BB23: HoH Comp Finish/Nominations Show Blog Party - Aug. 8

 

Good evening! As you're all aware, much has been happening on the live feeds. But, since this is a show post and people who do not watch the feeds come here, please remember this is a NO SPOILERS ZONE. Thank you!

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

Previously on brings up the Cookout and Tiffany's strategy for their success. We pick up the action at the HOH comp ... Derek falls off the wall first -- shocking everybody, of course! It's been raining on them and the "passengers" above them are ill with green slime vomit. Claire gives up since she has safety anyway.

One by one they keep falling -- SarahBeth and Hannah simultaneously, Kyland, Britini ...

Tiffany doesn't really care about winning the HOH. She just doesn't want Alyssa to win it and feels she needs to outlast her.

A shivering Azag goes down. Derek X looks one with the wall, barely moving and lined up right against the wall. Tiffany slips and falls and Alyssa remains up. Xavier and Alyssa deal with Derek X for safety and then Alyssa goes down followed by Xavier.

DEREK X is the new HOH. One hour 23 minutes was the length of the comp.

Alyssa is all whiny and feeling sorry for herself saying how she sucks at comps. Hannah and Derek X jump around in the storage room. She tells us she wants his HOH to be her HOH. She has targets in mind for her own game's good.

Christian doesn't have safety like others on his team but thinks he can't go up -- he could only be a backdoor. SarahBeth and Hannah (who they have started to call Chaddha - sp?) try to mend fences. Well, SarahBeth does, anyway.

Derek X talks with Claire and Tiffany. He tells them that he gave safety to Alyssa and Xavier but Xavier wants him to guarantee all Kings safe. That's not the deal. 

In front of Hannah Tiffany slips and mentions the Royal Flush when Derek X talked about backdooring Christian. Derek does not want to nominate Christian right off. After Tiffany leaves them, Hannah questions him about the Royal Flush. He tries to convince her it's a one week thing.

Hannah talks to Tiffany about it, too. Tiffany is aghast that she herself let it slip. She too downplays it. But Hannah is keeping it in mind just in case she needs that information in the future.

Derek F and Azah talk. She tells us her face gives away her emotions. Derek tells us that you have to fake it until you make it in the house. He tries giving Azah lessons.

Xavier once again tries to get safety for the Kings. Derek X says no. Xavier points out to us that the Kings are all a part of the Royal Flush. Is Derek going against the Royal Flush?

Derek talks to SarahBeth who also says she would like the Royal Flush to be safe. What can she offer him? Would she be willing to be a pawn?

Segment on Derek F's sleeping habits.

Derek X continues his HOH questioning. No one wants to say they would go up as a pawn. Britini seems the closest to saying okay. He decides to talk to Hannah. She advises going after Christian and tells him that Britini would likely target him before SarahBeth would.

Time for the nominations ceremony! Derek nominates SarahBeth, then Britini. He tells them trust is an issue and they were nominated to keep his trust in the game. Say what?

Derek tells us that he wants to backdoor Christian but will take out SarahBeth if it comes down to that.

BB23: Live Feeds into Sunday Afternoon - August 8

 

Safe anyway. Good.

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Woeful Waifs:

