After Austin won HOH, there was much talk of a Vanessa nomination in Big Brother 17 Episode 27. Again. John and Steve are now on the block.
We start tonight with more of the same. Vanessa is going to be a target. Maybe.
Austin selects Vanessa at random to play in the veto competition. John picks Meg again. Steve selects Julia.
Zingbot comes by and insults everybody. Then he asks Liz whether she’s excited to meet Austin’s girlfriend.
Zingbot’s veto competition is to identify face mashups. Julia sets the time to beat with 4:45, which does not seem particularly difficult. Steve wants to go slow and steady and not make a bunch of wrong guesses. Well, he gets that half way with the slow part. Austin doesn’t recognize that Liz’s face is not in the picture he keeps guessing. Vanessa sets a new best time of 2:51, much better. John is unable to beat it. Unable to recognize her own nose, Meg loses.
Vanessa wins the power of veto. Now we can stop pretending like she’s going on the block. It would be funny if she used the power to screw over Austin and the twins, but I’m not sure there’s a path where doing so might make sense.
She talks to John to once again make sure they are cool, and she agrees to discuss with Austin the possibility of removing him from the block. Austin considers this a selfish move because he doesn’t believe Meg or James would come after him.
After Vanessa tells John that Austin said no, John responds with the only thing he has left: she was the target last week. Once again, the truth comes out about these really bad lies that people are telling everybody in the house. Liz admits it but blames Steve. Yeah, Steve’s the power in the house who’s forcing everybody’s hand. Vanessa seems to buy it and goes off on Steve.
Vanessa does not use the power of veto. Her using it was plausible on some level, but since the only friend it would win her is John, it wasn’t worth it.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 17 Episode 29, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.