Last night, James went off the deep end but managed to stay composed enough to win veto again. In his place, Sharon was nominated, again as a pawn. This week, however, her partner Joshuah had other plans. He tried to get her kicked out of the house and believes he’s managed to secure Ryan’s and James’ votes, which would be enough to force a tie. In order to get Natalie’s vote in the event of a tie, he’s given her a guarantee of two weeks of safety. I can’t see the logic behind why she’d stick with this plan, though.

Natalie doesn’t want to be the executioner. She says she hopes Josh can get the three votes on his own. He’s trying to get Adam on his side as well.

Natalie spills the plan to Sharon and tells her she’d rather keep her. Sharon guarantees Natalie safety. I’d trust her more than Josh. If nothing else, I’d trust her in the house more than the duo of James and Josh combined. Then Sharon brings Sheila in. The girls are worried that it’s going to be a battle of the sexes.

Ryan continues to hold to his alliance with Josh and defends him when approached by Natalie. Sharon approaches Ryan and tells him she hasn’t lied and that she’ll have his back. He says this is enough to get him to flip, so he tells Natalie to keep Sharon. Natalie’s also been plotting with Adam.

Josh’s mom says that sometimes she just wants to wring his neck when she’s watching him on TV. She’s not alone.

Natalie tells us Ryan is her closest ally now that Matt’s gone.

Votes
Sheila-Joshuah
Ryan-Joshuah
Adam-Joshuah
James-Sharon

By a vote of 3-1, Joshuah has been evicted from the Big Brother house. Josh gives a good speech as he’s leaving, but then he spoils it when, like all the excessively bitter houseguests that have left in the past few weeks, Josh tells most of the people to stay seated except for a couple (Sharon and James). He tells Julie they made the right decision by kicking him out. He claims he’s only mean when he’s provoked. Well, that’s one theory anyway. Sharon promises vengeance on everyone for keeping her in the house kicking out Josh.

Julie hopes everybody’s been studying and counting everything in the house. The HOH competition is all about the quantity of things found in the Big Brother house. Everybody but Sheila gets the first question right. James and Sharon score a point on the second question. Sharon, Sheila, and Adam get the third question right. Everybody gets the next question wrong. Sharon is currently in the lead with three points. Everybody gets the next question right. Everybody but Sharon gets the next question right. Sharon, James, and Adam are in the lead with four points. Adam and Sheila get the next question right. Adam wins HOH.

I’m calling it now. At some point during the next week, James will say, “When I win veto, I’m going after Adam next week. Rawr.”

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 9 Episode 24, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

Big Brother 9 Spoilers

Natalie took advantage of her newfound HOH power and nominated James and Joshuah in Big Brother 9 Episode 21.

James is getting tired of being on the block. It’s really simple. He played way too aggressively and lied without provocation. He made his own bed, and now he’s going to be seen as a target for the rest of the game.

Sheila’s there to tell James he’s going to win veto. Then she offers a pep talk to Joshuah as well, within hearing distance of James. Rather than just keeping his mouth shut, he goes to confront everybody. Typical James. Once this is apparently all over, he still can’t leave well enough alone. Now it’s time to go do his best Chelsia impersonation and fight with Sheila and call her a two-faced bitch, which may be true but still. Dude, somebody medicate this guy already.

James still can’t figure out why the house voted him back in if they now all want him gone. He made them want him gone. Doesn’t he get it? Wasn’t he supposed to change his strategy to something that didn’t suck?

Natalie picks Ryan for the veto (houseguest’s choice).
Joshuah chooses Sheila at random.
James chooses Sharon at random.

The veto challenge is a guessing game. They must identify how many of each item are in each container. If you don’t want to answer, you can just fold and let other people eliminate themselves. James is just going to keep folding and watch the others drop. Smart strategy. Uninspired challenge design. Sharon and Joshuah are out first. Natalie gets a point. Natalie is eliminated on the next round. Ryan gets a point. Sheila gets the next point because the other two folded. James finally stays in and gets a point because the other two fold. James stays again and gets a point again because the other two fold. For the second time in a row, Ryan was closest but folded. James gets the next point and wins the power of veto.

Good news for James. Bad news for Josh. For the first time, his ego is not showing its head.

Josh is assuming that Sharon’s going up and he’s heading home. She tries to comfort him, but the odds he’s wrong aren’t very good. She quickly realizes resistance is futile.

