope. He adds that this task has taken the focus off eviction totally. Anna can’t believe that they are excluding her from the convo. They tell her to come over closer so they can hear. She does. John says they might be stepping on boudaries with this conversation. Michael doesn’t think so. He adds that there is some alliances forming in the house though. The others agree. Michael thinks that one of the goals was to get all the girls thinking along the same lines and try to get the boys out of the house, and then the more dominating girls could control the house. They say that Camilla will listen to anyone that will talk to her. They say Anna won’t get sucked in though, and she agrees. Michael says that the incident with Karen/Krystal and Anna earlier last week was similar to schoolyard bullying through his eyes. John says it was great that Anna stood up for herself. John says that she has to try not to swear because they won’t hear the full side of the story because the swearing affects what they show on the daily show. John admits that he though Anna would’ve just cried, but he loved that she stood up and fought back. Comm break.

1:26am: Changeover time. Smooth again. Dino and Camilla has taken over. Dino says she has started talking already. Camilla wonders if he’s felt like climbing the walls and just jumping over. He says he got up on the roof the other day to try to find the ducks. Camilla wonders who will go this weekend. Dino wants Karen to go, he says that she is playing the game too hard. He says he heard something that she said and he didn’t like it. He says that she told other girls that if they wanted to go further in the game they had to pick the boys off. Dino says she didn’t even get picked up for that. camilla says she likes Karen, but she’s weary of people. Mike cuts in. Uplate update. Finally get back out there. Camilla is saying that Dave and Karen get along really well. Camilla says she thought Tilli was a bit of a suprise. Camilla says she is nervous because Tilli left. Oh my god. Mike cuts in again. Comm break.

1:39am: Anna has joined Camilla and Dino out the back. Anna is talking about Karen. She has no time for her, saying that if Karen apologised she might be a bit more civil towards her. Dino says that once you notice one bad thing about a person, you tend to easily find more. Camilla says that Krystal doesn’t have anything to worry about. Dino says it would be best for the house if Karen went. Anna says she was stupid to tell people she was only here for the money. Dino agrees, saying he would make it a point of trying to get her out because of that. Dino tells the others that Karen was staring at him all through nominations. He says that when people haven’t made up their mind it’s common sense to stare at people to try to think of reasons to nominate them. Jamie comes out and says that he should have to do an extra shift because he missed one. John tells a story of his last girlfriend. It was back in 1999. Geez. He met her at Nundawading Pools and chatted her up. Mike cuts in, and thats it. Dreamworld says goodnight at 1:48am.

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Day 19

4.08am – Housemates are up because of the dam task. Camilla comments to Jamie that Katie must have a really fast metabolism because she’s always starving. Jamie is tired and doesn’t really seem to care .. “Katie Katie Katie… she’s a good kid”. Camilla asks if he likes her… there is a delayed “um.. yeah”. He adds “of course I like her”.

Outside John has a plan to abandon the task – if they let a small crack out of the holes to let the water run away very slowly the housemates would never know it was John and Michael. He can’t believe he’s talking about sabotaging his own task.

Back inside Jamie explains Katie is a little scared of Anna and Krystal possibly having an interest in Jamie. Camilla finds that funny because Katie does more flirting with the boys than Jamie does with the girls. “You can definately tell she’s younger than you though”. Camilla says the flirting thing is proof of that. Jamie explains Anna is flirting with all of the guys because she needs them. Camilla adds that Anna just doesn’t have that raport with the girls and would rather hang out with the boys.

4.59am – Dino and Gaelan are at the water tank. Jamie is sitting closeby talking about Michael. He explains when he first Michael it was so full on – he re-enacts: “hey man! I like you! Lets go and look around the house together!”. The other two laugh. Gaelan agrees, and says he was asking so many questions, and so enthusiastic about everything. Dino jokes “socks! I have socks”, Jamie continues: “we have so much in common! Don’t tell me you eat food as well!”.

Gaelan: He’s drag everyone away for a one on one: “I haven’t had a one on one with you yet!” He didn’t get one with me, I made sure of that.

The other two start laughing loudly. Talk starts to get blokey and Gaelan talks about the sleeping arrangements when they first entered the house. He tried to bunk in with Krystal and/or Anna but they had both found bed partners already. Jamie comments the bed situation with Michael and Krystal fizzled out fast: the other boys but in: “she hates his guts now”.

Talk turns to Michael’s apparently “issues on the outside”. They don’t know whether to believe him. Jamie says Michael was using it as an excuse. Dino says the fact that he can’t release any details just makes a bigger deal than it is “and I know he doesn’t hate the attention”.

