USA Update

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THIS is the moment Big Brother’s Khaled sparked a new house feud as he takes brutal swipe at one of his housemates.

This week sees the house engulfed in the government shopping task, where some of the contestants are given special leadership privileges.

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Khaled sparked a new feud with Lily[/caption]

During the challenge, Big Brother hosted its own call in radio show for the ITV house.

The Prime Minister (Khaled) and his other Ministers faced hard hitting questions.

This was as the rest of the house – aka the citizens – were sat on the round sofa and heard everything.

Over the radio Big Brother sid: “Minister Nathan, you’ve raised concerns about some of the citizens being too nice and not showing their real selves.

“Who do you think is guilty of trying to fake it to make it? Who is gameplaying?”

Minister Nathan responded: “I think Izaaz is.

“This whole thing with the ‘Oh I like to s*** stir’, I’m unsure what’s going on there…

“Now in terms of being too nice, I go Sarah, but I might be wrong with that one but that’s what I think at the moment.”

He added: “But yeah, I’m not sure I’ve seen all sides to Sarah yet.”

Sarah was clearly angered by his comments as she picked up the house phone to respond to his comments.

“Hello Minister, or should I say Sinister,” she exclaimed as the rest of the house cheered.

However, it was Minister Khaled who faced the hardest grilling as Big Brother asked him who he would least likely to see as the head of the house.

He was asked: “Who would you really NOT like to be Head of House?”, by Big Brother

Khaled was absolutely brutal as he responded: “If I’m honest, Lily. I think it’d just be chaos.

“Which is completely calm, but if you’re Head of House you’ve got to make some really s***** tough decisions sometimes and I’ve yet to see that from her.”

Minister Daze did not agree as she admitted that Lily does have that side to her, just Khaled has not seen it yet.

But Lily was completely shocked by his comments as she ran over the phone in a huge blaze of anger.

She argued back with her fellow co-star down the line as she accused him of not having enough conversations with her to see her in that way.

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Khaled slated his co-star as the whole house heard[/caption]

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Lily was absolutely fuming as she argued back at his comments[/caption]

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She said he simply did not talk to her enough to see the other side of her[/caption]

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