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There was more crying and other drama in Big Brother 18 Episode 23, which again led to nothing, as Michelle and Zakiyah are still on the block.

It won’t end with that eviction, however, as this is the double eviction night everybody has been expecting.

For all his talk in opposition to the idea, Paul has finally bent to Paulie’s will and decided he is fine with getting rid of Michelle this week.

James is going to make sure he has the votes lined up before using his power. He can either go with the girls and get rid of Zakiyah or work with Paulie and get rid of Michelle.

The more Paul talks about it, the more he realizes that his relationship with Paulie is more one-sided than he perhaps wants it to be.

James has decided to block the votes of Paul (per his request) and Corey. This is more of a pointless exercise because they have the votes regardless. At most, it protects Paul from having to reveal his vote.

Votes
Paulie: Michelle
Natalie: Zakiyah
Nicole: Michelle
James: Zakiyah
Bridgette: Zakiyah

By a vote of 3-2, Zakiyah has been evicted from the Big Brother house. Paulie is a lot more alone than he was just a couple days ago.

The HOH competition requires them to answer more or less questions about this season’s statistics. Paulie and Bridgette are eliminated on the first question as the girls start jumping up and down. Corey is the only person to get the next question correct, and he is the HOH. The earlier celebration ends quickly because that’s Paulie’s BFF.

Corey only talks to the guys after winning, but he seems to be struggling to get much feedback.

Nominations
Bridgette
Michelle

As the only two not females not in showmances, that was pretty predictable.

James, Paul, and Nicole join the HOH and the nominees in the veto competition, which has them digging through ball pits. Corey wins the power of veto. There is no reason for anybody to use the veto here.

Veto Ceremony
Veto is not used.

In what she assumes is her goodbye speech, Michelle again talks about blowing up Paulie’s game and calls Nicole a snake.

Votes
Natalie: Michelle
Paulie: Bridgette
Nicole: Bridgette
Victor: Bridgette
James: Bridgette
Paul: Bridgette

By a vote of 5-1, Bridgette has been evicted from the Big Brother house. And Michelle starts crying.

Michelle’s massive mouth is not enough to sink her. The plan was already set in motion to keep her again. If they had more time to plan this, I don’t think she would have been so lucky because she seems to be deliberately trying to ruin her own game. Then again, Bridgette was a key force in exposing Paulie and keeping Michelle in the previous vote. If she hadn’t done that, she might have had a better chance of staying against Zakiyah.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 18 Episode 25, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

Zakiyah and Michelle cried the whole time in Big Brother 18 Episode 22 before Victor gave them something to cry about with nominations and a crazy speech.

Victor says he’s just having fun because these girls aren’t on his side anyway. The problem is that at least one of them is going to stay, so there is a danger in just randomly pissing them off.

We start off this episode the same way we concluded the last. With Michelle crying. Nicole consoles her with a reminder that she was called a fruit loop dingus by Zach.

Zakiyah doesn’t trust Paulie, but she does trust that he wants Michelle gone more than her.

James is a key player this week because of his ability to nullify two votes. Paulie wants him to use that power to get rid of Michelle because Paul doesn’t want to cooperate with that plan.

Victor selects Nicole at random to play in the veto competition. Michelle chooses James. Zakiyah picks Paulie (houseguest’s choice). She doesn’t trust that Paulie will really pull her off the block, but she knows nobody else will.

They will have three minutes to hide their veto cards. Whoever hides their card without it being found wins. Nicole finds a card and then another. James finds the third. Then Victor finds the fourth and fifth. The only thing that really matters is whose card wasn’t found. Paulie wins the power of veto.

In his case, I’m not sure that’s a good thing. Unless he can convince his alliance that it’s a good idea to use it, he’s either going to have to upset them or risk losing the last bit of Zakiyah’s trust.

Veto Ceremony
Veto is not used.

Paulie’s logic is that he doesn’t want to upset his alliance. Meanwhile, he is plotting to secure the votes to go against their wishes.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 18 Episode 24, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.

Da’Vonne finally talked her way out of the house in Big Brother 18 Episode 21.

Zakiyah and Michelle are talking about getting revenge, apparently against the whole house, because they were the only two who were completely oblivious to the plan to get rid of Da’Vonne.

Paul, Paulie, Victor, James, and Corey form the newest alliance, The Executives.

