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A look at the romances, housemates, arguments, and controversies in other versions of Big Brother around the world.

Dermot introduces tonight and tomorrow's celebrity hijacker, comedian Matt Lucas. Before introducing this years contestants. First in the house is Scottish Young Politician of the Year John, and Matt has a very special task for him which involves an earpiece and getting very close to his other new housemates. As each other housemate enters the house, Matt controls John's actions towards them.

Highlights of Matt Lucas' night of hijacking the house, which include him controlling John through an earpiece. We see each housemates arrival and John carry out his task successfully, with him winning immunity from any evictions throughout the series and a party for the other housemates.

Anthony, Jeremy and Nathan are chosen as the housemates that have most bonded so far, so are tied together and must complete a series of tasks including baking a cake. Also each housemate shows their talent to the other housemates in a talent show.

Ian Wright hijacks Big Brothers role today and sets the housemates a series of tasks involving their senses, trying to make them more aware of what it would be like if they lost them.

Highlights from housemates in the diary room so far.

Actor Alan Cumming hijacks the house today and sets the housemates tasks involving acting. Including a difficult task which they fail, involving a devised 10 minute piece.

A look back over Kelly Osbourne's day of hijacking which includes this weeks nominations. She also talks to John about his love for her mother, Sharon Osbourne.

Russell Brand hijacks the house, punishing Jeremy for the simple reason that he thinks he can take it. He then seduces each girl in the house, even going as far as to telling Amy her boyfriend outside of the house has come out as a love rat to a national newspaper. He also uses an actor to play a cameraman who breaks into the house.

Highlights of the day John McCririck hijacked the house. He shows Amy footage of Victor talking about her behind her back in the diary room, she is told not to say anything to anyone about what she has seen. He then calls Victor into the diary room and shows him the same footage, he was then given the task to be nice to her for the rest of the day without anyone else noticing. The task culminated in a Big Brother love-in, with the pair in the diary room.

Dermot hosts the show live as either Victor, Jade or Jeremy will be evicted. Before the housemate is evicted, we look back at Janet Street-Porter's day of hijacking the house. Janet made the housemates split into groups and make their own television programmes aimed at a young audience. Then Jade is announced as the person with the most votes and has to leave the Big Brother house. She chats to Dermot about her time in the house and looks back over her best bits.

DJ Act Peaches Geldof & Fifi Brown hijack the house, challenging the housemates who are split into bands to a Battle of the Nu-Nu Ravers. Each band performs. They pass the task and are then rewarded with a silent disco, throughout this Jade & Calista are called into the diary room, as Peaches & Fifi enter the house in animal costumes, with the housemates under the illusion it's Jade and Calista.

Amy wins a task and is made immune from this weeks eviction, she also has to choose another housemate to make immune, she chooses Anthony who now has to choose a housemate to put up for eviction automatically, he chooses Victor.

Featuring highlights from the diary room, with Alan Cumming, Kelly Osbourne, Russell Brand, John McCririck, Janet Street-Porter, Trash Pussies and Andy McNab hijacking Big Brother.

Chris makes it snow in the garden, but a skeptical Jeremy tells the housemates he thinks it's fake. Chris punishes him by making him do a snow angel in just his boxers. He has added a bar and dartboard for the housemates, and makes Emilia the barmaid for tonights task. As well as putting in ex-Big Brother 8 contestant, Brian Belo. Chris is joined by his Radio 1 Aled Haydn-Jones and impressionist Jon Culshaw (playing Terry Wogan,Mark Owen and Ozzy Osbourne), to compete against the housemates in the Sunday night pub quiz. Later Chris invites John into a secret pub snug and gives John a phone, allowing him to either have three minutes or to take it back to the house and let him share it. Unbeknown that the housemates are watching him.

Brian Sewell hijacks the Big Brother house, he tells the housemates that he hates the etiquette of the house. Victor and Emilia are called into the diary room, where Brian tells Victor off for his behaviour towards Emilia and puts them in charge of cooking a four-course meal. Whilst he instructs the other housemates to tidy the house up. After calling Amy into the diary room to discuss topics to bring up throughout the meal tonight, the two talk about art, with Brian heavily criticising Amy's type of work.

