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Big Brother 9 Episode 12

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

The Celebrity Apprentice Episode 10

Carol Alt reluctantly wore many hats in The Celebrity Apprentice Episode 9, leading her team to victory. On the other side, Tito Ortiz had difficulty wearing any hats, instead having his hat stolen by Stephen Baldwin, and with that in mind, Tito was sent packing.

Piers Morgan is instigating again, telling Trace Adkins he knifed Tito in the back.

This will be an art task. Omarosa is the project manager for Empresario, trying to prove something since she was fired on this task last time. Piers steps up for Hydra, as he wants to wipe the floor with Omarosa.

Trace doesn’t “get” art. Stephen and Omarosa are afraid of Piers going for the most expensive artist and know he has the contacts to sell whatever he wants.

Hydra finds out that there’s a new media artist whose paintings they can sell multiple times per painting. They don’t believe the other team will figure that out, and they’re right.

The other team opts for cheap paintings with higher numbers that they expect to be able to boost the price on.

As expected, Piers has contacts already lined up. He wants to humiliate Omarosa. Over on the other side, Baldwin’s the most likely one to have the connections, though Omarosa pulls him off that task and instead makes him research online. Then she says she wants him to do research and make calls at the same time, an apparent effort to have a fall guy.

Empresario gets the front room, while Hydra gets the room behind them, so guests must pass through Empresario to get to Hydra.

Piers accuses Stephen of eavesdropping and cheating. He says he doesn’t mind it. He just wants him to admit it.

Trace and Stephen admit they don’t know anything about art. They’re not so sure Omarosa knows anything either.

One of Baldwin’s contacts shows up, Lennox Lewis sees him left alone, and Carol manages to sell art to him. Then Piers’ connections start to show up, and they of course buy from him.

With 15 minutes left, Stephen is chatting about places to eat.

Hydra is virtually sold out, and Piers wants to see Omarosa head to the Brooklyn Bridge and drown herself.

When they get to the boardroom, it’s made even more clear that it’s a blowout. I wasn’t quite expecting the end result to be this bad, though. It’s $164,000 to $7,000. Holy hell.

Piers says it’s personal and that Omarosa doesn’t belong there. He asks that, since it’s such a big blowout, he wants two people fired and Empresario killed off. He also doesn’t like the use of the word loss. He prefers catastrophe of biblical proportions. When he leaves the room, he asks Trump to make it nasty.

Omarosa says that Stephen’s never brought in money on any task. She doesn’t want Trump to fire two people, though. At least she realizes that she didn’t have the ammunition to back up the conflict she had with Piers. She hasn’t learned, though. Now she says she thinks he’s in the closet. Trump makes the offer for Piers to come back to the boardroom and defend himself.

When he walks in the room, Piers kisses Trace on the cheek and calls him a beautiful cowboy. Then he heads back. Everybody else thinks it’s hilarious, including Omarosa, though Trace isn’t pleased.

Stephen takes the moral highground as usual, going on about honesty and religion and whatnot.

Trump asks Trace if Stephen should be fired over Omarosa. His ultimate answer is that he’s disappointed in himself.

The Trumps suggest Omarosa looks defeated, and she is. Finally, Omarosa is fired. As much as I had hoped for Omarosa to be fired pretty much every episode, I couldn’t have asked for a more satisfying demise for her. A fitting end to a battle with Piers that she shouldn’t have carried so far in the first place.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Celebrity Apprentice Episode 11, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on NBC.

Survivor: Micronesia Episode 5

The favorites continued to struggle for power within their own tribe in Survivor: Micronesia Episode 4, but in the end, it didn’t end up mattering because they won immunity, sending the fans back to tribal council. Rather than booting off the weakest link, the fans turned on Mikey because the weaker members of the group plus Joel considered him a threat. Over on exile island, Ozzy managed to find the hidden idol, lamely replacing it with a fake.

Jason’s disappointed that his tribe didn’t make the right decision, keeping Chet in the game. Chet’s plan is to get rid of Jason next. At what point does their strategy resemble actual… strategy? At this point it’s all about living to ~~fight~~ lose another day.

The favorites are getting ready to kill a chicken. The guys find this all quite amusing, while the girls scream.

Ozzy hides his idol, although I really don’t know why he hides it in a random place rather than keeping it within his possessions (people will snoop in that case, but they probably won’t take it). He also runs the risk of some twist screwing him over, or of Jeff Probst merely waking them up at 5am one morning and telling them they have 5 minutes to pack. He doesn’t want to show anybody the idol, but he tells James, Parvati, and Amanda, who should know from experience better than to let the idol go to your head.

Jeff says the words you probably don’t want to her pre-merger: “Drop your buffs.” Ozzy and Natalie have been randomly selected as the captains. Here’s the bad news. I actually have to learn the names of the tribes. At least I learned there’s somebody named Natalie in this game, though.

