'Big Brother 7: All Stars' - Live Feeds Report - Overnight Into Monday 9/04

I'm going to go off topic for a moment. I feel I must comment on the sad news that Steve Irwin was killed by a manta ray sting while filming a documentary off the coast in Australia. I adored him - his enthusiasm, his dedication, his abilities to handle wild animals. He was a fine ambassador for Australia and a really interesting, entertaining and enjoyable man to observe. He lived his life doing something he loved and the world is a better place for his efforts. He touched a lot of lives. He will be missed.

Sigh.

Onto the late night and overnight events from that Big Brother House of Misguided Malcontents:

• Mike told Erika that the jury can't really think that Janelle won all those comps due to ability because others were always throwing them.
• Will said his thumb hurt. [Editor's note: It's certainly been an injury-plagued season this year!]
• Will told Erika he was going to be up all night with Janelle. Erika looked irked behind her sunglasses.
• Mike told Will that Erika planned to tell Janelle about his "band slut" comment so that he could damage-control before it happens.
• They played cards. The guys talked about the restaurants. They're bored. I'm bored. I beseech thee, BB... give them back the trampoline! Give them a Twister game... something! Anything!
• Erika said she's been wearing her sunglasses because the lights are too bright. [Editor's note: Did they brighten in the past few days? She started wearing the sunglasses all the time around the time Janelle won POV. Coincidence? I think not!]
• Will quote about Erika: "She looks like an x-ray with hair."
• Will and Janelle flirtmanced some more. "Has anyone ever told you that you have beautiful eyes?" "Oh, Will!"
• Will and Janelle headed to bed where Will made his pillow wall between them once again.
• Janelle told Will that she can't win anyway. So, if it's up to her, she'll take him to the final two.
• Will asked Janelle what she would do with the money if she won. She said she has no real debt - her car and house are paid for. He talked to her about investing in his group.
• Will prepared Janelle for the things Erika plans to say to her - saying she looked like a "band slut" during the rock video segment they made and such.
• He also talked a lot about his personal life - his practice, tests, etc.
• Meanwhile, Mike Boogie and Erika were talking, too. Mike told her he wants to be the winner of the season - his ego wants it. [Editor's note: @@ - a well-deserved eyeroll to Mike Boogie!]
• Mike claimed that he wishes he could have regular pastimes like reading and such, but he feels the need for fame.
• Mike told Erika that he thinks Will's own ego and selfishness has kicked in and that he (Will) wants to be in the final two with Janelle, thus robbing Mike of the win.
• Erika told Mike that Janelle said she would take him (Mike) to the final two. [Editor's note: Which would be the strategic choice - she should win against him. With Will, it could go either way.]
• Erika stayed up roaming the night (well, the backyard) once again... smoking, playing pool by herself, mumbling about the [bleepin'] veto that Janelle won.
• All are sleeping as I post this entry.

'Big Brother 7: All Stars' - Live Feeds Report - Sunday Evening 09/03

After my bit of disappointment with tonight's show, at least the feeds had a bit o' juicy stuff!

Here are the events from the late afternoon hours into the late evening from that Big Brother House of Soon To Be Broken Hearts:

• Mike complained about Big Brother allowing Janelle and Will to sleep all day. [Editor's note: Go ahead and complain, Mike. I've complained all season and it's done me no good!]
• Erika is depressed. Depressed and bored. She wants BB to give them something new to do. I agree.
• Big Brother announced an indoor lockdown. Would this lead to excitement?
• Erika wore her sunglasses while indoors playing cards. [Editor's note: She must think her future's so bright that she has to wear shades?]
• The lockdown ended and it was all just to fix a camera. Bummer, eh?
• Will thinks the show is going to end early this season due to the number of houseguests left. He thinks it may be because of the fall TV schedule.
• Mike told Will that he's concerned that Janelle will go to the finals with him (Will). If that's the case, "the winner takes half and the other two split the remaining half."
• Will thinks Mike is just getting paranoid.
• Mike thinks that Janelle would have a hard time beating either Woogie in the finals. [Editor's note: I think she'd easily beat Mike - he's not popular with the jury and a lot of his game was masterminded by Will. I think she'd have a run for her money against Will, though.]
• Mike doesn't want Janelle with Will in the Final Two. He wants to be there.
• Will and Janelle talked. Will said their relationship is an odd relaxed brother/sister sort of thing. He seems to feel very comfortable with her.
• Janelle cut Will's hair at his insistence. No more lice-cam.
• He worried about the haircut every moment during it - "I feel like I have mudflaps! Oh, no! I have mudflaps! Do I have a rat-tail?"
• Will panicked when he saw his haircut in a mirror. And he wanted to look so nice for Julie Chen!
• Erika campaigned Janelle while Will freaked out about his haircut and Mike napped.
• Erika said that she'll pull out all stops on Thursday (they don't know about Tuesday yet) and told the camera that she'll tell Janelle that Will called her a "band slut."
• Janelle went to Will and told him that Erika said he wouldn't take her to the final two. Will told her that if it were he and Mike, they would each take each other, Janelle would take Will. They talked about the money split.
• Janelle agreed that she would take Will to the final two and also vote out Erika this week.
• Mike told Erika that Will would take him to the final two, not Janelle.
• Erika made sure she stuck around the others so no more scheming on Will's part for Janelle's vote can happen. She did that sort of thing during her own season, too.
• BB gave them more wine for tonight.
• Erika told Mike that if he goes to the final two with Will, chances are he won't win.
• Will and Janelle play-flirted more.
• Will also pried Janelle for information about what Erika's been saying about him.

