Big Brother 17: Live Eviction, HoH Comp, Returning Hamster Show Blog Party - August 27

Good evening! Ready for a blog party? Tonight either Steve or Johnny Mac will go to jury. But someone is due to come back from jury. It's supposed to be an endurance comp (again) tonight. A separate post for screen caps and updates on any of the happenings after the show ends will post at 10pm ET. I'll follow the comp and update, so please join me!

Before we get going, here's the latest update on the blog pool:

Austin - Petals, Tammy, marthalight, Dr_Celine

James - uncartie, Marlo, Jackie~juju, ML

John - Sasha, lynn1, clover

Liz - Skyriverblue, jo Chapman, monty924

Meg - Sharon S, Merrilee, MikesGirl

Steve - KelseyNY, Carrie, K

Vanessa - Chacha, Heather Reyes, T-Town Chick

EVICTED:

Jace - Becky in TX, CherylinNC, JOKATS, CaelaXO

Da'Vonne - jessica UNderwood, SueGee, Ed in Ohio, Nickelpeed
Jeff - No pool people due to being announced late in cast
Audrey - David, Chase, Orkmommy, Nicole K
Jason - Witt, Sharon, WolfpackRed
Clay - FairieGoddess0714, QuixoticElf, DonnaNY, JonMD1267

JURY:
Shelli - Delee, Sharon N, chrob 
Jackie - No pool people due to being announced late in cast

Becky - Glenn, Jackie, Indiana Jane, Brian  

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!

After recap, Julie mentions that once again Austwins can't make up their minds. Now it's into Vanessa controlling who goes home every week. Vanessa is crying to the Austwins because Johnny Mac told her everyone wants her out. Liz approached Johnny Mac about him going to Vanessa about the five-person deal. Now they're all upset with him. He thinks they have a deal with James and Meg and he didn't feel safe. 

JM figures if he can get Vanessa to keep him, he'll be safe. Vanessa tells us she will only vote the way the twins vote (they want to keep Steve). Vanessa gets cornered by Steve. He's intimidated and tells us his brain freezes. She's "hurt."

The rounds keep going. Now Liz is talking with Johnny Mac. She wants him not to go after them. Johnny Mac thinks he has a chance. Yet, they don't know if they can trust him.

Next up is a segment on James.

His friends at the bar hangout at home. He pranks his friends, too. They talk about how much James loves his cat, Gizmo ... even goes fishing with him.

Onto the live vote time ...
Johnny Mac - We're biggest dorks here, always Rock Stars. Steve knows a lot of BB things, I know gas management.
Steve - Thanks people. Cool experiences, gave Meg an awkward kiss, improved social skills, lifelong experience to remember.

The votes to evict:
Meg - Johnny Mac
James - John
Vanessa - Johnny Mac
Julia - John
Liz - Johnny Mac

It's unanimous -- Johnny Mac is gone. After the eviction, it's two battles in one as the jury members and house hamsters vie.

Jury segment ... Shelli and Jackie hanging out. Becky arrives. Oh noes, they think! Her toe is all bandaged. They see the replay of Meg slamming her head in OTEV and Liz winning the veto, then Becky's eviction. 

All four are now on stage with Julie (JM is the fourth). They all go back in the house. Julie tells them that all four are back and one will return to the game. Hugs all around. @@ 

Head to the yard. Two epic competitions in one. HoH is up for grabs. Austin can't play. "Dizzyland" - holding onto a cable/rope - that have to hit giant hands as they hang on the cables and go around in a circle. It's kind of like the swing in a circle kiddie amusement ride. The hands are huge and padded and swing them around. The last juror standing (hanging on) stays in; all are eligible to win HoH.

Double eviction next week. 

Steve, Meg and Julia out already befor the show ends.

Follow the comp on my new post.

Big Brother 17: Live Feeds into Thursday - August 27

I don't have much for you. Everyone went to bed early except Steve. He walked around practicing his speech.

Big Brother 17: Live Feeds into Wednesday Evening - August 26

Liz in a quiet moment

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Waiting for Thursday:

• Gah. They slept in. Noon for them is 3pm for me!
• They talked again of using Rock, Paper, Scissors for the vote.
• I'd still be in on that if just one of them would add Lizard, Spock to it.
• Austin thinks that Rock, Paper, Scissors would leave them blameless for the eviction.
• @@
• Damn, Austin. Take a real stand, will you! You're playing all namby-pamby. 
• Vanessa is still preaching an anti-Steve sermon to whomever will listen.
• Except Steve, that is.
• However, Vanessa did tell James and Meg that no one should tell the nominees who they're voting for and just vote for who they want to leave.
• (Of course, she thinks they both want Steve to leave.)
• When cornered by Johnny Mac, Vanessa wouldn't tell him by name who she'd vote for. She talked a lot about having to work with others and watch her own game.
• That, at this time, would mean a vote to keep Steve.
• While the Austwins keep seeming to go back and forth over the vote, it does come down to the fact that none of them really have any relationship with Johnny Mac. They do have one with Steve.
• Austin is trying to figure a way to get Johnny Mac out without Johnny Mac blaming him. Ah, blame Vanessa!
• @@
• Julia thinks white rice is made from flour.
• Oh my. I'm speechless. Someone else comment on that, please.
• James and Meg also talked Rock, Paper, Scissors (sans Lizard, Spock) for the vote. James wants a quarter with Steve and Johnny Mac's heads on either side for a coin toss.
• What is going on with this crew?
• Lots of talk back and forth only to conclude that Steve will stay (once again).
• Yawnsers.

