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Who does Paulie nominate?  Who wins Road Kill?  Who will that person nominate?  Apparently, someone loses their mind too!

My wife updated me that no matter who won BB Road Kill, no one from the HoH’s team can be nominated.

Day 30.  Frank knows Nicole betrayed him. James is acting like he is on Frank’s side.  He may not know the plan.  Frank is not charming, at all.  Corey keeps disappearing.

Paulie – Frank – Michelle – Bridgette are Category 4 they are all safe this week.

Natalie is super sad that Bronte is gone.

My wife just told me that James and Meg, from his previous season, had a falling out and don’t talk anymore.

Bridgette had a waste of an HoH week.

Tiffany confronts Frank, I like a confidant Tiffany.  Frank tries to blow up Da’vonne’s game.  She tries to defend herself, she isn’t laughing it off so she must be lying.  Frank is honest about how he wants Da’vonne out.

Tiffany feels betrayed by Da’vonne, mad props for not crying about it.

Da’vonne tries to patch things up with Frank.

Paulie wants to go after Tifanny, let’s get it done!  No more distractions!

Da’vonne, Zakiyah, Nicole and James all wish they sent Tiffany home.  Idiots!  Oh no, Tiffany just entered that room!  So awkward and silent!  Corey is the first to go.  Followed by James and Da’vonne.  Oh Tiffany, she’s crying as no one talks to her.  Why would anyone?  Just to see how long they can do it for?

Tiffany cries and poor Natalie has to comfort her.  Oh man, I hope that this scene doesn’t last long.  Natalie tries to talk her down but ooof, just leave the room.  Natalie didn’t watch last season.

Frank isn’t going to trust anyone who isn’t on his team.  Tiffany tries to patch things up with Frank, as no one is talking to her so she is going to her biggest threat.  Which is smart on her part, as they share the same enemies.  Tiffany has some crazy eyes!  She’s crying now.  Da’vonne was about to enter the room but saw who was talking and left right away.  Da’vonne tells Paul and Zakiyah, Niocle and a couple others.  Nicole comes into the room, I guess to stop the conversation.  She tries to get Tiffany to talk but Tiffany isn’t doing that.  Da’vonne wants to talk to Tiffany in ten minutes.  Tiffany goes crazy on Nicole, trying to trick her, I guess.

Da’vonne meets with Tiffany, neither wants to start the conversation.  A bunch of questions to each other.  Tiffany is crazy emotional!  Tiffany doesn’t want to work with Da’vonne.  Zakiyah comes into the room, wanting to talk to Tiffany.  Zakiyah comes in way hot with loads of attitude!  Oh boy, Tiffany wants to keep repeating how no one wants to talk to her.  Tiffany puts her bandana over her eyes and Da’vonne tries to not laugh.  Poor Da’vonne knows how the Rousso work.  In that, they don’t.

Commercial break and she’s still crying and complaining about not talking to anyone.  The Roussos are not made for this game.  She’s also reminding me of Audrey.

Nominations.  Dman, this came out of nowhere!

Paulie nominated . . . Tiffany and Natalie! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!  Natalie should never have talked to Tiffany!

Tiffany is going to blow up games on her way out the door.  I guess that’s the best she can do.  Get eliminated, maybe win Battle Back and be kicked right back out.

BB Road Kill.  The RV smells like fart.  The fourth comp.  They have to hang air fresheners, but fast.  Did Production make an Austin reference?  That guy was pretty horrible.  Yep, they went after Austin.

Michelle made an awesome joke about how the string is as sensitive as Tiffany, which is pretty sensitive.

Have we seen the origins of Paul’s friendship?

The winner is . . . Tiffany, with 31!  How the heck!?!  She’s going to nominate Paulie’s biggest ally.  I bet she gets it wrong.

The house is trying to figure it out.  Tiffany tells Da’vonne that Corey is being nominated.  So yeah, she missed the mark.  Corey, who is just hanging around the house, not living up to his potential.  Nicole tells Frank and Bridgette her plan.  Frank blows Tiffany’s mind about just putting up Nicole first instead of after Corey comes off the block.  If he comes off the block.  He’s not good at competitions.

Tiffany nominated . . . Corey!  I like how Tiffany looks around the room but no one seems that panic.

Dman, this was a Tiffany episode – so the weakest one thus far!

For being such nice person, here are three more images of Natalie –

So nice!

