The housemates have failed this week’s special birthday shopping task, forcing them to live on basic rations for a second week.

Karly was set her Birthday Week task yesterday, taking on ex-Big Brother 7 housemate Nikki Grahame at the silent disco.

Craig and Makosi from Big Brother 6 returned to the house last night to compete against Siavash in the infamous box task.

The birthday week tasks continue with housemates from BB7 and BB8 returning to the show today

Channel 4 have extended the length of Friday’s second live show as part of Big Brother’s week of birthday celebrations.

The housemates have discovered the news that Michael Jackson has died after BB4’s Federico told Noirin during their task.

BB4 champion Cameron suggests the winners may feature in Friday night’s live birthday celebrations, whilst Federico returns today

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