BREAK

8.34am – Ash and John are up to feed the animals. Michael and John are currently on the tank shift. Michael says if Krystal was evicted it wouldn’t be such a bigger deal than losing Camilla because Camilla doesn’t give a fuck. He adds that even though Krystal is good looking she doesn’t have much personality to offer. He then asks John if he agrees.

John: I do agree, but I would like to keep her in the house because she’s something good to look at.

Michael wants to see how the mother daughter pair would act if they were split up. He wants to see how their interactions with other people would change. Claire and Ash meanwhile continue with the animal feeding – there is a zoom in shot of a baby deer licking another baby deer’s behind… fascinating!

Back to the dam task and John questions Michael about his talks with Krystal. He says it wasn’t deep, but it was topical on the surface abotu where she lived. He adds it was all lies – none of it was interesting at all. Dino said to Micahel at the time “she’s not a good gameplayer she’s basically just using you” according to Michael. He reaffirms that Krystal is “playing the game”.

BB calls the farmhands back to the house. Claire comments the animals are growing so fast. The task is swapping over now, and this time it’s Krystal and Camilla. They wonder what will happen this weekend. Krystal has been looking at people and wondering “have you backstabbed me?”. Krystal would be upset if her mum or Camilla were evicted. Camilla says is the same with her.

12.33pm – Big Brother calls all housemates to the water tank. He annouces the task is almost over and the level the housemates must keep the water above is in the green envelope. John reads it – its the yellow marker. The housemates don’t understand they have passed the task until Big Brother announces it – and they immediately start cheering. They happily let the water drain out of the tank.

BREAK

8.29pm – Michael comes to the diary room for his daily reward. Inside is a packet of chocolate biscuits. Michael must consume the entire packet but cannot eat them in the diary room, toilets or sauna, and he must not get caught eating them. Michael immediately takes off his microphone and shirt and wraps the biscuits in the shirt, and walks out of the diary room, shirtless, and looking very obvious. No ones seems to suspect anything though. He puts on a new tshirt and jacket in the bedroom. John comes over and asks whats up – but Michael tries to shoo him with the excuse “I just need some time to think about stuff by myself… can you tell people to leave me alone for a little bit”. Michael takes his biscuits (now under a towel) outside, sits by the pool and starts eating them.

Inside Dino asks where Michael is and wants to know if he’s sleeping outside – he goes to check. John relays that Michael doesn’t want to be disturbed. Dino looks out the window. Michael is shoving biscuits into his gob very fast.

Dino: Man he is losing it fast. He hasn’t got any sleep, he’s got something else on his mind. If you’ve got a problem then don’t fuck around, you solve it. Don’t make other people miserable. He’s ruining the experience for other people by being depressed around us. He needs to get his head together.

Dino is now going around the house announcing that Michael is having a nervous breakdown. Most of the housemates discuss it in the bedroom – Claire says at least he’s been explaining why he’s acting so weird. However Krystal adds that Michael has been nasty every since he found out that Karen was her mum. “He can’t hook up with either of us now”.

Michael now goes to dispose of the biscuit packet – he does it while putting other garbage out. He yells out “ha ha! Too easy! Didn’t get me on that one!”. The garbage gets thrown over the wall.

BREAK

11.29pm – Anna says to Katie they are sleeping in the same bed tonight, but Katie jokes “you’re not big enough to spoon”. Anna says Jamie has had Katie all this time. Dino butts in and says “oh true intentions are coming out… she wants to steal the boyfriend”. Anna is determined to sleep with Katie tonight, and gets Katie to explain to Jamie she won’t be sleeping with him. Katie doesn’t want Jamie to sleep with Dino because Dino will be farting.

Dino goes directly outside and tells Michael and David what just happened. Michael ssys Katie never wants to upset anybody at all. Dino agrees “she avoids conflict, but this time she wasn’t trying to avoid she wanted to go to bed with Jamie”.

Dino: Anna was just being childish, something for attention. I think she’s not getting much attention in this house anymore.

Later

Dino: I figured her out I reckon. I don’t think she’s the most intelligent girl, I don’t think she’s the most mature girl – not having passed school. Very insecure about her body as well. She doesn’t have the skills to make people attract to her… She’s pretty weak, very weak mentally.

Michael says he agrees with everything Dino says. David however is nodding along but doesn’t look very convinced at all. Meanwhile Jamie and Katie are in the bathroom talking about Anna’s forced sleeping arrangements. Katie doesn’t want to move.

Jamie: She just wants to sleep on my side so she can smell me

Katie: Whatever! She wants to spoon me.

Jamie brushes his gums really hard and Katie says he shouldn’t do that – instead she grabs the brush and brushes his teeth for him.

12.27am – Michael is outside with David, and gets to work on his insider mission to get people to nominate him:

Michael: I just don’t know what to do anymore… I want to stay but I can’t stay. I was basically a father before I came into this house, and now I found out I’m not.

