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The Big Brother romance between part-time model Jennifer Clark and DJ Dale Howard almost hit the skids before it really took flight yesterday.

Following a day of back-and-forth bickering, Dale and Jennifer engaged in a heated argument over the masculine cosmetics, favoured by Dale's rival Stu Pilkington.

“I actually prefer boys wearing make-up,” Jennifer said as she applied eye shadow to Dale as part of a task.

Sylvia Barrie, seizing the opportunity, egged the row on, asking Dale if he wears eye shadow. His defensive response was: “I don’t even cleanse, do I?” He then brought up Jennifer’s angry reaction from a prior task when he had removed some hair gel.

“Yeah, I did go mad,” Jennifer retorted, “because I was frightened we’d lose the task…you were interfering with the hairstylist.”

Dale’s quick reply was: “I wouldn’t worry about that because we passed, didn’t we Sylv?” To which Sylvia exclaimed “Exactly!” as Jennifer looked forlornly at them both.

Sylvia has recently set her sights on Dale after being publicly rejected by newcomer Stuart. She even pulled Jennifer aside to ask if she could “make a move on Dale.”

Some of the housemates are on to her tactics, however. Darnell Swallow accused Sylvia of switching affections from Stuart to Dale to “create a storyline,” while Dennis McHugh added that she wants “to be saved” after she faces the public vote (along with Mohamed Mohamed) on Friday.

Dale and Jennifer later made up, sharing an intimate shower and reportedly kissing behind the frosted glass of the cubicle.

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