BB23: Live Feeds into Monday Morning - Sept. 6

 

Getting a bit too controlling I say!

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Cracks in the Cookout:

• But first ... I want to grouse a bit about the aired show editing. How come they are intent on editing Derek and Xavier as the good guys and Tiffany as a villain? The men are doing the same things she's been doing, perhaps even a bit more forcefully and Derek has spent an inordinate amount of time cussing out others and the show itself. Yet they are portrayed as the good guys? Give me a break!
• Although they definitely have a group goal with the Cookout, it's limiting good players more than any previous alliance in the history of the game.
• It's at the point where even since Derek X, some Cookout members have strong bonds with their non-Cookout counterparts and would personally rather work with them than some Cookout members.
• And that's where we are now. 
• Azah wants to tell Claire about the Cookout and the reason she will have to go on the block to replace Alyssa when Alyssa saves herself.
• Tiffany also wants to tell her.
• "Oh NOES, you do NOT do that!" says Xavier.
• He doesn't want his buddy Alyssa to find out about the Cookout.
• Then she would know he's just been playing her.
• Just from watching the feeds, I can see that Tiffany was NOT "just playing" either Derek X or Claire. She has genuine feelings for them, more so than she has for Derek F or Xavier.
• It was heartbreaking to watch Tiffany explain to Claire why she has to put her up as the renom.
• Word got out and about to just about everyone except Alyssa that Claire had been told.
• Claire told Tiffany she understands and won't hold it against her.
• Claire cried as her dreams have been crushed.
• But she did straighten up and mingle with the others before going to bed a bit early.
• There was a bit of scuttlebutt with Hannah, Tiffany and Kyland about voting out Xavier, but I don't see that really going anywhere.
• The veto meeting will be later today.

Derek and Xavier have been
getting on her nerves.

Has probably cost herself the game

Tiffany explains it all to Claire. Claire cries.

Hannah still does weird things with her mouth,
like chewing the inside of her lip.

Would he even be in the house if
 his father wasn't famous?

What if she finds out Xavier has
just been using her?

BB23: HoH Comp and Nominations Show Blog Party - Sept. 5

 

Greetings and felicitations! Tonight we get to check out the end of the HOH "endurance" comp (which lost two people before the live show was over). And, then the HOH winner will choose two hamsters for nomination. In real life the veto comp has already been played. But, since this is a show post, it's a NO SPOILERS ZONE! Please don't comment on anything before it's aired. Some folks really don't like spoilers.

I will be live-blogging, regularly updating this entry 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!

Sitting through "Previously On" as I always do ...

We pick up the action at the start of the HOH comp before Derek fell during the commercial break. He's down less than two minutes! Alyssa tells us she was getting dizzy and sick, down in six minutes. Claire drops (as she must overthrow it as secret HOH). Those three are the Have Nots for the week.

They show a segment with Derek pushing Tiffany to throw the comp to him, Kyland or Azah to take the shot against Claire this week.

Hannah is down. Xavier drops at 21 minutes. Azah actually falls at 23 minutes. It's down to Tiffany and Kyland still up. Tiffany is like a rock up there and Kyland is upset that she doesn't seem to have any intention of throwing it. Even Azah in a Diary Room segment is mad at Tiffany, as is Derek.

Kyland tries to deal to no avail. Kyland actually fell (not dropped) at 36 minutes. TIFFANY IS THE NEW HOH ... despite what the Cookout wanted. The others feel she has gone rogue on them.

Tiffany tells us she had no intention of sitting on the block this week -- which she would have been if anyone else in the Cookout won. She wants to build her wins resume and BB is an individual game. The Cookout members are crying SELFISH! I should note that I understand they have a lofty goal but I have never seen another alliance so limiting to what the members can and cannot do.

Alyssa is upset that she's on slop and feels that she and Xavier will be on the block. Xavier is mad because he will likely be on the block for the third week. Ahem ... first time was a random roulette wheel spun by Alyssa, second was his own choice of a punishment for winning a veto he didn't need to win.

Claire thinks that she is definitely safe this week. Kyland tries to talk to Tiffany and now doesn't trust that she's a team player. @@

Derek whines because he's a Have Not and fell down first. He is acting all kinds of defeated and Azah tries to pep talk him. He feels hopeless in all the comps. Hannah tells them that Tiffany didn't want Kyland to win. She tells us them all aiming at each other is good for her own game. She says, after all, BB is an individual game. Heh.

Azah, Derek and Xavier talk. Xavier says that Tiffany and Kyland are playing in their own interest, not for the vision (Black person winning the show). He claims he keeps feeling shafted by them.

Xavier talks to Tiffany. He wants her to take out Claire. She tells him while she doesn't want to put him on the block but if he wins the Power of Veto, he would take her off. He tells us, quite selfishly I might add, that he will do just that to ruin her HOH. 

Derek fusses to us that he will be faking it and cares nothing about going to see Tiffany's HOH room. He and Xavier sit together. Xavier tells us that it should have been Derek or Azah's moment. I say if Derek can't win a comp, he doesn't deserve the HOH! Tiffany, Claire and Hannah watch Kyland, Derek and Xavier being miserable in the living room.

