BB21: Live Feeds into Thursday - September 5

Hmm … can't play in upcoming HOH

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Repetitive Rats:

• I know I've complained about chess being boring during past seasons.
• This season I found out that backgammon is just as boring.
• I've come to the conclusion that board games are bored games if you're just watching them. Playing them is another matter entirely.
• Despite like, a day, like, with Jessica running around campaigning and singing her sad song, it seems to be all for naught.
• The only real question about the Jess eviction will be whether it will be another sheeple house vote or not.
• With Cliff working on Christie, he might have flipped her vote.
• If Christie votes for Jess to go, so should Tommy.
• If Jess gets voted out by a unanimous vote it will give her more insecurities about being an "outsider."
• I learned much after my childhood years and well by the time I was her age, to embrace my outsiderisms. My own particular weirdness grew on me and I found out more people like me than I thought at one time in my life.
• She needs to get over it.
• Or, not go on a show like Big Brother.
• I also learned I would never put myself in that position. That would be asking for the men in the white coats to take me away.
• Haha, hoho, heehee.
• For not having won anything, Nicole has worked her way into favor with so many.
• She might have messed up the love from Christie, though.
• In a long talk which set the stage for Cliff's campaign to Christie, Nicole got her to trust her enough to swear on her nonexistent sister that if she (Christie) won HoH, she'd go after Holly and Jackson.
• Of course, in solidifying her standing with Holly and Jackson, Nicole told them all about her conversation with Christie.
• If that gets back to Christie, there would go the Nicole love.
• While Nicole did/does have the opportunity to work with either couple -- Jackson/Holly or Tommy/Christie, she's chosen the pair she thinks is stronger -- Jackson/Holly.
• I'm not sure that's the case heading into the double eviction.
• Jackson can't play for the first HoH round of the night and Holly is quite sick. That would necessitate a Cliff or Nicole win which we know is probably unlikely (but would be welcomed by me).
• I just can't see Christie as a power player in comps. She foolishly throws comps she should try to win and fails at winning ones that are important to her game.
• Tommy, on the other hand, was holding back for much of the season. At this point he's already exposed his working with Christie, so he has nothing to lose and all to gain by winning.
• No, still their secret about knowing each other so long and so well remains unknown to all the others in the house.
• They have decided that it's quite a strong possibility that they're heading into a double tonight.
• In other news, they made little homemade puppets. That was more fun to watch them playing with them rather than watching them play a board game.
• Christie named hers Ariel and set it on the table to "take a nap."
• The BB voice announced, "Ariel, no napping." Christie laugh so hard she snorted and cried.
• I can't see how she claims to not be a crier outside the house. Heck, she cries when she laughs.
• So, there you have it. 
• Jess will be talking to Julie tonight unless worlds collide or something today.
• And, we should have a show more interesting than the live feeds and definitely more interesting than the Holly/Jackson snit filler that we saw on Sunday's show.

Hmm … is sick heading into the double

Tommy told Nicole he'd vote for her to win

Like, I'm about to be an outcast outcast

Handmade puppets, Ariel is center.

Not going anywhere, at least in the first round

BB21: Power of Veto Show Blog Party - Sept. 4

As the promos for tonight have promised, it will be the Hide-and-Go Seek veto comp. While it's always a fun watch, I can't help but wonder if BB needs to drop or change up some of these comps. The hamsters expect them. Many have looked around for good hiding spots on and off all summer.

I'll be live-blogging and updating this post with the major events as the show airs here on the East Coast. Refresh the page to get the latest news! As always, the real party is in the comments area -- please feel free to join in on the fun!

The narrator reminds us there are only three weeks left. And, yes they used the Jess fall to open between previously on and new material.

Jackson tells us he wouldn't mind either Jess or Christie going home. Jess feels played and doesn't know why Jackson nominated her. She also hates being on the block with her buddy Christie. Christie tearfully tells us she just has to trust Jackson (that she's a pawn).

Ah, we're into Jess/Christie crying session. You know Jess always felt left out, last one to be picked in the schoolyard as a kid and all of that stuff.

Christie and Nicole talk about getting to know each other in the house better. Jackson pooh-poohs the idea. He says things are personal and then he gives them grief about the time/date they chose to get everyone together to do it. 

So, now we're into Jackson/Holly drama. She feels he's condescending. He's clueless why she feels that way. 

Time to pick players for the veto comp. Jackson draws Nicole. Christie drew Tommy. Jess got Houseguest's Choice and went for Cliff. The only one not playing is Holly.

