A double eviction night led to the departure of both Shelli and Jackie in Big Brother 17 Episode 23.
Multiple people are confused what just happened. They are not alone. I don’t know what happened either. The explanation is that he heard from Vanessa that Jackie wanted to backdoor him when she was HOH. He realizes that having taken a stand for the first time, without even having consulted anyone, may have cost him the game.
What he has going for him is that he is still a vote, one that nobody can predict, so they are going to play nice to try to win him over. Both sides of the house immediately try to get on his good side.
The HOH competition is to answer questions about the emojis they see. Meg beats James. John beats Austin. Julia beats Vanessa. Liz beats Becky. John beats Meg at the start of round 2. Julia is incorrect and loses to Liz. In the final round, Liz beats John to win HOH.
Becky expects to be going up, and she expects Vanessa to be behind it since she tried and failed miserably to get rid of her. Immediately after dancing around in celebration, Vanessa tells Liz that Becky should be the target. Liz is already thinking along those lines anyway.
Becky’s play to try to save herself is to tell the obvious truth about how hard Vanessa has been playing. We now get to revisit the week Austin was supposed to be backdoored, which continues to come back to bite people.
James and Steve have accidentally started a bromance.
Now that The Sixth Sense is dead since people keep getting voted out, the new alliance (including Steve) is The Scamper Squad.
Vanessa attempts to patch things up with John due to their fight back when Clay went home. This goes pretty awfully and awkwardly. She’s in power or at least has some influence over the power. Telling her the truth when that truth entails the belief that she bullied you is probably not the best strategy.
Nominations
Becky
John
Liz says she’s not even sure who the target is.
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