Wednesday night’s Big Brother 17 was hilarious. I found myself laughing more than I ever have. From bad gameplay to crazy egos to complete delusions, I just couldn’t contain my laughter.
Oh, and with only a couple of weeks left this season, someone has finally decided to put the twins up against each other (I may or may not have laughed at that as well).
The episode picks up right after Steve nominated Austin and Liz for eviction. Liz went right to bed in tears. She tells us in the Diary Room that being on the block with her “boyfriend” is just too tough to handle right now.
Austin and Julia go to comfort Liz and she tells Austin that she didn’t think that Steve would be the one to betray them. She says she would never do that to him ever and adds that “this means war.”
Steve continues to keep Austin comfortable about the week, leaving him to believe that Liz is the target when it’s actually Austin. Steve reminds us that he is now playing a different game than he was at first (even though I’m not completely sure he is, meaning he’s still playing Vanessa’s game).
And this week they waste no time for the veto competition. The plan is for Austin and Liz to try and throw the competition to Julia so she can use the veto on one of them and force Steve to renominate John or Vanessa. So let’s see how this goes.
I guess I should add that Jessie, aka “Mr. Spectacular” was the veto host. And also worth mentioning is that this was the competition — “Bowlerina” — from season 15 that split up Amanda and McCrae. Up first in the competition is Liz vs. Steve. Liz wins the match and Steve is out.
Up next is Julia vs. Austin. Vanessa actually convinced Vanessa to challenge Austin. Hold on while I insert some laughter here (HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA). Wow. Just wow. So now Austin thinks that everyone is out to get him and he’s no longer interested in throwing the competition to Julia. And Austin beats Julia, knocking her out of the competition.
It’s John vs. Liz next and John knocks Liz out in one try. So then it’s Vanessa vs. Austin. And he’s not happy she picked him. He’s so angry. But lucky for Austin he beats Vanessa and is left to challenge Johnny Mac. And Austin easily wins it and proclaims that “Judas is here” and tells everyone to watch out. So Austin is again pretending like 1. Judas is a thing and 2. Judas is some badass.
OK, lets head inside and watch Judas rip everyone apart! Hold on, I gotta do it again (HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA). Liz is the one letting people have it. First it’s Julia. She tells her how stupid it was for her to pick Austin and Julia realizes she shouldn’t have listened to Vanessa. Austin comes in and finds out that it was all Vanessa’s idea. And he’s not happy.
But Austin lets the twins take care of it. So they go to Vanessa to express their irritation and it’s Vanessa who starts acting crazy (as usual). She’s got the tears going and her defenses are up and for anyone who has seen this before, it’s just typical Vanessa. She even pulled out the “I swear on my mother” card.
And since Vanessa is backed into a corner, she starts throwing Austin under the bus. She’s not revealing any details, but she manages to get all the heat off from her (for now anyway) and on to Austin. Vanessa even says “I don’t trust him and I never have.”
Liz lets Austin know that Vanessa was throwing him under the bus and of course it leads to Liz getting mad at Austin. She’s convinced that Austin is keeping things from her and that he wants her or Liz out of the game to better his chances in the end.
Vanessa keeps grinding salt into the wounds and gets Liz to the point of never wanting to talk to Austin again. Austin finally comes in and overhears Liz talking smack and he decides to pull Vanessa into the parlor. It doesn’t take her long to call Austin a “piece of s**t.” And soon after, she spins the situation and gets Austin to actually apologize to her.
Austin leaves his talk with Vanessa and goes to talk to Liz. She tells him she only wants her sister around her right now and that this is not going to end well. And it doesn’t. He tells Liz that he ruined his life for her and that he chose her over a girl at home. Oops. The best part is that he’s had the veto necklace on this whole time. This episode is funny. But I’ll spare you another outburst of laughter, but just know it happened.
Unfortunately for us, Liz vs. Austin doesn’t last long as she ends up back in his bed before morning. The showmance is saved, folks. Womp Womp.
I think we’ve milked everything that has happened this week up until the veto ceremony, so let’s get to that. Austin, of course uses the veto on himself and Steve indeed names Julia as the replacement nominee. So it’s twin vs. twin.
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