Housemates have finally been given a weekly task! The Big Brother house is to become a hospital, with them playing out the roles of dotors, nurses and patients.

Ambulance sirens woke the housemates first thing this morning, and have been divided into a matron, three nurses and eight patients, with a series of treatments which will need to be carried out.

Each time an ambulance siren is sounded, a housemate has to get to the diary room within 1 minute (which probably indicates they'll be called whilst everyone is asleep) where Dr Big will diagnose the problem and then the matron and nurses will have to provide suitable treatment within 30 minutes.

Considering the fact that Makosi is a nurse, she should in theory be very good at this task, and it'd have proven interesting to see quite how well she does - but Roberto, who was chosen as Matron by reading out the laminate, didn't pick her as a nurse and instead she was left over to be one of the 8 patients...

Kemal already failed them?
Kemal was called to the Diary Room by Dr Big, and had been laying in bed in his hospital bedding, so presumably had been given treatment (although if he hasn't been then he's probably ok), yet he walked to the Diary Room on his own where as housemates that have received treatment are ment to press a buzzer and then be taken to the Diary Room by the nurses/matron. What's more when Kemal got there he shook hands with the skeleton, which isn't meant to be touched without Dr Big's permission.

Moments later housemates asked Sam about the buzzer, and she pressed it to reveal it's the sound of the Big Brother diary room noise which was used up until BB4. She didn't however get taken to the Diary Room by anyone and stayed in bed, so will this count as another fail?

My heart beats differently...
Whilst Roberto was checking Sam's heartbeat with his stethoscope, Saskia commented how hers beats differently, and Roberto checked and indeed it did. She didn't however make any comment about how she had heart surgery as a youngster (according to reports in the newspapers) and just left it at the comment that it "beats differently", with Roberto demonstrating the difference in noise...

Housemate pregnant
Craig went in to the Diary Room earlier, and was in there quite a time - something which had been noted by Derek - although it all became very obvious why he was there for so long when he exited the diary room dressed like Mrs Doubtfire in a floral dress and hat.

His visit to the Big Brother Hospital will be because he's pregnant, and has to walk around, sleep, and live his life dressed as a pregnant lady from now until the time that Big Brother decides his visit is due.

Flat lining
The task almost flat-lined earlier, when Science was reading through the rules and realised that they'd easily racked up 4 failures already, where as they're only allowed a maximum of two per day.

Minutes before Sam had been moaning about how she can't be bothered having the inflatable leg cast on her leg (it's been deflated and bent for the last few hours, so presumably that's another fail as a broken leg won't get fixed the way she's been sitting in the garden) and that she was going to go to the diary room.

Roberto argued with Science, who argued back, voices were raised, and raised yet further, and other housemates started to look very dissolusioned, although some were saying how they wanted to continue with the task as they may not have failed... despite it being fairly clear that they have.

It's the realising that they've failed and then not putting the effort in which seems to blight Big Brother tasks, especially of the last few series where housemates seem to give up far too easily, making the task worthless - despite it being the fun aspect for viewers (and housemates seeing as they moan they've got nothing to do) which makes Big Brother so enjoyable.

Time for medication...
Roberto told housemates that he had to administer them their medication at just before 4pm, and housemates queued to receive it... but didn't seem to keen when they found out it was Cod Liver Oil. Lesley seemed particularly anxious to wash it down with water, and Craig looked like he was about to be violently ill.

So it probably came as little suprise that someone actually was sick - Makosi threw up the mouthful of cod liver oil about 2 seconds after it'd gone in her mouth, and rushed to the bedroom toilet. Housemates didn't know if they should be concerned or laugh their socks off. [video]

By late in to the evening only a handful of housemates hadn't rushed to the Diary Room when the siren had gone off - specifically Maxwell who keeps saying how he reckon's his injury will see him bed-ridden for the rest of the week and wheeled about in a wheelchair, which if that wasn't going to be what Big Brother were going to make him do, probably will be now he's given them the idea!

Nominations for week 2 were also announce during Day 12