Holly feels she's being shut out by Jackson even though she did get him his morning coffee. Holly tells him he didn't say good morning, then calls him a douchebag in front of the others. He gets all upset and tells us he didn't deserve to be treated that way. Christie takes it as an opportunity to bond with Holly.

Holly goes to talk to him and he tells her no one talks to him like that, claims he's done everything to make her happy, won't get walked all over or be unappreciated. He tells her he's done with her. "Not doing that on CBS!" She cries. I don't feel sorry for either of them. She shouldn't have jumped into bed with him after two weeks (and after he bedded another girl and dumped her in the house) and he's a jerkface.

The veto comp is Hide and Go Veto, like we already knew. The vetoes are in the form of life preservers. They each separately get two and a half minutes to hide their veto. Then they each get timed visits separately to go in and search for the hidden vetoes. Jackson found the first veto. (Whose they are will be revealed at the end of the comp -- last person's found is the winner.) Christie is the messiest so far, just throwing stiff around.

Spoke too soon. Jackson tells us he wants to trash the house. He finds another one. Tommy found one. Then Jess found one. The house is a mess but at least no one deliberately poured out milk or Froot Loops. 

Tommy's veto is the only one not found -- TOMMY WINS THE POWER OF VETO!

Christie is thrilled because she's sure Tommy will save her (once again).

Then they go into the house to look at and clean up the mess.

Jess is sure Tommy won't save her. She needs to think of a plan because she doesn't want to meet Julie on eviction night.

Oh geez … Holly goes back to Jackson. No sympathies coming from me! And, they hug. Gah. She tells us she adores him. She doesn't want to lose him. So, the showmance is back on.

Time for the veto meeting. Whatever will Tommy do? Why, of course, he saves his long time family friend Christie once again!

Jackson puts Cliff in Christie's place. Cliff is to be a pawn while Jess is his target.

Jess cries some more. They should show her falling in the HoH comp again to prove her point.

Christie would prefer Jess stay and Cliff go because she thinks Cliff and Jackson are her biggest obstacles who might thwart a win for her. 

BB21: Live Feeds into Tuesday - September 3

Pawning his way through the game

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Dwindling Days:

• Gosh, it's been so exciting in the house!
• Er.
• Or not.
• They received the grill for the yard and Jackson decided he was the chef.
• He burned the burgers.
• He burned the buns.
• He burned his hand.
• Tommy and Christie actually think they have a chance to get Nicole to flip her vote, keeping Jess and evicting Cliff.
• That's not going to happen.
• While Nicole has really sucked in comps and played so few veto comps at all, she's sitting rather pretty right now with Cliff, Jackson and Holly.
• Plus, Nicole has been saying for weeks she wants to target Tommy and Christie.
• Why would she abandon what she has and work with people who would turn on her immediately?
• Unless people cave and "house vote" once again (gah), I see it as a tie this week. Holly/Nicole vote out Jess, Tommy/Christie vote out Cliff. Then Jackson breaks the tie, voting out Jess in his big power move.
• Yes, "power move" is sarcastic.
• As far as I'm concerned, the only successful "big move" HoH of the season was Jess putting up Jackson/Jack and getting Jack out.
• Back to Nicole sitting pretty …
• She has a way with people. Although friends seem to be slim pickings, she has had Cliff in her camp all along (although he'd dump her in a second to further his own game). She's had Nick who, in the after-interviews, honestly seems to care deeply about her (not romantically). Now she seems to have Jackson under that same spell. While he doesn't look on her as a romantic kind of thing, he's having this brother/sister kind of relationship. I do think he also cares deeply about her -- and, in a more lasting way than his relationship with Holly will ever be.
• After panicking last week that they're heading for a double eviction, they seem to not be thinking about that for this week.
• Heh.
• I just hope BB waits until the actual live show Julie announcement to clue them in!
• Other than Jackson and Holly's breaking up/making up a few days ago, there have been no kerfuffles and definitely no brouhahas.
• Everyone is getting along all too well.
• It's boring.
• And, there ya go. You too have now been bored.
• You're welcome.

She'd be long gone if not for him

Like, y'know, like, I'm like on the like, block

Power duo. One needs to go.

BB21: Live Feeds Power of Veto Meeting Update - Sept. 2

The live feeds were blocked for the veto ceremony and a whole lotta minutes around it. As you recall, Tommy won the Power of Veto.

Of course, Tommy saved Christie with the veto. As he and Cliff had previously discussed, Jackson put Cliff on the block as a pawn against Jess (his target)

This was Jess's reaction after the meeting -- right here.

In other news -- Holly and Jackson broke up. Then Holly and Jackson made up.

