MANILA— Romantically-linked Jason Veron Francisco and Melisa Cantiveros got a landslide vote to become Pinoy Big Brother’s Christmas Ball King and Queen.

Twenty-one-year-old Jason of Calapan City in Oriental Mindoro received 27.64 percent of votes while Melai, also 21, of General Santos City got 31.08 percent during the live nomination night Monday.

PBB Double Up’s Kuya promised that a “romantic reward awaits the winners.”

Meanwhile, three emerged victorious in the elimination rounds of Kuya’s new Head Of Household (HOH) challenge.

After practicing for nearly a week, Hermes (Hermes Eugene Bautista), Jake (Paul Jake Castillo) and Rica (Richard Paras) were declared winners.

They then competed for this week’s HOH title and Rica proved to be the fastest, completing her stack routine in 29.13 seconds. Paul Jake handed over the HOH belt and Rica was glad to be immune from nomination for this week.

The polls are now open to receive your votes! The new Double Up voting system keeps the excitement up and the chances, more.

PBB Double Up now employs the SAVE/EVICT voting system, where the final tally will subtract the percentage of Vote to Evict from the percentage of Vote to Save.

To save your fave housemate, text BBS (BBS Name of Housemate). Otherwise, you may vote to evict by texting BBE (BBE Name of Housemate) and send it to 2331 for Globe, TM, Sun Cellular and Bayan Wireless landline. You may also send it to 231 for Smart and Talk ‘n’ Text subscribers.