After some crying, though, Josh decides he’s not done after all. He goes to Natalie to make a deal. He wants to get a tie, which she will break. All this is going on while Sheila’s in the bathroom telling Sharon how great her friend is. Can’t say I blame him. He thinks he’s got James and Ryan. They’re not going to tell Adam or Sheila. He agrees to give Natalie two weeks of safety in exchange. But I do wonder: why would she trust Josh and James?

James takes himself off the block and tells people they need to start winning. Why? Losing everything hasn’t harmed Adam or Sheila any. As expected, Sharon goes up in his place.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 9 Episode 23, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

Big Brother 9 Spoilers

Following her side getting the upper hand with the eviction of an excessively bitter Chelsia, Natalie continued the momentum, winning HOH in Big Brother 9 Episode 20.

Oh, this again. How long is this 60 Minutes show anyway? Big Brother 9 is running about half an hour late tonight.

Josh doesn’t like that America hates him, so he takes the opportunity to insult Natalie.

James has finally realized that his original strategy isn’t working. Ya think?

Team Christ is in the house. God was apparently trying to take vengeance on Chelsia. Oh, like he’s the only one who got sick of her mouth.

Natalie has a new theory, again revolving around numbers. This time it’s the number 7 that’s important.

Natalie gets a letter from home telling her that her family’s closer together, including her mother and father, who haven’t talked in years.

What do a bunch of bored out of their minds grown ups do when they get tired of the place they’re living? Play hide and seek.

Josh’s parents have accepted him as being gay, even if it took a while to get used to.

Sharon wants James gone now, as they realize their alliance is as dead as the sovereign 2.5.

Natalie’s thinking now that she can’t particularly trust her alliance, and she’s considering trusting James instead, since he can’t trust his alliance either. She knows he’s stabbed her in the back more than once.

It’s time for a “smashing” food competition. The houseguests can choose between food or slop. If three or more choose slop, everyone gets what they ask for. If the majority choose food, the minority goes on food and the majority gets slop. Sharon chooses slop. Adam chooses food. Josh chooses slop. James chooses slop. To reveal the results, they’ll take a mallet and smash their watermelons.

Sharon-Slop
James-Slop
Joshuah-Slop
Ryan-Slop
Sheila-Slop
Adam-Food

Adam’s the only one on food, along with HOH Natalie.

Natalie takes a moment or 12 to stare at Matt’s picture on the memory wall.

Ryan wants to see James get backdoored just for sheer entertainment value because he will get really whiny about it.

Nominations
Adam-Safe
Sheila-Safe
Ryan-Safe
Sharon-Safe

James and Joshuah have been nominated for eviction. James says she better hope he doesn’t get off the block because if he does, she’ll pay. Uh, I thought his plan was to make Adam pay. Or was it Ryan? Or Sheila? Or perhaps Sharon and Josh, who voted him out the first time? This would be a lot more compelling if his target weren’t everybody in the house.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 9 Episode 22, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on CBS.

Big Brother 9 Spoilers

Last night, James won the veto and took himself off the block, causing Chelsia to realize that the other side of the house was not alone in their dumbassery when they voted James back into the house. Sharon was put on the block in James’ place.

Yesterday Josh told us he was the gay Evel Dick. His ego certainly is a fair comparison.

Chelsia complains about her partnership being broken up. Yet it was okay or it to happen last week to Matt and Natalie. She now hates Natalie’s guts and wants her to know it, destroying her Easter eggs. Yeah, we know it’s pretty much a done deal that you’re going home, but there’s no reason to give them an airtight reason to not only vote you out but for that matter enjoy it. Sharon sits back and lets her continue to dig her own grave. James is trying to distance himself from her as well because she’s a “huge raging bitch.”

Adam believes he and Sheila will work together until the end of the game. He tells us he, too, would have voted for Alex over James and just said otherwise because James was sitting right next to him.

When Julie asks Chelsia why she should be kept in the house, she uses the time to talk down to them. Go away. Go away. Go away.

Votes
Natalie-Chelsia
Joshuah-Chelsia
Ryan-Chelsia
Sheila-Chelsia
James-Chelsia

By a unanimous vote, Chelsia has been evicted from the Big Brother house. Good riddance. Chelsia lost the game because she failed Big Brother 101. If you’re in a team, you’re a target. If the house can’t get the male member of the team out, they’ll settle for the female member. Then she made matters worse by going a little bit completely and totally insane. As she walks out, she insults everybody. I wonder if the words sore and loser mean anything to her. She still supports both James and Josh, though. Natalie tells her she’s been praying for her so not to worry.

