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Eventually giving in to his coaches wishes, Shane ended up nominating Frank as a replacement nominee in Big Brother 14 Episode 9.

As great an idea as it is for Britney to get rid of Frank, this is the problem with the players playing their coaches’ games. Shane’s not Britney. She could not be a physical threat who’s the biggest target in the house. Shane needs to keep the threats in the house, if for no other reason than it helps deflect some of the attention away from the fact that he keeps winning challenges. It didn’t hurt that he had a final two deal with Frank either. The only good news in this for him is that Janelle’s a lot less scary than Boogie is.

Danielle, who should have the deciding vote, thinks Frank’s nomination was great.

Ian is receiving a lesson how to play this game. It’s okay to lie, and Magic 8 Ball answers are a problem.

Wil is growing tired of Janelle because he believes she is taking all the credit for him still being in the game. Like Britney, she insists that taking out Frank is the right move because it removes a target (so that Wil becomes a bigger target). Granted, if it’s a choice between Frank and one of their own, the argument for his elimination does suddenly become compelling.

The next day, Janelle, who doesn’t cry during child birth or at funerals, tries some crocodile tears to get back in Wil’s good graces. He’s not buying it, but he can act along with her.

A common thread, Dan trusts Frank, but he does not trust Boogie. Their offer to him is to team up and make Janelle’s team the targets. He tells Danielle this is a more appealing prospect than being in the vote out Frank camp, and by the way, her showmance with Shane’s not going to last.

Shane tells Julie she should probably not expect any more kisses between him and Danielle.

Frank’s dad is Sid Vicious, who was a big WWF (not the wildlife fund) wrestler. They don’t really talk any more, though this show seems to be connecting them.

More important than whether Frank survives or not: America’s vote. It’s week 3, so it’s time to sink this season’s twist and bring the coaches into the game to stop being coaches. Doing it as a vote gives CBS the opportunity to blame the viewers. The coach twist made things interesting, but it’s time for the players to start playing rather than just doing as they’re told.

Unsurprisingly, America has decided that they want to offer the coaches the opportunity to enter the game as players. In the event that any one coach says yes, there will be no eviction tonight. If they all say no, tonight will proceed as planned, but instead evicted houseguests will be returning next week.

Britney agrees to enter the game. Boogie declines, but he’s back whether he wants to be or not. Dan accepts. Janelle does, too.

The big loser here is Shane. His HOH week in which he nominated not two but three people just went up in smoke. Meanwhile, his former coach who talked him into making those extra enemies escapes relatively unscathed.

The good news for Shane is that, due to the game being reset, he will be allowed to compete in this week’s HOH competition with all the other players. This week’s HOH competition is one of endurance, in which they must all hold on to a ship. Want to know who won HOH before Sunday’s show? Check out the BB14 Spoilers.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 14 Episode 11, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

Keeping his word to Boogie and Frank in Big Brother 14 Episode 8, Shane went after Janelle’s players, nominating Ashley and Joe despite Britney’s objections.

Joe says he’s angry and frustrated. I can’t tell the difference since the volume of his mouth is the same as usual.

Britney pretends she’s paying attention to Janelle, but really she doesn’t seem to trust anybody in the house, even the people she’s coaching.

Reluctantly, at the urging of his coach, Joe agrees to go upstairs to talk to Shane. For a couple minutes, he plays nice, before his rant about how this sucks begins. Shane’s now his public enemy number 1. I can’t imagine he would believe otherwise.

Shane picks Danielle at random for the veto competition. Ashley picks Wil (houseguest’s choice). Joe picks Frank.

The Big Brother circus is in town. The houseguests will have to roll two balls on different ramps and keep them off the ground. Wil is out first. Joe follows. Frank is next. Then Danielle. Ashley is the last one to drop. Shane wins the power of veto, his third in as many weeks.

Frank feels comfortable with this outcome. The target on Shane’s back just got even bigger, and like when he was allied with Willie, he trusts Shane. Janelle’s team, however, is not happy.

Janelle has an offer. They can have her wedding ring and earrings for 3 weeks and keep them if she goes back on her word. An impressive offer, but they don’t feel comfortable taking her jewelry.

