Housemates have been given a multi-day task today, which has seen them being given roles as part of a medieval royal family, with Lisa being the Queen.

However John hasn't said a word all day - he's totally snubbed them because he's saying he won't take part in anything until he gets his Diet Coke from Big Brother.

Big Brother, however, obviously wasn't going to give in to John's demands and so that's been the situation all day - a total stand-off by moody John, who has spent most of the day sitting in the egg-chairs, and for quite some time sleeping in them, or atleast pretending to be asleep if he wasn't really.

It looks pretty likely that the group will have failed due to John not taking part, although they're hoping that it'll simply count as one of the three daily fails that they can make.

Pluckin' good fun
Housemates have been given a mini challenge as part of the task - to pluck the feathers from chickens which are strung up in the courtyard, just the birds seem past their best and apparently whiff to high heaven and are breaking apart with the skin tearing off as the feathers are removed... all described in great detail by country-girl-know-it-all Germaine who seems to know everything there is about giving a bird a good plucking.

Plenty of advice is coming forth, but it's all a bit after it'd have been useful as the other housemates rip the birds to shreads, and as Bez exclaimed "oh hell there's shit coming out of the arse man!" followed by "does anyone want to do this birds arse area"...

Another classic Big Brother task which will go down in history.

Evil twist with the cola
Big Brother got a bit evil earlier, by inviting the housemates bar John in to the diary room one at a time, and giving them a glass of cold refreshing diet cola. They didn't have to drink it, but couldn't remove the glass from the diary room. Basically it was a way to give the entire house Diet Coke which John wasn't having.

To make things even more funny housemates were talking about the fact they'd had diet coke within earshot of the half-asleep John, who just sat there continuing to look pissed off with things.