It’s Day 41 in the Big Brother house, and the housemates woke this morning to find the house had been transformed with a Wild West styly theme, complete with cacti and straw bales, and of course, costumes.

Most of the housemates were excited about the task, with the exception of Luke S who hasn’t yet forgiven BB for duping him yesterday, and Adam wasn’t overly impressed either, saying, “I hate the wild, wild west.”

BB began the task by asking whichever housemate was “most at home where the buffalo roam” come to Diary Room, and an excited Conor put himself forward, prompting sarcastic Becky to remark, “Are there buffalos in Ireland?”

Anyway, the task will feature the housemates splitting into three teams; The Good, The Bad and The Really Ugly, all of whom will be searching for gold.

Conor is the sheriff, and he picked Caroline as his deputy which, to everyone’s horror, means they’ll be “calling the shots” for two whole days…

The three teams are also playing for that most prized of prizes, immunity from nominations, and furthermore, Big Brother has announced that Monday’s nominations will take place face to face!

Here’s what BB’s official website says of the new task…

Each task will begin with housemates panning for gold. The amount of gold eventually panned will decide whether or not they have passed the shopping task.

There are two parts to the task today – Raw Hide – a shoot ‘em up in the garden and The Hoedown – a country music dance off which will see housemates choreographing routines to a live ukulele band.

O man, I can’t wait to see how this pans out! Panning, pans… gold… get it?

Sorry…