What if I told you that at 9:20 p.m. BBT the houseguest who was evicted tonight stood a good chance of becoming the next HoH?
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By a vote of 5 to 1, Crazy Gay Porn James was evicited. He walked out the door and was promptly told he might very well be returning. See, in Big Brother’s infinite wisdom (sarcasm), producers decided to have the houseguests choose between James and the evicted houseguest for whom America voted.
Those houseguests voted 5 to 3 for James to return, bringing former soulmate Chelsia to tears. Hell, she was in tears before this and had been on a rampage relative to his potential ouster the past several days.
See, the plan to evict Matty was ditched in favor of a plan to evict the former soulmate of the person who used the Power of Veto this week, Chelsia. The subsequent plan resulted in the 5 to 1 vote.
Ryan, Matt and Sheila each voted to bring in the mystery houseguest, which would have been Alex. (Parker finished second.) The others voted for James in a version of, “Pick the devil you know or the devil you don’t.”
On one hand, I see this as an interesting ploy by producers given how the vote happened. The houseguests made the more interesting choice strategically given that there is no way James will or can trust anybody but Chelsia.
On the other hand, this type of backtracking on the part of reality TV producers is foolhardy given that they did not follow through on America’s request. Give us a chance to vote on something and then pull it from under us, and you’re left with some pissed fans. It’s like we were evicted.
But all in all, I’m neither here nor there about this. The twist to the twist tonight was one of the stranger moments in Big Brother history, and the endurance competition is happening right now with James and Natalie hanging from a giant, swinging disco ball in one of those beautiful endurance challenges.
I have some news for our movie star, James, though. That disco ball is awfully similar to a stripper pole, and Natalie is quite comfortable dangling from it. It’s hard to say what will happen over the next few hours (watch the feeds!), but I will be stunned if Natalie loses this.
And then, will she proceed as a woman scorned, working to oust Matty … or will continue to allow the Boston roofer to pull her strings?
And if James somehow wins this sucker, will he automatically attack former HoH Ryan, or will he have a more strategic consideration?
Anyhoo, what say you? Was this a good move on Big Brother’s part? My gut hunch is that it was kind of a letdown … but what do I know?!