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As Amanda continued to give examples why it’s the correct choice, America nominated her for eviction in Big Brother 15 Episode 18, pitting her against Candice and Spencer to kick off tonight’s double eviction.

Does it even really matter which of these three gets evicted? There’s sufficient reason to hate each of them. Aside from personality, it could be argued that they had been playing well at some point, but Candice and Spencer seem like they are toast as Amanda’s outbursts wear away at her power base.

Amanda has decided to play nice. This is new. Jessie doesn’t buy her apology and still wants to get rid of her, and she begins pushing hard to do so. Helen makes an effort to secure the votes to get rid of Amanda, but she is unable to. Andy, Judd, and McCrae still have a final four deal with Amanda, but they want her to calm down for a change. She may want his vote, but she no longer trusts or is loyal to Judd because she is positive he’s MVP.

Rather than the usual 7 jury members that we have seen for the past 13 seasons, this season’s jury will consist of 9 people. Why change something that wasn’t broken? Taking into account this new twist, the people who are evicted tonight will be part of the jury.

Not one for pleasantries, Candice uses her speech before the vote to yell at GinaMarie, who in turn yells back. Great. More of this. What is with these women this season?

Votes
McCrae: Candice
Aaryn: Candice
Helen: Candice
Jessie: Candice
Elissa: Candice
Andy: Candice
Judd: Candice

By a vote of 7-0-0, Candice has been evicted from the Big Brother house.

The HOH competition is a quiz on items and events that have taken place this summer. Elissa is eliminated on the first question. Andy and Jessie are out on the second question. Everybody gets the third question correct. Aaryn is the only one who gets the next question right, and she is the new HOH.

It seemed like Aaryn’s game was over just a couple weeks ago, but she has come into a nice run of power lately. She has a couple of easy outcasts to target this week, Spencer and Jessie. Kind of a waste, but either way she won’t make any enemies, though at the same time she won’t make any friends.

Even CBS has grown tired of the MVP twist, and it has been retired as of now. Though it did create more than its share of drama, a popularity contest just never had its place in a game like this.

Jessie and Spencer have been nominated for eviction.

Andy, Judd, and Amanda join Aaryn, Jessie, and Spencer in the veto competition. They must retrieve six colored nails to complete their veto puzzle. Not much to say about this typically rushed double eviction night competition, but Aaryn wins the power of veto. Afterward, Helen quickly gets in her ear, but I can’t hear any of what’s happening here.

Aaryn uses the power of veto to save Jessie. Going with the house, Aaryn has nominated Judd as Jessie’s replacement.

Votes
Amanda: Judd
McCrae: Judd
GinaMarie: Judd
Andy: Judd
Helen: Judd
Elissa: Judd
Jessie: Judd

By a vote of 7-0, Judd has been evicted from the Big Brother house. This emotional vote shows that people will miss him, but they sure turned on him quickly because nobody knew where he stood. Even his own alliance bailed in a hurry.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 20, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

GinaMarie’s HOH win in Big Brother 15 Episode 17 led to the nominations of Candice and Jessie.

Jessie happily makes her way up to the HOH room. Candice is not so happy to be there and lets GinaMarie know.

Amanda’s not clear what she’s doing that America wouldn’t like. Though her diary rooms can be amusing, she keeps opening her mouth too much when it’s not necessary. Her spat with Jessie is not winning her any fans, and this pouting about McCrae not running away from Jessie when she sits next to him isn’t either.

For the second week in a row, America has nominated Amanda for eviction. McCrae’s not surprised. The newest conspiracy theory is that Judd is the MVP.

Spencer and Judd join Amanda, GinaMarie, Candice, and Jessie in the veto competition. Judd tells Amanda what she wants to hear, that he’ll use the veto on her, but nobody really knows what he is thinking. Spencer plays along, too, though he readily admits this is a stupid question. GinaMarie quickly says she’ll use the veto on her, which angers Aaryn. Nobody likes Amanda pushing so hard to be removed, and McCrae is becoming the ringleader to keep things the same.

The veto competition is made for Judd. He loves everything frog related. They must toss frogs and land them on targets to score points. As the only person to miss the targets in the first round, GinaMarie is out first. Her prize is the power of veto. Amanda’s score of 1 eliminates her. Her prize is to be able to wear the doggy cone of shame for 48 hours, which she trades for the veto. Candice uses the competition to inform Judd that they think he’s the MVP. Amanda knows she must be talking game, which leads to yet another shouting match, up to and including more discussion about racism. There sure is a lot of that this season, which Candice eggs on by claiming everything is about race, a trait Amanda takes the opportunity to mock.