David: Have you had contact with the kid?

Michael: I take care of him, he sleeps at mine three nights a week.

David: Crikey.

Michael: The conversation was theres a chance Ruben is not yours. After eight years how do you deal with something like that. It was hazy and a paternatity test was done and it was negative.

Michael: The father now wants him in his life. He’s quite well off, he’s an investment banker, and now he’s in London, and supposedly he’s going to try and get custody now.

David: I don’t know how you’ve been here…

Michael: Thats what I’m saying, what do I do?

David: Stay, and go through the process of nominations, and do what you can for eviction.

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Day 17 Uplate

12:02am: Several people out in the backyard minding the task. The task is called “Damn the task.” Apparently housemates must use body parts other than their hands to cover leaks in a glassed fish tank. John, Dino, and Michael are outside. John asks the guys what they have against the Crystal ball, referring to the housemate with the same name. Dino says that when he doesn’t like someone’s personality he simply can’t go any further. Dino says he doesn’t get the obsession with the big booty. John says he loves it. It sounds like Anna in the background laughing at that one. Dino says that Krystal’s ass is too big for her size. Dino also adds that without makeup she isn’t that good, and thats why he thinks she does herself up everyday. Michael says that she does wear makeup all day everyday. Dino says she looks different without it. Anna wonders if the guys would like her more if she wore makeup everyday. Dino says that Tilli looked like a boy without makeup! Anna says “Lets hope she’s not watching!” Dino says that Claire is lovely, down to earth and everything. Michael says he wouldn’t pursue a relationship with anyone in the house. Someone asks what about Dave. Michael says that he would have more hope than the girls. Michael says he can at least sit and speak to Dave. They move onto Elise. Dino says “C’mon, she’s from Sydney, she’s got the Asian background.” Michael interrupts and tells John that he doesn’t go for Asians. John calls him a racist bastard! They ask Anna who she likes the most out of the guys, excluding the guys out there. So it’s between Jamie, Gaelan, Ashley and Dave. She says at first she would’ve said David, but she says Jamie now. Mike cuts in. Comm break.

12:13am: Anna is saying it’s time to change the people for the task. She says that the lights are still on in the bedroom. Dion suggests that whoever comes should grab some food and then they’ll be more alert etc for the task. Karen has come out for the task, and they start sorting out how they will swap over. She is swapping with Dino. All of a sudden they let a heap of water out and everyone is yelling. Dino and Karen then use their hands to hold the water in. I’m pretty sure thats against the rules. Anyway, she finally gets set up so her feet are over the holes. It seems like it could be very uncomfortable for Karen, I don’t think it’s the same way Dino was doing it. Anyway, she’s in place now. Karen tries to get more comfortable and in the process loses a heap more water. The guys were just saying they only lost a centimetre. Camilla has changed over flawlessly with Michael on the other side of the tank. Karen complains that her legs aren’t long enough. The guys don’t think that Karen will be able to last very long. They consider waking Gaelan up. John thinks it’ll be a long task. He wonders who’s asleep. Karen says Dave is trying to, Claire is asleep, Ashley is snoozing, and Krystal is also asleep. It seems you can use your hands, apologies. Karen says that Katie would struggle doing this side of the tank. Anna says that she and John will do the shift after the next one. Gaelan and Ashley, or Gaelan and David will take the next one. John says “Imagine we all fall asleep out here and wake up and the tank is empty.” Anna says that there should always be at least one more out here ready to take over if something happens. Karen says it’s not as cold as she thought it would be. Comm break.

12:29am: Gaelan has come out and it seems John has left. They wonder how long Dino and Michael did their stint for. Camilla thinks they might have done an hour and a half. Camilla has had enough already and she had the easy side. Gaelan says that he just needs to go to the toilet. Michael shows everyone outside that he has a dollar coin. John thinks it’s against the rules to have money, but the others don’t agree. Mike cuts in. Uplate update, then into the bedroom where Dino and Anna are lying down. They contemplate when the task may end. Dino says it’ll go for more than 24 hours. They say that the Wednesday discussion may see an end to it though. But then they suggest a Friday finish, Dino calling it “Friday Night Live.” Anna says she hates this task. Anna asks Dino who he’d prefer; Ash or John. They both look up several times to see who is awake etc. Ashley is standing not that far away from them, and when Dino points this out to Anna, she says “So it’s Ash then?!” Mike just cuts insaying that Anna just told Dino that he was sexy. It wasn’t the case. Comm break.

