Thursday: noms talk rules have already been broken and the house gets a no hot water punishment over Caroline and Conor joking about nominating Becky the previous night. Caroline gets the giggles but Benedict has had enough of her and gives her a bit of a verbal dressing down about laughing at Victoria’s eviction and apparently she doesn’t speak well of her parents and thinks it doesn’t paint her in the best light. Caroline later seems to reflect on acting immature and apologised to Benedict. Becky on the other hand needs a bit more time.
BB gives the nominees a chance to show a talent of theirs by Lauren running a Karate session with Deana, Arron and Becky, and Benedict giving a sex ed class for Scott, Sara and Caroline complete with how to put a condom on a flask.
At dinner, Deana makes an offhand joke about Adam’s temperament being like ‘he’s on his period’ which Lydia gets offended by and they have a bit of an argument about it in the bedroom, appearing to fall out with each other (Lydia has been already trying to distance herself from Deana and her unpopularity in the house lately) although maybe it’s a bit of a misunderstanding (and possible double standard as 1. Deana wasn’t even talking about periods itself and 2. Even if she was, is it just Lydia thinks it’s not dinner table appropriate or is it not as natural as Benedict’s crusade about destigmatising masturbation (in a way)?, you might get Feminists etc. ready to argue that point but interesting tangent ymmv.
Benedict the night before had filled in LukeA and Arron on his prank he pulled on LukeS. After watching him win a bottle of protein powder in the eyes on the prize task, Benedict felt he didn’t deserve it and wouldn’t share it, so he mixes some curry powder through it.
It doesn’t take LukeS long to find out and he’s not happy. Caroline suggests that Deana could’ve done it. Arron and Sara have a catwalk off which some of the others join in.
Friday: Shievonne is upset with Adam about a marriage proposal joke he made to her the previous night that somewhat triggered her. She retaliates by making some ‘shit on you’ joke back to him at the dining table, which once again, Lydia somehow finds herself involved in the background and forth argument about before Adam and Shievonne talk it out outside. Caroline and Becky also have a talk.
Arron put powder in a hairdryer as a prank which resulted in them being taken as a fire risk, this upsets Lauren who wants to get ready for the Eviction. Arron feels bad about it so BB sets him a secret task to get new hairdryers, ‘Arrons acts of kindness’: giving Caroline style tips, Benedict an eviction pep talk, and a housemate a massage (he does Lauren). He does a bare minimum job, but BB is feeling generous so they get one hairdryer. oh and the hot water back on.
Eviction time. Earlier in the day Benedict was acting sus sitting in the swivel chair next to the diary room in a blanket and unscrewing it from the floor, covering by making a joke like he’s having a fiddle under the blanket in blatant view of everyone. Before the eviction announcement he goes and lifts it up and places it next to the stairs. BB warns the housemates about the fixtures and fittings rule and that the rest of the house will have consequences if any of them remove furniture from the house.
Benedict is evicted, and sure enough out goes the swivel chair with him. Oh and by the way, he also tells them sorry about the curry powder on his way upstairs. What an exit! LukeS is fuming.
LukeA is a bit upset that Benedict is gone, and the way LukeS is reacting. He thinks he might be next to be put up by that crew because he was close with Benedict. Deana is also feeling it a bit, confiding in Lauren and Ashleigh.
I also thought I’d rather see another few weeks in Benedict he was really starting to ramp up and maybe there was a bit of sympathy in play for Lauren, will be interesting now though to see if she can leave this funk of whatever the girls club think about/have an issue with her and just start to get on with it a bit more (maybe continue hanging with LukeA and co).
BOTS: Luke Marsden BB9 was on a segment with Emma looking at the ‘perfect housemate’ drawings the housemates made (although Arron drew a house rather than a housemate). Jamie had a mates quiz VT with Chris about Benedict.
Some more exclusive clips including the housemates getting envelopes it’s personal pictures and Lydia wanting to give some of hers back because they’re of Andy, Ashleigh and LukeS getting hands under the covers and having to er… clean up, and LukeS and Conor discovering another of Benedict’s pranks in a hidden tuna can stash.
Some other Guests included Kerry Katona, Natasha Giggs, Carole from BB8, Johnny Robinson and Kitty Brucknell from X Factor 2011, Anne Charleston and Mark Little from Neighbours, Pat Sharp, and more. This weeks Karaoke outro was Benedict in just a bow tie and Union Jack undies singing Spice Girls’ Who Do You Think You Are.