Will Fran send Tiffany home or will Da’Vonne send someone else home?  Who will be the new HoH?

My wife is telling me that Da’Vonne wasn’t even the main person trying to flip the script and it is weird that CBS is forcing this edit so much.  I guess they wanted Vet v Vet story.

Bronte mentions how the whole house deserves an Academy Award but it should be an Emmy, as it is a television show.

Da’vonne is talking to James about flipping the house.  Michelle is in the room too, they need five votes so they have three. Nicole would be four, they just need one more.  Apparently this is footage from a while ago.  Zakiyah is brought in but Paulie squashes this move, which my wife predicted a minute before they showed Paulie squashing it.  He’s totally right, Tiffany needs to go.

James wants a vote – Nicole, Paulie, Corey (who I didn’t recognize), Zaikyah are the ones he’s trying to convince.  Michelle comes out too.  Paulie mentions Vanessa’s game play and how Tiffany is literally 2.0-ing it.

Nicole is being a total fruit loop dingus.

Frankie is in the audience, calm down yo.

Frank is planning next week already, which is turning Nicole off.  Nicole guesses that Frank wants Da’vonne out next week which is completely what he is thinking.  So Nicole is really the one who is trying to flip the script.  Frank wants to win BB Road Kill and get Da’vonne out that way.  Frank is ready to kill the 8Pack Alliance and make a new one.  Frank talks to Bridgette about forming an alliance with Nicole and Corey.  There really are a few pairs at this moment.  Paulie & Zakiyah.  Natalie and James.  That is four groups of two for another eight person alliance.

Frank talks to Michelle, so he’s not really hiding his intentions.  Michelle has no plans on getting Da’vonne out, Frank mistakenly tells Michelle that Nicole is willing to do this move.  This puts Nicole in a bad spot and now Nicole is even more committed to get Frank out.  Da’vonne knows that Nicole is lying about working with Frank.

Nicole starts to shore up the votes to get Bronte out.  Nicole and Michelle are for it.  They bring Paulie and Corey in.  They need people to get the force that is Frank out.  They need a fifth but they have the easy Zakiyah, James and Da’vonne votes so they may have seven votes.  So they can easily get Frank out next week.  So I predict Frank wins HoH.

Speeches.  This could be very interesting.  Paul recaps his three weeks, it hasn’t been super fun.  Tiffany mentions dictatorships, oh wow, she is really going after Frank!  I like her tone and energy.  Where has this Tiffany been?  Tiffany called Bridgette, Frank’s cabbage patch kid.  Bronte looks like she’s going to cry.  Bronte must know she is leaving.

Votes.

Frank – Tiffany
Natalie – Tiffany
James – Tiffany
Commercial Break
Michelle – Bronte
Nicole – Bronte
Zakiyah – Bronte
Corey – Bronte
Paulie – Tiffany
Da’vonne – Bronte

5 – 4 – 0, Bronte is gone.

Corey was smart to mention not pulling in James and Da’vonne so Frank has to think about who flipped.  Paulie was right that Frank was going to be off tilt to figure out who flipped.  James must have told Da’vonne, who told James, who told Natalie to tell Bronte as she clearly knew.  Bridgette was in shock.  Frank is trying to figure it out now.

Once again, the third person didn’t get any votes but we needed Road Kill to get Bronte up there.

Frank is trying to say he called this, a 5 – 4 vote.

Julie Chen is interviewing Bronte.  Bronte knows that Frank is the target for next week so she had to be voted out to hurt Bridgette.  I want Bronte to come back as we haven’t really seen Smart Bronte yet.  Even her voice seems different.  Her videos seem to be all happy good byes.  Production must have been told how showing negative goodbyes really taints the houseguests games.  Julie tells Bronte about Battle Back, so we have one more week before we see this twist.

Head of House is going to be a quiz, which I figured as they were dressed for it.

They should not vote Frank out this week, as he’ll just come right back.

HoH Comp.

The quiz will be over the photos they were shown earlier.  The photos deal with Glenn, Jozea and Victor traveling across Europe.  True or False Questions.  This is one I can’t play along with, which is a shame.

Round One – True – Corey, James  and Zaiyah are gone.

Round Two – False

Round Three – False – Tiffany, Michelle and Da’vonne are gone.  Frank is super happy.

