Now that the housemates are all settled in, the gossip has started, the rows have broken out and the romances have started to manifest. Let's take a look at the week that was in our weekly Big Brother round up.

Day 7

Judgement day dawned on an uncharacteristically calm group of housemates. Perhaps it was the climate of repressed anxiety that led to an endearing spot of male bonding. Chris sponged down Benedict and Luke S made the first of several bids to get closer to Adam.

Chris and Arron found out they were up for eviction and their anxious responses coloured the evening ambience. Shievonne made herself useful giving identical, soothing advice to both lads. Enjoy yourself and get naked, is her boiled down wisdom.

The Lushleigh romance moved slowly with whispering taking precedence over fondlings. But baby names were discussed giving us hopes of raunchier things to come.

Day 8

The housemates awoke to find a laughing sailor in their lounge, a signifier of a new shopping task. To win a luxury shopping budget they had to avoid laughing for two days. Big Brother, as ever, had a ruse or two to make this more difficult, forcing Arron to dress up in a range of comedy outfits and sending comedians, including man-and-bird sensation Keith and Orville, into the House. We'd like to take this moment to pay our respects to Luke S's technique for fending off laughter. The man dropped and did press-ups the moment a smile twitched at his lips. This happened a lot when Chris got pied by clowns.

Arron had an argument with Deana about whether she should be drinking. It's hard to take a man in PVC spenders and shorts seriously, but Deana saw red.

Lushleigh finally delivered a bit of action. A public mouth kiss as well as bathroom-based bonding went down. But god forbid there should be a complication-free instance of happy couples in the House. Ashleigh began to worry that Lauren wanted in with her man. Oh dear.

Day 9

The task wore on, as did Big's (Becky's pet-name for the House overlord) attempts to sabotage the solemnity.

Keeping a straight face was the main order of the day. The housemates threw themselves into the distracting task of dyeing each other's hair. Luke S went in again for another bromance sesh with Adam while Chris and Caroline endured an awful date.

The comparatively successful romance of Lushleigh went on a rollercoaster ride. Early in the day as the pair lay intertwined on a sun lounger, the group dubbed them 'Team Lush' (second best nickname). But as the day turned to night and the housemates enjoyed a party with lashings of booze, pizza and music (they won the task: woo!), Ashleigh got a bit emotional. Something about how she usually runs away from intimacy. It would have been more convincing if she wasn't sitting on Luke S's knee at the time.

Day 10

The time was nigh to spend the luxury food budget their frowns had bought them. Despite putting in a serious amount of time, the housemates shamed themselves by overspending, not by a few pence, but by £137. Back to school, all of you.

A Diary Room task - Risk It For A Biscuit - took place. It involved housemates dangling their paws inside an opaque container which contained biscuits but also other assorted weirdness. They braved it and won their second party on the trot. Glory be.

Ashleigh gave Luke S a massage in a private area... the bedroom! (Honestly, you guys) But later on, her suspicions that Lauren and Luke S would make a good couple came out in a discussion with Caroline who brokered a chat with Lauren herself. Will Lushleigh become Lusen?

Day 11

Day 11 was a mix of royal highs and real lows as Caroline won a task while Chris was booted out of the Big Brother House.

Lauren and Sara fell for Caroline's BB-led pretext that she's related to the royal family but they didn't cry too much about it. The reward for being taken in was a cream tea for the duper and dupees in the secret room.

The headline of the day could only be Chris's departure although, apart from a missing-Chris pillow-sniff from Shievonne, the HMs moved onwards and upwards with alarming speed.

Another day, another Lushleigh development... after a day of relative quiet, the two were reunited passionately on the bed. No sex. Sorry, we're British but there was energetic tonsil-hockey. That enough for you?

Day 12

Boogieng was the order of the day, with a Dance Off task the central focus of Day 12. Practising for the shimmy-battle was somewhat overshadowed by a large amount of gossip that hit the house like a stealthy ninja of tittle tattle, but it didn't entirely engulf the good feeling engendered by the task.

Aside from the griping, there was an epic pillow fight and some chocolate spread action before the winners' party arrived. And as the victors celebrated, the losing housemates were forced to watch from the wings, miserably cursing their own inability to cut the rug.

The day ended with larks in the bedroom from Conor and Arron before housemates settled down to sleep, perchance to dream.

Day 13

More Lushleigh action on the thirteenth day as Luke S and Ashleigh talked baby names (again), but in no time at all another mission had arrived, with a ticking Time Bomb task the focus of the day's action.

Passing the explosive sphere between themselves, some gained mini-treats whilst others suffered punishment. Amongst the results, Benedict lost his ability to nominate this week, Conor chose to share his karaoke reward with Arron and Adam was punished with a pair of massive hands he had to keep attached to his wrists for the best part of the day. Relief came when Shievonne offered to share her dinner date with him, but his experience of dining with the former Playmate was tempered by the fact he had to keep the hands attached throughout.

Keeping that Lushleigh fire burning, Ashleigh chose to share her Time Bomb reward with Luke S. The two worked out together with some temporarily installed gym equipment.