The housemates should’ve been very happy bunnies last night when they learned that despite some of the housemates failing their individual tasks, the group overall passed and will therefore have a luxury shopping budget this week.

However, it seems that the heat and the lack of cigs is telling on the group and Rodrigo last night launched into Charlie after he apparently went a bit too far with a food fight.

And the house is firmly split into two camps as of last night with half of them backing Sree to stay and the other half expressing their support for Halfwit…

Dogface, Karly and Siavash all said that they hope Sree stays and Halfwit got a right royal telling off from Karly who told him he’s two faced. Halfwit later told BB in the diary room that he’s “seen the bad side of Karly”.

Well, a lack of nicotine is guaranteed to bring out the bad side in anyone, but he had allies in Marcus and Noirin who told him they hope he stays on Friday.

More news on Rodrigo’s fliddy as we get it!

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…

Big Brother has revealed this week’s shopping task, and it’s all about the Tudors…

Siavash ran to the diary room to collect the task instructions, therefore automatically putting himself in the role of Henry VIII. He must now choose six of the housemates to be his wives and two more to be courtiers.

All nine of them will live a life of luxury in King Henry’s Court and the remaining housemates will be cooks with the exception of one who must take on a ‘special role’. However, none of the housemates yet know that this ’special role’ is the role of Village Idiot!

The house is being transformed into “Tudor England, complete with a court and Tudor Kitchen”. Here’s what Channel 4 say about the task…

“Access to the normal house kitchen is forbidden and housemates must only eat the food set in the Tudor Kitchen, which is all in its most basic form (rabbits, chickens, carp, seasonal vegetables and fruit).

“The cooks must spend their time preparing food for the feast on the second day, using real Tudor recipes, and all other housemates must take part in it and pass their tasks throughout the two days.

“If at any time housemates must be punished, the Village Idiot will act as their whipping boy and will take whatever Tudor punishment Big Brother metes out to him, such as wearing a barrel or going in the stocks.”

Well it sounds better than most of the tasks so far! More task news as we get it.