Like all the other prior HOH couples, the power went to Joshuah’s head in Big Brother 9 Episode 9, flipping out on Allison because she changed her vote at the last minute (and oh, yeah, he pretended it had something to do with her pretending to be a lesbian). Ryan & Allison were the obvious nomination, with Matt & Natalie being nominated as the pawn.
Even though everybody hates Allison, Chelsia really wants Matt & Natalie out of the house because they’re too much of a threat. It’s really simple. If you actually want someone to go, don’t put them up against someone who’s a better target.
Joshuah’s concerned that people are believing he’s hot headed and a ticking time bomb.
Natalie continues to chase Matt around. He’s playing impossible to get, but she doesn’t care.
Allison is trying to work on Natalie, having saved her last week. They want to flip the house upside down by forcing Joshuah & Sharon to nominate someone they don’t want to, and then working together to get that couple out instead.
Sheila & Adam are selected at random to participate in the veto competition along with the HOH couple and the two nominated teams. As host, James dresses up in a toga. Apparently he’s supposed to be Cupid. The men will grab puzzle pieces and hoist their partners up in the air via attached pulleys to solve the puzzle. Matt has a clear physical edge over everybody else. Neither Adam nor Joshuah are able to get very far with it. Allison and Natalie, however, are still in this thing. By one puzzle piece, Matt & Natalie win veto. Chelsia’s pissed and doesn’t hide it very well. Sheila knows she’s going up on the block with Adam.
Matt tries different things to appeal to different people. With Josh, he appeals to his gay side. He considers Ryan a friend and just tries to keep it that way. He agrees to be Allison’s shoulder to cry on, and he tells her to go ahead and stir up some trouble. He tries to charm Sharon and make her think he cares about her, though he doesn’t. He tells her he’s not at all attracted to Natalie and kisses Sharon, who knows he’s just playing the game, but she’s perfectly happy to play along with him.
Sheila & Adam continue their arguing. Granted, she argues with everybody, so he’s used to this. James finds this amusing and knows she takes a target off him.
Natalie’s now at the point of getting tired of being treated like dirt by Matt. He doesn’t deny being mean but eventually acknowledges that he should be treating her like a friend. He hopes this will get her to stop thinking they’re soulmates, but no such luck.
Allison asks Josh why he hates her. He doesn’t understand why she wants to know and doesn’t give an actual non-vague answer. The best she gets out of him is that she’s too manipulative, which she doesn’t understand since she considers that part of the game.
Big Brother gives them a message that they’ll hear a siren at some random point in the future and that they’ll need to gather in the living room when they hear it.
Everybody panics about the impending siren, except Ryan & Allison, who are hoping for a twist… of any kind.
Matt & Natalie remove themselves from the block. The replacement nominees are Adam & Sheila.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 9 Episode 11, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.