[Kaz]

(Story from Ananova)

Big Brother gets record eviction votes

More Big Brother fans have voted in tonight's eviction than ever before.

Nearly two million people have already placed their votes on whether Alex or Spencer should leave the house.

One of the housemates will be evicted live on Channel 4 tonight.

Graham Norton and Mis-teeq will be pledging support for Alex on Big Brother's Little Brother on E4 at 6.30pm, while Chris Moyles drops by to give his support to Spencer. The friends and family of Alex and Spencer will also be in the studio.

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WOW! That's incredible!

Have you voted yet? Just over three hours to go ...............

[marquee] Alex Must Stay! [/marquee]

[WILDCHILD]

Its gonna be good show tonight!!
And I reckon its gonna be so close.
I have voted to evict Spencer, even though I dont want either of them to go.

[LEE]

SPENCER is Evicted as 2,740,988 viewers vote in the Fourth Big Brother Eviction

The nation has cast its vote to evict the fourth Big Brother contestant. Following Lee’s eviction last week, the fourth person to leave the Big Brother house will be Spencer.

By the time phone lines closed at 8.35pm this evening, 2,740,988 viewers had cast their vote - the second highest vote for a Big Brother eviction (excluding finals) ever. The highest eviction vote was 3.3million for the 7th eviction of Big Brother I which saw Mel, Craig and Darren up for eviction.

Of the votes cast, 1,509,818 (55%) voted for Spencer and 1,231,170 (45%) voted for Alex.

Of the total votes cast, 50% (1,383,451) were made by phone, 24% (640,601) were made up of interactive votes and 26% (712,271) were made by text.

[Janette]

Just shows how popular they both are!

It's a shame this duel happened so early

[disco]

How can C4 explain the increase in voting giving that both BMRB and MORI and the Sun Poll have concluded that BB3 is nowhere near as popular as the BB2?

Five possibilities:

- MORI has suddenly lost it's ability to produce reliable consumer surveys
- Channel Four is being economical with the truth
- Each fan is making more votes than last year
- A greater percentage of the audience is inclined to vote this year
- Betting syndicates...

[James]

Big Brother is getting higher ratings this year, so that would account for the increased number of votes.