BB19: Live Feeds iFriday, Temptation Challenge - August 11

Someone told him collar up is cool

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Misguided Millennials:

• The big news is that the Temptation Challenge already went down.
• It apparently wasn't the order of the noises, but something about where they were when they heard them.
• Of course, we don't really know because the feeds were blocked for the comp -- we pick up bits and pieces as they talk about it once the feeds return.
• Mark once again won a comp! He's getting pretty good at these things. He has safety for the week and cannot be nominated.
• Matt was the loser, making him the third nominee.
• The plan is to put Jason up as a pawn.
• Paul told Alex he owed her one and would understand if she wanted to put him up as a pawn.
• But Jason and Alex are worried that the house might flip and vote Paul out.
• So, the next pawn would be Elena.
• Heh.
• What's with all the pawns?
• What about wanting to get Cody out?
• Well, the plan is Operation Backdoor for Cody.
• He'll obviously know what's going on when he's not nominated. I'm sure his spidey-senses are already tingling about it.
• But the hitch here is that a true Backdoor (or, as Nakomis named it -- Six Finger Plan) is that the target has no chance to stay in the game.
• With so many playing veto, he just might get picked to play. If he plays and wins veto, he's safe no matter if he takes someone off the block or not.
• That's a pretty big gaping hole in their plan this time 'round.
• Elena is not a happy camper. She thinks if Cody wins and uses the veto, she would be the one voted out.
• Oh, gee. That would be so horrible.
• NOT!
• She then claimed that she didn't want to be up with people she liked.
• Oh my. They are both men, right?
• Now, the nominations ceremony hasn't happened yet. But they have all been talking about it. It seems to be pretty set that Elena and Jason, with Matt as the third nominee, will be on the block. 
• Christmas and company (Paul, Jason, Kevin and Alex) think the house will split once Cody leaves.
• If Cody stays this week, the house will stay united in the effort to get him out.
• No one wants to work with him.
• For his part, Cody is doing okay. He's occasionally mingling and, while not the life of the party, is being as cordial as Cody can be.
• Christmas told Kevin that she wants to keep Matt and Raven around longer than Mark and Elena because they're still working with them.
• I guess she's thinking Mark and Elena have gone rogue or something.
• What about Josh? Where does he stand? He thinks he stands with Christmas, Paul, Alex, Jason and Kevin.
• But he's Expendable Man.
• Cue circus music. 
• Cody told Elena the deal that Kevin offered him a few days ago. You know, the one that went off the table with the physical threats.
• He didn't tell her it's off. He might not actually know that Kevin no longer wants to work with him.
• Cody told Elena that, if he stays, he'll go after Paul, Kevin. Jason and Alex.
• Why? Because they're all disloyal to him! Um. I don't think Paul was disloyal to him. At least not until after Cody was disloyal to him in the beginning of the season. Heck, neither had any real loyalty to each other. 
• Cody promised Elena if he won PoV, he'd take her off the block.
• Okay. Then Alex could put Raven up there!
• I'd like to see either or both Elena and Raven gone. 

Going through the order of the noises

Operation Backdoor will fail if he wins veto

He looks at ease, but he's not

BB19: Live Feeds into Friday Dawn - August 11

She can go. She really can.

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Odd Man Out:

• Well, he's still in there.
• But he's bound to be out. I think he feels defeated and won't even try at this point.
• I don't really blame him.
• Raven is all bent out of shape because Cody cast his vote to evict her.
• Horrors! 
• He had to vote for someone. It's understood by all that he wouldn't cast his vote for Jessica.
• Elena was Jessica's friend and confidante. 
• He, out of respect for that (apparently), wouldn't vote for her to go.
• It was obvious that it would be a landslide. His vote wouldn't even matter.
• Yet Raven is acting out, fussing that Cody promised her he'd never vote for her to go.
• Josh is going around loudly gloating -- even though his original target was Elena.
• Paul is going around retelling all of Jessica's bad decisions which inevitably led to last night's eviction.
• Of course, he takes most of the credit, throwing in a "we" now and then.
• Jessica had to interview herself via answering questions from an iPad. 
• Jeff had tweeted that "due to scheduling issues" he wouldn't be able to continue interviewing the evicted houseguests.
• Hmm. It has been odd timing how they've done it this season with rather impromptu interviews about a half-hour after eviction. Maybe that is it. Maybe he just wanted to wash his hands of this season. I don't know. I hope he's still involved in the backyard interviews at the finale. I like Jeff.
• When it came time for Alex's HoH room reveal, Cody actually went. I know they are made to go, but I was surprised he didn't balk.
• He actually mingled a bit and was quiet, but cordial enough.
• The only one who's really talked with Cody since the show is Kevin.
• The others talked about him a lot, though.
• It's the consensus of the house that everybody (except perhaps Mark) wants Cody out this week.
• Well, duh. I wouldn't expect anything else and I don't think Cody expects anything else.
• They think they've backdoored him once, they'll do it again.
• I personally think a lot of the fight is gone from Cody at this point. He's not going to be on his A Game for comps.
• We'll see what happens.
• In other news, Elena was once again all over Paul, then back to Mark.
• Give me a break!
• Cody is sleeping in the Have Not Room.  

