After Travis had finished his chat with Ben, Nobbi moved over swiftly to talk things over. “If you think I put that question up so you would say Alice, I didn’t,” Nobbi said firmly. “I didn’t think you would blow up like that. I knew that question would have put you on the spot because you do feel uncomfortable with that question and it was part of the game we were playing – truth or dare. I didn’t expect you to say Alice.”

Travis didn’t believe Nobbi. “You didn’t expect me to say Alice?” Travis retorted sarcastically. “Please.”

Nobbi explained he firmly believed Travis wasn’t going to say Alice, and told Travis why. “After you went and talked to Alice about what we’ve said about her, you said ‘I still feel as though I’m very close to Alice and my two favourite female HMs are still Bianca and Alice’. So why would I expect you to say Alice?”

Travis took a deep breath. “My situation is…” he began.

“That’s not my question Travis,” Nobbi interrupted.

“Well give me a second and I’ll get to your question!” Travis bit back, instantly silencing Nobbi. “Let me go through the whole reason why I’m upset. I was upset with you and Benny last night primarily because Rory came up to me and said ‘I knew you were going to say Alice because of the situation you were put in in the Kombi’.

“Heaps of people have come up to me and have said ‘Trav, we knew you were going to say Alice, just because of the situation in the Kombi the night before’. After I went up and spoke to Al I said I feel really comfortable now and I’m glad I spoke to her and although what you guys said about what she said was true. I feel that in the House we are quite close friends. I said ‘Ben, can you not tell Nobbi that I’ve spoken to Al because that will mean that I’ve defied your trust and it will just be a whole messy situation like what happened in the Kombi a few nights ago’.”

Travis relayed how he’d specifically asked Ben not to tell Nobbi he’d spoken to Alice about the inside info the Kombi boys had given him. Nobbi agreed that Travis had the right to be upset by Ben’s actions. But it was Nobbi’s ‘threat’ of ostracizing Travis from the Kombi boys which had really conjured The Voice’s emotions.

“The fact that when we were in the Kombi and you said ‘Initially you were part of the girls not the boys in the initial weeks, and as we’ve grown closer and now you’re one of the boys and you’re throwing back our hospitality and defied our trust and the boys are contemplating throwing in the towel and giving up on our relationship. The boys are getting frustrated.’

“I said, ‘Are you speaking on everyone’s behalf?’ and you said, ‘No, I’m just the only one vocalizing my opinion.’ There was a whole heap of other stuff said between you and I that made me feel if I didn’t take… before that situation in the spa came up last night I didn’t see it as peer pressure whatsoever. But the fact you put me in a situation last night to test whether I’d be loyal to you, to see how much I value you and the boys’ friendship… to me that was peer pressure. Just because I knew if I didn’t say Al, I would have been in that Kombi straight after and you would have been like ‘Why didn’t you say Al’. Benny and Rory both agree with me that I would have been drilled. You can talk now.”

The floor turned over to Nobbi, he explained his intention was never to reject Travis from the group, but he was sick of Travis’ “narrow-mindedness”, and all efforts by him to help Trav see life from another perspective.

“What I said about giving up on you had nothing to do with that,” Nobbi said clearly. “For the last six weeks I’ve been talking to you and you’ve been positively narrow minded, you haven’t been taking in what I’ve been saying, and that’s what I meant by giving up on you.

“Obviously you have your way of thinking and I have mine. The fact that you say ‘I understand where you’re coming from… but’. You’re not taking in anything I’m saying and I think that’s unrealistic and naïve. You said you still felt really close to Bianca and Alice and you’ve always been honest, no? So I did not pose that question expecting you to say Alice. I do not get pleasure out of seeing a friend distraught and cry. Truth or Dare is a game where you’re put on the spot. A truth is going to be a hard truth, where you’re put on the spot.

“I don’t regret asking you the question last night, but I will never put you in that position again because I know you can’t handle it at all. But don’t think I was peer pressuring you into saying Alice at all because especially after I have told you, face to face, I have given up on trying to make you see it as it really is. Why would you not saying Alice piss me off, or make you think you’re not one of the boys anymore?”

Travis swore the tears for truth saga had made him a stronger person… but has it changed his relationship with Nobbi forever?