BB18: Power of Veto Show Blog Party - July 27

Hamster watchers ready? Let's get this show going! 

As the show airs here on the East Coast, I'll be constantly updating this entry. Refresh the page to get the latest news! As always, the real party is in the comments area!

Oh! A recap to start out the show! How exciting! Heh. 

Okay, we pick up after the nominations ceremony. Frank knows James went with the house, but claims James has no backbone. Bridgette is upset because James lied to her. Bridgette cries. She says "freaking" a lot in the Diary Room. She usually uses another F word all the time on the feeds,

Zakiyah, Paul, Nicole and Da'Vonne dance in the storage room.

Frank goes to James and tells him he expected to go on the block, but feels bad about Bridgette. James tells him that his name is in with every fight in the house. Frank claims all kinds of goodness and light. He points towards Da'Vonne. 

Time to pick PoV players! Back to the old method post-Road Kill. They each pull a chip. James gets Michelle. Bridgette picks Da'Vonne. Frank gets Nicole. 

Time for the veto comp. Natalie is hosting -- it's a big festival with water slides, laser beams an OTEV frog. 

James tells us he's throwing the comp so he doesn't get any more blood on his hands. Sure enough, he's out first. Da'Vonne is out next -- she didn't throw it, just couldn't find the right disc. Nicole goes out next. Frank is out. Bridgette doesn't make it.

Michelle wins the Golden Power of Veto!

After the clean-up, Frank goes to Michelle. He tells her the fans like big moves, house flips, veto used. She's not acting receptive. She tells him if he throws Bridgette under the bus, she'll use it. He won't do it. He tells her that Bridgette is the most loyal persona in the house. She likes him and had wanted to work with him. She tells him it's the house. He says flip it.

The rest all invade the room to break up the talk. 

Paul confronts Frank.  

James calls a house meeting. It includes the nominees. Paul starts leading the talk. Frank says he wants it used and Da'Vonne go up. Da'Vonne says it won't be used.  Paulie tells Frank the numbers aren't on his side and stop looking like an idiot. Frank thanks Da'Vonne and Paulie for having a backbone and leaves the room.

Bridgette tries to connect with Michelle. She feels attacked by Michelle. Michelle tells her roughly that she (Bridgette) stole Frank from her.  

Veto meeting time! She gives them a chance to make a plea.
Bridgette - Nice, respect, do best for your game.
Frank - Why waste my breath?

Michelle does not use the Power of Veto. Bridgette and Frank remain on the block.

BB18: Live Feeds into Wednesday Morning - July 27

Just messin' with nails while worlds collide

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of A'lying Alliances:

• The most interesting developments of the night came in the morning here on the East Coast.
• Y'see, Frank has been playing the "dead man walking" card with Bridgette, telling her that he's not campaigning to stay, knows he's targeted and all.
• Yet, he has been talking to people trying to scramble to stay.
• Well, Da'Vonne and Zakiyah told Bridgette some of the reasons they want him gone, including the butt-slapping incidents.
• It turns out that Bridgette had no clue exactly what that was all about, nor how angry people were about it.
• Frank had told her people were just trying to make him look bad.
• And she believed him.
• Just as she believed that he would never campaign to stay at her expense.
• She feels betrayed and hurt by him.
• That's just what they want.
• Paul had an extended talk with Frank, telling him that he (Frank) belittles him and makes people feel uncomfortable.
• Frank denied all and said that he never said Bridgette was ready to go home.
• Practically everybody (except Michelle, who's scared) has visited poor little Bridgette to offer her support.
• It looks like the latest has sealed the deal -- Frank might be going unanimously tomorrow night.
• As I type this up, Paulie is talking to Frank. He told him that everybody is hovering around Bridgette and she feels he (Frank) has been campaigning against her.
• He calls Frank a "legend" and "my bro." 
• Frank keeps telling him that he's not worried about it. The Bridgette being upset at him? His going home? What's IT, Frank?
• Now that I think of it, Paulie hasn't really been involved in the consoling Bridgette times. He came in, listened for a bit and left.
• Paulie has been adamant all along about not liking Bridgette.
• Huh.
• Maybe there will be one vote for Frank to stay.
• Then again, he could be blowing smoke.
• Too bad Frank doesn't have mist or he could stay in the game.
• Frank says the Diary Room makes him feel like ____ because he hasn't been trying for votes.
• The saga goes on ...

