Big Brother is back for another summer with a cast of 13 new contestants, host Julie “Chenbot” Chen, and another America’s Player that should make rigging the game easier than usual.
Andrew is a practicing orthodox Jew. Britney is from the town of Huntington, Arkansas with a population of about 688. Hayden is in love with himself. Rachel is a chemist with breasts as big as her head. Monet hopes the other houseguests are up to her standards. Oh geez. Matt is a Mensa member with a bunch of tattoos. Annie hopes her bisexuality will help. Enzo loves Jersey, meatballs, and his mama. His strategy is: none of your friggin business. So basically he doesn’t have one. Brendon’s used to dealing with high school drama, so he’ll fit right in the Big Brother house. Ragan’s prepared to lie, cheat, and backstab.
Matt thinks that people who succumb to organized religion are easily manipulated kooks. Annie expects to be annoyed by high maintenance young girls, like Monet. Enzo seems to be all for fake boobs. Brendon will be breaking out his speedo if he’s on the block. Hayden’s just fine flirting with a gay guy if it’ll keep him in the house, which is good because Ragan has a thing for big dumb guys, although Lane’s also looking for someone to do all the thinking for him.
Britney, Ragan, Brendon, and Rachel enter the house first. Brendon’s looking forward to seeing both of these girls in a bathing suit.
The next group to enter is Lane, Annie, Enzo, Kathy, and Andrew. Andrew immediately screams mazel tov. Annie is drawn to Britney.
Monet, Hayden, Kristen, and Matt are the final group to enter. Monet makes sure to run people over so that she can get a bed. Hayden is not so bold, meaning he is bedless.
Ragan would love to form an alliance with Brendon… and fall in love with him. Kristen wants to get with Hayden, who in turn plans to get with her as well because she’s a model. Andrew’s wearing his yamaka already. He pretends to be a shoe salesman, not a doctor. Kathy’s the old lady of the house at 40. She’s also the law, which isn’t something Enzo likes. Annie loves Jersey accents apparently. Ragan also lies about what he does for a living. Britney plans to be best friends with Ragan, the flaming homosexual. Those are her people. Annie does not mention she’s bi.
Julie reveals the twist to the houseguests. There is a saboteur amongst them with the mission to sabotage an individual, a group, or all of them. If that person makes it through the first 5 weeks (halfway), they will get $50,000. If they are evicted prior to that, they will walk away with nothing.
It’s time for the first HOH competition. They will all divide into two teams of six. Since there are 13, one person will sit out. Andrew quickly volunteers. He’ll be the mascot, which means he can dress as a weiner but cannot be HOH. They walk into the backyard and see giant hot dogs, ketchup, mustard, and a grill. Rachel definitely wants to jump on those big weiners. Although he cannot be HOH, Andrew is automatically safe from the first eviction. Very good trade.
The challenge is for one person to jump on the hot dogs and be pulled across the line by their teammates. The winning team will receive prizes based on how they cross to the other side: $10,000 for first, $1,000 for second, $100 for third, $10 for fourth, $1 for fifth, and HOH for the last person across. Kristen wants the money and to go first. Annie doesn’t give it much thought before deciding either, and she makes it across. Monet goes after Kristen falls, and then she realizes that the person who just won $10k is probably a target. Ragan crosses second for his team. Lane ties the score at 2 each. As her team realizes the best strategy is to grab the strap at the top rather than wrapping their legs around a slippery weiner, Kristen gives her team the 3-2 lead. Brendon has a plan, too. He wants to wrap his T-shirt around the top so that the girls can grab it. His team is not smart enough to listen to him yelling to bring him back, so he gets across to bring his yellow team to a 3-3 tie. After repeatedly falling, Britney goes down and stays down with a knee injury. I kept wondering when that was going to happen.
Following her injury, Britney is cleared to be able to quit by the medical team. It didn’t look like she was going to make it across anyway, so she’s thrilled by that. She will be switching places with someone who has crossed to the other platform. The yellow team will be able to choose, and they select Kristen. She had no trouble getting across the first time, and Kristen very easily gets across the second time, giving the red team a 4-3 lead. Matt and Hayden make a deal. If Hayden gets HOH, he will keep Matt safe. With that, Matt goes next to take the 5-3 lead, and Hayden wins HOH.
The lights go out. Sabotage. Being from Jersey, Enzo knows about such things. Brendon, however, thinks it’s Big Brother’s way of telling them to go to bed. Andrew leaves the room as well because he wants to pull a prank. When the lights come back on, there’s a padlock on their storage room, so they’ll be stuck with slop.
So now the question is: who is the saboteur? The answer: wait a week.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 12 Episode 2, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.