The Sixth Sense alliance has again lost control of the Big Brother 17 house and once again one of them will be targeted this week. And it’s a big one.
Sunday night’s episode picks up in the middle of the Head of Household competition as the houseguests are slipping and sliding all over the place. Shelli has revenge in her sights so James is keeping a close eye on Shelli’s progress.
Vanessa is seemingly worried the most because she knows that her game has been so all over the place that anyone outside of her alliance would be crazy not to target her. And then there’s John. He lets us now that just before eviction, he went from flying under the radar to one of the biggest targets in the house. So cut back last week… we’ve got John telling Clay that he doesn’t want him to go. He knows that Vanessa is in Shelli’s head. Clay decides to tell Vanessa that James said Vanessa was in Shelli’s head. Oh, Clay.
So Vanessa then goes and asks James why he’s throwing her name out there. She asks him if he has a problem with her and why he told John she was in Shelli’s head. He swears that’s not true and wants to know who said it. She tells him it was Clay. So James goes for Clay.
Clay and James get heated. Clay gets in James’ face and then Vanessa comes in and blows up on Clay and John. So Vanessa breaks out the tears and John, like us, know this about the sixth time this has happened. And as if she doesn’t look crazy enough, she actually suggests that Clay and Johnny Mac are either “gay lovers” or related.
So while John thinks his game was blown up, Vanessa actually has seemingly blown up her own game.
Let’s cut back to the HOH competition. Becky is in the lead followed by Jackie, Shelli and Julia. After some more slipping and sliding, no one is able to catch up to Becky and she wins all three prizes, including the Head of Household title. And she tells us right away that the house might be surprised to see who her target will be this week. “I want to take out a big fish,” she says.
After the HOH competition, Shelli has a GinaMarie-style meltdown over Clay being gone. She knows she’s alone in the house and she knows she remains a target.
Now that Becky is HOH she knows she has to decide which side to go with since she’s been playing both sides. She tells us that she trusts Jackie, James and Meg more. So that’s who she is going to continue playing the game with. Sorry, Sixth Sense.
John tells Steve that he’s not happy with that blowup Vanessa had so he’s going to slightly push for Becky to target Vanessa. Steve, who is working with both of them, isn’t too happy that Vanessa could be the target this week. But since he also think Becky could be coming for him, he will just have to deal with it.
It’s time to find out Becky’s plan. She reminds James, Jackie and Meg about Vanessa’s deal last week to target the remaining Clelli member. Becky tells them that she will stick to the plan, but Shelli won’t be going this week. She’s going for Vanessa. James, Meg and Jackie really like this idea. So they will be backdooring Vanessa and since it’s Becky, they think it will be quite the blindside.
Of course Vanessa is worried a little bit, but she thinks that she can keep herself safe with Becky this week.
Becky lets Shelli know that she has a chance this week. And actually lets her know that the plan is to go for Vanessa. And of course Shelli says that’s hard for her because she and Vanessa is close. Becky reminds Shelli that as soon as she and Clay were down and out, Vanessa threw them right under the bus. Shelli realizes that if it’s Vanessa and not herself, then so be it.
But what does Vanessa and the others think? Becky tells Vanessa and Austin that she wants to put up Steve and Shelli with Shelli being the remaining target. And Vanessa says she’s OK with that. She didn’t try to save Shelli at all. But she does tell Becky that she feels very isolated and wants to strike a deal with Becky. And Becky shuts her down right away. She says she’s not making any more deals or alliances. Becky tells us that she does not agree with Vanessa’s gameplay and she’s done with her.
And before Vanessa goes, she asks Becky to not tell Shelli that she knows Shelli is the target. But Vanessa, who is actually smart despite some of her questionable game moves, knows that Becky refuses to make a deal with her isn’t a good sign for her.
Becky lets John in on the plan to backdoor Vanessa and he is so happy. He tells Becky that he’s had a problem with Vanessa since week one. So he’s all in, including the part where people will think he’s the backdoor plan.
At the nominations ceremony, Becky goes with Vanessa’s plan to put up Shelli. She also throws up Steve as a pretty believable pawn and that’s that.
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