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There was some constant and tough talk about how big a problem Vanessa is in Big Brother 17 Episode 25, but it didn’t amount to anything, as Becky and John remained on the block.

John and Steve are the odd men out. They decide to join forces with Austin and the twins, who they can use as shields since surely somebody will be smart enough to target them eventually.

Both nominees assure everybody that they have one target, Vanessa.

As we head to the jury house, we find more fear of Vanessa. I’m not sure whether people are going to respect her or be bitter because she outplayed them. Of course, it’s important to note that one of them will be returning to the house.

Votes
Steve: Becky
Vanessa: Becky
Meg: Becky
Austin: Becky
Julia: Becky
James: Becky

By a vote of 6-0, Becky has been evicted from the Big Brother house. Her HOH last week ended with every houseguest ignoring her wishes, and then she was the only person to vote against the house by voting to keep Meg rather than Jackie. It made it apparent she was on her way out. Julie questions whether Becky’s over the top targeting of Vanessa caused her demise. Despite all that, she might be willing to work with Vanessa if she comes back, as her target is the person who got rid of her, Liz.

The HOH competition that will conclude next time is all about waiting and waiting and waiting until they see the word go on a screen, then racing across the yard. Meg is the first one eliminated.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 17 Episode 27, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

Liz nominated Becky and John after winning HOH in Big Brother 17 Episode 24, but her real target is, well, I guess we’ll find out.

Right after the nomination, Vanessa goes to talk to John again. His response: she is his sworn enemy. They think they can still trust him, but they shouldn’t. Next up, Liz and Austin. He’s willing to work with them, at least until he gets rid of Vanessa.

Liz picks Austin (houseguest’s choice) to participate in the veto competition, which results in a sour face from Julia. John picks Meg at random. Becky picks Steve.

John’s planning to throw the competition, which seems pretty risky at this stage of the game. He hopes to get on the good side of Liz and Austin by doing this, but how far can you really get with twins and a showmance?

It’s the return of Otev, complete with annoying and repetitive singing, which isn’t funny after the 10th time. Or the 30th. This is pretty much a dumb luck searching game while getting messy. John is eliminated on the first question. Steve is next. Then Becky. Meg is next. Liz beats Austin to win the power of veto.

Vanessa continues to play hard, as she has all along. I’m not sure this is helping or hurting her any more.

Liz had done a lot of protesting about her and Austin, but the pretending seems to be completely over now that they’re turning out the lights and she is getting hickeys.

So after Vanessa’s earlier paranoia, now comes the tears. She confides in Liz that she’s not sure about Austin any more. That’s a pretty stupid thing to do.

Liz has been doing an awful lot of talk about how she can’t stand Vanessa and wants to get rid of her, but it would just be a dumb move. Creating an enemy out of Vanessa seems rather pointless and quite dangerous, especially since it sounds like a jury member will be returning. In the end, she decides not to use the power of veto.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 17 Episode 26, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.

A double eviction night led to the departure of both Shelli and Jackie in Big Brother 17 Episode 23.

Multiple people are confused what just happened. They are not alone. I don’t know what happened either. The explanation is that he heard from Vanessa that Jackie wanted to backdoor him when she was HOH. He realizes that having taken a stand for the first time, without even having consulted anyone, may have cost him the game.

What he has going for him is that he is still a vote, one that nobody can predict, so they are going to play nice to try to win him over. Both sides of the house immediately try to get on his good side.

The HOH competition is to answer questions about the emojis they see. Meg beats James. John beats Austin. Julia beats Vanessa. Liz beats Becky. John beats Meg at the start of round 2. Julia is incorrect and loses to Liz. In the final round, Liz beats John to win HOH.

Becky expects to be going up, and she expects Vanessa to be behind it since she tried and failed miserably to get rid of her. Immediately after dancing around in celebration, Vanessa tells Liz that Becky should be the target. Liz is already thinking along those lines anyway.

Becky’s play to try to save herself is to tell the obvious truth about how hard Vanessa has been playing. We now get to revisit the week Austin was supposed to be backdoored, which continues to come back to bite people.

James and Steve have accidentally started a bromance.

Now that The Sixth Sense is dead since people keep getting voted out, the new alliance (including Steve) is The Scamper Squad.

Vanessa attempts to patch things up with John due to their fight back when Clay went home. This goes pretty awfully and awkwardly. She’s in power or at least has some influence over the power. Telling her the truth when that truth entails the belief that she bullied you is probably not the best strategy.

Nominations
Becky
John

Liz says she’s not even sure who the target is.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 17 Episode 25, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

Steve won the power of veto in Big Brother 17 Episode 22 and removed himself from the block. In his place, Vanessa was nominated against Shelli, successfully completing the planned backdoor nomination. This will be the first of two evictions tonight.

