Hi, everyone!

Well, I promised daily updates so here is today’s daily update: THERE IS NOTHING HAPPENING IN THE HOUSE!

Well, that’s not quite true.  There are things happening.  Zach and Frankie were cuddling earlier.  More and more people are apparently becoming convinced that Zach is related to Amanda and Zach, for his part, has decided to play along with the lie.  

To be honest, my opinion of Zach changes on a daily basis.  I couldn’t stand him when I first saw him.  I incorrectly predicted that he would be the first person to be voted out of the house.  I thought he talked too much and that he was trying too hard to be this season’s villain.

And then he was nominated for eviction and he stood up to Devin and he went out there and he campaigned and he gave a pretty good pre-vote speech, I thought.  I actually found myself liking Zach.  If nothing else, he was at least entertaining to watch.  But then I would turn on the LFs and I would be reminded of why Zach got on my nerves in the first place.

There’s a real neediness to Zach.  It’s now pretty obvious that he’s essentially a very insecure guy.  All of his talk about not needing anyone is actually part of a wall that he puts up to try to keep people from realizing just how insecure he really is.  That neediness makes him both a good ally and a potential liability.  Frankie has obviously figured that out and is using that to his advantage.  When Frankie finally does openly turn on Zach, it’s probably not going to be pretty.

But that probably won’t be for another few weeks or so.

Until then, where is the drama?

Caleb is still obsessed with Amber, even though she told him — once again — that she’s not romantically interested in him.  That was probably a surprise to Caleb, seeing as how he had offered to “sacrifice” himself for her.  However, Caleb still hasn’t really accepted it.  You can tell by listening to Caleb that, in his mind, he and Amber are already married and living in Kentucky.

And Caleb’s obsession certainly is creepy but it hasn’t quite gotten dramatic yet.  I’m sure that it will eventually.  At some point, either Amber or Caleb will be targeted eviction and it’ll be interesting to see how they react to it.  How will Caleb react if Amber votes to evict him?  You know that she’ll do it but I have my doubts whether Caleb would ever vote to evict Amber.  

But until then, where is the drama?

Devin is apparently campaigning to stay, even though he said that he wasn’t going to.  Earlier today, he told Caleb that the Diary Room told him that he had to campaign and that’s the only reason why he was doing it.  That didn’t seem to bother Caleb that much, probably because he knows that the entire house is pretty determined to send Devin home.

Add to that, Devin may be campaigning (and he deserves some credit for not giving up, even in the face of the longest odds) but that doesn’t mean that Devin is any good at presenting his case.  He’s still the same old Devin — talking too much, cutting people off when they try to make a point, and thinking that grin of his will magically get him out of any trouble.

So, yes, Devin is trying but it’s not very dramatic.

On Thursday, the house will vote to evict either Devin or Caleb and then, there will be an HoH competition.  Will the two new HoHs work together like all the previous HoHs have?  Will the nominees actually compete at Battle of the Block or will it be another case of one team throwing the contest?

Or will it be another week of consensus?

The good thing about Big Brother is that you know that the drama will eventually arrive,

I just hope it gets here quickly.

Lisa Marie

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Hi, y’all:

Well, this is going to be a quick post but I still think that a lot of you will be happy when you read it.

They held the POV ceremony earlier today.  Donny kept his promise.  He used the veto on Jocasta, taking her off the block.  Derrick, in turn, kept his promise as well.  He nominated Devin in her place.  

Now, I have to admit that I would have a hard time choosing between Devin and Caleb.  Yes, Devin is annoying but he’s also so hated that it’s pretty much guaranteed that he would never end up winning the game.  If he made it to Final Two, it’s hard to think of anyone who couldn’t beat him.  Add to that, keeping Devin around will always mean that there will be a big target in the house.

Caleb, on the other hand, could still conceivably win in the final two.  If I was in the house, I would be really tempted to go ahead and get rid of Caleb while I can.

However, as of right now, it looks like Devin is definitely going to go home.  Derrick has told everyone that Devin is his target and — unlike Devin during his HoH — Derrick hasn’t alienated everyone in the house.  As of right now, Derrick believes that the vote to evict Devin will be unanimous.  It’ll be interesting to see how Devin handles all of this.  Earlier this week, he was saying that he was fine with getting voted out but everyone always says that and nobody actually means it.  I’m expecting that we’ll hear a lot about Devin’s daughter over the next few days.

