That was a great eviction, it still gives me goosebumps.
The tension as Davina takes us live to the house where we see the housemates dancing and having fun.
Then the party music momentarily gets turned down so that the housemates can hear BB's voice "This is Big Brother.........would Stuart come to the diary room". Viewers are like - wtf Stuart??? As alot of people were predicting either Shell or Jason.
Stuart, in good spirits, dances to the diary room taking some balloons with him. Then he sits down, still enjoying the music, and talks about what a great time they are having.
Then BB tells him about the viewers voting for their fave to win, Stuart's like "Right? *gulp*", and that a vote count has been taken and the person with the lowest number of votes will be leaving tonight. "Stuart, YOU are that housemate. You will not be returning to the house, everyone is waiting for you, you will be evicted NOW."
Stuart: "Wooooah! *slowly lets go of the balloons*.......okay".
Then he gives a half happy half sad message to BB thanking them for the experience.
Then he kind of kills the atmosphere a bit by asking if he can go to the toilet. But BB just blanks him, there's no time for that of course.
Then BB turns off the party music in the house so that they can hear the crowd cheering and chanting Stuart's name as he leaves, sending them into a panic. They don't know whether to be devastated and shocked if he's been evicted or happy because with that crowd reaction maybe he has actually won it instead???
The sheer positivity coming from the crowd made it seem like a huge event, and although people felt bad for him, it was still a pretty momentous way to go out.
Unfortunately the copy they did of it in CBB3 with Lisa while the housemates were playing hide and seek didn't have quite the same effect as she was rather unpopular and got booed instead.