Round Four – True – Paulie just won his second Head of House!

Category4 is safe this week so Frank is now safe.  Frank needs to be taken out by Road Kill, which means only Paulie and Michelle can win that competition to get Frank out of the house.  Potentially can be a super awkward week.  Bridgette is Category4 but she won’t betray Frank.

My wife explained to me the Road Kill rules above, which I didn’t know about the inner team allowance.

They still have three minutes to kill.  I already knew Paulie was on his second HoH win.

Some lousy questions.  James mentions his daughter and cat.  Paul is still willing to shave his beard.

Who wins PoV and will they use it and if so on who?

Natalie wants to play in the Veto so that she can save her fellow Spy Girl, Bronte.  Frank wants Tiffany out but Bronte is his second choice.

Bridgette is pissed that Bronte might go home during her HoH week. Poor Bronte, she doesn’t know who is targeting her.  Bronte reveals her big secret, she isn’t a child care provider, she is a smarty numbers girl.  Bridgette and Natalie are super supportive!  Frank lies to the Spy Girls and says he will help keep Bronte safe.  Now he knows that Bridgette likes Bronte.

James tells Da’Vonne that Frank is trying to get the Spy Girls on his side.  They don’t know that the Spy Girls are a package deal.  James wants to tell Natalie about Frank winning BB Road Kill, so it was Frank who nominated Bronte.  So cute how Natalie and James use the house phones.  So high school!  Or middle school, maybe.  He tells Natalie about Frank!  Natalie knows how much she needs to play in the Veto and to win it.  Frank ruins the phone chat but also, makes it so fun as he acts like James’ father and attempts to ground him.  Natalie now feels torn between her flirtmance with James and the Spy Girls.  It feels safe, to me, to let them in on the secret.  Bridgette isn’t going to like it.

Natalie has a meeting with Bridgette and Bronte.  Natalie tries to see who they think is the BB Road Kill winner and they are dead wrong.  Bridgette trusts Frank like how Natalie trusts James.  Natalie fears Frank like how Bridgette fears James.  At least they talked about their fears.

Veto Players.

Bridgette – Paulie
Paul
Tiffany
Bronte – Natalie

Bridgette pulled Bronte’s name, so Bronte choose Natalie.  That worked perfectly!

Fatal Five quickly realize that one of them will have to go up on the block, if Natalie pulls Bronte off.  Da’vonne, probably rightfully, knows that Frank would nominate her as a replacement nominee.

Veto Comp.  Something to do with Grilling.

Da’vonne is the host.  It is that comp from last year, when they have to mix specific ingredients and if you get it wrong, you are eliminated.  The winner, and their team, gets an Outback Dinner!  I would love an Outback Dinner, I haven’t had it since I moved to Helena from Yuma, seven years ago.

Round One – Bronte and Natalie both got it wrong and are out! So that didn’t work.  The answer was Tender.  It was a huge explosion!

Round Two – Paulie is out, the answer was Fizzy.

Round Three – Tiffany is out, the answer was Smokey.

Round Four – between Paul and Bridgette.  Everyone is so relieved that Tiffany is out, so she must be going home.  Paul went Spicy and Bridgette went with the other option and won PoV!  So she’ll probably keep the nominees the same.

Frank, who isn’t very good at this, wants to hip check Bridgette.  He knocks her down and then falls on top of her.  He’s not that great.  Bridgette didn’t get up right away.

oh no, Bridgette had to be carried inside!  She has clutches!  Stupid Frank!

Bridgette wants to take Bronte off, and Natalie knows she’ll be the replacement nominee.  Bridgette knows that Natalie is keeping a secret.

Bronte asks James who won the BB Road kill.  Bronte is totally adjusting her bra in front of James, who is super distracted.  Her breasts seem . . . interesting.  Like they are too big for her frame, or something?

I couldn’t find any pictures of Bronte talking to James there.  Maybe by Friday they will be up?

Outback Stakehouse Reward.  Category4 get the dinner – Frank, Paulie and Michelle are the other members of the team.  She gets to invite one other team.  She chooses Big Sister – Paul, Zakiyah and Da’vonne.  It was Zakiyah’s birthday.

The other house guests are jealous.  Natalie and James continue to flirt.

Is Bridgette trying to flirt with Frank?  It worked as he just told her he won BB Road Kill!  Frank starts to confess everything to her!

Veto Meeting.