Britney says she would rather shoot herself in the face than listen to Joe’s pitch that Janelle badgers him into making. Unfortunately, she does not happen to be in the room at the time Joe and Shane start their conversation. His offer actually sounds sincere, as he promises a final two deal, which I believe marks the third time Shane has heard that from someone.

40 minutes into the episode, Dan starts talking, but only because he won the sushi party prize. I almost forgot he was still in the house. This will probably be the last we hear from him tonight.

After that, the real party starts. Everybody begins kissing.

Britney asks Ian whether he plans on nominating Shane. He does not see any foreseeable circumstance in which that would happen. That’s not a no. When pushed, he cannot give her the answer she wants. At least lie, dude. This is the ammo necessary to switch the nominations or at least a sufficient excuse.

At the veto ceremony, Shane removes Ashley from the block. In his place, Frank is nominated. Not quite the move Joe had asked for, but it puts him in a much better position than he had been the previous night.

With two players from Janelle’s side and two players from Boogie’s side voting, that leaves the deciding vote in Danielle’s hands.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 14 Episode 10, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on CBS.

Following the elimination of his last remaining teammate Jojo in Big Brother 14 Episode 7, the power once again shifted the other way, and Shane won HOH.

Now that Jojo’s gone, Shane can pursue his showmance with Danielle instead, and she promptly runs into his arms.

Having made a deal with Shane the previous week, Boogie and Frank feel comfortable with this shift in power.

Britney is drunk with power. The problem is that she only has one player who can only be HOH for one week. For this week, though, it does mean people playing nice. For example, Janelle’s team, who left Britney for dead a week or so ago.

As much as Britney and Dan want Shane to nominate Frank, he says that’s one thing he’s not willing to do, though he has no problem nominating Wil. Shane’s biggest issue is he’s the biggest target in the house, which will only get worse as he keeps winning everything. His hope now is to keep his word and see if that’s enough to keep him around a while longer. If it matters, he also has a final two deal with Danielle, though she has joined in the nominate Frank battle.

Chef Joe takes the butt kissing to a level Boogie has not seen before. He makes the HOH breakfast in bed.

The coaches competition is at the Big Brother gym. They’ll each have two minutes to do as many reps as possible. Each eliminated coach will open a locker and get what’s inside. Dan says he wants to win for a change. Boogie wins the first round, and Britney is out. Seeing as her only player is safe, she doesn’t mind. She must select two players to be on slop: Ian (who volunteers again) and Joe. Janelle takes the second round, eliminating Boogie. He wins $10,000 to share. He takes the $6,000 and (prompted by Frank) gives $3,000 to Ian and $1,000 to Jenn. In the final round, proving who has the most in shape tongue, Janelle easily beats Dan. He will be going to a sushi and cocktail party with the coaches, the HOH, and his sole remaining player. Smart choices.

As the winning coach, Janelle opts to save her team’s biggest target, Wil. That makes it a bit harder for Shane to justify keeping Frank safe.

In addition to slop, the have nots get Fruit Loops and salmon.

Britney continues to be very vocal about nominating one player from both Janelle’s team and Boogie’s team. I’m not clear what that gets him. The theory is that it will cause the two teams to target each other, but at the same time it just gives them more reason to nominate Shane next week, as if they need any.

Nominations
Wil has immunity.
Jenn is safe.
Ian is safe.
Danielle is safe.
Frank is safe.
Joe and Ashley have been nominated for eviction.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 14 Episode 9, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

With Willie gone, Shane and Jojo were nominated in Big Brother 14 Episode 6. Then Shane won veto, and Danielle was nominated in his place.

I’m not sure it really matters which of these two weak players gets sent home. The most compelling reason to eliminate either one of them would seem to be to get rid of Dan, though he’d probably be back in a couple weeks anyway.

Dan told Danielle she’s on her own because he wanted to light a fire under her and make her fight for herself. Instead, she falls apart.

Ian’s in the have not room trying to get some sleep. Meanwhile, Shane and Jojo are talking about climbing on each other. Wait a second. I thought he was with Danielle. Well, whoever he’s with just became a bigger target.

Britney’s plan to save Jojo: do all the talking for her.

