It was the news they'd been dreading: Big Brother's second round of nomination reveals.

"Everyone get prepared for an emotion-fest," said Arron, as the housemates gathered nervously on the sofa.  Little did the Mancunian model realise that his name would be the second one read out. The first was "Chris". It's been a rough night for men with names in the A-C region of the alphabet.

Their reactions could not have been more of a contrast. Chris slumped while Arron bounced up and shouted at his new rival, "Yes! Y'know why? Because I think the public love you and I could do with getting out of this place. Come and give me a hug, bro, we can do it!"

The pair embraced while Arron murmured in Chris's ear, "You know I love you and I did not put you up."

While Arron leapt around in a suspiciously hyper mood, reassuring everyone that he was fine, a crushed Chris was led off to be consoled by Shievonne.

The helium-voiced sausage-fiend confided that he didn't fancy his chances against Arron. "Male model, man," he said, voice aching. Mama Shiv was having none of it. After initially suggesting to Chris that he, "rock out with your c**k out", she proceeded to sounder logic, advising, "Be yourself because if you go out as a moody g*t you're going to be thinking, 'I should have enjoyed myself.'" New recruits to the Cheer-Up-Chris-Brigade, Conor and Sara, echoed this wisdom.

Meanwhile, in the lounge, Arron was also on the receiving end of tactical advice, courtesy of Benedict and Lydia. "If you want to stay then you've got to let people know... that was Victoria's problem," said Lydia. But the boy was not for turning. "If I go, I'll be back in my environment, but if I stay then the public love me," he whooped. We like this glass half-full approach but is it for real, Az? Are any of us made only of sunshine and rainbows?"

Amid all these emotions, one remark emerged as the most joyously barking. If Chris ends up going Shievonne wants him to "fart in a jar so I can remember you." That's lovely, Shiv, just... lovely.

Has Shievonne found her place in the House? The ex-Playboy Bunny has finally downed nail-polish brushes and is counselling our nominees.

Having reassured Chris straight after the bombshell was dropped she turned to Arron.

Advice-by-numbers Shiv-style has meant doling out the same pearls of wisdom to both housemates but this fact has not escaped her.  She said, “I’m telling you both you’re not going so I’m going to get a real shock on Friday.”

Post-announcement Arron is pushing the wet look in the hot tub. He may as well have done a Darcy and slipped on a white shirt ahead of his dip. Chris is in the Diary Room.

Shievonne did manage  to get Arron to drop the bravado and he admitted, “I so didn’t want to go so early.”

Has Shievonne realised she’s going to need to start playing the game if she wants to avoid being up for eviction over the next few weeks?

After an initially positive reaction to learning he's up for eviction, Arron has done a hardcore u-turn. He's currently in the hot tub expressing insecurities, not just about leaving Big Brother but about his whole life. What goes up... must come down. His bravado began to falter in the bedroom when, as he stripped down to jockies, some wise guy suggested he was, "doing a Victoria" – housemate speak for, 'getting naked in a bid to gain viewer votes'. Arron laughed but then announced, "I'm s**ting myself because I'm up against Chris. He's funny. I'd want to watch him." From this point, he crashed like a six-year-old after a sugar high. Thankfully,Shievonne is around to perform her new role as House agony aunt.

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After the heat of the nom news, Arron gets nekkid

"Me, doing a 'Victoria'? LOL!"

"Ho ho ho, what a hoot!"

"But seriously, guys, I'm scared."

Going to swim it out

Shievonne is on hand to counsel from the water's edge

Things are a little better... for now

For most of the day the housemates were in a chilled mood, having burned themselves out yesterday with wave-upon-wave of feverish paranoia. We found out who was up for eviction but for a window of time – both delicious and tense – the housemates were none the wiser.

During what wise prophets shall dub the 'ignorance is bliss' period, deep and meaningful chats were all the rage and two bromances blossomed, both in the bathroom area (not a euphemism). Chris gave strapping hunk Benedict a bit of a sponge down while Luke S opened his heart to Adam.

Games were next on the menu as the HMs proved their inability across a range of family favourites. First they sucked at hide and seek, then they sucked at charades, then they sucked at 'zip, zap, boing' (Don't ask us...)

Inevitably, the calm was shattered when Big Brother announced who had been nominated for eviction this week.Chris immediately crashed. Arron experienced a false highthen crashed in spectacular fashion. Nothing like bad news to slice through a front.

We got excited when we saw Ashleigh and Luke S lying in bed together whispering in the darkness. "Let's get it on," we sung, hoping our voices would carry through to the House. It wasn't to be.  There's always tomorrow. After all, they have been discussing baby names...

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Morning 

This morning the housemates awoke to the sound of a laughing policeman and discovered a very strange puppet. If that isn’t weird enough, a special guest (pictured) paid a visit to the House and delivered the latest task information to the housemates. This task spans two days and will push the housemates – and their upper lips –­ to the limits...

For this week’s shopping task Housemates must not laugh for two days. LOL indeed. This would be hard enough for our chucklesome (when they’re not moaning) housemates without the added challenge of Big Brother doing everything possible to raise a smile.

Every time a housemate laughs, they will incur one fail. Big Brother will not only count laughs but also smirks, titters, chuckles, guffaws, LMAOs and ROFLs and definitely Mega LOLs.

If at the end of the task housemates incur a number of fails that is equal to or less than the number in the envelope, they’ll pass this week’s shopping task and receive a luxury shopping budget. If they incur more fails than the number in the envelope, they will fail the shopping task and receive a basic shopping budget. They won’t be laughing then, will they, eh?

Stiff upper lips all round please.

In case you missed it, the housemates are not allowed to laugh for two days. HA. They're putting on their best poker faces and we must say they're doing pretty well considering all the pranks the clowns are pulling (see gallery). To be honest, with memories of the film IT still fairly vivid, we might have been more terrified than tickled... Anyway, this task has changed the way the housemates interact – they have pulled together as a team to ensure they succeed in gaining the luxury shopping hamper. Instead of provoking each other, they are avoiding the 'no go' subjects and busying themselves with napping, flossing, working out, giving manicures and straight-faced chat. All together now - p-p-oker facer.

Pics coming up....