The HOH is based on America’s answers to a series of questions as if each of them were running for President, which frankly would not be the worst idea I’ve heard.

Recarve Mt. Rushmore with only their own face - Joshuah or Sheila - Joshuah - Everyone except Sheila and James gets it right.
Give Big Brother winnings to charity - Sheila or Adam - Adam - Everyone except Sharon and Ryan gets it right.
Lock themselves out of the White House - Sheila or Adam - Adam - Everyone except James and Josh gets it right.
More interesting biography - James or Sheila - James - Everyone except Sheila and Sharon gets it right.
Leading America into battle - Ryan or James - James - Everyone except Sharon and James gets it right.
More inspiring speech - Natalie or Joshuah - Natalie - Everyone except Josh and Ryan gets it right.
Stop motorcade to let squirrel cross the road - Sharon or Natalie - Sharon - Everyone except James, Sheila, and Natalie gets it right.

Natalie is the new HOH.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 9 Episode 21, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

After Adam won HOH, he solidified the house as being split in two sides, nominating James and Chelsia in Big Brother 9 Episode 18.

After the nomination ceremony, Chelsia refuses to hug Sheila.

James says he’s now a bigger threat than he was before. Apparently. Then he and Chelsia start dancing around the house.

CBS has decided to give away the trip to Vegas that Ryan lost the other night. That’s… unusual. Chelsia is the random winner.

It’s time to pick players for the veto competition. Adam picks Joshuah. Chelsia picks Sheila. James picks Sharon (houseguest’s choice). Sheila and Adam are the only hope for their side, which is not a good sign.

In the middle of the night, Evel Dick shows up. You know what that means. Hopefully this will be the last time we’re forced to see him. He wakes them up banging pots and pans, the “hilarious” scene that won him so much both support and opposition in BB8. It’s a gross eating challenge. How appropriate. They’ll be drinking drinks for croquet shots. If they can beat Dick’s score, they’ll win a Les Paul guitar from Gibson. Josh is apparently the gay version of Evel Dick. Chelsia proves to be a proper lady with plenty of belching. James isn’t messing around and goes right through the drinks.

Joshuah - 5 shots, 17 points
Sharon - 6 shots, 19 points
Chelsia - 6 shots, 13 points
Sheila - 7 shots, 23 points
Adam - 8 shots, 28 points
James - 10 shots, 29 points

James wins veto. I have to give Dick credit. He was not as obnoxious as I remembered him. Chelsia’s starting to regret having brought James back into the house. It may well have sealed her fate.

Sharon believes that she should go up as a pawn in order to keep herself and Josh safe, a decision influenced by her partner Josh. She tells Adam to go ahead and put her up.

Natalie wants to get rid of Joshuah instead because she doesn’t trust him and wants to get him and Sharon apart. Ryan, covering his secret alliance with Josh, doesn’t want this to happen.

James has used veto and will seek revenge, adding that, by the way, Chelsia, you’re history, sucks to be you. Adam puts Sharon up in his place.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 9 Episode 20, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

The house was given a choice between evicting Matt or Ryan in Big Brother 9 Episode 17. Following a tie vote, James decided to evict Matt from the house. Then the tide shifted again as Adam won HOH.

We were on something resembling a streak. Well, the streak is over. 60 Minutes is just starting, putting Big Brother 9 behind by about 50 minutes or so. A live blog will begin once the show starts.

Winning HOH hasn’t helped Adam’s below the radar strategy any.

Natalie is mourning the loss of her partner. As Matt was leaving, he pushed her away as usual. Josh is happy to see her suffering. She tells Chelsia she wants revenge against James, and Chelsia says she doesn’t care and that people can screw over James if they want. Natalie is done with these people. D-U-N.

Josh is getting irritated with Sharon talking baby talk to the guinea pigs. He tells us they don’t have the brain capacity to understand her. Oh, now that’s just way too easy.

Adam’s basket contains baby food, whatever that’s about. Natalie is hoping he’ll share.

As per usual, Josh tells the HOH he’s their bitch if they keep him around.