But anyway, Derrick is our first truly successful HoH of the season.  (Devin failed to get rid of his target and Caleb had to switch targets after Donny won the veto.)  He’s also proven everyone (like me) who doubted him wrong.  Unfortunately, by being such an effective HoH, Derrick has probably increased the target on his back but, as of right now, I think Derrick has to be considered one of the season’s early front runners.

Okay, gotta run so talk to everyone later,

Lisa Marie

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Hi all!

Well, as you’ve probably already heard, they held the POV competition earlier today and Donny won!  That means that Donny has now won 2 out of 3 of the POV competitions so far.  Could the bearded gentleman from North Carolina turn out to be this season’s challenge beast?

Time will tell.

But, while we’re on the subject of Donny, what does everyone think of the game that he’s playing so far?  Or, to be more to the point, does anyone think that Donny has even started playing the game?  It’s funny — for all the talk of the other HGs being convinced that Donny must secretly be a mad genius of some sort — Donny really doesn’t seem to have any strategy, beyond being a nice guy.  Lately, he’s been saying that he thinks that its important that a “good” person wins but that’s not really a strategy.  (Add to that, it drives me crazy when people talk about good and bad on a reality show.  Anyone who can survive until the end of the game deserves a chance to win the money, as far as I’m concerned.)  Donny is finally a member of an alliance but that’s just because America voted him into one.

It’s easy to see why Donny is one of America’s favorite players but, as far as playing the game is concerned, he really doesn’t seem to be playing it.

But anyway, Donny won the veto and, before the veto competition, he promised Jocasta that he would use it on her.  Jocasta is nominated for eviction but apparently, she has come down with the flu and was on death’s door during the hour right before the veto competition.  Now that Donny has won the veto and Jocasta knows that she’s probably going to be coming down off the block, she seems to be feeling a lot healthier.

Now, a lot of people think that Jocasta was faking being as sick as she claimed to be.  I happen to be one of those people.  However, I think that was brilliant strategy on her part.  By saying that she couldn’t play for her safety because of a circumstance that was out of her control, she got everyone’s sympathy and made it so, regardless of who actually won the POV, the only decent thing to do would be to use it to save Jocasta.

Myself, if I was a houseguest, I would be concerned about being literally trapped in a house with someone who had the flu so severely that she literally could not get out of bed.  I mean, it’s not as much of a concern as Jeremy’s ringworm but still, the flu is the flu.

I guess my point is that if Jocasta was so sick that she couldn’t even compete for the veto than it would be fair to ask if she’s too sick to stay in the house.

So, here’s the situation:

Derrick is HoH.

Caleb and Jocasta are nominated.

Donny has the POV.

Donny says he’s going to take down Jocasta.

And, if all goes according to plan, Derrick will nominate Devin in her place.

If you had to choose between voting out Devin or Caleb, who would you go for?  Personally, I’d have a hard time making up my mind.  They’re both challenge threats.  Devin is more irritating but he’s also so unpopular that I imagine just about anyone could beat him if Devin somehow made it to the final two.  Caleb, however, may have his issues but he’s not disliked the way that Devin is. 

So, if you’re voting based on who you don’t want to reach the final two, then I think you have to take this opportunity to vote our Caleb while you can.

But if you’re voting on who is more annoying, then you have to vote for Devin.

It’ll be interesting to see how it all plays out.  I have a feeling that Devin (assuming that Derrick sticks with his original plan) will be voted out on Thursday, if just because nobody wants to run the risk of getting trapped in the jury house with him.

Lisa Marie

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Hi y’all:

Well, I’m on my lunch break so I figured I’d give everyone a quick update about what’s going on in the house and give everyone a new post:

Wasn’t last night’s live show great?  For once, it seemed like anyone cold have gone home.  But, of course, in the end, only one person could be evicted and that person was Paola.  Jocasta and Donny voted to evict Zach but everyone else was on board with getting rid of Paola and, by a vote of 10-2, Poala was voted out.  At least Paola got a few snarky comments in before she was sent packing.  My favorite: “Devin has five personalities and they all suck!”  Paola may have been one of the worst players in BB history but that comment will probably go down as a classic.

Anyway, the HoH competition was won by Nicole and Derrick!  I don’t know about you but I was so worried when it looked like Caleb and Frankie might win.  I was like, “Oh my God, it’s the first episode all over again!”  There’s nothing worse than when the same two players dominate every competition.  (Add to that, I’m a little bit over Frankie.  He was fun at first but now, he just seems kinda needy.)  But, in the end, Nicole and Derrick pulled it out and won the two HoH spots.

