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THIS is the shock moment that Big Brother used the secret smoking area CCTV to catch a rule break.

Big Brother gathered the housemates at the sofa area for a shock announcement.

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The housemates were left in shock after Big Brother unleashed a huge punishment[/caption]

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Martha broke down in tears after she admitted to unwittingly breaking the rules[/caption]

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CCTV captured a number of housemates scribble written messages of the walls of the smoking area[/caption]

The ITV2 overlord announced that several housemates broke a vital house rule.

But this time, he did not hold back as he broke the news to the unsuspecting housemates.

An announcement said: “This is Big Brother. Housemates, it’s giving rule break.

“Before you entered the Big Brother house, the rules were clearly explained to you.

“Rule 12 states that you must not attempt to communicate in code or write messages.”

It was revealed that several housemates wrote silly graffiti messages in the smoking area, and Big Brother saw it all.

“This rule has been broken by several housemates who have been found writing messages on the door in the Smoking Area,” he continued.

“You will be punished. I have removed half of your luxury shopping budget.”

All the housemates were completely shocked as Martha stormed out the room in tears after admitting she was one of the accomplices.

As the group guessed what items they would lose, Big Brother confirmed: “All tea and coffee, gone. All biscuits, banned. All sweets, seized.”

But he was not done there as the voice added: “All 140 packets of crisps, confiscated. Fizzy drinks? Forget about it.”

Marcello was then ordered to empty the kitchen of all the tea and coffee and bring the items to the diary room.

Lily was absolutely devastated as she loudly lamented how she could not survive in the house without sugar.

She then appeared in the diary room as she declared how she would feel absolutely fine if she was evicted.

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Lily was left fuming after Big Brother confiscated all the sweet items[/caption]

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All the tea, coffee, sweets and crisps were banned from the house[/caption]

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CCTV was captured in the smoking area as housemates wrote silly graffiti messages[/caption]

Big Brother is available to watch on ITV2 and stream on ITVX.

DARREN ANDERTON can think of nobody who is more fitting to steal his assist record for Spurs than selfless skipper Son Heung-min.

Former England midfielder Anderton tops Tottenham’s charts in the Premier League with a whopping 68.

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Son Hueng-min could set a new assist record against West Ham[/caption]

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Darren Anderton is Tottenham’s record holder with 68[/caption]

But South Korean icon Son is creeping up behind on 64 and will surely surpass him at some point this term.

Son will target getting even closer to Anderton’s record at home to West Ham.

And Anderton, 52, told  SunSport in association with freebets.com: “If anyone is going to break that record, I’m very happy it’s going to be Son because he’s a team player.

“I always considered myself to be that, and always put the team first.

“I’d get as much joy at  creating opportunities and  setting up goals as I did from scoring myself.”

Assists — providing the final ball to the player who scores the goal — were not as revered in Anderton’s 1990s heyday.

But the growing influence of stats-obsessed American sports and the rise of fantasy football have seen the goal-maker take almost as much credit as the goal-taker.

Put it this way: Anderton would be hailed far more for his playmaking ability if he were playing today rather than 30 years ago.

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Many of Anderton’s assists saw him tee up old mucker Teddy Sheringham.

In fact, their epic 27-goal combinations make the pair the fifth-most prolific duo in Premier League history.

Son is top of that particular list owing to his fruitful partnership with Harry Kane.

They hit a staggering 47-goal combinations before Kane was sold to Bayern Munich two summers ago.

California-based Anderton added: “We live in America now and all the sports over here are about the assists and the stats and everything.

“So I’ve always been aware of it. My American friends always used to say that it’s scandalous no one ever speaks about assists!

“Now they do, so that’s good, and I think they should. It’s a huge part of the game and it’s what happens in the final third that wins games.

“Your team can have all the possession in the world but it’s that final ball which is so, so important.

“I’m very proud of the record. It’s something that I was always aware of.

“When I first got in at Spurs I struggled, but then things really took off for me and my relationship with Teddy in terms of assists and scoring goals.

“When Harry and Sonny had their assist-goal relationship, I saw myself and Teddy’s names up in the top five  Premier League goal-assist partnerships.

