Euro 2004 Football task

[LEE]

Big Brother Housemates Face Euro 2004 Task

The Big Brother housemates will be set football-themed weekly task tomorrow, Sunday 13 June: Each housemate will be asked to adopt a competing country’s team, become their number one fan and create their own costume, Euro 2004 mascot and be on stand-by to perform their own victory dance on behalf of their adopted country at Big Brother’s request.

The task will begin tomorrow when a housemate will be called into the diary room to receive the instructions and rules. The task will finish on Wednesday.

If housemates complete the task successfully they will be rewarded with a Big Brother privilege pass. This pass will be redeemable against a choice of rewards, including catching some of the England Vs Switzerland match with beer and pies, OR exercise machines for the week.

Details of the task are as follows:

OPENING CEREMONY (Sunday)
The housemates will be provided with materials to make a mascot outfit for their chosen country’s team. On Sunday night the housemates will stage their own opening ceremony in the Big Brother garden. Each housemate, dressed as their team’s mascot, will burst from the house to the sound of a fanfare and make their debut performance of their mascot’s victory dance in the garden.

MASCOT VICTORY DANCING (Monday)
On Monday morning, housemates will receive instructions for the next stage of the task - to perform a Mascot Victory Dance. At regular intervals, commentary from fictitious football matches between two of the housemates’ adopted teams will be played into the house, for example Greece V Spain.

The housemates of those two adopted countries have just 3 minutes to get up from wherever they are, don their mascot outfits, run to the garden and perform the victory dance in the ‘Big Brother Football Stadium’ (set up in the garden). Both mascots must be there within 3 minutes, a goal will be scored at the end of the 3 minutes and the mascot of that country will then perform their victory dance in the face of the other housemate. The victory dance must be performed within the time limit or they fail.

Learning The Football Chant (Tuesday)
As well as continuing the mascot victory dances, the housemates will also be given a football chant to learn in 3 different languages.

The Football Chant (Wednesday)
Whenever the housemates hear the national anthem of a country they have just 45 seconds to run to the ‘Big Brother Football Stadium’ in the garden, put on football scarves and hats within 45 seconds and perform the chant in the language of that country.


Rules of the Task

· Countries to choose from: England, France, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Holland.

· The storeroom is stacked with props for each housemate to build their country’s mascot. Props will include a mascot head, baggy football shorts, long football socks, plain t-shirt, national flag and a sash.

· They will be given sewing kits, beads, felt, ribbons and all manner of materials to decorate their outfits.

· If the housemates arrive late or perform the chants or dances incorrectly three or more times then they will fail the task.

[Kore]

weyhey, this shud be fun!, I feel sorry for the housemate going france, :spin::bouncy:

[BigSister]

Yeah i agree this should be fun:wavey:

[Kore]

Who do you think is going to win euro 2004, while we are talking about it?, lol :dance::hello::hello:

[ribbonstring5145]

this sounds a bit like the superhero task from last year doesn't it? lol i bet theyl reuse the old phone box:hugesmile:

[dustmite]

Well, as I loathe football... I hope the stadium is the patch of nettles :devil:

[rachb]

Oh no please don't bring the football into bb:bawling::bawling::bawling:
I'm so fed up of football already and its only day1:bawling::bawling:
I tried to get myself away from it by going shopping and they were playing football songs in the shops:bored::bored:
I can't get away from it and now its invaded bb aswell:bored::bored:

[Hooly One]

I can't wait to see this!:laugh:

[kaphc]

This sounds like a really good task! I think whoever was on the team for BB4 must have been kept on.

Looking forward to seeing the victory dances already!

[Kanye_West]

Holland are gonna win Euro 2004.

Im a bit gutted cos ill be at work when england play the swiss!!!

All through the year the women in the shop... "OHHH I HATE FOOTBALL, I GUESS ITS A BOLKE THING, I HATE IT ILL NEVER WATCH IT!!"

Euro 2004 comes i tell the boss to whack the women in who say they arnt innterested in football.. Then when the time comes "OHH NO IM GOING TO WATCH ENGLAND. I CANT WAIT, THE PUB..."

What are you on about lass!!! Im just gonna pull a sicky!!! lol!!