So, the nominations are happening right as I type and I assume that the Battle of the Block will follow shortly.

Right now, it appears that the nominations will go like this:

Derrick — Jocasta and Caleb

Nicole –Victoria and Amber

(Edit: Apparently, Nicole changed her mind on nominating Victoria at the last minute and nominated Donny and Amber instead. — LMB)

Nicole, for her part, has been saying how much she hates being HoH.  Derrick, meanwhile, has been showing himself to be a far stronger player than anyone originally realized.  He’s pretty much talked Nicole into nominating Victoria and Amber and he has also come up with a plan to backdoor Devin.

Caleb, apparently, volunteered to be nominated.  He also says that he’s planning on throwing the Battle of the Block.  According to Caleb, he’s doing this to “save” Amber.  (GAG!)  However, this will also allow Caleb to play in the POV, where the plan is to backdoor Devin.

And if Devin wins the POV?

Well, then the house can either get rid of a strong player (Caleb) or they can get rid of a player that nobody seems to have built up any strong connection with (Jocasta).

So, it all works out, right?

Well, maybe…..it’s kind of an unwritten rule of Big Brother that the more complicated your scheme is, the more likely it’ll dramatically fall apart.

However, as a viewer, I’m a little bit worried that every Battle of the Block is going to be thrown.  Don’t get me wrong — I like the whole multiple HoH thing but I worry that players throwing Battle of the Block is going to eventually become as predictable as players using the POV to backdoor their real target.

But that’s a topic for a future post.  Right now, we can just be happy that the plan right now seems to be to send Devin packing.

Lisa Marie

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Hi y’all:

It’s Thursday and you know what that means!

Someone is being evicted tonight!

So, I’m going to go ahead and open the diary room and ask you to cast your vote to evict!

Will you vote for…

Paola (a.k.a. Pao Pao) (a.k.a. Pow Pow), the house pawn who may be regretting having thrown that Battle of the Block 

or 

Zach, the house schemer who may want to start thinking before he speaks?

Cast your vote now and watch tonight to see if the other houseguests agree with you!

Lisa Marie

P.S. I know a lot of you would rather vote for Devin but he’s not on the block.  Maybe next week…

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Hi everyone:

Here’s a quick update, just in case you haven’t had a chance to read the comments under the previous posts:

1) Devin is head of household.

2) Devin nominated Paola and Brittany for eviction.

3) Devin swore up and down to everyone that he wanted Brittany to be evicted.

4) The rest of the house found out that Paola threw the Battle of the Block competition, which now puts a target on Paola’s back because she’s now gone from being a pawn to being a visible ally of the most hated guy in the house.

5) For once, the people in the house started to talk about not being a bunch of sheep and going against the HoH by not voting his target out of the house.  Yay!  That’s exactly the type of thinking that Big Brother fans love!

6) Devin, perhaps realizing that nobody in the house was agreeing with him, started to suggest that he might be open to taking Brittany off the block.  This naturally upset Paola because she threw a competition specifically because Devin guaranteed her that Brittany was the target.

7) Devin’s solution?  Nominate Victoria, who hasn’t really connected with anyone in the house.!

8) Devin was the POV.

9) Devin and Brittany had a long talk in the HoH and Brittany and Devin made some sort of deal.

10) Here’s the thing — Devin has become so unpopular and has upset so many people that even making a deal with him while he’s head of household is viewed as being a mistake.  So, Brittany made a deal — which would be a smart thing to do with anyone who is both HoH and the POV winner — and now, she could potentially be in trouble.

11) Devin suddenly decided that Zach’s a threat.  Despite Devin earlier swearing that nobody from the Bomb Squad would ever nominate anyone else from the Bomb Squad, Devin started talking about nominating Zach instead of Victoria.

12) Why does Devin consider Zach to be a threat?  Apparently, it’s because Zach comes on too strong and talks too much but that’s the way he’s been acting during the entire time he’s been in the house.  It’s not as if Zach was calm and reserved before Devin invited him into the Bomb Squad.

13) Everyone told Devin not to nominate Zach.  Instead, they all said that, if Devin was going to use the veto, then he should put up Victoria.  Of course, the smart move would be for Devin not to use the veto at all but Devin is not that smart.

14) At the same time, Paola has ever right to wonder why — considering all she’s done for Devin by throwing that comp — it has never seemed to occur to Devin to use the veto on her.

