As I’ve mentioned in my Episode Recaps lately, Ronnie is not in my good books- especially now that he’s put Laura on the chopping block. He’s lied to everyone in the house and I don’t know how he’s going to survive it. I’ve found some clips of some of the stuff that’s been going on since Episode 6 and shit hits the fan. Ronnie is pretty much ostracized within that house. Russell is taunting him in a highschool bully way. Nobody wants to talk to him or be associated with him in any fashion. So much for his brilliant scheming – it didn’t last long at all! He is majorly sulking, wants to go home, and when he asks to speak to Laura and private and she denies, he storms off and throws a tantrum, screaming out that she is going to be sent home.

The Entire House Calls Ronnie on his lies. There is NO WAY out of this one. Ronnie is Gonnie:

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Last episode left off with Laura and Jeff getting put up for nomination by Ronnie – Burn! This episode opens up with Laura talking to Jordan in private, where she says, “I feel like I’m the only one smart enough to know how to beat him [Ronnie], no offense to you.” She’s totally right. She’s the ONLY one that figured him out and she was right about all of his scheming ways. To camera, Laura says, “I’m pretty sure that I’m gonna give him a dose of his own medicine.” Love it. I love when the one that has all odds against them BEATS the odds. Go Laura! Today is the Veto Competition.

So Russell grabs some wine and goes outside to talk to the other cliques because he feels like he is not connecting with the rest of the houseguests outside of his alliance, which of course could come back to haunt him. He tells them how sick of talking game he is, and just wants to chill. After a while, he goes inside and hears Lydia talking quietly with a couple others. He shouts, “Are we all still talking game in here?!” “No Russell, I’m talking about something personal in my life,” she responds. He then FLIPS out and says he wasn’t even talking to her, yells and screams, similar to when he flipped on Jeff. WOW, anger problems dude – for real. Lydia was left in tears.
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It’s Day 11 in the Big Brother House and time for the first live eviction show. So as Julie put it, already the athletes have turned on each other, an Off Beat has manipulated her way off of the chopping block by selling out someone from the Popular clique, and the Brains are siding with the other cliques. Should be interesting, right? Last episode was intense – but this one was no less intense.

Here we go. The athletes are in control and they are working to getting rid of Braden, destroying the close alliance that he, Jordan, and Jeff have. After Braden was put onto the chopping block, Jordan broke down a few times around the house, feeling threatened that one of the Populars was at risk of going home.

Braden and Russell both find themselves in the kitchen, and Russell tries to find out how Braden found out about the plan to put him up for elimination instead of Lydia. He just said he had a hunch and didn’t disclose that it was Ronnie. In my opinion, he should have spilled the beens on that little weasel. Braden says he knows that it was Lydia that was saying stuff about him and that threw him under the buss. They continue to discuss and Russell asks Braden if he has said anything to Lydia about it or confronted her.

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Wow. What an intense episode. Let the drama games begin. The episode began how the last one left off of course. Lydia and Chima had been put up for nomination and were up for eviction. Chima seemed pretty comfortable in the plan of her being the pawn. Lydia, on the other hand, was caught off guard and was ready to fight for her life in the first Veto Competition: Pop Goes the Veto.

The houseguests head to the backyard to find a giant face on the ground with several pimples full of goo and and ready to be popped – eww! Within each pimple/ mound was a letter. Each player had to race back to spell the longest word that they could. The players consisted of the Head of Household and of course Lydia and Chima fighting to save themselves, and through random selection, the rest of the athletes: Russell, Jeff, and Natalie. Russell’s strategy was to get as many letters as possible, then worry about spelling something later. Chima and Lydia had a specific word in mind that they were trying to find the letters to. I’m not sure that Natalie, Jeff, and Jesse had a strategy at all. Jesse spelled a pretty long word – but he spelled it wrong. Natalie spelled LAST, putting her in FIRST for the time being. Russell took the lead with SHOTGUN, and ended up winning because Chima, Lydia, and Jeff all spelled their words wrong or didn’t have all the letters needed for their word. Russell / Love Muscle takes the Power of Veto. Then panic strikes and tension builds.