When Candice misses, she claims a Bahamas vacation as her prize, but she trades it for veto. Spencer’s prize is to go to a tanning booth on command, but he trades it for the vacation. Jessie scores the lowest in the next round and gets a $5,000 prize, which she trades for the power of veto. As the person in first place, Judd can have anything he wants, but he offers to let Jessie have the veto as long as he doesn’t get stuck with something stupid. He gets the clownitard and trades for the money, passing up the veto, which Jessie has now won. Meanwhile, Candice and Amanda still won’t shut the hell up.

Clownitard: Candice
50 shades of orange: Amanda
Cone of shame: GinaMarie
Bahamas: Spencer
$5,000: Judd
Veto: Jessie

McCrae attempts to talk sense into Amanda again. No matter how vocal he gets, she still does not get the point that she’s painting a target on herself and, by extension, on him as well. There are no winners in these fights. Everybody comes out a loser. It’s just a question of who is the biggest loser.

Elissa is making an effort to keep Candice in the house, so once again Helen has to do damage control for her. For all the times America voted for Elissa as the “best player,” she has yet to show it. Helen promises GinaMarie safety if she doesn’t nominate Elissa.

At the veto ceremony, Jessie uses the power of veto on herself. With everybody else safe based on some alliance they have, that leaves Spencer as the replacement nominee. He feels comfortable because he’s on the block with two people who are digging their own graves.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 19, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.

Howard’s eviction in Big Brother 15 Episode 16 led into the start of an endurance competition for HOH.

Helen talks about taking out a linchpin player and weakening those around them. In this case, both Candice and Spencer are hopeless without Howard.

Spencer falls, and Candice drops right after him. Helen follows them. Then Elissa. And Amanda. Less than half an hour in, and half the people are already down. Judd falls just past the half hour mark, followed by Andy. Now the first three get to choose a box. Spencer may only speak through a bullhorn until after the nomination ceremony. Candice wins $5,000 because Jesus wanted her to have it. Helen gets a backyard BBQ. Jessie drops. With two left, GinaMarie promises McCrae that he and Amanda are safe. They are the only ones to pass the hour mark. He declines to take any of her deals, even as she sweetens the pot with more offers, and eventually McCrae falls without having made a deal. GinaMarie is the new HOH.

Nobody knows what GinaMarie is going to do. Aaryn is safe, but otherwise, GinaMarie is a big question mark. Her immediate reaction is that Candice is going home, a continuation of last week’s HOH in which she unnecessarily painted a huge target on herself with that house meeting.

Included in GinaMarie’s HOH package is a picture of her and Nick. Great.

Helen has already picked two people to join her BBQ. Elissa is obviously one. Aaryn is the other, which annoys Jessie. Of course, as Jessie complains about this, Aaryn overhears her. Jessie complains to, among others, Amanda, who blames her for being part of the plot to try to get rid of her. So begins a shouting match (that goes on and on), and it gets personal. McCrae can’t figure out what Amanda’s thinking because this made both of them look bad. Jessie’s being petty and overly emotional, but Amanda just comes off as a bully. In the process, Andy gets thrown under the bus for revealing information that Jessie thought she was telling him in confidence.

Nominations
Aaryn is safe.
Helen is safe.
McCrae is safe.
Judd is safe.
Amanda is safe.
Elissa is safe.
Spencer is safe.
Andy is safe.
Candice and Jessie have been nominated for eviction.

Candice is a rat and drama queen, and Jessie is a flip flopper. GinaMarie’s sure not one to mince words, though she may have trouble getting them out when Judd is laughing so hard. As Jessie warned her before nominations, if her goal is to get rid of Candice, she’s not the best pawn because Amanda has her sights set on getting rid of Jessie instead.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 18, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

After Amanda was nominated by MVP America in Big Brother 15 Episode 15, Spencer won veto and pulled himself off the block. In his place, Candice was nominated alongside Amanda and Howard.

For all of Candice’s complaints about Aaryn making inappropriate comments, she’s not opposed to slinging the mud back to call her a redneck, then getting into a discussion about how the nominations (such as Spencer apparently) are about race. Aaryn’s bad edit may be disguising the fact that half her housemates aren’t any better, but the producers are slowly finding other targets to hit.

Spencer is working on a plan to get rid of Amanda. When she confronts him about this, he lies before eventually telling her to shut up. Helen only overhears the part of this conversation in which Spencer was lying, so she tells Candice that he is trying to get rid of her. This leads to Candice calling a very loud house meeting in which she can yell at Spencer. I don’t understand how this is supposed to do her any favors. After the meeting, Aaryn, GinaMarie, and Jessie begin talking about how they don’t trust her any more, though to be fair it’s not like they needed much of a push. With what just happened, Spencer shouldn’t be that hard to convince, no matter how much he hates Amanda, which would leave just one more person they need to sway.

