That was harsh

Aye, they're hard-faced tickets these days. It's all about their own game.

They don't even want to be seen associated with them. They have the social equivalent of the plague.

Nasty lot.

Evil Dan was hugging Gina.

But it took a while. They really are a self centred lot this year. I can't remember this ever happening before.

over reaction?

They were sat in silence because they thought there was more to come..paranoia central in the house..im quite sure they will give their hugs shortly after.
Dan already consoled gina..the only one who likely wont is wolfy who is becoming more and more obnoxious each day.

Only because he was sat next to her, he ignored the other two.

Bullies the lot of em

Hardly..........they were told they could leave and just wanted to get outside, I am sure as an afterthought they will do the right thing but its not nice.

Just what I want to watch people with no reaction = great t.v.

i hope this shows people that dan isn't some great villan, in fact he's one of the nicest ones in there.

They know that they couldn't say anything to Dexter without seeming like utter hypocrits

How so?because he hugged the one person he did not nominate.

I'm with SG-1 - The reason they didn't react is because they thought there was more announcment to come.
By the time they were told they could leave the sofas it had all got too awkward to react normally

because he was the only one out of 13 people to try to console one of the people up for eviction!

But only the one he was sitting next to and did not nominate.

To be fair to Dan he did touch Gina's arm to reassure her.
To even consider it would have been welcome to Gina.
At that moment anything would be nice.

Because I don't know if anyone noticed it but did you see how hard Gina was breathing? She looked like she was going to start hyperventilating.

But they were willing to fill the silence with conversations about the decor They knew it was over just none of them wanted to be seen mixing with the social pariahs

Dan did hug Gina to his credit but I don't think he'd have got up to do so. It was because he was sitting next to her.

Spot on.

And on BOTS we just saw they are talking about it now,its not like it was just ignored.
Hazel was talking to Jemima about it.

The fault was with the announcer who should have said immediately after the announcement HMs may now leave the area.

Because it was an awkward silence..people usually talk about rubbish when theres an awkward silence.

I think people in the forum this year are reading more into things than Dan in the house.

I do think the fault lay with BB, but they wanted them to remain on the sofas because of the live feed

It's their first noms announcement, and the way the announcer stressed the last 'annnd' before he said 'they will face the public vote this week' (or however he phrased it) in combination with their not being released immediately from the sofas, PLUS their paranoia that there was a twist coming is what lead to that awkward, protracted silence - NOT a lack of compassion or basic good manners on the part of the hms

Mostly BB's fault

Housemates were expecting another announcement, I think BB should just say 'that is all'' or something. That was so boring watching them sit in silence, maybe they will learn from this.