Love Triangle

It’s eviction day in the house, and the result seems predetermined. Laura will go home. But “predetermined” results have a way of changing on the final day. Will Laura do anything to try to save herself? Let’s find out together.

At about 7:45 am, we have our first awakening of the day – it’s Russell. He goes to the bathroom and tweezes his eyebrows. He follows that up by shaving his head. Riveting. Then he goes back to bed.

While there is some other movement, nobody is really up until Big Brother issues a wake-up call between 9:30 and 10. Jeff starts making breakfast, but he realizes the ham he was going to use is expired. Whoops! In fact, it’s like nine days expired – don’t they clean out the fridge in the house? You’d think with that many people, the food wouldn’t have time to expire.

Ronnie stays hidden in his bedroom. Natalie comes up to see him and asks if Russell talked to him. In case you missed yesterday’s live feed action, Russell made an overture to Ronnie to become secret allies next week (while still outwardly torturing him). Natalie and Jessie too. And it looks like there is sympathy from Lydia and Kevin as well, though they aren’t working with the Athletes and each group doesn’t know about the other.
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Anyway, it looks like they’re in an HOH room lockdown, so while Ronnie can stay in the room, the others have to pile in as well – they sing a rousing chorus of “rathole, rathole.” Ronnie must just be thrilled. Wait, it looks like Big Brother is intervening and making them stop.

The houseguests amuse themselves in various stupid ways in the room for a while. At one point, they accuse Ronnie of stealing all the milk for his cereal. Oh please. Casey makes a number of rat-related comments at Ronnie’s expense. You know, when Casey came into the house, I thought I’d like him. He seems like the kind of guy who would have been picked on in school – kind of offbeat, you know. Instead, he’s one of the ringleaders who is doing the picking on Ronnie! I mean, I know Ronnie deserves to be hammered in the game for the way he’s played, but this is turning into a Lord of the Flies type of situation here.

Casey, Laura, and Russell discuss Laura leaving. It doesn’t look like Laura has any illusions whatsoever that she might stick around. They indicate the first thing she will do is ask for a pizza. Russell says he expected the live audience to boo Braden when he walked out last week, but Laura notes that there are “applause” signs. Indeed, I think that’s the only reason Braden got applauded; but just today, he got what he really deserved – a Reality TV Hall of Shame Moment.

At about 12:30, the lockdown is finally over. Not to say they were bored, but at one point they were resorting to reading the nutrition information on a can of chili!

As everybody leaves the HOH room, Ronnie is forced out as well – and he has to take his stuff and vacate the premises. As they’re leaving, Natalie hangs back and asks him again about Russell, and Ronnie tells her that Russell did indeed talk to him, but she can’t say anything or he’ll kill Ronnie. Naturally, she immediately tells Jessie.

Various routine activities occur, including prepping for the live show, cleaning the house, getting dressed, etc. Nothing of great import here. The feeds blink out from time to time. Still rather dull. They’re all just pretty much waiting for the live show.

Finally, the live show arrives. Did you miss it? Then read all about it right here. In short: Laura is gone; Jessie is HOH again.

Before moving on to new game talk, Jessie mentions the goodbye message he left for Laura – flexing his bicep and making fun of her for saying he would be going home in the second week.

Natalie tries to stir things up a bit by bringing up the lone vote to save Laura. Of course, we know it was Natalie herself who cast that vote, but the others don’t. She says she had just told Julie Chen that the house was united and then that happened! Most of them seem to be taking it with some humor, though Chima is trying to figure out who cast the vote. When somebody asks for a show of hands, they all say they voted to evict Laura. Russell says they should just let it go.

Natalie is already planning who she wants to leave this week. She tells Jessie he can’t put up Ronnie or Ronnie is gone. She does want Casey out, though, if only because he wanted to put the Athletes on slop. Jessie says Jordan and Michele are obvious choices to be nominated since they are not in the NBK (Natural Born Killers) alliance. But he points out that they still need to act like Ronnie will be headed home. If he doesn’t end up putting Ronnie on the block, he recognizes others will be gunning for him. Natalie suggests maybe they should just be honest about keeping Ronnie. (Honesty?! In the Big Brother house? Shut your mouth, child!)

Getting back to the lone vote issue, Kevin tells Jessie and Natalie that Jordan thinks Michele cast the vote. Meanwhile, Lydia and Chima talk and believe Casey and Michele should be nominated. They also agree that if four of the final five are Athletes, they’re gonna be pissed. Well, duh, since that means at least one of you wouldn’t be there!