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Matt won HOH in Big Brother 12 Episode 14, and unlike his first throw away nominations, he put Brendon and Rachel on the block. We were also greeted by the thoroughly lame saboteur twist again, with Ragan taking the power.

Brendon tries to kiss Rachel. She backs away. As usual. Stop trying already.

The contestants are given the opportunity to practice for the veto competition. Rather than practice, Rachel would prefer to cry. Uh. It’s just bowling. Brendon has to talk her into stopping her whining for the time being. They stay up into the wee hours of the morning practicing. It’s not as if they have much choice but to win. Granted, if one of them wins, the other is going home anyway.

It’s time to pick players for the veto competition.

Matt chooses Kathy at random.
Rachel chooses Britney at random.
Brendon chooses Enzo as houseguest’s choice.

Jeff and Jordan will be the hosts of the competition. They’re apparently still a couple. Jeff’s there to promote his show on CBS.com. Jordan’s there because, well, she knows Jeff.

There are 10 pins to be knocked down. They must knock a pin down in order to reveal another pin, and then knocking down the second of the two will clear them. Rachel knocks down 6 pins in 45 seconds. Rachel challenges Kathy, who eliminates Rachel by scoring 7 with a good amount of dumb luck. Realizing he’s blown it, Brendon only knocks down 3 pins. He challenges Britney, who eliminates him by scoring 5. Now it’s Brendon’s turn for a tantrum. Britney beats Enzo 9-8. Matt beats Ragan 9-7. Britney beats Kathy 8-7. In the final round, Britney beats Matt 10-7 to win the power of veto.

After the competition, Rachel would like to yell at Kathy for a while. She doesn’t like that Kathy celebrated when she beat her. Kathy’s not going to apologize because she didn’t do anything wrong. No matter how many times Rachel asks her again and again and again. This is just pitiful.

Ragan, please go to the diary room for your first sabotage. He has to turn Brendon and Rachel against each other. His message is that Brendon has been throwing competitions. Lame. Britney interprets the message as meaning that the saboteur wants them to target Brendon. The theory is that Rachel is the saboteur.

Rachel’s offer for Britney is $5,000 if she uses the veto. Not interested, and whoever is removed isn’t going to matter because the other one’s going anyway.

Rachel calls Britney a friend at the veto ceremony. Brendon has an alternative strategy. He calls Britney a selfish spoiled brat. Needless to say, Britney does not use the power of veto. Is he trying to throw the game so that Rachel stays? Seems he is.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 12 Episode 16, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.

In spite of Kristen’s warning about the Brigade, the others voted her out in Big Brother 12 Episode 13, leaving the 4 person alliance pretty well in charge of the house. We left off at the start of an endurance competition for HOH.

Hayden wants nothing more than to win HOH so that he can send Brendon & Rachel home because Kristen deserved to be there a lot more than they do. I’ll have to take his word for that because she’s been invisible the whole time, both in terms of competitions and strategy. If not for their showmance, I wouldn’t have even known she was in the house.

Kathy is the first person out of the competition at 12 minutes. She says she’s doing it for the house. Her strategy apparently is to pretend that she sucks, but ultimately I don’t think she’s really doing much pretending. As the first person to fall, she is the only have not for the week.

Enzo falls at 26 minutes, comfortable in the fact that his allies will be there to do the dirty work for him.

At 36 minutes, Brendon drops, answering the prayers of the whole house. Rachel is angry with him because she’s won a couple of multiple guess competitions. She tells him he did a good job, but he doesn’t believe she’s sincere, mostly because she’s not.

Lane drops at 46 minutes. Britney falls shortly thereafter, rationalizing it by claiming she threw it. Hayden is gone seconds later.

This leaves Ragan and Matt once again to battle for the endurance HOH win. After 1 hour and 10 minutes, Ragan drops, giving another HOH win to Matt. Let’s see if he throws this one away like last time.

Rachel’s theory is that she’s the target because she won HOH twice. Regardless, he’s still viewed as the bigger threat, whether she got lucky at a couple competitions or not. She keeps pushing Brendon away, as usual, and for some reason he’s unsuccessfully trying to patch things up with her.