12:44am: Ashley and Dino are talking on the bed now. Dino explains to Ashley what happened when Dino and Karen changed over. Ashley says he’s going to head outside in the hope he can get use to the temperature. We cut outside at this moment. Gaelan says he is glad he bought warm clothes. John says he didn’t bring any trackies or slippers. Camilla says she loves her slippers. Karen wonders how many days they’ve been locked up. About 21 in total, 16 in the house proper. Ashley appears and tells the other guys who is asleep etc inside. Camilla thinks the time has gone so quickly. John says it’ll feel like you’ve been overseas for ages because you’ll have no idea of anything. John talks about how they’ll all be famous. Camilla says that people won’t like her. John agrees, saying that people won’t like any of them. Karen says she feels rude with her legs spread and she can see Camilla’s face between them. Gaelan tells them that when the girls go, they should send out the crew that is taking over next, in this case John and Anna. Dave has come outside as well. Karen wonders if they can put a top on the tank so the water doesn’t evaporate. Cut to the couch, where Katie is sleeping. Jamie is there as well. So cute with their heads side by side. Back outside though. Camilla says she thinks she is falling in love with Karen. Dave wonders whether Tilli and Elise will be home by now or still doing appearances. Someone says that they will definately still be living out of a hotel. Camilla says she wants to ski in Canada, because she has heard it’s really great. Gaelan says he would love to go to the snow, but the price puts him off. He says he ends up going to Bali for half the price. Comm break.

1:02am: Dave and Gaelan have taken over doing the task. Ashley is watching on, keeping them company. Dave talks about his time over in Europe. He says he had heaps of fun over there. John comes out and talks about the task tactics with the guys for a bit. Ashley says that he is wearing heaps and it’s still cold. They talk about how the weather is just going to keep getting colder now. Dave says he feels as if he’s pushing the tank towards Gaelan, but they all agree that it must weigh a heap. Anna has joined them out there. Uplate update, then back out to the task. Gaelan looks over at the hottub and makes mention of all the steam rising from it. Dave asks Gaelan whether he needs to go left or right more to cover the hole. He tells him, and then it’s off to a comm break.

1:16am: Back outside. Gaelan and Ashley are trying to figure out the time. Gaelan thinks they had dinner around 6pm. They try to figure out the time according to the moon, but Anna lets them know that the Moon moves it’s position all the time. John wonders who was doing the task when it started to get dark. A heap of names flying all the place. John thinks that it’s about 1am now, which is damn close, and he says that it averages a 50 minute shift, and about 6 hours to go through everyone. They say that Michael and Dino seem to go the longest. Camilla comes out and suggests that people who are awake should do it, and not wake others up. Basically everyone disagrees though. They say you should stick to routine otherwise people will just sleep all night. They make fun of how this much look when people ask them what they did on Big Brother “Oh yeh, just filled holes.” Anna says that everything out here is starting to stink. Ashley says that it’s more like a bit of fresh air appearing amongst the farting. Someone mentions the word ‘cameras’, and someone else very quickly tells them to “don’t talk about that.” Someone mentions Jeff Farmer, a Freo footballer. Ash and Gaelan both like him. Anna wonders if it’s a footballer! Ash climbs on top of Anna on the hammock, and says he’s not staying, he just needed to fart! Anna wonders if they could put a blanket into the hole and call it a night. Comm break.

1:33am: Back with the task. Anna says she should be considered one of the guys now. Ashley starts singing the boots song from Dukes of Hazard. Anna wants him to sit still for a bit! They start talking about places where they don’t want to do farts, but sometimes they just do. Someone says the gym is a great example. They move the topic onto the water level, and Ashley suggests they get the hose to keep it filled up. We cross back to the couch where Jamie and Katie are still sleeping. Katie stirs, but settles back down. Back outside, the guys are saying that their hands are dead. Gaelan says it would be good if their were fish in it. It would give them something to concentrate on. Dave says you would wait till a fish was just hovering over the hole and let go of the hand! John suggest you put a penis in there and get a semi, and then someone suggest getting the ball sack in there. The boys suggest they should time their farts to see how long inbetween each one is. Back to the couch, Jamie and Katie are still cute, and still asleep. Comm break.

1:49am: Gaelan says that once you get in position and relax, you could go for hours. John agrees. They can’t believe how the food makes them fart so much. They realise that the pool is even steaming. Dave and Gaelan both say they will go to bed after this. Dave says he’s not looking forward to getting a wake up call though. John says he’s tempted to sleep in the hammock, but then he says it’s more of a nightwatchmen position. Cut back to Mike for an Uplate moment. Back to the task, they’ve just changed over. Anna is lying down, John has the other side. Ashley asks Anna to come over to the hammock. Gaelan and Dave head inside and tell them they’ll wake up Jamie. Comm break.

