Day 24: Room 101
Posted by Simon at June 19, 2005 07:44 PM
Big Brother has introduced housemates to Room 101 today, by opening up a whole new corridor in the house to the left of the Diary Room, which has been called the 'Big Brother work house'.
However only one housemate will actually be working their socks off all week, whilst the rest will be enjoying their experience by eating luxury food and drinking booze, whilst trying to keep the secret of what's going on and convincing the unlucky housemate that they've all been slaving away in their own tiny grim cubical.
Each morning housemates must clock-in between 8:30am and 9:30am, and are then called to do their shifts, but will actually enter another room down the grey gloomy corridor where they'll stay until the unlucky housemate has got to work and knows no different.
For the task to be passed the 9 lucky housemates have to convince the Sap that they've been working away doing the same tasks as them, but if they get rumbled then the whole group will fail the task meaning no shopping budget at all next week.
Unlucky, or maybe not...
Vanessa became the unlucky housemate initially, by picking locker number 1, but on going in to the Work House she "couldn't do it" and so instead somehow Maxwell got called up instead - almost as if the whole thing was set-up by Big Brother to ensure that he'd be the one faced with the grim chores which last the whole week.
Whilst Maxwell was counting maggots, Anthony explained to the group details of what the laminate contained - news of the fact that they would never actually have to do any work, and were to simply enjoy themselves with treats being supplied by Big Brother during the next few days...
...so whilst the 9 bounced about on inflatable hoppers, bouncy castles, and ate sticky sugary food until their eyeballs nearly popped out, Maxwell was sitting there going through hell.
Watch your words... here comes Maxwell
But it was the end of the shift that seems to be the crunch time for housemates, as they have to watch their every word and not let slip that they've not been doing the same evil chores. They one-by-one left the Work House - just of course it wasn't really a small cubical like Maxwell is in, and they'd only been there a matter of minutes anyway - so as to make their shifts look realistic, with Big Brother announcing each shift ending one after another.
To add some extra realism to their story for Maxwell, they were reminding each other to "wash your hands!!" and comforting each other on how awful the experience was... Drama queen Makosi even pretended to shed a tear whilst sitting on the seating near the bedroom window, although it could have been more a case of crying because she was almost laughing than her being emotional.
Updates from Day 24 will be posted as they happen...