Following Josh’s lead, Adam screws with Sheila’s mind and tells her he may put her on the block. He seems halfway serious about it, too.

It’s time for a luxury competition. The reward is a screening of 21. Because the movie’s 21, the challenge is Big Brother blackjack. The winner will decide which three people to take with them. Ryan gets the first chip. James is the first one out. Natalie says she can add to 21, though it may take her a little longer than some people. Adam gets his first chip. Sheila is the next one to be eliminated. Ryan gets his second chip. Josh is the next one eliminated. Natalie gets her first chip, thereby proving she can count (or is just a really good guesser). Ryan gets his third chip. Then he gets his fourth chip to win. He picks Adam, Natalie, and James to go with him. Odd to see Sheila get left out.

Now that he’s won, they’re offering him the chance to risk it all, in exchange for playing one hand that could be worth a weekend getaway for two to Vegas worth over $21,000. If he doesn’t go for it, things stay the same. If he does go for it and loses, the four houseguests not picked will get to see the movie instead.

Ryan decides to take the risk. He holds at 18. The dealer gets 19. I’m not saying it was fixed or anything…

Now that it’s down to the final 8, they get the smaller table. Speaking of 8, Natalie believes she’s caught on to something because God gave her a sign with 8 curtains. Her theory is that Evel Dick may come back from Big Brother 8 in week 8. Well, I’ve got bad news for her. She’s right. The good news is that history has shown us he’ll be forgotten shortly after his reappearance.

James warns that if Adam puts him on the block, he’ll come get revenge on him. So how many people is James going after now? 6?

Nominations
Natalie-Safe
Sharon-Safe
Ryan-Safe
Joshuah-Safe
Sheila-Safe

James and Chelsia have been nominated. Adam says that they’re a team that needs to be split up. Somehow, Josh believes the nominations are his doing. Chelsia and James are acting tough, apparently surprised that their aggressiveness within the game keeps getting them nominated.

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

Big Brother 9 Spoilers

Last night, James went back on his promise to Natalie and nominated Matt as a replacement for Sheila, putting Matt and Ryan in danger of leaving tonight.

Natalie’s obviously upset over the possibility that Matt will leave the house, but in retrospect, she’s ultimately responsible for the outcome this week. All she can do is seek revenge against James.

Sheila assures Ryan: when she makes a decision, it’s a decision. Whatever that means.

Adam’s advice to Matt is to aggressively pursue the others for their votes. He doesn’t care whether it’s a sympathy vote or not. The approach doesn’t work. He gets a bunch of I don’t knows. So his next idea is to confront them and tell them he’s never done anything bad to any of them, whereas Ryan’s a rat who’s screwed over everybody who wants to vote for him to stay. At least it’s better than telling people he doesn’t want to be in sequester for his birthday. Matt does appear to have enough support for a tie, but James is still whining about people lying, so he hates them both.

Julie wants to know why James is a hypocrite. He doesn’t give an answer that makes sense.

Three people believed Allison was going to be in the box. They’re told that Alex was the actual choice. Four people say that if they knew it was Alex in the box, they would have voted to let him in.

It’s Dick and Danielle. How come these people are on my screen again? I may throw up in my mouth again. Danielle tells us she’s no longer dating Nick, though not surprisingly we’re not told that he dumped her for Jen, who Dick was also obsessed over.

Votes
Chelsia-Matt
Joshuah-Matt
Sharon-Matt
Natalie-Ryan
Adam-Ryan
Sheila-Ryan

It’s all tied up, which means James as HOH must decide who leaves.

Considering the way his entire alliance (of sorts) voted, it’s no surprise that James votes to evict Matt, who is the first member of the jury.

The HOH competition is a Q&A about things the evicted houseguests have said in the diary room. Two people will compete, and whoever proceeds chooses which two people go next. Joshuah and Chelsia are up first. Joshuah gets it wrong and is eliminated. Chelsia selects Natalie and Sheila to face off. Natalie gets it right, and Sheila is eliminated. Chelsia and Sharon are next. Chelsia is correct, and Sharon is eliminated. Adam and Natalie go next. Adam is correct, and Natalie is out. Ryan and Chelsia are next. Chelsia is correct, and Ryan is eliminated. Adam steps up for the final round. Adam is correct and wins HOH. The battle lines are pretty clear here, so I would expect Adam would go after the other side, but you never know with this guy. It was interesting that nobody decided to attack Ryan during this competition. It appears both sides believe they can swing him.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 9 Episode 18, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

Big Brother 9 Spoilers

Following his return to the house, James won an endurance competition in Big Brother 9 Episode 15. During the competition, he made a deal with Natalie to not nominate her or Matt. Following this, he made it his mission to make sure the liars in the house paid, nominating Ryan and Sheila.