Amanda and McCrae are now Big Brother engaged. Whatever that means.

Votes
Helen: Howard
Elissa: Howard
Spencer: Candice
McCrae: Howard
Andy: Howard
Judd: Howard
GinaMarie: Howard
Jessie: Howard

By a vote of 7-1-0, Howard has been evicted from the Big Brother house. The lone Candice vote is from Spencer, who a couple days ago had no intention of going against her, but she just unnecessarily painted a big target on herself. Of course, what this does is put him on a raft all by himself because his allies are dropping like flies.

America’s the MVP again. No sense trying to predict this outcome.

The goal of the endurance HOH competition is to stand on the rolling barrel and hold the bull in front of them for as long as they can. Julie makes an offer within a few minutes. The first three houseguests to fall can open one of three chests, one of which contains $5,000. Want to know who wins HOH before Sunday’s show? Check out the BB15 spoilers.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 17, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

Going from being against everyone to doing whatever the house wants, Aaryn nominated Howard and Spencer in Big Brother 15 Episode 14.

McCrae throws Helen, Elissa, and Aaryn under the bus about these nominations, but his lies don’t matter because Spencer doesn’t believe anything he says anyway.

Howard makes a speech to try to save himself, but nobody can understand a word he’s saying. It sounds like English words, just not strung together particularly coherently. Everybody thinks he was saying he is gunning for them.

America has nominated Amanda as their MVP nominee. That’s different. I’m not sure I can follow America’s logic from last week to this week. This only helps solidify the conspiracy theory that Howard’s the MVP. Howard is happy because she’s a bigger threat. I agree to an extent, but his bigger muscles overshadow whatever threat she may be.

Candice and Jessie join Howard, Amanda, Spencer, and Aaryn in the veto competition. They climb inside a time machine and are transported to a time of dinosaurs and volcanoes. Their task is to collect stone fragments to build a stone and save the veto for future generations. Most of them are hopeless. Amanda starts to pull away from the others before realizing she forgot to get some pieces. Spencer’s not far behind her and manages to take the lead as she is distracted elsewhere. Spencer wins the power of veto. I guess we need to consider who he’s against, but I did not see Spencer winning a puzzle.

The replacement nominee here is obvious. Candice is not a threat but is a guaranteed vote for Howard. Knowing this, she’s not about to even attempt to prevent herself from being nominated by talking to Aaryn. They hate each other so much that doing so would be counterproductive. Instead, she approaches Helen. It seems her idea of trying to win Helen over is accusing her of being responsible for every eviction that’s happened. Well, that went worse than a chat with Aaryn would have. Once that conversation concludes, Helen makes it her goal to turn people against Candice.

As expected, Spencer removes himself from the block, and Candice has been nominated in his place.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 16, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.

After surviving another eviction as Kaitlin was eliminated in Big Brother 15 Episode 13, Aaryn won HOH.

With Aaryn as HOH, she now has to decide whether to honor her promise that she’d do whatever they want. The proposed nominees have already been decided: Howard and Spencer.

Elissa has expended so much energy in her efforts to target Aaryn that nobody truss her any more. Even her closest allies are considering getting rid of her. Of course, the thing that is making them angriest is that Candice found out about the deal, which was in reality Jessie’s fault. Despite the fact that Aaryn is HOH, Elissa continues to act the same way as she was last week.

In an effort to save themselves, Howard and Spencer have an opposite proposal. If she goes back on the deal, she’ll be in a much better spot by breaking up the power in the house. Otherwise, she’ll just be in the same position next week as she was last week. Of course, it could be argued that the Candice/Howard/Spencer trio is the most dangerous in the house (or would be if they ever won anything).

The have/have not competition is a promo for yet another CBS crime drama that isn’t even named CSI. Their challenge is to stack the evidence items on their desks. Almost seems too easy. As the first team to complete the challenge, the orange team of Aaryn, Elissa, Andy, and McCrae get an advantage in part two of the competition. Green team Judd, Candice, GinaMarie, and Amanda place second. They are followed by last place purple team Spencer, Howard, Helen, and Jessie.

The real challenge is to remember where everything was when they started, which nobody was even paying attention to initially. The first place team gets a picture with 10 items, the second place teams gets 9, and the last place team gets 8. Orange team again places first. Purple comes from behind to place second. That leaves the green team in last and as have nots for the week, which Judd attributes to the women on his team talking over each other the whole time.

Nominations
GinaMarie is safe.
Jessie is safe.
Andy is safe.
Elissa is safe.
Candice is safe.
Helen is safe.
McCrae is safe.
Amanda is safe.
Judd is safe.
Howard and Spencer have been nominated for eviction.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 15, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

After giving Elissa power for three weeks in a row, America decided to put her on the block in Big Brother 15 Episode 12. So of course she then won veto and removed herself, leaving GinaMarie nominated against Aaryn and Kaitlin. Either way, the house is about to become less attractive and probably less blonde, but nobody will miss any of them. This will mark the first time this summer that a woman gets eliminated.

