Category: big brother 11

The scramble for votes to save Braden managed to get both Casey and Michele to alienate their clicks, but it was not enough and Braden was still eliminated after a tie vote in Big Brother 11 Episode 4. With Jessie out of power, Ronnie went on to win the HOH competition.

Love BB’s editing. Ronnie voted to save his cliquemate in accordance with his original word, yet he’s now being branded a double crosser and a betrayer.

Michele’s worried that Chima is going to figure out that Michele turned on her and now she’s going to come after her. Well, she should be. Don’t vote against your cliquemate for no good reason.

Chima will never volunteer as a pawn again. Ya think?

Immediately after Braden leaves the house, Ronnie denies any involvement, to half of the house. He will throw Michele under the bus to them. To the other half of the house, he tells them the truth. Meanwhile, the Brains clique has become one big joke.

Ronnie’s not going to be able to hide any more. Now that he’s HOH, he’s going to have to reveal his hand.

Chima tells Michele they’re on the same team. Oh, and Michele’s one of the crazy paranoid bitches in the house that thinks people are talking behind their backs when they’re not.

Laura swears that they were set up by Ronnie, and now the half of the house that was dumb enough to go along with that stupid plan has all become (again) the targets.

Ultimately, whichever way Ronnie may have voted, he’s an overplayer. That makes him highly unpredictable, but it also means sooner or later he’ll reach the end of his rope as nobody feels they can trust him.

Laura wants everybody convinced that Ronnie is a genius, setting it up so that both sides of the house hate each other and never go after him. One flaw in this theory: he didn’t throw HOH. The flaw about talking about him behind his back: he didn’t throw HOH. Ronnie, of course, is immediately told that Laura’s trying to get people against him. If he needed a reason to nominate her, he’s got one now.

The houseguests are given a luxury competition, which means a promotion for a movie. Like Big Brother would actually pay to give them something. The special host for the competition is Dan, the Big Brother 10 winner. Jessie ain’t happy to see him, but I’m glad it’s not anybody from a season prior to that because some of those people are so played out and best forgotten. Kevin wants Dan’s number. They’re splitting up the competition into heats between girls and guys, and one girl and one guy will watch the movie.

What tattoo would sink Lydia’s relationship with her boyfriend? His ex-girlfriend’s name or the logo of his favorite boy band?
Ex-girlfriend. Jessie and Casey are the only ones correct.

If Jordan was out line dancing at a country bar, what pick up line would get her to go out with you?
Are you from Tennessee? ‘Cause you’re the only ten I see. Kevin, Casey, and Jessie get a point.

If Chima were writing a story about how her boyfriend cheated on her, how would she seek revenge? Egg his sports car or hop on a flight to Australia with his best friend?
Egg his car. Jessie and Russell are correct.

Swim suit model Laura would be more worried about a bald head or a hairy back?
Hairy back. Russell, Jeff, Ronnie, Casey, and Kevin are all right.

Michele likes her men smart and sexy, but would she pick a firefighter or a surgeon?
Firefighter. Russell, Ronnie, Casey, and Jessie are correct. That ties Jessie and Casey at 4 each.

Natalie likes sensitive guys, but did she think a suitcase of stuffed animals or a picture of the guy’s mom was too sensitive?
Picture of his mom. Ronnie and Casey are right, so Casey wins.

Jeff loves football. Which type of football fan would be more attractive to him? Cute super fan or not so bright super hot cheerleader?
Jeff went with the cheerleader, hopefully one that looks better dressed as a woman than he does. Natalie is the only one who is right, although Chima should get a point just for saying she should have known he would go after a dumb girl because he’s not that bright.

Jessie wants junk in the trunk or a big pair of high beams?
Junk in the trunk. Natalie, Lydia, Chima, Laura, Michele, and Jordan are all right.

Kevin’s personal greeting card would be a love poem or a funny limerick?
Limerick. Chima and Laura get a point.

Ronnie wants tickets to a comic book convention with his wife dressed as a space princess or a weekend at a five star hotel with his wife in sexy lingerie?
Comic book convention, and he looks far scarier as a woman than Jeff did. Lydia, Natalie, Chima, Michele, and Jordan are all correct.

