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Following Aaryn’s predictable HOH win in Big Brother 15 Episode 5, she predictably nominated Elissa and Helen for eviction.

Candice thinks the boys got Aaryn to do their dirty work, but she’s an emotional player who’s vindictive enough on her own without needing any encouragement to make the nominations she did.

Despite having just been nominated by Aaryn, Helen lets her know that she would still like to work together.

Now for the biggest shock of the week. Elissa is MVP. Why even bother voting? Unlike last week when she told McCrae, she decides to tell someone actually trustworthy, Helen. Of course, since the entire house can predict she’s MVP, it doesn’t really matter. They decide that their target is Jeremy, one of Aaryn’s strongest allies, despite supposedly having an alliance with The Moving Company.

In addition to Jessie stalking him, Nick now has a new girl crushing on him, GinaMarie. Perhaps the third time will be a charm.

As planned, Jeremy has been nominated for eviction by MVP Elissa.

Amanda and Nick have been chosen at random to join the nominees and HOH in the veto competition. Nick wants to win and save Jeremy, but GinaMarie does not want him to do that. She is not having much success convincing him. Elissa, however, tells him he has to throw it, promising to not go after him for 2 weeks, with a warning that he’ll be the replacement nominee if he doesn’t throw it. I’m not sure I understand this deal. If someone loses, how do you know they did not do it on purpose? Typically people don’t just go out first or even too early unless they are deliberately trying to look weak.

They get dressed up in onesies for the veto competition, and they find out that Britney from BB12 and BB14 is pregnant. The backyard is decorated like a giant nursery, which Andy feels is appropriate for these houseguests. Their challenge is to put together a mobile with 10 stuffed animals on it.

In a challenge like this, I’m not sure who has the advantage. Jeremy keeps talking about beast mode, but that doesn’t seem like it will help. I would guess it would be guys with the advantage because it’s essentially a construction task. Amanda is the first person to buzz in, but she has two bears just touching the ground. She is unable to reposition her animals before Jeremy ends up winning veto. Helen was behind him. Nick didn’t lose convincingly, but he was nowhere near winning either.

Elissa and Helen declined to backdoor Jeremy, and now it bites them. Kaitlin’s convinced that she is guaranteed to be nominated because Elissa is making this personal. Really? Elissa is the one making this personal? She went after the threat, not the person she repeatedly called a bitch for no apparent reason.

Jeremy threatens his alliance. Either they get rid of Elissa, or he’s done with them. Here’s your warning, folks. Cut this clown loose. He continues to prove his disloyalty.

Candice continues to push her theory that there’s an all male alliance, and she wants that broken up. So they can’t get rid of the dumbass. Now they can target someone actually dangerous, Nick. Elissa realizes that she’ll be breaking her word if she does this, even if Nick was trying hard during the veto competition but just sucked at it.

Elissa approaches Nick and asks if he’ll vote out Kaitlin. He’s not saying anything. Lie. Don’t lie. Whatever. Just commit. Maybe he’s not so smart after all.

At the veto ceremony, Jeremy removes himself from the block. In his place, the MVP has “secretly” chosen Nick as the replacement nominee.

Though it would seem Nick is the bigger threat, I don’t see how Elissa can get the 6 votes she needs to stay. Her closest ally is on the block next to her, there’s one alliance that hates her because they’re bitches, and there’s a second alliance that wants to save one of their own. Her only hope is the cracks in The Moving Company continue to grow.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 7, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.

Following the eviction of David, Big Brother 15 Episode 4 left off at the start of an endurance competition for HOH.

Nick pretends to GinaMarie that he has no idea what happened with the vote. Prior to the live show, Spencer told Candice that he was voting for Elissa in attempt to cover his tracks.

For the HOH competition, they have to make a choice. They can either go right for the big HOH jug, or they can fill the smaller jug first, which contains a larger cup that may provide them an advantage. Howard/Jessie, Judd/Nick, and Helen/Spencer try for the small jug first. Considering how big the small jug is, it doesn’t seem worth it.

Amanda is pretty much a lost cause. Candice is at least not crawling, but she acknowledges she’s not very graceful despite being a former NFL cheerleader. This leaves it as a race between Elissa & Andy against Jeremy & Aaryn. With the big cup, Judd & Nick pull into third place quickly. Having led for most of the competition, Aaryn & Jeremy win the HOH competition.

At least one team, probably more than one, cheated in this competition by just swapping cups rather than pouring the sauce as per the instructions, though the video is supposedly inconclusive. If Janelle were in the house, there would be a do over.

