Marcus paints bikini clad Noirin on Big Brother

"Nasty" Nick Bateman has pulled out of returning to the Big Brother house, nine years after being thrown out. He was due to be one of a number of familiar faces returning to the show as part of celebrations for its tenth series. BB1's Bateman created headlines by writing notes which he showed to contestants to influence their voting. A group of three ex-housemates from BB3 are also due to return - they will take part in an egg and spoon race. A current housemate must predict the winner to succeed in this task. BB4, BB5 and BB6 will be revisited on Tuesday, while on Wednesday, Nikki Grahame and Brian Belo will each take part in a memorable task from their year. On Sunday, housemates Sophie "Dogface" Reade and Siavash Sabbaghpour found out they will face the public vote for this Friday's eviction - because they swore. The pair were ordered to stop using expletives for five-and-a-half hours as a punishment for discussing nominations. They were told they would be immediately put up for the public vote if they uttered a single swear word before 3pm. Kris Donnelly became the sixth person to be evicted from this year's series on Friday.

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ITN | July 13, 2009

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