If Casey is DJing at a local club, does he get a girl’s attention with the robot or rump shaker?
Robot. Michele, Laura, Lydia, and Natalie are correct. That puts Natalie in the lead with 4 points.

Russell would end the relationship sooner than expected because he has to turn off the fight in the final round or because he has to watch the DVD of your favorite musical repeatedly?
Musical. Chima, Michele, and Jordan are right. Michele, Chima, and Natalie are tied at 4 points each.

The tiebreaker: if Dan were on a first date, how many minutes would he wait for the first kiss?
243 minutes. So does he like have a stop watch? Michele says 55, Chima says 120 minutes, and Natalie says 60 minutes.

Chima wins, which means that two people who don’t like each other will be going to the movies. An additional responsibility from this win is that Casey and Chima will decide which clique is the have nots. The brains are automatically safe. He wants to vote for the athletes, while Chima wants to vote for the popular. He unhappily lets her have her way because her cliquemate is HOH, meaning that the popular group of Jordan and Laura will be the have nots.

As if this whole have not twist weren’t stupid enough to begin with, now America can decide which food they can eat. America’s Vote is: sauerkraut and seaweed, cabbage and cocktail weenies, or pickled eggs and pickled herring.

Casey, Laura, Jordan, and Jeff want Ronnie to nominate people from the other side. Michele is noticeably absent from this ambush. Ronnie’s response: backdoor Russell. Otherwise, he can win veto and save himself. Nobody there is comfortable being a pawn to achieve that goal. Use one of them instead. Jessie promises Ronnie that Russell won’t come back to get him.

Nominations
Michele and Chima are safe because their fellow brain is HOH, a concept apparently lost on Michele.
Jordan is safe.
Casey is safe.
Lydia is safe.
Natalie is safe.
Jessie is safe.
Kevin is safe.
Russell is safe after having been allowed to sweat for a while.

Laura and Jeff have been nominated for eviction. Laura wants to say “I told you so.” While I give her credit for figuring it out, she got herself nominated by not being able to keep her mouth shut. Jeff thinks Ronnie’s playing the game well, but nonetheless he’s being played in turn. Laura was nominated because Ronnie knows she’s the one who’s going to figure him out, not that the others haven’t already figured it out as well. Jeff is merely a pawn. Whatever the case, nobody on that side trusts Ronnie, although nobody on his side really trusts him either. That said, Ronnie’s plan is for Russell to be heading home next week. So last week you helped weaken one side of the house, and this week your plan is to help weaken the other side? The only logic in this is to keep the two sides at war, but with neither sure in their trust of him, it can only get him so far. The thing I’m left struggling with here is the numbers game. Even if Russell does go up, somebody else is going to have to defect from the other side in order to get 5 votes against him. With a house this divided, that’s easier said than done.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 11 Episode 6, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on CBS.

The athletes (except for Jeff, who hates his clique already) decided to make a deal with Lydia in Big Brother 11 Episode 3. Russell won veto and took her off the block, and at her suggestion, Braden was nominated instead. He’s up against Chima, who’s intended to be the pawn.

Ronnie’s confused how he did not go on the block considering how much he’s overplaying. Braden’s confused just in general.

Russell’s plan is to chop off the head of the snake that is Braden, Jordan, and Jeff. Braden doesn’t plan to cry about it, although Jordan does. Laura, the other member of the popular group, comes to support Braden, and apparently not having learned his lesson, so does Ronnie.

Lydia wants to know how come Jordan got so upset when Braden got nominated, whereas she didn’t cry when Lydia was nominated.

Braden blames Lydia, and he’s right. With that said, Russell wants to poke him with a stick and get him upset. It doesn’t take much convincing for him to begin attacking Lydia. Once he’s done talking about Lydia behind her back (while saying he doesn’t talk about people behind their backs), he goes out to first of all attack her to her face and then tell her Russell sold her out. Oh, and now he’s trying to get on Kevin’s bad side, too. Good way to win votes, dude.

