THE first two contestants to battle it out in a public vote for eviction from the Whiteley Human Zoo will be announced today.

All six people living in a huge Power FM glass conservatory in the centre of the shopping complex will today take part in a critical challenge.

Just what the challenge will entail is being kept under close wraps but the future of the two who come last or fail will be decided by the public in a text vote.

The contestant who gets the least votes will have to pack his or her bags and leave tomorrow morning.

It has been a nail-biting weekend for the three boys and three girls who admit they are in it to win a £5,000 prize and a dream holiday.

And it has been especially hard for the two smokers Sarah Hunter, 22, a sales administrator from Gosport who has been nicknamed 'rah' and Tim Miller, 21, a lorry driver from Portswood, Southampton.

Zookeeper Andy Telling said: "They are climbing the walls. Tim stayed up very late on Friday night. They are finding it hard going through cold turkey."

And some shoppers are only adding to their nicotine craving by waving cigarettes and blowing smoke at them through open windows.

Tim shocked onlookers on Saturday morning by clearing the breakfast things away in his boxer shorts as a challenge to win the girls a new hairbrush.

Zookeeper Andy said it is the best group of people that he could have hoped for.

He added: "They are all having so much fun and getting on very well. They are really entertaining people. On Friday morning we had 100 people queued here at 8am before work to come and take a look at them."

The rest of the group includes Martin Rowe, 21, a magician from Hedge End, Kirsty Faichen, 25, a solicitor from Gosport, Rupert Bolger, 35, a social worker from Whiteley and trainee hairdresser Carley Jeliff, 19 from Hilsea, Portsmouth.

Contestants will be voted out after a critical challenge until Friday when there will be two left who will go head to head in a challenge with the winner taking all.