Big Brother 2005 Week Thirteen

1 August 2005
Kate's gone from the BB house! Kind of figured it would be her, although it's odd that the final four include a replacement and an intruder. I don't think that's happened before! They could probably throw in six replacement housemates now and keep the show going another month! Tim is obviously upset and has retreated to the toilets to cry.

In retaliation for Tim's War on Dirt, the girls declare a War on Tim and a pillow fight between Tim and Mel begins, escalating to involve Kate as well. Greg watches from outside and gives us a look inside the house under natural light conditions that makes the house look more real than usual. Kate's not too upset to leave the house, already feeling like she would this week and happy with what she's had so far. The departure of course hits Tim hard and he has a cry in the toilets. Tim regrets his use of the three-point twist that put her up for eviction.

2 August 2005
Greg and the HMs go to feed the animals but are followed home and under the closing door by the goats. They have to throw food back under to lure them back. Vesna playfully yells at Mel for complaining about being fat and needing to lose weight. Tim cracks it over nominations, believing it to be rather unfair for them to have to nominate when there's so few of them left in the house and rants to BB in the diary room for a while. He later confides to Vesna that he's a little embarrassed about his performance last night.

3 August 2005
The remaining housemates are chained together in pairs. Tim and Mel get along ok, but Vesna and Greg are problems just waiting to start. Greg explains that he was annoyed by Vesna's comments about him not comforting people in the house. Greg's also aware of how Vesna is interested and mentions it jokingly, but tells her bluntly that he's not attracted to her. This gives Vesna something to stew over and wants further explanation. Greg digs his own hole by telling her the girls he has thought about that way and Vesna ends up in the toilet having a cry. The two of them are much noisier than Mel and Tim.

4 August 2005
The challenge is not helping morale in the house. There's suggestion of harassment of Greg by Vesna wanting to touch like friends. Tim and Mel later win a bowling competition and win several packets of chocolate biscuits. Vesna moans about not having the comfort of chocolate like she does in the real world, and that everything in the house is about competition. Greg does a nice thing by going to the diary room and asking to trade something for chocolate for Vesna, hoping it might make his time in chains more bearable.

5 August 2005
Today's Aluminium underpants day and Greg and Tim celebrate by wearing their special aluminium underpants all day. Overnight Vesna had enough of the chains and when Greg wanted to go to the toilet she decided enough's enough and took them off. Come morning, determined not to put them back on, the HMs were called to the diary room. BB was very unimpressed and fined each housemate $5,000 and banned Vesna from any participation in the kitchen or food preparation until further notice. Tim's had enough of Vesna not being able to deal with stress more quietly. When the chains are swapped to hook Tim and Greg tells Tim he was counting yesterday and Vesna whinged 78 times.

6 August 2005
Going up against the housemates this week were four former BB housemates: Jess (BB02), Jo (BB03), Paul and Wesley (BB04) and they were playing for $20,000 either for the ex-housemates or the for the prize kitty for the new housemates. The first game, carrying water on a bike started off badly when the bikes wouldn't work. They had to be swapped in and out a few times. The Ex-HMs won first. For the second round Bree and Ryan left the set to join in, Ryan with the HMs and Bree with the others. The second round involved climbing an inflatable pyramid for point cards. The HMs went first and Greg did an impressive job of climbing to the top to get the 100 points. Unfortunately then the ex-HMs moved in and trashed them, Wesley effortlessly getting to the top. In the final round Wesley went up against Greg with an obstacle course to complete inside a large suit, similar to the penguin one. Greg did a good job again only beaten by a faster Wesley. Wesley would have been great had they had Friday night games last year. So the HMs get no money and no rewards room, but they do return to a pizza meal.

7 August 2005
The housemates are back in chains after the games, but swapped around again, Tim with Vesna and Mel with Greg. Tim takes Vesna to do his washing, annoying her. They are given a mini task, the team that can build the tallest tower using junk and tape within ten minutes wins a takeaway dinner. Greg and Melanie win with their tall tower of Pringles boxes, while Tim and Vesna argue. The Housemates are told they have failed their task, understandably given the other night. Vesna's kitchen ban seems to have ended as well. Tim feels that he's helped Mel out of her shell but isn't sure what he thinks about her now.