The captains get to choose the first person from the opposite tribe, and the tribes keep going back and forth, with each person who was previously picked getting to make the next choice (favorites choose fans and vice versa).

Malakal: Ozzy, Amanda, Cirie, Ami, Joel (aka Troy), Erik, Tracy, and Chet

Airai: Jonathan, James, Parvati (aka Poverty), Eliza, Alexis, Natalie, Jason, and Kathy

Now it’s time for a challenge, which is for a feast. Nobody will be heading to exile. It’s a race through a maze. Teams will rotate as people trying to chase and those being chased. Joel and Erik score as chasers for Malakal. Eliza and Parvati score for Airai (Parvati busts up her lip). Ami and Amanda score for Malakal (Ami injures her leg). Jonathan and Alexis score for Airai (Jonathan injures his knee), so the score is tied at two. It’s sudden death. Parvati and Eliza are the first couple to avoid being captured, as they outrun Joel and Chet (Chet hits his head… Joel says he doesn’t care), winning reward for Airai.

Joel, who made the stupid decision of getting rid of Mikey, is still stuck with Chet. Ozzy’s not happy about it either. Chet tells us about how chickens peck the weakest one until they’re killed.

Eliza’s not happy when she arrives since the fans haven’t done a very good job with their home. James is thinking along those same lines.

Following his challenge injury, Jonathan is limping around. A stick went into his leg, making a puncture wound. The medics come in and stitch him up, but they warn that he may become infected.

Ozzy wants to drop Chet first. Joel prefers to get rid of Cirie first. Both know that somebody needs to flip.

Favorites are taking control over at Airai, making quick work of improving the camp.

Amanda grabs a 4 foot shark that’s stuck in the net, giving Malakal a good meal that should put them on equal footing with the other tribe.

The immunity challenge is a combination rock throwing/puzzle challenge. Tribes will first throw rocks to break tiles and free puzzle pieces. Ozzy takes a lead for Malakal, and Tracy makes it two. Jonathan gets one for Airai. Erik takes out the fourth for Malakal, and they’re ready to work on the puzzle. Airai’s getting screwed by an apparently poorly designed challenge. They keep hitting the tiles, but they’re not breaking (Probst tells us that James, the biggest Survivor ever, isn’t throwing hard enough). They do finally get all their puzzle pieces, though, and despite the slow start, Airai is the first to solve the puzzle and wins immunity.

Joel and Erik don’t want to keep Chet around, whether they give up the numbers or not, simply because he’s going to make them keep losing. Joel’s in line with the Chet then Cirie then Tracy plan.

The concept of getting rid of the weak is a problem for Cirie because she knows she’s useless to the tribe as well. She plots with Tracy and Chet to get rid of Joel, then she pitches the idea to Ozzy and Amanda. Joel is dangerous in the longer term, but it’s way too early for playing with that thinking.

Votes
Joel
Chet
Chet
Joel
Joel
Joel
Joel

Wow. I expected this type of stupidity from the fans, but I’m surprised the favorites fell for it. Granted, by favorites, we are talking about the likes of Ozzy, who had 0 strategy last time.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Micronesia Episode 6, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.

American Idol 7 Episode 19

Results will be posted live as they become available.

Kady Malloy is the first one sent home. Not surprised, even if I do think she had untapped potential.

Luke Menard is going home. As expected.

Asia’h Epperson is the final girl eliminated.

Danny Noriega is the final person eliminated tonight. I’m surprised. Pleasantly surprised. I thought the Idol haters would have more luck trying to ruin the show.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of American Idol 7 episode 20, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on Fox.

American Idol 7 Episode 18

The top 8 guys sang on American Idol 7 Episode 17, and now it’s time for the girls to bring us back to the 80s.

Asia’h Epperson was a movie extra who crashed while skating (not in the script). She sings I Wanna Dance with Somebody, a big risk.

Randy-Showed and proved she deserves to be here.
Paula-Nailed it.
Simon-Second rate Whitney Houston but good enough to make the top 12.

Kady Malloy sang Beautiful by Christina Aguilera (which she says she ruined) at a 9th grade talent competition, where she then proceed to trip and make the whole speaker system collapse. She sings Who Wants to Live Forever.

Randy-Very interesting song choice. Pretty good job. Hit big notes pretty well.
Paula-Her best performance so far.
Simon-Better than last week. Still having issues with massive lack of personality. May be in trouble.

Amanda Overmyer managed to burn down a pool once. She sings I Hate Myself for Loving You.

Randy-That’s the Amanda we loved when we first saw her.
Paula-Found your niche.
Simon-Fantastic. Nailed it. Perfect song choice.

Carly Smithson sings I Drove All Night by Cyndi Lauper (the Celine Dion version).

Randy-Keep smashing it every week.
Paula-Totally into your niche.
Simon-Wrong song.

Kristy Lee Cook used to pretend she was a dog at age 7, going as far as having a dog bowl and barking at people on her hands and knees. She sings Faithfully by Journey.

