Ryan’s HOH win led to the guys to form an all male alliance in Big Brother 9 Episode 12. At James’ suggestion, his former partner Chelsia was nominated, alongside the group’s main target, Sharon.

Josh doesn’t care that Sharon has been nominated, since it at least means he’s safe. James is happy with his decision but doesn’t want to see his partner go.

Sharon realizes the obvious: it’s guys vs. girls.

Joshuah wants to carry through on his deal with Ryan, but the problem is he wants to get rid of Matt first.

James assures Chelsia she’s safe. It’d be easier to guarantee if he didn’t personally set her up to get nominated.

Natalie continues to get more sick of Matt, who tells her first thing she needs to worry about is not getting evicted next week. James and Josh sees an opportunity to approach Ryan and promise him safety to take Matt out of the game. Matt eventually apologizes to her, telling her they’re still partners. If he’s smart, he’ll make sure to keep her close because she will do whatever he wants. After he apologizes, she spills the plan and tells them James and Josh were involved. He tells Ryan. There goes the male alliance. Even though I knew this was doomed from the beginning, this is shorter lived than I would have anticipated.

As planned, Josh suggests to Ryan that Matt get nominated, in exchange for two weeks of immunity. Instead of just playing dumb, Ryan tells Josh that Matt knows about the plan thanks to Natalie. Of course, Josh runs back to the others and tells them that Natalie told. If he turns on Matt, this all doesn’t matter, but if he doesn’t turn, getting the house to hate Natalie doesn’t help him out much.

Ryan chooses Adam to play in the veto competition as houseguest’s choice, thereby making sure Matt doesn’t get picked.
Chelsia randomly chooses Sheila.
Sharon randomly chooses Joshuah.

The girls, James, and Josh have a meeting to agree to give Ryan two weeks of safety if he gets rid of Matt. This plan will give him two weeks of security. After which time he’d be all alone.

Chelsia knows better than to trust any of these people. She’s still fighting for herself, as opposed to this plan.

The veto challenge is a billiards game on a modified pool table. The furthest from the veto hole loses each round. Sheila is eliminated in the first round but still gets a prize, the power of veto. Too bad she knows the people after her will be able to take it. Sharon is next eliminated. She also gets a prize, a brand new motorcycle (if nothing else, it’s worth selling after the show). She trades it for the power of veto. Stupid because then someone else will just steal the veto from her. Josh is out in the next round. He gets a letter from home and keeps it. Adam is eliminated next and gets $10,000. He trades it for the motorcycle. Sheila’s happy with this decision and feels less venemously toward Adam now. Chelsia is eliminated next but wins the slop pass, which she trades for the power of veto. Ryan is the last person standing, and he gets a unitard as his prize, which he can wear for one full week. He opts to trade this for Sheila’s $10,000, rather than the veto. Good news for Chelsia. Bad news for Sheila. Some definite potential repercussions for Ryan, as he’s running a risk this will leave a bad taste in people’s mouths.

Sheila’s pissed off that Ryan took the money, and she’s not one to let it go unknown. Chelsia warns that the single mom card will be taken badly by others. So Sheila gets pissed off at her, too. With that in mind, she wants to solidify a group to target Josh/James/Chelsia/Sharon. She tells Ryan she’s not mad at him. She’s got new targets in mind.

Chelsia removes herself from the block. Ryan needs to find a replacement nominee. His choice: James, who just simply overplayed. This turns out to be a shock to the house, but Matt’s thrilled and tells them it’s on. Ryan wants them to know he’s nobody’s bitch. Josh still thinks of himself as a genius.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 9 Episode 14, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

Big Brother 9 Spoilers

The houseguests were split up in Big Brother 9 Episode 11, and for some reason they actually seemed surprised by the twist, despite the fact that Jen and Ryan’s original challenge was to get to the end together. Thanks to the twist, only Allison went home, thus saving Ryan, who went on to win HOH.

Adam & Sheila are both happy to get rid of their partners. Matt’s happy to get rid of his clingy partner as well, which he doesn’t attempt to hide from Natalie. She’s not taking the hint that he doesn’t want her in his bed any more. The creepy stalker music is a nice touch.

Joshuah & Sharon, who went on a power trip last week like most of the HOH’s have, couldn’t be more unhappy to see Ryan win HOH.

James is worried that Chelsia will change now that they’re no longer partners.

Joshuah apologizes to God for being an asshat to people and asks for help winning the game and dieting.

