Big Brother 2005 Week Fourteen

8 August 2005
Vesna freaks out when the boys barricade her outside so they can continue their ball games without fear of hitting her. Tim gives the goats a ride on his back. Mel leaves in the eviction, which she was expecting. After her farewell video Greg and Vesna have an argument: Greg doesn't like being told that he's hard to get to know, or rather what that implies. In return for toilet paper the remaining HMs put on an impromptu play set at a hairdressing salon. It's not going to earn a Logie says BB, but it does earn them each a roll of toilet paper.

9 August 2005
There's something about Nadia. Since BB pulled the same trick last year there's no reason for the HMs not to be thinking it straight away. Miriam looked more like a woman than Nadia does so it's not that hard for them to pick it up. The HMs give her a tour then they have a special dinner in a converted store room. When she pops out to the bathroom Greg, Vesna and Tim (who runs back) compare notes but wont bring it up. Greg and Vesna have another fight over what she thinks Greg's standards are. It's getting up there with Kate and Tim discussions in repetition. In the spa Vesna tries to politely ask Nadia about her background but Greg is more forward and just asks her if she's a transsexual. She gets upset about being categorised with labels and wanting to be just accepted as a woman, which if fair enough.

10 August 2005
After napping during the day BB gives Tim and Nadia the task of cleaning the outside windows. Nadia resists, getting some bread for afternoon tea, but is summoned to the diary room. She argues that she's a special guest not a Housemate, but gives in. Later Vesna gets the same instruction for the windows between the door and is upset by this. She's bored and annoyed by Big Brother. Nadia sums up the HMs for BB: Tim a cool geek, Greg eye-candy, Vesna in-your-face and loud but insecure. Greg plays a trick on her when she leaves the diary room jumping out to give her a fright.

11 August 2005
The HMs have some fun with Nadia in the house, doing an impromptu photo shoot with a Polaroid camera that allows them to give her a farewell present. She left the house and got to record a farewell video for the others. Without her the HMs are bored. They have an early night and BB concedes by turning off their lights early. Soon though Vesna is sobbing on her bed. The boys try to console her; she's scared about returning the real world.

12 August 2005
The days are getting long in the last run to the final show. Vesna is feeling a little lost while the boys are spending their time together and in the gym. The HMs get to watch brief videos to share their real world with each other. Greg and Vesna end up in tears and Tim is quite delighted too, but also realises what Vesna means about how scary the idea of going back to the real world is after so long.

13 August 2005
In the final round of games the housemates have a chance to win back all the money they've lost through fines. The tasks are more personal challenges rather than competitions. Gretel joins them in the house to take them through each one. The first round contains one those bouncy castles with the bungee ropes. Greg goes first and does reasonably well. Vensa takes it more slowly but has trouble getting too far, and Tim falls somewhere in-between. The second round challenges them to walk a plank and collect two ribbons tied to it, while suspended in the air. Greg again goes first and sets a high standard by doing the maximum height, a frightening 20m up. Tim did the same second. Vesna was confident until it went up and then started freaking out. She managed to walk to the first ribbon at a low height but then had to give up. In the next round the HMs faced bugs, something none of them are fond of. Greg and Tim rocked off for the worst of the two and Greg lost and had to pull a ball out of a tub of worms. He ended up just brushing them out with his head. Tim got to stick his head into a box into which were tipped crickets, worms and cockroaches. Vesna got the easiest having to just put her hand into a box of crickets and pull out a ball which she pulled off well. The final round went back to the house were Gretel asked the three of them trivia questions based on their time in the house. In the end they won back quite a bit of money.

14 August 2005
In the aftermath of the games Vesna's freaking out about crickets that have come into the house. There's not much to see in these quiet days. Vesna considers running away and leaving without the others knowing? In the last Sunday night eviction it's a surprise to see Vesna go. I figured it would be her and one of the boys. Go Tim.

15 August 2005
With Vesna gone the boys had to wonder when they would be leaving. They had a quiet day, no survivor type reflections on the past housemates. Maybe that's for next year? The boys were given suits to wear and spent time in the reward room while Big Brother set up an outdoor theatre for them to watch the final show from inside the house. The finale show starts off with the former housemates doing a tapdogs style performance (at least it's better than the Neighbours dance at the Logies). There's the finale for the Best Dressed Fan with several cute kids. The boys get a special presentation of highlights of the news from Sandra Sulley, unfortunately this has a lot of bad news. The thing that makes the biggest impact on Tim is learning that the NSW premier stepped down. Once the package is finished Tim can't stop talking about this news while Greg politely nods. It's hilarious. He's interrupted by Gretel who comes into the house to give the two of them some personal news. Gretel then interviews the ex-HMs in small groups on stage recapping the time in the house a couple of weeks at a time. Finally the boys are let out of the house and get to hug each of the past housemates (the most interesting connections there are the Logans reunited and Tim and Kate). On stage they get asked the ten big brother questions (minus three though, the who will be out next week and who will win questions get dropped). The big announcement comes (after a mild interruption by some guys storming the stage) and it's a bit of a let down. The Logans win rather than Tim. Greg was my least favourite of the final three, and the fact that David won as well isn't great. Tim is the only one who spent all the time in the house and his story was much more interesting. Greg didn't show any growth or development between entering and leaving and I still don't think we saw the real Greg (only aspects). Tim, you're the winner in my books!