Matt sees Pandora’s box. Is he going to open it? Knowing Matt, I’d say yes. That is the correct guess. He now has the diamond power of veto, which will allow him to save himself or someone else on the block and nominate the replacement. He can use this at one of the next two evictions and must keep it a secret. This power allows his head to swell even bigger than it already is, in spite of the fact that he really hasn’t done anything yet except run his mouth a lot.

His lie explaining what happened is that his reward for opening the box is a dollar. Nobody believes him, except for Enzo, but he doesn’t think they buy it anyway.

Good thing they offered it to who they did because that means that CBS now has the opportunity to proceed again with the twist that blew up in their faces week 1 (because it was stupid). Ragan is offered the opportunity to be the new saboteur. His reward for pulling off three sabotages per week for the next two weeks and surviving the next two evictions would be $20,000. He has opted to do it because America voted for him (20 grand doesn’t hurt either). I hope he gets voted out this week just to screw over the twist.

When Rachel comes to make her plea to Matt, Ragan is sitting there with him. She tells him they’re obviously a pair. Wait. What? This comment and the ensuing argument is a nice way to make an enemy out of Ragan, one of the people in the house who may possibly not be against her.

The saboteur’s first act is to thank Matt for releasing a new saboteur into the house.

Nominations
Kathy is safe.
Ragan is safe.
Britney is safe.
Lane is safe.
Enzo is safe.
Hayden is safe.
Rachel and Brendon have been nominated for eviction.

Not one person is surprised by this obvious move, but at least it’s not a throw away move.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 12 Episode 15, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

Britney’s veto win in Big Brother 12 Episode 12 spelled the end for one of two thoroughly lame showmances.

Hayden doesn’t get what just happened. He had a deal that he had no intention of honoring, and he’s surprised it didn’t work out.

Brendon and Rachel tell Hayden not to worry because he’s safe. He takes this as an indication that he’s got enough votes to stay, and he’s not going to campaign at all.

Britney tells Enzo that the reason she didn’t want to make the deal was because Lane may have gone up in Hayden’s place. He says that Rachel and Brendon now have targets on their backs. Oh. That’s new.

Britney thinks it will be a good idea to go into Rachel’s HOH room and mock her. Of course, Rachel overhears this because Britney is talking as obnoxiously as Rachel does. Lucky she has a sense of humor about it.

Kristen’s starting to think that maybe Hayden is in an alliance she doesn’t know about. She takes this information to Ragan, who has considered that himself. Ragan realizes he won’t be of much use if indeed all the other guys are teamed up. Britney has been considering this as well. Adding those two to Kathy, that leaves one more vote. No choice but to approach Brendon.

We find out from the hometown interviews that Kristen has a boyfriend at home. Or had.

Rachel says that she and Brendon are hoping to pull Britney into their alliance. Good luck with that. You have a better shot with Kristen.

Votes
Enzo: Kristen
Kathy: Hayden
Matt: Kristen
Lane: Kristen
Ragan: Kristen
Brendon: Kristen
Britney: Kristen

By a vote of 6-1, Kristen has been evicted from the Big Brother house. As usual, Kathy is the odd vote out. Whatever her strategy is, well, I don’t think she has one so it doesn’t matter. Rachel’s goodbye message is the same broken record we’ve heard before: Kristen is a bitch for trying to get in between her and her man. Brendon says that nobody can trust her because she made up Hayden being in an alliance, and she made a mistake she’ll have to live with. With that said, Hayden’s farewell is that he is indeed in an alliance.

Whoever wins the HOH competition will be tempted by Pandora’s box. If the power inside is accepted, the new saboteur will be unleashed. The houseguests with the most votes for saboteur were Enzo and Ragan, with Ragan winning by a narrow margin. He does not exactly have saboteur written on him to me, which may be a good thing.

This is an endurance competition. The last person standing on the edge of the giant spinning paint can will win. The first person to fall will be the one and only have not for the week.

If you want to know who the HOH is before Sunday night’s show, check out the Big Brother 12 spoilers.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 12 Episode 14, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.