Down, but at least Kevin is company

He needs to stop gloating

Jessica interviewing herself

Retelling all of Jessica's wrong moves

Who wants to see my HoH room?

BB19: Live Eviction and HoH Comp Show Blog Party - August 10

As the show airs here, I'll be live-blogging and constantly updating this entry -- refresh the page to get the latest! As always, the real party is in the comments area. Come join in on the fun! 

Here are the blog pool match-ups for easy reference tonight --

Alex Ow - jujufruit423, caela, Donna in FL, Nickelpeed
Christmas Abbott - Willie J, Rich from Buffalo, Glenn, QuixoticElf
Cody Nickson - MikesGirl, Chacha, Donna in NY, Delee
Elena Davies - Uncartie, Fred aka TwoBlackAces. Sharon N, chrob61
Jason Dent - Donna in Alabama, Cheryl in NC, jo Chapman, Marthalight
Jessica Graf - zombiehospice, Jean in Tampa Bay, Merilee
Josh Martinez - Petals, Stormy, Kelsey in NY, Dr_Celine
Kevin Schlehuber - elee86, aya, SueGee on the Left Coast
Mark Jansen - Buzzmaam, Judi Sweeney, Cheryl C, Sharon S
Matthew Clines - JonMD1267, T-Town Chick, Sharon C
Paul Abrahamian - Indiana Jane, Jackie, Brian, Marlo L
Raven Walton - Kristen from Ohio, David, Nora

Hamster watchers ready? 

"Tears, temptation and love torn apart. No, this isn't a soap opera. It's Big Brother," Julie tells us.

Into the recap. Julie tells us that Josh wants Elena out, Paul wants Jessica out. Who's really in charge?

Jessica is upset. Raven, on the block with her, not so much upset.

Kevin consoles Jessica. He tells us his plan was to lay low for five to six weeks, get along with everyone. He thinks it's time to make some moves. He tells Jessica he wants to work with Cody ... along with Alex, Jason and Paul. He wants the showmances broken up.

Jessica thinks there might be some merit in what Kevin is proposing. She talks to Cody. Cody doesn't want to work with Paul. He will go along with Kevin, but won't trust anyone.

Kevin proposes his plan to Jason and Alex. Alex is leery. So, Kevin is off to talk to Paul. Paul doesn't trust Cody. He knows that Cody doesn't trust or like him.

Cody tells Jason and Kevin that, if he wins HoH, he will target all of those who lied and betrayed him -- exactly the couples Kevin wants to target!

Jason isn't as enthusiastic about the plan and wants to do damage control. Kevin is the only one thinking there may be a Cody deal at hand. Not even Cody plans to stick to it. Paul is sure it would never work.

Ah, the kitchen brouhaha started by Jessica and aimed at Josh is being shown. She starts in on him not being smart. Cody joins in calling Josh dumb and fat.  Cody disarms Jessica as she breaks a wooden spoon pounding it on a can in Josh's face while calling him fat and dumb.

Josh cries. Thankfully, only to his buddies. Now he's on the Get Jessica Out Train. After he composes himself, he gets the pots, pans and goes with the circus music. Cody took off after him and probably the only thing that stopped him from hitting Josh was that Jessica stepped between them.

Obviously, Kevin's plan won't work now!

To the living room for the live vote and eviction.
Raven - Hellos to people, amazing summer, talks her diseases.
Elena - Planned speech, loves mommy and dog, thanks all.
Jessica - Thanks CBS, it's a dream, Cody made all worth it, took 15 of you and half the season to get me out, Paul is not friendship, bring me home, Julie.

The votes to evict:
Alex - Jessica
Christmas - Jessica
Cody - Raven
Kevin - Jessica
Paul - Jessica
Mark - Jessica
Matt - Jessica
Jason - Jessica

By a vote of seven to one, Jessica is evicted. Josh goes into circus music. Cody carries Jessica to the door.

