The intimacy between Big Brother housemates Grace and Mikey appears to be growing by the day.

Self-styled ladies man Sezer tonight became the second housemate to be evicted from the Big Brother house.

It may have been a Bank Holiday Monday in Britain today but the Big Brother housemates took no break from their endless bickering on their twelfth day in the house.

A new housemate looks set to enter the Big Brother house after a bookmaker suspended betting today on whether fresh blood is about to join the show.

Things are about to get messy in the Big Brother house as the contestants face a week without toilet rolls and shower gel.

Food became the focal point of the latest Big Brother task tonight as housemates began playing a “game show” for their right to a £500 (€730) dream shopping list.

Anguished former Big Brother housemate Shahbaz has apologised for his erratic behaviour on the TV show, claiming he was haunted by his past of “homelessness, starvation, sexual abuse and molestation”.

Bonnie is hot favourite to be one of three Big Brother housemates nominated today for the first eviction of this year’s contest.

TURKEY’S ruling party leader Tayyip Erdogan was last night poised to take the reins as prime minister in a move Washington hopes will clear the way for deploying US troops in Turkey for a possible attack on Iraq.

Turkey’s president today designated Abdullah Gul, a leading moderate figure from a party with Islamic roots, as prime minister and asked him to form the country’s first majority government in more than a decade.

President Ahmet Necdet Sezer has urged the leaders of the 15 EU countries to set a date for accession talks with Turkey at their Copenhagen summit in December, a Turkish official said.

Turkey was thrown into crisis today when the prime minister stormed out of a meeting after the president accused him of being "too passive" in the fight against corruption.