2:03am: Ashley is singing. At least he’s making them laugh! David has gone into the sauna, and Camilla stands at the door and talks to him. She says she doesn’t want to go home, but she’s kind of excited and feels she might be going home. Dave says he has a feeling who will go, even before nominations were announced, and the person he thinks will go is nominated, so he’s sticking with his theory. They both agree that Karen would be happy to go. Dave asks whether Michael will be around when she gets out. Michael must be a boyfriend. Camilla says that he won’t be happy with the flirting with Dave at the start, but hopefully he can get past all that and give Camilla a go. Camilla says that he’s great, because she didn’t even think of cheating on Michael at all when she was with him, which she says it’s a first for her. Mike cuts in for a competition. Back to the sauna now. Camilla is still talking about Michael, the outside boyfriend, who she says is shy. They move onto talking about Dave’s friends now. I don’t quite get the convo yet. I think they are talking about who they put down as family or friends who they could invite to the evictions. Anyway, moment is ruined when we cut to a comm break.

2:14am: Jamie has made his way outside, Ashley is still there, and obviously Anna and John are there. Ashley is making some joke, saying he smashed 14 beakers and 7 measuring cups or something in a sceince class. He says the teacher went beserk at him for costing the school soo much money. He says they tried to get him to pay $160. He says he jumped on his desk one day and flashed a moonie at the teacher. He says he calmed down in Year 11 because he had a girlfriend. Cut back to the sauna, Dave and Camilla still talking. Camilla says she has some friends who do some modelling. Dave says he wants to get back to his farm and be happy. He wants to be an example for others guys. Camilla mentions the suicide rate that Dave mentioned ages ago. Cut back out to the Ashley show who is still talking. He says that a lecturer found Ash and some mates having a few beers, and he offered him a beer, but the lecturer said he couldn’t because he wasn’t allowed. Ashley says he passed the subject though. Anna wants to stop, but John doesn’t so they continue. Ash and Anna have a bit of a friendly argument. Anna says her feet are in pain. Jamie and Ashley talk tactics for their stint. Back to the sauna, Camilla says that she makes strange eye contact with someone in the house. Dave says he knows what she means. Camilla says she is used to guys taking liberties like give her a cuddle or anything. She says the closest is when Gaelan has patted her on the back a few times, but thats it. She says the girls make up for it though. She says that Dino has cuddled her twice perhaps. At 2:23am, Dreamworld says goodnight.

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Day 18

7.57am – Anna is at the tank, saying she can’t do the task anymore – her hand is cramping. Katie agrees, saying she can’t feel her pinkie finger. They have only been there for 10 minutes. Anna calls out that she can’t do this anymore. The animals call out for food from the animal pen. Katie jokes “you bloody sheep”. Katie and Anna make animal noises to pass the time – it seems to be entertaining them alot.

Anna: I don’t mind.. I just.. can’t do it! Katie I can’t do it

Katie: Yes you can!

Anna: NO I CANT!

Gaelan is waking everyone up so Ash can do the vacuuming – in his underpants and singlet.

Later on Dino is lying in the hammoch with Claire and jokes they can’t be too close because they’ve only known each other for a few weeks. Claire says yeah their relationship eneds to go slow. Dino says he wouldn’t mind getting it on soon though, he’s been waiting.

Katie and Jamie are practicing ballet – or is it dirty dancing? Katie jumps up into Jaime’s arms.

Dino asks Claire who the hottest guys are. Her top three is Jamie, Gaelan, Dino. Dino says “sweet”. Now she ranks personality: Gaelan, Dino, John. They laugh at Ash and Michael who have been excluded twice in a row. Michael jokes they are the ugliest and have no personality. Dino jokes they are seriously ugly. Claire wouldn’t persue a relationship with Jamie because he’s too feminine. Gaelan would be at the top. The boys joke thats the next relationship.

Michael’s top three is Anna, Kaite and Elise – actually he adds that Claire is not bad (she’s right there). Dino says Anna, Claire, and he managed to ignore personality then Krystal. The boys agree and say don’t let personality affect their top 3 hottest housemate rankings. Over the last couple of weeks Dino has seen her other side of Krystal’s looks. Michael says she looks totally different without makeup, and Dino reminds them she has fake boobs too.

Claire: You guys are really… ingrate.

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3.14pm – Karen is out of the question for Michael because she’s too old. Dino says its not her age its her general attitude. They were all dissapointed to hear from Karen that she’s only here for the prizes. Claire didn’t like the fact that she let everyone know. Michael says that is really sad for him.

In the bedroom Karen and Krystal are lying in bed together and Karen gives her daughter a kiss. She wants to shut her eyes and pretend she’s at home.

John says David and Karen are finding it difficult with the age gap and the immaturity of the other housemates. Dino comments that David isn’t that mature “thats their personality, and their arrogance, but I’m not afraid to become part of it”. Claire is annoyed about David not getting involved since he came in to proove a point. He closed up with Camilla left but never re-opened when she returned to the house. John is dissapointed with David and Karen’s lack of involvement with the other housemates. Claire says its bad because the two have the most experience than the rest of them. Anna adds the she can’t stand Karen and when Karen starts a conversation she just wants to walk the other way.

