Category: big brother 17

Audrey’s dreadful gameplay came to an end in Big Brother 17 Episode 14, then Jackie and Vanessa won HOH.

Vanessa’s been in or at least near power for a while, but Jackie has been pretty much invisible since shortly after her entry into the house.

Austin reveals to Jason what everybody knows. There is a set of twins in the house. Also, he likes one but not the other. He doesn’t know that neither really likes him. Jason tells Meg, and then they tell Shelli, who has to pretend to be surprised.

The only real surprise to her is that Austin’s telling secrets without clearing it with his alliance and also declaring that he’s fine with one of the twins being eliminated.

Vanessa asks Jackie where she’s at. That way, Jackie can tell her everything, and she can just play along. Jackie’s thoughts are Liz (who nominated her last week) and Steve. Oh, yeah, those are exactly Vanessa’s targets, too.

Vanessa is considering backdooring Austin. She needs to verify whether he’s the Judas she thinks he is, and ironically, that’s exactly who he is or at least is trying to be. When she asks him, he lies. So then she tells Julia.

Somewhere along the way, Clay decides to volunteer to go on the block. He wants to be nominated alongside Becky so they can win battle of the block. The next piece of the puzzle is nominating a pawn alongside Liz to throw the competition, and that would be James since he nominated Jackie.

There is almost nobody in the house who is not part of this plan to backdoor Austin. Of course, much of the house wouldn’t mind seeing one of the twins going either because if they don’t get rid of them next week, there are going to be two of them to deal with.

Jackie’s Nominations
James
Liz

Vanessa’s Nominations
Clay
Becky

No surprises here. Everything has gone as planned.

Having been in the house when all the drama went down, Julia does not reveal any of it to her sister.

The object of the battle of the block is to throw paint everywhere and spell out names of houseguests from BB16. As James is trying to throw it, Liz realizes she has to be the brains of this operation. In the end, by seconds, Liz and James pull out the win.

There’s all this talk about how they had this perfect plan in place, but apparently they did not, as this just blew up in everyone’s faces.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 17 Episode 16, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

Audrey continued one of the most absurd paths of self destruction ever in Big Brother 17 Episode 13 and was finally placed on the block against John. I assume she meets her end tonight. I mean, there’s no way they’re getting rid of John, right?

It looks like they’re not going to edit it to try to make us think John is going home. Rather, Julie poses the question whether Audrey is just going to quit the game, which provides some important footage of Audrey ignoring everybody in the house for days and not fighting to stay.

It doesn’t end there. Audrey chose to violate the have not rules, resulting in a penalty vote. This is just a disaster. Slop may be a lame and seemingly pointless part of the game, but it’s something you agreed to do when you signed up. You can’t just do whatever the heck you feel like doing.

Votes
Big Brother: Audrey
Clay: Audrey
James: Audrey
Austin: John
Jason: Audrey
Vanessa: Audrey
Becky: Audrey
Jackie: Audrey
Steve: Audrey
Liz/Julia: Audrey
Meg: Audrey

By a vote of 10-1, Audrey has been evicted from the Big Brother house. The lone vote in her favor was from Austin, who just wants to screw with the house. She started off the game with a bang because of her story, but her gameplay has been absolutely terrible. She can blame everybody else if she wants (like Da’Vonne before her), but she dug her own grave.

The HOH competition is to listen to songs and identify which type of competition they are about. There is no hiding in this. The split between the house becomes clear when they have to pick people to compete against each other, as it’s typically an indication of which people they won’t mind being eliminated.

Jason beats Steve and chooses John and Austin to go against each other. Austin wins and picks Jackie and Becky. Jackie wins and chooses Liz and Vanessa. Vanessa wins and selects Jackie and Meg. Jackie wins and picks Austin and James. James buzzes in immediately with a random 1/3 chance and wins, choosing Vanessa and Clay. Vanessa wins and picks James and Jackie, one of whom will win HOH. James makes a random guess again, and Jackie wins HOH. Vanessa beats Jason and is the second HOH.

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Jason, the apparent target, and John, pawn for another week, lost the battle of the block in Big Brother 17 Episode 12 to Jackie and James.

