Big Brother 17: Power of Veto, Renom Show Blog Party - July 22

Good evening! Ready for a blog party? Hopefully they'll delve a bit into the Audrey Meltdown tonight!

As the show airs here on the East Coast, I'll update this entry with the major happenings. Refresh the page to get the latest. As always, the real party is in the comments area. I hope to see you there!

Let's get this party started!

The recap included the Audrey lies about Jason. Jason is sure that, if he can't save himself, he's going home. Johnny Mac wants to save himself with the veto if he can win it.

James heads to Chelli and tells some goodies to them about his bud, Audrey.

Audrey hides under covers as Clay tries to talk to her. She's worried about being put up as a renom and being backdoored.

Wackstreet Boyz -- Johnny Mac, Jason and Lizia -- have their first performance. They're bad. Really bad.

It's time to pick veto players! Yay! Yay! Shelli doesn't want Audrey to be picked. Shelli draws Vanessa. Johnny Mac draws Meg. Jason gets Houseguest's Choice and picks James. James thinks, if he wins, he'll pull Jason off for brownie points with him. Steve will host.

Even Meg is speaking up about how they need Audrey out.

All the veto players gather and the conversation turns to putting up someone else. The someone else remains quiet for now.

Shelli is all in tears thinking she's going to have to "betray" Audrey.

Veto comp time! It's a redo of the bomb defusing comp of last year set in a chemistry class with colored chemicals they have to add to a flask. James is out first with yellow paint exploding all over him. Shelli tells us she's throwing it so she won't get the blood on her hands.  She's out. Meg is out. John and Jason eliminated at the same time. Vanessa wins the Power of Veto!

More Wackstreet Boys segments.

Clay tries to tell Audrey she forces people away. And they get into it. She even lies about what she blatantly said ... as she has done since we've seen her. He tells Shelli and Vanessa that she refuses to admit that she said what she did indeed say -- that she wanted him to swear on his life that Shelli wouldn't backdoor her.

It's a KERFUFFLE! Clay, Shelli, Vanessa and Audrey. It's mostly Clay and Audrey going at each other. Then Audrey calls Vanessa a major manipulator. So, now Vanessa is in it deep.

Audrey is hiding herself in a hoodie, sunglasses and a blanket in the Have Not Room. She refuses to participate in the veto meeting. Jason talks about the game being a passion in his life and not leave. Johnny Mac said it would be cool to save him. Vanessa saves Jason. Shelli replaces Jason with Audrey (even though she's in hiding).

Big Brother 17: Live Feeds Tuesday into Wednesday Dawn - July 21 - 22

The living is easy ... at the moment

You might wonder where I was last night. Well, I pulled an Audrey. Oh, I didn't have the sunglasses on, nor was I playing the martyr. Nor was I upset at the world. I just got home from work and started reviewing the live feeds to make my update and, then it happened. I decided just to take a short nap. That short nap turned into an overnight sleep. I needed it! Plus, the house has been in limbo since Monday with the Audrey issue -- not much gamewise is going to happen until she's gone and the comp cycle starts once again. Here's what I missed inside that Big Brother House of Playing Nice While Audrey is in Exile:

• A fear of mine has come to fruition -- they're all but holding hands and singing Kumbaya.
• They don't think Audrey will self-evict. Liz claims you don't get paid if you self-evict.
• I kind of doubt that's true just thinking of labor laws. I think they'd have to pay something for the time spent "on the job."
• But I don't know their contracts.
• Tons of small talk.
• Reams of it.
• BB continues to allow the rules to be broken to cater to Audrey's Martyristic Ways -- the lights have remained off in the Have Not room while she's in self-exile there and she's been eating food brought to her by others.
• Steve and James talked a long time about who they thought was a threat in the house.
• Steve did not mention to James that he's been telling us (alone to the cameras in the backyard) that he needs to get James out.
• They wonder if Audrey will get out of bed (dentist chair) for the live show on Thursday.
• James doesn't think that everything Audrey has said has been a lie.
• Steve is hoping that he gets the full stipend because that would pay for his next semester at school.
• Y'see what I mean? Small talk!
• Heh. Jason thinks that, once both are playing in the house, the twins should go on the block together.
• I'd personally get Liz out earlier, then work on breaking up Chelli. It's foolish to leave two people that close to work together on gameplay. Jason should know that, superfan he is.
• Ohhh! They got the HoH camera! Thrills. Chills. Yawn.
• Hmm. Austin seemed to remember he has a girlfriend at home. But ... "it's not like I'm cheating."
• Yeah, right. You're hanging all over Liz.
• Audrey isn't even acknowledging people who have been checking in on her.
• Are they sure she's still alive?
• She did eat half the omelet James made for her.
• Or ... maybe HE ate it and said she ate it to cover the fact that they have a body in the first stages of mummification right there in the Have Not room!
• Okay, maybe my imagination is running away with me.
• Of course, she can get a penalty nomination for eating off of the slop menu.
• Oh?
• I guess that doesn't matter at this point.
• I'll admit I'm more curious what will happen with her on the live show Thursday than I am for the HoH comp!
• Oh, wait. She's alive. Steve wished her luck and she fist-bumped with him.
• James continued his prankster ways.
• Yawn.
• All this no game talk and getting along well together is boring.
• No wonder I wanted to take a nap last night reviewing all these live feeds!
• I don't think today will be much more exciting.
• Here's to tomorrow night and watching Julie interview Audrey from inside the darkened Have Not room!

