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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!

Power of Veto!  Will Paulie’s backdoor Victor plan succeed?

I had forgotten that Victor, the BB Roadkill winner, nominated Tiffany.  I want her out of there!

Day 18.  Tiffany knows that Victor nominated her.  I’m sure she cried about that, at some point.  He picked her as he thought he could get the numbers to send her home.

Tiffany immediately cries to Michelle.  My “m” has been sticking on this keyboard.  How do I fix that?  Da’vonne tries to reassure Tiffany that they have the numbers to keep her.  Later, she tells Paulie that she’s getting paranoid.  She smells a backdoor plot.  Just get her out of there, she be crazy yo!  She can’t trust anyone and Da’Vonne comes in the room.  I love her eye roll, like “she’s still going on about this?” Now Tiffany is crying.  Da’Vonne, in DR, sees all of Vanessa’s flaws in Tiffany.  Me too!  You can’t let Tiffany get to the second half of the game!

Bronte wonders if she can make herself a smaller threat than Tiffany.  I hope so!

Frank tells Paulie that Tiffany is their weakest link as Tiffany walks in!  I love this montage of Frank having a problem with Tiffany.  Who wants Vanessa 2.0 around, not me or the house! She’s also fond of wearing hats too.

Paulie has a chat with Paul to see where Paul’s head is at.  Victor blew up Paul’s game and now Paul has to mend some fences.  Paul is cutting tie with Victor.  Now we need Natalie to stay clear of Victor too.  For some reason, James was in the meeting too.

Veto Players!

Paulie – Da’Vonne
Bronte
Tiffany
Paul – Zakiyah

Paulie drew Paul’s name, forcing Paul to pick someone – he tried to pick the most unoffensive choice.  Victor forces a super awkward chat with Paul.  That ends with Victor getting a piggy back ride from Frank.  Frank, later, tells Paul how much he respects Paul for not choosing Victor.

Veto Comp!

Corey is the host.  It is farm theme.  Toezarks.  They are looking for letters inside of toes (fungus) to spell a long word in 12 minutes.  I still am fond of Jeff’s Technotronics.

Da’vonne doesn’t want Tiffany to win.

The Word –

Paul – Slouched – 9 points
Tiffany – Twinkling – 10 points
Da’vonne – Redemption – 9 points
Zakiyah – Duration – 6 points
Bronte – Powerful – 10 points, she ranged in before Tiffany, so she is in the lead
Paulie – Sustainability – 10 points, he likes to spell

Paulie wins!  He gets to score crazy points for putting up Victor.

No one believes Tiffany was trying to throw the competition, as she was clearly counting Da’vonne’s letters.  Da’vonne wastes no time to let the 8Pack know that Tiffany can’t be trusted.  Good for her!

Bronte doesn’t feel safe in the house, Natalie and her only trust each other.  I feel bad for poor Bridgette the third person in their three person alliance.

Paulie tells Paul that he is coming off the block.  Paulie tells the plan to Frank, Nicole and Corey.  Victor shows up to ruin their ability to talk openly.  If I was HoH, I wouldn’t let no one use my shower.  I won’t ask for it either.  HoH Showers are for winners, ya’ll!

James scared Nicole pretty good.  I was scaring Walker Dennis for like twenty straight minutes, he was loving it.  I was pretty much just hiding behind corners.

The Fatal 5 (the girls of the 8Pack alliance) want to get rid of Tiffany, so that isn’t great for Tiffany.  Her game is being busted due to Vanessa’s gameplay but Tiffany is acting just like her sister.

Victor and Paul are playing pool.  Poor Paul has to lie to Victor, the entire time.

Veto Meeting!

Tiffany tires to be sweet but it doesn’t work.  Bronte is actually sweet but he isn’t going to help her.  Paul says he is a friend to Paulie.  Paulie uses the Veto on Paul, the friendship line worked!

Paulie nominated Victor, so now Victor has to game it up.

Here is Bronte’s opening title sequence –

Who goes home and who becomes the next HoH?

Julie Chen hints that someone will have a chance to come back into the house.

Who will go home – Jozea, Paulie or Bridgette?  Thanks to turning on the feeds, we knew who went home while waiting for the episode to go live on CBS All Access.  The plan, I’m not sure how for sure this is, is to try to wake up early on Friday and try to get the post written up.

