The remaining five housemates probably wern't expecting nominations now, seeing as there's less than a week to go, but at around 7pm tonight Big Brother announced that housemates had an hour to prepare before they would be giving nominations.

It instantly caused quite a stir, with a few of them exclaiming "I knew it!" as if they'd predicted Big Brother would spring a suprise on them.

And Shell seemed to take a rebellious Kitten stance, saying that she didn't want to nominate (tough shit! it's a game, they're asking you to nominate, nominate!)

And they're asked to nominate on the sofa!
Big Brother asked Dan to nominate first, on the sofa, and not in the diary room. After a bit of pondering, Dan said that he wasn't going to nominate as he didn't know what it was for.

Big Brother repeated the instruction for Dan to give his name and reason. So Dan said himself. Big Brother announced that the rules were that housemates can not nominate themselves or an object (eg: can't nominate the statue). Dan then re-affirmed his view that he'd not nominate, and would therefore put himself up for nomination by not doing so.

And he was promptly called to the diary room.

It'd seem they're not actually nominating for eviction, but just for something else (maybe something that will happen mid-week) and so them taking the line of "I won't nominate" is putting a spanner in Big Brother's spokes...

Dan given a warning?
It'd appear that Dan was given a warning - his second one so far during his time in the house, and was allowed to return to the sofa.

Whilst he was in the diary room, Stu and the rest of the housemates worked out a plan which would see them each nominating the next housemate in the alphabet up from them... surely also a breach of the rules as talking about nominations isn't allowed.

Big Brother than asked Jason to give his nomination, but Jason just kept talking to the housemates about random stuff, as if to ignore Big Brother's voice and request. Big Brother soon called Jason to the diary room, but Jason also ignored that for a short time, before going to the diary room.

He didn't seem to receive a warning though, but was told to return to the sofa.

Strangely Dan was next to be asked to nominate again, and he didn't do. So Big Brother moved on to Nadia, who nominated the statue. Moments later, Big Brother announced that Nadia had decided not to nominate, which caused more confusion for the housemates, as they were expecting Big Brother to quote the rule of not being able to nominate an inanimate object.

Shell was asked to nominate next, and gave a very gabbled weak guilty souding reason why she wasn't nominating. Big Brother eventually announced to the group that Shell had decided not to nominate.

So to Stuart, who was also asked to nominate, and gave almost as poor answer for his reason why he wasn't, and was, unsuprisingly, given the same "failed to nominate" reply from Big Brother.

It's not clear how the housemates will suffer from failing to nominate, or for that matter what they were nominating for. It's also highly likely to have wasted Big Brother's time as they were obviously wanting the nomintion for something, even if it was just "someone to come to the diary room to get a hamper of booze" and the housemates may well have just bit the hand which feeds them... But we may never know...