Becky won HOH and nominated a pair of pawns in Big Brother 17 Episode 21. Her choices were Shelli and Steve, both of whom she would be fine with going home, but her actual target is Vanessa.
Steve may not be the target, but Becky is going to be his target if he gets the chance. Unlike Vanessa, he’s pretty much alone. His strategy conversations are even carried out in large groups of one.
Vanessa’s pretty sure she’s the target. She makes the same deal to both Shelli and Steve. If they pick her as houseguest’s choice, she’ll take that person off the block if she wins. I’m not sure if this is smart or shady.
John feels he doesn’t have a lot of allies in this house, so now he is trying to get closer to Shelli, who is herself slowly losing her allies. He also wants to get closer to Steve, so he tells him, too, that Vanessa is the target, but he’s not willing to guarantee Steve he will pull him off the block, unlike what he promised Shelli.
Liz was protesting all season about how she supposedly does not like Austin, but now she’s admitting he is growing on her, even if her sister hates him.
Becky selects Austin to compete in the veto competition. Shelli chooses Vanessa (houseguest’s choice). Steve picks Meg.
As much as Becky and John didn’t want Vanessa to compete in the competition, Shelli didn’t have much choice, unless she wanted it to be completely obvious. Of course, she’s favoring the target over the people who are in power. On the other hand, if Vanessa wins, it doesn’t really matter. She can remove Shelli, and they’re both safe.
Their challenge is to select the correct super hero comics (each with slight differences) of their housemates and put them in the correct order based on the ones they zipline past.
Meg – 15:30
Becky – 17:02
Shelli – 25:31
Austin – 21:20
Steve – 13:57
Vanessa – 21:44
Steve wins the power of veto. Simple enough. He saves himself, and Vanessa goes up.
James gets busted by Vanessa. She knows he’s lying to her as he tries to convince her that he doesn’t know that the “plan” to keep her safe has changed. Somehow, Becky, who is excessively dismissive of Vanessa just in general, convinces her not to worry.
As expected, Steve uses the power of veto on himself, and Vanessa is named as the replacement. She’s the only one who is surprised. Vanessa is hurt that this move is personal, perhaps not the best message to send the first member of the jury.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 17 Episode 23, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.