So now Lydia is mad at Jordan, too. Jordan’s preference is to get along with everybody, and she doesn’t want to be guilty by association with the people she’s associated with. This leads to a shouting match. Then Jeff comes inside to defend Jordan, and this just allows the screaming to continue.

With so much of the house now against her because of her closeness with Braden, Jordan’s not giving up yet. Her plan: ally with Jeff, Laura, Casey, and both of Chima’s teammates to vote out Chima. Okay, she’s got Jeff, and Laura should be easy. But she wants Casey to go against the strong wishes of his team, and she, more importantly, wants Ronnie and Michele to both vote against their teammate and weaken their numbers just so that the popular group can strengthen theirs. Granted, she doesn’t have much choice, but just because this is her only plan, that doesn’t make it a worthwhile one.

Braden uses his time to apologize for anything he may have said that was wrong, but Chima isn’t going down without a fight. She doesn’t want anybody to forget the names Braden’s called everyone, and a vote for Braden is a vote for a bigot.

Votes
Russell: Braden
Natalie: Braden
Jeff: Chima
Jordan: Chima
Kevin: Braden
Laura: Chima
Lydia: Braden
Michele: Chima
Casey: Chima
Ronnie: Braden

Jordan’s idiotic plan almost worked. I’m a little confused how Michele ended up on the brains team.

In the event of a tie, the Head of Household casts the deciding vote. Braden has been evicted from the Big Brother house.

One week in, and the cliques are already showing signs of coming apart. Jeff abandoned the athletes almost right away, Casey has gone against his emotionally scarred offbeats, Michele voted against her brain teammate, and Braden has been axed from the popular team, leaving two people who don’t have any real connection.

The HOH competition is “Most likely to…” based on questions asked to Internet voters. First person to buzz in can answer. If they’re wrong, they’re out. If they’re right, they can eliminate someone else playing in that round.

Chima, Casey, Laura, and Natalie are first. Which clique would most likely skip school because they have a zit?
Laura answers popular correctly (I’m assuming from experience) and eliminates Chima.

Ronnie, Jordan, Kevin, and Jeff are next. Which clique would most likely misspell athlete?
Chenbot asks Ronnie before realizing Jeff’s light is on. He answers athletes. It’s a good thing this answer is so damn obvious. Jeff also answers athletes and is right. He eliminates Kevin.

Laura, Michele, Lydia, and Russell go next. Which clique would most likely bail on the prom?
Laura answers offbeats, which is correct. She eliminates L… Russell.

Jordan, Ronnie, Casey, and Natalie are next. Which clique would most likely miss their curfew because of a Star Wars…?
It’s a good thing he let her get out those words Star Wars. It’s the brains. He eliminates Natalie.

Next are Laura, Michele, Lydia, and Jeff. Which clique would most likely start a food fight in the…?
Laura answers athletes, which is incorrect, so she is eliminated. The answer is offbeat.

Jordan, Ronnie, Casey, and Jeff go next. Which clique would most likely give an inspirational speech while naked in the locker room?
Casey answers athletes correctly and eliminates Jeff, ensuring the athletes will not be in the HOH room.

Jordan, Michele, and Lydia are up next. Which clique would most likely spend more time with a mirror than a…?
Lydia answers popular and eliminates Jordan, the last member standing of the popular group.

Ronnie goes against Casey. Which clique would most likely blow off a date to go sho…?
Buzzing in a little bit early there, but those three letters should be sufficient. Ronnie answers popular, and Casey is out.

Michele and Lydia are against each other. Which clique would most likely take first place in the high school talent show?
Michele answers offbeats, which is correct. Lydia and the offbeats are out.

That leaves Michele up against Ronnie. Now’s the time to throw the competition, unless you just simply don’t trust your teammate. Which clique’s photo would most likely be missing from the yearbook?
Ronnie answers offbeats to win HOH. He’s gonna have to pick a side this week for real.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 11 Episode 5, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

After forming an alliance with Ronnie and the brains in Big Brother 11 Episode 2, Jessie nominated Chima as a pawn to go up against Lydia.

Laura feels like she just dodged a bullet. While she’s trying to be friendly to everybody, she doesn’t have anyone who’s watching her back.