Tiffany tells us that she is playing the game for herself more than the Cookout. She wants Claire to target the guys if she wins HOH next week. She wants the final four to be her, Claire, Hannah and Azah.

She talks to Alyssa who is pulling a real Audrey look in a hoodie, hood up and dark sunglasses. Tiffany tells her that she is considering her and Xavier to break up a pair. Alyssa, pretty wisely, points out that she is good at the end because she wouldn't have any jury votes -- her own allies went out pre-jury. She tells Tiffany that she would have targeted Kyland not her.

Time for the nominations. Tiffany first nominates Alyssa, then Xavier. She says it was a tough decision, not personal, both good game players.

BB23: Live Feeds into Sunday Morning - Sept. 5

 

Well, this is one fine kettle of fish!

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Chaotic Cats:

• What a 24 hours it's been!
• They had the ZingBot visit. 
• I want to make note that I don't care so much for ZingBot. I always have problems understanding what the robot is saying. Maybe if they changed the voice I would like it more. But you know they won't do that.
• Of course, the ZingBot was blocked to the live feeds.
• There were so many issues going on with Alyssa winning the veto that they didn't talk much about the zings.
• Azah's zing seemed to have something to do with her unrequited feelings for Xavier. Apparently something was said about Xavier saying he would never date her.
• She is upset that the public will know.
• But we already know.
• Then there's the Alyssa winning the veto chaos.
• Xavier and Derek are all smug about it as they feel Tiffany has to put Claire up now and she will be evicted just like they wanted.
• Xavier has become super controlling. It's rubbing me the wrong way.
• He wants to hold onto his person, Alyssa, but is all ticked off that Tiffany wanted to hold onto hers for another week.
• His behaviors go from smug to hissy fit over the last few days.
• It does not look good on him.
• Meanwhile, Derek (of all people) is the same way!
• He told Azah he's been carrying her the whole game.
• Say what?
• He's been laying about on any soft surface, not winning comps, you name it!
• To his credit, he cooks and cleans.
• But so do others.
• Azah figures the Claire will go on the block as a replacement.
• She wants to be a vote for her to stay and wants to come clean as far as the Cookout goes.
• If Claire goes up (probably more like when), the vote would be two to three to keep her.
• Derek doesn't like that. They all need just ONE vote to stay! That's the PLAN!
• How DARE Azah not follow direction after she has ridden his coattails all season!
• @@
• He thinks Tiffany should sit on the block with Alyssa next week to punish her for not following his and Xavier's "rules."
• As for Tiffany, she has tried to figure any way she can to not put Claire on the block or, to save her if she does.
• She really really doesn't want to hurt Claire.
• But her hands are kind of tied due to the Cookout.
• She feels that Claire would have gone this week if she hadn't won HOH and now she will go anyway. She was only buying Claire an extra week.
• If she doesn't put Claire on the block she ruins any chance she ever had of winning the game. The Cookout would all vote against her.
• If two Cookout members are at the end, the ones in jury would vote against her.
• If one Cookout Tiffany and one non-Cookout are at the end, would the Cookout go against the ultimate goal and vote her out for spite?
• Hmm. That is a highly unlikely scenario, though.
• Right now I can only believe two Cookouts will be in the final two.
• I surely don't want one to be Derek F. He is nasty and controlling when he has no grounds to be that way. I realize he apparently has a fan base, but in my opinion he should never have been on the show.
• Now, Azah has done little as far as strategy and such. She's not winning comps. But, the difference is that she doesn't think she's all that and a bag of chips. I can't see her winning unless she miraculously starts winning comps and I doubt that will happen. But if it came down to her and Derek ... my vote would be for her to win.
• Tiffany even thought of ways she could put Kyland on the block with Xavier but then she would face the wrath of whichever remained.
• Right now her dilemma is to try to figure a way to make Claire think she's a pawn.
• Sigh.
• Hannah and Tiffany talked about ways to convince Kyland to vote out the strongest competitor Xavier but feel that will go nowhere.
• The veto meeting is tomorrow.
• Alas, I feel it's all written in stone already ...

Alyssa only got a tiny veto bracelet,
no necklace.

I'm not liking what he's becoming. Sigh.

Her name is not being brought up at all.

You're on BB, not Dr. Pimple Popper! Ew!

I do everything, Azah, and you do nothing!

I want to vote for Claire to stay!

BB23: Live Feeds Veto Winner Bulletin - Sept. 4

 

Well, we have a veto winner. They drew for veto players earlier today. In addition to Tiffany, Alyssa and Xavier, we had Azah, Derek and Hannah playing.

Alyssa won.

Oh my.

BB23: Live Feeds Nominations Bulletin - Sept. 3

 

The suspense is over. I mean, with all this expect the unexpected stuff going on, trying to guess who Tiffany would nominate for eviction was darn near impossible.

Yeah, right.

Xavier and Alyssa are on the block.