Randy-Could be a big single if there was more country to it.
Paula-Agrees it could be a country music hit.
Simon-Good but forgettable.

Ramiele Malubay once had her picture laughed at by a boy she had a crush on (and his mom). She sings Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now), another big risk since Mariah Carey covered the song.

Randy-Find the confidence again.
Paula-A lot of… not colors… texture. After much rambling, Paula reaches a point: Ramiele deserves to be in the top 12.
Simon-Very old fashioned. No big money note. Predictable.

Brooke White jumped on her dad’s back at age 12 or 13… only to find out it wasn’t her dad. She sings Love Is a Battlefield by Pat Benatar, a fairly subdued version.

Randy-Liked that it was just the guitar because it allowed him to focus on her voice.
Paula-Very wise choice but would have preferred the band to be more incorporated.
Simon-Worked because the band wasn’t with her. Original take that because of that suited her.

Syesha Mercado gave a boy she had a crush on in second grade a note and a piece of bubble gum. He told the teacher on her but ate the gum anyway. She sings Saving All My Love for You, another Whitney song.

Randy-Good.
Paula-Sophisticated. Lovely.
Simon-Bit predictable but good.

Unlike the guys, I don’t see a clear boot pick, though I do think Kady, Carly, and Amanda have been on the bubble the past couple weeks as far as finding a following.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of American Idol 7 episode 19, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on Fox.

Big Brother 9 Episode 11

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

Big Brother 9 Episode 10

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

American Idol 7 Episode 17

Two boys went home in American Idol 7 Episode 16. Jason Yeager, who never really had much of a following, left the show along with wannabe rocker Robbie Carrico, leaving us with the top 8 guys, and we’re into the next decade, the 80’s.

Luke Menard’s most embarrassing moment was being dressed up as a ballerina by his older sister. He sings Wake Me up before You Go Go.

Randy-Kinda got it together in the end. Little bit corny.
Paula-Surprising song choice. But she liked it. Apparently.
Simon-Weak. A bit girly. No chance he’ll win.
Luke’s number is 1-866-IDOLS-01

David Archuleta’s most embarrassing moment was singing a song that he couldn’t finish, so his mom finished for him. He plays the piano while singing Another Day in Paradise.

Randy-It’s like watching one of your concerts. Interesting song choice. Nice.
Paula-Not perfect but still perfect.
Simon-Not as good as last week. A little bit gloomy. Needs to lighten up a little bit. Probably going to be in the final two regardless.
David’s number is 1-866-IDOLS-02

Danny Noriega tells us a story about how he fell when he was tripped in front of one of his crushes. He sings Tainted Love. Unfortunately, his American Idol is Sanjaya.

Randy-Loved the arrangement and ending. (I liked when it was over, too.)
Paula-Paula just goes on and on. I again don’t know what she’s talking about.
Simon-Horrible. Useless. Hated arrangement, performance, vocal, and everything else about it.
Danny’s number is 1-866-IDOLS-03

David Hernandez did a photo shoot with a visible booger the whole time. A sign of exceptional camera work. He sings It’s All Coming Back to Me Now, an interesting song choice for a male artist.

Randy-Nice song choice. Some little pitch problems.
Paula-Getting into his groove. Some of the best vocals in the group.
Simon-Not as good as last week but enough to secure a place in the top 12.
David’s number is 1-866-IDOLS-04

Michael Johns was dressed as a kangaroo mascot when he got beat up by 4 guys in front of 20,000 people. He sings Don’t You Forget about Me.

Randy-Very nicely done. Good song choice.
Paula-Glad he’s really defining who he is. Perfect song.
Simon-Liked it. Didn’t love it. Huge talent but hasn’t quite connected with the right song. A little of a wannabe rock singer.
Michael’s number is 1-866-IDOLS-05

David Cook has another singing related story to tell, as like the other David, he forgot the lyrics one time while on stage. He sings Hello with an electric guitar.

Randy-Brilliant. Great arrangement.
Paula-Fabulous.
Simon-Very brave. Loved it.
David’s number is 1-866-IDOLS-06

Jason Castro accidentally ripped his hair out on a date once. He sings Hallelujah.

Randy-Pretty good considering the difficulty.
Paula-Effortless. Beautiful vulnerability.
Simon-Brilliant. One of the best performances of the night. Jason keeps getting better.
Jason’s number is 1-866-IDOLS-07

Chikezie once figured out why there were no urinals in the bathroom he always used in high school: it said Women’s on the door. He sings (S)he Fills Me up.

Randy-Really good.
Paula-Really good vocals.
Simon-Whitney song, right? No, didn’t work at all. Okay in bits. Much more cabaret than last week.

I see three potential boot picks: Luke Menard, Chikezie, and Danny Noriega (who will probably be saved by VFTW).

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of American Idol 7 episode 18, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on Fox.