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After Russell’s endurance HOH competition win in Big Brother 11 Episode 11, he nominated the two people he heard talking badly about him, Ronnie and Lydia.

Russell’s target here is Ronnie. He wants to see whether people will actually support him. I wouldn’t bet on it, but he should already have almost enough votes lined up.

Ronnie immediately goes to talk to Russell. It’s an emotional conversation complete with more lies. Russell doesn’t believe the fake crying.

Chima thinks Lydia should go home, but she will do what Russell wants. He wants Ronnie gone.

Jessie and Natalie are still pushing for Ronnie to stay. As for Chima, she still wants Lydia to go, no matter whether she agreed to do as he wants or not. As Russell sees it, Jessie and Natalie are scared, and they’re at the bottom of the pecking order. Well, that was fast. Thanks for the update. So who’s at the top of this pecking order?

Natalie goes to Michele to see if she can get the vote. She doesn’t trust Ronnie. As the split vote, it’s time for her to make a decision. No more under the radar.

Russell selects Michele to play for veto.
Ronnie picks Jessie.
Lydia picks Kevin.

They get dressed up in togas and review various random objects, such as a big guy that has Jessie afraid he may not be the biggest guy in the house and a bunch of rats. The players will answer questions based on these objects, and then they may choose to stay or fold. If they are closest, they will earn a point. If they are furthest, they will be eliminated. Typically in this competition, people just don’t try for a while and watch others eliminate themselves.

How many jewels are on the emperor’s chariot?
Michele, Lydia, Russell, Ronnie, and Kevin fold. Jessie stays and wins the point. Kevin was 1 away from the right answer of 514.

How many arrows are in the shield?
Michele, Lydia, and Ronnie fold. The total is 213 arrows. With a guess of 215, Russell gains a point. With 490 arrows, Kevin has been eliminated.

How many grapes are on the platter?
Michele and Ronnie fold. There are 907 grapes. Russell is closest with a sad guess of 320. With her guess of 241, Lydia has been eliminated.

How many marks are on the gladiator’s belt?
Ronnie, Russell, and Jessie fold, despite Russell being at 2 points. Michele does not fold, so she gets a point with her answer of 280 marks, compared with the actual answer of 177. Had Jessie not folded, he would have scored with 101.

How many rats are in the Roman underworld?
Russell, Ronnie, and Jessie all fold again. Michele gets a point by guessing 51 points. The actual answer is 149 rats, which Ronnie would have been closest to with 125 rats if he had stayed in. As amusing as Russell thinks he is, that number does not include Ronnie.

How many feathers are in the helmet?
Russell and Ronnie fold again. Jessie, however, finally stays. Nonetheless, Michele is the closest to the actual answer of 92 feathers with her answer of 68.

Michele wins the power of veto. The best thing about this competition being over? These stupid names ending in -us to symbolize the Roman theme can now no longer be used ever again.

Ronnie’s not above begging. What can he do to get Michele to use the veto on him? She’s not really giving him the time of day. Maybe later.

Instead, Michele would rather talk to Russell in his HOH room. Russell complains about how he’s like her. He doesn’t have anyone who’s a teammate, unlike Jeff and Jordan, Kevin and Lydia, and Natalie and Jessie. So if he’s worried about the teams, why is he targeting Ronnie? Natalie would like to interrupt them, but Jessie figures they’re going to talk regardless, so they may as well let them talk. Russell says that Jessie is threatened by him because he’s smarter than Jessie is. Like that joke doesn’t write itself.

Natalie tells Ronnie that Michele won’t be voting for him. So if she’s not going to vote for him, what prayer does he have of being saved by veto? Sweet talk over, Ronnie tries a threat. He’s with Chima, Jessie, and Natalie, so she will be evicted if she helps get rid of him.

Chima’s teasing Russell about hanging out with Michele. Because of this, Russell says that Chima is jealous. Wait, you got that from that? Now that that’s done, he would like to put Chima on the block. Dude, you really can’t be this emotional here. Emotional players shoot themselves in the foot, sometimes both feet and maybe their hands.

