Housemates drink until early hours

6:21pm Sunday 20th July 2008

Big Brother housemates stayed up drinking after saying goodbye to Belinda Harris-Reid.

The 44-year-old theatre director from Exeter became the fifth housemate to be evicted last night with 65% of the vote.

She was up against Rex Newmark, who had earlier predicted that if he stayed he would become a "powerful housemate".

But the 24-year-old chef appeared to be disappointed when presenter Davina McCall read out Belinda's name, burying his head in his hands and saying: "People are making me suffer."

Later in the evening Rex said he wanted to see his girlfriend and, while chatting to fellow housemates Rachel, Kathreya and Michael in the living area, he said: "I'm not happy at all. I don't want to be here but I won't walk out either...this is not a luxury lifestyle."

Rex was able to drown his sorrows, however, after Big Brother handed out alcohol as a reward for the housemates from hell winning the cleaning task.

Many stayed up chatting until the early hours of this morning, while Stuart was caught cooking a pizza for Dale and Rex soon after 3am.

He hid it in a basket to take it to the housemates, but Kathreya rumbled the secret meal.

After most of the housemates were in bed, Kathreya, Dale, Rex and Rachel carried on talking on the sofas.

With Rachel refusing to give an opinion on the housemates, Rex called her "the most boring housemate" and said her life must be plain sailing, "never really exciting or really boring, just average". Rachel agreed that she was an average person but at least she was always happy.

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