Having won HOH, Natalie nominated her closest ally Kevin alongside her actual target Michele in Big Brother 11 Episode 26.
Julie makes an interesting point: the final four consists of one athlete, one popular, one brain, and one offbeat.
Kevin’s in on Natalie’s plan, but he’s got a plan of his own. He now wants her gone. Not that he hadn’t come to that conclusion before her nominations. Jordan thinks that maybe this whole thing is just too good to be true, but it’s working out fine for her. When they start to talk, Natalie tries to convince Jordan that Michele’s a target, which is contrary to her earlier alleged plot to get rid of Kevin.
Because Jeff told Jordan to stick by Michele before he left, that’s exactly what she plans to do, no matter what anybody says to her.
Since Natalie opted to spend the time with her boyfriend instead, she will not be participating in the final power of veto competition of the season. Each of the other three has a station with 20 clues, half on one side and half on the other. They also have names that they must match up to those clues. Jordan’s strategy is to stand there with a confused look on her face. Michele’s strategy is to just put all the blocks at once and get them all wrong. Kevin thought it would be wise to use a placeholder block, which means when he finally finds the block he was looking for, he has to take it all apart, but he seems to recover pretty quickly. Michele tries again. This time, she actually did competently. She’s only got 1 wrong. Kevin buzzes in and wins the veto. Meanwhile, Jordan’s still all sorts of confused.
Michele realizes she will probably be going home.
Natalie tells Julie that the veto went just as planned. So apparently she’s no longer pretending that she’s trying to get rid of Kevin.
Although Natalie wants to go to the finals with Kevin, he doesn’t see any way to beat her. She should probably think the same thing about him. Jordan and Michele are the ones lacking connections in the jury house. Granted, in the event of a tie, if it’s America’s choice, either of them would win over Kevin or Natalie.
Michele’s pitch to Kevin: take her so she can help him get rid of Natalie. She wants her gone, too. Then she tries blackmail. If he votes her out, she won’t vote for him in the final two.
Obviously, Kevin uses the power of veto on himself, which puts Jordan on the block up against Michele. As the veto holder, Kevin will be able to cast the sole vote to evict. Kevin casts his vote to evict Michele. Her devil ears were insufficient to convince him to keep her around. She leaves with parting words of “May the best wo… player win.”
She still claims she played the game with strategy. I’m still trying to figure out what that strategy was, though. It seemed to me to be just random chaos without much rational thought behind it. I do, however, think that, as time went on, her villain act may potentially have given her a chance. Ultimately, though, that ended up being her death blow. Kevin couldn’t trust her because she hadn’t demonstrated trustworthiness thus far.
The first part of the three part HOH competition is as always an endurance competition. They must hold onto their keys while standing on a rolling log. As the log turns and time passes, the seasons will change… and so will the weather. Get ready to be freezing when all’s said and done.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 11 Episode 28, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.