Speeches.  Paul tries to be funny and says “friendship” a bunch.  Tiffany (who cried a bunch in DR) and just threw out one sentence.  Bronte sort of does the same.  Bridgette decides to not use the Power of Veto!  Frank’s plan worked!  Hopefully Tiffany goes home on Thursday!

Here are three more images of Natalie –

Three seems like enough, per post.

Who does Bridgette nominate?  Who wins BB Road Kill and who is nominated from that?  Also a showmance develops.

eVictored, is not a great pun, narrator guy.

Day 23.  Frank wants to get Bridgette to nominate Tiffany.  When did Da’vonne want to nominate Frank?  Last episode I believe, but I thought that was just a thought and not like a real plan.

Zakiyah cries to Da’vonne, she doesn’t know Bridgette.

The Spy Girls are so happy to be in charge this week.  James is in the room too.  I guess he’s a fourth Spy Girl.  He doesn’t offer any names.

Frank tells Da’vonne that he will tell Bridgette to nominate both Tiffany and Bronte.

Is Corey working with Tiffany?  Oh that’s right, she’s a Freakazoid with him and Nicole.

Frank talks to Bridgette.  She thinks it should be either Nicole and Corey or Corey and Tiffany.  I guess she doesn’t like Corey.  Frank stresses Tiffany’s name and offers Paul.  She still doesn’t have a plan.

Nicole and James each believe the other is a good cuddler.  James jokes about Nicole and Corey’s showmance.  Corey is like the opposite of Hayden, from her season.  Cue the montage footage.  She finds him very attractive.  He thinks she’s cute.

On the other hand, Frank thinks he’s the cutest guy.  He’s the old man of the house.  I guess he fancies himself a taller version of James, with the pranks and jokes.  Like the cruel James.  This was not a good montage for him.  He really shouldn’t be touching the ladies and calling them names.  That isn’t cool.  Frank gots to go!

Bridgette’s HoH room, is she the first to get it shown?

Frank really needs to stop slapping Da’vonne’s arse!  She’s crying and he’s getting worst and worst.  Production needs to step in there.  Frank tries to apologize but he knows he has gone too far.  Now he looks like that typical “white guy douche bag” looking at Paulie and Corey like “what did I do wrong?”

How could Da’vonne like Frank from BB14?  He was the worst there.   I hope he can get Tiffany out this week and Da’vonne can get him out next week.

Frank tries to has it out with Da’vonne.  He apologizes but she doesn’t counter or state anything.  She should have taken the time to have some real talk.

Nominations.

Bridgette nominated .  . . Paul and Tiffany!  Let’s hope Tiffany is the target!  She doesn’t own her decision, so that’s horrible.

Bridgette talks to Bronte.  Bronte believes any backlash will go towards Frank.  Bridgette doesn’t want the house thinking she doesn’t have a backbone, which if that was the case – she would have had a stronger speech.

The phone rings!  James calls Natalie who instantly gets into high school girl mood.  James wants a showmance.

“Bras are supportive, like how men should be.”  – James, such a great quote!

Nicole chokes on her water in bathroom!  She could have died!

BB Road Kill.

Third comp.  They have press horns in a sequence.  Horn Star, is the name.

The winner is . . . Frank at 56 seconds!  He really knows how to win competitions.

My poor wife, these edit shows don’t really offer her much.  I wonder how other live feeders watch these episodes, just out the curious factor, wondering how they get edited together?  I guess they watch for the competitions, even though they know who the winners are.

Frank makes comments that try to imply he didn’t win it but the house knows his style, they know he won it.  Frank and Nicole try to hip check but they miss, the first time.

Frank wants to nominate Bronte, if she comes down, Natalie will go up!  NOOOO!  Apparently James is the type of guy she would date, outside of the house.  Zakiyah is going to let Frank’s plans be known.

The BB Road Kill nominee is . . . Bronte!  Clearly Bridgette hasn’t told Frank of the Spy Girls alliance.  Bronte makes a great joke to Tiffany how they were nominated last week.  So was Paul, so it is a clear repeat.  Pretty impressive with three options to have them all up again, two weeks in row.

Bridgette doesn’t like that one of her two main allies have been nominated.

In honor of a Spy Girl as HoH, here are a couple pictures of Natalie Negrotti –

Especially as I’ve been sitting on so many pictures of her that I’m just waiting for any excuse to put them up and off of my computer.  Plus, Flirtmance with James!

