thanks VD 
7.50pm: Luke A and Conor are setting a special table for Chris and Caroline's meal experience later. Beautiful.
MrsH 
8.02pm: Benedict's playing waiter for the meal. Everyone's taking #Chrisoline rather seriously. Apart from Chris and Caroline. #
8.19pm: Caroline and Chris are dining together, dressed up to the nines, whilst the others scoff pizza.
Day 9: In the mood for love?
27 mins ago
A fauxmance is unfolding in the House right now between Chris and Caroline. But there are two sides to every story...Chris is saying that he's head-over-heels for Caroline. In his own words, "I'm so attracted to her it hurts". He's pulling out all the stops for their dinner date later, even wearing his favourite moisturiser. Chris thinks Caroline is attracted to bad boys, so he's consulting with the lads. He's already changed his outfit twice â aw!
Chris believes they got off on the wrong foot when they first met and has suggested that they eat alone together later when the pizza is delivered, as the task reward. Caroline isn't hiding her feelings at all, "he's the world's biggest moron. I can't go near him", she said. She's properly "moooortified".
Pizza, candlelight, wine and conversation â it's all in good fun but despite that, will sparks fly between the unlikely lovebirds later on?
8.23pm: A quick pic of Benedict playing continental waiter for this evening's date.
.38pm: The date's over and the sparks didn't appear to fly. But it's early days. Good luck to the pair of them. #
8.47pm: We love Conor's Derry accent, 'car' = 'cearr'.
9.04pm: Housemates are at the kitchen table waiting for the festivities. After a quiet one last night it might get lively
9.15pm: Caroline is now terrified that her meal with Chris has increased his chances of staying for another week. #bbuklive
9.21pm: Music is being piped into the house and the housemates, naturally, are delighted.
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9.21pm: Music is being piped into the house and the housemates, naturally, are delighted. #bbuklive
9.34pm: Adam's just knocked Chris out.
Velvet 
9.34pm: Chris asks who 'David Minaj' is... a lovechild of Nikki Minaj and ? #bbuklive #teamchris
9.39pm: Chris to Benedict: "You're gonna be my best mate after this show, I love you mate". Aw - #bbuklive
10.03pm: The music has stopped, but the HMs are still singin'
10.19pm: Becky wonders how long the lads can last without some self-love. She said that girls "can last a lot longer than guys". #bbuklive 
10.42pm: HMs talking about Minaj's 'Bees in the Trap' (bees in the bath, bee, bees in the bath!). #bbuklive
11.11pm: Leftover pizza for breakfast? Seems to be the plan. Not too bad a plan at all, actually. #bbuklive
11.22pm: 'When I wake up with this short hair I look like I've been electrocuted' - Lydia. Andy witnesses this every morning
11.28pm: It's time for a dip. Arron and Chris, the nominated housemates are lounging in the pool. #bbuklive
11.44pm: There's gym talk in the bedroom. Peculiarly enough, it's led by housemates we haven't seen work out once in the house
12.00am: The topic of conversation in the bedroom is armpit-shaving. Which is obviously delightfu
12.13am: Arron, Adam and Luke A are talking about how they'd get the clowns back who gatecrashed the house for the
12.18am: Uh oh - a little #Lushleigh action ahead of bedtime. Ashleigh's sitting on Luke's lap in the living room.
12.30am: Shiveonne's giving Deana a beauty treatment in the bedroom while Ashleigh's having a mope, perched on Luke S' knee.
12.39am: Chris, Lydia and Benedict are talking about Becky and it's not entirely favourable
12.45am: Shievonne and Arron are talking in the bathroom about how all the nominations talk is wearing them down. Poor loves.
1.00am: It's growing quiet as housemates turn in one by one, though Chris is still talking with Lydia and Benedict in the garden.
1.11am: Topics Chris is covering include the Bermuda Triangle, aliens, ghosts and psychic powers.
1.29am: Chris is on a role tonight, still chatting in the pool about UFOs, MIB, The Da Vinci Code.
1.38am: Benedict uses Chris dry shampoo, "this will encourage grey hair..I'll be a silver fox"
1.52am: Conor doing his best Michael Flatley impression
02.00am: Til tomorrow
Day 9: It's party time (and laughing's allowed)
9 hours ago
Finally the housemates were allowed to break out a grin on each of their lovely faces as the No LOL task came to an end. With only 19 fails out of an allowed 25, the result came in earlier that they'd won the task - and that meant a pizza party for them all to end the day on a high.
