We Nominate, Housemates Evict

This year, the live Nominations show has been cancelled due to Kyle and Jackie O's schedule, and the process has been changed to suit, which may see the HMs that are flying low get evicted early.

Now, much like Idol or SYTYCD, the public will have the whole week to vote for the HMs they like best. On Sunday the bottom 3 will be announced to the HMs. The FNL winner for the week will get some special privilege based on these votes (to be annouced either Friday or Sunday), and then the HMs will vote 2 points and 1 point for who they want to be evicted that night. Based on the HMs' own votes, one of them will be evicted.

First of all, this has excellent fund raising potential for BB. Previously regular voters would only need to send in votes in the weeks their favourite HMs had been nominated. Now voters will need to save their faves every week throughout the series. Also, instead of 3 HMs receiving votes, there are 12, and next week there will be more. So plenty of revenue coming in from there.

The next thing is, with the public only voting to save, the ones who don't get noticed, won't get votes. The under the radar HMs will have more chance of ending up in the bottom 3 each week. Housemates who stirred things up used to get all the nomination points from the HMs and the public would have to vote out on of 3 interesting characters. Now the ones who stir things up will get more airtime on the DS, become more popular, and get more save votes, while the boring ones will get nominated.

So then the HMs get a choice of 3 to evict. No word yet on whether they evict during the day with the results announced live, or if the whole eviction process is live. Also will they have to give reasons for their nominations this year? This was the only real insight into what they were thinking about the others we used to get, so hopefully it is done in some way.

A new aspect of the nomination process we have already been shown is the Danger Zone, where each weeknight we are shown the list of the bottom 5 HMs. This will get interest in voting up for those wanting to save the HMs trailing in votes, and also shows us how the votes change day by day.

The 2 things left to be revealed are:

• What power the FNL winner will get over the nominees.
• How the Strategy Room will work.