Natalie and two other folks, James was one of them, was running on the live feeds – my wife was watching them – and Walker Dennis just stopped in his tracks and watched Natalie as she ran.  He got distracted.

I tried to stay up Thursday night to watch this.  At 11:45pm, I was wide awake.  At 12:05am, I was plain exhausted and went to bed as there was no way I could stay up until 1:15am and still function at work.

Bronte, Victor or Tiffany face eviction and whoever leaves, enters the Battle Back competition.  Also, a new HoH is named.

Julie Chen, in pink again.  #ButFirst she really has owned her phrase.

Paul is off the block and Victor is in his place.  Victor is hoping that people want Tiffany out more than they want him out. He tries to get his own Team Unicorn to vote for him to stay.  Natalie wants to keep her new friend, Bronte, over Victor.

I really need subtitles for all of this whispering!

Frank and Tiffany really don’t get along. Frank tries to get on Bridgette’s good side, as she’s part of his Category 4 team but not part of the bigger 8Pack alliance.  I’m all for Frank going on the offensive with trying to get Tiffany out of there.

James fails to join some more girl talk.  Several people are wearing patriotic shirts so this must have been filmed on the 4th of July.  Frank tells James and Paulie how he wants Tiffany out, and they are in agreement.  Not this week though.

Apparently 8Pack may be falling apart, which makes sense as they are way too big way too early.

Frank talks to Nicole and Corey about including Paulie in the 8Pack.  Which seems super awkward as he is going to think he is already in the alliance.  Sounds like the boyz just made a male side alliance – Frank, Corey, James and Paulie. Da’vonne suspects Frank had another motive in revealing to Paulie about the alliance.

Paulie and Zakiyah are getting closer. Apparently these two are pretty cute together on the live feeds.   Zakiyah wants Paulie, Nicole, Corey and Da’vonne to be a five person alliance.  Da’vonne doesn’t like that as she doesn’t have a pair.  Grab one then!

Speeches. 

Bronte is thankful to her family and the houseguests.
Victor does a fun character
Tiffany is the worst.

Votes.

Natalie – Victor
Paul – Bronte
Bridgette – Victor
Commercial Break
Zakiyah – Victor
James – Victor
Da’vonne – Victor
Frank – Victor, it is official – Victor is gone!
Michelle – Victor
Nicole – Victor
Corey – Victo

9-1-0

Paul really doesn’t know how to vote someone out of the house.  Once again, the third nominee wasted a week of worry.

Interview with Chenbot.

She asks Victor where his game went wrong, decent question.  She points out how telling Nicole she was a target of his, when she was HoH, wasn’t the best move.  She awkwardly transitions to the Come Back twist.  Bronte’s video was a tad harsh, with Production knowing there is a chance that Victor can come back into the house.  Battle Back, he’s exited.  The first five have a chance to get back into the house.  Production will inform him of the rule once they go to commercial break.

HoH Competition. 

Still in teams.  It is the comp where they have to throw a ball into a scoreboard and the lowest gets eliminated.

Round One – Bronte is eliminated.

I’m having to watch this and type this on the laptop so I’m missing a lot of this competition.  I know who the winner is so I’m not that concern.

Round Two – Michelle is eliminated.

Round Three – Nicole and Da’vonne are eliminated.

Round Four – James is eliminated.

Round Five – Frank is eliminated.

Round Six – Corey is eliminated.  I wish I could see who all was playing but since this is live, they are rushing through it.  It does seem long for a love show.

Round Seven – Zakiyah is eliminated.  One player is left on each tea.

Round Eight – Tiffany – no more Freakazoids.

Round Nine – Natalie is eliminated – no more Team Unicorn.

Bridgette v Paul

Round Ten – Bridgette wins!  She’s the new HoH and tea Category 4 is safe for the week!  This could be an exciting weak as she could flip the house.

Sunday – Nominations and BB Road Kill.
Wednesday – PoV
Thursday – Elimination

Chenbot super awkwardly asks Paulie if he has any advice for Bridgette.  Either he didn’t hear her, wasn’t expecting a question or plain didn’t want to talk to her – she had to move on.  She tried to clarify that she was asking about the HoH power but he didn’t give her anything to work with.

Here’s to Bridgette –

the new HoH!