Gerry: Carole was a hippopotamus

Gerry has joked that Carole was a "sacred hippopotamus" in a previous life.

The museum worker was in high spirits this afternoon, earlier joking with Jonty and Kara-Louise in the bedroom.

He accused Jonty of being a one-trick pony, but later admitted that he had three tricks with his burping and farting as well as his bears.

Sitting in the garden with his fellow housemates later, he turned his jokes on Carole, announcing that she would be taken back to her girlhood in the 1930s as part of this week's time travelling task.

"Carole was born at the beginning of the century," he drawled, adding that some historians agree that she survived the Jurassic era.

He then joked that before her reincarnation as a human being, the health worker was a "sacred hippopotamus" eating mud in Egypt.

When Carole mocked his apple bobbing skills in their earlier task, Gerry aimed his humour back at a nearby Jonty.

"You haven't farted in at least seven minutes, I'm getting worried about you," he declared, before threatening to cut Ziggy's unruly hair into a "Mohican".