Author: Shane

With plans to backdoor Russell, Jeff saved Kevin with the veto in Big Brother 11 Episode 21.

Michele’s losing her closest ally and upset about it. Maybe she should have chosen someone borderline reliable as a partner.

Russell agrees this was a smart move. He just doesn’t have to like it. Jeff finds Russell’s threats thoroughly amusing. He’s happy to be getting rid of this nutcase who blows up all the time at everybody.

Russell’s plan: Kevin should stab Natalie in the back and keep him in the house instead. Really?

Then there’s yelling and yelling and more yelling. Can this moron just be voted out already?

Lydia greets Jessie with a hug. Then she pretends to beat him up so she doesn’t lose face after having told Julie Chen what she would do. Yeah, that’ll last.

As a reward for making it to the final five, the ridiculous/stupid/pointless have/have not thing is over.

Jeff thinks the elimination of Russell will make his game.

Natalie would just like to thank her fellow houseguests in advance for keeping her in the house, since they’ve already told her that they will. With that said, it’s time to vote.

Votes
Jordan: Russell
Kevin: Russell
Michele: Russell

By a unanimous vote, Russell has been evicted from the Big Brother house. Despite all his earlier whining, Russell leaves with a smile on his face. He wonders if Michele sold him out. His plan was to uphold the final four plan, and then join forces with Michele. He tried to deny it, but they were a pair. Jeff’s goodbye message is one of the more insulting ever. Good luck getting that vote. Jordan tries to be mean but can’t pull it off.

Jeff is not eligible to compete, which leaves Jordan on her own. The challenge is to transfer enough hot chocolate into bowls to remove their marshmallows as they run across slippery graham crackers. Their mugs hold 8 ounces of liquid. Their bowls hold 16 gallons. Assuming they spill nothing, they’ll need to travel more than 4 miles. This will take a while. They’ll need some chocolate, too, as it starts to rain. Want to know who wins HOH before Sunday’s show? Check out the BB11 Spoilers.

Julie announces that we will find out a new twist to the HOH that could impact everybody. Oh. No. No. No. No. No. No. Just no. This will end badly.

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After Jeff won HOH in Big Brother 11 Episode 20, he nominated his enemies Natalie and Kevin, supposedly both as pawns to get rid of Russell.

Russell is very surprised he hasn’t been nominated, although he realizes that he can be eliminated should he not win the veto competition.

Russell’s vote to save Natalie over Jessie, which did not work and at the time seemed quite odd, is an indication to Jeff that he can’t trust him.

Jeff wants Jordan to get focused and practice for the lame competitions in the house because he wants someone who will actually protect him.

Russell rings the doorbell of the HOH room. Jeff is asleep with headphones on and doesn’t answer. Let’s bump up the paranoia.

Kevin has been surprised to find that all the houseguests have been supportive and accepting of him being gay.

Like Russell, Michele is getting suspicious about their alliance with Jeff and Jordan. Speaking of Jeff and Jordan, she doesn’t like that Jeff is snapping at her lately. Trouble in paradise? He’s worried that everybody thinks she’s the sweetest person in there. Ideally, that’s not somebody you want to be up against in the final two.

Kevin’s got a plan. If Jeff and Jordan are dumb enough to take the bait, they’ll stab them in the back the first chance they get. Should they actually win something for a change. Granted, it’s not like they’re up against particularly tough competitors in these challenges any more.

The houseguests walk out in the backyard where they’re greeted by an ape, bananas, and, of course, Casey, who apparently thinks he’s a rapper. He will rap, and the houseguests must get the bananas that match the clues based on evicted houseguests. Then they have to get up that ramp. An easier task for the boys than for Natalie and Michele. Jordan is eliminated on the first question. Her concern is that Jeff will be so mad at her for not pulling her weight. Having done so poorly last time, Michele knows instantly where her next banana is. Natalie gets eliminated in the second round. Russell is eliminated in the third round. He prays that Michele can win, but based on how much difficulty she’s having getting up that ramp, it doesn’t seem very likely, although this whole searching task is largely dumb luck. Kevin gets eliminated in the fourth round. After screwing with Michele’s mind some, Jeff wins the power of veto.

Russell promises hell in the house if he goes up on the block. Oh. Again?

Jeff and Jordan are worried that Michele and Russell are a pair, and they are. The most unlikely pair ever, but a pair nonetheless. Beyond that, Jordan and Jeff have convinced themselves that these two people with no relationships with the jury are threats to them in the end.

Jeff wants to know what his assurances are. Natalie and Kevin promise that he won’t go up. So Jordan will be one of the nominees. That seems to sit well with him.

