Marco Nadia or Michelle - you decide

The newspapers and the bookies got it wrong again it would seem as Marco, Nadia and Michelle are up for eviction - and Jay is nowhere in sight.

11:29 30 June 2004

The newspapers and the bookies got it wrong again it would seem as Marco, Nadia and Michelle are up for eviction - and Jay is nowhere in sight.

Yesterday Coral were offering even money on Jason facing the public vote this week. William Hill thought Victor was the next most likely to go at 6/4.

They were proved utterly wrong.

The Daily Mirror got closer to the truth, predicting Marco and Nadia, but their "source" was once again not entirely right - as Michelle was also nominated. Last time they also only predicted two of the three housemates nominated (although that time two ended up in the bedsit and not on BBLB).

So what went wrong?

Firstly the housemates acted up. Jason did receive four votes, but Ahmed, Shell and Stuart failed to nominate the burly Scot. There were no surprises that Victor stood behind his muscly co-conspirator - but after Shell told Big Brother she was worried that Jason was a liability and that she did not want to share a house with him after the fight, it came as a bit of a shock to see her nominate Nadia and Marco.

Michelle joined the list of those up for eviction despite only receiving one vote.

Big Brother mixed things up once again and decided that new girl Becki was allowed one nomination and that that person would automatically face the public vote.

What is more, Big Brother said that she had to show the person she had selected by kissing them - she puckered up and pecked Michelle on both cheeks.

Marco and Nadia were nominated by Victor, Jason, Shell, and Ahmed. But then Jason was also nominated by four people - Dan, Marco, Michelle, and Nadia.

The key swing votes were Dan - who decided he didn't want to share a house with Marco (or after nominating Jason was trying to remove one or other of the explosive pairing); and Stu - who decided he wanted Nadia out (and inexplicably also voted for Shell).

Those up for eviction did not take it well.

Marco showed an unnatural awareness of who had voted for him - shouting at Victor: "Don't smile at me. You don't like me, so don't smile at me."

He then rounded on Ahmed, telling the oldest housemate that he was being used: "As soon as we've gone, you'll be up!" he yelled.

Ahmed seemed unaffected - replying he was "happy" that Marco is "receiving nomination".

Michelle didn't want to fight - she just despaired, crying out: "What's wrong with me? What am I doing wrong?"

The Geordie continued: "The only week I haven't been up is the week I couldn't be f****** nominated!"