Big Brother plots 20k betrayal

Big Brother is going to test the spirit of the housemates still further, it has emerged.

12:25 16 July 2004

Big Brother is going to test the spirit of the housemates still further, it has emerged.

The group of contestants on this year's show have proved more militant than in any previous year, frequently uniting against the show's producers and Big Brother is now trying to find out where their loyalty really lies.

The Sun has reported today that producers will offer a single housemate 20,000 to throw a task.

If the task is failed then 20,000 will drop from the total prize fund, going directly into the bank balance of the contestant that sabotages the task.

Only Big Brother, the housemate in question and the viewers will be aware of the offer.

An insider from the show told the newspaper: "This is a plan to show just how greedy and scheming the housemates can be.

"The housemates will learn they have lost 20,000 from the prize fund - but won't realise it has gone straight into the saboteur's bank account.

"If the housemate refuses to spoil the task, he or she will be forbidden to tell the others or face instant eviction.

"This gives producers the scope to ask other housemates if they would be willing to take the cash bribe."

Meanwhile, Michelle has said that she is falling in love with Stu, while both have wept at the prospect of being separated.

"I hope Stu doesn't go on Friday," she told Big Brother in the Diary Room.

"I'm going to be sick, sick, sick. I feel numb - like all my blood has gone. It's so fabulous I found this person. I want to thank Big Brother for bringing this person into my life.

"I'm not saying I'm in love with Stu - but I'm falling in love with him."

She added: "I'll cry a lot and be very, very gutted [if he is evicted]."

Stuart told Big Brother he felt "a bit funny" when he considered it could be his "last full day in the Big Brother house".

He said he would miss Michelle the most if he left: "Because we've got so massively close in here."

Sitting in the big red chair his eyes started to well up and he shielded them with his eyes.

"It's just, it's just been, like, an emotional rollercoaster," he sobbed.

Realising he was crying in public the psychology student declared: "I'll have to do some press-ups or something after this, so I feel tough again."

That'll work Stu.