BB21: HoH Completion/Nominations Show Blog Party - Sept. 1

Tonight we get to see the completion of the "epic" HoH endurance comp which had its start (and, technically but not on the show, end) on Thursday evening. Then the new HoH will name the nominees of the week. Then we'll probably see a whole bunch of Diary Room clips each telling us how they HAVE to win PoV.

Since this is a show post and in real life the PoV comp is already history, I ask no spoilers that haven't been shown on the aired show.

I'll be live-blogging, updating this entry with the major events as they air here on the East Coast. Refresh this page to get the latest happenings! As always, the real party is in the comments section -- please feel free to join in on the fun!

Previously on ... like we just don't know, right?

Finally we open with the HoH comp going on. Nicole is tired of not winning. She wants to hold her weight in her group of four -- Cliff, Jackson and Holly. Ghosts are slamming into them, rain is coming down and they're getting slimed. Jackson would like to see either Nicole or Cliff win. He doesn't want Tommy to win. Christie is feeling confident and claims she doesn't need to win this HoH. Cliff doesn't think he can win, but would like Nicole to win. 

Now they're getting gassed with ice flashes. It sucks to be them, huh?

Jess is out first and makes an epic fall and yell as she goes down. It did look painful. But very funny! Cliff is the second one down. We could have predicted that. Christie just gives up.

The comp is down to Nicole, Jackson and Tommy. And we're into commercial.

Jackson tells us if Tommy goes down, he'll go down and let Nicole take it. Unfortunately, Nicole slips and goes down, leaving Tommy and Jackson to duke it out for the win. Nicole is in tears in the DR -- she really thought she could win this one and wants to see her family.

Jackson tells Tommy he's good (if he falls). Christie is still feeling all kinds of confident -- she'd rather Tommy win, but feels Jackson won't target her. Tommy ends up going down. Tommy points out to us that Jackson can't play HOH next week and the deal doesn't include Christie.

JACKSON/MICHIE IS THE NEW HOH (again).

Jackson tells us he didn't want to win this HoH -- but didn't want Tommy to win it. He seems sincere about being in the alliance of four. Christie isn't so sure she's good with Jackson. Jackson is actually very consoling to Nicole. Nicole is upset that she contributes nothing to the group and feels she needs to "build her resume" in the game.

Jackson tells us he promised not to put Tommy up. He can't put up Holly, Nicole or Cliff. It only leaves Jess and Christie. Cliff thinks he himself would rather Tommy and Christie on the block.

Jess is feeling safe because Jackson is HoH. I say she's about as safe as she was in the wall comp just as she started to fall. 

Jackson tells Christie he's putting her on the block with Jess. Jess would be his target. He tries to convince her it's a good move -- their deal to use her as a pawn will be done, Jess is a mental threat to his game and blah-blah-blah. Christie cries to us.

Christie cries more to us. Nicole and Christie have a teary talk in the dark bedroom. Nicole and Christie cry and, of course, Tommy is the one to offer them comfort. Christie cries about crying. The BB voice announces, "Big Brother loves you." Gag me with a spoon please.

Holly tells us she thinks it's smarter to get Christie out rather than Jess. I agree with her. But Jackson didn't ask me. 

Cliff tells Holly and Jackson that if they need to put him up as a pawn if the veto is used. Jackson likes that idea.

Christie, the one who didn't think it important for her to win HoH and dropped just because, is upset that Tommy didn't win the comp. She's mad that he didn't include her in on the deal with Jackson for safety. After all, he's practically family! She thinks Jackson/Holly are working with Cliff./Nicole and tells Tommy that. He thinks it could be. (And it is.)

A segment on Cliff missing his wife and his love of dancing with her. And, the love he has for her. He would like to renew their wedding vows. Very sweet.

Jackson tells Jess he's terrified going up against her and Christie in upcoming memory comps. He loves her but there are two seats he has to fill. He starts talking numbers. He's skirting all around the core of his intent then blurts out that he probably will have to put up her and Christie. She's shocked. 

Christie goes up to the HOH room to suck up to Jackson. She asks if Jess wins the veto, who will go up? He tells her Cliff. She wants to make sure she (Christie) has the votes to stay. Jackson would have to break a tie if it happens. He tells her he wants to work with her. She tells us she knows he wouldn't keep her over Cliff. She tells him she trusts him. 

Time for the nominations ceremony. Jackson nominates Christie, then Jess. He tells them they have the greatest chance of beating, he loves them both and it's a game.

Tommy tells us he'll feel partially responsible if Christie leaves and he'll be along. Christie and Jess both say how they need to win veto.