Saturday: the housemates wake up to find BB has removed all chairs from the house and garden in punishment for Benedict’s stunt at the eviction. (They got returned after some time this week, also he was saying BOTS told him to pinch things from the house as a dare (presumably maybe in one of Jamie’s chat segments or something lol)).
it’s Ashleigh’s 21st Birthday. She dyes her hair darker, and chooses Conor and Shievonne as her party planners. In the diary room they are tasked with putting together dual parties with a different set of themes and objects from envelopes Shievonnes is Egyptian themed with rock music and a chocolate fountain, whilst Conor’s is Rock star costumes with pop music and an ice sculpture.
What Ashleigh and the housemates don’t know is during the night she is asked which was the best party and that party will continue while everyone in the other will be locked out and shut down. She chooses Conor’s, meaning Shievonne, LukeA and Lauren have to call it a night.
Earlier Shievonne and Ashleigh were pulled up in an announcement from BB for noms talk while discussing the face board (something about Conor never being put up again). Lydia goes off on her own but Shievonne snaps at her in the bedroom a little thinking she’s being moody about it which turns into a bit of a brief argument.
Lydia also tells LukeA she thinks she’s being targeted now because Conor was making a thing about hearing her name being chanted/booed at the eviction. Lydia pulls Conor aside to clarify the chanting was maybe about her and Deana having an argument and not because Lydia was being shady towards the others or anything kinda thing.
Sunday: Lydia decides moving forward to be civil with Shievonne but moves beds to be more independent should another argument arise.
Mini-task is around an eating challenge for the housemates to win some sort of big prize. Housemates had to pre-select from a range which dish was theirs to attempt. The twist is the nice looking dishes are actually something disgusting and vice versa.
Lydia gets custard that is made to look like mustard but says it’s kinda weird still, and Deana is the only one unable to finish her cake made of Tinned Ham (initially believing it was beef which she doesn’t like) and Arron is giving her shit for it sayiṉg it was an Oscar worthy performance.
They end up picking Conor as the winner, who barely got his special egg down, but they find the reveal of the prize (Conor getting complete control of what this weeks budget gets spent on) to be an anticlimax. I think they’re under the impression the prize would’ve been better had Deana taken one for the team, and over such a ‘simple food’ as ham in their estimation, compared to the actually disgusting things some of the others were eating.
Later on Conor is still so annoyed at Deana over it in his huff he makes some comments in a kinda joking sing song way but its pretty full on about if Deana wants to talk about pranks he’d stick the epilator up her minge for a prank, thinks shes a POS and dosent care if he gets pulled up for saying it, and if she tries to get him back with water like with Arron he’d punch her in the face. He gets a warning in the Diary room although many are pretty appalled on the outside as its brought up quite a few times on BOTS if He’s proper realised how it came across and should’ve been put up for eviction or something more than a warning for that kinda language.
Meanwhile Becky and Caroline are trying to hide Deanas epilator, after Arron hid it in Becky’s drawer, this time they choose the fruit bowl. Deana has been spending time with LukeA, Adam, Lauren and Lydia’s group, with Arron watching from the bathroom and saying how Lydia told him she doesn’t gel with Deana.
Monday: Nominations day. Lydia thinks Arron is overreacting and looking to start arguments with her to look good in front of the boys clique, after he snaps back at her asking if he usually sits further up the table.
Nominations are announced. It’s Lydia on 6 and Deana on 5. LukeS was just behind and there was a few on 2 pts.
Arron has another overreaction with Deana when she butts into his conversation with Becky in the bedroom about his pranks, asking him calmly how he thinks those pranks might make others feel sometimes or something to which he walks out of the room raising his voice like he thinks she’s having a go at him.
Deana’s had enough of Arron’s rage baiting, so she calls LukeS out to ask him if he knew that Arron knew about the curry powder before Benedict’s eviction to which LukeS tells her Arron already told him. Arron says to LukeS that he wasn’t in on it he just happened to be there when Benedict told Him and LukeA and it was already done. He thinks Deana is the one just trying to stir up paranoia now and make him out to be a shit friend.
More trouble for LukeS as Conor spots Ashleigh crying and takes her aside for a chat, it seems she still is having doubts over carrying on with LukeS and if it will work out on the outside, as he’s started talking about potentially moving in together after they get out.
Tuesday: Shopping task is based around getting to ‘100 Points’. A red ball chute system has been set up around the stairwell and far wall of the house delivering balls to show how many points they are on. There will be various challenges over two days to either win or lose points.
The first task is to give up enough belongings to counterbalance either a 5pt, 10pt, or 20pt weight on a big scale in the living area. They end up winning the 10pts, but they may have had enough to go close to the 20 pts?
Next the smokers are asked to round all their cigarettes and lighters for Arron to face a dilemma to cut them all up for 20points in front of them, which he does without much hesitation as a non smoker. Lauren’s face during this is a sight as a lot of her personal stash goes with it, Arron apologises for doing it but they will be able to buy on the upcoming shop list.