“Someone sent me something the other day about my record on social media when Son had two assists and I was like, ‘Oh, OK’.

“We were having dinner and I showed my daughter and  wife and we were having a bit of a giggle about it.”

Son has missed Spurs’  last three games due to a hamstring issue picked up  in the 3-0 home win over Qarabag in the Europa League group stages last month.

However, the South Korean expects to return to action today in the early kick-off.

The attacker, 32, is one of Spurs’ greatest modern-day players and is 21st in the all-time list of Premier League goalscorers on 122.

But he has only scored in one match this season — the 4-0 win over Everton on August 24 — and has not netted in his last five club appearances.

Anderton added: “He hasn’t played as well as he would like and against Manchester United, he wasn’t missed — that performance was incredible.

“But that’s all part of getting to that sort of age and things start to change. I left Spurs at 32, I thought I had a few more years in me, but that’s all part of the game that we all play.

“But everyone in football knows how good he is.

“He’s the perfect football player. He works his socks off, he creates opportunities, he scores goals.

“He has always produced  and has been an unbelievable player for the club.”

But if Spurs are to beat their London neighbours today, Anderton believes the performance of £40million midfielder James Maddison will be key.

The playmaker has struggled for large parts of this year as he battles back to peak fitness after damaging ankle ligaments in November 2023.

But he has been in red-hot form in recent weeks, yet was overlooked again by England this month.

Anderton felt the 27-year-old deserved a recall and believes the North Londoners are at their best when Maddison is on top of his game.

Euro 96 star Anderton, who won 30 caps for his country, added: “When he plays well, we play well.

“He has that X Factor that when teams sit deep because we do dominate, you need that bit of magic to create things.

“Christian Eriksen used to do it and James Maddison is in that mould.

“After he had that injury last season, our form was never the same. He’s that important to the team.”

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James Maddison was left out of the last England team[/caption]

WHEN I first saw footage of U2 ­performing in that enormous new electrical dome in Las Vegas, my mind was blown.

I’ve always loved big sound-and-light events.

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A version of the Las Vegas Sphere could have brought visitors – and fun – to London but Sadiq Khan said no[/caption]

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London Mayor Khan said it would cause too much light pollution. Really? In London. Is he mad?[/caption]

 The Who at Wembley in 1979. That was so big, the air traffic controllers at Heathrow forced them to shut the lasers down.

 Then, in the same year, there was Led Zep and Jimmy Page, who played his ­guitar with a violin bow, engulfed by tetrahedrons of light.

 These things made me run round in circles, squeaking and clutching my tinkle.

That’s why I was so excited by the new dome. I’m not an especially big fan of U2 and I actively dislike Las Vegas, but I decided ­immediately that I needed to get on a plane and go there. To experience it.

For all sorts of pig and cow-based ­reasons, that never happened. But it wasn’t the end of the world because I heard a rumour they were going to build another dome — in London.

Brilliant, I thought.

Sadly, however, the mayor of this once great city, Sadiq Khan, thought differently.

He said it would cause too much light pollution. Really? In London. Is he mad?

‘Bugger off’

And he said it would need too much electricity.

 He actually sat there, in his air-­conditioned, fully lit goldfish bowl of an office on the banks of the Thames, in a city where the birds sing at night because it’s so bright, and said that.

“Hello, Mr Khan. We’d like to invest in your city and bring millions of visitors from all around the world, which would be great news for London’s hotels, bars and restaurants.”

“Bugger off!”

If some local busybody moaned about light pollution and mental health issues in the community, I’d have put my fingers in my ears and hummed loudly till they shut up

If I had been running the council in Leeds, or Newcastle or Cardiff, I’d have been on the phone in a shot.

 I’d have seen how much business such an attraction would bring to the area and done everything in my power to make it happen.

And if some local busybody moaned about light pollution and mental health issues in the community, I’d have put my fingers in my ears and hummed loudly till they shut up.

But no other council, so far as I’m aware, did step forward. The biggest levelling-up opportunity since the industrial revolution — and no one did a damn thing.

The Tories, who were in power at the time, tried to overrule the deranged Mayor of London, but it was too late. The company behind the idea pulled out, saying they didn’t want to be a ­political football.

