Four housemates are facing the boot from the Big Brother house in the show's first eviction of the series for failing a secret task.
Mario Marconi and Stephanie McMichael were told to pretend to be a couple to hide Mario's real romance with fellow housemate Lisa Appleton. A fourth housemate, Luke Marsden, was also in on the secret.
Mario, 42, and Stephanie, 19, tied the knot on Sunday in what housemates were led to believe was a real wedding ceremony.
But after the wedding breakfast and a Champagne toast, Big Brother interrupted.
"The wedding is now over. Big Brother has a very important announcement - there is a secret couple living in the House. Housemates have one minute to decide who they think those two housemates are," he said.
Housemate Alexandra De-Gale had already said she contested the wedding as "a sham" and, after a group discussion, Michael Hughes announced they thought it was Mario and Lisa. The correct guess guaranteed that Mario, Lisa, Luke and Stephanie are up for the first eviction and will face the public vote.
"This has got to be the twist of the century," Michael exclaimed after the truth was revealed.
Mario and Lisa were delighted that they no longer had to keep their romance under wraps but Luke was unhappy about being up for eviction.
"The reason why we're on the chopping block now is because of Stephanie," he said.
Stephanie meanwhile jumped into the swimming pool still wearing her wedding dress and told housemates she had found the task so hard she had repeatedly cried in the diary room.
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