Christine & Nicole won the battle of the block following their nomination in Big Brother 16 Episode 15, leaving Jocasta & Victoria in danger.
Not content with merely having nominated them, Zach must now pick on the have nots who just saved themselves, taunting them with his food or at least their lack of it. Frankie still wants to work with him, but regardless he would like to use him because America’s stupid voting comes first.
Nicole has concerns that her showmance of sorts Hayden may be getting closer to Victoria. Then there’s Caleb and Amber. He seems to be taking the hint from her being harsh to him that she is not interested, though I have some question about how long he will be able to take that hint.
Like Frankie, Derrick receives news from home. His grandfather died.
Frankie chooses Donny at random to play in the veto. Victoria chooses Hayden (houseguest’s choice). Jocasta picks Christine, who whines about her alliance and wants to blow up their plans to backdoor Amber.
Their challenge is to ride horses and in between hop off at random intervals for less than 30 seconds at a time to be able to stack 50 gold bars. Donny doesn’t seem to care. Jocasta loses focus and is off for more than 30 seconds, but she chooses to go on slop rather than give up. Christine takes the lead. Eventually, she hits the buzzer. Oh wait, she’s not finished yet. While she’s in the process of realizing this, Hayden wins the power of veto.
Hayden really doesn’t care if they want to get rid of Amber. He’s completely fine with saving an ally, Victoria, and letting the house do what they will. Caleb does not want to get rid of her, but he’s fine with nominating her as well. If he pretends to be the only person who can save her (though technically he’s not pretending since in his own warped mind he believes it), perhaps then she will want to be with him. Yeah, no.
At the veto ceremony, Hayden removes Victoria from the block. In her place, Amber is nominated as planned. Now it’s time for Zach to run his mouth… on Caleb’s behalf. She just smiles at him. Team America fails miserably again.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 16 Episode 17, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.