BB5 - Weeks 6 and 7

After Marco’s eviction, the house settles down and new alliances were formed.  Shell and Dan found it easier to mix in with Nadia, Michelle and her lap dog, Stu.  Victor and Jason preferred to keep their distance and got on well with Ahmed, whilst Becki, the outsider, flitted between various camps, strangely getting on quite well with Ahmed. 
 
The weekly task for week 6 was a school task, where housemates dressed as students and attended the Big Brother primary school.  They must be there for registration, in full uniform, and smoke behind the bike sheds etc, as well as special one off school related tasks.  They are allowed three fails throughout the whole three-day task.  Fr example on the first day they had to re-enact moments from history such as Elvis, Man on the moon, Ginger leaving the Spice Girls and the sinking of the Titanic. 
 
Things got slightly interesting when a light aircraft was spotted over the house.  The housemates were ordered inside, away from the windows, but not before a banner was spotted saying that ‘Only Becki Nominated Michelle’.  BB would not allow Becki to confess, so she had to deny it as the discussion of nominations was banned, and the housemates thought that Becki could not nominate.  In spite of this when nominations did happen Becki and Ahmed were up.  In a twist, and as punishment for trying to influence Ahmed, neither Victor nor Jason were allowed to nominate.  From this point on Becki became a lot more withdrawn and integrated less with her housemates, preferring to get up early and talk to herself.
 
After this the housemates heard that they had failed their weekly task, as they had made too many spelling mistakes in their Spelling Bee.  This meant they would not receive any shopping next week.  However, Shell was informed that she had passed her History of Art degree with a first class honours.  The housemates were given a graduation party to celebrate with Shell. 
 
The housemates were upset about the failure of the school task and decided to protest by not speaking for a day.  BB then banned them from the bedroom and spa areas, and turned up the air-con.  BB also refused to speak to any housemates that came into the Diary Room.  Sporadically BB also played in noises of road works or babies crying as punishment.  This pushed Ahmed over the edge, he grabbed a spade, and in one of the funniest incidences in the show so far, used the spade to behead a statue to housemates had made in a previous task, and christened Maureen.    As a final punishment they burnt Stuart’s beloved cowboy hat that he had returned to BB (reluctantly) after a fancy dress party.  He went into the ‘snug’ (another room) and cried.  Michelle, Shell, Nadia, Stu and Dan then stole the camera from the diary room and put it in the garden, where Michelle tried to set fire to it.  All housemates involved were given formal warnings (of which they can have three) , except Michelle.  As her crimes were considered more serious, she automatically went to final warning stage. 
 
On Friday, Becki was evicted by just over 60% of the vote.  She left the house to a lot of booing.   Before leaving she confessed to Michelle about the ‘Judas Kiss’. 
 
The next day the week’s task was announced, when a soldier abseiled into the garden and dropped a package.  A housemate was instructed to fetch it and Michelle went.  She discovered the task was a Boot Camp and that she was a sergeant, allowed to choose another sergeant (she chose Jason) and the rest were privates, ordered to do their bidding, and with limited privileges.   However there was a twist.  The sergeants were called to the diary room and told that if they were successful and housemates passed the task, then all the privates would go up for eviction.  If the task was failed, then they, the sergeants, would be up for eviction.  The groups were allowed three fails a day, they had to do a roll call, a flag raising and a run around the garden, followed by special jobs for the privates only (motivated by the sergeants) such as boot cleaning and potato peeling, as well as preparing the sergeants decent meals, whilst eating basic rations and drinking from tin cups themselves.  Highlights were Nadia’s insistence of wearing her Chanel sunglasses whilst on sentry duty (a rota every night for privates).  Ahmed had a bit of a snivel, so refused to do the run, often drinking from (forbidden) china mugs and not pulling his weight.  This aggravated all the housemates, including the privates, who did not know what was at stake, as the failure of the task still resulted in no food budget.  This caused some humdinger of a row between Michelle and Ahmed and later, Dan and Ahmed.  At one time Ahmed attempted a military coup (he pronounced the ‘P’) single-handedly by asking Michelle for her sergeant’s jacket. 
 
The task was passed and the privates were told the twist by watching the video of Jason and Michelle in the Diary Room.  They all took it well, except from Ahmed (surprise, surprise), who ranted at Michelle and blamed her (ignoring the fats that his friend Jason was also involved.  This meant that Ahmed, Victor, Stu, Dan, Nadia and Shell were up for eviction.  It is the first time for three of them (Victor, Stu and Shell).  It is Ahmed who goes, but a margin of almost half a million votes.  This meant that Dan, Shell, Nadia and Stu (assisted be Michelle) had to make good their promise of all getting naked in the Diary Room.  Which they did.