Lydia was voted out in Big Brother 11 Episode 19, and then we left off at the beginning of an hour-long HOH competition.
Jeff and Jordan opted to get rid of Lydia instead of Russell due to the numbers and also because Russell will be a target in the future. Regardless of that, Jeff is the biggest target in the house now that he’s split up all the other couples.
Kevin’s had the lead throughout the competition. Jeff is giving him a run for his money as they run neck and neck. To raise the stakes, the two who finish at the bottom will be the have nots. That’s looking like Michele and Natalie. Kevin’s up 16-12 over Russell with Jeff at 11. At this point, gold cans are introduced that will allow them to close off one competitor’s tubes off for 60 seconds. Lame. Kevin hits 20. Jeff’s in second with 15. Russell and Natalie have 13. Michele still has just 9. Jeff ups it to 16 as Kevin hits 21. Obviously, somebody’s going to gold can him eventually. Russell lands the gold can and stops Kevin. Kevin uses his gold can on Russell to get revenge. Stupid. Should have used it on Jeff, who’s right on his heels. Kevin’s 22; Jeff’s 18. Jeff uses this minute to concentrate and hits 22. Kevin hits 23. Kevin uses 2 gold cans on Jeff unsuccessfully. Jeff is now at 23, so the first one to land their next can wins. Jeff wins HOH.
If Kevin goes home this week, he deserves it for stupidity. He had this competition won but played emotionally. Granted, he was also harmed by the stupid gold can nonsense.
Natalie and Kevin assume they’re both going up. Russell knows he’s got reason to worry, though.
Kevin’s hope is that he can convince Jeff he’s not a big threat. He says that if he won, he would have nominated Russell, which if true would have been a dumb idea.
Jordan is trying to convince Jeff to take her with him to Hawaii. She’s willing to maybe kiss and cuddle with him if he takes her. Nothing more. Wonder how that changes when her mom is not watching. By throwing HOH to her, he looks noble, gets this Hawaiian vacation, and he can decide what girl he wants to bring with him. Not a bad trade.
Russell denies that he ever planned to get rid of Jeff. What would be the advantage to him doing that? Uh, you split up the couple. Russell asks Michele if they ever talked about that. She responds that they were chatting about lots of stuff. That’s not a no. After this conversation, Jordan says that she doesn’t trust either of them. She believes Kevin and Natalie over them. He suggests going back to them to confront Russell. Jeff believes it would be a dumb move. As if going to the final four with two people who won’t stab each other is very smart. After some pushing, Russell still denies he ever said that, but he does acknowledge that he doesn’t stand a chance against Jeff in the finals.
Russell and Michele for the have nots for the week. They get churros and chitlins from the stupid/pointless America’s Choice votes. They’re both happy to see the churros, although they’ll pass on the chitlins.
There’s a poker game going on. The stakes are high: Now & Laters. Somehow, this leads to a shouting match between Natalie and Russell.
Russell doesn’t want to beat this dead horse any more, but Michele wants to go up there and talk to them some more. Jeff tells her they’re both safe, but in reality he hasn’t quite made a decision. Russell is suspicious of this. While she’s telling the truth, I wouldn’t have let her go up there to pitch for me if I were him.
Michele talks about how she works every day 7 days a week including holidays. So how does someone like that get 3 months off to come in the Big Brother house?
Natalie pitches a new final four deal: the two alliances joining together instead of one alliance siding with the floaters. In order to do that, Kevin and Natalie will go up. Then they will backdoor Russell if any of them gets the veto.
When Jeff approaches Jordan with this plan, her thought process is the same as his. They don’t know if they can trust Natalie, but they do know they can’t trust Russell.
If Russell were Jeff, he’d nominate Michele and himself.
Nominations
Russell is safe.
Michele is safe.
Jordan is safe.
Kevin and Natalie have been nominated for eviction. Natalie’s been put on the block one time each previously by both Jeff and Jordan, so she should be getting used to it. For Kevin, this is a first. Russell’s key was suspiciously first, which he should probably take as a hint something may be up.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 11 Episode 21, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on CBS.