Becky lied to Vanessa about not nominating her, and her defense is that her word was forced from her, not given. I’m not sure that explanation makes sense to anyone else.

Vanessa’s hope is to convince people that Becky has been playing both sides, which she has been. She may have chosen a side now that she’s in power, but it’s been a month and a half.

Votes
Austin: Shelli
Steve: Shelli
James: Shelli
Meg: Shelli
Jackie: Shelli
Julia: Shelli
John: Shelli
Liz: Shelli

Well, that didn’t work. Shelli’s a good person for Becky to get rid of, but that was not her target. By a vote of 8-0, Shelli has been evicted from the Big Brother house. Her role as the head of the power couple sunk her, no matter how strong a game she played, and being up against a very strong nominee sealed the deal. Shelli says she’s rooting for Steve and John, which seems a bit random considering she has multiple alliance members left in the house.

The HOH competition is based on video memory loops. Everybody gets the first question correct. James, Liz, Meg, and Jackie are eliminated on the next question. Everybody gets the third question right. Julia and Vanessa are out next. Everybody gets the next question right. Austin and John are incorrect, and Steve wins HOH. Just yesterday, we watched John say nobody’s targeting him because he can’t win anything, and then he wins the veto and this lame HOH competition.

Nominations
Meg
Jackie

John, James, and Vanessa join the veto competition. They must roll balls down a slope and get one ball in each of three holes in order. John is in the lead the whole way and pulls out a veto win.

John does not use the power of veto. I must have missed the part where John and Steve considered these two the big threats. What happened to Steve supposedly targeting Becky? This does reduce whatever alliance James had going, though.

Votes
Vanessa: Jackie
Becky: Meg
John: Jackie
Austin: Jackie
James: Jackie
Liz: Jackie
Julia: Jackie

With a nearly unanimous vote, aside from the again alone Becky, this was obviously planned. By a vote of 6-1, Jackie has been evicted from the Big Brother house. She says there was some miscommunication with Steve. This is one problem with the double eviction night. I have no idea what just happened.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 17 Episode 24, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

Becky won HOH and nominated a pair of pawns in Big Brother 17 Episode 21. Her choices were Shelli and Steve, both of whom she would be fine with going home, but her actual target is Vanessa.

Steve may not be the target, but Becky is going to be his target if he gets the chance. Unlike Vanessa, he’s pretty much alone. His strategy conversations are even carried out in large groups of one.

Vanessa’s pretty sure she’s the target. She makes the same deal to both Shelli and Steve. If they pick her as houseguest’s choice, she’ll take that person off the block if she wins. I’m not sure if this is smart or shady.

John feels he doesn’t have a lot of allies in this house, so now he is trying to get closer to Shelli, who is herself slowly losing her allies. He also wants to get closer to Steve, so he tells him, too, that Vanessa is the target, but he’s not willing to guarantee Steve he will pull him off the block, unlike what he promised Shelli.

Liz was protesting all season about how she supposedly does not like Austin, but now she’s admitting he is growing on her, even if her sister hates him.

Becky selects Austin to compete in the veto competition. Shelli chooses Vanessa (houseguest’s choice). Steve picks Meg.

As much as Becky and John didn’t want Vanessa to compete in the competition, Shelli didn’t have much choice, unless she wanted it to be completely obvious. Of course, she’s favoring the target over the people who are in power. On the other hand, if Vanessa wins, it doesn’t really matter. She can remove Shelli, and they’re both safe.

Their challenge is to select the correct super hero comics (each with slight differences) of their housemates and put them in the correct order based on the ones they zipline past.

Meg – 15:30
Becky – 17:02
Shelli – 25:31
Austin – 21:20
Steve – 13:57
Vanessa – 21:44

Steve wins the power of veto. Simple enough. He saves himself, and Vanessa goes up.

James gets busted by Vanessa. She knows he’s lying to her as he tries to convince her that he doesn’t know that the “plan” to keep her safe has changed. Somehow, Becky, who is excessively dismissive of Vanessa just in general, convinces her not to worry.

As expected, Steve uses the power of veto on himself, and Vanessa is named as the replacement. She’s the only one who is surprised. Vanessa is hurt that this move is personal, perhaps not the best message to send the first member of the jury.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 17 Episode 23, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.

Shelli and Clay were split up in Big Brother 17 Episode 20 as Clay quit so that Shelli could stay.

Now back to the running back and forth HOH competition. Becky is leading the competition. Julia, Shelli, Jackie, and John are competitive, but the gap continues to widen. Becky wins and grabs the have not pass, $5,000, and HOH. This is kind of silly that it only takes about 30 extra seconds to get all the prizes.