Lydia’s taking her nomination like a big baby, but in her defense, she feels like she’s been nominated because of how she looks. Jeff, Braden, Kevin, and Jordan all immediately come to her aid.

The fact that nobody cares less about Chima being nominated is not lost on her.

Chima and Ronnie are concerned that Jeff may bail on his own team, a very dangerous proposition. Then again, if you turn on your own team, what are they gonna do? They can’t nominate you, and if they vote you out, their numbers go down one.

Although she’s safe, Laura is as upset as if she were nominated. She feels she’s being judged based on her bra size, but if you get implants that big, you’re pretty much looking for people to judge you. Like Lydia, she did it to herself, and just needs to embrace it or at least expect it. Casey doesn’t have sympathy for her. It’s not easy being pretty and popular.

Realizing Jeff will stab them in the back, Russell and Jessie plan to play nice with Laura. She’s with them, or at least that’s what she’ll say. Not like she has a lot of choice, though. She’s not in real good with her clique either.

Braden is entertaining to his fellow houseguests because he’s not playing with a full deck.

Jessie chooses Russell to play in the veto competition.
Chima picks Natalie via houseguest’s choice. So why not someone from her own team?
Lydia picks Jeff.

So it’s basically everybody against Lydia, with the possible exception of Jeff.

When they go into the backyard, there’s a giant face with a bunch of zits. They are expecting a big mess. They’ll need to get to popping. They will have 10 minutes to gather tiles to spell the longest word. I give credit to the sick twisted mind that came up with this competition. It’s certainly unique, whether it’s revolting or not. Lydia plans to spell the biggest word she knows, civilization. Russell doesn’t care. He’s just going for as many letters as possible. Chima hopes to get superficiality, something she’s seen plenty of inside this house. Jeff just hopes not to embarrass himself. His plan is presumably to spell dog. Jessie already has his word picked out and is satisfied with 4 minutes left. Jessie spelled continously, which is a fairly close attempt at spelling. Natalie spelled last. The only thing preventing her from finishing in last in this competition is people not spelling words right. With 4 letters, she is in the lead. Chima’s word is missing letters in the middle because she was unable to find them all. Russell spelled shotgun. With 7 letters, he’s in the lead. Jeff spelled tectronics, an apparently abbreviated version of technotronics. Would have been better off with dog. Lydia spelled something almost resembling civilization, but there were some gaps she was unable to fill. Did she really think she was going to find those letters? Russell has won the power of veto.

The athletes and Laura believe Jeff threw the competition. I’m not so sure he did, but where he got the word technotronics from I’m not real sure. According to Google, this is a real thing, although the dictionary pulls up no such matches.

Jeff’s spending an awful lot of time with Jordan. Russell considers him useless, so he plans to bury him. He picks a fight with him in the backyard. As seemingly pointless as this fake fight was, once Russell goes inside, Jeff immediately picks a fight with Natalie for no reason. He don’t like her. That’s about all he has to say about that.

Lydia talks to Russell to try to convince him to keep her around. Jordan wouldn’t put him up, but he can’t trust Braden. That said, he denies all responsibility for the nominations, the ones he took all credit for in private. He blames Natalie, which Lydia interprets as her desire for having a strong female out of the house. Somehow, this serves as an opportunity for Lydia to patch things up with Jessie and Natalie. She again mentions Braden, along with Jeff. She’s fully willing to take out Braden. Better him than her.

After their discussion with Lydia, they bring Russell in. They’d like to make a deal with Lydia and put Braden on the block. I wouldn’t trust any deal that comes out of her mouth because she does seem like someone who’s just there to play the game, but it’s not as if Braden will be on their side, so it’s better to have a bogus deal than none at all.

Ronnie realizes that Russell is a loose cannon, so his new plan is to play all sides and get in good with everyone. That plan can only take you so far before everybody starts talking. Even the dumb people realize what’s happening eventually.

With that said, Ronnie runs right to Jeff and Jordan to warn them of the plan, one that they’re very afraid of. Then he tells Braden as well. Now Braden’s acting differently, and Russell’s suspicious. Well, that didn’t take long. Russell knows Braden knows, and he knows the only person who’s been in the room with him.

