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Earlier this week, Charlie, Rodrigo, Siavash and Sophie had a chance to make BB history - and they blew it. Confronting Big Brother in the diary room, they explained that they all wanted to leave. For a tantalising moment it looked as if it really might happen. But in the end it only took Big Brother's request "to think very carefully about this" for their resolve to crumble.

What a shame. As the housemates teetered on a knife-edge decision, the producers must have held their breath, imagining the prospect of a final week with nothing but...

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Biggest faker

We all know saying things like "Is there chicken in chick peas?" can endear housemates to viewers, which begs the question - is Sophie really as dumb as she makes out? Her performance in the geography test was suspicious.

Don't get me wrong, my geography is nearly as appalling as hers - it was in the diary room afterwards, when she insisted on calling Senegal "Senelegal", even after hearing BB pronounce it correctly several times, that it all looked a bit suspect. Sophie's not stupid. "Chad? The only Chad I know is Chad...

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Channel 4 is to drop Big Brother after one more series next year - but it may be saved by another broadcaster.

The final series on Channel 4 comes a decade after the show's controversial and hugely successful launch in 2000. At its height in 2002 with Jade Goody's first appearance in the show, Big Brother regularly achieved audiences of around eight million. But the current tenth series is averaging just two million.

Channel 4's director of television Kevin Lygo said the series "had reached a natural end point on Channel 4 and...

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Biggest rejection

"I know, I'll send a message to my good friend Bea in the Big Brother house! She's been having a tough time recently. This is bound to cheer her up. I mean, I know I'm not her mum, or her sister Lianne, or her 12th cousin five times removed, but still…"

And if Bea's friend Tea (are they part of a gang, with other members called Lee and Dee?) felt rejected after her video message was snubbed, what about David? He and Bea had been "getting on like a house on fire", he thought....

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It's Bea v Marcus-Halfwit this week, and I know whose side I'm on…

Biggest showdown

At some point during his formative years, someone must have told Halfwit that he was intelligent, and instead he heard "you're an omniscient, infallible genius". Now, in Bea, Halfwit has met someone cleverer than him, someone who is not willing to put up with his emotional self-indulgence, and he doesn't like it. I love seeing Bea take him apart in an argument, and point out what a subtle drama queen he is.

Marcus is similarly threatened by Bea and...

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Biggest nose-picker

I don't know what David's expecting to find up there - a Yorkshire pudding, maybe - but he can't stop rooting around in his nasal cavity like a pig after a truffle. It only adds to the impression that he's a real-life Bo Selecta character.

Along with Lisa, David must be one of the favourites to go tonight, although I don't think he's as aware of that as she is. I certainly dislike David more than I do Lisa, but in a way I'd like him to stay so we can see how...

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It's the Noirin and Isaac show - but, surely, not for long…

Biggest jerk

Sorry to use such a horrible Americanism but the Anglo Saxon words reeling round my head in reference to Isaac are so much harsher on the ears…

Yes, Noirin's ex - the man she's still in love with and has been mooning over since the series began - is the latest addition to the Big Brother house. And, yes, he's instantly despicable.

Of course, anyone who in complete seriousness refers to themselves as "Daddy", but who isn't actually...

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Biggest…loser

There are a number of words I could have inserted after "biggest" to accurately describe short-lived housemate Kenneth - but here at Radio Times we do our best to avoid that sort of language. So instead of just hurling insults, let's look back at some of Kenneth's "best bits" from his brief sojourn in the house.

A lot of the most notable moments centred on the lovely Bea. After an argument with her - an argument that he started and that ended with Bea using her superior wit and intellect to show him up...

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Best musical performance

Returning BB5 housemate Michelle Bass can actually sing, with vibrato and everything (although, to be fair, she has had five years to practise Pie Jesu). But the award has to go to Dogface, who howled her way - like her namesake - through the song, pronouncing every word phonetically. Mmmm…Jesus Pie. Sacrilicious!

Biggest girl

No, I'm not talking about Michelle - who, admittedly, has put on a few pounds since she was last in the house - but Siavash and his reaction to an arachnid infiltrating the kitchen. Despite being hairier than...

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"Nasty" Nick Bateman, the pantomime villain of the original Big Brother, has pulled out of an appearance on the current series of the show.

Nick was to be the first of a number of past housemates facing short stints back in the house this week, as part of Big Brother's tenth birthday celebrations. But the 41-year-old is reportedly unhappy about being asked to compete against one of the current housemates in an assault course task. He will be replaced by BB1 winner Craig Phillips, who goes in first today.

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Biggest transformation

As the week wore on, Karly, Dogface and Lisa were increasingly struck by what they saw as a change in Halfwit's personality: "He's actually been all right this week."

And on Tuesday, Kris's plan to make Halfwit look (more) ridiculous by shaving his head backfired. As Halfwit's locks fell away, so did the scales from Noirin's eyes (if only temporarily). "You're a good-looking guy," she giggled, as Halfwit complemented his shaven head and goatee with a leather jacket and aviator sunglasses to complete the gay biker look.

Halfwit's new haircut seems...

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Sree proves he's a bad sportsman…

Biggest barrel of laughs

As his tenuous part of the "Italian-themed" task, Siavash wore silver glam-rock boots, a chicken on his head and a giant barrel, and was told to jump on a pedestal and strike a pose whenever BB played Madonna's Vogue into the house. Actually less funny that it sounds.

Genuinely hilarious, though, were his doomed attempts to sit down in the diary room chair while wearing the costume. He finally collapsed into a corner of the room calling feebly, "I'm not sure I can get up…you...

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# Noirin, Noirin, Noirin, Noi-ree-ee-een… #

Biggest sex symbol

Everybody loves Noirin! Sree says, "Your inner beauty is platinum. I'm in love with you." Angel says, "I've got really deep feelings for her. It's sexual feelings as well." Marcus says, "She's beautiful, Shania Twain, but not as beautiful as Noirin." Personally, I think she's a bit fat…

Biggest lush

It's hard to understand why Noirin isn't falling for Sree's charms. Most women would swoon if a drunken man dropped his trousers in front of them and started singing Womaniser. Noirin's...

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A look back at the biggest and best bits from the last seven days of Big Brother.

Biggest cringe factor

There's no doubt, Sree definitely divides the sexes. As a woman, I think he's quite sweet and naive with the ladies; I could barely watch when he 'fessed his love to a clearly uncomfortable Noirin. Men, on the other hand, see him as a cunning, calculating player looking for any excuse to cop a feel. But women are always right, natch…

Best dietary advice

If you want to look like death warmed up, follow Dimitar Berbatov's...

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