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Day 21: this week's shopping task - the result!
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"Bravery, courage and nerves of steel" were the characteristics Big Brother deemed necessary for the ultimate stage of the 5,4,3,2,1 shopping task which fell to the one housemate who had yet to get involved.

Despite Gina's protestations that she'd done her bit with "the four housemates and then... the lemons..." it was clear to one and all that she was up. To the rapturous chants of "Gina, Gina, Gina" she made her way to the Diary Room...
...where she stayed...
...for a really long time.

The source of her long stay was a sharp-edged revelation. Gina was to get strapped to a rotating wheel while a knife thrower did his thing. Big Brother had provided a contract for her to sign and she went over it with a fine toothcomb.

Watching from a screen on the sofas the housemates howled with mirth.

"Endemol versus Gina Rio. I wanna see that lawsuit," said Dexter.
After an eternity Gina proved to be game. She donned a silver suit and went into the garden where the knife-thrower, face painted a menacing white, and his assistant lay in wait.

"The knife thrower is a professional... He's only missed once," said the assistant as Gina made a barnyard's worth of scared sounds.

She hopped up on the wheel anyway and, for the second time, found herself upside down and screaming in the name of task success.

And guess what? She passed the task for everyone, securing 60 per cent of the shopping budget and ending the two-day task. It might not have been one hundred per cent, but they're pretty chuffed nonetheless. Farewell, chickpeas.

From living in luxury to spinning close to the edge, Gina's BB experience has been a thrill ride.