That's about it.

'Big Brother 7: All Stars' - Sunday 9/03 Show

Since the Sunday show was preempted, even canceled in some places, for the Jerry Lewis Telethon, a few folks asked that I post an entry about it.

Your wish is my command.

Or something like that.

I refuse to recap the almost 12 minutes of recaps which started the show. You heard me... almost 12 minutes! Sheesh! They even recapped their last recap.

I'll start talking about the show after they (once again) showed George leaving the house. "It's like the parents are all gone and it's the kids home alone!" In a Diary Room segment, Erika voiced her hopes that she and Mike Boogie make it to the Final Two and thinks they really have a relationship going - "Imagine that, the two lovebirds!" (Which I heard as the "two lepers" and thought it fitting. Alas, she said "lovebirds." Gag me, please.) Meanwhile, Mike's Diary Room showed he has absolutely no interest in her outside of using her in the game and his intent is to be in the Final Two with his Chill Town buddy, Will.

Then came Will talking about his "flirtmance" with Janelle and it's a totally different scene than Mike's shomance. Will admitted it's all in fun and, of course, to further him in the show. In Janelle's session, she said she doesn't really trust Chill Town because they lie so much, but she's hoping to make it to the Final Three with them.

Will suggested he has a "bromance" going on with Mike. I can just see how that will play out on the Internet - "Hey, did you know Will's gay? I thought so all along!" Heh, no I don't think he's gay.

Erika is convinced that Mike actually loves her and they did a bit about having a baby. Argh, she believes him! Boogie is very disappointed that Erika has started smoking again. He doesn't date smokers... not that he plans on dating her at all anyway. I feel sorry for her. She makes so many bad choices when it comes to men!

The HOH Competition had a football field set-up with the houseguests dressed in black and white striped referee shirts. Janelle read questions as Will, Erika and Mike competed. It was called the HOH Bowl (or BB Bowl) and each time a player answered a question wrong, they were penalized yards and had to step further away from the end zone. The questions were all regarding what day number different events occureed. It's a good thing it wasn't physical as Will's thumb is really broken and bandaged up. Mike won it, though Will actually gave it a real try. Mike got the new HOH and his room had cheap junk food in it - Spaghetti-O's, Mac 'n Cheese, Hamburger Helper. (I hope he has real food at his restaurants! I couldn't believe that mix of foodstuffs. Throw in some Ramen noodles and you have a college dorm.)

Erika immediately went into a panic and asked that Mike not put her on the block. Janelle figured she would be a shoe-in for his nomination, so she didn't sweat it. She would have been shocked if he said he wouldn't put her up. Will didn't sweat it either. Heck, he's from Chill Town, he's too cool to sweat. And, it's his boy making the noms. He's safe.

In a Happy Dance in the Storage Room segment, Will and Mike decided to focus on turning Janelle and Erika more against each other than they actually already are.

The Janelle/Will hot tub fight, which was actually much ado about nothing, was shown. They made up and are almost-best-buds once again. Or, at least best flirtmance buddies. Janelle made it clear in the Diary Room sessions tonight that she really doesn't trust him, but at least Will was only joking about marrying her and she knew that. Mike is leading Erika on and she's going to be really hurt. In a Diary Room session, he said how he's fooled her and ended with "I'm going to Hell." That might be too good for him when compared to a woman scorned.

