Big Brother sent home its final pre-jury evictee on Thursday night… yet most of the episode focused on a houseguest who wasn’t even on the nomination block.
I’m referring, of course, to Cory, who was majorly targeted by Felicia’s veto meeting speech on Tuesday. Ultimately, Cameron chose not to use the Power of Veto, leaving Felicia and Mecole as the week’s nominees. But even after Cory evaded the block, all eyes remained on him and America, particularly when America confronted Felicia in front of the entire house and asserted that Felicia was the one to propose a Final Four deal to Cory and America. Felicia immediately shut that down as a lie… which it was.
Cory also found out, via Cameron, that Blue had floated the idea of Cory getting backdoored this week. That wasn’t exactly an altruistic reveal on Cameron’s part, of course; he wanted Cory to know Blue was eyeing him so that Cory will target Blue, and not Cameron, should he win Head of Household. But the more pressing issue was who to evict… and seemingly all at once (with the help of TV editing, at least), Cory, Matt, Jag and Bowie started to consider keeping Felicia over Mecole, as Mecole appeared to be the stronger competitor and bigger long-term threat. (Of those two women, Felicia is the only one to win a competition thus far, but no matter!) Plus, the way Cory saw it, it’d be kinda delicious to orchestrate a 5-2 vote in Felicia’s favor, in which Cirie and Blue would be the only votes against her. If nothing else, it would leave Blue on the opposite side of the vote from her allies Jag and Matt, and a “Blue versus the house” situation next week sounded pretty darn good to Cory.
THE EVICTION | In the end, though, the vote wasn’t nearly as scandalous as Cory might have wanted. Mecole did get evicted, but it happened by a unanimous vote instead. Upon getting the boot, Mecole noticeably did not hug Cory or America, and on her way out the door, she revealed to the houseguests — well, maybe “revealed,” depending on the veracity — that Cory, America and Bowie have been in an alliance together. It wasn’t shown who Mecole was pointing to when she said, “They’re planning to target you, you and you, and they’re gonna try to use you to do they’re bidding,” but apparently this Cory/America/Bowie alliance has been quite busy. Disappointingly, Julie Chen Moonves — who once recited Aaryn Gries’ racist insults about her fellow houseguests right back to her! — didn’t ask Mecole any questions about her fiery exit speech.
THE HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD COMPETITION | In this week’s HOH competition, players had to answer true-or-false questions about various Instagram posts that were published by the Humiliverse earlier in the week. At the end of regulation play, we had a tie between Felicia (gasp!) and Bowie Jane (gasp!), and the tiebreaker question asked them to estimate how many minutes Jared spent as a BB Zombie, from the moment he returned to the house to the moment Cameron won his do-or-die competition. Bowie lowballed with a guess of 627 minutes, while Felicia went high with 49,500 minutes; the correct answer was in the 10,000 minute range, making Bowie the new Head of Household! Expect the unexpected, indeed.
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