8.46pm – It’s family dinner – the topic for discussion is the male dominance in the house. Krystal doesn’t think there is one, but Karen says the level of noise maily comes from the men. David thinks there is a dominance because the last 4 evictees were female. Camilla, one of the four evicted, thinks that considering everyone getting evicted David is true. Anna doesn’t think anyone in the house is sexist so it comes down to individual personalities not male/female. Dino, from the tub, says the boys are more comfortable acting like dickheads and like their voices more than the girls do. Gaelan jokes that the boys have a plot to get rid of all the girls – “muahahaha”.

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7.11pm – Krystal is telling the rest of the dinner table thats she’s definately not herself in the house. The current topic is that housemates are not being themselves. Karen thinks she is being herself – quiet and reserved. Katie does think she’s being herself but she has changed and matured in the house, she’s not holding back at all. Michael was having a bad time before she came in the house (or so he says – he’s the insider remember!). He says he didn’t know whether to tell the other housemates, but he says he has to pull out of the game, and expected to be out of the game by now already. The other housemates look confused and a little detressed. Michael says he doesn’t feel comfortable talking about this “big thing” that he needs to leave the house about. Claire says she totally respects him saying that and will speak for the rest of the house in that they will respect his decision.

7.45pm – Housemates are swapping the dam shifts – there is a little spillage. Jamie is in the sauna with Katie. He’s having trouble dealing with other people in the house – infact he looks really distraught. Katie reminds him he’ll just need to make it through this task and things will be better. Jamie can’t really stand some of the housemates and one in particular he can’t deal with.

Jamie: If you’re talking about hearts and good intentions, there is one person I really question 100%

Katie: Mikey? You think Mikey?

Jamie: Dunno

Katie: Yes you do and its him, or you would have said. How come you think that? You don’t think he’s sincere?

Jamie: No, and I’ve said it all along. He’s the most ingenuine person I’ve ever met.

Meanwhile Michael is at the dining table with the attention of the other boys. He discusses talking about the game – to him its the fear of being evicted, not surviving each nomination until the end. The others seem to nod along.

Jamie tells Katie he doesn’t belive Michael’s claims for a second. “If it really affected him he wouldn’t be acting like he is now.”.

Jamie: Lets go to the extreme and say the worse case scenario is a family members of his is sick or died, would you really use that to your own benefit? Oh sorry guys I wasn’t myself last week, I was neurotic because a family member died.

Katie: I think people are definately playing the game.

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9.39pm – Anna is giving Dino a hair cut.. of sorts. Anna doesn’t really know what she’s doing and Dino laughs nervously. She giggles while she cuts.

This is Big Brother, you are talking without your microphone. Thats a $5000 fine. When you finish your haircut, you can come to the diary room.

In the diary room Dino finds a toothbrush on the chair. BB reminds him of the rules and says after he has finished sweeping up the hair in the bathroom he must clean every surface of the bathroom with the toothbrush.

Back outside David says to Karen over the tank dam that Michael knows his political move. “He’s not the smartest bloke in the club but he has his knows.. he knows how to manipulate people and he’s doing a very good job”.

Michael comes to the diary room all smiles, and asks Big Brother what he thinks of “the performance”. He explains he either had to upset people or convince them he had to go, which would mean it would be in everyone’s best interests. Dino meanwhile is scrubbing the bathroom floor with the toothbrush and whistling along as he cleans.

Michael says “by monday I hope to have played my cards right so that people will see the issue and vote him out”. He is leaning towards a customs or immigration issue that he needs to leave the house to solve. He plans to bring up this fake issue on monday as a final nudge to get people to nominate him.

Later Ashley comes to give Dino some new water to clean the bathroom. Ash is now off to bed, while Dino continues cleaning.

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Day 16 Uplate

11:25pm: Dino and Ashley are out in the gym. Dino says that there are people here who he doesn’t want here. Ashley agrees. Ashley says that he’s done three sets, and it’s Dino’s turn now. Ashley says that at the end of the day it’s a game. Dino says that he never looks at it as guys versus girls. He says he doesn’t hate the girls, but the girls are taking everything too seriously and thats why they are being nominated. Ashley says that they bitch and moan all day long. Ashley says that the microphones piss him off. Dino says it’s the rules though, and also says that no one has had a fine today. Ashley says that he finds it easy to relate to three girls, and all the guys. Comm break.