The remaining houseguests are left spinning. James is eliminated quickly. Bridgette is next to fall, and it hasn’t even been 10 minutes. Corey falls next and is the final of three have nots for the week. Michelle starts to vomit all over the place and eventually falls. Half an hour later, Nicole falls. Just before the hour mark, Zakiyah has had enough and makes deals with those who remain. Paulie feels secure with the other two and drops right after her, and it’s obvious that he was waiting for her to go. Natalie is the last to drop after 1 hour and 49 minutes, and Victor wins HOH.

Bridgette just got done saying how much she trusts Paul now that she hasn’t been evicted. So of course, he’s throwing her name out there as a potential target for this week. But Michelle and Zakiyah are really easy targets, especially as they mope around the house crying.

Victor makes an alliance with Paul and Paulie called The Board. Paul’s reaction: that’s all fine, but Victor comes in third in that relationship.

America’s Care Package this week is something potentially more useful than last week’s. The power allows the winner to remove two votes, and this time James wins. Some weeks that could flip the house, but this week everybody can at least agree that one of the two who did not vote with the house needs to go.

Nominations
Zakiyah
Michelle

An expected result. What I didn’t see coming is Victor’s mean speech, which results in Michelle crying. Again. Zakiyah was the target, but Michelle is becoming a more favorable choice the more emotional she is.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 18 Episode 23, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

For some unknown reason, Paul was desperately targeting Bridgette, but his ally Paulie wanted to get rid of Da’Vonne instead. After Paulie won the power of veto in Big Brother 18 Episode 20, Da’Vonne joined Bridgette on the block.

We’ll get an episode of discussion about how maybe Bridgette will go home, but there is not a mathematical path forward for Da’Vonne. The guys have set this plan in motion, and Nicole knows that Da’Vonne is trying to get rid of her. Paulie, Victor, Nicole, and Corey is 4, which means a tie at worst, to be broken by the HOH Paul.

James lets the cat out of the bag. He would nominate Bridgette and Victor. The same Bridgette who can only still be in the house if Da’Vonne is gone. Oops.

Votes
Paulie: Da’Vonne
Zakiyah: Bridgette
Nicole: Da’Vonne
Michelle: Bridgette
Victor: Da’Vonne
Corey: Da’Vonne
James: Da’Vonne
Natalie: Da’Vonne

By a vote of 6-2, Da’Vonne has been evicted from the Big Brother house. She lasted a lot longer than she did last time, but all the pot stirring created a target. Before leaving, Da’Vonne warns Victor that he will be the next target.

The HOH competition will have them hanging around all night. They have to hold on to ropes with their feet resting on discs while they go around in circles.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 18 Episode 22, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

After Paul won HOH in Big Brother 18 Episode 19, he got the weird idea in his head that he just had to get rid of Frank’s little Cabbage Patch girl Bridgette, followed by the idea that he had to nominate his buddy Paulie.

Paulie’s much less stupid plan is to get rid of Da’Vonne instead. Da’Vonne immediately goes to work trying to get Nicole on the block.

Zakiyah feels Paulie starting to pull away as he finds her to be smothering. This could easily be the sort of thing that causes a downward spiral that sends the pawn home, especially with how divided the genders are, and it would also at least put her name into the hat of potential replacement nominees.

Paul selects Corey at random to participate in the power of veto competition. Paulie selects Victor (houseguest’s choice). Bridgette selects Natalie at random. None of these people should be particularly difficult to convince to create a scenario in which Da’Vonne goes on the block.

The veto competition requires them to hold down buttons with their hands until they see the words ready, set, and then go on the screen, then they run across the yard to press a button. Corey moves on the word no instead of go and is eliminated first. Bridgette and Natalie are both pretty slow, but Bridgette is eliminated in the second round. Natalie unsurprisingly is the next one out. Paul is eliminated in the fourth round. Paulie beats Victor to win the power of veto.

The plan is falling into place, and Da’Vonne proves why, launching back into attempts to get Nicole nominated alongside Bridgette.

Zakiyah warns Paulie that Paul could win this game. He was already unsure about her, and that was a big mistake.

This is all just drama. Da’Vonne’s still the target, no matter how many people open their big mouths or if she throws person after person under the bus.

Veto Ceremony
Paulie removes himself from the block.
Da’Vonne is the replacement nominee.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 18 Episode 21, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.

Right after Big Brother’s 18th season finishes, CBS plans to do it all over again in the fall. Variety reports that the next season of Big Brother will be online only and air on CBS All Access, the company’s online streaming service.