:laugh::laugh:

[Sunny_01]

England - England - England :joker::joker::joker::joker:

[rachb]

I'm one of those moaning women then:laugh::laugh:
I don't mind watching the actual football its all the talking about it thats the problem.If we didn't have to have the half hour before the match predicting what will happen,then the bit in the middle talking about what has happened and what will happen next,then the bit at the end :rolleyes::rolleyes: it wouldn't be so bad
:laugh::laugh::laugh:
although this task sounds quite good fun and if it clashes with the real football tonight it will be a blessing:laugh::laugh:

[Sunny_01]

I agree Rach - I like the footie but it is the weeks leading up to something like this and then the weeks after and all the bits in between when all they do is yak about footie that bug me :devil:

[Kanye_West]

i dissagree sorry... so in your idea we just watch 90minutes then go "Ohh jolly weve just won the european championships" then we dont mention it again.. yeah sure..

[LEE]

I'm sure we all drive our non bbfan friends mad about BB all the time as well. You can't be a fan of something and not talk about it.

[Sunny_01]

I know what you are saying Lee - the thing that bothers me is the closet footie fans who are all sporting england flags and shirts and talk abotu it as if their world depends upon it when they possibly never go to a footie match :devil:

[Kanye_West]

innit.. i love my footie. Just like you all talk about your big brother! I aint no glory hunter i aint no Scumchester United fan. QPR thru n thru!! go every home match cos i luv em

Post closed about footie :) more of the task.

[dustmite]

Originally posted by Kanye_West
i dissagree sorry... so in your idea we just watch 90minutes then go "Ohh jolly weve just won the european championships" then we dont mention it again.. yeah sure..
Only if you support football. I hate football, always have, always will. I certainly won't be celebrating if we win anything. Is that a lack of national pride, or whatever? No, actually, it's just that I don't like football, thus I'm not going to feign a pathetic interest in something just because 'we' are playing.

[Sunny_01]

good on yer dutmite lol

[rachb]

Sorry didn't mean to start a debate on the right and wrongs of football:bored:
I don't enjoy it thats my opinion and I know there are lots of people who love it and I listen to them talk about it just as they listen to me go on about bb.The point that I was trying to make was that Big Brother doesn't get a look in amongst the football footage so why does the football interfere with Big Brother:bored:
never mind I'm sure it will be a good task regardless of your views on football:thumbs:

[Sunny_01]

lol

[LEE]

Originally by Kayne_West
QPR thru n thru!! go every home match cos i luv em
I'm a QPR fan as well Kayne, they're my clients :thumbs:

[LEE]

The housemates have just been given the details of this task, Stu is reading the laminate out now.

[Sunny_01]

yay :bouncy:

[LEE]

They've now got all the stuff to make the costumes and they all think it's brilliant.

Victor is France
Stu, England
Dan, Greece
Shell, Holland
Nadia, Portugal (Surprise, surprise lol)


Not sure of the others yet.

[Sunny_01]

Well I am sure Marco will want to be whoever wears a pink kit lol - My posts are going down Lee why is that then ?

[BigSister]

Vanessa: Sweden
Marco: Spain
Ahmed: Italy (I think)

Not sure about Jason

[LEE]

Originally posted by Sunny_01
My posts are going down Lee why is that then ? I think the member of the day is always the past 24 hours from the current time, so you've lost some of your posts from yesterday.

I think thats the case anyway, I'll check with Mark when he comes online later.

[LEE]

Originally posted by Sunny_01
Well I am sure Marco will want to be whoever wears a pink kit lolHe started off in pink but has now found a long piece of blue fabric that he's thrown round his shoulders and is running round the house like a kite. Dan has just put on a very camp voice and said 'Oooh, give a puff a piece of cloth', which Marco found hilarious :laugh:

[Sunny_01]

Lol now that is why I like Dan - he can get away with that kind of stuff - I can imagine Marco now the flitting footie fan :elephant:

[boox12]

he that would be funny seeing marco in a pink footie kit don't you think:laugh:

[Sunny_01]

it would be soooo him lol :elephant:

[boox12]

the elephant looks like the great suit 4 him :elephant:

[Hooly One]

LOL!:elephant:

[boox12]

poor marco we he was sick on the round-about

[Hooly One]

Yes but it was funny:joker:

[boox12]

yeah what do u think of jason

[Hooly One]

Jay loves himself, he's always in front of a mirror

[boox12]

he who do u think he likes vanessa or dan or none

[Julia L]

Jay seems to be keeping more to himself over the last few days. As I quite like Nadia, I didn't like the way he was being nice to her face then being nasty behind her back.