Hope he has on sunscreen

Now she's ALWAYS around

Will he ever win anything on his own?

Pre-season, I thought I'd like him more

What am I doing in this handbasket?

Audrey

Big Brother 17: Live Feeds Overnight into Tuesday - July 21

Now it's Austin and Liz cuddles

It's bad enough that we have to watch Clay and Shelli hang all over each other. Now it's Liz and Austin. Doesn't he have a loved one at home? I hope, if he wins HoH, his girlfriend at home sends him a letter. Sheesh. This is a dude who couldn't even tell Lizia was twins a week ago! Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Audrey Who?:

• Attention hamsters ... is there an Audrey in the house?
• No, she isn't in the Diary Room -- she's used her quota of time for the entire season in there!
• Oh? Is that lump under the covers with sunglasses on at night in the Have Not room Audrey?
• Hmm. Maybe. Maybe aliens have abducted her and left this shell of a person.
• I just don't know.
• Audrey was a no show for the PoV ceremony in which she's the renom.
• I wonder if she'll be a no show for the live eviction (during which she will be evicted).
• She was also a no show for the late night/overnight hours as she hid "sleeping" in the Have Not Room.
• Meanwhile, all of a sudden we have two new houseguests in the midst -- two women named Becky and Jackie!
• They're mingling, they're chatting. They've suddenly come to life.
• I'm still not thrilled with either of them.
• Lots of small talk with the happy new crew ready to cast prior differences (due to Audrey's instigating ways) behind them.
• Dance practicing with the Whackstreet Boys.
• Not only is Jason having pimple woes, now they've hit Vanessa, too.
• Poor hamsters.
• Steve fell asleep outdoors on the couch. So prankster James poured some honey into his open mouth.
• And we wondered why Steve wants James out ...!
• It could have been worse. James could have put Steve's hand in warm water.
• Jackie thinks that Audrey will try her best to make them all feel guilty until eviction.
• I think she's right.
• Meanwhile, Audrey (remember Audrey?) went from in bed in a dentist chair to sleeping on the floor in the Have Not room.
• Later, she was back in a chair.
• James created sleeping dummies in the comic room.
• Oh, that silly prankster!
• Clay and Austin became his cohorts in crime. Audrey doesn't play pranks with James now. She's busy being a martyr.
• The new women, Jackie and Becky, hung out with Jason and John and decided that Austin would be a good target next week.
• Hey! How about knocking out two for the price of one and aiming for the twins?
• Silly hamsters.
• The ants have invaded the bathroom and hallway.
• And, there ya go.

Small talk, no Audrey

Catapulting grapes, no Audrey

Jackie, no Audrey

Johny Mac, no Audrey

Jason, Steve and new hangout friends

No Audrey around

Big Brother 17: Live Feeds Monday into the Evening, PoV Fiasco - July 20

Audrey as I'll always remember her

Well, well, well. How 'bout dem fish? Ain't they pretty? They certainly starred on the live feeds today. Here's what happened today in that Big Brother House of I Am the Best Drama Queen in the UNIVERSE:

