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Following the elimination of Jessie in Big Brother 15 Episode 22, Aaryn won HOH for the fourth time. Aaryn’s in a good position now. Both sides trust her, and both sides want each other gone. The question is whether she wants to make a weak move like Andy did last week or actually pick a side.

McCrae admits the obvious. He threw a competition so that Amanda wouldn’t whine. It doesn’t work. She cries and hides behind the garbage can in the storage room anyway.

Helen immediately starts butt kissing. I’m not sure this is helping or hurting her. Unlike her, Elissa has pretty much given up because she still doesn’t like Aaryn. She doesn’t even want to go to the jury house if she gets evicted, a slap in the face to her closest ally.

Aaryn wants to put up Spencer and Elissa. Her alliance wants her to nomintate Helen and Elissa instead. Once again, Aaryn needs to make the move that everybody else wants to make but that nobody else can or is willing to make. Andy had the opportunity to do this just last week. Other than just doing what everybody else wants, getting rid of Helen really serves no benefit to Aaryn.

When they go into Aaryn’s HOH room, Amanda puts on a green shirt and green face mask. The irony that green represents envy is not lost on Andy.

Amanda, GinaMarie, Elissa, and Helen are on the green team for the have/have not competition. GinaMarie’s not happy to be on Amanda’s team since she loses everything. Their challenge is to enter a black box and find a key in a dark room with various ways to get messy. After GinaMarie finds a key next to a pot filled with spaghetti, they are followed by the orange team of Andy, Spencer, McCrae, and Aaryn. Spencer finds the key in what seems to be a lot less time, but they struggle more to find the exit. The orange teams easily wins with a time of 3:41 compared to 7:21.

After moping around for a while, Elissa finally goes to talk to Aaryn. Seeing as it’s almost been two months, it’s a little late for this, but at least she’s finally making an effort.

Realizing that Elissa is probably going to be nominated, Helen promises to not use the veto on her if she wins it. Still, she knows there’s a good chance she’ll be nominated because she’s close to Elissa, not knowing she’s the actual target.

Nominations
GinaMarie is safe.
Spencer is safe.
Amanda is safe.
McCrae is safe.
Andy is safe.
Elissa and Helen have been nominated for eviction.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 24, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

After Andy won the veto in Big Brother 15 Episode 21, he kept his nominations the same, leaving Jessie and Spencer in danger of being evicted.

Everybody plays along with Jessie that she’s the pawn, but in reality they want to get rid of her. Not entirely sure why since she’s expendable. Helen’s not playing it as cool as everyone else, though. First she ignores her (as does Elissa), then she calls her out as the person who was trying to get rid of Amanda, which leads to Jessie telling Amanda about her plan with Helen and Elissa to target her. A vocal confrontation ensues, but there is not one person in the house that doesn’t know that Helen is lying.

Eventually, Jessie overhears everybody talking behind her back louder than they should be, and she learns the truth that she’s the target this week and that everybody has been playing her. Now she’s got nothing to lose, so she will go down swinging.

She doesn’t even need to swing, however, to get GinaMarie and Aaryn into a shouting match. This is a new pair to be yelling at each other, though both females as usual this season.

Votes
Amanda: Jessie
McCrae: Jessie
GinaMarie: Jessie
Helen: Jessie
Elissa: Jessie
Aaryn: Jessie

By a vote of 6-0, Jessie has been evicted from the Big Brother house. In her goodbye messages, she gets to hear Amanda rub her face in it and Andy tell her he carried her and she’s useless. Is this really the last memory you want to gve someone as they go off to the jury to potentially decide your fate?

The HOH competition is name that tune for competitions they have done. GinaMarie eliminates Helen and selects Elissa and Spencer. Spencer beats Elissa and selects McCrae and GinaMarie. McCrae beats GinaMarie and selects Spencer and Aaryn. Aaryn beats Spencer, and Amanda and McCrae must compete by default. McCrae loses, probably on purpose to prevent a tantrum, and Amanda and Aaryn go against each other in the final round. Aaryn wins HOH.

To conclude the night, Julie announces the newest twist. A jury member will be returning to the house. Candice, Judd, Jessie, and whoever is eliminated next week will compete to be able to come back. When Big Brother Canada did this, it was basically a free pass to the end of the season, though they did it a bit closer to the end.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 20, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

Andy won HOH in Big Brother 15 Episode 20 and proceeded to boringly nominate Jessie and Spencer for eviction.

Helen would like Andy to make a decision. Unbeknownst to her, he already has, just not the one she wants.

Jessie is Amanda’s target and, in turn, she is Andy’s target as well. With Andy in power, this further solidifies the new alliance, 3 A.M., which Amanda will quickly drop once they get down to 4 (or sooner).