15) Finally, at yesterday’s POV ceremony, Devin took Brittany off the block.  And then he nominated … ZACH!  Now, because the LFs cut to Jeff Schroeder interviewing former HGs, none of us have gotten to see the actual POV ceremony.  However, Donny has said that it was the greatest POV ceremony in the show’s history so I know I’m looking forward to seeing it on Wednesday’s episode.

16) So now Zach and Poala have been nominated for eviction and no one is really sure why.  Like a lot of people, I assumed that the house would automatically rally to Zach and vote out Paola.  And that could very well happen but, for now, it seems like the house is almost evenly divided.  Nobody likes Devin, nobody trusts Paola, but again, Zach is seen as a stronger and potentially more dangerous player that Paola.  

17) Perhaps the worst sign for Zach is that his strongest ally in the house, Frankie, is actually lobbying people to vote him out.  Zach doesn’t realize it yet but Frankie has turned against him and now views Zach as being a potential liability to his own game.  Last night, Frankie was apparently lobbying the girls in the house to vote out Zach by using the same girl power argument that Joey thought would keep her in the game.

18) So, the only thing we can really be sure of is this: Regardless of who goes on Thursday, Devin is now everyone’s biggest target.

Lisa Marie

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Hi, everyone!

So, Devin is the Head of Household and he’s pretty much handled the role exactly how you would expect him to.  Which is to say, Devin has spent the last few days being even more of a jerk than usual.  He has called countless house meetings.  He has tried to micromanage everyone else’s game.  He has been autocratic.  He has been arrogant.  He has been … well, he’s basically just being Devin.  

From what I’ve seen of Devin since he moved into the house, I have to wonder if he’s one of the players who was recruited.  It would make sense if he was.  He’s got a good smile, he’s got a potentially compelling backstory about how he’s playing the game for his daughter, and — as a former baseball player — he’s the type of minor celebrity who usually seems to get recruited for reality television.  Before he actually moved into the house and revealed himself to be a total jackass, a lot of us really liked Devin.  

Little did we suspect that Devin would turn out to be the male version of Amanda Zuckerman.

Another reason that I suspect that Devin was recruited was because he has absolutely no idea how to play this game and you have to wonder if he had ever even seen an episode of Big Brother before moving into the house.  For all the mean words that Devin has uttered about Joey, he has one big thing in common with her: Both of them have absolutely no social skills.  In Joey’s case, that led to her thinking that she could stay in the house by framing the entire game as a chance to make an important political statement.  In Devin’s case, his lack of social skills has led him to believe that everyone in the house enjoys being bossed around.  He’s treating them like they’re an athletic team and he’s the coach.

Sorry, Devin, but that’s not the way it works.

For all the talk of alliances, Big Brother is a game played by individuals.  And if you can’t appeal to people on an individual level, then you’re pretty much doomed.

Right now, Devin is the most powerful man in the house but he’s already pretty much guaranteed that he won’t make it to the end.  With the way that he’s alienated people, he’ll be lucky to make it to the jury.  As of right now, it seems like Devin only has two things going for him: Caleb is still somewhat loyal to him (and physically — if not mentally — Caleb is always a contender to win HoH) and Devin himself is good at competitions.

But, still, it’s hard not to believe that Devin’s time is limited.

As for what else has been happening in the house:

Paola and Brittany are the nominees.  Devin has won the power of veto but now, he’s apparently decided that he’s going to take his original target — Brittany — off the block and replace her with Victoria.  Perhaps Devin finally realized that the rest of the house doesn’t hate Brittany as much as he does so he’s replacing her with someone who nobody in the house appears to feel particularly close to.

Personally, I know that a lot of people dislike Victoria but I like her, largely because she reminds me of my best friend in the entire world.  However, Victoria — much like Joey and much like Devin — doesn’t seem to know how to live with a group of people who are outside of her usual social circle.  She hasn’t connected to anyone, she’s gotten a reputation for being a bit of a diva, and I think she’s definitely going to be in some trouble if Devin does go through with his plan to put her on the block.

Finally — don’t forget that Big Brother is on tonight!  We’ll get a chance to see both the nominations ceremony and the battle of the block!

On se parle bientôt,

Lisa Marie

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Hi, y’all!

Well, first off, allow me to wish all of our American readers a Happy 4th of July!  Like a lot of you, I’m getting ready to head out so I can spend this holiday weekend with my family, watching fireworks and hopefully getting a lot of shopping done on Saturday.  But before I leave, I wanted to give everyone a quick update on what happened last night!

