Big Brother 11 Blog

Man, why does all the good stuff in the Big Brother house not happen on the weekends!? As of last night, the Big Brother 8 house has dissolved into bizarro world.

Nick was put up on the block, and then he shaved his head into a mohawk.

Dustin shaved his head.

Dick and Nick have decided to mercilessly attack Jen verbally, and Dick even made it physical by pouring tea over Jen’s head, which I think technically is assault. The pressure really has gotten to the house, and while on one hand, it makes for brilliant live-feed watching … it’s also borderline mental.

And I have to say: From this point forward, I can’t be with evel Dick. Or Nick. Now I haven’t been a big fan of the Jenbot, but I admire how she’s kept a positive attitude through the mental beating she’s been taking. Furthermore, the out-and-out rejection of Zach — like we were back in high school — has gone overboard.

If Jen, Zach and Kail survive this week, they should totally work together and draw in Jessica and Jameka in order to purge the house of its crazies — Dick and Nick. Seriously, E.D. is about one wrong move from getting his tatted self booted from the show.

Enjoy these clips posted by YouTubers last night. They are honestly too crazy to believe, and it reminds me of the moment in the movie “Full Metal Jacket” when Pyle went nuts. Instead of shell shock, it’s BB shock.

The Late Night Crew (LNC), the alliance I had called the sequester alliance among Dustin, Dick, Jessica, Jameka, Eric, Daniele and Amber, had a meeting early Sunday (2 a.m. BBT) and decided that Nick was going up on the block.

Jameka had already promised to take off Jen from the nomination block, and now Nick will replace him. And get this — he’s going home!

Dick said something about, “Daniele will be happy in the long run,” or some such.

The group feels good about it, and at this point — unless Kail, Jen or Zach wins HoH next week — one of them is going home a week from now. Problem is that Kail and Jen are quite capable. We’ll see. All’s well and smelling like roses for the LNC for now, but get ready to say goodbye to Nick.

Booze didn’t flow throughout the entire Big Brother house on Saturday night-Sunday morning, but Eric and Jessica had beers left over. Mind you, there had been instances of flirtation between the Kansas cheerleader and the New Yorker, but it’s more and more clear that there is chemistry between Eric and Jessica.

There was also drunkenness.

This live feed video I captured is a compilation of drunken, flirtatious highlights between the gorgeous Jessica and the funnyman better known as America’s Player.

I think the Big Brother camera operator is a perv. He (or she) followed Jen’s tush for like three minutes during an early, early, early Sunday morning live feed. For those of you who like almost gratuitous nudity, here’s the robotic Jen.

If you don’t want to know who won a shocking PoV competition on Saturday, then read no further. If you do want to know, then click the link. A surprise is brewing, and it has the Big Brother house all aflutter.

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It’s time for the PoV, and with Jen and Kail on the block again this week, let’s look at my Big Brother 8 weekly rankings.

11. Zach (10).

Isolationism isn’t pretty in the Big Brother game, and Zach has left himself increasingly alone. Top that with uncomfortable comments, and he stands as the universally hated male player in the BB8 house. Unless he wins PoV, he’s likely on the block to replace either Jen or Kail and is the odds-on favorite to go home this week.

10. Jen (11).

As Dustin said late Friday, Jen finally proved she wasn’t a robot when she shed tears after being nominated again. This drew sympathetic responses from both Nick and evel Dick and showed that she at least had the potential to warm up to people.

9. Kail (12).

Kail lucked out last week and has spent the first part of this week making some amends, even warming up to HoH Dustin on Friday night and Saturday morning before the PoV. In one conversation, Dustin acknowledged that if she kept a low profile this week that she would be safe. It would be easy to see her go home, but my gut tells me the sequester alliance has bigger fish to fry.

8. Nick (5).

Any relationship potential between him and Daniele is slipping daily although there is still flirting. Quite a bit of strategic talk this week has centered on Nick as a back-door replacement for either Kail or Jen. Nick’s biggest problem is that he’s on the outside looking in to the Gang of 7 sequester alliance.

7. Jameka (9).

Jameka is coming out of her shell and playing a bit more. She’s in with the big undefined alliance, but her side conversations with Amber in particular portend future trouble.

6. Jessica (8).

It must be killing Carol, but Jessica has turned into one of the more likeable players. Late Friday, dare I say I saw the AFL cheerleader flirting with Eric. She’s also the party girl in the house, a reigning quarters queen. Her game is understated, and the fact that she’s a wildcard could prove troublesome for her soon.

5. Eric (6).

Eric dodged some bullets after the 7 to 2 vote to evict Mike could have left him wide open. He’s a slick talker and a fine reasoner, but sometimes he says too much. At some point soon, I think he’ll become a volatile, polarizing player, particularly if America has him do something else crazy (like vandalizing Jen’s clothes).

4. Amber (4).

Amber has made some terrific relationships in the house, both strategically and personally, but she plays both sides of the fence. She’s a good player in terms of “workin’ it,” but she’ll need to excel at some of these competitions in order to wield some power now and again.

3. Dick (2).

Evel Dick reminds me strongly of Eddie, the one-legged winner of Season 1. His in-your-face style is off-putting, but it also allows for some serious trust to be had. If he tells you he’ll do something, then by gosh you can count on it for now. I think he’s a lock for sequester and, to me, to make it to the Final 3.

2. Daniele (1).

She’s good when it comes to competition, but the slop clearly wore her down for a couple of weeks. Daniele’s strength is still in having her father back her up; however, she’s likeable enough and strong enough relationship-wise to stick around for the foreseeable future.

1. Dustin (3).

If I were forced to pick a winner right now, I think Dustin wins this bugger going away. He’s popular, so much so that both America and the other houseguests like him. Dustin has made no mistakes so far in the house, and his style of aggressive confidence is done in a friendly style as opposed to Dick’s style. I can’t really even fathom what trouble Dustin will have until the Final 6 or so.