Not having learned from earlier, Ronnie continues to say stuff about Russell behind his back. Russell overhears again, and this time he walks in the room, then walks right back out.

Michele decides not to use the power of veto. Nobody is surprised. Michele says she’s standing on one side with her new team. She’ll need to actually vote with them to be able to join their team as a sixth and final member, but regardless things don’t look so good for Ronnie.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 11 Episode 13, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.

Following Casey’s eviction, we were left at the start of an endurance competition for HOH in Big Brother 11 Episode 10.

Jeff is happy to see the cliques gone because it means he can target the people in his clique (or that they can target him, which they would have done if they had the chance). Natalie is not happy. She liked having the added security. Chima is happy to get rid of those dorks.

So who’s the rat who voted out Jordan? Russell will be keeping that vote to himself. If it were intentional to stir up the house into a frenzy, I’d support it, but doing it to keep your word to a guy who’s not a factor doesn’t make much sense. Jessie realizes that Russell is hopefully still on his side, but that he’s a loose cannon who’s hot headed.

Kevin is the first to fall at 21 minutes. Lydia falls at 25 minutes. Kevin’s graduation gift is $5,000, which he hopes nobody targets him over. Lydia’s gift is a 42″ flat screen TV, an improvement over the 12″ TV she stole from her ex. Jessie’s not happy that they dropped so quickly and didn’t try. Natalie’s losing her lunch, but she’s not the next one out. Ronnie is at 46 minutes. Natalie is not far behind at 49 minutes. Ronnie gets nothing. Natalie gets also nothing. Jordan falls at 1 hour 37 minutes, unable to feel her legs. She gets the last prize, which also comes with a consequence. She’s a have for a week, and at the end of the competition, she must choose three houseguests to be have notes for the week. Fairest solution that also works strategically: the first three to fall. After being battered for a while, Chima falls at 2 hours 22 minutes. Jessie’s worried. He’s got Russell up there, but he doesn’t trust him. At 2.5 hours with Michele, Jeff, and Russell still left, Jessie tells Russell to make a deal with Jeff: if he drops, Ronnie will go up. Jeff’s willing to talk, if Michele falls. Jessie just wants Russell to know that he’s on his side. Michele falls at 2 hours and 41 minutes, but not before her pants fall off first.

Down to 2 and over 3 hours now. Jordan wants them to make a deal. Back to Ronnie. 46 hours ago, Russell overhead Ronnie talking badly about him to Lydia and Kevin (or rather, she talked badly and he agreed). Everybody else goes inside so they can talk. Russell swears on his dad that, not only is Jeff safe, but his partner Jordan is safe, too, a dangerous proposition. Normally, those words are the kiss of death, but Jeff accepts the deal. At 3 hours and 38 minutes, Jeff drops. Russell wins HOH.

With Russell as HOH, it’s time for the whole house to start feeling vulnerable.

Now that the competition is over, Jordan has to make a decision on who to be a have not. She draws from a hat: Natalie (who has a slop pass), Kevin, and Jessie. Although it was completely random, Jessie throws a fit.

Jessie realizes that Russell doesn’t control everybody’s votes, so Ronnie won’t necessarily go home if he’s put up. Anyway, Jessie and Natalie have decided they’re upset with Kevin and Lydia because they dropped first and got prizes.

Ronnie is begging America for the power. He promises to use it for good (aka Jessie and Natalie). Good luck with that pitch, dude.

Russell would like to form an alliance with Jeff, in hopes of giving them a big advantage in physical competitions.

This week, the have nots get squash and squid. This gets dumber every week.

Lydia plans to do whatever it takes to avoid getting nominated. The sweet talking isn’t working, but trying to sell out Jessie and Natalie may give him food for thought.