• Those only watching the show are woefully behind this week. Yeah.
• Here's the rundown: Derek X won the HoH comp, promising safety to Alyssa and Xavier (the two others remaining up with him at the end). He nominated Britini and SarahBeth with the thought to try to backdoor Christian if possible. If no one is saved, SarahBeth would go home. Britini is really a pawn. BUT Britini won the Power of Veto and, although the meeting isn't until tomorrow, she surely will save herself.
• Britini has been handling the nomination well as she trusts Derek X when he tells her she really is a pawn. But, still ... save yourself, girl!
• So ... will it be SarahBeth and Christian nominated this week?
• If so, which one would go home?
• That's the dilemma.
• Derek F and Azah are worried that one of them will be the replacement nom. Nah, that ain't gonna happen.
• Thinking of it purely from a Derek X mind-thought, I would think that Christian is a bigger threat to his personal game and this might be the only shot to get him out due to his comp beast sort of ways. While we know SarahBeth is very cognizant of the game, she really hasn't proved to be a huge threat during comps. True, she could be just laying low. But I still think of Christian as a more immediate threat who will be hard to get out of the house.
• That seems to be Derek's thoughts as well ... get out Christian while he can. But, what if it backfires and SarahBeth gets evicted instead?
• Oh my. We just might have a predicament going on here!
• Y'see, SarahBeth has a small army working against her. It's a really small one, but very successful so far.
• We call that army Tiffany.
• She has enlisted Hannah as her private mercenary.
• Tiffany sees SarahBeth as a threat to her own game and it does look like SarahBeth might be catching on to her ruthless ways.
• Plus, SarahBeth "stole" Kyland from under Tiffany's control. Horrors!
• We'll be seeing that drama play out as long as SarahBeth, Kyland and Tiffany are all in the house. Kyland doesn't seem to be plotting against Tiffany but he is definitely pushing for SarahBeth to stay.
• Oh, well ... to the PoV comp -- it was the rewards/punishments one in which each person could trade what they won with someone already out of the comp.
• Derek X was crying after the comp. It seems he promised himself before entering the house that if he had any opportunity to win cash, he would take the cash.
• Instead, he kept a punishment instead of giving said punishment to SarahBeth and taking $5,000 from her.
• He said he didn't want to take the money when he had put her on the block during her birthday week.
• She says it's the most expensive birthday gift she's ever received.
• I bet it is!
• Derek's punishment is that he is a bathroom attendant for 24 hours. It comes with a costume and a trumpet. He has to announce the arrival of anyone using the bathroom. Um. Okay.
• Alyssa got a call from home and a laptop (not in the house). And, if she's still here in four weeks she can have a video call.
• As you know, Britini got the veto and SarahBeth got the cash.
• Kyland got a punishment called the Jackass Club while Claire got 52 Pick Up. I'm not too sure of the details of either of those. I haven't caught much talk about it and neither have started yet.
• The hamsters are thinking it could be a double eviction this coming week. They're wrong. Julie tells us these things ahead of time.
• That's it for now!

I'm still waiting on good gameplay from Azah

Apparently not too crestfallen to gloat
 about the money

Upset that he had vowed he would take
 any cash prizes he can

Is Tiffany wearing out her welcome
 in the HOH?

She and Derek X do not NEED a showmance.
Quit it!

Derek's punishment costume sans
trumpet and staff

BB23: Live Feeds Power of Veto Bulletin - Aug. 8

 

I've been fighting on and off internet issues for most of the day. So, this isn't going to be long. What I did catch of the feeds was pretty much same old ... Tiffany has Hannah stirring up issues for taking out SarahBeth, Derek F is in Britini's camp, Tiffany doesn't want Christian backdoored, Kyland and SarahBeth are snugglebunnies now, Tiffany is ridiculously anti-Kyland as she thinks he's too close to SarahBeth and so forth. Much will hinge on the Power of Veto winner.

In addition to Derek X, Britini and SarahBeth, we have: Claire, Kyland and Alyssa playing in the veto comp. Hannah is hosting it.

The feeds have been blocked for the comp and I'm just waiting them out and hoping my internet stays working.

BRITINI WON THE POWER OF VETO!!!

BB23: Live Feeds into Friday Evening/Nominations - Aug. 6

 

All dolled up and nowhere to go

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Tired Terrapins:

