The Power of Veto Competition arrives later today in the Big Brother 17 house and these Houseguests are ready for the action and they’ve got a plan that deepens the emerging divide.
The newly minted nominees fear their allies are turning their backs on them and they’re right. When competition time arrives they’ll be playing against steep odds, but isn’t that when Big Brother is known for huge upsets?
Yes, Shelli and Clay are not handling their nominations well after expecting a shoddy deal with James to hold up to the pressure of their threat level. Now that they’re on the Block together they’ve got one chance to avoid an impossible situation in their bid to get to the end together: Power of Veto. But they may need to win it themselves for that opportunity.
On Friday James continued his campaign with Clay & Shelli’s allies to shore up support against the power couple and given the alternatives they don’t have much choice.
From top to bottom, Chelli’s allies are disappearing. We saw John and Becky agreeing that they can’t win this Veto without coming off looking bad with the pressure to use it. Later Austin talked to the twins saying their best option was for the noms to stay just as they are. Even Vanessa talked with James and suggested the idea of her throwing the Veto comp. While James hinted that’s a good idea he said he won’t ask that of her.
Shelli and Clay have lost both competitive support and honesty from their former allies as Vanessa tells Shelli and Clay that she hasn’t promised anything against them in regards to the Veto. Clay hopes to get HG choice and pick Austin, but we know that won’t help him as James would pick Austin too.
Austin is locked in this situation because he knows if the Veto is used then either him or one of the twins will be going up on the Block. Sure, it could be Vanessa, but he’s more confident it’ll be one of the former options and I think he’s right if James wants to guarantee a Chelli split. All of this mess does leave some advantages for Shelli and Clay.
With all of Chelli’s former allies denying support that’s really just less competition for them in the Veto battle. If Austin and the twins are all drawn to play then it’s really going to be James vs Clay & Shelli for the Veto. Those are good odds and James will be hoping for an ally to be in there with him to offset it. Jackie and Meg won’t hold back from trying to win it.
Another possibility is a wild card like Steve winning the Veto. He earlier told Vanessa that he wants to see Becky go home this week instead so he might be crazy enough to save one of them and hope for a Becky renom instead. That won’t happen though.
Complicating matters even more is Clay’s knighthood manner. He’s been telling HGs that if they win the Veto to save Shelli. Heck, he even said he’d do just that. Wow. If Clay wins the Veto and saves Shelli we’ll have a very interesting eviction week.
Shelli remains the House power’s target. James and his allies want her gone over Clay and considering her track record and pull in the House I do not blame them. If Shelli comes down off the Block then we could see someone other than Clay go but the idea of keeping Chelli united in the house still sounds like a very risky move for James and his two remaining allies.
What do you hope will happen today at the Power of Veto competition? It’s coming up later today and the players will soon be picked which will reveal a lot of out possible outcome combinations. Get ready for another exciting day of Big Brother! Want to watch the drama play out? Tune in online through the Live Feeds to watch inside the Big Brother house! Use this Free Trial link for a 1-Week Trial.
Update: The three additional players have been selected. Becky, Jackie, and Vanessa will join James, Clay, and Shelli on the playing field. James chose Jackie instead of Austin as he had said he’d do.
Now this would make me think neither Vanessa nor Becky really want to win this competition and have the pressure of the saving someone that will create an enemy with James, Jackie, and Meg. Speaking of Jackie, I do think she’ll be competing to win so that could make this Jackie & James vs Clay & Shelli.
Becky and Vanessa might not be throwing it though as the two of them just had a private talk of the dangers of throwing it. I wonder if Vanessa was instilling a fear in Becky about throwing it to make sure Shelli & Clay didn’t have one less competitor on the field. Hmm. What do you think?
Update 2: Veto competition underway as of 1:51PM BBT. Spoilers in a new post when Feeds return.