At the suggestion of his real alliance, McCrae proposes a fake alliance to Helen, pretending like he will take her over Amanda if they make it to the end. Ironically, Helen would be a far more sensible ally for him to have. She’s still a huge target, but she’s not over the top emotional about stupid things. For some reason, Helen seems to be buying this without even questioning it.

Helen, Elissa, and Amanda join Andy, Jessie, and Spencer for the veto competition. The plan is for everybody to throw the competition and hand it to Helen. Spencer asks if they think he’s some rube. I sure did. As they suspected, this is a counting competition.

As planned, everybody folds but Helen, even Spencer, who is closest to the correct answer. In round 2, once again, everybody but Helen folds. In the third round, Spencer gives up on and destroys the house plan, eliminating Helen. Andy comes closest, and Amanda is eliminated in the fourth round. When she finally stays, Jessie is eliminated, while Elissa comes closest. All three who remain each have a ticket, having come closest to the correct answer once each. Elissa gives up the veto apparently by not understanding the rules, but she’s not the closest anyway. Andy wins the power of veto. He says he’s a force to be reckoned with, even though a week ago he didn’t have any wins. Granted, Janelle didn’t win anything until day 47 when half the house was gone, yet similar claims were made.

In losing the veto, Spencer just pissed everybody off and got nothing out of it.

Not content with her previous plan to bring Amanda to the final four with her and her fake allies Andy and McCrae, Helen tells McCrae they need to get rid of Amanda around six, which means they have about another two weeks to strike first. Of course, it ultimately will come down to that anyway. The time for weak moves like Andy’s is over.

At the veto ceremony, Andy does not use the veto. Perfect move for himself since everybody in the house likes him, but it doesn’t help his allies any.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 22, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.

Candice’s predictable and very loud eviction in Big Brother 15 Episode 19 was followed by a Judd blindside that seemingly came out of nowhere.

What we saw on Thursday’s show wasn’t it. Candice and GinaMarie continued arguing the entire time the houseguests were voting, both taking increasingly cheap shots at the other. For Candice, this really doesn’t matter because she is gone, but as someone who is staying in the house, GinaMarie is just making herself a target.

Immediately after the veto competition, Helen’s first action was to ask Aaryn to backdoor Judd. In a frenzied few minutes, the entire house quickly came to the agreement to get rid of him. For the second time, Aaryn gave away her HOH to Helen, but this time she broke down crying, along with everybody else.

When he walked out the door, Judd told Elissa and Helen he did not want their hugs, and he let Aaryn know whatever they told her is not true.

Amanda is still convinced that Judd must have been MVP, not realizing that the problem is that America is hating on her.

In the aftermath, everybody makes promises to Aaryn. Jessie tells her she’ll never come after her if she saves her. Helen and Elissa (with Helen doing the talking) tell her she’s safe. Amanda promises her Judd’s spot in their final four deal, which worked out so well for him.

The HOH competition is a balancing act in which they’ll have to roll cherries down a giant banana in attempt to get them in the sundae. Jessie beats Helen, Andy beats GinaMarie, Amanda beats Spencer, and McCrae beats Elissa in the first round. Andy beats Jessie, and McCrae beats Amanda in the second round. Amanda starts crying because he didn’t let her win. Pitiful. In the final round, Andy beats McCrae to win HOH.

Helen, GinaMarie, Elissa, and Aaryn volunteer to be have nots so that Andy does not have to choose.

There is not one single person in the house that does not feel completely happy with Andy’s win. They all think he will keep them safe. Considering that, I’m not sure what he gains by winning. Nobody was ever going to come after him. Why make enemies?

Andy immediately knows that he wants to put up Jessie and Spencer, the safe choice that is unlikely to offend anyone. Helen wants him to put up Amanda and McCrae instead, which obviously won’t work since they are his allies.

Nominations
GinaMarie is safe.
Helen is safe.
McCrae is safe.
Aaryn is safe.
Amanda is safe.
Elissa is safe.
Jessie and Spencer have been nominated for eviction again.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 21, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

As Amanda continued to give examples why it’s the correct choice, America nominated her for eviction in Big Brother 15 Episode 18, pitting her against Candice and Spencer to kick off tonight’s double eviction.

Does it even really matter which of these three gets evicted? There’s sufficient reason to hate each of them. Aside from personality, it could be argued that they had been playing well at some point, but Candice and Spencer seem like they are toast as Amanda’s outbursts wear away at her power base.

Amanda has decided to play nice. This is new. Jessie doesn’t buy her apology and still wants to get rid of her, and she begins pushing hard to do so. Helen makes an effort to secure the votes to get rid of Amanda, but she is unable to. Andy, Judd, and McCrae still have a final four deal with Amanda, but they want her to calm down for a change. She may want his vote, but she no longer trusts or is loyal to Judd because she is positive he’s MVP.