Ryan really does miss Jen (since he hasn’t seen the footage of the show yet), so he’s happy to see the picture of her in his HOH room.

Sheila, who for no apparent reason decided she hated Allison, now is crying that she’s gone.

James still wants to cuddle with Chelsia at night, but says she doesn’t think it’s a smart idea. They still have a plan to stick together as a duo, though, unlike half the teams.

Matt and Ryan want to get an all male alliance going. They take Adam onboard, but they don’t completely include James, who doesn’t trust them either anyway. Josh’s name isn’t even brought up, though. Regardless of who the plan does or does not include, an all male alliance has never worked. Ever. It’s just a question of how long it takes to implode and who the first casualty is.

Natalie learns that there are only 26 letters in the alphabet because the and in “Y and Z” doesn’t count.

The teams must choose blue and red bandanas for the competition. Knowing that Matt’s favorite color is blue, Natalie makes sure she grabs blue, so she’s the only girl on his otherwise all male team. It’s James, Matt, Adam, and Natalie against Sheila, Sharon, Josh, and Chelsia. Teams will swim through chocolate pools to grab letters and spell words (Natalie’s team is worried). The winning team will get whatever food they spell correctly. Sheila, who blamed Adam for their constant failures, continues her losing streak without him, allowing the other team to get a huge lead. When the other team loses the chalk, though, that big lead is almost erased. The red team gets 11 food items. The blue team wins with 12 correctly spelled words, obtaining a diet of 12 food items, but at least it beats slop (let’s hope nobody passes out).

Josh, who put Ryan on the block last week, promises to not put him on the block (again) if he wins HOH. He’s completely fine with Sharon going on the block, which may not be the wisest move, but better her than him.

The boys came up with the plan to put up Sharon and Sheila. Rather than simply agreeing with this plan, James of all people talks them out of it, suggesting Chelsia instead of Sheila. He’s trying to prove he’s willing to do anything, but this is a hell of a risk to take.

Nominations
Adam-Safe
Natalie-Safe
James-Safe
Matt-Safe
Sheila-Safe
Joshuah-Safe

As planned, Sharon and Chelsia have been nominated for eviction.

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

Big Brother 9 Spoilers

Following their nomination, Matt & Natalie managed to take themselves off the block with the power of veto in Big Brother 9 Episode 10. That leaves Ryan & Allison and Adam & Sheila on the block for tonight’s vote. There’s a catch that has the whole house worried, though. When a siren sounds in the house, there will be a twist.

Allison’s looking forward to Sheila getting lost.

Matt thinks he’s playing both sides, and for now, it seems to be working. Problem is someone here’s going to end up on the jury (or at least that’s a theory… who knows how long they’ll actually make this season last). James realizes that Matt is playing both sides, another potential problem for him. In the season of bringing up everything in front of the entire house, James of course brings this up in a group, telling the rest of the house Matt is just playing them.

Natalie’s friends at the Bikini Coffee Shop tell us she let her past boyfriends walk all over her and that she comes on too strong (we’ve noticed). Matt’s friends know he doesn’t want to do his job for much longer and is focused on getting to the end and winning the money.

Julie tells us that once the evicted couple tries to leave, they’ll find out the door is locked, and the houseguests will be split up into individual players.

By a vote of 2-0, Allison & Ryan have been evicted from the Big Brother house. Just kidding. As they try to leave, the door’s locked, and the siren sounds. They return to the living room and are told they’re no longer couples. It’s still time to vote. The house must vote to evict either Allison or Ryan. Pointless. We all know Allison’s the target here. As afraid as they were about this siren, the house got exactly what it wanted. Allison couldn’t have asked for a worse twist.

Votes
Adam-Allison
Chelsia-Allison
Matt-Allison
Sheila-Allison
Natalie-Allison
James-Allison

By a unanimous vote, Allison is evicted from the Big Brother house. She quickly runs out the door, not interested in saying anything to anybody but her partner. Joshuah’s goodbye message is one last shot at Allison, but Sheila’s smart enough to say she’ll miss her.

The HOH competition is a true/false session based on the order in which things happened in the house. Everybody gets the first question right. James and Natalie are eliminated on the second question. Sheila, Matt, and Chelsia are eliminated. It’s between Ryan and Adam. Both get the next question wrong. Both get the next question right. Adam finally gets it wrong, and Ryan is the new HOH. Typical Big Brother. In the doghouse one week, in charge the next.

