Survivor 45: Cast and Stuff

Unfortunately, I've been ill and haven't had a chance to really delve into the cast of Survivor 45. The show premieres next Wednesday evening at 8PM ET/PT. All episodes will be 90-minutes and it will be followed by The Amazing Race, also airing 90-minutes. The Big Brother veto show moves to Tuesday nights but there is no BB veto show scheduled for the 26th, only the Sunday and Thursday shows.

I found an article on Parade.com with in-depth interviews with each castaway that you might want to read. This link to that article is this here linked link.

While there definitely seems to be great diversity of cultures, once again we see a rather young cast. Bruce, the one who was taken out by medical for a head injury in the first episode of Survivor 44 within the first 12 hours of the show, is returning. But he and only one other castaway, a woman named Julie, are in their late 40s. Everyone else is more than a decade, most of them two decades or more, younger. Hmm.

A blog pool will be opening up for the castaways soon. Stay tuned! As usual, the first boot will be reassigned.

Austin Li Coon, age 26

Brandon "Brando" Meyer, age 23

Brandon Donlon, age 25

Bruce Perreault, age 47

Dee Valladares, age 26

Please read on after the jump ...

BB25: Live Feeds into Tuesday Evening - Sept. 19

 

Jared tells all to her. She tells Matt and Jag.

Once again, my apologies. I have really been whammed with some kind of super cold/virus thing. I did test negative for Covid, so that was good. But now that I've stopped constantly coughing, I can type once again! Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of A Deranged Despot:

• The tides have turned in the house.
• It started with the Cory/Jared brouhaha-ish on the Izzy eviction day in which Jared's outright lies were exposed.
• And it continues, exposing lies of Cirie's now as well.
• How did that happen?
• Well, the fool Jared tells everything that Cirie says to him in confidence to Blue who, in turn, tells Matt and Jag.
• Also, due to Jared being "with" Blue, Cirie trusts her to an extent, as well.
• For example, Cirie and Jared talked about how they think Matt and Jag have been throwing comps and they're likely to throw the HOH comp Thursday.
• Now they won't throw it! Blue told them they were expecting them to throw it.
• Felicia has now turned on Cirie as she found out that she (Felicia) is being blamed for saying a lot of things that actually came from Jared and Cirie.
• The main target after Cam goes will be Jared. If they can't get Jared out, they will settle for Cirie out.
• Although a few days ago, Felicia brought up the idea of a double eviction this week with Cirie, that thought seems to have passed and no one has mentioned it lately.
• The plan for the next HOH (in which Jared can't play), is to get Jared out.
• I think that would be the best thing for Cirie's game at this time. However, the damage her kid has done might be irreparable.
• Of course, with the double it could be Jared and then Cirie.
• The only comp thing in Cirie's favor is that she studies people and the house. She knows the comp wins, etc. But in a physical comp, her only real competition for a loss is Felicia.
• On a sad note, I was watching when Matt was in the bathroom talking with America, Cory and Jag. They kept whispering. At one point, he just came out saying that he couldn't take the whispers. "It's so annoying," he said, abruptly leaving the bathroom.
• He ended up going to the HOH room alone for a good cry in frustration. That was last night.
• He told Felicia today that all the whispering in the house was just too much. He's getting headaches and can't concentrate on everyone's lips at the same time.
• On good Matt notes, Felicia told him that it's a great thing he's doing by being on the show and perhaps attracting other deaf people into trying out for reality shows. Plus, Cirie gave him praise and told him he would do well when he told her he'd like to get into modeling.
• Cirie has been going around trying to mend fences with others. But can she keep up when Jared bulldozes those fences right down? I don't know.
• Oh? What about Cam?
• Well, he did start CAMpaigning (get it?) today.
• For what good that will do.
• Everybody except Mecole just nodded and didn't say much at all.
• Mecole talked to the camera (us) about it. She would rather America go. But she was trying to figure out the votes. She would need five votes to flip it. Since there are eight voting, Jared would have the tiebreaker if 4-4.
• Other than just trivial non-game talk today, most of the talk was who would win HOH and what would they do.
• It's as if Cameron is already gone and they've moved on.
• At this time, the most solid two in the house are Matt and Jag.
• The showmances not so much.
• I don't think we will have much of a Waffle Wednesday tomorrow.
• Laters!

The Minutemen

Will he go out in the double?

Cory! Your mother is watching!

Home alone if America goes out first.

Cam knows Thursday will be POW to him.

BB25: Live Feeds Power of Veto Meeting Update - Sept. 18

The Unreliables with a cast change.

You'll have to excuse the short update, please.

• It was (of course) determined that Jag would use the veto to save either Cory or America.
• Jag left it up to them as when Cameron went up as the renom, he would definitely be voted out.
• Jag said if they can't decide, he will remove Cory because Cory chose him as Houseguest Choice to play the veto.
• After imbibing wine last night, America told Jag to take Cory down.
• Cam knew the minute that Jag won the veto that he was sunk.
• Other than several times sitting alone looking pensive, he's been okay.
• He said he will try to stay but will go out with dignity. I guess we will see.
• The live feeds were blocked for the veto ceremony.
• Cameron is on the block and it seems like it is indeed against America.

Dead man eating pizza.

 

BB25: HOH and Nominations Show Blog Party - Sept. 17

 

Good evening. Just to give you a heads up -- I'm not feeling well tonight. I seem to have caught some kind of bug. As a result, my live-blogging of the show won't be up to its usual self. I'm also not thrilled that the show isn't starting until 10:30PM ET, either.

My apologies in advance. Oh, and now I'm hearing 10:50PM ET for the start of the show. Sigh.