As for the footie task, this'll be really good fun to watch *looks forward to seeing Dan in his outfit*

[Sunny_01]

I think that Nadia is sweet but I cant stand Marco he is far to camp for my liking but hey everyone to there own

[boox12]

what do u all think of ahmed

[Hooly One]

Yep, he get's on my nerves to with his campy behavior

[boox12]

elephant dancer:elephant: hate him

[Hooly One]

LOL:thumbs:

[boox12]

jason the devil:devil: do u like him

[Hooly One]

Nope, i can't stand him..

I'd hate to have to share a house with him and vic

[boox12]

he is ok somnetimes i think he is playing a game

[Hooly One]

He is playing a game, but he thinks no one has noticed he is

[boox12]

little does he know

[Hooly One]

Yep:thumbs:

[boox12]

:spin2:

[Hooly One]

I also don't like vanessa, i think she's fake

[boox12]

do u

[LEE]

PRESS RELEASE

Big Brother Housemates Get Into Euro 2004 Mood As They Begin Their Weekly Task

The Big Brother housemates have been set a football-themed weekly task today, Sunday 13 June.

At 2pm today (Sunday) Stuart read out the instructions below:

“Your second weekly task has a football theme. Each housemate must represent a European football team. You must choose which country you wish to represent from the list provided. Each housemate must create an original mascot costume to wear to represent the country of their choice. All costumes must consist of the following items: a mascot head, the chosen country’s flag worn as a cape, a t-shirt, a pair of shorts or a skirt.”

“Once the costumes are complete the housemates must each devise a ten-second mascot dance. Big Brother will require all housemates to perform their mascot dances in full costume later today. “

On hearing details of the task Marco exclaimed “How much fun, that is wicked…what a great task.” Immediately the housemates claimed their teams. Ahmed and Stuart both wanted to represent England. Stuart however won the toss, so Ahmed had to settle for representing Italy. The other housemates will represent the following teams;

Victor – France
Nadia – Portugal
Vanessa – Sweden
Marco – Spain
Stuart - UK
Shell - Holland
Jason - Germany
Daniel - Greece
Ahmed - Italy

The housemates will be given more instructions for tonight’s Big Brother Football Opening Ceremony later today. The task will finish on Wednesday.

If housemates complete the task successfully they will be rewarded with a Big Brother privilege pass. This pass will be redeemable against a choice of rewards.

More details of the first part of the task are as follows:

OPENING CEREMONY (Sunday)
Each country will be announced in alphabetical order. When each country is announced, the ceremonial music will sound and the housemate representing that country, dressed as their team’s mascot, must go to the garden, bow, announce their country and make their debut performance of their mascot’s victory dance. The dance must last no longer than 10 seconds.

After the opening ceremony, the housemates will be treated to a European buffet.


Rules of the Task

· Housemates must each choose one country form the following list: England, France, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Holland.

· The storeroom is stacked with props for each housemate to build their country’s mascot. Props will include a mascot head, baggy football shorts, long football socks, plain t-shirt, national flag and a sash.

· They will be given sewing kits, beads, felt, ribbons and all manner of materials to decorate their outfits.

· Housemates must not use items from their own wardrobe as part of their costume (apart from underwear and shoes).

· If the housemates arrive late or perform the task incorrectly three or more times then they will fail the task.

[Hooly One]

:hugesmile:

I can't wait for the task to start, it will be funny

[boox12]

..... can't wait

[Hooly One]

So who's watching the england v france match?

I will, i hope england wins.. :thumbs:

[LEE]

I might go over to my gym to watch it later cos they're laying on free food in the bar for the match and it should be a good atmosphere as well.

[Hooly One]

Yes there doing the same at the local sports center, down the road from where i live. I'm tempted to go, but i'd look odd going by myself and most of my friends are going out to watch it in a pub

[LEE]

They've just been given the laminate about the opening ceremony :hugesmile:

[dustmite]

And it seems that as a reward they get food... any bets that it contains the cake that Emma and Michelle have been working on? A special cake, full of chilli, chilli seeds and red hot chilli powder...

