Having won HOH, Michele nominated Chima in Big Brother 11 Episode 17 because she’s hoping to weed out people who are smarter than her (which would explain why she also got rid of her other teammate Ronnie). Up against Chima is Natalie as a pawn.
Anybody who’s been keeping up with the spoilers knows we’re in for a hell of an episode tonight. With that in mind, I have just one thing to preface this episode with…
Memo to the producers: if you’re going to rig the show (as usual), you pretty much deserve for a raving lunatic to flip out on you. Let the hamsters be. If the outcome is going to be manipulated by public vote or banner planes, why not just change the rules back to how they were in Big Brother 1 (a season nobody remembers)?
Following the nomination ceremony, Chima is talking about quitting. Big Brother won’t take kindly to that. They’ve talked people out of quitting before. This isn’t Survivor. Quitting is considered breach of contract and can potentially be dealt with accordingly.
When she walks out into the backyard, Chima’s told to put on her microphone. She flips off Big Brother. Kevin goes out and gets her microphone for her. Natalie hands it to her. So Chima throws it in the hot tub. Chima, that’s coming out of your stipend. That’s CBS property.
Not having learned from earlier, Kevin goes to get Chima a new microphone. She reluctantly agrees. For about two seconds.
Chima doesn’t want to respond. Perhaps she’ll respond to Allison Grodner, the head of rigging the show. When she arrives in the diary room, she’s told that she doesn’t need to sit down. Just walk out the door.
When we return, the houseguests are called to the living room. They are informed that Chima has been expelled from the game because she is not following the rules of the game. The reason? Destroyed microphone. For a frame of reference, there have been two other expulsions in Big Brother history: Justin from season two (held a knife to Krista’s throat) and Scott from season 4 (throwing chairs around). In each case, they were considered dangerous to the safety of others. So was Chima really expelled, or did she quit? I guess it depends whose story you believe.
Like Chima before her, Michele’s HOH power has been removed, but she got exactly what she wanted.
There will be a new HOH competition. The competition is a mini golf tournament. Aside from the hole in one, the other scores are completely random. The person eliminated in each round will win a prize, one of which is the HOH key. The golfer who wins the final round gets to choose from all the prizes. In the first round, Lydia scores a 6. Jordan gets a 3. Natalie scores a 2. Russell gets a hole in 1, and so do Jeff and Kevin. With the highest score, Lydia has been eliminated. She gets the HOH key as her prize.
In round 2, Jordan gets a 2. Natalie gets a 7. Russell gets another hole in 1, as do Jeff and Kevin. With the highest score, Natalie has been eliminated. Her prize is a Hawaiian vacation.
In round 3, Jeff and Kevin get holes in 1 again. Jordan gets a 5. Russell hits the hole, bounces out, and scores 7. He has been eliminated. His prize is a phone call from home. He trades it for the Hawaiian vacation. Both he and Natalie are happy with this trade. He didn’t do it for her. He wants to give the trip to his parents. Go ahead. Keep crying.
In round 4, Jeff gets another hole in 1. Like the last round, Kevin bounces out, this time hitting 5. Jordan gets a 4. Kevin has been eliminated. Jordan tells him he’s safe. His prize is $5,000.
The final round is between Jordan and Jeff. It really doesn’t matter which one wins. Lydia tells Jordan she’ll get her vote in the final two, not Jeff. Jordan scores a 4. Jeff agrees to throw the competition for her. He hits it to the side. Jordan wins HOH. Jeff’s prize is a spa experience, which he trades for the vacation. Jordan has won a Captain Unitard suit, which she trades for the HOH key.
Now that that’s over with, Lydia starts to act more and more like Chima. It would be funny if half the cast quit. Her plan is to yell all week and get them to evict her. It’s a really good thing that Big Brother just gave her all that alcohol. Ranting over, it’s time to go in the diary room and cry.
Jordan is looking to protect Jeff and Michele, an interesting second choice to protect.
Nominations
Michele is safe.
Jeff is safe.
Kevin is safe.
Russell is safe.
Lydia and Natalie have been nominated for eviction. The plan is to eliminate Natalie and weaken the other team (there’s another team still?). This is Natalie’s third nomination in 5 days, surely a record.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 11 Episode 19, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.