Okay, as we all know, during the live eviction, Joey got voted out by a vote of 13 to 0.  And I have to say that, despite the fact that everyone had pretty much told her that she was going home, Joey looked really shocked when the results were read.  Her exit interview with Julie also seemed to go on forever, with Joey basically muttering most of her answers.  I’ve always said that Joey’s downfall was less her strategy and more the fact that she has absolutely no social skills and I think her interview with Julie pretty much proved that.

But anyway, Joey’s gone and no longer a factor.  If you were wondering how that was going to effect Team America — well, apparently, it will now be a two person alliance and Donnie will be one of the members.  That’s right — America voted in Donnie and I’m not really surprised because, as is obvious to anyone who follows the conversation on twitter and this blog — people love Donnie!  I will be curious to see who the other member of Team America is.  I’m going to guess that it’ll be Frankie.

(Whoops!  My mistake — apparently, there will still be three members of Team America and the current vote is to pick TWO final players to join with Donnie.  I’m getting this from the CBS web site, which does a better job than Julie Chen at explaining how all of these twists works! — LMB)

The HoH comp was basically everyone having to balance on a beam while carrying and stacking beer kegs.  The girls competed first and the guys competed second.  When the girls competed, the guys got to throw frisbees at them.  Unfortunately, once it was time for the guys to compete, almost all of the frisbees had been thrown.  Just a but unfair, I think.

Amber won for the girls.  I, honestly, was hoping that Jocasta would win, just because it would be a chance to discover where Jocasta’s head is actually at.  But no, Amber won and my first reaction was to go, “Oh my God, what if she nominates Caleb!?  That would be great!”

(By the way, BB finally acknowledged Caleb’s “crush” on Amber last night but they did so in a way that seemed to be designed to make it seem cute as opposed to seriously creepy.)

For the guys — Hayden won!  Oh, wait a minute, no, he did not.  He actually fell off his beam mere second before he would have won.  But that’s okay — CODY WON!  YAY!  Oh wait a minute — turns out that, for maybe the first time ever, the BB producers actually checked the tape and announced that Cody had actually slipped off the beam at some point during the comp.  

So, that means that the other HOH is — 

DEVIN!

When Julie announced that Devin was the HoH, you could tell that Devin was expecting to hear applause but all I could hear were a thousand BB viewers all screaming, “NOOOOOOO!” at the same time.

Anyway, I missed most of the LF action tonight because I was busy packing so I have to thank JT, Star, and all the other commenters for keeping us all updated on what happened in the house after the live show ended.

Amber nominated Hayden and Nicole for eviction — which makes sense as neither one of them is a member of the Bomb Squad and, though it hasn’t been shown on the show, Hayden and Nicole have a showmance going.

Devin nominated Brittany and Paola.  This was actually a really smart move.  Brittany was trying to get Devin nominated last week and Paola is so bad at competitions that she probably would keep anyone she was partnered with from ever winning a Battle of the Block.  (I have a feeling that Paola might get nominated every single week, just because she is seen as such a weak competition player.)

Devin, in fact, asked Paola to throw the Battle of the Block and Paola seemed to be open to it.

Meanwhile, it looks like the Bomb Squad is already starting to turn on their own as apparently 6 members of the group are open to backdooring Devin.  Those members are Cody, Christine, Amber, Zach, Derrick, and Frankie.  So, though he might not realize it, Devin’s only real ally in the house is Caleb.

(And you can be sure that if the Bomb Squad is willing to get rid of Devin, they’re probably willing to get rid of Caleb too.  In fact, they’ll probably have to if they vote out Devin because Caleb will probably lose it.)

Now, personally, I would have loved to see Devin get backdoored this week but it’s not going to happen because Hayden and Nicole won the Battle of the Block.  (I don’t know for sure whether or not Paola actually threw it — I guess we’ll have to wait ’til Sunday’s show to find out for sure.)

So, here’s how it stands on this 4th of July:

Devin is the HoH.

Brittany and Paola are the nominees.

Power of Veto has yet to be played.

And now, I’m off to enjoy fireworks!  Everyone have a good and safe 4th of July!

Lisa Marie

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Hey everyone! It is Eviction Day and today we learn who the first house guest to be evicted will be!

It will either be Joey or Paola. they are the two remaining house guests on the block and well one of them will be gone tonight.

It should be a fun vote. 13 people voting (since Caleb cannot vote as HOH)…think it will be unanimous? 13-0? Maybe…

But honestly, it does not really matter what the 13 other house guests want…all that matters is what you, the awesome commenters and family of Big Brother Blog!

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