The gang were happy enough with the food and drink, but when music was piped in, they hit a level of dancing frenzy not seen since... well, since the last time we piped music into the house.
It's nice to see them smiling, isn't it?
Day 9: Round up
1 hour ago
As the shopping task continued, Day 9 saw housemates woken up by the arrival of two laughing ladies, which put them on the defensive from the off. Then, after breakfast and with the sun in the sky, the boys discussed their favourite ladies in the house. Later on, Conor, Arron and Luke S enjoyed a workout using whatever came to hand. Once again, milk-cartons were employed to maximum effect. Later on, the gang tried their hardest to converse without lolling, plane-watching and chatting as morosely as possible, which led to the possible Luke S and Ashleigh love-match being termed âTeam Lushâ. We prefer âLushleighâ, as it happens. But there was another alliance that seemed to be on Luke Sâs mind, and that was a bromance with Adam that he seems more than keen to kick-start. And that's all on top of a hair-colouring session that finished the afternoon off perfectly. More unlikely friendships later - a strange and not entirely successful attempt at reconciliation between Chris and Caroline saw them eating pizza alone. Sadly, Carolineâs still not too interested in being pals with the bailiff, so âChrisolineâ may never happen. Party time arrived later, with the housemates provided with pizza, drinks and music. The gang got stuck in and enjoyed their newfound ability to smile, frolick, cavort and enjoy themselves. The day ended on good terms, with everyone smiling. Everyone aside from Ashleigh, who wrangled once again over the Lushleigh scenario sheâs found herself embroiled in, worrying about what people on the outside might think. Bless her. From a launch night in which her slightly filthy mouth ran riot, sheâs turned into a bit of a shrinking violet, hasnât she?
Morning all
8.53am: The housemates are all sound asleep. This is absolutely no fun
9.13am: Still asleep! We're hoping that all this rest means they'll be fully energised and ready to rumble later today.
9.31am: The lights are on. Luke S smiled, leaned up in bed then... leaned back down again
9.45am: Luke S is up and already on it domestically speaking. Here he is showing a bin bag who's boss
9.58am: Becky is asking Luke S about his uni days. He studied real estate management, not sports science like Bex guessed
10.28am: The housemates are having a serious, maths-based conversation about their shopping list
10.46am: Luke S is reading out the prices of foods on the shopping list. He sounds like a bingo caller
* I want to see the shopping drama - used to be one of the most entertaining bits * 
11.05am: Sara and Scott in the garden pooling their concerns that they are both developing beer bellies. #bbuklive
11.19am: Looks like Shievonne and Scott are going blonde today. We know Scott's already blonde. Let's just go withit
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11.40am: Lydia is in the Diary Room talking to Big Brother
11.49pm: Chris is having a bitch about Becky. This is as surprising as Christmas falling on December 25th. #bbuklive
12.08pm: Deana reckons Caroline will be the first HM to pose for Nuts. Is she having a bubble? Caroline's certainly laughing.
12.17pm: Shievonne and Ashleigh are choreographing a little finger dance. Sweet moves. #bbuklive http://pic.twitter.com/dsMKSJvw
Chris Luke S and lydia do the shopping list
Lydia taken over, shocked ? not at all http://www.facebook.com/BigBrotherUK...shopping-list/
1.30pm: Benedict has evidently packed his cliche book. Money doesn't buy you happiness, he says. Cheers Ben.
Thanks for the great work everyone 
The Big Brother 2012 housemates completed their first shopping task today, but it was an hour full of tension and arguments.
After passing Big Brotherâs Megalol shopping task, the 16 remaining housemates were given a luxury budget of ÂĢ500 to spend on food for the next week.
But there were clashes right from the start of the hour given to write the list, with Luke S, Lydia and Benedict even arguing over how to write what they wanted.
There were then disagreements over whether to buy 7, 14 or 21 apples, and whether 5kgs of bananas was too much.
Lydia ended up snapping at Chris: âYouâre seriously pissing me off.â
After 30 minutes, the group had only managed to spend ÂĢ10.52 of their budget, or at least according to Chrisâ math skills.
Who knows how theyâll cope with a basic budgetâĶ
1.48pm: Chat's getting real. Ashleigh and Deana are discussing the death penalty. Dark words for such a sunny
2.10pm: Deana and Chris are play dancing. He's freaking out about her "bony fingers". #bbuklive
Later peeps
