Day 14 - Bubble's Birthday, Penny lets her hair down                                                   <<

Day 14 was Bubble’s 25th Birthday but the birthday boy didn’t surface until midday; and that was only ‘cos Stuart bounced him off his bed a few times to wake him up! Upon walking into the kitchen area, Bubble was presented with his gift… a loaf of bread. Great, nice ‘prezzie. Not!

Bubble did, however, get an altogether more interesting present: Whilst dean was in the garden he thought he heard the score of ‘England 2, Greece Nil’ coming from afar. The housemates debated over whether what Dean heard was genuine and got very excited. It was, in fact, a newspaper journalist broadcasting the news via a megaphone from outside the grounds. Bubble was well chuffed.

During the day Stuart led an aerobic class for the girls in the garden. While the other boys looked on, Helen accused Paul of watching her bouncing assets and started to become dubious about the boys’ interest in their fitness activities!

Later, at around 5pm, Penny and Narinder had their own ‘quiet chat’ in the girls’ room. They discussed how superficial everyone in the house was and Penny took the opportunity to bitch about some of the housemate’s personal features. In walked Brian, who was told that they were just chatting. “Talking or bitching?” came Brian’s accurate response, which prompted Penny to go into a rant.

With raised voice, she declared how she thought she would be leaving the next day and how 7 people probably nominated her; it was actually five. She then proceeded to have a real go about Amma, who was stood within earshot. As the lap-dancer (who’d riled Penny the previous night just by brushing her hair) walked into the room, Brian quickly changed the subject and made-out that they’d been discussing something else. It was clear that Penny had become too controversial to stay.

At around 7.30pm, Big Brother threw a ‘Blue’ (relevance: Chelsea FC) birthday party for Bubble. The group were supplied with blue and white face paints, wigs, and a foosball table, prompting bubble to declare, “This is quality, Big Brother. I am most impressed." As Bubble is tee total, the housemates were supplied with blue lemonade instead of alcohol.

As the evening wore on, despite the lack of booze Penny was acting increasingly crazy, doing weird dances and flinging herself around a fair bit. Later on, while discussing Penny with some of boys out in the garden, Paul described her behaviour, saying that she’d been talking to herself and, “Dancing around like an absolute loon!“ When confronted by Paul, Penny said that she was scared about the possible eviction and was just letting her hair down. Diplomatically, Paul advised the teacher to ‘go out in style’ and not in the manner that she’d been displaying of late.

Penny was first to go to bed but before the other girls joined her, they had a discussion centred on Helen. It was intimated that she wouldn’t be going anywhere the following night.

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