Russell has chosen to use the power of veto to save Lydia. In her place, Jessie has nominated Braden as planned. These athletes are sure making enemies left and right this week.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 11 Episode 4, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.

The first lame twist of the season was unveiled in Big Brother 11 Episode 1. The house was forced to create alliances off the bat when they were all divided into cliques: offbeats, brains, athletes, and popular. Adding insult to injury, the clique that won the first HOH competitition would be granted 4 members instead of just 3. In the physical challenge, the athletes were obviously the last ones standing, allowing Jessie from Big Brother 10 to return to the house and become the first HOH of the season.

Kevin already hates Jessie. Lydia knows it’s going to be difficult to mix with him. Chima would like to see some more power on her team because she think the brains suck.

The athletes obviously are happy to see the entrance of Jessie. Natalie believes Jessie knows the ropes of the game. Did she watch last year?

Unlike the others in the cliques who oppose him, Ronnie is happy to see Jessie in the house. He knows his weaknesses, and he knows that one key factor is to stroke his ego.

Jessie would like some assistance from his clique. Jeff doesn’t care. Nominations are Jessie’s problem.

Although Jordan’s part of the popular clique, she says that she’s not going to be stuck up about it and plans to treat everybody equally.

Ronnie would like to make a deal with Jessie. Athletes and brains together. Nobody would suspect that pair.

Jeff was no help, but Russell says that he thinks Lydia is the threat.

Everybody’s sitting around playing chess, and Laura makes it a point to ask who the hottest guy there is. Natalie declines to comment. Kevin says Jeff. Laura says Jessie first then Jeff. Jessie views this as BS.

Natalie thinks that maybe Ronnie’s alliance proposal is a good idea. There’s a catch. Somebody has to be a pawn. Ronnie doesn’t want to be a pawn, but he’s got no problems if one of the girls goes up as a pawn.

Remember before how people used to just compete to see who’s on PB&J? Well, that wasn’t enough. This year, in addition to the slop nonsense, which sent two people to the hospital, the losing clique will also be put into have not living conditions. I’ve got bad news for the producers. This twist has already been done (and failed) on both The Apprentice and Survivor years ago. After doing it, both shows decided never to do it again because it sucked so badly. Because Jessie is HOH, the athletes are safe. When the juice starts flowing, the cliques will need to connect pipes to pump their juice through the letters HAVE. Under Casey’s guidance, the offbeats are off to the lead and easily win the challenge. The other two teams are in a pretty disastrous state. They’re just getting juice everywhere. Braden believes the challenge is based on physics. If you say so, dude. But the popular crowd does prove that intelligence really didn’t have a great deal to do with this challenge, unless the downfall of the brains was merely that they tried to overthink this.

As punishment for their loss, the brains are the have nots, which means they are stuck on slop, without hot water, and they’ll be sleeping in the most uncomfortable room ever. Chima’s already whining. Once she manages to somewhat pull herself together, they take her to her sleeping quarters, which she believes looks like an insane asylum. Ronnie and Michele say it’s not that bad. She doesn’t care. She’s ready to quit. Good. Quit.

Whatever Laura’s trying to sell in using her assets to stay inside the house, Jessie says he’s not buying. She asks him if he can tell people are kissing his ass already. He just lets her sit there and hold this conversation by herself because he ain’t talking. The fact that he’s ignoring her is annoying her. She’s not used to guys not paying attention to her apparently. If she can’t get the guys on her side, she’s in trouble because that’s her only strategy.

Lydia doesn’t know how to talk to Jessie, so she gives him a massage.

The athletes (well, the athletes excluding Jeff, who seems to be absent in all this strategy talk) already know one of the brains will go up as a pawn. Now they need to decide who else to put up. It’s either Laura or Lydia. They all agree Lydia is the bigger threat, but if she stays, she’s a bigger threat, whereas Laura staying wouldn’t make a difference. Both Natalie and Russell want Lydia to go up, but Jessie’s not so sure.

Laura figures she’s a target. Lydia thinks she’s safe. Braden thinks the universe will decide his fate, whatever that means.