How many messiahs have turn out to be well regarded and lived to talk about it?

Bridgette shouldn’t be worried, I imagine the third person never gets any votes – just like every Survivor finale.

oh Jozea, has been wrong for weeks now and I’m glad his game is almost over.  Even if he came back into the house, he should be a tad wiser now.

Because Da’vonne was in the big house meeting, she knows that Bridgette was working as a double agent.

A second and bigger girl alliance forms – Fatal Five – Nicole / Da’vonne / Zakiyah / Michelle / Tiffany – it could work.  Once they get Bridgette out, they could absorb Natalie and Bronte.

James, up to his pranks, put mayo in Natalie’s anti-aging cream.  So gross!  Production should have stopped him as that costs her money!  Bronte instantly knows that mayo has been added to the cream.

The Spy Girls think it is weird that Nicole hasn’t campaigned to any of these three to save someone from the block.  So they have a hint that there is a huge group in the house.

Jozea wants to hash things out with Nicole.  Bridgette flat out states that Nicole can be tricky which Zakiyah immediately reports back to Nicole!  Fatal Five debate if they should get ride of Bridgette.  Who I keep wanting to call “Christine” but I’m not sure where I’m getting that.

The Nolan Twins are in the audience.  Don’t show up on non-finale night.

James and Natalie are throwing chips at Victor and Paul.  These two boyz don’t take well to pranks.  Later, James and some girls have some girl talk.  Paul doesn’t like not being included.  Victor nitpicks everything Natalie does.  Bronte follows Paul outside, to try to calm him down.  Jozea, Victor and Paul insult Bronte and say she isn’t very useful outside.

Speeches – Paulie’s was decent and Bridgette’s was sort of cute.  Jozea just tried to apply for a job he knows he isn’t getting.

Live Votes!

Victor – Paulie

Zakiyah – Jozea

Paul – Paulie

Frank – Jozea

commercial break, there are so many houseguests!

Da’Vonne – Jozea

Michelle – Jozea

Bronte – Paulie

Natalie – Paulie

James – Jozea

Tiffany – Jozea

It is official, Jozea is leaving tonight.

Corey – Jozea

7 – 4 – 0, Jozea leaves with utter silence!  The houseguests are having a moment of awkward silence!  Super awkward that they are going to commercial break so Jozea has to just sit there for three minutes as Chenbot has to ask him the worst questions and set up the next twist.

Julie asks about the silence he left under.  He thinks Natalie flipped, he’s so dumb.  Are neck tattoos no longer frown upon?  There was a guy at Target with a giant face tattoo – I’m glad they gave him a chance as I imagine many retailers didn’t.

Jozea saw Nicole’s season, from two years ago.  So weird, what made him apply?  Did he come from casting?

Chen asks him about the house meeting even though he fully explained it, at the time and it has been covered and recapped since.

Julie Chen sets up the twist.  It is essentially Survivor’s Redemption Island or Top Chef’s Last Chance Kitchen.  He’s going to compete against Glenn on Sunday, if I’m understanding that right.  Seems only fair to Glenn as he didn’t get a house vote.  It is called, Battle Back.  Sounds like there will be at least three two rounds.

Live HoH Competition!  We just see the beginning of it!

My wife told me that Paulie is the new HoH so he and his team are safe.  He eventually nominates two people but his target is to back door Victor.  Which seems super risky with the cast being so large.

Not bad, the twists are still coming.  The twists and the teams will probably be over by Week Five.

Natalie is eliminated!

Anyone catch why Zakiyah was voting?  I may end up liking her, she doesn’t get enough screen time.  I can’t find a gif for what I’m trying to point out.  dang it!  The Internet really lets me down when it comes to Big Brother images and gifs.  I don’t know how to take or make them myself.

She did do a fun dance routine with Nicole.  I’m surprise that hadn’t made the edit yet.

Sunday – Battle Back & BB Road Kill, as well as the rest of HoH – going to be packed.
Wednesday – PoVThursday – Elimination

After Dark airs on Pop?  A channel I’ve never heard of.  I wonder why CBS All Access just doesn’t get it?  For the same luxuries that cable channels enjoy even though those three or four hours are typically super tame.

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