Paulie needs to keep that bandana on.

Frank's been lying to me?!?!?!

You belittle me, Frank. (Someone has to.)

I'm waiting for them to turn on each other

A happy Day ... for now

BB18: Live Feeds into Tuesday Evening - July 26

But can he win a comp not thrown to him?

Here's the latest from that Big Brother House of Melancholy Mice:

• After the rush of excitement with the clues, secret room and envelopes, today was the calm after the storm.
• Sure, none of them trust each other.
• Sure, some of them even strongly dislike each other.
• But, it generally wasn't a day for kerfuffles.
• Da'Vonne tried to pump Michelle wondering if there's been any talk of flipping the vote.
• "The vote" would be the plan to evict Frank.
• They all sat around talking about each other, most of it in the negative.
• James got his HoH digital camera. You know the next line ...
• ... And fun was had by all.
• Although Victor has been playing a bit better by laying low, he's irking them all with his eating habits. The ice cream is almost gone. He made like five pizzas one day. And, the dude just eats too much and cooks too much.
• Paul the Recruit who watched a part of one season before going in the house, thinks Natalie has no clue about the game and contributes nothing to the house. He wants her out.
• @@
• Paul thinks Victor is dumb for sharing the code to get in the room with Nicole and others.
• Paul thinks he's the greatest thing to ever grace us with his presence.
• Just ask him. As a matter of fact, he'd be willing to share that information without being asked!
• Zakiyah told Nicole that Da'Vonne's been opening up to her a bit more, but she still doesn't really trust her. (They had a falling out last week or so.)
• They explored more around the secret room, but the envelopes were the only treasure to be found.
• BB wised up and blocked the code from working so they can't hang out in there.
• That's about it for now. Lots of small non-game talk or repeated already fantasized dreams of HoH and who needs to go home.

Frank hasn't given shout-outs to his girl lately

Not being a Zany Zakiyah

What is with the fake eyeglasses every season?

BB18: Live Feeds into Tuesday Morning - July 26

I did have hopes for her ... no more

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Lackadaisical Louts:

• As I mentioned in my last update -- Michelle did not use the veto and they all (I think) have envelopes from the secret room. ONE of the envelopes contain a RETURN TRIP TICKET which will allow the bearer immediately back in the house if evicted. They aren't allowed to open the envelopes until evicted. Paul was the first one to figure out the clues.
• Bridgette can't convince Michelle that she didn't say something about shaving her eyebrows off while she slept. She can't convince her because she can't convince herself. She thinks it's possible she said it.
• So, Bridgette thinks all the girls bully her.
• Nicole's playing both sides is catching up to her between Da'Vonne and Frank planting seeds that she can't be trusted.
• She continues to cling onto Corey like he's some sort of lifeline. 
• The latest is that she's all upset that Corey didn't give her the code to get into the secret room and she had to figure it out for herself. (Actually, Victor helped her.)
• @@
• Why oh why did she get involved in a showmance?
• You can tell that Corey does care for her as a person. But there's nothing really much more to it. It won't last a week outside the house.
• The conspiracy theorists will have their day until Thursday ... beyond if Frank has the return trip ticket. Even Paulie is theorizing that BB will swap envelopes with Frank so he stays.
• Bridgette cried.
• Michelle cried.
• Oh, save your drama for your Mama, sunshines!
• Well, maybe not your Mama Day. She would easily turn it around to use it against you.
• Speaking of Da'Vonne, Paulie is a bit worried that things he's said to her will be used against him.
• Michelle cried and cried. And cried. Bridgette won't accept her apology. She really likes Frank and has done him wrong. She's being portrayed badly. And on and on.
• Poor Michelle. She's the superfan who should have known what she's getting into, right?
• By being the first to figure out the code to the room, Paul now thinks he's even more all that and a bag of chips. His ego diminishes his beard.
• Zakiyah thinks that Nicole is becoming more distant with her, as is Paulie. She tells Da'Vonne this. Hmm.
• There are all kinds of bad feelings due to the room. Many were asleep when the clue came over the screen about it. They're mad because the ones seeing it didn't wake them up. Others are mad because people wouldn't just give them the code.
• @@
• Michelle thinks that Victor is one who wants to be in control. It seems to me many of them want to be in control -- Frank, Paulie, Paul, Da'Vonne.
• Nicole and Corey made up. For now.
• Bridgette and Michelle, not so much.
• It does look like it will still be Frank walking out the door Thursday.
• But ... as Stephen King said, sometimes they come back.
• Heh, heh.

