“Big Brother Australia” has former friends pitted against each other on Monday night’s episode. With Ben gone, allies have shifted and new groups have formed. Plus a follow-up on the alleged Tahan cheating scandal, is Big Brother turning a blind eye on her supporters’ questionable voting tactics?

After Tim butted heads with Ed last week, he had another clash with a new foe: Mikkayla.

Their screaming match began when Mikkayla found out Tim told Boog that she doesn’t find her sense of humour funny, which she told him as an offhand remark. She accused him of causing disharmony, making Boog distrustful of her.

Tim was having none of her tantrum. The 29-year-old university student shouted back at the English teacher to “grow up,” adding that he’s expecting her to apologise to him the next day.

“I don’t want to be friends with Mikkayla anymore, and I mean that when I say that,” Tim told Ed and Jade after their explosive argument.

Mikkayla, meanwhile, knew what exactly what Tim was doing.

“Tim has decided that I’m the next one to go,” she told her girl friends Jade and Madaline, referring to Tim’s past arguments with housemates, who were evicted the next week.

And she was right. Tim had told Drew outright that he wants Boog and Tahan, two other nominated housemates along with Mikkayla, to stay. Drew agreed.

It’s a rather unfortunate falling out between these two. At one time, Tim made a game-changing and unprecedented sacrifice when he saved Mikkayla from eviction nomination and put himself in her place. As Tim had explained, he chose to save Mikkayla because she was the only one who looked after him and talked to him when the others did not.

The house is now divided into two groups, existence of which is being denied by all members of both. In the “misfits” side, or as Tim called it, the “boring” group, are Madaline, Jade, Ed, and Mikkayla. The “cool” group, on the other hand, has Tim, Tahan, Boog, and Drew.

Interestingly, Ed has been nominating Mikkayla for eviction since the first week. He just stopped doing it after his allies (Heidi, Matthew, Caleb, and Jasmin) have been all evicted.

Tim wasn’t particularly in love with Tahan at first as well. Though they get along well when they cause mischief, he always had something not so complimentary to say about her to other people, but it appears that all had changed.

Jade is also “done” with her faux ex-husband Drew. In her own words, Drew’s rather rude act during dinner had “eliminated any friendship I had with him.”

It’s hard to blame the girl for feeling distrustful of Drew, though. Drew had nominated her at one time, not caring that he had just thrown his faux ex-wife under the bus.

Despite of all the drama that has been going on, some viewers have said that the show is getting harder to watch, knowing that there might be some truth to reports that the show is favouring Tahan over the others. With mounting complaints against the show, though still unfounded, commenters from various social media claim that it’s difficult to put one’s full trust on its voting system.

There have been complaints that a fanpage for the government worker/part-time model has started accepting paypal payments from international viewers in exchange for votes for Tahan. Since only Australian residents are allowed to vote, they had hatched a plan to vote on behalf of their idol’s overseas supporters.

Twitter fanpage for the 24-year-old beauty, @TeamTahanBB13, has also lured unsuspecting One Direction fans to vote for Tahan.

“ATTENTION!! CALL 1902 55 95 13 BECAUSE A FEW MEMBERS OF ONE DIRECTION ARE TALKING TO FANS!!!” it has posted.

The aforementioned number is Tahan’s 190-call number to receive votes. Just imagine how many One Directioners in Australia have been duped into voting Tahan because they thought that they were going to speak to the boyband heartthrob.

Not only that, as what has been first reported by the blog Leesalitle.com, Big Brother voice actor Leon Murray showed that he is pro-Tahan, basing on his Tweets to Tahan’s boyfriend, David Reynolds.

As the main voice of the faceless in the famous house, Leon should show impartiality when it comes to contestants. Communicating with a housemate’s partner outside the house to tell him that he agreed with him on Tahan is not even close to being partial.

As some members of the online forum Behind Big Brother have claimed, Leon doesn’t respond to friends and family of housemates on Twitter to remain objective, but it appears that the same rule doesn’t apply to Tahan’s boyfriend, who is a V8 Supercar driver.

“She is doing so awesome :)) I wish the girls didn’t pick on her so much,” David tweeted to Leon.

“Me too. But remember: folks love an underdog,” BB’s voice replied.

By agreeing with David and calling Tahan an “underdog,” Leon was influencing viewers of his bias towards Tahan. Perhaps he didn’t mean to affect people’s perception, but he had done it all the same.

Leon has since deleted the said tweets, though Leesalittle has a screenshot of the exchange. http://leesalittle.com/2013/10/09/big-brothers-shock-eviction-how-did-this-happen/

These allegations have already been reported by some non-Tahan supporters to Big Brother and Channel 9, but they have not received a proper response yet. There were those who were even banned outright from the show’s official page for calling out BB on its favouritism.

Read more about Big Brother’s alleged bias towards Tahan here.

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