Before we leave, Julie tells us about one last twist. One of the evicted people will return to the house in an America’s Choice vote. Great, a popularity contest. There’s a reason they took the public vote away after season 1. It leaves me to thinking, though: does anybody actually like any of the evicted houseguests? The only choice I see here is Alex.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 9 Episode 12, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

Big Brother 9 Spoilers

Like all the other prior HOH couples, the power went to Joshuah’s head in Big Brother 9 Episode 9, flipping out on Allison because she changed her vote at the last minute (and oh, yeah, he pretended it had something to do with her pretending to be a lesbian). Ryan & Allison were the obvious nomination, with Matt & Natalie being nominated as the pawn.

Even though everybody hates Allison, Chelsia really wants Matt & Natalie out of the house because they’re too much of a threat. It’s really simple. If you actually want someone to go, don’t put them up against someone who’s a better target.

Joshuah’s concerned that people are believing he’s hot headed and a ticking time bomb.

Natalie continues to chase Matt around. He’s playing impossible to get, but she doesn’t care.

Allison is trying to work on Natalie, having saved her last week. They want to flip the house upside down by forcing Joshuah & Sharon to nominate someone they don’t want to, and then working together to get that couple out instead.

Sheila & Adam are selected at random to participate in the veto competition along with the HOH couple and the two nominated teams. As host, James dresses up in a toga. Apparently he’s supposed to be Cupid. The men will grab puzzle pieces and hoist their partners up in the air via attached pulleys to solve the puzzle. Matt has a clear physical edge over everybody else. Neither Adam nor Joshuah are able to get very far with it. Allison and Natalie, however, are still in this thing. By one puzzle piece, Matt & Natalie win veto. Chelsia’s pissed and doesn’t hide it very well. Sheila knows she’s going up on the block with Adam.

Matt tries different things to appeal to different people. With Josh, he appeals to his gay side. He considers Ryan a friend and just tries to keep it that way. He agrees to be Allison’s shoulder to cry on, and he tells her to go ahead and stir up some trouble. He tries to charm Sharon and make her think he cares about her, though he doesn’t. He tells her he’s not at all attracted to Natalie and kisses Sharon, who knows he’s just playing the game, but she’s perfectly happy to play along with him.

Sheila & Adam continue their arguing. Granted, she argues with everybody, so he’s used to this. James finds this amusing and knows she takes a target off him.

Natalie’s now at the point of getting tired of being treated like dirt by Matt. He doesn’t deny being mean but eventually acknowledges that he should be treating her like a friend. He hopes this will get her to stop thinking they’re soulmates, but no such luck.

Allison asks Josh why he hates her. He doesn’t understand why she wants to know and doesn’t give an actual non-vague answer. The best she gets out of him is that she’s too manipulative, which she doesn’t understand since she considers that part of the game.

Big Brother gives them a message that they’ll hear a siren at some random point in the future and that they’ll need to gather in the living room when they hear it.

Everybody panics about the impending siren, except Ryan & Allison, who are hoping for a twist… of any kind.

Matt & Natalie remove themselves from the block. The replacement nominees are Adam & Sheila.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 9 Episode 11, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

Big Brother 9 Spoilers

The house unanimously decided to get rid of Alex & Amanda in Big Brother 9 Episode 8. Following that, Joshuah & Sharon won HOH.

Allison wanted to target Alex & Amanda, though they edited it to make it look like she was the one who was targeting Matt & Natalie, so Joshuah is upset with Allison and wants her gone. Allison is disappointed that Josh is such a sore winner, which he carries on by throwing insults at her like they’re in third grade. Ultimately, he does draw it back to the fact that she faked being a lesbian. He’s got a valid reason for being upset by that, which as I said was a stupid idea from the beginning… but he’s approaching it completely the wrong way. Like the prior HOH’s, he’s failing to realize he only has HOH for one week. The good news for him is that nobody else in the house really likes Allison either.

Allison lashes out against Matt and Ryan for not having stuck up against her. As if the guilt trip is going to make her any happier.

Big Brother plays a prank on Sharon, bringing in a picture of her and Jacob. Joshuah gets a princess tiara… except this isn’t a prank. He’s thrilled by his tiara.

Despite the fact that Sheila pretended to be a lesbian and also was the one who was reluctant to tell the truth, Joshuah is cool with her. He just hates Allison, who at this point seems to be in a state of not caring less.