It’s time for another episode of Bible Buddies. They’re trying to figure out where the holy grail is.

Now that she’s on the block, Sheila takes the opportunity to apologize to Adam for how she treated him at the beginning of the game.

They’re trying to figure out where the third mystery box vote was. Natalie pretends that it was Adam, but Sharon’s not buying.

Sheila’s losing it, becoming even more of an emotional wreck than she was to begin with. The house decides to play a trick on her. They wake her up and pretend the POV is going on in the backyard.

It’s now time to pick players for the real veto competition.

James randomly selects Matt to play for veto.
Sheila randomly selects Chelsia.
Ryan randomly selects Joshuah, believing their alliance will hold.

They walk outside and see a huge guinea pig cage. They’ll need to transport wooden blocks across balance beams two at a time. Whoever falls or drops blocks is eliminated. Matt is the first to fall, saying he didn’t put forth his best effort, which to me doesn’t make a lot of sense. Ryan is the next to fall. Chelsia’s off to the lead, with James close behind. Sheila’s way behind but hopes somebody else will slip and fall from going too fast. She drops a block while trying to retrieve a block from the box, though, and is the next person out of the competition. 1 hour and 13 minutes in, Chelsia continues to lead, but she loses her balance and is out. James manages to get all of his blocks, and he is the winner of the power of veto. He’s happy he has a chance to shake things up, though unless he really doesn’t want one of these people to go, pissing off a third person doesn’t make much sense.

Natalie tells Sheila that if things stay the same, it will be really hard for her to choose between the two. Sheila is pissed off about this, too. Her conversation with Adam, who says he doesn’t want to think about it until after the veto ceremony, leads her to believe she’s all alone in the house. She goes to talk to James and throws Adam under the bus. He suggests that maybe Matt or Adam will leave this week because neither will come clean about the vote. Adam tries to convince James he’s not the third vote, but he doesn’t help his case any.

James tells Chelsia he’s going to use the power of veto to put Adam up.

Before making a decision, he wants to talk to Sharon first. On her way up to his room, she demonstrates her terrible acting skills. When she arrives up there, she tells him Matt was the third vote “for a fact.” His new plan is to take Sheila off the block and put up Matt.

As planned, James removes Sheila and places Matt on the block in her place. James, who claims to be the only honest person in the house and who says he’s punishing people for being liars, has gone back on his word to keep Matt safe. Apparently, lying is only okay if you’re lying to someone who lied to you. I’m good with the lying in this game. I’m just not thrilled with hypocrites who pretend to take the high road and then do the same thing they whine about others doing. As far as I’m concerned, if you’re going to be a liar, be an honest liar.

Programming note: Due to college basketball on Thursday, Big Brother 9 Episode 17 will air at a special time tomorrow at 9/8c, following Survivor: Micronesia at 8/7c.

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

Big Brother 9 Spoilers

After voting out James 5-1, the house decided to let him come back in the house in Big Brother 9 Episode 14. They’re either really stupid, or, well, yeah, that about sums it up. Oops. Sorry America for wasting your time with the last pointless week and also for pretending you had a vote. We left off in the middle of an endurance HOH competition.

James wants to win HOH because his dignity is on the line. Apparently being voted out of the Big Brother house means being stripped of your dignity.

Natalie explains her vote to bring James back. She stabbed her alliance in the back, but she would be redeeming herself and giving her word back to James. I still don’t get it.

Adam’s the first one out of the HOH competition at 15 minutes. Joshuah is next out. Matt’s out at 40 minutes. Sheila admits that she was one of the people who voted for the mystery guest, saying that Alex didn’t get a chance the first time. She falls at an hour.