Nominations
The athletes (Natalie, Jeff, and Russell) are safe.
Michele is safe.
Braden is safe.
Kevin is safe.
Ronnie is safe.
Jordan is safe.
Laura is safe.
Casey is safe.

Lydia and Chima have been nominated for eviction. Chima is the pawn, and Lydia is the target. I don’t know how good a pawn Chima is unless she drops the princess attitude. Ronnie is thrilled with the nominations. Either way, he’s safe. Lydia’s not happy, and she looks like she will seek revenge if she sticks around. The good news for the alliance is that, as long as that they remain on the same side, they control the vote because 5 is enough to send it to a tie.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 11 Episode 3, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on CBS.

BB11 Spoilers

For better or worse (and usually more worse), CBS’ summer staple Big Brother is back for season 11. Julie “Chenbot” Chen returns as usual as host. 12 out of the 13 contestants of the Big Brother 11 cast have been revealed so far, with the “mystery houseguest” (dun dun dun) to be revealed tonight. I just hope it’s not really really lame.

Show of hands. How many people liked high school? Great, two. Well, this year’s twist is straight out of high school. It’s all about the cliques. Not a big fan of the forcing people to unite like this, although some of these cliques may well implode.

Ronnie, Laura, Russell, and Kevin enter first. Ronnie and Russell grab the same room, while Laura will be bunking with Kevin. Kevin already says he likes the geek Ronnie. Chima, Braden, Natalie, and Casey go next. Braden doesn’t have the words to describe what he’s feeling, presumably because his vocabulary is limited. Chima takes the room with Laura. Braden and Casey will be together. Jordan, Jeff, Michele, and Lydia may now enter. They’re stuck with the room the others passed up, the one that looks like a pool.

Russell’s going to have to learn to like Ronnie. Chima’s laugh is already getting to Casey. Michele doesn’t want anyone to know she’s got a Ph D. Yeah, you think you’re going to keep up that lie for three months? Natalie’s a recent high school graduate, or so she tells the house. Kevin would like to discuss her real age later because her lie’s already blown. Laura’s excessive fake boobs, which can only lead to severe back pain, make Kevin throw up a little in his mouth. The girls are all attracted to Jeff. At age 40, Casey’s the grandpa of the house this year. Certainly a very young cast. Michele’s a little worried about the big mixed martial arts guy Russell.

Julie reveals that the mystery houseguest is somebody we already know. Oh, I’m afraid. Just please don’t make it someone who sucks. Two strikes if it’s someone from season 6.

The house now learns they will be divided into four cliques: athletes, popular, brains, and off-beat. While they will play and be nominated as individuals, if a member of their clique becomes Head of Household, nobody in their group can be nominated for eviction. Not even if they hate that person. They’ll all find out later which clique they’re in.

After giving them some time to worry and wonder, Julie is now ready to reveal the cliques. They go out to the backyard to find their names.

Athletes: Natalie, Jeff, Russell
Off-Beat: Lydia, Kevin, Casey
Popular: Jordan, Laura, Braden
Brains: Michele, Ronnie, Chima

This spoils Natalie’s plan to pretend she’s not a tae kwan do champion. It also spoils Michele’s and Ronnie’s plans to pretend they are less smart than they are. Chima takes offense to being called a brain.

Now it’s time for the first HOH competition of the season. They are in the locker room, where they will have to step into underpants and grab on to their toilet seats. The competition is called the wedgie. The last person to let go of their toilet seat will give their clique a distinct advantage… but will not be Head of Household. In fact, no one in the yard will be HOH.

Instead, one of the mysterious 4 will be moving into the Big Brother house, and that person will be the first HOH. Who are they?

Michael “Cowboy” Ellis from Big Brother 5. For real?
Jessica Hughbanks from Big Brother 8. She was a good player, until she threw the game away.
Brian Hart from Big Brother 10. No opinion on this guy. He was first out.
Jessie Godderz from Big Brother 10. Oh geez. His ego’s even bigger than it was before.

Michael is offbeat, Jessie is an athlete, Brian is the brain, and Jessica is popular. Whichever clique wins the competition determines who goes into the house.