The housemates eligible for eviction have to try and convince Joan why they shouldn't be put up. Later the housemates wearing their evicition outfits, put on a fashion show. Plus a trick played by Latoya and Jay, sends Victor into a rage, causing a huge argument involving everyone in the house but Nathan who stays out in the garden the whole time.

Keith Lemon sets the housemates a business task, as each team has to come up with a original idea. Anthony, Amy & Nathan's 'Do-Do On the Go' wins. Keith then enters a new "12 year-old" housemate called Martin, who after half of the housemates refuse to play Kiss Chase, sets off a stink bomb. Keith decides to then remove Martin. Calista has suspicions that Amy's being bitching about her and Anthony's relationship. Later "Craig David" hijacks the house with Kez and the housemates all dress up as him and sing 'Soda Pop'.

As the double eviction looms, Dermot introduces us to highlights from yesterday, were Denise Van Outen hijacked the Big Brother house. After some flirting with Anthony, Jay & Calista are called into the diary room, were they are told they must sing in a West-End style instead of talking. John & Anthony are then called into the diary room were they are questioned on stars of musicals, before Denise tells them they have to dance around in a musical style to get from place to place. Emilia and Victor are called into the diary room, were they are told they have to sing their pleas for the public to keep them in the house. Jeremy is then asked to sing his plea to stay into the house.

Anthony and Calista sing about who they'd like to see leave in the garden. Latoya, Amy and Nathan are set a task to form a chorus line every time music is played into the house. Liam is then asked to sing his plea to stay in the house. Calista and John are chosen as the most entertaining housemates. Calista becomes upset over her and Anthony's relationship. Liam and Victor are then announced as the housemates that are to be evicted and Dermot comes and collects them from the house.

Liam and Victor are interviewed by Dermot about their time in the house.

Scott Mills hijacks the house and sets the housemates a still-life drawing task, with Anthony modelling. However unbeknown to Jay, the real task is to annoy Jay as much as possible. The task is carried out successfully and Scott gives Jay and Jeremy (the most annoying housemate) a chinese meal in the diary room. Liam and Victor are then evicted, what dampens Emilia and Jeremy's moods. Gordon Ramsay then appears on the screen, as the housemates are split into teams to join in with Gordon's Cookalong Live, with Chris Moyles. After the housemates finish cooking, Jeremy and Emilia fall out in the bedroom. Amy brings out the cigarettes she'd brought in with her and Calista and Jeremy join her in smoking.

Anthony, Nathan and Jeremy have to compete for a date with the McQueen sisters. To do this, the three choose two housemates to train them on how to woo a lady. The boys then enter the loved-up diary room to speed-date the girls, who then have to choose a winner, they choose Anthony, which makes Calista a little jealous. Later the housemates are given a Mexican-themed Party and Anthony throws some water over John, when John goes to get his revenge, Anthony throws the water he was meant to get thrown at him at John. This leads to a play-argument, what Latoya tries to sort out before Big Brother tries to heal the 'wounds'. Later in bed, Anthony tells Calista he didn't realise she liked him as in being more then friends way.

A look at Chris Moyles, Brian Sewell, Joan Rivers, Keith Lemon, Craig David, Denise Van Outen, Scott Mills and the McQueen sisters week of hijacking, from the diary rooms point of view.

James Corden & Mathew Horne hijack the house, after showing the housemates footage of them presenting companion show, Big Brother's Big Mouth and admitting it was them insulting Jade on her way out, they feel they have to make it up to the housemates.

They act as the housemates slaves for the day, as they come into the house, preparing meals and providing a chill-out room, were they have one-to-one sessions with each housemate, allowing them to showcase their talents or just to talk about how they appearing to the outside world. Before the boys leave they must get all the housemates outside to join them in a group hug, without them knowing that this is their task for the day. All housemates eventually oblige. Emilia upsets Latoya as she says she thinks that Victor was evicted because of the argument that occured earlier in the week, which makes the nominations easier for some housemates. Emilia and Latoya are put up for eviction which will happen unbeknown to the house on Wednesday. Jeremy and Emilia become convinced that John is an actor put in by Big Brother and try to convince Amy as to why, they then confront him in the house, however he doesn't realise what they are trying to imply.