Vanessa's new hat

Breakfast at 1pm

As always, Vanessa on his shoulder

Should be staying ...

Should be going ...

Julia and the evil eye

Big Brother 17: Zingbot Power of Veto Show Blog Party - August 26

Good evening! Ready for a blog party? We have the Zingbot ahead!

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!

We have to get through the "Previously on Big Brother ..." segment first. 

Okay, Johnny Mac and Steve are on the block. Austin claims that's the best move for his game. Um. Okay, whatever. Steve gives Vanessa credit for being good. 

Vanessa plays nicey-nice with Austin. He plays along. Steve questions who the target is -- Austin tells him Johnny Mac unless Steve comes off the block, then maybe Vanessa.

James pranks once again.

Time to pick players for the veto comp! Austin draws Vanessa. Johnny Mac draws Meg.  Steve draws Julia (who had just whined about never being picked).

Steve thinks Vanessa might save him and wants to rebuild their relationship. 

Zingbot comes in the house. Newly Zingle and got an upgrade - Zingbot 9000 now on Twitter. To James - Meg will take you to the Friend Zone after the show. Liz - Confused, less attractive, less intelligent, less charming ... oh, wait -- that's Julia. Steve - Less cool than a trombonist who cries for his mommy? Nothing!

Please take out the trash, it stinks in here, that's just Austin! Meg - Your New York attitude is very stuck in the city, too bad your gameplay is stuck in the city. JM - 4/5 dentists agree the only thing less attractive than your laugh is your back hair! Vanessa -- Playing a masterful game, assuming that game is The Crying Game. Liz -- You've become such an important part of Austin's life ... are you more excited to meet his mom, his dad or his GIRLFRIEND? 

Liz is ticked.  

Veto comp time. James and Liz are secluded and allowed to watch. Julia is up first for the morph/Zingbot related comp. 

Julia's time is 4:45.

Steve is up next. Weird, they let Julia in to watch with James and Liz. Steve is out -- he didn't beat Julia's time. Then he enters the room. 

Austin is up next. He also can't beat Julia's time and is out, in the room with the others.

Vanessa is up. Her time is great! 2:51. She takes over the lead.

Johnny Mac next. He's out now. 

Meg goes up. Heh. She's out.

Vanessa wins the Power of Veto.

Vanessa talks to Johnny Mac. She quizzes him about his previous alliances (that have been voted out). He tells her he's alone in the game. She claims to be alone in the game, too. He offers to work with her going forward. She hints that she might use the veto, but has to talk to Austin. (So, the blame won't be on her if she doesn't! She's thinking ahead, for sure.) She does push for JM to stay with Austin. He's not keen on her idea of putting James on the block.

She tells JM that Austin doesn't want her to use it and, if she does, the Austwins will target her. JM tells her that he was in a five-person alliance last week to get her out. She confronts Julia who tells her it was Steve's idea.

She lights into Steve. He denies orchestrating it and she says he doesn't have her vote.

Veto meeting time. 

Steve - Will respect whatever strategic decision you make.
JM - A gazelle asking a tiger to hang out, don't use it on me.

She gives a short bitter speech about Steve.
Vanessa decided NOT to use the veto to save either of them.

Big Brother 17: Live Feeds into Wednesday - August 26

Vanessa attacked Steve ... for the HoH cam

Did you notice I didn't post last night? Well, they didn't give me a heck of a lot of fodder. One of the problems when the hamsters have been in the house this long and it's that three day lag between PoV meeting and eviction ... there's not much new ground for discussion. Of course, had there been a brouhaha or ax murder, I would have posted. Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Dwindling Days:

• There were no ax murders.
• BB doesn't allow them to have axes or even hatchets, most likely to keep them from becoming ax murderers or victims of such crimes.
• While Vanessa is giving Steve noogies in the screen cap above, it was all for the HoH camera.
• Those were fake noogies.
• Leave it to BB to remind me that noogies even exist. Now I'll have childhood nightmares!
• Despite many talks back and forth, it's still probable that Steve will stay by a vote of three (Vanessa, Liz, Julie) to two (Meg, James) or even that Meg and James or a combination thereof might flip.
• Anyway, it's going to be Johnny Mac going out the door.
• That's even though he agreed to a deal with the twins that if he remains and gets HoH, he'd go after whomever returned from the jury.
• Liz and Julie were talking to Vanessa -- "We don't know anything about this game! We were recruited because we're twins!"
• I wonder how BB decided which twin to feature in the "initial" hamster cast. Did they Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock it?
• Julia pointed out that BB hasn't given them any more alcohol since Meg was hit in the eye during one of their chocolate wars.
• I personally think that BB should give all Chocolate War participants penalties as chocolate, dear to me, was meant to be imbibed ... not thrown about like that!
• After all, you could put an eye out with that stuff.
• Austin prepared a pork dish, shared it and then said the pork expired last week, but still smelled good.
• Heh. They almost choked.
• He was kidding. But I have seen many cases of expired food in the house over the years.
• Liz talked to Meg and James about their vote and the discussion turned to Rock, Paper, Scissors.
• Had they added in Lizard, Spock ... it would have been something.
• Meg and James wouldn't commit their votes to Steve and told him they'd let him know Wednesday night.
• I still say three to two unless it gets into one of those house votes again.
• I don't think there's much point in house votes at this time because the lines are clearly drawn.
• We'll see. 

Meow James posed

Vanessa schemed

Johnny Mac was given false hope

Crowds gathered for tomfoolery

We don't know this game!