Day 9
V/O: 9:43pm. All of the housemates are awake in the bedroom. Caitlyn and Laura are doing their hair in the mirror, whilst Spencer and Tanvir are talking in bed.
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Spencer: It’s going to be weird without Leon, I can tell you that…
Tanvir: (nodding) Yeah. True, that’s true. It’ll take a while to get used to.
Spencer: I’ll miss him… I mean, you know, in a dude kind of way.
Tanvir: Oh, yeah, yeah.
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V/O: 10:00am. Vivienne, Eloise and Greg are in the bathroom.
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Eloise: Are you cooking this morning, Greg?
Greg: Billy’s volunteered for today. He said it’ll be easier now that there are fewer of us to cook for, or something along those lines.
Eloise: Oh. I thought you’d asked to do it, that’s all.
Greg: No, I did… but Billy plays by his own rules, doesn’t he? Ha ha.
Vivienne splashes her face with water from the basin.
Vivienne: Ah…. cold, cold, cold…
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V/O: 10:32pm. All housemates are eating breakfast in the dining area.
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Jackson: (to Billy) Really nice stuff, this, Billy. Thanks.
Billy looks up.
Billy: Oh, oh yeah. Mmm.
Candie: Feels quite odd with an empty seat, there, doesn’t it?
The other housemates silently agree.
Simon: But moping around won’t bring anyone back, will they? Let’s just eat our bacon, eh?
Billy: (muttering) Oh, shut the ****** up…
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V/O: 11:38pm. Some of the housemates are in the garden, discussing last night.
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Laura: (to Tisha) Really, I was so nervous, you knew that. It was ******ing petrifying and we’ve only been here for a week. God knows how I’m going to cope when I’m up again! I’ll probably s**t myself, no joke.
Tisha: Ew.
Jackson: I was nervous too, to be fair, and I wasn’t even up, man. It’s what Big Brother does to you, you know.
Laura: Totally.
Vivienne: Well, we’re all going to be up for a public vote at one point or another – we may as well accept that and make the most of the time that we’ve got in here!
Priscilla: Very bloody true.
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V/O: 12:13pm. Nadine has come to the diary room to talk to Big Brother.
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Big Brother: Hello, Nadine. How are you today?
Nadine: Good, yes, thanks. I’m good. I didn’t manage to get much sleep tonight because everyone was up rather late talking about the eviction and all things like that, but once I drifted off, I was good. In a way, I am beginning to miss home a touch, but that’s just because I’m not used to with strangers like this, and certainly not in a different country to the one I’ve spent most of my life in. But I’m settling in much more than I was.
Big Brother: Who do you feel has helped you feel more at home in the house, Nadine?
Nadine: Priscilla’s been lovely to me, very adoptive. She’s been quite miserable at times, I’ll admit that, but that just proves that she’s human. And Greg’s lovely to me as well, and I can have talks with Simon about Ireland, and there are lots of other really lovely people in here, yes. Granted, there are a few that I don’t get on with, but I’m being civil.
Big Brother: Who is it that you are not getting on with, Nadine?
Nadine: If I’m being honest, I’d say Billy, Tanvir and Spencer, because they seemed to have formed a clique in here. They don’t tend to like to talk to the rest of us which can come off as rude, especially when Leon was here. The two younger boys tend to look up to Billy as some sort of replacement father just because he’s older than them, and that seems ridiculous to me. After all, Billy can act more immaturely than the two of them combined.
Big Brother: If that's all, Nadine, thank you. The diary room door is now open.
Nadine briefly smiles and leaves the diary room, returning to the living area.
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V/O: 1:59pm. Tisha, Laura, Spencer and Caitlyn are hatching a plan in the bedroom.
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Spencer: So, yeah, Edwin’s been in the loo for ages, so just before he comes out, we put this bucket on top of the doorframe and wait for the magic to work!
Tisha: Wait, why we doing this again? Short attention span and s**t.
Spencer: For a laugh! Put some colour into this dull house.
Tisha: Oh yeah.
Laura: It’ll be the first time he’s got wet, let’s be fair.
Caitlyn laughs.
Caitlyn: Oh, you guys are cruel! But I like you.
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V/O: 2:04pm. Tisha, Laura, Spencer and Caitlyn are in the living area, putting their plan into action.
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Laura: (whispering) Quick, he’s coming…
Spencer places a bucket of water onto the doorframe and the housemates wait.
Caitlyn: Where is he?
Tisha tries the doorknob.
Tisha: It’s unlocked, he ain’t even in here.
She opens the door to see an empty toilet.
Spencer: Tish, the bucket!
