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With his veto win, Memphis ensured the Renegades would make the final three (while Dan worked on getting a couple more votes) in Big Brother 10 Episode 26. The option between Jerry and Keesha was an obvious one, as keeping Jerry in the house should make for an easy one-two HOH competition for the boys.

Jerry believes that Memphis is his ally. Apparently.

Dan plays up what happened, and he pretends he’s pissed off at Memphis, which Jerry seems to be buying, despite the fact that it gets so over the top it’s silly after a while.

Jerry is the first one to fall off his plane, pretty quickly. The plan after that is for Memphis to fall next, as Dan continues to be overdramatic about how Memphis stabbed Keesha in the back. Whatever the plan may have been, Dan’s starting to struggle a bit, with Memphis refusing to drop. Eventually, though, Memphis does fall, and he says it was just an illusion to make it not look like he threw the competition. Dan wins the first part of the final HOH competition.

Dan walks out with some boxing gloves for part two of the final HOH competition. Jerry just hopes he doesn’t die. In each round, the fighters must leave standing the HOH and final nominees from each week. Memphis is doing a pretty good job of knocking down the cutouts like dominoes, while Jerry goes out for a Sunday stroll. Memphis is concerned with his time, but he’s got nothing to worry about. With a time of 8:35, Memphis wins part two of HOH. Jerry’s time? 51:22. I said wow.

Michelle thinks it will be interesting to tell whoever walks in that she got taken on a trip to a beach. Except Keesha already knows it. April says that Keesha’s elimination is karma. And April wants Jerry to win. Are you kidding me?

The final part of the final HOH competition is the usual statements from the jury house.

Libra: If I could go back in time in this game, I would change:
Alliance or behavior
Alliance
Dan is correct and gets a point

April: Coasted under the radar:
Jerry or Memphis
Memphis
Memphis is correct and gets a point

Michelle: Best strategic move in the house:
Winning HOH and getting revenge for Jessie, or being backdoored
When she was backdoored
Both are correct and get a point

Ollie: Fatal error in the house:
Trusting Dan or letting heart get into the game
Letting heart get into the game
Both are incorrect

Renny: Moment in the house that was most irritating:
Jerry brushing dentures in the sink or Jessie being a punk and disrespecting her
When Jerry brushed his dentures in the sink
Dan is correct and gets a point

Keesha: Most uncomfortable moment in the house:
30th birthday or the night before her eviction
Night before her eviction
Dan is correct and gets a point.

Dan wins HOH.

Whichever way it goes, it looks like this game is Dan’s to lose. In spite of April’s insanity, his best bet is to pick Jerry, but I don’t think it would hurt him any if he were to save face and stick with his ally. Dan stays true to the Renegades and votes to evict Jerry from the Big Brother house. Jerry expects to be the deciding vote and hints that he’ll be voting for Memphis.

America will get the chance to vote for their favorite jury member, who will win $25,000. I suspect this is between Renny and Keesha.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 10 episode 29, where we will find out who the Big Brother 10 winner is, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on CBS.

Dan decided to nominate his ally Memphis (again) in Big Brother 10 episode 25, except this time he did it with Memphis’ blessing, allowing them to shake off suspicion of their alliance together. Dan followed his HOH win with a luxury competition win (not so much winning as not sucking as bad as everybody else), and he decided to take Michelle with him to a private beach in hopes of getting her to whine less.

Tonight’s episode of Big Brother airs one hour earlier and is a special live eviction episode. As if anybody needed to be any more confused about the BB schedule.

They keep talking about how big a risk it is for Memphis to be nominated. I’m not getting the risk part. The only risk is if Dan wins veto and is forced to pull Memphis off the block (or leave him on there). Whover wins veto decides who goes home unless it’s the HOH. The nominations are moot.

It’s all going according to plan. Keesha may now be trusting Dan, while Jerry believes he’s still got Memphis. They believe that they can influence Keesha or Jerry who to vote out if they should win veto. They know, however, that it’s in their best interest for Memphis to win veto.

For the first time, a remaining houseguest will be able to meet up with a jury member. Dan has picked Michelle, who believes he’s a psycho (yeah, she believes that about him… go figure). He takes a private helicopter ride to a remote island. She’s not sure what to think, but he does let her know that Renny, Memphis, and Keesha also knew that he planned to backdoor her. She believes the jury’s already pretty well set on their votes, but she also says picking her was the best decision he’s made.