Natalie’s trying to get Matt to fall for her, but he just keeps pushing her away and does not want to get emotionally attached.

Remember last week when two people went to the hospital with food-related problems? You know that means. It’s time for another food challenge. The girls dress in asparagus unitards for the challenge. Teams must load asparagus into crates that matches the amount of weight of their partners, within 10 pounds. Everybody’s working together. Matt & Natalie are unable to win the carbs and feast, but they win everything else, so hopefully it will be enough to keep the ambulance away for this week.

Allison decides to provoke Joshuah into another fight. They have a battle of wits, but neither is particularly well armed. Since she’s fighting back, he’s not as interested in fighting, though. He wants peace in the house. Huh? Then he calls a house meeting with the exclusion of Ryan & Allison. The rest of the house wants Allison gone. I’m surprised she’s even survived this long. Ryan’s not impressed with her either, but he’s stuck with her.

Allison goes upstairs to talk to Joshuah because she believes she can patch things up. She apologizes. He tells her to win or go home.

Everybody’s concerned about being the pawn.

Nominations
Adam & Sheila-Safe
James & Chelsia-Safe

Ryan & Allison and Matt & Natalie have been nominated for eviction. Matt’s pissed. Again.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 9 Episode 10, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on CBS.

Big Brother 9 Spoilers

The punches just keep coming for this season’s Big Brother cast. Adam Jasinski earlier in the season caused a stir for calling autistic people “retards.” Since that time, he has been fired from his job following a campaign by Autism United, a group that has used the situation to boost the visibility of its cause and demanded that CBS cancel Big Brother 8 (I think they mean Big Brother 9, although I wouldn’t have been entirely opposed to BB8 being cancelled considering the train wreck it was).

Now, Star Magazine has uncovered some more dirt on Adam. He was arrested and convicted after being charged with possession of more than 20 pounds of marijuana. He was first busted at his E 33rd St. apartment in Manhattan on February 10, 2004, when they found a package containing more than 10 pounds of pot. The next day, an additional 10 pound package was found.

Adam certainly isn’t alone amongst the Big Brother alumni. Multiple others have records. Probably the most famous case of a rap sheet is Janelle Pierzina from Big Brother 6 and 7. In 2000, she was arrested for DWI, failed to appear for her arraignment but pled guilty a year later, failed to complete the alcohol education course, failed to show up for court for that as well, but finally it all came to an end 4 years after the fact when she showed up and was reassigned to alcohol education and probation. During that time frame, she was also busted for petty theft from Macy’s, this time ignoring two bench warrants for her arrest before finally cooperating with the third one just before heading into the Big Brother house.

As much as they hoped to get revenge on James, neither Alex nor Matt were able to pull off a veto win in Big Brother 9 Episode 7 to save themselves. Sheila and Allison decided they should hate each other. I agree with both of them. Then we got some unexpected drama with two houseguests being hospitalized because of the food.

Matt makes a deal with Adam to try to keep himself in the house. Adam’s completely in support of operation condor. James couldn’t care less who goes as long as it’s not him.

Allison’s concerned that Matt & Natalie are very strong. She pitches her theory to the others. Her theory is that Alex & Amanda will be tired from being on the block, making them weaker. Yet Matt & Natalie wouldn’t be tired from also being on the block I guess. Her partner Ryan is more concerned about Alex & Amanda.

Sheila’s learned that in this game you have to keep some things to yourself, or so she says.

Chelsia’s confused by her team’s decision of nominating Matt & Natalie after promising them repeatedly they wouldn’t.

Tonight’s voting takes place live.

Adam & Sheila-Alex & Amanda
Joshuah & Sharon-Alex & Amanda
Ryan & Allison-Alex & Amanda

By a vote of 3-0, Alex & Amanda have been evicted from the Big Brother house. For the second week in a row, the outgoing power couple is gone. Let’s see if James’ dumb ass has secured it as a three for three. Alex still blames Amanda for getting them nominated, but he accepts some responsibility since he didn’t campaign to stay. Allison and Ryan both leave bitter goodbye messages, which we’ve learned from previous seasons is just plain stupid. But that’s how they’re both playing the game thus far, so it’s par for the course.

Tonight’s HOH competition is called words of love and centers around the love quotes on the walls in the house. Sharon gets the first question right and eliminates Allison. Sharon then gets the second question right and eliminates Sheila. And then she gets the third question right, winning the ladies’ round. Ryan is incorrect and is eliminated. Joshuah gets the second question right and takes out Matt. Joshuah is again right, winning the men’s round. Since he and his partner both won, Joshuah & Sharon are HOH.