So now it’s been announced the new dome will be built in Abu Dhabi.

This is becoming an enormous problem in the UK. Tiny, jumped-up regional ­politicians have far too much power.

You would love to have a snazzy new concert venue in your area. Your kids would, too. Everyone would.

But then along come the light pollution, Net Zero Nazis and the idea is squashed.

And now, everyone who wants to ­experience this amazing venue will have to get on an A380 and endure a seven-hour flight to the UAE.

So stick that in your Net Zero pipe and smoke it.

Eye eye sir! General Sir Mike born to command

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General Sir Mike Jackson, who sadly died this week, was always going to be a soldier, and he was always going to rise to the very top[/caption]

IT can be argued that people get a job to suit their face.

 Barry Gibb was always going to be a disco king.

Marlon Brando was always going to be a film star. And Carlos Sainz was always going to be a racing driver.

But the man whose face most suited his job was General Sir Mike Jackson, who sadly died this week.

With eyes that steely, and crags that deep, he was always going to be a soldier, and he was always going to rise to the very top.

You’d trust him completely and accept his orders without question.

 Whereas with someone like Cole Palmer, you probably wouldn’t.

Seems London is dying

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A walk back from the Tube to his flat past a cannibalised Porsche and boarded up shops in one of the most expensive streets, convinced Jeremy that London is dying[/caption]

ON a Tube train journey in London this week, I overheard a woman saying to her friend that her flat had been burgled and all the family passports stolen.

Later, I saw a Porsche with both of the nearside doors missing.

And then I noticed that in one of the most expensive streets in West London’s Notting Hill, half the shops are now boarded up.

I then walked back to my flat and, for the first time ever, felt slightly threatened.

 I also felt slightly squiffy. The smell of weed was overpowering everywhere.

I dunno. It felt to me like London is dying.

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AN Army veteran has been fined and given a ­community service order for standing in the street and saying a silent prayer.

 Let’s not concern ­ourselves with what he was thinking or why he chose that spot.

 In a free country, he has been criminalised for his thoughts.

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Give me a break

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How much do the Italians owe Brits for the distress of invading us in AD43, and the French for then doing much the same thing in 1066?[/caption]

SO, Barbados is demanding £5,700,000 trillion billion pounds from the UK for all the hurt and distress caused by British colonialism.

OK, so let’s kick the ball down the road and demand a similar sum from the Italians for invading us in AD43, and the French for then doing much the same thing in 1066.

 Oh, and let’s have a couple of trillion from the Norwegians for all that pillagey Viking nonsense, as well.

In the meantime, I shall stop taking holidays in Barbados.

Which, if my last bar bill is anything to go by, will cost them more than they stand to gain.

Oven a laugh, surely

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Unlike the rest of us, the government can burn as much wood as they like[/caption]

I’M sure many pensioners worried about the cost of heating their homes this winter will be thinking about maybe getting a wood-burning stove.

Tricky. There’s all sorts of legislation about burning stuff these days and, as far as I can tell, all you’re allowed to put in there is a damp dishcloth.

It’s different for the Government, though. They can burn as much wood as they like.

The Drax power station in Yorkshire, for example, used to burn gas.

 But then along came the Net Zero movement, which insisted it be turned into a giant wood-burning stove.

Thousands of trees a week are felled in America and the wood pellets that result are shipped in vast diesel-powered ships to the UK, where they are thrown into the furnaces.

And the result? Well, it’s not good, especially if you’re a tree.

And it’s not much better for us. Every megawatt hour of power produced by Drax today costs £138, compared to £80 when it ran on gas.

So, there you are. You can’t afford to buy electricity made from wood and you aren’t allowed to burn it as an alternative.

Welcome to a world of joined-up thinking.

Bit less horny, please

NEW research shows that Gen Z and Millennial drivers are by far the most likely to sound their car horns in a moment of rage.

A whopping 63 per cent say they do it, compared to just 42 per cent of those aged 70 and above.

Me? Well, I can safely say I’ve never used my horn in anger.

Why would you? If there’s an emergency, using the brakes or the steering wheel seems like the better option.

Everyone would be advised to remember this. The horn is not for signalling your displeasure. It’s there to let cyclists know you’re overtaking them.

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