Big Brother Craze

The morning wake-up call came at 9:32 this morning, which means half of the houseguests are back in bed while they wait for the have/have not competition to begin.

While I get it together and catch up on the morning - check out Ronnie on Inside Dish with Ross Mathews right here.

Lydia and Kevin met up in the green room for a while, to talk about who they want to go home this week. Kevin want’s Russell, and thinks he’ll do his best to get back in with Chima, and Lydia hopes that Chima realizes it - she asks Kevin to make sure. He tells her to suck it up and go upstairs and talk to Chima.

11:14
Michele gets there first…
Michele tells chima that she’d certainly vote the way she wants her too, and to put up noms that will benefit Chima most of all. Chima’s worried that if she puts Russell up, she may not have the votes.

Chima: I’m going over in my head what to do… Do you think if I put Russell up I’ll have the votes.
Michele: Everyone’s all worried…
Chima: Really? Abou tme or the mystery power?
Michele: Both… I think you’ve always felt a little more safe because of your alliances, but the rest of the house.. I mean, it’s up to you, obviously, if I’m not on the nomination block I can vote, and I wanna protect you in this game… And if I’m not, I will vote how you want me to vote. And if Jessie and Natalie are on your side, they should too.
Chima: I don’t know.
Michele: Do you wanna break up duos?
Chima: Jeff and Jordan are the least of my concerns. My main concern is Russell. DO I put him up and try to get him out? My fear is that if I put him up and he takes himself off, then he’ll come after me.. My thing with him is just that he’s causing problems in the house… The problems we’ve had are all Russell related… I need to talk to Lydia too… They had their tiff too.. but since then, they’ve been like this.

Natalie, of course, breaks it up - as she’s doing her damnedest to run another HOH. Natalie tells them that Russell is worried, but said they had a long talk and made up, but he was gypped on the makeup sex.

She also takes the chance to run over Lydia a few more times, pointing out that Lydia’s in bed with Russell and how Lydia lectured her on who she can talk too and she was like fuck you she’ll talk to whoever she wants.
Natalie: I guess I’m a hypocrite a little bit with that with Jessie
Chima: A little bit…

Then Natalie lays into Michele - how it was supposed to be the Brains and the Athletes and she ruined it the first chance she had by getting rid of Ronnie. Michele pointed out that Ronnie was undermining her from the very beginning and she gave him strike after strike.. She promises Chima that she and Natalie will both be safe next week if Michele wins HOH, and Chima goes back to considering Russell/Lydia for nominations.

Natalie dives in to demand answers from Michele about her comment to Julie about the house being divided, and Michele says she meant with the votes. They accept that, and it moves on to the reasons Chima needs to give Lydia for putting her up. Natalie wants her to point out that Chima was put on the block week one for saying she wanted to go home, and Lydia’s been talked off a ledge in the DR for saying it several times..

Michele: I think we’ve all said it by this point.
Natalie: Not me.

Michele points out that Russell’s a strong Veto player, and they counter with the fact that she won the last two Vetos, not Russell.

Michele: He’ll tell you he threw them..
Chima: because he doesn’t like to lose.

Chima does mention that if Russell comes down, Jordan might have to be uber pawn again to ensure Lydia goes home. They have a girl power moment, saying Russell’s intimidated and threatened by women, and that he was an angel until the POV was done.

Michele: Natalie, my hesitance toward anyone was because of Ronnie - now that he’s gone, it’s a whole new game.

Natalie goes on for a bit to sing Jessie’s praises, but says that the only time he wouldn’t get her vote is if he were up against Chima. She then leaves to go downstairs, and Chima tells MIchele that she’s choosing to trust Michele, despite what Russel told her.

Chima: in the course of my discussion with him last night, there were too many inconsistencies, and I’ve told him things in confidence and he repeats them.
Michele; He’s not helping you, or me. I’d rather help you.

Chima makes her decision, tells Michele it’s straight up nomination, no backdoor with michele’s name on it - she wants Russell up and gone.

After the convo, Chima talks to jessie and natalie downstairs - and Jessie makes a brief push for Lydia to be sent home, and NBK be reborn with Russell. Chima doesn’t buy it. Jessie decides as long as it’s not him or Natalie, he doesn’t care.

Russell comes out, followed by Jeff and Chima asks Jeff for him and Jordan to come up to her room after the comp and talk. Jeff to the DR… then…

12:33 - Trivia! Food comp!

I’ll open a new top post with the aftermath when the feeds come back - also, FYI - my daughter’s birthday party is today, so I will be in and out all day long.