Erika was shown eavesdropping as Will and Janelle talked about getting her (Erika) out of the house. Mike broke it up, but the damage was done. As Will told Janelle, the secret that Janelle was working with them would have been blown this week anyway.

There were bed scenes of Mike leading on Erika and, even if you don't like Erika, it would raise your hackles to see her being used like that. Sigh.

The show ended on a poignant note as Erika put on Janelle's tiara.

'Big Brother 7: All Stars' - Live Feeds Report - Sunday 9/03 Into The Afternoon

<--- Mike "Boogie" Malin, a legend in his own mind. I snagged this screen capture from the feeds a bit earlier and kept thinking he looked like an ant or a fly. He is SO not the man of MY dreams!

Today got off to a slow start in the house due to the houseguests once again being up for most of the night. But I feel that now I've gathered enough newsworthy things to make up an entry, so I'm giving it a shot.

Here are the events of Sunday so far in that Big Brother House of a POV Queen and Her Master Manipulator... and The Jealous Ones Who Live With Them:

• Will told Janelle that her friends would probably advise her not to be friends with him because he plays people. She told him she likes him anyway and that she'll stick with him. He went on to tell her she's affected his game because he likes to play without emotion and he can't when she's in the game. [Editor's note: Mr. Silver Tongue Say The Right Thing At The Right Time strikes again.]
• Janelle and Will slept together, but no hanky-panky ensued.
• BB tried to wake everyone up around 12:30, the crack of afternoon.
• Will told Erika that he feels sorry for Erika because she's going to be worried all day. Janelle told him she planned to tell her (her choice to save) today.
• After taking on George's housecleaning role for the last few days, Erika declared to Mike that she was no longer going to clean for everyone.
• Mike and Erika talked for some time while Janelle and Will stayed abed. Erika is pretty sure she'll be leaving and Mike told her he thinks that the final two will indeed be Janelle and Will. They went over who would vote for whom in the jury and think Janelle might win it all.
• Mike told Erika it would be "awesome" if the finale is moved up a week because he doesn't want to be in a boring house with Janelle and Will for a week. [Editor's note: Be careful what you wish for, Boogie. That's $2,000 less for you!]
• Erika thinks that Will's girlfriend has probably left him by now.
• Mike went on about how good things always go for Will - he's handsome, smart, women like him, he seems like he can do no wrong... and he will win BB7 over himself (Mike).
• Erika told Mike that Will would surely win over him with the jury votes.
• Will pointed out the differences between Mike's showmance and his own to Janelle. He told Janelle that Mike thinks Erika is "kinda creeepy" while he honestly likes Janelle and they're friends. Janelle thinks that Mike is just getting tired of Erika.

There. That's it.

For now...

'Big Brother 7: All Stars' - Live Feeds Report - Overnight Into Sunday 9/03

All of a sudden, Janelle has all kinds of friends in the house. Winning a game-pivotal Power of Veto competition will do that to you. After she won it in the wee hours (here on the East Coast) of the night, a lot of positioning went on as Will and Erika both worked not to be the one chosen for eviction. Mike now has no choice but to put Will on the block with Erika once Janelle uses the veto to save herself. Janelle holds the sole vote to send someone home. Will it be Will or Erika? We really won't know until it happens. But in the meantime, we can be a fly on the wall.

Here are the overnight happenings from that Big Brother House of Take Me With You to the Final Three:

