Marcus and Noirin have passed their part of this week’s Italian themed shopping task.

The delighted housemates were told that the results of their efforts at producing Italian artwork had been judged by an independent art critic as being better than those of a six year old child whose painting was compared to theirs.

As all the housemates waited nervously for the result, Siavash joked, “You don’t look very confident” while Noirin admitted that she felt nervous, adding, “Why do I feel nervous?”

The plasma screen then came on and showed the judge in the task room as he viewed Marcus and Noirin’s efforts alongside the child’s painting.

Siavash noted that the six year old’s effort was “f***ing good” and said, “That looks a lot better than yours!”

However, the judge said that Marcus’s ‘masterpiece’ had “a very fierce narrative element” and that Noirin’s was “surreal; poster-like and well-controlled”.

The critic then announced that Marcus’s painting was the best, closely followed by Noirin’s which elicited cheers and whoops from all the housemates.

Looks like Marcus and Noirin’s heads are going to be just that bit bigger today then!