Day 13 - Meteor strikes the house, Bubble's bad hair day                                             <<

Having spent the previous day swotting-up and practising until quite late for the first aid task, the housemates had received just 4 hours ‘kip when sirens blared into the house at 7.15am. The task test had begun and Big Brother demanded that the whole group be dressed and assembled in the kitchen within two minutes. It was revealed that there had been a mock Meteor landing in the back garden and that 4 people had been injured. They had to tend to the injured and talk through what they were doing. Any casualties would result in failure.

Upon making their way to the garden, Helen went straight to the phone box to call for the emergency services. Stuart and dean worked together as did Brian and Narinder. Surprisingly, it was not Helen that proved to be useless in implementing the first aid, but Penny. The schoolteacher moaned about being left on her own to watch over a motorcyclist and ‘felt like a twit,’ talking to the dummy she was supposed to keeping consioucs.

After having gone back to bed, the group gathered around the sofa area at around 12.30pm to hear how well they’d done in the task. Big Brother pulled them up on a couple of things and put doubt in their minds. Then, after a long pause the all-seeing power said, “In the opinion of Big Brother’s first aid expert… all 4 casualties received effective treatment.” The group had passed and danced around with joy. Their next week’s shopping budget would now increase from £70 to £112.

Half an hour later, Narinder visited the diary room to talk about the task. She expressed her annoyance at Dean’s shouting during the task and described all the guys as, “So typical.” She felt that she couldn’t speak-out against any of them, fearing she would be ganged-up on like Penny had been.

At almost 5pm, Dean took the clippers to Bubble’s already crap haircut. In a nod to the England ‘footy match that the boys would miss, they were aiming for a ‘George Cross’ look. However, Dean left the hair far too long and it just looked stupid. They then decided to go for the ‘Beckham’ Mohican look but it wasn’t much of an improvement.

Some of the housemates had decided to do a postal vote for the General Election and Big Brother called them all in one-by-one to cheekily ask them who they’d voted for. Penny voted Labour as she always had done. Elizabeth voted Lib Dem, adding, “I think there should be proportional representation or a coalition government.” Oooohh, get her. Big Brother probably had no idea what she was on about! Bubble went for the ‘best of a bad bunch,’ which for him was Lib Dem. Helen, went for Labour but didn’t really know why. Dean had never voted, as he’d not found the right party for him before. Paul, Stuart and Narinder declined to say who they'd voted for and Brian and Amma abstained.

Later on in the evening, Bubble and Dean sat outside on deckchairs watching the football… er, without a telly! After winding Helen up by suggesting she couldn’t count, the hairdresser was again wound-up after midnight with talk of ghosts. When Bubble came back into the house, he put a towel over his head and lunged at Helen, making her s**t herself! Then, when she went to check how safe she was by asking Big Brother, Brian caught her out by donning a towel and jumping her as she came out of the diary room. Hilarious!

As the boys prepared for bed they discussed the eviction nominees. They didn’t actually say who, but suggested there was only one person who could possibly be leaving the house on the first eviction day; they meant Penny. They talked about how unstable she had become, prompting Stuart to question why someone would even be involved in ‘the game’ if they couldn’t handle rejection. The whole situation and this conversation in particular, reflected what happened in the house when Vanessa Feltz got nominated during Celebrity Big Brother.

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