• Erika told Will that she was definitely going to campaign to stay even though Janelle will probably send her home.
• The veto competition (blocked from the feeds) had to do with previous food comps, one of the areas that neither Mike or Will focused on while studying.
• Big Brother gave them wine... again.
• Erika is not happy, not at all. She's pretty sure Janelle will keep Will and is at the point of desperation.
• Will, on the other hand, danced a happy dance with Janelle.
• Erika complained about the comp and Mike said he had a lot of problems with it, too. Erika said something about her Diane was broken and in the wrong place. [Editor's note: I'd hate to have a broken Diane, wouldn't you?]
• Janelle walked around wearing both her tiara and the POV necklace. She's a very happy camper. She also noted that she broke James' veto winning record.
• Woogie is happy. They said the show wanted Good vs. Evil and they got it. Plus, they're sure Janelle is smitten with Will and would choose to keep him.
• Woogie went right to work on Janelle to dump Erica. One of the main points is that Erika is extremely strong with endurance competitions and the final comp is traditionally a test of endurance. [Editor's note: They have a point there.]
• Janelle told Woogie that Erika tried to make a deal with her for Final Two.
• Janelle told Woogie (and later Erika) that no one will take her (Janelle) to the Final Two, so she has to fight for it and win it on her own. [Editor's note: She's right. Mike would take Will and vice versa. Erika would take Mike. If Janelle doesn't win her way into it, she won't be in the Final Two.]
• Woogie told Janelle she has a better chance winning against them than Erika.
• Erika kept telling her that she (Janelle) should take her with her as all she (Erika) would get is second place. She needs the money to pay the mortgage, dumped by her boyfriend, woe is me, wah, wah. She said Janelle would have the jury votes if it were the girls in the Final Two and that she'd be thrilled with the second place prize of 50 thousand to pay bills. Take me! Take me! The boys don't need the money. They're rich. I need this SO much! [Editor's note: I hate when reality show contestants pull the Woe Is Me, I Need The Money So Much card. To me, winning the shows should never be about who needs the money the most - it should be about who's the best at the game. If folks need the money so much, they should concentrate on a career... not be taking chances on reality shows. That's my opinion, your mileage may vary. But it is what it is.]
• Erika promised to take Janelle to the Final Two with her if she's kept and wins HOH.
• Erika told Janelle that Will and Mike are the biggest liars in the house and that Will says mean things about her (Janelle) when she's not around. Janelle kept telling her she had to go to the bathroom, but Erika kept on talking.
• Will said the Diary Room told them not to whisper anymore. Good. I'd imagine that's more for the TV show itself than for the feed watchers, but good anyway. About time. Tell them to stop shuffling cards and singing next.
• Then Will and Janelle whispered. Argh.
• Janelle told Will that Erika said that he said that Janelle was ruining his life.
• Both Will and Mike tried to convince her that Will never said that. [Editor's note: He did say that in an Internet address to his girlfriend to show that he still loves her and is not involved with Janelle. I personally think that's being taken a bit out of context, but that may just be me.]
• Will backpedalled with Janelle, claiming that Erika was desperate and pathetic and, of course, she'd say anything.
• Janelle thinks that Erika has misled her or lied to her several times in the game.
• Janelle was really upset about the "ruining your life" comment.
• Janelle told Will she fell in love with him early in the game. [Editor's note: Is she playing him? Or is she really smitten? The Diary Room sessions have it that she's playing him. Since the feeds only show her with folks with whom she can't confide, she could very well be playing him along. She has no one in the house to tell if she is.]
• Erika asked Mike and Will to leave her "nice" goodbye messages.
• Will told Mike that Erika told Janelle that he's using her (Janelle) in the game... which he admits is "kind of true."
• Erika told Mike that she thinks Janelle wants to take Will to the end to make for a storybook ending.
• Mike told Erika that neither he or Will would ever hold onto something for any long period of time in an endurance comp.
• Will told Janelle that both Kaysar and James called him before the show.
• Will and Janelle spent the wee hours in bed talking through the night. No bickering, no real flirting... just friendly talking.
• Will called out Erika (to Janelle) for owning three cars and a house and whining that she "needs money." He also mentioned that no one told James to drop out of five colleges then whine he needs money. If you need money, work for it. [Editor's note: Yep! As much as Mike really turns me off, I'll give him credit that he must have worked to make his businesses a success. I don't think anyone just gave him them. Nor was Will's degree just given to him.]

And, that's where things stand. Despite active campaigning and spilling the Will Beans (which are not to be confused with Cool Beans) to Janelle, now it seems that Erika is isolating herself and feels she will be evicted. Janelle and Will seem to have mended fences regarding the Spilt Beans. Mike is HOH, so he knows he's safe.

My own thoughts? It's hard. Erika could probably beat Janelle in an endurance comp at the end. I don't know if Erika would take Janelle to the final two if she did win. She could very well take Mike. If the final two was either Mike/Janelle or Erika/Janelle, I think Janelle would take the jury vote for the win. But if the final two was Janelle/Will, it's more of a toss-up as both play the game extremely well in their own ways. Will never wins comps, but manipulates people. On the other hand, Janelle isn't so great at decisions, but she's sure a machine when it comes to the competitions.

So... I dunno. I'd personally like to see a Will/Janelle final two at this point. How about you?

Graphic by Zoetawny.