The housemates could potentially decide who goes...
 

If it was a head-to-head eviction with only 2 housemates up, whoever wins the save and replace task (providing it continues) could practically decide if they want the other nominee out by putting a housemate against them who they know would be popular outside and wouldnt go (Steve being the biggest example, Josie and Mario too - none that would get up by nominations itself for a while Id guess).

Would any of them play this dirty tactic, or would they fear their popularity within the house would decline? :spin:

I think if Shabby was against Ben and won, she might consider this as she seems to have a stong disliking to him and it would almost ensure he would leave and that would be 1 less nomination against her in the following weeks.

Yeh they have assumptions but these may not always be correct.

But this is another reason why chants from the crowd should NOT be played into the house, they should not be given an idea of what the popularity may be on the outside.

I think they should put all HMs up more at least once a month and do a vote to save. And they shouldn't tell HMs when they do this so that they are surprised when a fence sitter goes.

On DS, the Executive Producer said they had "some" eviction twists. Hopefully this task and replace one has now has it's day and is over with.

The HMs will be expecting it this week, so it's time to change.

Yeh there's nothing worse than HMs being able to predict and control what happens. They've completely worked out the Bob Righter thing as well.

Yup the Righter thing needs to stop or be something totally different that the evictee gets to chose on.........a 3rd pampering day next week would just be so tedious.

Bring back the Purple Ninja - he'd run in and custard pie/flan them - that was silly fun!

I hope someone does that, it will cause some tension.

I think it's gonna be Ben v Sunshine v Shabby this week, and I think whoever wins the S&R task will put Nathan up - Shabby probably thinks he's well liked and that he could get one of the other two out.

I''ve a feeling that Shabby, Caoimhe and Ife will all nominate Dave and Sunshine for some reason, so Dave will be in the mix. I know they all hate Ben, but getting rid of him didn't work......and they all constantly express their dislike of Dave...........go for the lieutenant rather than the general of Ben's clan.