Big Brother housemates have to prove their stamina when it comes to eating by seeing how much spaghetti they can eat.

Big Brother will call the Head of House to the Diary Room to collect a laminate containing the details of today’s task.

The laminate explains that for today’s task, housemates will be paying a visit to Grande Fratello’s Italian Restaurant. Today’s special is Spaghetti. The housemates will have 2 hours to eat a giant bowl of it.
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For this week’s shopping task, housemates will become zombies and perform a routine inspired by the famous dance sequence from Michael Jackson’s Thriller video.

Big Brother will today call Head of House Rex to the Diary Room to collect a laminate containing the details of the task.

Big Brother will show the housemates the original video, followed by a demo DVD of the routine they will be learning. This will be played onto the plasma screen in the living area. Read more & comment »

Big Brother housemates must today recreate famous statues from around the world then stand still for as long as possible. The housemate who stays still the longest becomes the Head of House.

Housemates who are eligible to be Head of House will compete in a task to become this week’s Head of House. These are: Kathreya, Lisa, Mohamed, Nicole, Rex and Sara. Each of the six housemates who are eligible to become Head of House must become human statues. The Housemates must recreate the poses of famous statues from around the World. The housemate who holds the pose without moving for the longest period of time, will become the next Head of House. Housemates must decide amongst themselves which statue they each wish to be. Read more & comment »

For this week’s Big Brother shopping task, housemates will take part in the Big Brother Games 2008.

In order to win a luxury shopping budget, all housemates must compete in the games. Head of House Michael will organise the games and become the Head Coach. Today, housemates must create and perform an opening ceremony, worthy of such a prestigious event - organised and led by the Head of House. Later today, housemates must train, led by the Head of House, in preparation for tomorrow’s events day.

OPENING CEREMONY PERFORMANCE
The Opening Ceremony will consist of a performance created by housemates. The ceremony must be organised by the Head of House and be written and choreographed by housemates, under the leadership of Head of House. All housemates are permitted to suggest ideas regarding the opening ceremony performance to the Head of House, but the Head of House must decide what form the ceremony takes. Housemates must perform their routine to music provided by Big Brother.
Housemates will be given approximately one hour to write and practice their opening ceremony performance. The performance may take any form of original visual or dramatic art that housemates decide on, as long as it is fitting for the occasion. Housemates must not copy any routine they may have seen elsewhere - the performance must be original. Read more & comment »

Today housemates must give up their hair in order to win a special reward.
Earlier today, Big Brother gathered housemates on the sofas in the living room to receive instructions for today’s task.

The housemates were informed that today, Big Brother will be providing them with a very special reward, but that reward has a price.

In the small task room Big Brother has set up a barber shop complete with barbers chair, mirrors, scissors, clippers and most importantly, a jar.

The Head of House must choose one person to become the Big Brother Barber. This person will be responsible for cutting the other housemates hair. The Big Brother Barber must fill the jar provided with housemates’ hair in order to receive the special reward. Read more & comment »

For today’s task, heavenly housemates will be competing against housemates from hell to build models of the ‘Millennium Dome’ and ‘St Paul’s Cathedral’ out of cake.

The current Head of House Rachel will decide the winning team. The winning team will then decide amongst themselves which one of their team members will become the new Head of House.

Head of House Rachel will be called to the Diary Room later today. Big Brother will explain that for today’s task heaven will compete against hell to bake London.

One team will tackle Sir Christopher Wren’s epic St Paul’s Cathedral whilst the other team will recreate the Millennium Dome. Rachel must decide which side of the house will bake which landmark. Housemates are told that the winning team will receive a ’special reward’. Read more & comment »

Today is the 8th of the 8th 2008, the luckiest date in the Chinese Calendar. However, it’s not lucky for everyone, because today either Dale or Stuart will leave the Big Brother house.

So today Big Brother is going to test bad luck superstitions to see if they are true, or in fact just mumbo jumbo.

This test will take the form of an obstacle course. Each obstacle will be a physical representation of various bad luck superstitions, and Stuart and Dale must complete the course as many times as possible in a 30 minute period. The housemate who completes the most circuits should, according to superstition, have created more bad luck for themselves and therefore, if the concept of superstition is correct, they should be evicted tonight.

If the winner is not evicted, Big Brother will therefore have proved categorically that superstitions are nothing more than mumbo jumbo.

The course will test the following superstitions: Read more & comment »

For this week’s Big Brother shopping task, all housemates will learn about the world of Puppet Theatre.
Heavenly housemates will learn to perform a spectacular theatrical sequence in the style of contemporary Japanese Bunraku. The sequence is that of a fantastical Table Tennis Match, where the characters can fly and stop the ball in mid air.

Bunraku is a form of Japanese puppetry that uses puppeteers dressed in black, ‘invisibly’ manipulating objects and people whilst standing against a black background. In order to pass their part of the shopping task, heavenly housemates must practice and perform to Big Brother’s satisfaction. Read more & comment »

For today’s Head of House challenge, housemates must recite the alphabet backwards.
Big Brother will call each housemate to the Diary Room individually. Each housemate will be required to wear a specially designed alphabet hat to help them to focus on the task ahead.

Housemates will be given one minute to perform facial exercises to warm up their face and mouth. They will then be required to recite the alphabet backwards as quickly as possible.

If housemates should make a mistake, Big Brother will not tell them until they get to the end (A). They must then go back to the beginning (Z) and start again. The clock will continue to run until housemates have successfully recited all 26 letters in reverse order without making any mistakes. Read more & comment »

Today, a nominations pod will be revealed to the housemates. The nominations pod will be situated in the heaven side of the garden. As head of house, Stuart will be asked to read a laminate to the group that will reveal that only the heavenly housemates may use the nominations pod.
To enter the nominations pod, heavenly housemates must ring the buzzer and wait for Big Brother to unlock it. Heavenly housemates must only enter the pod TWO at a time.
When they are in the pod, they may ONLY discuss nominations. If they don’t discuss nominations in the pod they may be punished. Read more & comment »