[Kaz]

BIG Brother profits are facing meltdown after voting for evictions has plunged by around 40 per cent on the last series.

During the first four weeks of the show just 3.87 million votes have been cast compared to 6.5 million for the same period in series three.

At 25p per call or text, Big Brother four has made £967,500. This compares to £1,625,000 last year - a drop of £657,500.

Only 1.74 million votes were cast for Friday night's double eviction when loveable bore Jon Tickle and fiery Glaswegian waiter Federico Martone were kicked out - a huge drop on the 2.7 million votes made when Spencer Smith was thrown out at the same stage last year.

The sharp fall in voting is in contrast to a modest rise in viewing figures, with the first four weeks averaging 4.5 million, up three per cent on last year.

A Big Brother source said: "The bosses are really worried about the drop in voting. They are racking their brains to think up ways of jazzing up the series and there will be a lot more stunts. But at this rate there might not be a BB5."

Big Brother producer Endemol will be hoping that viewers will tune in as the tension begins to mount among the remaining seven contestants.

Full story from the Sunday Mirror

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Are you voting as much this year - if at all?

One reason people aren't voting so much at the evictions could be because they're spending more money on those stupid text messages! Someone somewhere must be making a huge profit from them.