Rather than the usual 7 jury members that we have seen for the past 13 seasons, this season’s jury will consist of 9 people. Why change something that wasn’t broken? Taking into account this new twist, the people who are evicted tonight will be part of the jury.

Not one for pleasantries, Candice uses her speech before the vote to yell at GinaMarie, who in turn yells back. Great. More of this. What is with these women this season?

Votes
McCrae: Candice
Aaryn: Candice
Helen: Candice
Jessie: Candice
Elissa: Candice
Andy: Candice
Judd: Candice

By a vote of 7-0-0, Candice has been evicted from the Big Brother house.

The HOH competition is a quiz on items and events that have taken place this summer. Elissa is eliminated on the first question. Andy and Jessie are out on the second question. Everybody gets the third question correct. Aaryn is the only one who gets the next question right, and she is the new HOH.

It seemed like Aaryn’s game was over just a couple weeks ago, but she has come into a nice run of power lately. She has a couple of easy outcasts to target this week, Spencer and Jessie. Kind of a waste, but either way she won’t make any enemies, though at the same time she won’t make any friends.

Even CBS has grown tired of the MVP twist, and it has been retired as of now. Though it did create more than its share of drama, a popularity contest just never had its place in a game like this.

Jessie and Spencer have been nominated for eviction.

Andy, Judd, and Amanda join Aaryn, Jessie, and Spencer in the veto competition. They must retrieve six colored nails to complete their veto puzzle. Not much to say about this typically rushed double eviction night competition, but Aaryn wins the power of veto. Afterward, Helen quickly gets in her ear, but I can’t hear any of what’s happening here.

Aaryn uses the power of veto to save Jessie. Going with the house, Aaryn has nominated Judd as Jessie’s replacement.

Votes
Amanda: Judd
McCrae: Judd
GinaMarie: Judd
Andy: Judd
Helen: Judd
Elissa: Judd
Jessie: Judd

By a vote of 7-0, Judd has been evicted from the Big Brother house. This emotional vote shows that people will miss him, but they sure turned on him quickly because nobody knew where he stood. Even his own alliance bailed in a hurry.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 20, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

GinaMarie’s HOH win in Big Brother 15 Episode 17 led to the nominations of Candice and Jessie.

Jessie happily makes her way up to the HOH room. Candice is not so happy to be there and lets GinaMarie know.

Amanda’s not clear what she’s doing that America wouldn’t like. Though her diary rooms can be amusing, she keeps opening her mouth too much when it’s not necessary. Her spat with Jessie is not winning her any fans, and this pouting about McCrae not running away from Jessie when she sits next to him isn’t either.

For the second week in a row, America has nominated Amanda for eviction. McCrae’s not surprised. The newest conspiracy theory is that Judd is the MVP.

Spencer and Judd join Amanda, GinaMarie, Candice, and Jessie in the veto competition. Judd tells Amanda what she wants to hear, that he’ll use the veto on her, but nobody really knows what he is thinking. Spencer plays along, too, though he readily admits this is a stupid question. GinaMarie quickly says she’ll use the veto on her, which angers Aaryn. Nobody likes Amanda pushing so hard to be removed, and McCrae is becoming the ringleader to keep things the same.

The veto competition is made for Judd. He loves everything frog related. They must toss frogs and land them on targets to score points. As the only person to miss the targets in the first round, GinaMarie is out first. Her prize is the power of veto. Amanda’s score of 1 eliminates her. Her prize is to be able to wear the doggy cone of shame for 48 hours, which she trades for the veto. Candice uses the competition to inform Judd that they think he’s the MVP. Amanda knows she must be talking game, which leads to yet another shouting match, up to and including more discussion about racism. There sure is a lot of that this season, which Candice eggs on by claiming everything is about race, a trait Amanda takes the opportunity to mock.

When Candice misses, she claims a Bahamas vacation as her prize, but she trades it for veto. Spencer’s prize is to go to a tanning booth on command, but he trades it for the vacation. Jessie scores the lowest in the next round and gets a $5,000 prize, which she trades for the power of veto. As the person in first place, Judd can have anything he wants, but he offers to let Jessie have the veto as long as he doesn’t get stuck with something stupid. He gets the clownitard and trades for the money, passing up the veto, which Jessie has now won. Meanwhile, Candice and Amanda still won’t shut the hell up.

Clownitard: Candice
50 shades of orange: Amanda
Cone of shame: GinaMarie
Bahamas: Spencer
$5,000: Judd
Veto: Jessie

McCrae attempts to talk sense into Amanda again. No matter how vocal he gets, she still does not get the point that she’s painting a target on herself and, by extension, on him as well. There are no winners in these fights. Everybody comes out a loser. It’s just a question of who is the biggest loser.