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This episode of Big Brother, the houseguests found out who the 13th Houseguest / Head of Household was. It was Jesse. Everyone quickly scrambled to figure out how they were going to relate to him and where he fit in amongst everyone. Or, how he was going to fit in general – he’s HUGE! I’m sure they were a little star struck as well since he was in last season’s big brother. The strategizing began and it started with the Brains. Specifically, with Ronnie.

Ronnie figured it’d be very strategic for him to align himself with Jesse, as it’d be a very unexpected alliance. Jesse seemed to agree. Natalie, Jesse, Ronnie, and Chima met in the HOH room to further discuss their strategy. Natalie and Jesse proposed that Ronnie be a pawn in the Nominations, but Ronnie was definitely not comfortable with it, knowing that quite often, the pawn goes home. He quickly deflected suggesting Chima, or Michele instead. Nice work, Ronnie.

In this episode, they had their first Food Challenge (excluding the athletes, who are safe since Jesse is HOH). Well, actually, it turned out to be more than just a food challenge. It was called the Have and Have Not Competition. They had to get their glowing war paint on, head out to the backyard that was set up like a rave, and construct a chain of tubes that would allow fluid to flow all the way through and make their psychedelic wheel spin. The clique that lost the psychedelic challenge would have to sleep in the worst conditions in Big Brother history (a room suitable for someone in a straightjacket, have only cold showers, eating only Big Brother slop – all for one week.

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Cut off from the outside world, 12 contestants competing for $500,000 once again entered the Big Brother house last night, embarking on the 11th season. In Big Brother style, the houseguests had a number of twists thrown their way right off the bat.

The houseguests were let into the house in small groups, with the best rooms and beds obviously getting claimed first. The houseguests then gathered in the livingroom, nervously munching on some snacks and sipping on champagne. Here, the lying and strategizing began. To name a few, Chima didn’t disclose her age, Natalie lied about her age and her Olympic accomplishments, and Michele said she was a lab assistant when in fact she is a Neuroscientist. While they were getting to know each other (or lying to each other), Host Julie Chen interrupted them to drop a bomb. The game was going to be played with each individual being part of a common high school crowd. Julie then exclaimed, “Na na na, boo boo.” Just kidding – she didn’t say that.

In this summer season of Big Brother, the houseguests are going back to school so to speak – Mean Girls clique style. I had to reference Mean Girls – “I’m a mouse, duh!” So in this case, you have your athletes (JV Jocks), populars (the plastics), Brains (mathletes), and Oddballs (art freaks). Julie then went onto explain that if a member of your clique wins the title of Head of Household, your ENTIRE clique is safe from elimination. Wow, that changes things a lot. They really have to stick together within their respective cliques to take advantage of this.

The cliques were disclosed in the yard as follows…

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The 11th season of Big Brother premieres on Thursday, July 9th at 8:00pm ET/PT. This year they have a “green friendly” house. They have eco friendly plastic plants and rooms with walls made out of recycled material. Sleeping arrangements: One room is like a VIP room and quite nice. Another is made of inflatable air mattresses and plastic, inflatable life raft type bedspreads, and a third bedroom is one they will be competing to stay out of. It is basically a stainless steel room with nothing in it and with mats on the ground. Lastly, the Head of Household room is their most luxurious to date – it even has a waterfall running down the wall behind the headboard of the bed.

Now, a little about this year’s houseguests…

Braden – The Hot One
He’s a yummy model / actor and surfs in his spare time. Apparently, he calls himself a fashion icon and designs his own jewlery? Interesting. Needless to say, he’ll be a popular one, and definitely will have have a fling with another cast member.

Casey – The Goofy One
He’s a married teacher that raps? Seems to me with that earrings in his ear, he’s trying to hold onto his youth, but all in all he seems like he’ll be a “good guy,” someone the others will put their trust in.

Chima – The Exotic One
She’s a sexy, single journalist that will do whatever it takes to win the competition. My guess is that he desperation will show through and she’ll be one of the first to go.

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