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BBUK15 Week 6

• This week is ‘Armageddon week’. To start with, the garden has been transformed into a bit of a jungle kinda apocalyptic wasteland with dirt and rubble everywhere (also the BOTS set follows the theme as well). for the days task, the housemates have been split into a red and blue team captained by Ashleigh and Danielle respectively. Who compete in various tasks over the day including catching fish flying out of a water pipe in relay (red team keeps blocking Danielle), Ashleigh choosing herself, Helen and Steven to gain access to a shower after winning that one.
• Next is Ashleigh and Danielle trying to get the best materials for their team to build a raft for testing on the pool in a minute. Ashleigh’s team gets the big barrel so theirs is pretty buoyant whilst Danielle’s pretty much sinks straightaway (like a similar task in BB13, somewhat comically scored in the edit by My Heart Will Go On). The red team therefore have won today and get a special meal prize and screening of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes I think Marcus said.
  
  
• Afterwards they get a break from the task inside and get some music played and drinks. Everyones pleased the task seems to have brought them back together a bit after last week (even Helen and Ashleigh are getting along), and later Christopher and Mark share a kiss in a blind corner of the storeroom! later Ash and Steven notice they’ve got closer and also let Helen in on their kiss (they later had another under the covers as well).
• Later in the week they discuss having spoken about it and thinking about going on a date and see what happens on the outside, if not just friends. Steven questions Helen if she and Ash might get together, by the end of the week they too have a little kiss under the sheets.
• Armageddon week continues on the Monday by the food being removed and replaced with canned surprise (much to Danielle’s non amusement with bb in the diary room), and the shower, bath and parts of the kitchen out of order and taped off. The interior has also been decked out with slabs for seats and the housemates have shabby clothes to wear (BOTS set also had some rubble and stuff too). The housemates keep amused with one of the shopping carts in the garden.
  
  
• Later the results of the previous days nominations are read out, but as part of the twist Marlon, Ash and Ashleigh stand up and Marlon is announced as snap evicted as he got the most votes. The others think maybe it’s a fake eviction or Marlon’s got the power this week, but then they are surprised with seeing the 3 new housemates have moved in to a secret room and watch their VTs.
• There’s Zoe, who was on Pop Idol in the early 2000’s, Pav, and Biannca, who is a stripper and cracks right onto Winston asking if she will ride his cock. (It is brought up on BOTS how it’s a bit of a double standard if that was the other way around how it would look).
• Before they entered they were told in the diary room it’s them who will have the power this week to evict one of the housemates except Helen, who all think they’re up for the public vote. But actually, it’s the 3 intruders who are up for a vote to save this Friday unbeknownst to them.
  
  
• The weeks ’shopping task’ is a series of tasks of the newbies vs the OG’s. If the OG’s win they win back sections of the house/kitchen appliances whilst the newbie win more luxuries for their bedroom ‘pad’. This includes the OG’s guessing whether some statements/info from the outside is True or False, which brings up Danielle’s role in a recent Channel 5 documentary about ‘Webcam Girls’ which she defends as she only appears in it interviewed for her beliefs and how that aligns with what she does, which she insists is nothing explicit. It’s a bit reminiscent of Danica’s arc in CBB10.
• Later in the week, during Steven’s ‘chat show’ mini task ‘Open Up to Steven’ (tee hee) Biannca still thinks Danielle might be not presenting herself truthfully to herself on the outside, which upsets Danielle thinking Dexter (BB14) has sold a story on her or something, until She and Biannca have a chat about it and she talks about how they had a media tit for tat about his ‘designer penis’ however they never had sex or anything which people are assuming.
  
  
• The other tasks had The OG’s guessing who the newbies said what about in their pre interview, (which leads to another Steven/Kimberly temporary tiff going over the same things as they explain to Pav what Kimberly saying she was ‘dating’ on her website profile means she wasn’t necessarily in a relationship but it was complicated.
• The new housemates have a mini secret task to choose a mole for them to watch ask the others questions. They pick Christopher whom Winston admits to that he’s not really into Biannca, and Chris gets pulled up by Biannca misinterpreting him saying he’s seen Biannca go off and chat with Helen about other housemates as if they’re bitching about them, but they clarify with each other. They win a lunch near the pool with Christopher for it.
  
