Big Brother 2005 Week Twelve

25 July 2005
Rita and Christie leave the house in a double eviction but not before Rita gets to have an argument with Kate, again over Rita's habit of talking a lot and Rita's dislike of Kate. Kate regrets picking up Rita's clean towel my accident for the earful she receives. They have a laugh with Rita's farewell video but are more touched by Christie's. Christie does one of her word trip-ups and tells Kate she has a special part of my body, I mean in my heart. She also wants Greg to meet her family. That's not coming on too strong is it?

26 July 2005
Kate is keen to celebrate Christmas in July. It shows very good knowledge of the calendar from her. She's disappointed to get no presents from BB, not even a candy cane. Kate plans a nice dinner of satay meat and rice and Vesna is keen to help. Too keen, pretty much doing all the work. This goes against the role of shopper/chef so BB confiscates it. Vesna is of course mad as a cut snake. The HMs were also given their weekly task. They have to make a movie, featuring certain lines. Late night the HMs try singing a Christmas carol to BB and are rewarded with chocolate, biscuits and wine.

27 July 2005
Vesna tastes some of dinner while Kate is still cooking and Mel's doing 100 laps of the courtyard. She's summoned straight to the diary room and is very embarrassed. It was a bad day overall for her with her missing out on the hot water for the showers by seconds. disrobing as the water was shut off. The housemates are also filming their video with an added proviso that it is now an American co-production and thus requires them to do American accents. This isn't adding anything to it, and is more annoying than funny. The wigs though make the female HMs look really different.

28 July 2005
Today the film has been changed again and needs to be a dubbed film with the soundtrack recorded first. The name of the film is Desperate Housemates. Was that show on the air when they went in? Had it become popular. I'm thinking that for all they know the show has already been moved to 1130 Wednesdays. Over dinner the tough questions are asked. Greg opens up about his relationship with Christie and how comfortable she made him feel about being openly affectionate. Kate is asked if she feels like she always wants to be the centre of attention and being too confident. Mel explains that she has insecurity and trust issues which is the reason she's reserved in the house.

29 July 2005
Tim, this week's housekeeper, decides to entertain himself by launching a war on grime. The movie is finished but not before the final twist of doing the last bits as a musical. They're given a wrap party after hot showers and getting dressed up but Kate (especially) get depressed when they realise that food isn't going to be surprised. Kate's also jealous of Vesna being all over Greg commenting to Mel that Ves would never have done that if Christie was still in the house.

30 July 2005
The theme for the games tonight was all-Aussie adventures. The first game involved them applying vegemite n toast with their tongue, them carrying it in their mouths to a board on a bouncing ball. Not exactly pleasant but the boys did it really easily and Ves lost. In the second round they were dressed in large animal costumes, not as large as the penguins though. They had to put on underpants run to a clothesline and then swap them for famous quotes to match on a board. Greg in the Koala costume was very awkward taking several humorous spills and trips. The girls didn't do much better, Kate not knowing Bert's "Here's Moira", and she and Mel go out. In the last round the boys have to guide Bert's 'hairpiece' around a maze with a leaf blower. Tim wins, second week in a row, and chooses to take Greg in to the rewards room after BB concludes that Greg was disadvantaged in the last round (by the pipe being blocked by feathers) and has the boys rock off in the diary room to decide. I think he might have taken Kate in other circumstances.

31 July 2005
The housemates enjoy a pre-games BBQ. Greg and Tim both come out to join in because there's plenty of food to go around. The HMs also get to see the premiere of their video (The title Desperate Housemates seems to have been added by BB) and have a good laugh. In the now girls only bedroom the girls quiz Kate about why she doesn't like Tim and she gives the same excuses she always does. Poor Timmy. The next morning Tim gives out the tasks for the week to few complaints. When the housemates go to feed the animals they find the goats have jumped out of their pens and are running around. Talking in the sauna Mel explains how she gets annoyed by Tim hiding behind big words and doesn't get along with Greg. Kate also thinks that Vesna is jealous of Mel.

Vesna gets a personal challenge of hosting a successful dinner party in reward for sweets (ice-cream and chocolates). The dinner part is fine but she has to keep conversation going for an hour with no more than five seconds silence without arousing the other's suspicion. This is not so easy. Vesna just keeps talking trying to make conversation but her thought processes come across as very weird to everyone. The conversation ends up with the HMs thinking that she's a twin, a mole, an actor, has mental problems, a bloke? Despite the HMs running off to hide in the backyard when she moves to the sink in the final few minutes, she passes and the HMs enjoy their deserts.