Big Brother 2005 Week Eleven

18 July 2005
Last night it was finally time for Dean to go. He had a good run, surviving an almost eviction so early on, and really ruling the house. He should have gone weeks back. David is most sad to see Dean go but is pissed by the way Vesna asked him if he was going to cry. David followed Dean around loyally and is so sad to lose him, and given the way that Christie and Greg have been mucking around, perhaps one of the Logan twins is gay but it's not the one we always expected? Christie then dresses both of them up in women's clothing just to confuse the issue (and because she's bored). In the farewell videos Dean's quite nice to the girls, despite being honest with Vesna and Rita, and to his new best friend David.

19 July 2005
Rita, Vesna and Mel are discussing David. They reckon that David likes Mel but Mel is completely uninterested in David. This weeks task is the Big Brother Brigade, with scout-type uniforms and challenges based on learning survival skills. Rita and Kate are growing to dislike each other, complaining to Vesna and BB respectively. Kate and David break up a checkers game the other housemates were playing as a part of a mini-reward challenge annoying them. They got the tennis ball back and then quickly lost it over the fence again in a night game of cricket. The boys decided to keep themselves entertained by walking around the perimeter of the backyard with their eyes closed. The girls decide to play with them putting some stuff in their way and sprinkling them with water.

20 July 2005
Early in the morning Tim and Kate get to have another round and this one ends with Kate in tears in the diary room. Tim's affections are starting to creep her out. She's feeling pressure each time he talks about it and is worried that he's thinking that if he mentions it enough maybe she will turn around and say she likes him. Housemates are kicked out of the house to spend time outdoors as part of a scout challenge. Vesna is the most vocal complainer which isn't very surprising. Queensland's winter rain isn't going to make it very comfortable. By dinner time Vesna is ropable and when Rita requests different food Vesna goes off. This leads to an angry Rita and the girls arguing. Mel gets to be the featured housemate trying to use the outside toilet.

21 July 2005
The HMs are back in the house and Vesna with a fierce look in her eyes is yelling at everyone suggesting this is a temporary situation. Tonight's show devotes a lot of it's time to replaying last night's twin eviction. (There is a clear difference between a twin eviction and a double eviction despite the names being similar.) The sudden eviction of a twin came as a big surprise to the housemates who were sent to various places around the house to nominate privately. It was like a tour of the house, one in the bathroom, one in the bedroom, one in the garden, one in the rewards room etc. Four votes for David sealed his fate, only Kate and Vesna choosing to evict Greg. Rita voted for "Greg, I mean David" and then headed to the diary room in tears because she wasn't 100% sure of her decision. This gave the HMs a chance to talk about her positive-aggression and how to deal with her. Rita decides to camp out while the other housemates return to a smaller bedroom (now only half the size with the other room off limits).

22 July 2005
They finished the task early, for a change, with the housemates tested on their scout skills and doing passably well. Rita continues to exasperate the housemates. Vesna is annoyed when Rita interferes with Christie trying to prepare lunch. Tim cracks it when she comes and joins him in doing the dishes. Greg tries to politely get her away for him but is unsuccessful. Tim is quietly rude and Rita just smiles it off in that aggressively nice way of hers as him letting out a day of frustration.

23 July 2005
It was a do it yourself theme for the Friday night games. This involved in the HMs having to assemble their own chair (with Greg losing that round). The second round involved pairs carrying a ladder between paint tins on poles. That round removed Vesna and Rita. Christie and Kate lost the next round which involved painting a house cut out to reveal numbers that then needed to be added up. In the final round Tim went up against Mel on mini ride on tractors. Mel went first and was going pretty well, knocking down the mannequin goalie notwithstanding until she first rolled over the ball and then knocked it into a corner (and she had been so close). She ended up running out of time. Tim kept better control with the tractor and was able to push the ball along most of the way.

24 July 2005
In the continuing saga of Kate and Tim, Tim decides to give the video message he won as part of the reward to Kate. Kate is in tears and is worried about accepting it because she knows he's doing it because he's in love with her. Christie is upset, jealous of Kate and how she has the boys wrapped around her fingers. The chance to get a message from home is something she'd really like so seeing it go to someone else really strikes a nerve. Kate spends an hour watching and re-watching the message from her mum and sharing it with her housemates. The HMs have been away from their families for a very long time now so that's understandable.