Ronnie’s plan was to backdoor Russell. That all went to hell quickly in Big Brother 11 Episode 6, as he took Jeff off the block and put Jordan up in his place, hoping to seal Laura’s fate.
Ronnie sees Laura as a threat to him, and he’s right. She’s definitely on to him, and she’s smarter about the game than she may have at first appeared. Her problem is she doesn’t know who to say things to and who not to say things to, and her lack of ability to form alliances leaves her flailing about.
However, Ronnie promises that Russell is on his hit list. Yeah, just give Russell’s alliance the numbers, then target him. Granted, Russell’s mouth will probably get him in too deep sooner or later.
The potentially good thing about eliminating Jordan is that you completely isolate Jeff. But c’mon who’s afraid of Jordan?
That’s Laura’s only card to play, aside from making fake promises. Break up the couple.
Ronnie invites Natalie, Chima, Lydia, and Kevin up to his room to see what they think about keeping Laura. Without hesitation, both Lydia and Chima don’t want to go along. Since nobody’s biting this, he takes the opportunity try to get them to at least hate Russell. He claims that Russell said that he can get the votes to keep Laura.
Natalie goes to Jessie. Jessie goes to Russell, who denies it. Then the rest of the house comes out into the backyard to join the discussion. Let’s drag Ronnie out there then. Laura’s plan: if she leaves this week, at least she’s taking the liar down with her. Ronnie doesn’t say anything, but he doesn’t have to say anything. Everybody can see the lies, and Ronnie just keeps digging himself in deeper and deeper. Now both sides are talking, and they see that he’s been lying to everybody. After locking himself in his room, Ronnie decides he should have put Russell’s ass up. No, what he should have done was play less aggressively, or at least play smarter.
Ronnie has barricaded himself in the HOH room. It’s a good thing he’s got all that HOH food up there so he doesn’t have to starve. When BB calls Ronnie into the diary room, Russell views this as an opportunity. He’s waiting to confront him. Russell has made it his mission in life to torture Ronnie all day long. Does this guy actually think this is helping his cause? Surely being a bully won’t win you anything, and its side effect may be some sympathy for Ronnie.
Ronnie tells us he’s only got allegiance to the athletes, and he’s just trying to get information from the other side of the house. He believes he’s got an underlying tone of sympathy from the house.
Votes
Jeff: Laura
Jessie: Laura
Natalie: Jordan (to spice things up in the house)
Casey: Laura
Russell: Laura
Kevin: Laura
Lydia: Laura
Chima: Laura
Michele: Laura
By a vote of 8-1, Laura has been evicted from the Big Brother house. Kudos to Natalie for screwing with people’s minds. They all made the right choice here. Laura was definitely the bigger threat. If only she’d talked less to the wrong people and more to the right people, she could have made it pretty far. That whole pointing fingers at the HOH before nominations stupidity was well worth being evicted for. She believes she’s taken Ronnie down right away. Take out the guy you may or may not be able to trust, or take out the guy you know you can’t trust. I don’t think this is a slam dunk here. With Laura’s eviction, the popular clique consists of one. Not so popular now.
It’s now time for the HOH competition. One at a time, they will each shoot a single ball into the honeycomb target.
Michele: 4
Jessie: 6
Kevin: 5
Natalie: 2
Lydia: 1
Russell: 5
Chima: 3
Jordan: 1
Jeff: 6
Casey: 1
That brings us down to a tiebreaker.
Jessie: 6
Jeff: 3
Jessie is the HOH. Again. Certainly an opportunity for him to make additional enemies. His only safe bet is to target Ronnie, although that would be a wasted week.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 11 Episode 8, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.