The Moving Company hopes Jeremy will take control, but he promptly hands HOH over to Aaryn. Her first task as HOH is to choose four people to be have nots. She asks who voted David out, as if anybody would admit it. Elissa, Helen, Candice, and Andy are have nots. Three out of these four were already in this position last week.

Andy is the first person to actually admit to voting out David, claiming he did that because he did not feel safe.

Who wants to see Aaryn’s HOH room? If the vote is any indication, maybe four people. Otherwise, people find it very creepy. They fear her first stuffed animal. Can’t sleep. Clown will eat me.

Jeremy has a plan for nominations. Elissa is a given. He suggests Helen as the other person.

In addition to slop, America has granted the have nots two food choices: liver and lima beans. As terrible as this may sound, I guess it beats just slop.

Historically, Big Brother has avoided showing its houseguests worst sides. They will typically pretend that racism, homophobia, etc. simply do not exist. In an unexpected turn of events, the spotlight shines on Aaryn for comments about blacks, gays, and Asians. Though what she says is hardly the most offensive thing we’ve heard in the house, it is enough to get Aaryn fired from her real life job as a model. I doubt this will last very long, but it will be a shock when she gets out of the house and learns because BB will not tell her (9/11 is the only time I ever remember the producers breaking this policy). With all that said, this particularly unlikable cast has quickly shown their bigoted sides, with more than half the cast expressing such views (GinaMarie, likewise, has been fired). How did everybody else escape this treatment?

Candice and Helen are suspicious about the guys’ alliance.

Jessie, who is sure she is the best looking person in the house, confronts Nick about why he hates her. He must. Otherwise, he would be in a showmance with her.

Helen proposes to Aaryn that they should work together because they are on opposite sides of the house. This strategy is suitable for one reason. Nobody would ever suspect them of working together. The problem is they will never trust each other.

Spencer would rather see Amanda as the target as opposed to Elissa. To accomplish this, Jeremy tells Aaryn that Amanda was the mastermind behind David’s eviction.

Nominations
Jeremy is safe.
Kaitlin is safe.
Andy is safe.
Nick is safe.
Judd is safe.
McCrae is safe.
GinaMarie is safe.
Spencer is safe.
Jessie is safe.
Amanda is safe.
Howard is safe.
Candice is safe.
Elissa and Helen have been nominated for eviction.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 6, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

Elissa predictably won MVP in Big Brother 15 Episode 3 and nominated David for eviction, but perhaps just as predictably, McCrae ignored his alliance and put her on the block alongside David and Jessie.

Elissa thinks she’s going to need to be a little more open with some of these houseguests. Because that’s worked so well thus far with McCrae. She acknowledges to Amanda and Andy that she’s Rachel’s sister and MVP.

Jeremy and Kaitlin are starting a showmance of their own. Great, another couple with two members that have so far been unable to show any redeeming qualities other than being easy on the eyes.

Aaryn, David, Katilin, and Jeremy agree to wait until midnight to have a drink with the have nots. Rather than doing that, they crack at 11:19 and drink all the wine before the day ends. Perhaps this isn’t Survivor where you can get voted out because you eat an extra cherry, but this is nonetheless a scenario that could easily widen a rift between these already unlikeable people and the others. With Aaryn by his side, Jeremy aggressively asks that they place all the blame on him, lying about anybody else drinking.

Next up, Amanda crawls into McCrae’s bed. He is afraid of her, but that doesn’t stop the kissing.

The one use to Elissa is that she’s got a good shot at winning MVP. If they can keep her around, they can at least have some input over that third nomination each week. Spencer starts his campaign to make sure everybody realizes this. All he needs to do is round up 6 votes (fewer in the event of a three way split vote), 4 of which could come from the Moving Company, with people like Andy, Amanda, and Helen seemingly other easy votes.

Votes
Amanda: David
Aaryn: Elissa
Nick: David
Candice: Elissa
Spencer: David
Kaitlin: Elissa
Helen: David
Howard: David
Ginamarie: Elissa
Judd: David
Jeremy: Elissa
Andy: David

By a vote of 7-5-0, David has been evicted from the Big Brother house. Interestingly, Jeremy opted to go against the house and his alliance, instead siding with his showmance.

Amanda apologizes for having to vote out David because he hooked up with the biggest bitch on the show.

