Josie gets a blue rinse

Poor Josie was the latest housemate to fall victim to a shower of paint yesterday, following Mario and Caoimhe's near miss this morning. Josie enjoyed a marathon preening session in the bathroom, where she performed some intense pampering and grooming treatments including a bizarre shaving sesh which saw the housemate twist into some quite unique shaving positions! What is it with our housemates and their strange shaving habits this year? First Corin and her forehead, then Ben and his neck and now Josie has joined in!

After all her preening (no doubt for the benefit of John James), the manicured housemate then stepped into the shower for a rinse - well that's what she thought anyway! Instead mischievous Big Brother sprayed Josie with blue paint forcing her to return to the tub for another soak! Avatar pulled off the blue smurf look, but for our Josie, blue would never be a winner, especially when trying to woo a certain gorgeous Aussie...

Josie may have more than a blue rinse to worry about after tonight. The house is set to open its doors to three new housemates, two of which are young, attractive females who are bound to cause a bit of rivalry! I'm not just talking about competition for the remaining girls but also Ben's status as Diva of the house! Watch this space.

Pretty Boy vs Bad Boy

With two of the best looking men in the house up for eviction, who will prevail – the rough and ready Nathan or the Beckham lookalike John James?! You couldn’t get more opposite looking men. Will Nathan win battle of the blokes with his hairy, rugged and laid back attitude towards his appearance? Or will John James triumph with his preened blonde hair and blue eyes?

All the talk in the house today has been focussed on Friday’s result, the deciding factor has been put down to how many female fans the nominees have on the outside. Caoimhe is convinced that JJ is the heart throb of the house whereas Corin has backed fellow Northerner Nathan to be the most desirable housemate, commenting that "Nathan's as good-looking as John, but in a different way. If I had to go on a date with either of them it'd be Nathan, he's just more my type."

The other boys in the house are just as stirred up by the shock nominations, with Mario musing that "It's the pretty boy versus the bad boy".

So who goes, you decide – the pretty boy JJ or the bad boy Nathan? Which housemate floats your boat?

Tantastic housemates

It’s been a scorcher of a week in the BB house, which has seen housemates permanently in the Big Brother garden doing what they do best – stripping off and sunbathing! With not much else to do in the house, most contestants throughout BB history have wiled away their hours lapping up the sunshine during their stay. Those pasty looking contestants that passed through the doors 2 weeks ago are now looking much more tanned and glowing, with some exceptions of course!

The worst offender of this year’s sun worshipping is by far the self confessed sun bed addict Corin Fanshawe. The Jordan lookalike is looking more and more orange by the day, always the first housemate out in the morning and last in. Poor Corin’s skin must be crying out for some shade and rehydration; perhaps she could borrow some of Ben’s vast supply of moisturiser? As eviction night looms the other housemates have upped the tanning stakes joining Corin in the garden to top up their tans.

Let’s hope Big Brother dishes out some more tasks or sun block soon or we could see some very dry and wrinkled housemates in the not to distant future.

If you want to see one of the tanned housemates in the flesh, enter our competition for a chance to see a live eviction.

The Battle of the Bikini commences

The Big Brother housemates have been making the most of the sunshine today, or perhaps trying to win some favour by treating viewers and fellow housemates to a showcase of bikinis. But who will triumph as bikini queen of the final season?

Already a hit with most of her housemates Rachael has taken every opportunity to show off her curvaceous figure in an array of bikinis, underwear and shower scenes. However, despite strutting her 'bootylicious' stuff since day 1, Rachael’s friends and families have revealed that the Beyonce wannabe is actually quite insecure about her figure.

With seven attractive female contestants in the house this year’s bikini battle was always going to be an interesting one to watch. Although I’m just as enthralled by the men’s antics. First we had a show of revealing Y-front wearers followed by Mario’s streak through the house and then John James’s barely there towel display. Perhaps the boys are giving the girl contestants a run for their money in the ’bare all’ stakes this year!

Normally viewers have to wait a few weeks before housemates get brave enough to waltz around in next to nothing, however all the contestants have upped the ante in the final season of the show. We have some advice for the housemates – when lounging around outside, don't forget to protect your lovely skin; use suncream!

Hey Sunshine, bazooka that verruca!

The verruca-gate in the BB house has opened again this year as we discover the truth about Sunshine, warts and all! What is it with Big Brother contestants and verrucas? First it was Jade Goody in Big Brother 3 and her ‘minging’ verruca, then Alex Reid in last year’s Celebrity Big Brother and now the verruca brawl has raised its ugly head (or foot) again. If you haven’t yet seen, Sunshine has been getting teased about her verrucas, despite not having any, by fellow housemates. The vegan housemate is complaining of feeling isolated by the other contestants who keep laughing at her non-existent foot disease.

I don’t blame Sunshine for getting upset at being accused of having verrucas. No one wants to be seen to have foot fungal, especially when in a confined space where most housemates don’t even wear trousers let alone shoes and socks as protection. To top things off this conversation all took place over the breakfast table – disgusting!

Verrucas have become one of those shameful conditions we all dread to admit to despite being a harmless and common occurrence. Surely you all remember the embarrassment a verruca caused whilst back in school, the white rubber verruca socks – oh the shame of it! Let’s hope our housemates ease up on Sunshine and those verruca free feet of hers!

Or just bazooka Ben.

Freederm brings you beauty news from inside the Big Brother house

Big Brother 11 has landed! The final series of Big Brother has arrived with 14 more kooky, camera loving strangers laying bare their lives, warts and all (literally) on live TV! But what have the latest BB contestants packed for their 13 weeks of uninterrupted screening in front of over 4 million viewers?! Will Rachael continue looking so Beyonce-like by week 5? Will Mario’s obsessive supply of sun block and moisturiser survive his stint on the show? And will Corin’s eyebrow pencil be blunted before the end?

Mario is on the right track with his huge stash of moisturiser which after many inevitable days of alcohol and sunshine will keep his skin refreshed and hydrated. Ife and Rachael may struggle to keep up the high maintenance beauty regimes they follow outside the house; we will be keeping a close eye on how they cope without their usual beauty luxuries.

With so many image obsessed contestants crammed into one house there is sure to be fireworks and we’re not just talking about the girls! To introduce some more vanity to the mixture, Big Brother has supplied the ladies of the house with tanning lotion and nail varnish. Surely nail varnish is not an essential part of a beauty regime, why not supply all important face wash and moisturiser? Both are crucial elements in the daily beauty routine and are essential in keeping skin healthy and glowing. We can only assume that Big Brother has something up its sleeve…