11:36pm: After a long chat to the two evictees, we finally head into the bedroom where Camilla, Karen and Krystal are there. Camilla tells Karen that the reason she was nominated was probably because she said she wanted to leave last week. Krystal says it could be because of the disputes with Anna and Dino. Karen says she thinks they voted for her for sure. Camilla wonders what happened with Dino. There seems to have been an argument with some rolling of the eyes after Dino’s win of FNL. Camilla says she didn’t do it, and if she did, she would’ve made it much more obvious. Camilla says that she finds the Friday Night thing just isn’t her. Camilla says that Anna loves it. Krystal says that she’s not tough enough for it. They wonder why they haven’t got a task yet. They talk about how Monday has normally been the task day. Camilla wonders how last Monday went after the nominations, as she wasn’t here. Karen says that just because people were nominated one week doesn’t mean they will be nominated every week. Krystal says that it was good Dino could take himself off the block tonight and not put anyone else back up. Cut to the gym, Michael and Dave are talking. Dave says he’ll have a conversation with Dino about something when he’s ready, but he has to get a few things sorted in his head first as to where to draw the line. Comm break.

11:49pm: Still out in the gym with Dave and Michael. Dave is saying that heaps of people think that farmers whinge for nothing. Michael gives him some pointers on doing some weights, then counts as he does them. Michael says he’s finding it more and more comfortable….and we cut to the bedroom. Katie has joined the mother/daughter combo on one bed. Karen says that Camilla is going to go and hang out with them in Batemans Bay. Krystal says that Camilla will come and think that mum is a neat freak. Krystal says she thought she would be in here, but she has relaxed a bit. Katie talks about how bad her mum is, obsessed with cleaning. They talk about Enyo stuff (I have no idea!) They say it’s good for the environment though. Krystal asks whether Katie knows heaps of words from songs as she sings the Enyo jingle. She says she doesn’t, only TV ads and all those kind of things. Comm break.

12:05am: Krystal says it’s such an accomplishment to be able to sit here in this house with her daughter. Karen says that she won’t realise what they’ve done until they are home watching it on TV. Gaelan, sitting on the base of the pole just inside the bedroom, says that they’ll be able to watch themselves every night for ages. Gaelan says that he forgets that it’s getting aired. Krystal says she worries about how she eats. Karen tells Gaelan that he should never take her daughter out for meal. Katie chirps in with “My mum said that I was that fat when I popped out that Mum said that had she not seen me come out herself, she wouldn’t have thought that I was her’s.” Krystal says that mum had her sunbaking from the moment she was born. She has a photo of her sunbaking when she was a fat toddler, only a few weeks old, and she was already black. Katie goes “Were you black?” They clairfy it and say brown! The girls start talking about sunbaking, all admitting that they get bored doing it quite easily. Karen says she reads godd mags and stuff. Krystal says she can’t wait until she gets out so she can get an iPod. She says her sister is 14 and can work one, so she should be able to. Gaelan says he would sometimes rather just go to the beach by himself and just think a bit. Krystal agrees. They start talking about Half Moon Bay, Dino saying that his mate has a boat house along there. They get into a disagreement about whether you can actually own them, because they are heritage listed, but Gaelan eventually gives in. Gaelan says they are so good, but no power or anything. Karen says she could live in one of those. Big Brother calls Michael to the diary room. They all says ‘batteries’. Jamie says he’s always listening to songs. Krystal asks if he has an iPod. He says he does, but he now can’t be away from it, he says he plugs it into his car, takes it with him when he gets out of the car, plugs it into his stereo once he gets home. Comm break.

12:18am: Still in the bedroom. Krystal asks Jamie to tell them a good story. Jamie says that they just need a topic and they’ll have heaps of stories. Krystal suggests making up a story. Dino and Gaelan start talking about something on TV or something. Krystal suggests starting a story by each person adding a sentence to the story as they go. She says you can make it rude or whatever. Katie says that these are really cool, referring back to a mate she used to do this with. Camilla starts with “I want a sweet chilli twister from KFC.” jamie tells her you can’t start like that! Katie starts with “I went to the deli and bought a goat.” Karen takes the next sentence. They only get three sentences in before Gaelan changes the game. He tells John to start telling a story, and he’ll keep throwing words at him that he has to incorporate into the story. It’s actually pretty funny, and John does a great job of incorporating ‘helicopter, 17 ice cream cones, carpet, footy’ into the story. Gaelan has a shot, and while not as good as John, he also succeeds at the story telling. Comm break.

12:34am: Michael is talking to Dave and John. Michael says the girls are upset because he bought up the fact that the girls were upset by Dino’s behaviour, to Dino. He says that he can see why they are mad, but it’s not what he set out to do. He says the girls said it in front of 6 people, it was half the house. Dave says that he likes to tackle an discussion with someone by himself, and not have others do it for him. Michael says he just thought he would let the person it concerned know about it, and he says that if thats playing the game, then he’s guilty of that. He says he’s happy with that. Mike cuts in, and we finally get back out to the gym. John explains the game going on in the bedroom. Jamie has joined the boys as well, but soon walks out into the backyard. Michael helps Jamie out doing a new exercise. Michael says they haven’t even been going that hard tonight. Dave reckons he’ll be sore tomorrow. Comm break.

