Are they going to wait until the noms are over and put it to each of the nominated housemates that they have a choice…. take 25 K and go on the spot…. or add it to the pot. Would be a bit of a no brainer. Just take the dosh and run…. how many times are you going to be offered that kind of money for nothing.

Are there any real clues yet available as to how this extra 25K thing is going to work. The deceipt element suggests a screwing over friends situation to get the money.

Pav might as well take it,if it involves screwing people over.

I also think Pav should take it, not to screw people over, but because he knows full well he has no chance of winning and because he owes the other HMs sweet FA after the way he's been treated in the house.

I think the options (whatever they may be) will all work out so Helen gets the £25.000, BB has tried to force her down the publics throats, as being on a 'journey' but know now the public hate her, so this is their way of a consolation prize.

I meant that he's the only one that doesn't have to prove loyalty to anyone.

I think Helen will be set the moral dilema of selling her immunity for £25k

If it was 25% of the current prize fund then it would be much more of a moral dilemma, because they would be taking the money from the winner, but as an additional 25K that no one even knew about, I doubt anyone would NOT take it or that any of the others would be mad at someone for taking it....Except those that wish they had instead lol

Oh yeah… love it !! Forgot about that. I think you could well be right. Thing is she has had a big turnaround and if she did sell the immunity, it could work in her favor to winning the thing outright.

Why would they just want to give Helen money?

I was just about to post exactly that ... that money is Helens ... but I really hope I'm wrong. I also don't hate Helen I dislike everything about her and BB has been ruined by her and that bloody pass.

As consolation for not convincing us the GBP that she deserves to win. Another stupid twist because they failed. It would obviously not be straight forward, just giving it to her, but as someone else suggested, sell her immunity or ................but IMO this will be about Helen in some way.

They're not going to just give her 25k unless there was something in it for them. At the end of it all Big Brother's a business and businesses don't just give away large sums of money because they like someone.

well according to Emma's VT this Friday's Show will be packed full, but that is all she will say .... me thinks what ever going to happen with the 25K will be done live during Friday's show.

Conner twist comes to mind. What was in it for BB doing that? Nobody knows, it's only my opinion, that Helen will get something rather than nothing, as Conner did.

I have a feeling it will be the opposite and people who'd take the money will be exposed but won't get it.

So there will be no steal, but those who'd screw the others over Will maybe face eviction.

That really bugs me because it's the ones who know they're in with a shout of winning: Winston, Ashleigh etc who'll say "no way would I take the money" which will reinforce them as decent honest in the eyes of the viewers whereas for others who know they won't win (Pav Chris) 25 grand would be amazing so the ones who know they're popular have the choice of taking a paltry amount and being hated or having a good chance of the full amount and being more loved whereas less popular have a choice if sitting round for another fortnight with zero chance of winning or grab a slice of money and get out now.

It's a no brainer for both type of HMs.

A twist like this might work when no one knows what the public thinks if them but is completely pointless and predictable when HMs know exactly what the public think of them and what their chances are.

Didn't Emma say something along the lines of "They can add money to the prize fund by double crossing each other?".

I think it's within the realms of possibility that one such opportunity will be to put Helen up for eviction - probably given to either Ash or Helen herself, possibly Ashleigh if they want to reignite Ashleigh v Helen.

That is quite a good idea and if I was her I would take it.

In fact if I was any of them in there I would take 25K and run - they have no idea who is going to win (heck we aren't sure so what chance do they have? ). the only ones potentially who could gain from adding it to the pot are Ashleigh, Christopher and Winston but the only ones who maybe have an inkling that they are popular with the public are Winston and Ashleigh and even then its a gamble.

Take 25K and have a week on BOTS would be worth it imho.

I agree that certain hms should take it but Helen has a pass and had an easy ride... Ash has had a pass by default because of Helen (my opinion not fact btw) and Mark already has £5000 ...so apart from them any of the rest should grab it and run

Another thing I can see happening, someone will be given the chance to take Mark's £5000 and add it to the prize fund.

According to my friend who works for a popular magazine, BB contestants can earn as much as £25k for a : tell all magazine story and photo shoot:, they are all media aware, and will know what they can earn post BB, so why would they take risk being seen as a villain and not a decent housemate, theres more cash waiting for them outside the house, the end prize is not the cash pot, but media attention.

There is no point Helen losing her immunity during a face to face noms week as none of the HMs would dare to nominate her as there would be recriminations and shouts of "what the actual f ***" After all she did that if you nominated her friends let alone her.

The best chance of evicting her if the pass ever goes is during a regular in secret nomination round.

I think it might make it more interesting given that they know what the public think of them. Pav for example if he chose not to take the money knowing what he knows? Why on earth would he do that? Would it help his cause re winning, i.e. selfless etc, or would people just see it as game playing for that very reason?

Ashleigh for example - I think it might have been a no brainer for her if she didn't know she was popular i.e. take the money and run. However, now she does know how popular she is does it make the decision harder for her?

Also I think what will be interesting if they do do this, is how they other HMs treat the ones who make the decisions. Last year Dexter got all sorts of grief for making a similar potential decision - yet only a couple of weeks previously had been in conversations with people who had said that if they were given the opportunity to take the money and run that they would, yet when Dexter made potentially such a decision they gave him nothing but grief.

So if someone like Christopher takes the money but then doesn't leave, how will the other HMs treat him - particularly those who know they have the potential to win such as Winston and Ashleigh knowing that their prize fund is less?

Given I don't really care who goes stays or wins this year I think it will be interesting to see how the HMs react to the decisions being made and to the HMs making the decisions. The most interesting stuff will be if people are given money but then don't leave.

BB should give forum members a raffle ticket and the winner gets the £25k as a thank you for watching this crap to the bitter end.

They could do it after noms. See who is up and then say to helen you can have 25K now and go up for eviction with the others, or swap yourself for one of the others, or you don't have 25k, it gets added to the pot and you stay to the final. It doesn't have to be done as part of noms as I agree face-to-face they would never nominate her.

maybe it won;t just be Helen.