Audrey’s pissed at Shelli because Shelli caught her in her lies. She tells James. He brings this information to Clay. Audrey just keeps digging herself in deeper and deeper. This has been going on for weeks, and she’s not learning. A for effort. D+ for effectiveness.

Shelli acknowledges that she handled her discussion with Jason incorrectly, but whether that’s the case, she’s the HOH who may need to choose a replacement nominee. Don’t go talking about her behind her back. This can wait a week or at least until after veto.

Shelli chooses Vanessa at random to play in the veto competition. John chooses Meg. Jason picks James (houseguest’s choice). Jason’s happy. He thinks people (like James) will save him. Shelli is happy that Audrey did not get picked.

Because she made promises to Audrey, Shelli does not like being in the position where she may potentially need to nominate her like everybody wants and has wanted for weeks. There’s a solution for that, or at least there was. Make sure Liz’s nominations lose so that she has to make the decision. Don’t nominate John and tell him to throw it as usual.

At BBside High, they will view videos with colored chemicals then pour the correct chemicals into their flasks. They are playing Saved by the Smell, complete with laugh track. Ugh. Everybody is correct on the first smell. James is out on the second. Shelli is eliminated on the third. Then Meg. Jason and John are next. Vanessa wins the power of veto.

Clay and Audrey get into a battle because the lies continue. She claims she never told him to swear on his life that she won’t be backdoored. Replaying the tape, she did. Her defense is that she doesn’t have a selective memory. That’s probably true. Just bad lies. Not content to leave this as is, she goes up to the HOH room, where the argument with Vanessa (the veto holder) begins.

It’s time for the veto meeting. Audrey has decided to pout in bed rather than participate. This is ridiculous. Vanessa uses the power of veto on Jason. In his place, Audrey has been nominated.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 17 Episode 14, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.

Jeff came closer than I thought he would in Big Brother 17 Episode 11 but was unable to secure the votes to stay. Liz and Shelli then won HOH.

Austin’s not happy with the votes. He’s so clueless that he continues to not know that Liz is the fourth vote. The rest of her alliance isn’t taking the hint that her being in her bed with Jeff probably meant something either.

In Liz’s HOH room is not a recent picture. No, it’s one from when she was younger and had missing front teeth. That way the dentist can’t see the crown.

Austin’s trying to get Jackie on his side, apparently. His method to do this is to tell her she’s going to go on the block as a pawn, which he hasn’t discussed with his alliance.

Remember last week and the week before when John was nominated as the person to throw the battle of the block? Yeah, that’s going to happen again. Clay isn’t even subtle about it. He pulls John out of the room of actual targets so they can discuss.

Audrey throws Jason under the bus to Shelli. Better him than her.

Liz’s Nominations
James
Jackie

Shelli’s Nominations
Jason
John

I don’t think they would be upset to see any of these people leave, but Jason is the target to go home.

Jackie wants to get some answers from Liz, who takes offense at her attempt to do this. She doesn’t understand why she should explain herself. For his part, Jason is able to get answers from Shelli, who realizes she may have made a mistake by listening to Audrey.

Audrey’s attempt at damage control would have been better off unsaid because she’s just making Shelli more suspicious.

In the battle of the block, they have to find four sets of keys to free a dummy. Jason and John find the first key quickly. Then they go up to the pile of leaves, where Jackie and James have conveniently tossed a key on top of the leaves for them. With that, the outcome is seeming pretty apparent. Eventually, though, James and Jackie catch up, and it all comes down to who can smash open the pumpkin with the key inside first. That would be James and Jackie, who win the battle of the block and dethrone Liz as HOH.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 17 Episode 13, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

After John won the power of veto again in Big Brother 17 Episode 10, Jeff was nominated in his place against James.

Jeff doesn’t believe Vanessa’s bad acting. Little does he know that Austin is the main driving force behind this. He still considers Austin his bro.

Oh, and then there’s Jackie. Remember her? She plans to vote for Jeff to stay, so at least he has that one vote.

