Marco is the second person to be voted out of the Big Brother house by the public, after Vanessa left last week, and the early forced evictions of both Kitten and Emma during the previous weeks.

The departure of Marco from the house will obviously be a major boost to both Victor and Jay, who have been seen to be trying to pick off the "noisey children" side of the house one-by-one as part of their gameplan - which itself has been clearly talked about "privately" amongst themselves but picked up by the cameras and microphones for the public to see.

It'll be interesting to see if the remaining two of this week's three are up for nomination again next week, and it seems highly likely, although presumably Becki, Jay and Victor all stand a chance of also being candidates.

What it does mean however is that we've got yet another week of Michelle being all soppy over her "chicken" Stuart, and no doubt if she is nominated again she'll react just as badly and walk around in a constant daze all week as if it's her last day in the house... Nadia's likely to keep the "loud" side to the house going, although with no Marco (who himself has been much quieter since receiving the news he'd been nominated) causing chaos with her, it's likely Nadia will also quieten down now, and could become highly boring.

Marco's departure will leave Ahmed, Dan, Becki, Jason, Michelle, Nadia, Shell, Stuart and Victor to fight it out for another week, at what has just turned the half-way point of the series...