12:45am: John and Jamie are talking in the gym. John says he wouldn’t give his time of day to some of the people in here. Jamie says he tries to find the best in everyone. John agrees, and he says he gets on with everyone. But they both say that they are judgmental. Mike cuts in, and then we cut to the sauna with David, Ashley and Michael. Michael is saying he fought tooth and nail to get into this house, but he’s got issues going on outside the house that he is concerned about. Ashley says that lots of people have issues going on outside the house as well. Ashley says he made the right decision coming in. He says the easy way out is to go to the diary room and say goodbye. Michael says that quitting though. Ashley doesn’t see it as quitting though. He says that if someone wakes up one day and thinks that it’s time to go, then they should go. But he says that while he knows Dave’s issue on the outside and obviously his own, he doesn’t know Michael. He asks him if it’s too do with family, but Michael doesn’t want to get into it. He says he’s happy to discuss it when they are out. Michael says it’s been bought on because he knows he’s in here for another two weeks. He says that he thought he would be out much quicker. Ashley has gone. Michael says that he thought that there would be a lot more opinions in the house, and a lot more tension. Mike cuts in again. We rejoin the sauna, Ashley having returned. David says he would have rathered come into the house without having the gay thing hanging over his head. He feels he has to educate the public about gay people. Comm break.

1:03am: Jamie and John are still talking in the gym. Jamie says he has a mate who they never invite anywhere, but he always gets wind of their parties etc. He says the guy comes out with the most outrageous statements, and he’s always unsure if he’s doing it for fun or whether he genuinely believes it. He says that he just can’t win, so he gives up. Jamie says he’ll know exactly who he is now too. He says he has a heart of gold when he’s by himself, but when he has a group he just has to be the best at everything. Jamie says that the guy hasn’t had a girlfriend for 2-3 years. A fair bit of bleeping going on now in this convo. He says that the guy is mega loyal though, always there for ya if you have girl issues. John says that he has heaps of friends exactly like that. Jamie says that he has been a great mate really, but came from nowhere. A friend of a friend of a friend as such. John asks him if he has to hold his touch a lot in here. Jamie says so often this has happened in here. Jamie says that when he’s drunk he gets to say whatever he wants, while when sober he’s considered as a ‘sensitive guy.’ He says the next day he always regrets his actions though. He says he pissed inside a mates car three times once, and the mate sat in it. John laughs! Into the couch, Anna and Dino are there. Dino wonders why they haven’t got a task yet. Anna wonders whether it was Monday or Tuesday last week. Comm break.

1:23am: Anna and Dino still on the couch. Dino says he walked into the bedroom before and heard his name, and he just thought he would keep walking and lie on the bed to make things awkward. He says that Michael telling him about Karen’s concerns made things a bit exciting earlier tonight. Anna says that they kicked John out of a conversation earlier today, and Anna though it was a girls convo, so she walked in and pretended to change her top so she could hear it. Dino says that Krystal acted like a little kid, and he told her that she seemed childish and they were just trying to have a conversation. Anna asks how it worked out with Michael. Dino says Michael feels bad about telling him about it. Dino goes onto explain that the girls thought that the games night was too rough. Big Brother tells Ashley not to touch the plasma. Anna laughs. Comm break.

1:35am: Stil with Anna and Dino. Katie says goodnight to them as she passes by. Anna says she is very tired too. Dino and Anna sit there in silence for a bit, so we cross to the action of the bedroom. It seems they are back playing the game they tried to play right at the beginning of the night. Mike cuts in and tells them to turn the lights out. BB does exactly that. They seem to settle down and say goodnight to each other. Anna yells out to Krystal wondering whether she is sleeping with her mum. She then realises she could’ve just asked Karen who was basically right near her. Claire yells out goodnight to everyone. Back out to the gym, Ashley has come out to John and Jamie in the gym, retelling his story about touching the plasma. They agree that isn’t worthy of a $5000 fine. They talk about a dot they all seem to stare at in the bedroom. Dino comes out, and they tell him they were just talking about how competitive he is. Back to the bedroom, Katie is talking to Karen. Katie is saying that they’ll find out soon whats going on with Katie and Jamie. She says if she starts coughing they’ve broken up. Jamie comes into the bedroom, saying that they turned the lights out so they could concentrate on John and his indepth conversation. Dave comes out from the sauna. Karen says they had a really good day today. At 1:45am, Dreamworld says goodnight.

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