It was another day of round and and round and round in the Big Brother 17 house as Austin and Vanessa tried to figure out who to target this week and whether or not the veto should be used.
Things changed by the minute in the house throughout the day. Targets have been (in random order): John, Steve, Meg, James, John, Steve … and so on. You know, the usual when this alliance is in power.
Big Brother 17 Live Feed Highlights – Sunday, August 23, 2015:
10:50 AM BBT – HGs got their wake up call but most are slow to leave bed.
11:25 AM BBT – Liz tells Austin she doesn’t kiss on the second date and their Outback reward dinner doesn’t count as a date.
11:45 AM BBT – Vanessa wants to ask John a question. Uh oh, John. She asks if he was sincere to their safety deal. He says he was unless he heard new information.
11:55 AM BBT – John explains to Vanessa that he has no one in the game and could be a useful ally. Vanessa tells John she was a victim of Jackie and Becky in that 8-HG alliance. It wasn’t her fault like they suggested.
12:10 PM BBT – Still chatting, Vanessa continues to dig for information and John is telling her pretty much anything she asks to know. She wants to know one more thing, whether or not he lied about anything Steve told him. John says no.
12:20 PM BBT – Vanessa tells John he has never, ever been her target and wants to fight to save him this week. She’d love to use the Veto on him, but will have to see if she can get approval.
12:55 PM BBT – Vanessa goes to Austin and Liz to tell them John would work with them and agree to nom the Goblins.
1:00 PM BBT – Vanessa suggesting to Austin and Liz that Meg is a huge mastermind working the house.
1:15 PM BBT – Austin talking with John and confirms that Vanessa’s most recent bout of paranoia was kicked off by Meg crying after she lost in the Veto comp on Saturday.
1:40 PM BBT – Vanessa talking to the twins and telling them why everything is good and how they should all trust each other. Smiles and nods from the twins.
2:20 PM BBT – Vanessa on more info hunting this time with Steve. She wants answers. Steve has them. He admits to lying to her about knowing she was a BD target.
2:50 PM BBT – Steve continues to divulge anything he can think of to Vanessa. He says Meg didn’t like that Vanessa pushed a deal on her during the DE. Vanessa is none too pleased.
3:15 PM BBT – Vanessa pushing Austin to send out a Goblin this week.
3:35 PM BBT – Vanessa tells Austin that Meg has been lying to them and playing both sides.
4:45 PM BBT – James realizes that Vanessa may be really hard to get out. (Oops.)
5:00 PM BBT – Vanessa continuing to press to get a Goblin out this week. She says she wants Meg gone.
5:30 PM BBT – Steve is in HoH room with Austin. They’re trying to smooth over things. Steve makes a case for him to come down and James to go instead of Meg. Austin seems into it (for now). Austin talks about coming up with a reason for the twins to vote against James.
6:45 PM BBT – Liz tells Julia that Austin is not a good kisser and her guy back in Miami is better (remember the Sunday night episode where she tells us in her Diary Room that Austin has grown on her? OK, Liz).
7:00 PM BBT – More Austin talk from the twins. All signs point to Austin is toast as soon as they’re out of the house.
7:07 PM BBT – Austin decides that unless he can catch James in a lie he’s not going to ask Vanessa to not use the veto. He’s also worried that will make him and the twins sitting ducks. Julia says Vanessa’s conspiracy theories are stupid and nominations just need to stay the same.
7:15 PM BBT – Austin tells the twins that taking James out helps Vanessa but doesn’t help them.
7:35 PM BBT – Vanessa starts her interrogations again. First it’s JMac and then it’s James. He tells Vanessa only Jackie suggested targeting Vanessa during the double eviction and that he and Meg did not.
8:05 PM BBT – Vanessa asks James who he would target next week. He said he’d ask them for input and that he wouldn’t do anything without them. After they end their talk, Vanessa goes searching for Meg.
8:30 PM BBT – Meg and Vanessa start their talk. Vanessa starts her usual “something has been brought to my attention,” blah, blah, blah.” Vanessa wants to know if Meg thought Vanessa was trying to force deals on people. It’s just more of the same Vanessa stuff we always see. Lot of “my integrity” and “my word” and “I’m confused.” It’s Vanessa looking for a reason to target Meg.
Meg tells Vanessa that she fought her ass off to keep her over Shelli. Meg tells her she would have targeted John and Steve had she won HOH during the DE. Meg also explains that she was only crying after this week’s veto competition because she’s upset that she can’t win anything. Meg tells Vanessa she doesn’t have a problem with her.
9:04 PM BBT – Target is back on JMac now as Austin thinks if he stays this week he will just coast by to the end.
9:20 PM BBT – Liz declares that John needs to go because he’s boring (strategy, folks).
9:30 PM BBT – Austin and Liz are having date night. He asks her to be his girlfriend. She says yes after she mentions that he already has a girlfriend.
9:42 PM BBT – Meg and James compare notes on their talks with Vanessa. They think they were able to smooth things over with her and that she won’t be using the veto. They think Johnny Mac has been trying to get them up (it’s Steve really). James compliments Meg on handling Vanessa well.
10:25 PM BBT – Austin wants to talk to John so they go to the HOH to talk in private. Liz joins, however. John tells them that everyone will have to take them out at some point and he would do it on their terms. Then John tells them that Steve is more loyal to them than he is to him (John is working some angle I’m not quite understanding at the moment).
10:55 PM BBT – Liz and Austin think Steve’s big moves plan would be to take them out. But then Liz worries about keeping James. Back and forth, back and forth.
11:30 PM BBT – James is called upstairs. Austin wants to know what he talked about with Vanessa. James promises Austin whoever comes back from Jury has to be the next to go. Austin was trying to find out if James had promised JMac that he’d throw HoH to him.
11:55 PM BBT – Meg joins the HoH room talk and gets the updates. She thinks maybe John is trying to shift the target to Vanessa.
12:40 AM BBT – Vanessa has been trying to get to the bottom of whether or not James told John he’d throw the HoH comp to him. John has continued to insist he’s telling the truth and tells Vanessa it was the plan so they could get her out.
12:45 AM BBT – James pulls John aside to talk about what’s being said. John reminds James it was a brief comment before the eviction but says it wasn’t like they had a deal, just a quick offer.
12:50 AM BBT – HGs get a card that says they have to play hide & seek.
1:40 AM BBT – Vanessa updates Austin on her hunt for the great truth. She says both John and James seem to be telling the truth. Austin thinks John needs to stay on the Block and be evicted. Vanessa says okay. She tells Austin they’ll have an easier time controlling Steve.
1:55 AM BBT – Austin lets Steve know the noms will probably stay the same.
2:00 AM BBT – Steve tells James and Meg that the Austwins are a “strong fortress.” They wonder if they should repeat that back to Austin.
2:30 AM BBT – Meg and James updating the Austwins with what Steve said about them as a strong fortress.
3:00 AM BBT – Austin says Steve messed up by saying that to Meg/James. He tells Liz that Steve is done.
After a long day and night of Vanessa hunting for a way to get the target on James or Meg and keep John we may see things shift to Steve. Maybe. Since these HGs seem to waffle for sport and to pass the time I’m still expecting them to return to the original plan of evicting John.
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