• The wall took a toll on most of them using muscles they really haven't been using, not even in workouts.
• Derek X has repeatedly said his deals with Alyssa and Xavier are just that -- he did not guarantee safety to the (now defunct) Kings on the whole.
• Much of Derek X's day was spent in one-on-one meetings with everyone.
• Like Xavier had done before him, he asked the same questions of each person. Xavier only asked a few questions, Derek has six.
• Unfortunately, when the hamsters compared notes, it gave some a chance to adjust their answers before talking to them.
• Hannah ratted them out to him but not until a bit of damage had been done.
• And, unlike Xavier who just asked questions, Derek actually talked more.
• Despite the meetings, he's still being heavily influenced by Tiffany.
• It seems likely that it will be SarahBeth and Britini on the block with a backdoor plan of Christian.
• Derek talked to us after each meeting.
• Hmm. He worked out a deal with Azah in which they keep each other safe (if possible) for two weeks.
• When he talked to us he said that deal freed him up to put Britini and Derek F on the block. By keeping Alyssa and Azah, they will surely go after each other and he would let 'em duke it out. (My words, not his. He is not advocating fisticuffs, I am.)
• Hmm.
• Derek F actually (although a bit reluctantly) said he could go up as a pawn. He didn't really volunteer to do so, of course.
• Xavier told him that the only person who might target him and see him as a threat in the game would be Britini (because he put her on the block).
• Um. Xavier needs to wake up. Many see him as a threat. If the Cookout lasts to the final six, he's on the short list of targets. I've heard many mention his name.
• Hannah is still pushing for SarahBeth to go on the block, loyal soldier of Tiffany that she is.
• I don't think Derek X has any personal reason to go after SarahBeth except for the Tiffany and Hannah pushing the subject.
• Derek got called to the Diary Room, presumably to start the nominations ceremony, with Tiffany missing her one-on-one talk.
• "If I'm on the block, I'm on the block," she said.
• Yeah, right. AS IF, Tiffany. You know darn well he won't put you on the block!
• That would be interesting, though!
• There is increasing friction for Derek's attention between Kyland and Tiffany. Now, Kyland is almost to the point of lousing up his own game in defense of SarahBeth while Tiffany is dead-set that SarahBeth needs to go. 
• The feeds were blocked with adoptable animals a bit past 7:30PM EDT. So, the nominations must be on.
• They are always blocked much longer than needed for the ceremony.
• But I have heard that this is one of those things that, if the HOH messes up the lines, they keep doing retakes until it's right. I doubt Derek X will screw up the lines but I can think of many in past seasons who probably did!
• SarahBeth and Britini are nominated for eviction
• DEREK X is crying to Britini as she comforts him. Now, there's a change. She says she knows his plan and it's okay.

That slime weighed down my hair and I fell off!

I have to stop throwing comps and step up my game

Missing the HOH bed

When they yawn, I yawn

Whozzat? Oh. Claire in shades. Carry on.

With great power comes great responsibility

BB23: Live Feeds into Friday Morning - August 6

Storage room celebration ensues

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Whale Watchers:

• If you didn't read my HOH comp updates post, that would be a must before reading this one!
• Derek F blamed his fall from grace, er, fall from the ship wall because the two handholds were unevenly set.
• Um. Okay. I'm sure his physical stature had little to do with the fall.
• Azah had the best excuse, though!
• The goop/slime directly hit her hair, weighed it down and threw her off balance!
• As I mentioned in my update, Derek X looked so solid through the comp that he seemed one with the ship. He stood straight and tall with his back lined up against the wall, barely even moving when they did have moments they could.
• Xavier looked solid but not as solid.
• Oh, well. Derek X promised him safety nonetheless. I personally don't think Derek X would have targeted Xavier anyway.
• I swear Hannah's tackle of Derek X was probably rougher than her fall from the wall.
• You KNOW she's safe this week!
• And, since they seem more of a friendship than any sort of showmance, we too might be safe from tawdry happenings in the HOH room.
• The physical aspect of the comp rather did them all in afterwards.
• They're not used to the aching muscles!
• They had pizza after they washed up.
• Yummy for their tummy.
• The HOH room reveal was actually kind of low key compared to most.
• I don't think it was because they were unhappy with Derek's win. I think it's more because they were all so exhausted.
• Only Alyssa and Christian seemed less than thrilled that Derek X won.
• They have good reason being that they just might end up on the block.
• Of course, if Hannah and Tiffany have their way with Derek's HOH, SarahBeth just might be toast.
• But then again, Derek X is seriously considering actually backdooring Christian -- putting two pawns on the block and hoping Christian doesn't play and win PoV. His choice of pawns seem to be a combination of Britini/Derek F or Britini/Azah.
• Hmm.
• Tiffany is already scheming and working with the chess board moves on the HOH bed with Derek.
• The (ex)Kings volunteered a second run at Have Nots. There are only three this week -- Xavier, Christian and Alyssa.
• Nominations will be later today.

Will it be Tiffany's HOH?

Derek read his own letter and didn't get teary.

Survived tackling Derek X after his win.

SO not a showmance!

Britini demonstrating how she had to stand during comp.