It might be interesting to see whether BB has come up with a new way to manipulate the outcome tonight or will resort to one of the old tricks.

A poll should appear with more than "yes" or "no" as options, but I haven't yet decided on precisely what the options will be.

Edit: Options have been decided and should soon appear.

I hope and pray and light incense for the Gods that this does not happen.

It would be a bit of a damp squib because they've all let him know what they think of him, so there wouldn't any real surprises for him (or us).

It won't help anyone. These conspiracy theories are doing my head in.

I think it will be a save and replace.

They might do a fake eviction, have the housemates "evict" someone and they be immune though.

The twist will be that there ISN'T a twist, the only good twist there is!.

Did I imagine someone saying last night that Emma was going to do live nominations?

Hmm. I thought the idea was that the current nominations would carry over and perhaps be affected somehow by the twist. "Live nominations" sounds more like replacing them with a new nominations round.

Perhaps the producers still haven't made up their minds.

Emma's not always in the loop. For instance, she was taken completely by surprise when BB went back on the immunity given to Ashleigh as power HM, and she didn't seem to know the truth re what Deana had been told about Conor's rant.

It did say the nominations would carry over for Fridays eviction, it also said something about the twist effecting it though..

The twist will probably be something like everyone who was up for eviction is now immune and all the others are up.
It will be some shite like that.

You are probably right there.

I think someone said that the nominations would stand and live nominations would take place.
I'm thinking I must have imagined it.

But why would there be live nominations if the current nominations are standing?

Don't ask me.
I'm clueless.

Which will conveniently benefit Perez

As far as I remember, it's being billed as a "Nominations twist", so I don't see how a fake eviction would qualify.

I suspect it'll be another "We lied..." style twist. Very dull.

Surely they wouldn't pull the tired old 'secret room' scenario yet again?

Is the Pope Catholic?

I think it will be that the nominated housemates will have to pick 1 or more housemates to join them.

It needs to be someone who would use the knowledge and act on it. Of those four I'd say Alicia.

Ohh that would be good. They, say for example Nadia is evicted (or thinks she is but its fake) then before she leaves has to choose someone they believe will be actually evicted with her (in the room in front of everyone) - she'll choose Katie, then both off to the secret room via the front door.

BOOM!

I should really be working on this show.

There is an eviction on Friday but phonelines haven't opened.

So the only point of this twist is to overturn the result of the nominations. To fiddle them yet again.

I agree that "nominations twist" doesn't sound like a fake eviction or secret room, but I don't think that would stop BB.


If you mean just adding a HM to the list, I think that might be too damp a squib. The key conflict HMs are already up (Perez, Katie H, Nadia, Alicia).

Although ... adding someone likely to go (Cami Li) would be a way to save the key conflict HMs, and that's the sort of thing BB might go for.

I don't think BB can have been happy to see those four up.

Yes, after thinking about Pissed_Off's post, I'm increasingly inclined to think the aim me be the save the "housemates who are providing the entertainment", as it may seem from BB's point of view: to save what I called the "key conflict HMs" earlier. (So not only Perez.)

According to Wikipedia, "Keith and Nadia originally nominated Alexander but replaced their nominations with Kavana and Michelle, respectively."

Perhaps BB was hoping for something different. But if BB was hoping Cami would be up, all they had to do was put everyone with at least 2 noms up.

How long is this CBB meant to be?

There is no time limit, it is until Perez has driven them all insane and they agree to leave without a fee.

Re "These conspiracy theories are doing my head in", I think it's pretty clear by now that BB often does have ulterior motives for punishment and twist decisions.

There are some thing that make it more reasonable to be suspicious, such as:

* The twist is not announced until after some key result is known (such as who would have faced the vote if BB didn't twist)

* We're not told what the twist is, and so BB has an opportunity to change it depending on what happens in the house and on how viewers are reacting.

Both of those apply to this case.

Of course, there can be innocent reasons for such things. For instance, if we're told precisely what the twist is, it's not a surprise. A live, surprise twist that we don't already know will get more people watching. But in this case, there's also

* BB is faced with losing a "big character" no matter who goes, if the process were allowed to continue normally.

Here are the current totals and percentages:

Yes, because it worked so well with Helen 4 10.81%
Almost, but it won't be Perez who's fake evicted 3 8.11%
No, they'll find some other way to help Perez 15 40.54%
Neither. It won't be a fake eviction, and it will help someone else, not Perez 3 8.11%
It won't help anyone. These conspiracy theories are doing my head in 5 13.51%
Just real-evict them all and start over. It's not too late! 7 18.92%
Voters: 37

I thought I'd take a snapshot since there's now a "spoiler" thread about what the twist is.