At least the show tonight is the wall comp which I did cover on the live feeds a few days ago.

We will get to see part of the blow-up between Jared and Cory the day Izzy got evicted.

But we're to the wall first. Oops, back to before the vote. Jared lies to Matt and tells him Jag said they were keeping Felicia. Cory thinks it doesn't make sense that Jag would say anything. Matt blows intel on alliances to Jared. Then Cory gets involved. There is shouting going on. Cory exposes Jared's lies to him as Jared tries to over shout him. Cory did expose Jared's lies and how he lied throwing Jag under the bus.

Back to the comp. Cirie out first in less than ten minutes. Felicia down in just under 19 minutes. America 21 minutes out. Mecole out 27 minutes. Cory 28 minutes out. Jag 35 minutes. Matt 37 minutes. Blue down 43 minutes followed by Bowie Jane. 

JARED wins the HOH! He calls his mother "bro" while hugging her. Eep.

Cameron doesn't feel as uneasy as he thinks others feel. 

Matt and Cameron's punishments are over.

Jared tells Cirie that he wants to nominate America and Cory with a backdoor plan of Cameron.

Nominations ceremony ... that's just what he does. Cory, then America are nominated.

BB25: Live Feeds Power of Veto Spoilers - Sept. 16

 

Playing for their lives.

The veto winner is at the bottom of this post. 

But, trust me, the stuff in between is good reading!

Here's what's been happening in that Big Brother House of We Gots Ourselves a Pressure Cooker Without a Pressure Cooker:

• Well, the veto picks were made this morning.
• Some of their worst nightmares came true. But, heck, the odds of people getting picked when fewer people are in the house really counts.
• Yep, Cameron was picked to play for the veto.
• Bowie Jane was a random draw by Jared (who would pick her anyway?) and Cory got Houseguest Choice, choosing Jag. Then America drew a chip -- Jag. She had to redraw and randomly picked Cameron. Matt will host.
• Oh my, that kind of throws a wrench into the works, doesn't it? She had told Jag before that the only chip she didn't want to pull was Cameron.
• Cameron told America if he wins, he will take her off the block.
• He also told her to throw the comp to him. Yeah, like she will do that with her game on the line!
• His plan is to then push for a Jag renom and work on everyone to get Jag out. After all, Jag was ALREADY voted out.
• Cam knows that America doesn't want to lose Cory and he thinks Cory stands a chance to stay against Jag. 
• Then they can work together! Like that will happen. America will cut him the first chance she gets!
• Then there was the big Cirie/Jared talk. It came about because Blue put a bug in her ear (not literally, mind you) that since Izzy was gone people were talking about how close she (Cirie) is with Jared.
• Cirie told Jared, for the good of his game, if Cameron wins and takes down America, put her (Cirie) up and she will go home.
• She thinks it would save his game to show that he is not attached to her.
• What she doesn't realize is that she sees her little boy with rose-colored glasses. Maybe it's those sunglasses she wears all the time.
• Jared has as many people after him as there are after Cameron.
• Both are obnoxious and arrogant plus they keep winning comps! Of course, people want BOTH of them out!
• Cirie thinks that Jared could team up with Blue, Matt and perhaps Jag or Cory.
• She made the offer to save his game, a game already sunk by the first chance they get to evict him whether she's there or not. She said it's purely a game move and nobody (like us) could say anything about it because she volunteered.
• Um, no. Blue has already said that if she wins HOH she will be nominating Jared. 
• Neither Matt nor Jag have any love for him.
• Cirie tried Cirie-misting Jared about it, but he did tell her no.
• Although later he told Blue (who knows she's his mother) that he was considering it.
• Supposedly Jared has a deal for safety with Cameron if Cameron doesn't go up as a nom or a renom in the next HOH since he can't play for it.
• But it's Big Brother. A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse and the entire game is just a big spool of lies!
• They still aren't even thinking that this week is a double eviction. They are too busy worrying about the veto comp.
• Jared made it apparent to Bowie Jane that he doesn't think she will win. No, he didn't come out and say it to her -- he just kept telling her how he HAS to win and Cameron CANNOT win.
• What if she wins?
• She would probably go by Jared's wishes. She just wants to last in the house until jury.
• Jag has agreed to Jared he would take America down if he wins.
• Before the veto picks, yet another new "alliance" or, at least an agreement, was made. Matt, Cirie, Jag, Jared, Blue and Felicia all agreed that what's said between them stays between them. They call it "This Thing is Not a Thing."
• Okaaay ... but they don't realize that Matt, Jag and Blue aren't really "with" the others, per se. And, what's said between them is certainly not shared with Jared, Felicia or Cirie!
• I should make a point that this is the busiest feeds season I've seen in years. Like the casting or not, some strategy, alliance (fake or real) or scheming is going on.
• The feeds got blocked around 2:30PM ET for the veto comp.
• I'm just going to wait for the theme music to stop, see who won and then get this posted.
• It could be a long wait. I don't have to watch the adoptable animals, though. I minimize the feeds on my computer with the loud theme music turned way down and do other stuff. 
• I need to catch up on my Only Murders in the Building. If I hear the music in the background stop and voices, I'll flash on back to the live feeds to see the winner and get a screen cap.
• Feeds have now been down almost four hours as I type this. Rumor on the street -- okay, Twitter -- is that the comp will be OTEV. We will see. Hopefully soon.
• At almost 7PM ET, the feeds came back on.
• JAG WON THE POWER OF VETO! It was not OTEV.
• Jag won by 40 seconds, Cameron came in second, Jared third.

He has the necklace!

Jared, put me up.

Frenemies or fake friends, real enemies.

The latest new "alliance."