Elissa is making an effort to keep Candice in the house, so once again Helen has to do damage control for her. For all the times America voted for Elissa as the “best player,” she has yet to show it. Helen promises GinaMarie safety if she doesn’t nominate Elissa.

At the veto ceremony, Jessie uses the power of veto on herself. With everybody else safe based on some alliance they have, that leaves Spencer as the replacement nominee. He feels comfortable because he’s on the block with two people who are digging their own graves.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 19, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.

Howard’s eviction in Big Brother 15 Episode 16 led into the start of an endurance competition for HOH.

Helen talks about taking out a linchpin player and weakening those around them. In this case, both Candice and Spencer are hopeless without Howard.

Spencer falls, and Candice drops right after him. Helen follows them. Then Elissa. And Amanda. Less than half an hour in, and half the people are already down. Judd falls just past the half hour mark, followed by Andy. Now the first three get to choose a box. Spencer may only speak through a bullhorn until after the nomination ceremony. Candice wins $5,000 because Jesus wanted her to have it. Helen gets a backyard BBQ. Jessie drops. With two left, GinaMarie promises McCrae that he and Amanda are safe. They are the only ones to pass the hour mark. He declines to take any of her deals, even as she sweetens the pot with more offers, and eventually McCrae falls without having made a deal. GinaMarie is the new HOH.

Nobody knows what GinaMarie is going to do. Aaryn is safe, but otherwise, GinaMarie is a big question mark. Her immediate reaction is that Candice is going home, a continuation of last week’s HOH in which she unnecessarily painted a huge target on herself with that house meeting.

Included in GinaMarie’s HOH package is a picture of her and Nick. Great.

Helen has already picked two people to join her BBQ. Elissa is obviously one. Aaryn is the other, which annoys Jessie. Of course, as Jessie complains about this, Aaryn overhears her. Jessie complains to, among others, Amanda, who blames her for being part of the plot to try to get rid of her. So begins a shouting match (that goes on and on), and it gets personal. McCrae can’t figure out what Amanda’s thinking because this made both of them look bad. Jessie’s being petty and overly emotional, but Amanda just comes off as a bully. In the process, Andy gets thrown under the bus for revealing information that Jessie thought she was telling him in confidence.

Nominations
Aaryn is safe.
Helen is safe.
McCrae is safe.
Judd is safe.
Amanda is safe.
Elissa is safe.
Spencer is safe.
Andy is safe.
Candice and Jessie have been nominated for eviction.

Candice is a rat and drama queen, and Jessie is a flip flopper. GinaMarie’s sure not one to mince words, though she may have trouble getting them out when Judd is laughing so hard. As Jessie warned her before nominations, if her goal is to get rid of Candice, she’s not the best pawn because Amanda has her sights set on getting rid of Jessie instead.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 18, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

After Amanda was nominated by MVP America in Big Brother 15 Episode 15, Spencer won veto and pulled himself off the block. In his place, Candice was nominated alongside Amanda and Howard.

For all of Candice’s complaints about Aaryn making inappropriate comments, she’s not opposed to slinging the mud back to call her a redneck, then getting into a discussion about how the nominations (such as Spencer apparently) are about race. Aaryn’s bad edit may be disguising the fact that half her housemates aren’t any better, but the producers are slowly finding other targets to hit.

Spencer is working on a plan to get rid of Amanda. When she confronts him about this, he lies before eventually telling her to shut up. Helen only overhears the part of this conversation in which Spencer was lying, so she tells Candice that he is trying to get rid of her. This leads to Candice calling a very loud house meeting in which she can yell at Spencer. I don’t understand how this is supposed to do her any favors. After the meeting, Aaryn, GinaMarie, and Jessie begin talking about how they don’t trust her any more, though to be fair it’s not like they needed much of a push. With what just happened, Spencer shouldn’t be that hard to convince, no matter how much he hates Amanda, which would leave just one more person they need to sway.

Amanda and McCrae are now Big Brother engaged. Whatever that means.

Votes
Helen: Howard
Elissa: Howard
Spencer: Candice
McCrae: Howard
Andy: Howard
Judd: Howard
GinaMarie: Howard
Jessie: Howard

By a vote of 7-1-0, Howard has been evicted from the Big Brother house. The lone Candice vote is from Spencer, who a couple days ago had no intention of going against her, but she just unnecessarily painted a big target on herself. Of course, what this does is put him on a raft all by himself because his allies are dropping like flies.

America’s the MVP again. No sense trying to predict this outcome.

The goal of the endurance HOH competition is to stand on the rolling barrel and hold the bull in front of them for as long as they can. Julie makes an offer within a few minutes. The first three houseguests to fall can open one of three chests, one of which contains $5,000. 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 17, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.