Dr. Will thinks Boogie’s doing a phenomenal job, though he’s concerned about his ego. He warns the others are about to be steamrolled. Dan picked a lot of chicks, Britney must be doing something wrong seeing as one of her players got evicted for violence, and Janelle has proved she sucks at strategy. He predicts Ian’s going to win.

Frank says he trusts Janelle and her players completely. Seeing as you nearly ran out of players to nominate this week, I think you might want to consider a plan B.

Votes
Wil: Jojo
Joe: Jojo
Ashley: Jojo
Shane: Danielle
Ian: Jojo
Jenn: Jojo

By a vote of 5-1, Jojo has been evicted from the Big Brother house, keeping Dan around but also bringing Britney down to just one player. Shane continues to remain loyal to a sinking ship. Not sure whether that hurts him or earns him points, but since his alliance is now all gone, I’m leaning toward the latter.

Like when she was in the house, Jojo doesn’t shut the hell up and listen to people, talking the entire time her goodbye messages are playing.

The HOH competition involves shooting balls with hockey sticks into the slot with the highest number. Odd numbers are on the left side in ascending order, then the even numbers are on the right in descending order, making the middle the sweet spot. Ashley scores 4. Joe scores 3. Jenn does not score. Ian scores 9 to take the lead. Wil score 2. Shane scores 20, the highest number. So apparently they are considering his arguably not far enough shot sufficient to count. Danielle scores 12. Shane wins HOH, once again coincidentally shifting power back to the person in danger just a week before.

Getting back to the discussion about the coaches entering the game, it’s time for America’s vote. Should the coaches remain as coaches, or should they become players? At least America doesn’t get the chance to decide between the four coaches because you know they’d get that wrong.

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

We skipped past the results in Big Brother 14 Episode 5 so Willie could be kicked out of the house after he flipped out because the whole house hated him for… some reason. Tonight some results.

Britney and her team blame Willie for the fact that they’re targets, but they made their own bed no matter how much of a jerk he may have been.

Boogie wants to use a pawn so they can get rid of Shane, but his new ally for the week Janelle is not happy with that plan. Shane may have joined in the Willie hate and helped push him over the line, but he needed him in this house because now he’s the biggest target.

Nominations
Ashley has immunity.
Jenn is safe.
Ian is safe.
Joe is safe.
Wil is safe.
Danielle is safe.
Shane and Jojo have been nominated for eviction.

In spite of the nominations and the fact that he just nominated him, Boogie suggests that Frank should try to get in good with Shane. We saw how well that went last week.

Frank chooses Ian at random to partcipate in the veto competition, Shane picks Ashley, and Jojo picks Wil. This leaves Danielle, the likely replacement nominee, with no hope of defending herself. Not that anybody thought she was going to win anyway.

They are brought outside for a Mexican inspired veto competition, complete with margaritas for the spectators. The participants are dressed as chips who must dip themselves while looking for menu items to build a complete menu. Since this is basically a memory game, you’d think Ian is going to win, though speed and not falling also play a part. In a close race between Ian and Shane, Shane finishes first. Meanwhile, Ashley is trying to figure out why fajita has a j in it.

Ashley gets 13 out of 16 correct. Wil gets all 16 correct and has the fifth fastest time. Frank also has them all right to take the lead. Jojo has them all right, too. Ian does as well. Rounding out the results, Shane has everything right and has the fastest time, so he has won the power of veto.

With Shane saving himself, the logical replacement becomes the other person who voted to get rid of Frank, Danielle. In what was looking like a good week to get rid of a big threat, Frank seems to be left with the two least threatening people as his targets.

Following the competition, Shane says he’d like to make a final two deal with Frank. Boogie asks him to not tell anybody. He complies with this request, telling Britney and Jojo that no deal was struck.

Shane suggests an alternate plan rather than continuing to decimate Dan’s and Britney’s already down teams. He wants Danielle (also one of his allies) to be kept safe so that they can work together with Frank and target Janelle’s team, taking out the second biggest physical threat in the house, Wil.

At the veto ceremony, Shane saves himself. Danielle is the replacement nominee.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 14 Episode 7, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on CBS.