Lauren’s still salty so she vents her frustration on Arron’s bed and pillows by smacking the shit out of them. It’s not quite done for Lauren though as she is tempted to step outside the red square in the small task room to spend some time getting a beauty treatment with her sister, but declined and heads back into the house in tears where’s she’s consoled by the others.
Next it’s Lydia and Deana’s turn to get payback for noms by choosing 3 housemates each they think nominated them to get gunged. It’s 10 points for correct guess, -10 for wrong. Deana picks the obvious Arron, Conor and LukeS, while Lydia takes a different tactic, for some ‘useful information’ she picks Scott, Becky and Sara. Sara didn’t nominate her so they lost 10 points for that, but Lydia also did it to test her.
LukeA turns down a ringing phone call and voice message from his wife. And get your BB Bingo cards out everyone, it’s that time again, even though there’s been quite a bit of hair colouring, but we have our first haircut makeover of the season as Scott gets the boys to shave the back and sides of his head leaving the top, but it takes him a bit of getting used to seeing himself and stop avoiding the mirror lol.
Wednesday: Day 2 of the task. BB wakes the housemates up with an alarm, telling them they can hit the snooze button in the lounge for an extra hour of sleep for -5 points but they decide to all get up. However Ashleigh, Caroline and Sara snooze on the couch and lose them the 5 points anyway. Lauren is annoyed telling them she could have talked to her sister yesterday for that, and Lydia says in the bathroom that what would their reaction have been if it was someone else that lost the points. Caroline is bitching about it in the kitchen saying Lauren was being nice to everyone because she wants the approval of others maybe she should’ve just taken the 5 points selfishly as Lauren is shown fuming in the bedroom wondering the same.
They are sitting on around 45 points atm. Adam gets a task to eat a whole onion for 10 or eat an English breakfast for -5 or could have both for 5. He just does the onion. Caroline has to choose 5 10 or 20 pts sized jars of sweets to consume in 10 minutes whilst being spun on a roundabout outside. She’s not happy about Adam being chosen to spin her and puts on the theatrics but gets it done. Arron and Sara still casually chatting with each other, is there something gonna happen there.
LukeS deliberates on being able to watch all the nominations for -5 points or -1 pt a go as many as he wants but after a long time in the small task room pacing and thinking it over ultimately decides against it.
Last Task is a slip n slide, they have 80 pts at this point, Scott gets 5 but LukeA gets -5 as he slid too far to the -5 zone and pulled his hands back (but doesn’t realise he did that). Conor gets 20pts and the housemates are told they passed but LukeA failed his part and why and he feels bad about it even though they passed. LukeS is happy he didn’t give in to the 1pt nominations as he would’ve copped the blame if they finished on 99pts.
Caroline also gets a formal warning for bitching about Adam earlier and using language something about that he’s unsanitary and disgusting (might’ve triggered some complaint or something). She decides to apologise to Adam and say she’s become a bully as a trauma thing and he tells LukeA hes taking it with a grain of salt if it’s genuine.
Thursday: Conor does shopping list all by himself, gets some luxury garden games equipment. Spends over £100 out of £80 on Protein powder, and gets the smokers their cigs back but it causes friction again between Ashleigh and Lauren as He said she could have 2 packs to replace her personal ones that got cut up, and Ashleigh has an issue with it. They got their shopping delivered, along with the totem tennis and Foosball table.
Friday: Sara and Arron talk to each other again and the others think they fancy each other. BB gives Adam a drill sergeant task to make everyone clean the house and they win a party after the eviction. However after Lydia is Evicted, BB calls out a noms talk rule break about Scott telling Deana he didn’t nom her in the bedroom and they lose music being played at the party and the foosball table, which Arron is annoyed about but Scott doesn’t seem to care.
Sara gets put off by Becky bringing up the stuff about Arron again in the kitchen or something (came across like she was saying he only likes Sara because thats his only options in the house right now) and Shievonne gives her a bit of a lecture about performers in the house and people stirring each other up to not like somebody and Becky says its like being treated like a kid in the schoolyard.
BOTS: Dr Funke is back and also Judy James hasn’t been on in a bit, with a segment on the housemates Tattoos. Dianne Youdale a former on gladiators now a life coach was also on with some analysis. And Iain Lee was on a few times.
Some returning former housemates, including Sophie Reade from BB10, Aisleyne BB7, Nicola Maclean and Tina Malone (CBB), a handful from BB12, Heaven, Tom, Alex, and Harry was this weeks strat chat segment guest with a ‘top banana’ award to give.
The mates quiz segment continues, and there was an intro gag about Emma sewing like LukeS was doing during the week. Lydia’s Saturday Karaoke outro was Umbrella by Rihanna.
