Privates exposed to public

Big Brother has revealed to the house that all six of the "privates" in the army task will face the public vote.

17:07 13 July 2004

Big Brother has revealed to the house that all six of the "privates" in the army task will face the public vote.

This means that one of Ahmed, Dan, Nadia, Shell, Stuart or Victor will be leaving the house on Friday - precisely because of all the hard work they have put into passing the weekly task.

"What a twist," mused Victor.

The housemates are also now fully aware of Michelle and Jason's role in what happened, although they may well have cottoned on anyway.

To signal the end of the boot-camp task, Big Brother gathered the remaining contestants together and announced that they had passed. While the six housemates designated "privates" for the task celebrated winning a food budget and a privilege pass, Michelle and Jason, who took on the role of "sergeant" in the task, sat on stony faced.

As the celebrations died down the other housemates started to realise that their leaders were not joining in.

At this point the plasma screen switched itself on and replayed a clip of Michelle and Jason's visit to the Diary Room when they were told about the task, as well as the outcome of passing and failing.

Ahmed reacted instantly, after being berated for missing sentry duty, shouted at for not completing exercise drills and peeling hundreds of potatoes (not to mention the boot polishing, coal whitewashing and ironing) he discovered that all of this was done for Michelle and Jason's benefit.

This was all too much for the Somali housemate.

He immediately laid into Michelle, claiming she verbally abused him for her own sake.

"F**k off!" the Geordie replied, bursting into tears: "Get him away from me," she yelled as Shell and Nadia ran to hug her.

But by and large the six people facing eviction took the news on the chin.

"It's not the greatest thing that could have happened," noted Victor,

"I'm not blaming anybody... It's a good twist and all that," said Dan

"It's a s***ty situation but there's nothing we can do about it," concurred Slick.

Ahmed was the lone dissenter in amongst the Blitz spirit.

But Michelle had an answer for that:

"Ahmed - nobody cares about what you think," she explained.

Strange, I thought he wanted to be voted out.