Day 16 of 71 - Housemates stung by Live Task
Posted by Simon at June 12, 2004 09:14 PM
It's the Saturday Night Live Task again, and this week looks as though it'll have a bit of a sting in the tail for the housemates, who could lose up to £10,000.
The full extent of the stinging nettles was revealed to TV viewers just before the live task started, and although housemates haven't seen it yet, they're going to be in for a huge suprise... this isn't just a few stinging nettles, it's a bloody forrest of them, a couple of feet high... that's gonna hurt!
All tokens collected...
The first part of the challenge saw Jay and Vanessa form one wheelbarrow, and Stu and Dan form another - they managed to collect nine tokens (all 9!) and deposit them at the other end of the wheelbarrow course - that earnt the other five housemates the maximum of 90 seconds for part two of the task.
Now 90 seconds doesn't sound very long to "hang from a bar" to me, and I'd have thought it'd have been more like 9 minutes that they'd be put through, but interestingly just as the live show went to the advert break the comment of "it's raining" was heard... now is this real rain, or is BB using the roof-top sprinklers to make that bar slippery? Surely BB wouldn't be so evil... or would they?
Hang them high!
Shell was first up, and managed all 90 seconds with ease - although she had big thick socks on too which seems a bit unfair compared with the others such as Marco who is following and keeps getting his feet caught on the stinging nettles below... thing is, they only just seem to be alongside them and if they fell to one side they'd not fall in the nettles at all. With about 19 seconds to go Marco gave up, with Big Brother saying he'd failed.
Next was Ahmed, with shoes on. Swaying quite considerably to start off with, he soon managed to get a grip but eventually gave up, dropping with less than 20 seconds, and walking straight through the nettles without seeming to get stung.
So it's hard bloke Victor now... suffering from the cold shower inflicted by the girls earlier in the day, and no doubt bound to show his not-so-hard side in this task if he falls in to the stinging nettles below... Swinging like gibbon with 1minute 10 to go, he soon fell, but not particularly badly and walked through the nettles with an "ouch shit".
So Nadia's last to go, in position 5 of 5, and possibly the least prepared clothes wise from the whole group... she dropped with more than a minute to go, but fell the wrong side, and then walked through the stinging nettles. None of them seem particularly stung, although Nadia's rubbing his (haha) legs.
The prize fund has now dropped to £77,000, and the task wasn't really all that exciting. Bit of a poor show all round.
The Eye can feel the pain that they could have suffered.