Vanessa was convinced that she came up with the perfect plan in Big Brother 17 Episode 15. Except for the part where she didn’t let enough people in on the plan and put Clay in a spelling competition for her. Jackie’s nominations James and Liz won the battle of the block, leaving Clay (who volunteered) and Becky in danger.
Liz suspects James tried to throw that. Austin thinks Vanessa needs to know. Oh, she knows.
Speaking of Liz and Austin, she’s been leading him on, and it’s getting really awkward, as he pursues unwanted kissing.
Vanessa picks Shelli to compete in the veto competition (houseguest’s choice). Clay picks John at random. Becky picks Liz.
Their task is to toss giant nuts back and forth across a ramp and catch them on the other side. They have to do this 250 times in a row. Clay jumps out to a big lead, although who is in the lead is not necessarily relevant since all they have to do is drop once to be reset back to 0. In the end, Clay hangs on to win pretty easily.
Now it’s time to tell Liz what is happening. She trusts that Austin never had any intention of harming her game. That is true. She also trusts that he never had any intention of harming her sister’s game. That’s where she is wrong.
Then Vanessa has to confront Austin. He insists she can trust him. Perhaps she can, but doing so has been shown to be problematic. In this process, she pushes it back on the house, saying she must do it after having given her word.
His next move is to see if he can get Shelli and Clay back on his side. If Vanessa really wanted Austin to go, she wouldn’t have given him this warning, so she’s opened up a door. Shelli and Clay know that this makes her a bigger target, but that doesn’t matter to them. Their concern is that Austin is a number. Keeping him and shifting the target from themselves to her works out perfectly for them.
Clay uses the power of veto on himself. In his place, Jason is nominated as the replacement. Vanessa played this all wrong, and aside from Jason, she’s the person it is most likely to burn.
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