Chima, Jessie, and Natalie are next. Now that he tells them what he just heard, they’re all after Lydia worse than they were before.

Ronnie realizes he’s in jeopardy. He hopes he’s not part of the deal. He’d like to see Lydia and Kevin, the floaters, get nominated. Russell tells him he’s safe.

Nominations
Jeff is safe.
Jessie is safe.
Jordan is safe.
Chima is safe.
Michele is safe.
Natalie is safe.
Kevin is safe.

Lydia and Ronnie have been nominated for eviction. Not pulling any punches, he nominated Ronnie for what he overheard and for being a snake. He has nothing to say about why he nominated Lydia.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 11 Episode 12, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on CBS.

BB11 Spoilers

After Michele dumb lucked her way into a veto win in Big Brother 11 Episode 9, Jessie followed through on his plan to backdoor Casey, rather than his ally Ronnie like the rest of the house expected.

They promised us a big change at the end of the last episode. For once, it’s not a lame twist. Rather, it’s the reversal of a lame twist. With the popular clique nearly gone and the other cliques largely broken up already, school is out, as this year’s stupid twist comes to an end. Along with this good news comes stupid news. Julie tells us the new power to be unleashed on the house lies in America’s hands.

Casey looked around. He didn’t see any outrage. Didn’t they have a plan? Jeff’s frustrated, realizing he backed the wrong horse. Jordan calls Ronnie Jessie’s bitch. So what’s her role?

Lydia crawls into Jessie’s bed in the middle of the night. This is why there’s a lock on the HOH door, dude. She thinks maybe he’s dreaming about baby unicorns, riding his motorcycle, or possibly her. Yeah, I’d more likely go with the unicorns.

Jordan isn’t campaigning, hoping for Casey to sink himself. He’s definitely got a mouth on him. The potential problem is if he can swing the vote his way and get her kicked out. Nobody views Jordan as a challenge threat, whereas Casey would be out for revenge. Granted, a vengeful houseguest is a dangerous houseguest.

Jeff and Jordan have a budding romance going on, minus the pesky romance part.

Jessie considers his relationships with Lydia and Natalie to be merely platonic. Don’t tell them that. He realizes, though, that it’s very likely that they are playing him. He refuses to choose between the two.

In his final speech to secure votes, Casey flings insults at Ronnie and Jessie, then he calls the rest of the house a bunch of sheep.

Votes
Jeff: Casey
Ronnie: Casey
Natalie: Casey
Chima: Casey
Russell: Jordan
Michele: Casey
Lydia: Casey
Kevin: Casey

Staying true to his word to the guy who got evicted, Russell voted against Jordan, which will serve no purpose but to cause suspicion. By a vote of 7-1, Casey has been evicted from the Big Brother house. While leaving the house, Casey continues to whine. Like Laura, he should have kept his mouth shut from time to time. He apparently still doesn’t realize that Jessie eliminating Ronnie was a really stupid idea.

Julie breaks the news to the houseguests. The cliques are dead. As if they weren’t dead to begin with. With that ending comes a new beginning. One person will be granted a mystery power. Is this going to be like the mystery power Mike Boogie got that was so poorly planned he never got to use it? This mystery power can be used in the next two weeks, and it could completely change the course of the game. Dun dun dun. It will be America’s Choice who gets this power. Great, a popularity contest. This won’t end well.

Yeah, same damn power. Coup d’etat. That person can overthrow the HOH’s nominations. This is lame. And it’s been done before. Typical Big Brother. Because it’s America’s vote, I’m assuming it will go to the side of the house that’s played so poorly that their allies keep dropping like flies to give them some chance at catching up.

The HOH competition is an endurance competition. The last person hanging will be the new Head of Household. By the way, the first five people to be eliminated will be able to choose a gift from the table. Spinning them in circles isn’t enough, so they’ll add some rain to it. This could go on for a while, but if you want to know who wins HOH before Sunday’s show, check out the Big Brother 11 Spoilers.

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