Actor Mackenzie Crook hijacks the house and announces it's nerd/hobby day. Were housemates are given an outfit and pomade to make themselves look the part. Anthony and Calista are made to make a model military aircraft and ship. John, Amy and Nathan are made to live in a medieval fantasy role-play. Jay, Emilia and Latoya becoming birdwatchers and Jeremy is challenged to make the biggest rubber band ball dressed as Spock. Jeremy sets to work on his rubber-band ball and Anthony and Calista with their model. The birdwatchers are given jotters and are told that 'birds' are to be flown into the garden and the spotters must make notes on what 'birds' they see. The role players are given their script to learn. The housemates then show one another the results of their tasks in a 'show and tell', were Mackenzie has to judge the nerd of the day. Later whilst most of the housemates are in the hot-tub, Jeremy and Emilia try and convince the others of their theory that John is a mole because he is treated differently to the rest of them. The housemates are the gathered for the weeks nominations to be revealed, which are Latoya and Emilia. Calista talks to Anthony about showing her, her bedroom when they get out of the house, whilst Latoya and John prepare a meal, Nathan, Amy, Jeremy, Emilia and Jay come to the diary room to tell Big Brother that they think John is a mole. Big Brother doesn't tell them anything, so they leave pretending that Big Brother has told them he is. Later on, Jeremy argues with Amy and Emilia, when Emilia insults his intelligence. Emilia leaves the room and sits in the garden by herself. Before returning into the house and talking to John in the bathroom, about Jeremy's insult towards her. Jeremy becomes stressed out when Emilia refuses to let him apologise to her. Amy keeps trying to be the peacemaker, but neither of them will still talk to one another. Jeremy then reveals he fancies Emilia to Amy and tells her he'd treat her better then her boyfriend.

Dermot hosts tonights surprise eviction, getting the audience outside to stay quiet, as the housemates are sat on the sofas watching a film.

After yesterday's argument, Amy comes to the Diary room to give her take on what's happened. Jeremy tries to talk to Emilia about what happened, but she said she doesn't want to talk about it. Today's hijackers Nicole Appleton and Melanie Blatt introduce themselves to the house. The hijackers talk to Latoya about her being up for eviction and talk about Emilia about last nights argument and how she feels about Jeremy. The girls then set their task for the day, a mastermind quiz, with highlights of the contestants answering their questions based on their specialist subjects, most of them getting them wrong. The girls throw the house a party and invite themselves along, revealing maybe a little bit too much information from the outside world.
Dermot then interrupts the film, to announce the results of the eviction and announces that Latoya will be leaving the house!

Dermot talks to latest evictee Latoya about her time in the house, including her argument with Victor and her on/off romance with Nathan. Their's also a surprise message from Samantha Mumba who is confused as to why her name became Latoya's catchphrase throughout her time in the house.

We then go to the house live were it is revealed that nominations will take place live in an hour. Dermot then reveals that these nominations will be face-to-face and that their will be a double eviction on Friday.

Roseanne hijacks the house and challenges the housemates to participate in a Comedy Club task. Jeremy MC's, whilst the other housemates split into pairs and after writing their routines, one performs a three minute routine. As a reward for passing the task, the housemates are shown a film, however it is rudely interrupted by Dermot who announces that their will be a surprise eviction, were Latoya gets evicted. The housemates are then told nominations will take place in an hour. When the time comes they find out that nominations will take part very differently, each remaining housemate is asked to enter a private area were they must write down their two nominations. After this process, which was going out live on E4's coverage at the time, they then had to read out their two nominations at the dining table in front of the other housemates, without giving other reasons. Afterwards, John visits the diary room and tells Big Brother, he doesn't feel that his exclusion from nominations is fair anymore.