After all that’s happened, he now has to try to get back into Clay’s and Shelli’s good graces, which is a tough sell considering he suggested that they need to get rid of Shelli.

Austin thinks he has a showmance going on with Liz. Perhaps Jeff does as well. Or maybe neither does and Liz is just trying to flirt the way for herself and her sister to the end.

He seems like he’s got some potential votes, but I’m getting the sense all this is a lost cause.

Votes
Jackie: James
Austin: Jeff
John: James
Meg: Jeff
Clay: Jeff
Shelli: Jeff
Steve: James
Liz: James
Jason: Jeff
Becky: Jeff
Audrey: Jeff

By a vote of 7-4, Jeff has been evicted from the Big Brother house. His mistake was trusting Austin and never realizing it was blowing up in his face. Liz’s vote is an indication exactly why Austin wanted Jeff gone.

In the HOH competition, they will watch a lame 90s dance routine and must answer questions about it. James, Jason, Steve, and Clay are eliminated on the first question. Meg and Austin are next. Liz and Shelli are the only two to get the next question correct, and they win HOH, so basically the same power in control as the last couple of weeks.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 17 Episode 12, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

The pawn game continued in Big Brother 17 Episode 9, as Vanessa nominated James against John, telling John once again to throw the competition. James is still on the block and is an actual target, and the other target is Jeff. Audrey? Nope.

Jeff continues to put his foot in his mouth with Austin. He keeps pushing the twin twist, and now he thinks they should get rid of Shelli because of her relationship with Clay.

Vanessa chooses Shelli to participate in the power of veto. John picks Austin (houseguest’s choice). James selects Audrey.

This seems to work out perfectly for Vanessa. These people will all keep things the same for her so that she does not have to nominate anyone else. There are a lot of upset people, though, as there is again a belief supposedly that Audrey is supposedly the target.

Their challenge is to roll giant dice and return to the platform with the winning number on top of their dice. Vanessa challenges Audrey and does an over the top job of throwing it. John challenges Audrey as well, and he’s not fooling around, eliminating Audrey, tossing Vanessa’s preferred winner out the window. James picks Austin but loses to him. Shelli doesn’t want to win either, and she loses to her choice, Austin. The final battle is between John and Austin, who has decided after multiple wins he no longer wants to win. Once again, John wins the power of veto.

Well, that really didn’t work out how the HOH wanted, again. Vanessa, who tried throwing the competition to Audrey in the first round, blames everybody else for this. Perhaps if she’d tried harder, she may have won. Probably not, but at least she would have had a chance. I’m not sure she even really had anybody else onboard with her plan. Everybody seemed to want someone else to be the fall guy, and the person who is seemingly her closest ally, Austin, would rather Jeff go home than James.

And no, let’s not take stupid pills again and ask John to not use the veto because that’s not going to happen.

Gronk’s lame takeover is to make everyone party all day long. At least it won’t impact the game any.

For the first time, Vanessa makes it obvious she is not planning to nominate Audrey. She says it’s for a cause, and perhaps it is, at least in part.

Clay plays along with the others. Yeah, he had no idea Audrey was not the target. Austin does as well. Jason buys Clay’s lies but not Austin’s.

Austin’s been looking for an excuse to nominate Jeff, and he gets one. Jeff tells Clay not to trust Austin. Clay goes right to Austin with this information. Then Austin makes a scene, at the urging of Vanessa, who wants an excuse to nominate someone other than Audrey. It’s all forced, but it seems to work.

Gronk will take someone on his party ship. The HOH winners, battle of the block winners, and power of veto winner “compete” for this “luxury competition” prize. Meg wins by randomly choosing the right cup.

John uses the power of veto on himself, and Vanessa returns on the attack against Jeff.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 17 Episode 11, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.

Da’Vonne became the latest person to sabotage her own game in Big Brother 17 Episode 8, and then Vanessa and Austin won HOH.

Liz (or Julia) tells Vanessa what everybody already knows. She’s a twin. This information gets back to Clay and Shelli and then the completely clueless Austin, who is apparently the only person who had no idea about this twist.