The bucket falls from the door frame and the water soaks Tisha. She lets out a piercing scream.
Tisha: ******’s sake! S**t, s**t, s**t, mother******ing s**tty twat! It’s so cold! S**tting Christ!
Caitlyn: Oh, love… that didn’t really go to plan…
Several worried housemates run into the living room, before bursting into laughter.
Edwin: What the bugger happened here?
Simon: Well, I think that’s your shower for the day, Tisha! Ha ha.
Tisha: It’s not ******ing funny!
Tisha runs off to the bedroom, flailing her arms around.
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V/O: 3:06pm. All housemates have been gathered in the living area for today’s task.
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Big Brother: Housemates. Big Brother has noticed that your behaviour as of late has been less than decorous. Therefore, Big Brother would like all housemates to visit Big Brother’s Correctional Facility for Unruly Housemates in order to allow housemates to straighten up. All housemates will be assigned a small room for them to take a long, hard look at themselves in, whilst performing mundane tasks to get their behaviour back to normal. If all housemates behave to Big Brother’s standards by the end of the task, you will have passed the task and you will be rewarded.
Candie: I’ve only just done my hair, as well!
Jackson: Hey, I’m sure I can rock one of them grey outfits!
Tanvir: Not as much as me, you can’t. I’m the don of rocking outfits.
Eloise: Alright, boys, handbags down!
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V/O: However, what housemates don’t know is that this is not the real task. Only two housemates will be performing mundane tasks, whilst the others will be having a party, complete with food, drinks and music. In order to pass the task, the two housemates carrying out their mundane tasks must be convinced that all housemates are doing the same as they are.
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Big Brother: This is Big Brother. Will the first two housemates come to the diary room to be assigned their rooms?
Vivienne: Okay, so who wants to go first?
Billy: I’ll go. I’m not scared of nothing.
Priscilla: If he’s going, I’m bloody going, too!
Greg: Everyone agreed on Billy and Priscilla, then?
Some of the housemates nod, others talk amongst themselves.
Greg: Billy and Priscilla it is. Go smash it, you two!
Billy and Priscilla enter the diary room and are led through a corridor to their rooms by a warden. The two change into their facility outfits, and are given their individual tasks. Billy must paint a wall and watch it dry, whilst Priscilla must write a twenty-page essay on life in the Big Brother house.
Tisha: I’m so ******ing nervous about this! What if it’s something that I can’t do?
A message appears on the plasma screen.
Simon: Look, something’s happening…
’Housemates’, reads the message. ‘Big Brother has informed you that for today’s task, housemates must complete boring, mundane tasks until they have realised the errors of their ways, to a standard which Big Brother is happy with. This is not the real task. In fact, the real task is as follows’.
Candie: Don’t leave us hanging, Big Brother!
The screen changes slide. The message continues, ‘all housemates bar Billy and Priscilla will in fact be enjoying a secret party in the task room, with food, alcohol and music. Housemates must convince Billy and Priscilla that you were performing similar, mundane tasks as them for the entire time, and not enjoying yourselves at a party. If you manage to do so, you will all pass the task. Will all housemates please access the task room via the diary room?
Eloise: I’m liking the sound of this a lot more now!
Tanvir: (to Eloise:) You and me both!
Housemates go through to the task room, where they discover the party that has been set up for them. In order to keep up the illusion, housemates have also been supplied with facility uniform, which they must get dressed into at Big Brother’s command..
Edwin:Mmm… I don’t like mine, can’t I wear a cravat with it?
Big Brother: Housemates, enjoy your party! Though do be warned – at some point during the party, the music will stop, and Big Brother will let Billy and Priscilla into the room for five minutes in order to take a break. It is here that you must convince them that you have also been busy working hard on your respective tasks, and not having a party. Housemates, do you understand?
A resounding chorus of ‘yes’ – and one ‘hell yeah!’ – sound and the party begins.
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V/O: 3:43pm. Most of the housemates have been enjoying a party for the past twenty six minutes.
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Caitlyn: I’m getting pissed and it’s still light outside! Amazing!
Nadine and Edwin are sat in the corner, drinking lemonade.
Edwin: (to Nadine) How very dreary this is.
Nadine: Mmm.
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V/O: Meanwhile, Billy and Priscilla are in their correctional facility rooms. Billy is halfway through painting a second coat on his wall, whilst Priscilla is four and a quarter pages through writing her twenty-page essay.
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Billy: (shouting over the dividing wall to Priscilla) How do you think the rest are doing, Prissy?
Priscilla: Don’t you bloody call me that, you little scamp. And well, I’d presume. Yes.