All Access costs $5.99 per month and lets people watch archived and live episodes of CBS shows like CSI and probably CSI: Sheboygan and whatever else is on CBS other than reality TV shows. It is also where the current Big Brother live feeds are broadcast at a much better price than before CBS brought that in house.

This marks the first time Big Brother will air outside the regular summer schedule since season 9 when writers were striking. That show aired from February-April 2008 because a different set of writers script the actions of these casts.

Having an extra season of Big Brother online makes sense. It’s dirt cheap to produce, and the revenue from the online feeds by itself more than makes up for the cost. The people who are subscribing now just for that have an excuse to stick around at least for another few months. This and similar efforts to produce original programming might actually make it seem worth subscribing to people who otherwise consider paying for a single network’s shows to be a waste.

The show will return to CBS on TV next summer like it always has.

Frank was predictably voted out of the house in Big Brother 18 Episode 18.

The houseguests are practicing rolling balls down a beam for the HOH competition. Paulie doesn’t care if he wins and is the first to roll his ball badly, a bad strategy considering that a roll this bad is likely to lead to a punishment. Natalie and Corey both make perfect practice shots before bombing out on their real rolls.

Paulie: 6
Paul: 21
Bridgette: 10
Natalie: 2
Corey: 0
Nicole: 19
Zakiyah: 0
Michelle: 16
Da’Vonne: 19

Paul wins HOH with the highest possible score. The four lowest scorers are have nots for the week.

Bridgette is an easy target, but she is hardly threatening now that she’s all alone. Paul wants to use Victor as a pawn, the guy who already got voted out once.

Paulie proposes getting rid of Da’Vonne instead.

Paul opens his pawn plan to a wider audience. One after another, they come up with an excuse why they should not be the pawn. Nicole reluctantly agrees. She doesn’t exactly meet his criteria for a strong competition threat, but she’s the only one who hasn’t said no.

Paulie wants to be Paul’s twin. He’s made some really unfortunate choices with his hair, is walking around with a lot more clothing, and is using the same lingo. I don’t suspect this is what Big Brother wanted when they cast him.

Natalie is the winner of the very first America’s care package. She must open it in front of everybody. Her reward gets her out of her current predicament as a have not because she receives a never not pass. Nice but harmless and not relatively helpful.

Nicole felt pressured into volunteering as a pawn, but she doesn’t really want to do it. Paulie offers to be the pawn.

Nominations
Bridgette
Paulie

Da’Vonne doesn’t get why Nicole is not on the block despite having volunteered. I’m sure Da’Vonne would have liked to have an alternate person like Nicole to get rid of instead.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 18 Episode 20, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

Despite a lot of seemingly pointless drama (welcome to Big Brother), nothing really happened in Big Brother 18 Episode 17, leaving Frank on the block against Bridgette.

The houseguests get a message on the TV screen and start searching the house for the secret. Paul solves the clues, so basically nobody is happy. He is granted a 1 in 12 chance of returning to the house after he is evicted. Not very good odds, but at least it’s something. He feels like he can keep this a secret and prevent Frank and Bridgette from entering, but that seems highly unlikely.

Victor is pretty sure that Paul’s bad story to hide what happened is a lie, and he cracks the code as well. The rest of the house follows on his heels. Perhaps he should have spent a little more time locked in the secret room to come up with a good story.

Julie tells us that the last envelope will be opened on August 18, so that should probably be 4 or 5 chances for someone to return.

Frank gives what amounts to a farewell speech before the vote. He knows like everybody else that he’s going home, leaving Bridgette ironically to seek revenge against Michelle, the one other person who would have wanted to keep him.

Votes
Da’Vonne: Frank
Paul: Frank
Paulie: Frank
Nicole: Frank
Victor: Frank
Michelle: Frank
Zakiyah: Frank
Corey: Frank
Natalie: Frank

By a vote of 9-0, Frank has been evicted from the Big Brother house. His envelope does not contain a ticket back into the house. He realizes that he has a big mouth and trusted too many people in his stupidly big alliance.

In the HOH competition, they will have to roll balls down a beam. They can practice as many times as they want with a practice ball, but only the red colored ball counts. They’re going to keep practicing for a while. They’re so bored in that house they may as well keep going all night.

The next twist is announced, America’s Care Package, which will allow for America to vote for a player to receive an advantage. Stupid popularity contest voting advantages. This week’s vote is for a never not pass, a welcome but modest thing to have. Future much better powers include the ability to eliminate two eviction votes, safety for a week, co-HOH, and $5k to bribe someone else.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 18 Episode 19, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.