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

Big Brother 9 Spoilers

Following James & Chelsia’s HOH win, they decided they wanted to get rid of Amanda and by extension her partner Alex in Big Brother 9 Episode 6. Despite a promise not to nominate him, Matt was put up as a pawn with Natalie. Sheila and Allison, meanwhile, had to tell everybody their stupid lie about being a lesbian couple was just that, a stupid lie.

Alex blames Amanda for his nomination, and he doesn’t hide it. He doesn’t plan to be negative to the house. Just to his partner.

Matt doesn’t hide his frustration with James & Chelsia, but James doesn’t feel bad about it. Yes, this is Big Brother. Lie. But don’t get caught in a lie this blatant for no reason at all. When talking to Matt and Alex, James makes no apologies for what he’s done, telling them it’s just a game. It will be just a game when whoever survives targets him, too. They have one goal in mind now: get revenge on James.

Sheila’s starting to distrust Allison, finally opening her eyes like the rest of the country.

Sheila confronts Allison and tells her she feels she’s been mad at her. Allison claims she just needs to spend more time with Ryan.

Sharon & Joshuah are selected randomly to participate in the veto competition. In addition to veto, the winning team will be able to receive information from the outside world. Teams must adjust miniature utility poles in order to restore power. Connecting the wires and poles is like a puzzle with one solution. Sharon & Joshuah win the power of veto, just beating Alex & Amanda. The house gets news from the outside world, from the presidential campaign to Britney Spears. They also get news about the Hudson River Virus, which gets them all worried, even though it’s just a plotline from Jericho Season 2.

Sheila continues to be worried that Allison was just nice to her for her vote. She confides in Natalie, who thinks she just needs to keep things in more. Then she goes angrily to Matt, who thinks she’s a mental case. She’s loud about it, too, so it’s not exactly a secret among the rest of the house. Word gets back to Allison, so she goes to talk to her, inviting the others along, though they don’t follow. Not that it’s hard to overhear. Sheila tells her to not talk to her for the rest of the game. Ryan comes to Allison’s defense, and so does Sheila’s partner Adam. Since they’re on the block Alex & Amanda are thrilled all this chaos is going on around them.

Allison’s outside running and all of a sudden decides she needs to go into the diary room. She thinks she’s having an allergic reaction. While she’s in there, Amanda, who’s on slop, starts to get lightheaded because she’s hypoglycemic, and she collapses on the ground. I said this when it was introduced, and I’ll say it again. Slop is a ridiculous and stupid twist that serves no purpose. PB&J may not be the healthiest option, but at least it’s a balanced meal (even if it, too, serves no point). This slop crap is just asking for trouble. The ambulance shows up to haul them away.

The rest of the house sits around pondering how their differences aren’t really that big a deal, how they hope the others return safely, and are impressed by James being there to help Amanda out. Amanda’s the first one to return. Then Allison comes back. Everybody’s happy to see both of them.

It’s time to get back to the game, though. Joshuah & Sharon decide not to use the veto.

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

Allison got what she wanted in Big Brother 9 Episode 5: she got rid of her partner Ryan’s girlfriend, which she presumably hopes will help open the door for her (if you ask me, I’d say just leave the door shut). Along with Jen, her partner Parker, whose strategy was apparently to stick out like a sore thumb, became the second pair to be evicted from the Big Brother house. In the competition for the next HOH, James and Chelsia emerged victorious.

Amanda’s crying because Parker’s gone, saying she didn’t want him to leave. Ironic considering she’s one of the people who nominated him.

James & Chelsia believe they’re in charge of the house. HOH only lasts for one week, folks.

James promises Matt he won’t be on the block.

Joshuah tells Sharon the “secret” that Sheila and Allison are lesbians.

They head up to the HOH room. Chelsia quickly becomes obnoxiously loud. James gets pictures of his family, which he doesn’t have any of since he’s riding his bike around the world.

After the unveiling, they tell Natalie the same thing they told Matt: she’s safe. They want to get rid of Alex & Amanda.

Amanda pulls Joshuah aside to make up after the fight they had. She then makes an offer of an alliance, since nobody would suspect it.

Natalie’s already discussing having 5-7 kids with Matt. He’s going to be running for the hills very soon. Matt doesn’t want to get distracted by flirting and wants to keep his eye on the prize.