To celebrate Independence Day, they have a BB BBQ. It’s another endurance competition. They are competing in teams to fill jugs with sauce while running back and forth (each person runs half the length of the course). The winning pair must decide between themselves who will be the new HOH. Though they tell us the pairs were determined at random, everybody is partnered with someone who voted the same way they did (or who did not vote at all), with the exception of Amanda and Kaitlin.

The teams have been divided as follows:

Aaryn & Jeremy
Amanda & Kaitlin
Andy & Elissa
Candice & Ginamarie
Helen & Spencer
Howard & Jessie
Judd & Nick

Want to know who wins HOH before Sunday’s show? Check out the BB15 spoilers.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 5, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

Think you have the Big Brother 15 schedule figured out? Beginning next week, that’s going to change.

The Sunday night time slot will remain the same. However, the other two nights are being changed. Tuesday has been eliminated altogether. The second show of the week will now be on Wednesdays, which will continue in its current time slot of 8/7c. Live eviction shows will be moving to Thursdays at 9/8c.

To these changes, I have a simple response. Duh. What this does is move the show out of the way of the more successful America’s Got Talent, a scheduling decision I did not understand when it was first revealed.

Having won HOH on the first night, McCrae had to choose two nominees for eviction in Big Brother 15 Episode 2. After about 10 minutes of reading the cast list, we finally got down to the verdict. He had nominated Candice and Jessie because nobody likes them.

McCrae says he made these nominations to avoid getting blood on his hands, which is completely logical, but in that case, why bother? May as well have just let Nick have the HOH.

The assumption is that Elissa will be the MVP, which is an understandable assumption because people will vote for her because they know her sister. In an entirely unsurprising turn of events, Elissa does indeed win the very first MVP. This brings me to the question I’m sure I’ll ask again as the weeks go by. What has Elissa done to be named the best player in the house this week? I certainly haven’t seen anything. As the only person with any claim to fame, she received the most votes. Next week, if it’s not more of the same, it will be who is the blondest (okay, since that would be either Aaryn or Ginamarie, probably not) or who is the nicest to kittens. Gameplay? As if. Your twists always suck, CBS.

She tells McCrae she won the power in hopes that he will help her make the decision. He suggests David, and one of the reasons he gives is that David’s smart. Really, that’s your argument? Her preference is to nominate Nick instead. While they are talking, he tells her he’ll put her on the block if the veto is used.

Aaryn finds out that David works seasonally as a lifeguard and seems to have no ambition to do much besides surf. None of this is a problem for her.

The MVP has made her decision for the third nominee: David. Elissa went along with McCrae because she hopes it will prevent herself from being nominated.

The HOH will pull two chips out of the box to determine the other players (besides himself and the nominees) competing for veto. Howard and Elissa have been chosen.

A paranoid David now thinks the whole house is against him, including Aaryn. Although he’s the new nominee, she’s the one crying. He doesn’t understand how they just lost everything in two minutes, though no doubt they’ll kiss and make up soon enough.

Elissa denies to Jeremy that she won MVP, and she further denies that she ever said her sister’s fans will vote for her. In her defense, though she did say this, she also said her sister is Gisele Bundchen, which I’m pretty sure is not true.

In an attempt to get Amanda to trust him, McCrae spills the beans that Elissa is MVP. So much for that secret.

The veto competition is a promo for American Baking Competition, which is seems to be a show. They jump in honey and pop balloons to find letters and try to spell the longest word. McCrae’s plan is to throw this competition. Speaking of competition, since it’s spelled on the board behind him, this is the word David wants to spell.

Howard: sailing (7 letters)
Jessie: tumbled (7 letters)
Candice: rafts (5 letters)
David: no word spelled of any length
Elissa: potroasts (two words, does not count)
McCrae: delivery (8 letters)

Amanda asks a question. Hasn’t anybody taken a third grade English class? Seemingly by mistake, McCrae has won the power of veto.

Elissa has her first meltdown of the season following this, but at least one person is there to comfort her. Helen comes to the rescue. McCrae makes it clear he has to put her up, but he assures her she’s safe, possibly.

For all the talk, however, Nick has a different plan. Don’t use it and instead get rid of David as originally planned. McCrae realizes if he doesn’t do this, Elissa has a bigger target than David does, which would make her the most likely person to get sent home.

At the veto ceremony, McCrae decides to use the veto to save Candice. In her place, Elissa has been nominated. He insists she’s not the real target, and with 4 votes in his pocket and only needng 6 to go to a tie breaker, there’s a good chance this may work out that way after all.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 4, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.