Day 83: 21st August

They woke to find the house transformed with antique furnishings, not going unnoticed by the ever-observant Brian who remarked that it looked like "someone posh's house or summin".

The housemates were given elocution phrases that they had to recite back to Big Brother to pass the first part of this week's task and win a luxury shopping budget. Tracey immediately rebelled, refusing to talk posh before storming into the caravan to have a good cry.

With all the other housemates practicing their phrases, Jonty proved to be an excellent tutor, trying with all his might to get Brian to pronounce "how" followed by "now" before bravely completing this with "brown cow". It was initially unclear which was more difficult for the housemates, remembering the phrase or understanding how to pronounce it.

However, at the end it was obviously both, as they eventually failed the task miserably.

Having broken her microphone for the twelfth time, Amanda is punished by having to speak though a megaphone at all times, much to the amusement of her fellow housemates. If she's as cack-handed as she is with a toothbrush, however, Big Brother may have a nasty accident on its hands...