• James and Jason have mentioned something about "chemical imbalance" but I'm not buying that. Audrey had no "chemical imbalance" issues before she realized she's going out the door this week.
• Between last night and today, she now holds the record for the amount of time spent in the Diary Room.
• First, the veto ceremony was postponed due to some sort of technical issue.
• Then Audrey was in the Diary Room.
• Forever.
• The others wondered if Audrey was in the process of self-evicting ... which used to be called DOR.
• Audrey remained in the Diary Room.
• Perhaps a special food order was sent for. Perhaps they had to milk the cow for a milk delivery to the DR.
• I just don't know.
• She was in there forever.
• The others got really antsy.
• I don't blame them.
• Apparently she was in there over five hours!
• She came out, went directly to the Have Not room (dark when the lights are supposed to remain on in the daytime), wearing her hoodie with the hood up and crawled under the covers wearing her sunglasses.
• She remained hiding in the Have Not room through the veto ceremony.
• As expected, Vanessa saved Jason and Shelli put Audrey in absentia (yay, more Latin for me!) up in his place.
• Audrey has not come out of the Have Not room.
• Whacko.
• And life goes on.

Hammock time

Lookin' like a snazzy boy band boy

Sleep is a beautiful thing

Anxiety munching?

Big Brother 17: Live Feeds into Monday Morning - July 20

Everybody but Audrey

It's not looking good for Audrey although she's not technically on the block ... yet. Here's the latest from the overnight happenings inside that Big Brother House of Bad Boy Bands:

• Claiming anti-mob mentality and niceness, the whole house held a meeting in the HoH room ... except Audrey.
• Clay said how the game is supposed to be fun and they should all like each other.
• Um. No. It's Big Brother, Clay. Venom and backstabbing are expected.
• Unfortunately, clueless dudes in showmances aren't unexpected. I'm looking at you, Clay and Shelli.
• One thing the meeting did was give the opportunity for the invisible gamers to become a bit more noticeable and fit in with the power players ... for a bit.
• I saw more of Becky and Jackie through Sunday night than I have all season.
• Audrey was completely out of the spotlight from before the meeting against her.
• It looks like there's no way she can save herself.
• In a way, that's okay with me. Jason will stay and I kind of like him in the game. It's good for the rest of the house because it (temporarily) brings them all together for a common goal.
• But it's bad because watching her instigate weird rumors, tell lies, tell worse lies when getting caught telling lies and then playing the martyr is good for the feeds watching. If they all like each other and hold hands while singing Cumbaya, that's some real boring feeds watching!
• Audrey, conspicuously absent from games of charades, watching the Whackstreet performance and more, was supposedly in the Diary Room for over two hours.
• Then she went to bed, er ... dentist chair.
• James and Jason talked about the "what if" they were HoH -- Steve and Austin would go up.
• WHY IS NO ONE REALIZING THAT THE TWINS NEED TO GO BEFORE THEY HAVE TWO SOLID SOLID PEOPLE IN AN ALLIANCE?!?!?
• Jason knows the twins will both play soon. He should realize that time dictates a move being made.
• A few tried to be nice to Audrey (Jason, Vanessa and James), giving her a bit of a pep talk about how much she has going for her in life.
• They didn't tell her how little she has going for her in the house, though.
• As per the norm, Jason and Steve remained the last up.
• Jason spends the time smoking and pondering, then left Steve alone.
• Steve did his usual talk out strategy thoughts in a rambling fashion. He really wants James out -- much of it to do with a necklace, I think. I'm not sure what that's all about. I must have missed something. I do, of course, work a full time job atop the BB blogging, so it's quite possible I may have missed something.
• Steve also thinks Audrey is not coming after him. Yet he knows she's a goner this week. 
• Steve thinks James is probably the most popular with the show fans.
• I don't think so.
• For me, I like James okay. But there are more than a few rather interesting people with different strategies this year. My heart-tug favorite is Steve. But I do like Jason, James, Johnny Mac. I'm really not too keen on the women.
• Steve thinks he should stick with Austin and Liz.
• Hmm.
• Steve and Jason think they are both targeted a bit due to their personalities.
• Jason is concerned that he's Plan B if Plan A didn't work out. Well, yeah. He's right.
• Yet Jason and Steve don't have an alliance. They really should get together more on strategy instead of just liking each other in late night talks because they're the only ones who are awake.
• Jason told Steve he needs to stop popping up everywhere like he's afraid to be left out of things. It reminds him of Andy.
• (Well, Andy did win. Hmm.)
• But he has a point.
• After they broke up and headed to bed, Jason mumbled something about not knowing why he's helping "the kid."

Whackstreet again

Now she's around a lot

Jason should be safe this week

He wants James out

Now she's around, too