It’s clear that Jen, Kail, Zach and Nick face tough odds in this the first week of the second month of game play. One of them is going home this week, and unless one of them can win HoH, another one will go home next week. Kail has made the most inroads with the sequester alliance to win back some friendships.

I think the fact that she’s made it so clear how much she loves this show, how much she wants to stay that, heck, there might be a tinge of empathy for her in the house. Even Dick has backed off publicly.

While Jen could work some Janelle magic and be around late in this competition, she’s not doing nearly enough to win souls. She’s gotta take Dustin aside, Jameka aside, Jessica aside and prove to them that she’s not a total b****. Honestly, I don’t think she is, and I think she’s way smarter than she lets on, which must mean she’s not playing the game very well, and it could be her demise.

And last but not least, while I don’t think I touched on Nick’s volatility this week, several reports indicate that he’s acknowledged having psychological problems to the other houseguests, problems that center on being violent. There is speculation that he might have even lied on his application to get into the house, saying that he had never been analyzed for psychological problems.

About two weeks ago, Big Brother strongly admonished Dick for saying he’d step on Jen’s neck for something or other. Violence will not be tolerated in the house, and while Nick’s arguments have been tame relative to his brief tiffs with Zach, one loss of temper ends his run on BB8. Not saying it will happen, but any goodwill he had built over the first three weeks has been lost because of this and his relationship with Daniele.

OK, PoV is soon to be over — I think — so keep it here on big-brother-blog.com for updates and analysis.

Dick and Daniele make it clear that any back-door plans to eliminate Zach are foolhardy because he’s no threat.

If you don’t want to know who HoH Dustin has nominated for eviction, quit reading now.

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The sequester alliance, if you will, was strong in its front, and Mike was evicted by a 7 to 2 count. However, I was wrong about Eric in that he apparently is obligated to vote as America does. I thought he might be allowed to switch it up in the name of his own safety.

However, is America’s Player now exposed to the rest of the house?

Moments after the live eviction, houseguests started questioning each other. Even on the live show, on CBS, you could hear Dick chiding Jen for voting to keep Mike. Problem is she voted to evict Mike.

Mike’s only ally, really, was Zach. Like the Howie-esque player he is, Zach stayed true to the bitter end, and the good thing for him is that everybody knew it. What will make this weekend interesting is in whether the house figures out who the second vote belonged to, and right now the speculation is on Jen and Nick, both of whom voted to evict Mike.

They don’t know that though, so let the games begin. Dustin is HoH this week after a competition in which the eligible houseguests had to answer questions about their evicted compadres. What this means for sure is that Amber is safe, and theoretically, if the week’s happenings mean a thing, it means Jen, Kail, Nick and Zach are in deep caca, particularly Zach.

However, if the houseguests figure out Eric’s vote, he’s in big trouble. There’s been some talk that he’s two-faced, and he got on Amber’s bad side earlier this week for picking on her mercilessly about something juvenile. Amber’s influence would weigh heavily with Dustin, so it would behoove Eric to play this right.

Did he? Check out this live feed I just captured in which Eric explains his theory of the 7 to 2 vote to Jameka, Amber and Jessica.

Honestly, it was pretty well played, and Eric didn’t even have to lie, although I might have suspected something myself if I were in the house. In other words, in the short-term — well done. But what about the long term? If Nick and Jen are able to gain the trust of the rest of the house on this vote matter, Eric will definitely become a target.

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DATELINE: HoH room.

TIME: 7:30 BBT.

DISCUSSION: How will the houseguests vote Thursday night?

It seems we have an unspoken, unformalized alliance in the house right now. Perhaps we could call it the sequester alliance. The houseguests have divided themselves into two groups. One group has Dick, Amber, Eric, Dustin, Jameka, Daniele and Jessica (in absentia). The other is Kail, Zach, Mike, Jen and Nick.

The first group met in the HoH room at length early this evening to discuss strategy going into Thursday night, and they decided loosely to put on a unified front after at first discussing the possibility of throwing a few votes one way or the other in the name of confusion. To keep things not so obvious.

At no point did anybody say, “Hey, this is an alliance, right?” However, it’s pretty clear that this is a group that would like to see itself sequestered together when that starts happening in a couple of weeks. Now, I think the sequestering starts at 9, meaning two of the other five people would be sequestered with them. The reason I believe this is because I’m pretty sure that at least six or seven have been sequestered in the past with the two finalists remaining. In fact, wasn’t last year’s final vote 6-1 or 5-2 in favor of Boogie?

When Dustin steps out to say, “Hey, like it or not, I think I’m voting in this direction tomorrow night,” Dick stops him and says, “Yo, dude, we have to be together on this,” which prompts Dustin to say, “Alrighty then, let’s take roll call. How ya’ votin?”

Now, before you say, “Well, Eric HAS to vote with America …” think about that. He does not have to vote with America. Considering he’s fast becoming the best player in the house and seems to have a growing, unspoken, odd couple alliance with Dick brewing, Eric would be wise to stick with this group for awhile. They seem to really respect his knowledge of the game from seasons past to make astute observations in this game.

Daniele says she’s on the fence, but there’s no way right now she goes against this group’s wishes.

Dick can’t vote, and Zach and Nick are wildcards — wildcards who HATE each other, btw, right now. As much as I would think this is a done deal, if the other group gets wind of the group who met in the HoH room on Wednesday night, we could have ourselves a really close vote. Right now, I think it would be 8-1 to evict Mike, but this meeting — if revealed between now and Thursday afternoon — could change everything.

Stay tuned. I think they’ll have more booze in the house tonight, so it could get really good.