Back to the house for the competition. Michele is the first one to fall. Ronnie falls after her, leaving Chima as the last hope for the brains. Well, now that they’ve survived the wedgie. How about the super wedgie? Brian will give his 30 second super wedgie to the popular group, while Jessica and Michael will give theirs to the athletes, and Jessie targets the offbeats. The brains, who are almost out of it anyway in this competition that’s really not something anyone expects them to compete in, will get no super wedgie. Lydia drops. Jordan follows her. Kevin is next. That leaves Casey for the offbeats. Jeff drops. Time for another super wedgie. The athletes get three, while Jessie targets the brains. Popular and offbeat are safe this time. Chima is out, taking the brains and Brian’s chances with her. Yeah, he’s the first one out again. Casey drops, eliminating the offbeats and Cowboy. The athletes and popular crowd have two people left standing. Kevin’s worried this will be high school all over and he’ll be nominated. Natalie’s cockiness may be her undoing, and it worries her teammate Russell. Laura falls, leaving it up to Braden. She says she fell on purpose because she doesn’t want a target on her back. So she’d rather give up an extra player and safety for the week? It’s not as if she’d be making the nominations. Braden slips. The athletes win this physical challenge. Not an overly big surprise. Jessie gets a second chance, and he will start off as HOH.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 11 Episode 2, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

BB11 Spoilers

The Big Brother 11 cast has finally been revealed. The 13 houseguests who will compete are:

Braden Bacha
28
Model/Actor
Santa Monica, CA

Casey Turner
41
Teacher/DJ
St. Petersburg, FL

Chima Simone
32
Journalist
West Hollywood, CA

Jeff Schroeder
31
Salesman
Norridge, IL

Jessie
22
Professional Bodybuilder
Huntington Beach, CA via Rudd, IA

Jordan Lloyd
22
Waitress
Matthews, NC

Kevin Campbell
29
Graphic Designer
Chula Vista, CA

Laura Crosby
21
Atlanta, GA
Model

Lydia Tavera
24
Make Up Artist
Torrance, CA

Michele Noonan
27
Neuroscientist
Pasadena, CA

Natalie Martinez
24
Tae Kwan Do Champion
Gilbert, AZ

Ronnie Talbott
30
Student
Belpre, OH

Russell Kairouz
24
Real Estate Broker
Walnut Creek, CA

Russell Kairouz
24
Real Estate Broker
Walnut Creek, CA

CBS Bio
Known to his friends as “Russell the Lovemuscle,” this commercial real-estate broker is certain to be a favorite in the BIG BROTHER house. Loud and brash, Russell holds nothing back and is always ready for a fight. In fact, his brash personality is probably his biggest asset outside the house, where he is a mixed martial arts fighter. He claims nothing scares him and that includes the game of BIG BROTHER.

Russell’s biggest pet peeve is people who don’t think before they act, but only because he’s made mistakes while doing just that. In college, he was in a motorcycle accident while trying to impress a group of girls. The crash left him temporarily paralyzed and it took six surgeries to get him back into fighting form.

Now Russell is ready to tackle a new form of competition against his fellow Houseguests. It’s a challenge and he’ll do it with a smile on his face because, according to Russell, “if you’re not smiling, you’re not living.”

Russell has previously lived in Southern California and Lebanon. His birth date is September 1, 1984.

Ronnie Talbott
30
Student
Belpre, OH

CBS Bio
Ronnie, a married man of five and a half years, will miss his wife tremendously while he is in the BIG BROTHER house because she puts up with him, and he worries that his Housemates may not. He describes his wife as his hero and says she is one of the kindest people he has ever met who embraces everyone in the world.

He is obsessed with video games and often plays more than six hours a day, even to the point of ignoring his wife. Ronnie is a collector of all things sci-fi, especially Star Wars collectibles.

Ronnie is an über BIG BROTHER fan who can recite the order of every person ever evicted from the BIG BROTHER house. This student is most proud of being a national champion in speech and debate, as he feels this activity is where he excels.

One of the most interesting things he learned from one of his previous jobs as a travel agent is that you can purchase a personal blessing from the Pope.

Ronnie’s birth date is January 15, 1979.