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V/O: 5:08pm. Most of the housemates are in the task room, enjoying a party which has been going on for the past two hours and fifty one minutes.
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The music in the task room stops.
Tisha: I was doing the Single Ladies dance, BB, do you mind?
Greg: Shh, the outfits! They’ll be coming in a sec.
The housemates hurriedly change into their facility uniforms.
Candie: (looking at her outfit) They’ve got name badges and everything!
Jackson: (to Vivienne) Do you think my bum looks big in this?
Billy and Priscilla then enter through a door. Priscilla wipes her brow.
Priscilla: Oh, are we late to the party, then? Not that this is anything as fun as a party, but we’ll manage, eh?
Edwin: Oh, erm… yes…
Billy: None of you guys are sweating nearly enough! Are your tasks any easier than ours, then?
Tanvir: (to Billy) Still tricky as ******, man. We all deserve this break.
Tisha: Amen to that, bruh!
Several of the housemates give their best brooding looks, pretending to be exhausted. Candie daps some water on a cloth and rubs it across her face.
Simon: I’ll tell you what, I don’t exactly want to go back into that room in a hurry! I bet I’ve jinxed it, now, I bet.
An alarm noise sounds, the warden enters the room and tells housemates to return to their stations. He escorts Billy and Priscilla first, and shuts the door behind him. The music then re-starts and the party continues.
Tisha: (singing) Up in the club, just broke up, doing my own little thing…
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V/O: 6:32pm. Billy and Priscilla are in their facility rooms. They have been performing their individual mundane tasks for the past three hours and five minutes. Billy is now watching his fifth coat dry, whilst Priscilla is towards the end of the fifteenth page of writing her twenty-page essay.
Billy: Who knew painting could be this ******ing dull?...
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V/O: Meanwhile, some of the housemates are playing drinking games in the task room.
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Caitlyn: (to Eloise) How many times do you need the rules of beer pong explained to you, Eloise? You just throw it into one of the cups!
Eloise: Oh, okay…
Eloise throws the ball in the direction of the cups. It misses.
Vivienne: We’d better wrap things up soon. I think Spencer’s getting a little light-headed!
Spencer: Oi, I am not!
Edwin: (muttering to Nadine) And not an hour too late, I say…
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V/O: 7:11pm. The majority of housemates are at the party, whilst Billy and Priscilla are still in their respective rooms.
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Big Brother: This is Big Brother. Would all housemates please leave their rooms and gather at the sofas immediately?
Priscilla: At last, we’re free! Thank bloody god for that. I felt like Jeffrey Archer.
Billy and Priscilla leave their stations and the rest of the housemates leave the task room. All housemates then sit of the sofas.
Priscilla: You’re all seeming very merry. I take it your tasks weren’t writing a ******ing dissertation.
Big Brother: Congratulations, housemates. Big Brother believes that you have all completed your tasks to Big Brother’s standard, and the task is now over. However, some housemates performed better than others.
Billy: Oh, here we go the preferential treatment…
Big Brother: Billy. Priscilla. Big Brother told you that all housemates had to perform individual mundane tasks to Big Brother’s standard in order to pass the overall task. This was a lie.
Priscilla: You cheeky bunch of so-and-sos!
Candie: Ha ha! Did we manage to fool you two?
Big Brother: Whilst Billy and Priscilla were slaving away, the rest of the housemates were enjoying themselves at a party hosted by Big Brother. In order to pass the real task, housemates had to convince Billy and Priscilla that they too were carrying out these mundane chores. Big Brother can now reveal that housemates have passed their secret task, and the whole house have won a luxury hamper for later on tonight.
Simon: Yes! I knew we could do it!
Billy: I knew there’d be some kind of twist. There always is.
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V/O: 9:35pm. Some of the housemates are enjoying food delivered in the hamper they won as part of today’s task in the living area.
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Caitlyn: (in between mouthfuls) Lush cheese, isn’t it?
Greg: (to Caitlyn) Very!
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V/O: Meanwhile, Priscilla and Nadine are in the hideaway.
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Priscilla: (to Nadine) I knew it, I should have smelled a rat the minute me and Billy had to go in together.
Nadine: Oh, come on, it was just a bit of fun. And we won a prize at the end of it, didn’t we?
Priscilla: And a rat’s not all I smelled, I had to put up with his sweaty pits for four hours. All he had to do was paint a ******ing wall. Hardly rocket science. I’m not bloody happy.
Nadine: Oh, well! We had a laugh! And that's rare for me.
Priscilla: You may have. I had to spend half my day write twenty pages about that load of twats.
Priscilla leaves the hideaway goes for a cigarette.
Nadine: …mmm?
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