Dermot hosts highlights from yesterday in the house when Jimmy Carr hijacked. He wakes up the housemates with the first part of their task. They must each wear a clock around their neck and state what significant things they are doing and at what time, (like Big Brother narrator Marcus Bentley) for an hour. What Amy wins and is given a watch and the other housemates a mug each. He then reveals the next part of the task, each housemate is called to the diary room, were they must choose an animal that most represents them and then rate the other housemates on looks, intelligence and talent. Jimmy then provides each housemate with the costumes of the animal they called themselves earlier. Lauren Pope is then introduced into the house as the housemates play 'Rate Your Mate', were the housemates have to guess were on average the others rated them on looks, intelligence and talent. They successfully win the looks round, fail the intelligence round and pass the talent round. Jimmy then orders the housemates to go and stand in a least to most undiclosed order in the garden, they then have to guess what order Jimmy has put them in. Jimmy then reveals that they're in height order and leaves the hijack booth without the housemates knowing he's left. Big Brother then reveals to Jay and Calista in the diary room, that Jimmy has left. Jeremy tells Amy he thinks him and Emilia spend too much time together. Calista and Anthony have a small argument, what leads Calista to talking about her boyfriend and Anthony getting confused about her again. Dermot then reveals that Jay & Calista are to be evicted before talking to them about their time in the house.

After being locked in the bedroom, housemates are let out into the living area, were all the furniture has being removed and these have instead being replaced by eight corrugated cardboard tubes. Housemates are then requested to remove their microphones. Each must then choose a role and unrole each tube. After housemates don't follow the rules as Malcolm required, he joins the housemates and instructs them to strip off, get lost within the maze and then he is going to then knock down the created maze, and then create a painting by using their bodies and paint over the card. John and Amy refuse to take part and are sent to the bedroom, were they discuss what Malcolm's asking of them to do. Amy and John become involved in the painting, however fully clothed, riding a bike with painted tyres over it. Whilst the other housemates (minus Jeremy who is still painting with the bike) shower off the paint, Amy and Malcolm talk about Art colleges. The housemates are then locked away in the bedroom against whilst the artwork created earlier in the day is put on display around the house. Calista and Anthony discuss the impending double eviction, were Calista tells Anthony she's convinced that she and Jeremy will be evicted. Housemates are then locked away in the bedroom again whilst Malcolm prepares a wine-testing session that he requires to be shown in black and white. Each housemate wears a blindfold and then tastes each wine. Then Malcolm talks about his passion for tasting wine. Jay is in awe of Malcolm, talking about how he admired him before the show. Whilst Anthony and Nathan talk to Malcolm about were he lives. Housemates then prepare for the eviction. It is then revealed by Dermot that Calista and Jay have to leave the house. Calista & Jay send in a purple ninja with a custard pie, what Jeremy receives in the face. The housemates discuss the reactions to their names when called out by Dermot before the eviction. Anthony wants to know what everyone thought about him and Calista.

Kate Lawler hijacks the house and gets housemates to mimick each other in costume. They are then called to the diary room in there pairs and have to answer questions about there time in the house, in character. John's portrayal of Emilia upsets her. Later Kate brings the housemates there reward - takeaway, she tells Anthony some lies about what Calista's said about him on the outside world, he believes it's the truth and becomes upset about it.

Highlights of James Corden & Mathew Horne, Mackenzie Crook, Nicole Appleton & Melanie Blatt, Roseanne Barr, Jimmy Carr, Malcolm McLaren and Kate Lawler's days of hijacking from the diary room.

There's highlights of the penultimate day, were the Sugababes performed to the housemates and the housemates come and talk to Big Brother and say goodbye. Dermot then comes into the house to interview the housemates revealing that Nathan has finished in sixth place and Jeremy in fifth place, they are then sent out to face the public, with the Purple Ninja awaiting them outside to send them on there way. Dermot then reveals the person finishing in fourth place is Anthony, he then discusses with Anthony his time in the house, before a look at his best bits and Dermot announcing that Amy has finished in third place, he then discusses her time in the house with her and shows her, her best bits, before sending them off to the Purple Ninja waiting for them outside to send them on there way. Dermot talks to the two remaining housemates in alphabetical order, Emilia and then John about there time in the house and showing them there best bits before he reveals that John is the winner of the series and Emilia has come second. Dermot then sends Emilia to meet her public and the Purple Ninja. Dermot then leaves the house with John to join all of the ex-housemates awaiting him outside. There's then highlights from the entire series.