At the veto meeting, all goes according to plan. Kevin has been removed from the block. In his place goes Russell. Jeff couldn’t get past the Jessie vote, and Michele and Russell were getting a little too close.

While I’m happy to see that clown Russell getting what he’s got, it’s hard to say whether this is a good move. This would eliminate a strong physical challenge threat who’s unpredictable, but it also leaves a loyal alliance on the opposite side with 50/50 odds of winning HOH. Granted, should they take those odds and come out on top, it could potentially be game suicide. There are only 6 votes in the jury, and losing both Jeff’s and Jordan’s at the same time is as likely as it is dangerous. On the other hand, both of them do have more friends in the jury than Russell, who’s spent all summer making a series of enemies.

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Lydia was voted out in Big Brother 11 Episode 19, and then we left off at the beginning of an hour-long HOH competition.

Jeff and Jordan opted to get rid of Lydia instead of Russell due to the numbers and also because Russell will be a target in the future. Regardless of that, Jeff is the biggest target in the house now that he’s split up all the other couples.

Kevin’s had the lead throughout the competition. Jeff is giving him a run for his money as they run neck and neck. To raise the stakes, the two who finish at the bottom will be the have nots. That’s looking like Michele and Natalie. Kevin’s up 16-12 over Russell with Jeff at 11. At this point, gold cans are introduced that will allow them to close off one competitor’s tubes off for 60 seconds. Lame. Kevin hits 20. Jeff’s in second with 15. Russell and Natalie have 13. Michele still has just 9. Jeff ups it to 16 as Kevin hits 21. Obviously, somebody’s going to gold can him eventually. Russell lands the gold can and stops Kevin. Kevin uses his gold can on Russell to get revenge. Stupid. Should have used it on Jeff, who’s right on his heels. Kevin’s 22; Jeff’s 18. Jeff uses this minute to concentrate and hits 22. Kevin hits 23. Kevin uses 2 gold cans on Jeff unsuccessfully. Jeff is now at 23, so the first one to land their next can wins. Jeff wins HOH.

If Kevin goes home this week, he deserves it for stupidity. He had this competition won but played emotionally. Granted, he was also harmed by the stupid gold can nonsense.

Natalie and Kevin assume they’re both going up. Russell knows he’s got reason to worry, though.

Kevin’s hope is that he can convince Jeff he’s not a big threat. He says that if he won, he would have nominated Russell, which if true would have been a dumb idea.

Jordan is trying to convince Jeff to take her with him to Hawaii. She’s willing to maybe kiss and cuddle with him if he takes her. Nothing more. Wonder how that changes when her mom is not watching. By throwing HOH to her, he looks noble, gets this Hawaiian vacation, and he can decide what girl he wants to bring with him. Not a bad trade.

Russell denies that he ever planned to get rid of Jeff. What would be the advantage to him doing that? Uh, you split up the couple. Russell asks Michele if they ever talked about that. She responds that they were chatting about lots of stuff. That’s not a no. After this conversation, Jordan says that she doesn’t trust either of them. She believes Kevin and Natalie over them. He suggests going back to them to confront Russell. Jeff believes it would be a dumb move. As if going to the final four with two people who won’t stab each other is very smart. After some pushing, Russell still denies he ever said that, but he does acknowledge that he doesn’t stand a chance against Jeff in the finals.

Russell and Michele for the have nots for the week. They get churros and chitlins from the stupid/pointless America’s Choice votes. They’re both happy to see the churros, although they’ll pass on the chitlins.

There’s a poker game going on. The stakes are high: Now & Laters. Somehow, this leads to a shouting match between Natalie and Russell.

Russell doesn’t want to beat this dead horse any more, but Michele wants to go up there and talk to them some more. Jeff tells her they’re both safe, but in reality he hasn’t quite made a decision. Russell is suspicious of this. While she’s telling the truth, I wouldn’t have let her go up there to pitch for me if I were him.

Michele talks about how she works every day 7 days a week including holidays. So how does someone like that get 3 months off to come in the Big Brother house?

Natalie pitches a new final four deal: the two alliances joining together instead of one alliance siding with the floaters. In order to do that, Kevin and Natalie will go up. Then they will backdoor Russell if any of them gets the veto.

When Jeff approaches Jordan with this plan, her thought process is the same as his. They don’t know if they can trust Natalie, but they do know they can’t trust Russell.

If Russell were Jeff, he’d nominate Michele and himself.

Nominations
Russell is safe.
Michele is safe.
Jordan is safe.

Kevin and Natalie have been nominated for eviction. Natalie’s been put on the block one time each previously by both Jeff and Jordan, so she should be getting used to it. For Kevin, this is a first. Russell’s key was suspiciously first, which he should probably take as a hint something may be up.

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