  
• Helen and Ash also have a bit of a thing when she feels he’s being snappy at her asking who’s had more to drink him and Winston or her or something. They clear it up the following day.
• Biannca got a bit wild giving Helen a stripshow lapdance with her boobs out, and agin she was baring all after the end of Armageddon week party during a game of strip catch, whilst Christopher and Zoe tried to shield her with at least a small bit of coverage.
• Eviction Day: the housemates are informed that Kimberly had left the house for medical reasons and is staying in hospital this means she is conveniently exempt from tonight’s eviction. This throws off the 3 newbies vote as they were thinking either her or Steven, however their sights are now on Ashleigh or Danielle.
• The intruders eviction is up first with Zoe saved first, and Biannca evicted. She could’ve stayed a bit longer imo but otoh she did make a big impression. Pav and Zoe then appear to flip on their Ashleigh decision and pick Danielle for the eviction.
• The house is a bit shocked, also the crowd have a new chant for Steven ‘2 second Steven’ lol. Zoe’s a bit overwhelmed at being saved first and Armageddon week is declared over.
  
  
• BOTS: Toya and Marlon were a bit dismissive of each other at the evicted questions section (plus the friend caller confirmed he’s 22 and not 30 apparently), BBNews showed a task where the OG housemates were on a retracting ledge while the newbies tried to knock them off.
• Some more guests this week included Will Best, Sara from BB13, Luke Marsden had a story about Mark being on some boat party an ex-housemate hosted, alongside Liam McGough from BB8 (I thought they would’ve had a comparison to Biannca trying to get with Winston, Stimberly doing their thing, and giving Helen a striptease by drawing parallel to him and Amy and the ‘Wings of steel’ bit or whatever and also Shannessa putting on a show in his year but they didn’t go there). Dexter was on the Friday show when Danielle came out, Vanessa Feltz filled in for Luisa on Saturday’s BOTP.

 

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So just a bit of an aside having also finished week 7 (update coming soon) now I can understand more especially with the Armageddon week, what some were saying about the production. I could think of a few ways they maybe could’ve played that out to give the public a bit more of an input than just the Intruder eviction, furthermore Kimberly’s conveniently timed leave of absence through the eviction night also threw a spanner in the works.

Like for example those 3 that were nominated initially could’ve had a competing secret power with the 3 newbies to save/evict one of them from either side, whilst the public voted on the remainder (idk if two separate votes would’ve been perhaps confusing to the GP or not maybe, or pool the remaining 4 together or something) and reveal it all at the end of the week.

Or perhaps had everyone up as the nominations didn’t matter and let them pick out of the bottom 3-5 (if they still wanted a double from the OG’s) kinda like that week in BB6. I dunno, just a few ideas to twist it that could’ve been received a bit better than what they had. May recap it a bit more later in the end of season wrap up but I think even with the season theme (which also was a factor with last season Secrets and Lies) I think sometimes they overdo it a bit rather than try and strike more of a balance and let some things play out without too much nudging/perceived manipulation iykwim. Like earlier seasons still had a bit of that, but tended to be a bit less heavy handed and more towards the back half of the season before they started revealing each others nominations, VT's or things coming to light in messages from home etc.

Theres also the blatant outside information being used as a driver in some respects, contrast to the earlier days where the Intruders wouldn’t have been allowed to go on nearly as much as they did in this week about what they’d seen on the outside to ‘expose’ Danielle or Kimberly’s situation on the outside, they would’ve been clamped down on. Theres a bit more of it in week 7 with some former housemates giving the power housemate influence via video call, which in turn makes them all ultra paranoid and second guessing the others in particular the remaining newbies. Anyways more on that later.

One bit of a prediction guess I’d like to make and have been thinking about before I continue the last 3 weeks of the season, is week 8 apparently the power is with the public (hurrah some might say), but I think Week 9 will be the last power housemate as a solo perhaps, and I think it could be Helen to bookend by calling back to Pauline’s original power, something maybe like a white room twist to do with the prize money.

I’m thinking maybe she gets the choice to give up her pass to the final and/or transfer it to another housemate or one of the nominees (She even discussed this hypothetical in week 7). In exchange maybe they are told the evictee will be awarded some part of the prize money, so that could be tempting if she puts herself willingly into that position or something. Hmm but lets see what they do with it.

Onto the next few episodes!