Even though he was on his way out, Clay still managed to stir up some controversy in his final hours as a shouting match ensued between Clay, James, and Vanessa after John made a comment to Clay about how he’d rather keep Clay. John spoke to Clay, Clay told Vanessa, and then Vanessa ran around the house confronting everybody. Now John’s target is Vanessa because she flipped out and is too emotional.

Becky had been playing along with whoever was in power, but now she has to pick a side. That side is with James, Jackie, and Meg. More specifically, she’s thinking like John and wants to get rid of Vanessa. That fight from earlier is still fresh and is the last straw that is providing the justification for many.

Becky told her group that she wasn’t going to let anybody know. So she tells Shelli.

Vanessa offers a deal. Becky doesn’t even want to listen. This is an obvious red flag.

What I find interesting is that nobody is trying to break up the twins (still).

Nominations
Shelli
Steve

A pair of pawns have been nominated, either of whom Becky would be fine seeing go home if it comes down to that.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 17 Episode 22, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

Despite their efforts to throw their alliance under the bus for the bad decision they made last week, Shelli and Clay remained on the block at the conclusion of Big Brother 17 Episode 19.

Now James asks Austin about being Judas. These are questions you probably should have asked before the veto ceremony.

Of course, Austin twists James’ words (twist meaning make up new ones) to try to use it against them with the rest of the alliance.

Here’s the problem with Shelli’s and Clay’s and now Austin’s attempts at damage control. Whichever one stays, by going after their alliance like this, they’re just potentially creating enemies they didn’t have before.

James would rather get rid of Shelli, but it’s not his side of the house that is controlling the vote. Would it really be that bad if Clay went home instead, though? Shelli may be the stronger player, but he’s a physical threat and either way you at least split up the pair that has been controlling the game. Of course, for all the talk about how Clay going home would be the worst case scenario, James did something most others have been too dumb to do when they tried to be “clever”. He nominated only people he wanted to see go home, not messing around with pawns.

As for Clay, his plea to stay does not exist. He asks for them to keep Shelli.

Votes
Vanessa: Clay
Meg: Clay
Austin: Clay
Jackie: Clay
Liz: Clay
Julia: Clay
Steve: Clay
Becky: Clay
John: Clay

By a vote of 9-0, Clay has been evicted from the Big Brother house. Of course, it can be pointed out that going against the rest of the house last week was the catalyst for this eviction, but ultimately Clay’s elimination comes in no small part from the fact that he gave up.

They begin the HOH competition where they run back and forth transferring liquid from one side to the other.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 17 Episode 21, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

Shelli made a deal with James to keep herself and Clay safe in Big Brother 17 Episode 18. That lasted about two seconds, and in the end, Shelli and Clay were nominated.

After the nominations, Clay starts talking smack to James. Shelli tries to put the leash on him. Of course, Shelli’s mouth was the one running during the ceremony, which only served to harm her. After they calm down, she starts asking why they are the ones to blame for the decision they drove, not their allies. And then Vanessa walks in, leaving in tears and unable to stand people.

James provides an excellent calm and rational explanation to Shelli and Clay for his nominations. They can say whatever they want, but the Jason vote wouldn’t have happened if they shot it down.

Vanessa’s willing to forgive and forget, but Austin doesn’t care. He just wants to go to jury with Liz.

James picks Jackie (houseguest’s choice) to play in the veto competition. Shelli selects Becky at random. Clay selects Vanessa. One person from one side, one person from the other side, and someone somewhere in the middle.

They start off on a spinning platform and must shoot darts to try to not get the lowest number. Jackie loses the first round and receives the power of veto. Shelli will wear the armitard all week long, but she trades it for the veto. Vanessa wins an Ireland castle vacation and keeps it. Clay may not leave the side of the knight (Jackie) for 24 hours, which he trades for the trip to Ireland, sticking Vanessa with Jackie, which does not seem strategically sound. Becky wins and keeps $5,000. James wins the ability to complete the swordsman training regimen 2400 times in 24 hours, which according to John is the equivalent of 30 miles of walking. Well, that’s another dumb “prize”, which he’ll obviously pass up, and he takes the veto from Shelli.

John would like to know why Meg and Clay aren’t staying off each other. Shelli’s body isn’t even cold yet.

Clay and Shelli have one final chance to convince James to save them. Time to throw Austin under the bus again or more specifically, his alter ego Judas. But if they really wanted him out, they had that chance last week. Apparently, he was trustworthy enough to save last week. Why not now?

James decides not to use the power of veto, but the power has provided him some interesting information about Austin.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 17 Episode 20, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.