Allison now wants to stop pretending she’s a lesbian. Sheila doesn’t want to flip, though.

The house is divided into two teams for the food challenge. Joshuah & Sharon, Ryan & Allison, and Natalie & Matt are on yellow team. Sheila & Adam, Chelsia & James, Alex & Amanda are on green team. They walk outside and are greeted by the smell of dead fish. Deckhands will hold the nets, while divers will dive for fish and fill the opposing team’s net. Yellow team has all their guys holding nets, while green team opts to have one guy diving. Ryan thinks women covered in fish guts and blood is sexy. They gang up on him, and he’s the first one out. James is out next, followed by Amanda. Matt’s next out, making it Joshuah against Adam. As far ahead as they are in sinking Adam, it’s clear it’s just a matter of time before he’s out. Yellow team wins the food challenge. Green team must eat slop for the week.

James sorta has romantic feelings for Chelsia. He doesn’t know if she likes him but eventually convinces her to snuggle with him.

Sheila and Allison tell Chelsia, one half of the HOH couple, that the lesbian story was just made up. She told James, since she tells him everything, so they have to tell him, too. Then Allison decides to tell Josh. Nobody believes they can trust them any more, and everybody’s pissed off. My initial reaction was that the lie was stupid, and while it worked out in their favor briefly, it just doesn’t make any sense in the long term.

To carry out operation condor, which is completed when Amanda & Alex are eliminated from the game, James needs a pawn. He tells Matt that now he’s thinking of putting him up.

Nominations
Adam & Sheila-Safe
Joshuah & Sharon-Safe
Ryan & Allison-Safe

Alex & Amanda and Matt & Natalie have been nominated. James and Chelsia make no bones about the fact that they’re targeting Amanda, in what is ultimately a very dumb nomination speech. In the process of letting Amanda know they hate her, though, they’ve also made an enemy out of Matt, who wants revenge for the nomination, which is never a guaranteed thing, pawn or not.

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

Last night on Big Brother 9 Episode 4, Parker, Jen, Ryan, and Allison basically decided they all hated each other (still), while Parker attacked James, Amanda and Alex grew further apart, and Parker wasn’t thrilled with Matt choosing not to use the veto. As far as people actually strengthening relationships, well, Parker and Amanda at least seem to be getting along.

The house is slowly but surely turning on Amanda, the gossip of the house. Those who don’t like her are fed up with it, and those close to her don’t like it either because it just paints targets on them. After hearing some gossip about James and her putting up Amanda, Chelsia goes into the backyard and explodes. Joshuah then does a remarkable impression of Evel Dick, telling Amanda the whole house hates her. Then Josh makes a comment about how she should get a noose, just like her father, who we learned last week hung himself. Ouch.

Allison’s still jealous of Jen. Sheila weighs in and tells Ryan that Jen’s been talking about him, but she refuses to answer until he pushes her on it. Sheila says Jen called him a racist. He “talks” to Jen about it. Talks meaning he tells her she’s going home but doesn’t really say anything else worth mentioning. Jen claims she never said he’s racist, but she did whether she remembers it or not. She wants to talk. He still doesn’t care, but she eventually gets out that she loves him.

Sheila and Adam tell Julie they’re getting along okay now.

Three or four people raise their hands saying they’re confident there are no other secret couples in the house. Everybody else is still suspicious.

Amanda says she’s forgiven the people for what they said earlier in the week, and she doesn’t regret sharing what she did about her father. Alex & Amanda believe they have to work together as a team and will be able to do so.

Each couple gets one vote, and if they can’t agree, they risk being evicted themselves. By a vote of 3-1, Jen & Parker have been evicted from the Big Brother house.

It’s time for the HOH competition. It’s majority rules, and each answer comes with a reward or consequence.

Hot food or hot water? For 72 hours, the majority agrees to go without hot water.
Should the women wear bathing suits or soulmates’ favorite clothes? Everybody wants the women to wear bathing suits for the next 24 hours.
Eating utensils or drinking cups? They’ll lose drinking cups for a week.
Margarita party or outdoor grill? Everybody wants a margarita party.
The men serve breakfast in bed or the women cook dinner? The women will be cooking dinner.
No workout equipment or no washing machine? They won’t have a washing machine for the next two weeks.

Getting all their questions right, James & Chelsia win HOH.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 9 Episode 6, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.