[LEE]

BB have had the housemates locked in the bedroom for ages supposedly getting ready for the task. Whats the betting they were all really watching the footie and now it's finished we should expect a 'This is Big Brother.....' announcement for the start of the opening ceremony any time now :laugh:

[LEE]

AS Victor has just said 'Howcome it took them so long to set this up'

As I said - they were waiting for the match to finish :laugh:

[dustmite]

As Marco bites into the cake... and looks slightly confused... and starts feeling sick, aw, he's warned them that it has chilli in it.

[LEE]

I've just put 2 pages of pics of the opeinng ceremony in the Gallery.

CLICK HERE (http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=131&page=1) to view them.

[Hooly One]

Standing On Ceremony
Day 17, 22:30
Sunday 13 June
Watch this clip


The housemates kicked off the football-themed task sporting self-made national costumes and performing dances for the "opening ceremony".

Gripping Big Brother's instructions Nadia gathered the gang in the living room, telling them that they would shortly have to congregate in the garden.

Each housemate would have to perform their mascot dance for 10 seconds when the country they were representing was announced.

They would also be provided with a European buffet on completion of the task.

Shrieking as Nadia finished reading the commands, the housemates rushed to the bedroom to throw on their costumes. Ahmed seemed more reticent however, intently studying the information as if trying to commit it to memory.

The other housemates twittered animatedly as they got ready. Marco was worried that his rabbit headgear would come adrift, grumbling, "How insecure does this thing feel?"

National pride?


"I can't believe we've got a buffet," said a delighted Stuart - several times.

The Leeds University student took one last opportunity to practise his dance in the bedroom as others bustled around the room preparing for the task. Ahmed retired to his bed in quiet contemplation once he was in costume.

Finally summoned to the garden decking area the housemates' commenced the ceremony, largely greeted with supporting yelps and claps.

Representing England, Stuart was first up and performed his dance to whoops, shrieks and an awestruck, "That was amazing," from Vanessa.

Not all efforts were so favourably received with Emma booing Victor's dance from her vantage point in the Bedsit.

Symbolising France the Londoner concluded, "Voulez vous couches avec moi?" but this did not receive any 'yes's' from the ladies in the group.

But a chicken-headed Shell's inspired use of maracas in her routine and Marco's limb-wafting dance were both crowd pleasers.

We're football crazy, we're football mad.

Offcial site -> http://bigbrother.channel4.com/bigbrother/news/newsstory.jsp?id=5776

[Kore]

France are lucky gits , lolol, i felt sorry for your country guys :bawling:, i wanted them to beat the arrogant french ( no offence if your french and not arrogent) :spin2::thumbs:

[BusyBee]

I know BB can change the rules, but allowing them to watch the footie again. Poor old Dean and Bubble would have given anything to watch a match and were refused because they had to have no contact with the outside world. Still BB reserves the right to change its mind.

[LEE]

They have just received the laminate for the second part of the task :thumbs:

[Hooly One]

She Shoots, She Scores!
Day 18, 14:45
Monday 14 June

This week's task continued today with the arrival of a laminate explaining the next stage of the event.

Yesterday, the housemates prepared their outfits and dances, then performed in an Opening Ceremony in which each housemate represented a different participating European country.

And this morning they were told that they will receive a signal, at random, which will specify two countries. The housemates representing those countries will need to get into their self-designed costumes and don their mascot hats within 2 minutes and 45 seconds. The duo, all kitted up, then have to stand in opposite ends of the garden's recently painted football pitch, and listen to a piece of commentary. One team will score a goal, at which point the housemate whose team hits the back of the net will have to perform his or her ten second victory dance.

Nadia celebrates with her victory dance


No sooner had the housemates digested the rules than the words "France and Portugal" were boomed into the House by Big Brother. Victor and Nadia took it as read that they should get dressed and rush to the miniature football pitch in the garden.

Once there, they followed Big Brother instructions - to stare at one another while match commentary was played into the House, and then for the match winner (in this case Portugal / Nadia) to perform ten seconds worth of the victory dance.

The duo successfully completed the task in the allotted time.