The final power of veto of the season is up for grabs. Dan’s back to his old ways. He doesn’t want to win veto, not just to save Memphis but also to make sure Memphis gets blood on his hands by being forced to vote someone out. They must match each houseguest with two things that describe them. Despite not really trying, Dan’s doing really well. By the time he reaches the top of the pyramid, he notices that Memphis is the only person he can see, and Memphis is a couple steps behind. Keesha’s doing a decent job, while Jerry has no prayer. In a close finish, Memphis wins veto one step ahead of Keesha.

Now they have a choice. Do they want to keep their word to Keesha, or do they want to keep Jerry, who can’t possibly win either of the final three competitions (typically, one endurance and one very physical)? Keesha tells them she can tell they (aka Memphis) are going to vote her out. She doesn’t get an answer one way or the other, but she threatens to do whatever it takes to get the jury to hate whoever sends her out of the house. She wants to fight, but neither of them is particularly interested in fighting in return. Dan follows her into another room and says it’s all Memphis’ idea.

Memphis has removed himself from the block, and Keesha goes up in his place by default. Keesha has nothing to say to Memphis but thanks Dan for his support. An unsurprised Keesha has been evicted from the Big Brother house. As she’s walking out of the house, Dan tells her he took Michelle on the trip. Keesha’s theory is that Memphis got rid of her because Dan was going to take her to the final two instead of him.

The first part of the final HOH competition is about to begin. This will be an endurance competition as usual. It’s pretty safe to say Jerry will be a non-factor, and I suspect it favors Dan. The interesting thing to see will be whether Dan and Memphis are willing to deal once Jerry’s out. They’re all standing on planes. If they don’t want their plane to roll, they’ll need to keep their balance.

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Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 10 episode 27, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.

As she feared, the Renegades targeted Renny and voted to evict her in Big Brother 10 Episode 24. Dan followed that up with an HOH win, securing his spot in the final three.

Keesha’s concerned about Dan and Memphis’ alliance. Jerry’s concerned that he’s been an outsider for going on two months now.

Everybody’s confused by the non-English speaking sumo wrestler. Dan eventually notices an envelope under his butt. Not sure why he’s looking there, but he manages to grab the envelope without his hand getting crushed. This starts the luxury competition, which is for a trip out of the house.

Keesha plans to give the guys a run for their money. I’d say their best move is to drop her instead of Jerry. Regardless of the overly bitter chicks on the jury, Jerry’s still more disliked in that house, in addition to being less of a challenge threat.

The next visit for the houseguests is from a gorilla. They make Jessie dress up like a gorilla. How appropriate. He runs into the bedrooms to wake everybody up and gets them to follow him outside, where they see a contortionist and a bunch of random statues. They have three hours to make their guesses for the luxury competition. Most of the clues are a big waste of time and are completely unrelated. The useless clues will be covered up one by one.

Jerry is the first to make a guess. He guesses “Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil,” which isn’t even in the right order (but at least beats Janelle’s “sow what you reap” ridiculousness). Keesha guesses “Where sleeping dogs lie.” Once the first clue is covered up, Jerry realizes his first guess was wrong. So then his second guess is “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.” Keesha also rushes to a second guess and guesses “Blew it,” and she fully believes she blew that guess. Jerry follows her to waste his last guess with “A dog is a man’s best friend.” Keesha’s still got one last guess left, and she’s going to use it, “Don’t count your chickens before your eggs are hatched.”

Dan and Memphis have a different strategy. Actually trying to figure it out before a random guess. They still have all three of their guesses left. Dan guesses “Bury the hatchet,” the most sensible thing yet. Memphis then guesses “Fruitless exit.” He should have just guessed hours ago.

After he makes his trademark stupid noise, the houseguests finally realize that Jessie was the one dressed up like a fool. Keesha figures that’s why he didn’t want anything to do with her.

Unsurprisingly, the winner of the luxury competition is Dan. His guess based on a berry and a hatching egg with the word “it” on it was correct. He wins a helicopter ride to a beach for a day. He can choose one other person, either a current housemate or a current jury member. He decides to take Michelle since she was whining (and whining some more) about losing that trip to Hawaii. He doesn’t tell the rest of the house he’s taking her, though. It’s not like they won’t find out later, but at least they won’t have time to discuss it at this point.

Memphis, who was upset last time he got put up on the block, this time is completely okay with it. Ultimately, it’s the veto winner who gets to decide who goes home this week, so unlike last time when it was both stupid and pointless to put Memphis on the block, this time it’s a sensible plan.

Nominations
Keesha is safe.

Memphis and Jerry have been nominated for eviction. Jerry views Memphis’ nomination as Dan turning on his ally and hopes to use this to his advantage. Keesha believes that it means she’s closer to Dan than Memphis is.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 10 episode 26, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on CBS.

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