Several important conversations took place last night in the Big Brother 17 house that could be shifting Thursday’s target if the momentum builds.
Despite Vanessa’s efforts to keep Clay and Austin apart the conversation took place and could be the catalyst Austin needed to move in the direction of saving Clay.
Flashback to 12:51 AM BBT 8/5 on your Live Feeds – get the Free Trial now if you don’t have it – and listen in as Clay smooths things over with Austin. Clay isn’t straight out campaigning but he’s definitely not telling Austin to vote him out over Shelli anymore.
Clay promises Austin he’s not coming after him and never would. Austin in turn says he wouldn’t have to come after Clay after all this. He encourages Clay to go have this same talk with the twins which shows Austin wants others to be convinced.
Following this talk Austin goes straight out to the twins, Vanessa, and Steve in the backyard. He tells them this was a very good talk and makes him feel better over the idea of keeping Clay instead of Shelli. Vanessa plays along and says that if Clay stays then they can just use him like they’d use Shelli if she stayed.
The talk breaks up when Jackie arrives and Vanessa goes back to pushing Shelli to stay. Vanessa says it’s better to keep a bigger target, but Jackie points out why would you do that when she’s a bigger target for being more successful in comps and could just come after you when she wins. Hush now with your logic, Jackie, Vanessa has no need for that.
Leap forward to 2:44 AM BBT where Austin is talking with Liz. He says the talk with Clay made him much more interested in the idea of keeping Clay and evicting Shelli. You can tell he’s trying to turn her on the idea. Julia shows up a few mins later and the talk stops.
Much later on in the night, practically the morning, James tells Becky (FB 5:40AM BBT) that they have only 3 solid votes to evict Shelli: Jackie, Meg, and Becky. It’s a good sign for James and company if they know this isn’t sown up like they previously thought. I’m more interested in know if Clay has any inkling he’s this close to going home.
Clay wasn’t campaigning to Austin in that talk and according to Vanessa’s earlier talk with Shelli it sounded more like Clay was confident he was staying. I don’t think Clay has even gone back to JMac who is following his marching orders to evict Clay per his original request.
Can Clay be saved? Yes and here’s one way it could happen. Take those 3 votes and you’ll need just 2 more. If Clay talks to Johnny Mac then I’m fairly sure he’ll change his vote to keep Clay. Now we’re at 4. Who else wants to keep Clay? Austin. That’s 5. BUT Austin is afraid to turn on Vanessa so how does he handle that? Pin it on Steve.
Steve is sticking with Vanessa and will vote the way she wants, but Austin could flip his vote then blame Steve saying he was the one to throw the hinky vote. This could be a tough sell but a way to make it easier is to have the twins still vote out Clay. Then you’ve got Vanessa + twins + 1 extra vote against Clay and Austin could sidestep in to that vote saying he voted the same as the twins.
It’s an interesting situation and I like this a lot more than a rollover move by Clay where he just flops and dies in the name of a showmance. Sending Shelli home is a better move for everyone but Vanessa and I’m surprised more people don’t see that, but it’s a testament to how well Vanessa is manipulating her allies.
What do you think will happen? Will Clay wake up to reality and campaign in time? Will Austin realize the vote count and make the switch? Wednesday could end up being a pivotal day on the Feeds so stick with us to see what happens next. Find us on Facebook & Twitter for more updates.