He’s been the bookies favourite since day one, but last night "Perfect Pete" may just have ruined it all with a speech of such blatant emotional blackmail that as soon as it was over, I rushed straight to the phone and voted for Aisleyne.

"My friend came down from heaven," Pete told Richard. "He told me I’d win Big Brother. Now I’m terrified that if I don’t win… It means there’s no heaven." Well, quite.

Personally, I think Pete is too guileless to have tried to intentionally manipulate us. But by showing this "touching" little scene, it seems the Big Brother producers finally went too far in their quest to "guide" us in our voting. If we don’t vote for Pete, we’ll destroy his faith in heaven! We can’t do that, can we? I mean, do you want to be the one to break it to him that his dead friend is, well, dead, and not up there in the stars watching reality TV? Do you? Better get on that phone then, because there’s only three days to go, and poor Pete is "terrified"!

"I want you to win, Nikki," he says, moments later, as Nikki scrunches up her face, Les Dawson style, admiring herself in the mirror. "You deserve it."

Eh? But what about heaven? What about the dead friend, and the very existence of the afterlife? Are we to understand that Pete would give all this up just to see Nikki, who spent the day throwing a fit in the bedroom because she didn’t want to play Dawn in the Big Brother musical, reign triumphant? Is everything we know wrong?

Apparently so. Roll on Friday…