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!

For his part in the Italy task, Siavash has to be ‘on trend’ at all times and that means he has to walk round wearing a barrel and flamboyant accessories in order to represent what Milan has given to the fashion world.

Throughout the shopping task, Big Brother will provide him with a “series of fashion-forward outfits” and when he hears Vogue by Madonna being played into the house, he must get on the podium and strike a pose, until BB plays Vogue again..

And it’s a fairly sure bet that BB will play it often and at times when he’s furthest away from his little podium… mwahhhhhhh!

Here’s the fashion guru in action…

Yesterday the housemates were struggling with the heat in their rather lavish costumes which are part of the Italy task.

Karly, Rodrigo and Halfwit were dressed up as the Three Tenors for which the trio had to wear fat-suits with Halfwit’s being the fattest for his role as Pavarotti. And he especially sweltered with a big false face beard.

The music started and all three sung their hearts out, really wowing the audience of housemates; Lisa and Charlie looked like they might cry as the tenors warbled, while Noirin looked like she’d sat on a nettle and Sree just appeared to be confused. Here’s a clip from the performance…

Once the performance was over, the housemates threw roses at the performers but Karly wasn’t sure it’d gone well.

“I’m sure the music was different” she said, adding, “Hopefully we’ll get it though, basing it on how much we practised and everything.”

I’m sure the real Three Tenors always say the same after their shows. Not.