Smoke bomb

Rarely has an act of generosity provoked such a storm as was witnessed this morning in the Big Brother house.

16:23 08 June 2004

Rarely has an act of generosity provoked such a storm as was witnessed this morning in the Big Brother house.

Ahmed - who does not know he has been nominated for eviction by his housemates - blew his top over Marco's cigarettes.

"Hold on", you might say, "Marco doesn't smoke" - but this is the root of the problem.

Our Somalian friend was completely confused as to why a non-smoker like Marco would bring 300 cigarettes into the house.

"He bought them for me," replied Nadia. "And me!" added Emma.

"That's probably the most considerate thing ever," said Shell.

But Ahmed was not to be moved: "If I don't drink or I don't smoke, why should I bring [cigarettes or wine]?"

Moreover he was unimpressed at the effect all the passive smoking was having on him, and somehow it was Marco's fault - "So, Why did you bring [cigarettes]?" he ranted.

As the housemates chipped in to point out the 20 year old law student was just being friendly, Ahmed rounded on them too.

"Now you are defending him because he can give you cigarettes!" he yelled.

"What brought all that out?" asked Nadia in a brief lull in the ranting.

Ahmed finally confessed that he was annoyed about the effects of other people's smoke on him.

Of course, by then the damage had been done.

Our three blonde plotters retired to the bedroom to think things through.

After deciding that Marco was simply being generous Shell, Vanessa and Jason aired their grievances.

Ahmed had even managed to annoy the super-nice Shell.

The shepherdess confessed that at that time in the morning she really was not in the mood for a rant.

She said she was thinking: "Don't do this to me - I'm so bloody tired."

Vanessa was equally unimpressed.

"Just because [Ahmed's] a selfish g*t, doesn't mean everyone is like that," she moaned.

But Jay was more upbeat on the housemate he told to confront people and be more interesting.

"We're going be seeing that 'wacky' sense of humour," said the Scot, as the others laughed.

"There's got to be more to the guy than what he's portraying."