For this week’s Big Brother shopping task, housemates will have to withstand the test of time.

The task will take the form of five separate challenges.

Heavenly housemates will face two challenges. Housemates from hell will also face two challenges and the Big Brother house as a whole will face one group challenge.

As Head of House, Dale will decide which housemates perform which challenges. The Head of House must oversee all challenges, but must not take part in any of them. This week’s shopping task will take place today and tomorrow.

In order to pass this week’s shopping task, housemates must pass three out of the five challenges.

If housemates pass three or more challenges they will receive a luxury food budget of five pounds per head per day. Read more & comment »

For today’s Big Brother task, housemates from hell – Darnell, Lisa, Mohamed, Kathreya, Sara, Rachel and Michael must dice 65kg of onions in order to win the right to nominate.

Housemates from hell must put all the skins and the top and tail of the onions in the empty buckets marked “peelings”. They must put all the diced onions in the buckets marked “onions”.

Once they have finished one housemate from hell must go to the Diary Room to inform Big Brother.

If Big Brother is satisfied that every onion has been fully chopped, the housemates from hell win the right to nominate.

Today, Big Brother has decided to give housemates from hell the opportunity to win two hour’s of hot water. In the garden there are two farmer’s pens. One pen is filled with manure and the other is empty. In order to win some hot water, housemates from hell must transfer the manure from the full pen, to the empty one, using only the tools provided.

The housemates from hell have been provided with farmers outfits, wellies, a wheelbarrow and protective clothing to help them.

If housemates from hell transfer all the manure to Big Brother’s satisfaction, Big Brother will provide housemates from hell with two hours of hot water.
If housemates from hell fail to transfer the manure, they will not receive any hot water.

For this week’s shopping task, housemates must celebrate cycling season and become au fait with all things French. The task will take the form of four separate challenges.

Heavenly Housemates will be tested on the sensitivity of their palate, their appreciation of French food and their ability to mime.

Hellish Housemates will be required to cycle two bikes for 520 miles each as they take part in Le Tour De Grand Frère.

The challenges will be as follows:

LE TOUR DE GRAND FRÈRE Read more & comment »

For this week’s Big Brother shopping task, housemates must learn an Irish dance routine.

Today, one housemate will be called to the Diary Room to collect instructions explaining that in order to win a luxury shopping budget, housemates must practice and perform an Irish dance routine as a group. The routine will be judged with the assistance of an independent Irish dancing expert.
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For this week’s shopping task, housemates must recreate the iconic music video from US Indie band OK GO. The video to their hit single ‘Here It Goes Again’ features the band performing a dance routine on treadmills in one continuous take.

This week housemates must learn the same routine and present it to Big Brother without incurring no more than four mistakes.

Big Brother will place eight treadmills in the task room on which housemates must practise the routine. The task room will be open for rehearsal purposes from 1pm until early evening and from 10am until 4pm tomorrow. Read more & comment »

For this week’s shopping task, housemates will learn and be tested on traditional Japanese culture.

Today, housemates woke up to find the living room transformed Japanese style, with low dining tables, futon seating and lantern style lighting. Later today, Big Brother will tell the housemates that this week’s shopping task will consist of several challenges that will teach and test them about Japanese culture. These are:

” KARATE SCHOOL
” ENDURANCE KARAOKE
” LEARNING JAPANESE
” CHOPSTICK CHALLENGE Read more & comment »

For today’s Big Brother task, housemates will be required to sort 6,250 grams of potato crisps into four different flavours.
Big Brother will place in the garden a giant bowl of salt and vinegar, cheese and onion, Worcester sauce and ready salted crisps.
When instructed to do so by Big Brother, housemates must lick each and every individual crisp and then allocate it to the appropriately labelled crisp bag. Housemates have two hours in which to sort all 6,250 grams. Read more & comment »

Big Brother would like to give housemates an opportunity to learn a new skill during their stay in the house so today they will all learn to play a musical instrument.

Once housemates have chosen their musical instrument, they will be expected to stick with that instrument for their remaining time in the house.

Periodically, housemates will be given one hour with their instrument during which they must learn and rehearse When the Saints Go Marching In. Read more & comment »

In true moody form, Alexandra DeGale walked out of yesterday’s Big Brother shopping task.

In the task, Rachel and Dennis had to pass a metal ring through a track without touching it. When they did, their fellow housemates were buzzed through a special suit.

Alex had been boasting before the task started about her high pain threshold. She said: “I’ll take a few shocks if it means we get food. I don’t think it will be painful. It will be more uncomfortable than anything else.” Read more & comment »