The house wants Audrey out, supposedly, but that isn’t going to happen again this week. The targets are Jeff, Jason, or James. Unlike last week, Austin and Vanessa are actually working together to hatch their plans or at least her plan.

In addition to the differences in weight between the twins that has already been pointed out, dentist John has noticed something else. One of the twins has a crown on one of her front teeth, while the other one does not. They sure botched this twist.

Jeff thinks he’s helping himself by revealing this to Austin. Little does he know Austin is finally in the loop and working with the twins.

This week’s plan involves John being a pawn and throwing the competition. How original.

Austin’s Nominations
Meg
Jason

Vanessa’s Nominations
James
John

Meg and Jason, who are supposed to be the ones expected to win, don’t believe that they can actually win, viewing themselves therefore as the targets. Between them two, Meg would obviously be the pawn, but she’s very angry about being in that position again.

The battle of the block requires them to find clothing items and return them to people in a foam party. In theory, John is supposed to be throwing this, but once again, all he has to do is sit back and watch his train wreck of a partner lose it for him. James tells us he’s not into fashion. Meg and Jason win by a landslide, dethroning Austin as HOH.

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John won the power of veto and pulled himself off the block in Big Brother 17 Episode 7, forcing Shelli to admit her plan to more people than she wanted and nominate Meg as a pawn against Da’Vonne.

Jason’s praying for some hope, but he seems pretty sure he’s the only one who cares to keep Da’Vonne around.

Kathy will be calling them 15 times, so each person will be able to answer once. The “random” person to answer the 7th call will win the power to void 3 people’s votes.

Clay says 7 is his lucky number. Da’Vonne doesn’t want it that way. It’s her lucky number, too. So she answers the call. Totally believable that this is just a coincidence.

Now she needs to secure 4 more votes since Jason is a lock. Audrey seems like one of the more likely choices. If Da’Vonne goes, Audrey goes right back to the top of the list, where she should have been this week. John and Vanessa have also agreed to vote out Meg, but they don’t seem to have much reason to do so.

The twin twist went off without a hitch when they first did it over a decade ago, but it’s not working now. The fact that it’s been done before is a problem, but also Liz and Julia have been busted because they don’t look exactly identical.

This gives Da’Vonne some ammo. She tells Liz that “people” (such as Da’Vonne) are saying she is a twin. This doesn’t seem like a smart move to tell everybody she’s a twin and then say you want to work together.

Da’Vonne’s choices for votes that do not count are:

Becky
Jeff
Jackie

The lack of Clay seems a little odd. Perhaps she was just trying to throw him off the scent, but it’s not like he doesn’t know.

Votes
Jason: Meg
Clay: Da’Vonne
John: Da’Vonne
Audrey: Meg
Austin: Da’Vonne
Liz: Da’Vonne
Vanessa: Da’Vonne
James: Da’Vonne
Steve: Da’Vonne

By a vote of 7-2, Da’Vonne has been evicted from the Big Brother house. She sunk herself. She seemed to be in a good position early on, but then she flipped out at multiple people, including her allies, for seemingly little reason. Rather than acknowledging where she went wrong, she just keeps calling everybody cowards, claiming that they don’t want to evict a transgender houseguest. Perhaps some don’t, but there are very valid reasons why Da’Vonne is talking to Julie now.

It’s time for another takeover. Great. This week’s participant is New England Patriot Rob Gronkowski.

The dumb luck HOH competition involves catapulting balls into giant cups with numbers in them. This is easy to throw if you don’t want to win, but there’s not a lot you can do to win if you really want to win.

Liz scores 23. Jackie sucks. So does John. James ties Liz at 23. Audrey gets 17, which Julie tells her is good enough before realizing the rules. Clay gets a 6. Jeff scores 14. Becky is another 0. Austin takes the lead with 28. Jason gets another 0. Meg is barely in with a 1. Steve is in and out of 28, which gives him a 0. Vanessa is the third person to score 23.

Liz, James, and Vanessa must participate in a tie breaker. Liz scores 22. James scores 35, the highest so far. Vanessa gets 52, almost the highest number there is. Vanessa joins Austin as HOH.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 17 Episode 9, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.