Jessica cries and tells Julie that she is leaving her best friend. Most of the goodbye messages were kind of mean except Cody and Kevin. Josh's said (until he got nasty) that she wasn't the target, he wanted Elena out and how do you spell EVICTED? Julie confirmed to Jess that Josh wanted to target Elena. Jessica seemed a bit surprised and you could see she thought about it ... then said she couldn't trust anyone other than Cody.

HoH Comp - Hocus Focus. Watching performances, answer T/F to questions. 

First round - All right
Second round - Jason, Mark, Kevin and Paul out
Third round - All right

Second performance time. By the way, David and Danya are quick change magicians.

First round - Christmas out
Second round - Cody, Elena and Matt out
Third round - Raven out

ALEX IS THE NEW HOH!

Oh my. Julie tells them there were be no jury buy back. Next Thursday is a double eviction. Friday will be a "special bonus episode of Big Brother."

BB19: Live Feeds into Thursday Morning - August 10

Note Mark's body language ...

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother Halfway House:

• The extended live feeds block last night was due to their halfway party complete with pizza and a cake with their portraits on it.
• Elena stuffed herself. After all, she's been a Have Not for two weeks and is the ONLY Have Not this week.
• It sucks to be her.
• Right?
• Raven blames Cody for the fact they got no alcohol for the party.
• I would think with all her supposed medical and health woes, she shouldn't be drinking alcohol anyway.
• Right?
• Raven and Matt think they have a final three with Paul.
• I hope not.
• Raven irks me on the live feeds. Her main contribution to the house is cooking. Someone else could pick up that task. Heck, Cody can cook!
• Matt and Raven also think that they're on Easy Street -- Elena and Mark are sketchy, hanging out with Jessica and Cody too much and all.
• Ha.
• Meanwhile, Josh is telling Christmas how sketchy Matt and Raven seem to be!
• He also suspects that Alex and Jason have some kind of deal going on with Mark.
• I guess they'll all start feeding on each other soon.
• Jessica will go this week.
• They want Cody out next week.
• Then they'll all have to turn on each other.
• After breaking her foot, Christmas just wanted to make it to jury. Now she has sights much further into the game.
• Josh claims his loyalties are with Christmas, Paul and Kevin.
• And, he again said he had wanted to save Jessica this week. 
• That is, until she launched the attack on him on Tuesday.
• All bets were off at that point.
• After the party, Jessica and Cody exiled themselves again. I just can't watch them any more. I think the only couple/showmance I enjoyed watching on BB was Jeff/Jordan. They didn't get hot and heavy and were entertaining. Cody and Jessica are NOT entertaining unless you're into soft porn.
• Jason says that Mark and Elena want to win HoH, bring Matt and Raven into their group and go after "us."
• They also talked about the idea that Kevin might work with Cody. After all, he had been talking about that earlier in the week.
• However, at this point, Kevin just cannot support the idea of working with Cody -- he's become too volatile. Kevin won't abide by physical threats.
• They're still worried about a possible double eviction and have plans set up.
• There should be no surprises tonight -- it will be Jessica going home. 

Captive hamsters

Will his oust Paul plan gain momentum?

Raven can leave sooner rather than later

Broken foot but scheming for the win

BB19: Live Feeds into Wednesday Evening - August 9

Hoping for divine intervention?

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Bad Examples:

• We've had fish cam for the last few hours. I don't know what's up with that, but decided to get this report up anyway.
• Not a lot has gone on.
• No brouhahas. Not even a kerfuffle.
• Surprise, surprise ... Cody and Jessica spent a lot of alone time together.
• They appeared now and then with the others, but it was limited and neither interacted much.
• Paul has made a song to memorize the order of the sounds that have been piped through the house. 
• Paul, Christmas, Alex, Jason and Kevin have been going over the sounds on and off all day.
• I don't think Cody even cares.
• "Oh, they played a baby sound as Jess and I had sex."
• @@
• Jessica is still pushing the idea that she's pregnant.
• She probably isn't.
• Mark is trying to get people to rally together to oust Paul. He says he only needs four.
• Hmm.
• I think the others will eventually go after Paul. But I think they want Cody out first, possibly thinking that Paul is the strongest weapon against Cody.
• There was another make-up party, this one featuring Matt.
• I really don't have much for you.
• The feeds are still blocked.
• Grr.

Fits in because he doesn't

You don't want to know

At least he does talk to the cameras (us)

Three amigos?