Julie reveals that Aaryn was the overwhelming choice as America’s MVP nominee, but Judd had already nominated her, leaving second choice Elissa as the nominee.

Judd was apparently serious when he made an alliance with Kaitlin, more or less. Still, he’s listening to Aaryn’s plea to save her. All along, he’s preferred to keep her because people are just going to keep nominating her every week. His argument is that Kaitlin has been strong in challenges. He now calls his alliance fake and admits it to the rest of the house.

Not content with merely insisting that Aaryn must go, Elissa proceeds to tell Kaitlin she’s in danger. Aaryn overhears their conversation and approaches Helen. Elissa tries to lie her way out of it, which doesn’t work. What of course comes out of this conversation is that the alliance is now all over the house, plus a lot of random bitchiness.

Votes
Amanda: Kaitlin
McCrae: Kaitlin
Helen: Kaitlin
Candice: Kaitlin
Elissa: Kaitlin
Spencer: Kaitlin
Howard: Kaitlin
Andy: Kaitlin
Jessie: Kaitlin

Once again, for all the complaining about Aaryn, she nonetheless survives in a landslide vote. By a vote of 9-0-0, Kaitlin has been evicted from the Big Brother house. Upon her departure, she only hugs GinaMarie, but she still says it’s just a game. She acknowledges that she aligned with some catty girls, but Julie’s attempts to send her on a guilt trip fall flat.

America is the MVP again. No matter how many times you do it, it’s still a stupid twist. Voting does not belong in US Big Brother because it’s no longer about the game but rather a popularity contest.

The HOH competition is more dumb luck than usual. They will roll a single ball on a roulette wheel to try to get the highest number. Andy rolls a 23. McCrae takes the lead with 28. GinaMarie scores 3. Candice gets 27. Spencer takes the lead with 34. Aaryn gets 36, the highest score possible. Howard gets 17. Jessie scores 2. Helen gets 28. Amanda gets 1. Aaryn gets a 0. Aaryn is HOH.

The deal Aaryn made with the houseguests which played a big part in saving her butt was that she would throw HOH, but this competition could not be thrown, short of throwing the ball across the yard, which I suppose may have been an option. There was no skill or strategy that would have provided either an advantage or disadvantage. Of course, the other part of the deal was nominating whoever they want should she end up winning.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 14, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

Aaryn and Kaitlin were again nominated for eviction in Big Brother 15 Episode 11.

Elissa is acting weird because she has not yet found out she’s the MVP. She’s not going to find that out either. In that case, she’s of no use to Amanda now.

Spencer and Howard want a new alliance with Judd, GinaMarie, and Kaitlin because supposedly they have all been ostracized. GinaMarie, for example, lost Nick. Let it go. Judd seems to be at least entertaining this, despite the fact that he nominated Kaitlin and desperately wanted to nominated GinaMarie.

The news for Elissa gets worse. The MVP has secretly nominated her for eviction, which totally makes sense. She may have the vote sealed up when it comes down to just a question of who people like best, but her supporters all splintered their votes without any clear indication, while a bunch of her haters all voted for the same person.

Perhaps this is overthinking things. This is Big Brother. It’s always possible they are trying to manufacture drama, which is exactly what this does. Elissa blames GinaMarie, Kaitlin, and/or Aaryn. Then she asks people to just vote her out. They wonder whether she just nominated herself.

Helen and McCrae have been chosen to participate in veto along with Judd, Aaryn, Kaitlin, and Elissa. Their task is to crawl through the mud and grab ballots, which they must either keep or discard based on the number of votes listed on each ballot. They can only keep 4 ballots. The higher numbers are punishments, while the lower ones are rewards, and single digit ballots are neither of those.

McCrae doesn’t care less that he may be the replacement MVP nominee and goes right for the $5,000. Aaryn doesn’t want to get her face dirty because she’s nothing without it.

Helen: 29 votes, 8PM curfew for 2 nights
Kaitlin: 25 votes
McCrae: 20 votes, $5000
Aaryn: 32 votes
Judd: 38 votes, solitary confinement for 24 hours
Elissa: 40 votes, can’t play in next week’s veto

Elissa wins the power of veto.

When Comcast decided to return my signal, Amanda was crying about Elissa being mean, which seems to have come about due to a comment about her weight.

Elissa has decided to use the power of veto on herself, and the replacement nominee is GinaMarie. Nobody in the house would nominate both of those people, which just leads to more conspiracy theories.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 13, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.