The show seriously scraped the barrel on day 8 as the Geldof girls, Peaches and Fifi were handed the controls (actually Peaches did all the talking). They came across as a couple of charmless shoreditch hipsters and although they were clearly desperate to be in the house and lead the pack, you wondered if they weren't a bit too desperate at times. Their own celebrity just looked even more dubious alongside age-contemporaries with real talent.

Things picked up somewhat when Janet Street Preachers Porter entered the hijack booth. As with John McCririck, just being in amongst the little treasures brought out a slightly softer side, and she gave them the benefit of the doubt, on the whole, for their performance in the "Make a YOOF television programme" task. The real drama, though, was to come on Day 10...

I'd be interested to hear what other people thought about yesterday's show. The hijacker was Andy McNab, famous hard-nut and former squaddie of "Brave Two Zero" fame. "Bad taste but strangely compelling" is how I summed it up in the Twitter thing over in the sidebar there, when I was watching it. Here's what happened.

The kids were woken at 7am-ish by two big blokes in balaclavas. They were all ordered to get out of bed and put their hands behind their heads, execution-style. Amy and Anthony were hauled out, blindfolded, thrown in the back of an SUV and taken for a drive - apparently repeatedly past the end of my road in Elstree. After half an hour or so, sufficiently disorientated, they were led to separate interrogation rooms (predictably, back at the BB house).

The day before, we're told, each housemate was given a number to remember. They knew there was going to be a kidnap, and that if they gave up the numbers, they'd fail the task and ruin it for everyone. And in these interrogations, which could last up to 5 hours, McNab's boys had to try to use psychological pressure to get them to crack. Maybe it says more about me than the show, but I found this really hard viewing.

As a bulky actor in a balaclava shouted "You're a typical student! You only think of yourself!" into Amy's face, she managed to keep completely still, stony-faced, and didn't give an inch. Poor Anthony, on the other hand, didn't know what to do with himself. When the lying guards told him Amy had already given up the numbers, after repeatedly telling him he wasn't a team player, he eventually did the same himself. It didn't help that the blokes in the interrogation room (a bare 'bunker' of a set that, we're told, smelled of bleach), rather confusingly, told them the rules had changed and now Big Brother wants them to share the numbers. They couldn't have been sure what to believe.

Anyway, Anthony's punishment was that he had to nominate someone else, and he chose Victor. Which, considering the same episode showed him calling his sister a "whore" for letting boys near her bed, was probably an excellent choice.

Don't worry if you missed it, I'll put a clip up later today!

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