At 2 hours 31 minutes, Sharon’s the next person to fall. Matt and Ryan are getting concerned that Adam will be turning on them if they’re no longer in power. Matt promises to give Natalie her massage if she wins. James warns that since he was backdoored (because he played a dumb game), he’s going to backdoor someone else. Chelsia is the next one to fall at 3 hours 19 minutes. James offers a deal. Ryan must go on the block no matter what, and if Natalie agrees, James will drop. Ryan doesn’t want her to take the deal. 7 minutes later, Natalie comes up with a counteroffer, asking for safety for herself and Matt. James agrees, and Natalie drops. If she hadn’t voted him back in the house, she would have won HOH. Since she didn’t, James has. James lets everybody know he sticks to his word unlike everybody else in the house. I’ll believe it when I see it.

Natalie finally figures out how to get a massage from Matt. She has to hang on a disco ball for hours. There’s some chat about how they’re still partners. Matt refuses to admit that it wasn’t him who voted for the mystery box. Josh brings this up to Adam because he wants to know who the third vote is (he also doesn’t want James to turn on him just yet).

James has his targets already in mind as to who’s the biggest threat to him, but at the end of the day, he doesn’t trust anybody in the house since they all voted against him. Back in week three, he was the person saying “It’s just a game.” Now he’s pissed off at everybody for playing that game.

James gives a speech at the nomination ceremony about how he doesn’t like that he was lied to, and that all people have in the house is their word.

Nominations
Natalie-Safe
Matt-Safe
Sharon-Safe
Chelsia-Safe
Joshuah-Safe
Adam-Safe

Sheila and Ryan have been nominated for eviction. In the diary room, he says they’re all stupid. I’ll have to agree with him on that point.

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

Big Brother 9 Spoilers

Last night on Big Brother 9 Episode 13, after James brilliantly got his ex-partner Chelsia nominated, she won the veto, which pleased him because he thought his plan worked out perfectly. Until Ryan decided to target the Sharon/Josh/Chelsia/James alliance and nominated James in Chelsia’s place.

In addition to the live eviction, tonight we will see one previously evicted person return to the game. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this particular twist. In season 3, Amy returned to the game at a critical point, shaking up the power structure in the house. Then in Big Brother 6, Kaysar made his way back to the house, essentially wasting a week. As I said last week, none of the evicted people are particularly likeable, with the exception of Alex, who may perhaps be neither here nor there but at least isn’t hated.

Chelsia goes upstairs to yell at Ryan, pretending she has some power in the house or something.

Sharon tells Sheila the story about how Matt kissed her, giving Sheila the impression Sharon will do just about anything to win the game. Neither Natalie nor Sheila are happy with this information. They gave James their word he’s staying.

Natalie wants Matt to tell her who’s going to the end with him. Then they get into yet another argument about how they don’t get along any more.

Jacob, Jen & Parker, Alex & Amanda, and Allison are in their own individual sequester houses, waiting for the opportunity to be voted back into the house. Parker & Jen seem to be getting along, but Alex & Amanda still hate each other. Alex hopes to go back because he blames Amanda for their eviction. Allison wants to get revenge.

Julie reveals that America has chosen Alex to return to the house as expected. He will get in a box. The house will need to vote whether to keep the person who’s evicted this week or the person in the mystery box. This is certainly a much more interesting scenario than previous votes back into the house.

By a vote of 5-1, James has been evicted from the Big Brother house. However, like last week’s evictees, he’s being given a possible second chance. I don’t think he should get one myself. He overplayed and got caught. While he’s leaving, nobody gets up other than Chelsia, at his own request. He didn’t have any interest in saying goodbye to anybody else.

In the house, the houseguests hear the siren sound and are told what’s going to happen.

Ryan-Mystery
Chelsia-James
Matt-Mystery
Sheila-Mystery
Joshuah-James
Natalie-James
Adam-James
Sharon-James

By a vote of 5-3, James will be returning to the house. Dumb move by Natalie. While it doesn’t put her in any immediate danger, it puts a huge target on her alliance, notably her on again off again buddy Matty. The side that dominated last week better pray they win HOH this week.

By the setup out in the backyard, it’s obvious it’s an endurance competition. Houseguests will remain standing upright while holding chains in Big Brother Disco. They lift up the machine and start slowly spinning it. The last one remaining will be the new Head of Household. If you want to find out who wins HOH before Sunday’s show, check out the Big Brother 9 spoilers page, where the winner has been posted.

James tells Julie that he feels great being back around all the people who voted him out, a sure sign that it was stupid of them to vote him back in. Regardless of how the house may have been divided, though, James has learned that the only person he can trust is Chelsia. Julie tells him that three people voted against him coming back.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 9 Episode 15, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.