Are the eyebrows still there? Peek, peek.

Likes to be in charge

Still a target, but playing much wiser

Apparently, I'm an a______. Well, yeah!

BB18: Live Feeds into Monday Evening - July 25

How I feel right about now

Here's the latest from inside the Big Brother House of Crashing Cards:

• Michelle and Bridgette talks, ostensibly to smooth things out.
• That didn't go so well.
• It became heated words about how Bridgette was scared of Tiffany, how Michelle leaves the room when Bridgette enters and ... Eyebrow-Gate.
• I never really caught the start of that on the feeds. Either Bridgette or Tiffany said they were going to shave Michelle's eyebrows while she was sleeping.
• Michelle says it was Bridgette.
• Bridgette says it was Tiffany.
• It kept going on to the point where Bridgette started yelling, "Why do you hate me, Michelle?!?!?!"
• @@
• Bridgette told Michelle "everybody" was talking about her (Michelle's) appearance.
• Things were no better between them, probably a bit worse, by the time the kerfuffle frizzled out.
• With Bridgette going off a bit, Natalie is worried that she might say things about her.
• Then Da'Vonne had to get all caught up in it, telling things Bridgette has said.
• Gah. 
• When the feeds returned after the veto ceremony, there were no surprises.
• Michelle did NOT use the veto. Frank and Bridgette remain on the block.
• Frank is sure he's the one who will be voted out.
• He told Bridgette, if she wins HoH, nominate Nicole and James.
• What? No Da'Vonne who has been his target for a few weeks now?
• Nope. They made up.
• Now Da'Vonne is on the Oust Nicole Train with Frank, bad-mouthing Nicole.
• Though, they're right -- she's been playing both sides of the house. And, she's a bad liar and can't cover her tracks well.
• James told Paulie that Bridgette (it came from Frank originally) said Nicole is "flip-floppy." Paulie thinks that originally came from Da'Vonne.
• James warns the Pauls (Paul and Paulie) to watch their backs around Da'Vonne.
• Everybody needs to watch their back around Da'Vonne, I say!
• Since these hamsters aren't smart enough to really examine all the travel stuff, BB had to make an announcement on the video screen that clues are all around them.
• Yeah, that's for the secret room.
• Paul figured out the clues first.
• It has to do with dialing numbers on the phones, getting a message and going through a red tunnel to a room.
• Once there, he got a card. It tells him that there are 12 envelopes, more than one person can enter the room. In ONE envelope, there's a special prize.
• It's a RETURN TRIP TICKET. If voted out, he/she can come right back in!
• The envelope holders cannot open their envelopes until evicted.
• It took a while, but I think everybody got one.
• Da'Vonne commented, "Figures. The week Frank is set to go home."
• Let the conspiracy theorists start in now.
• We won't know until we know. If memory serves, the envelopes are only good for the next four evictions.

"You can't trust Nicole."

Yard time

James warns Pauls to watch their backs

Hard to tell where beard ends, tattoo begins