Saying Vanessa Rousso is stressed out on Big Brother is the understatement of the season. She’s constantly either actually paranoid or playing paranoid or talking about other people being paranoid (which of course causes more paranoia for her). Last night Vanessa was again on high alert.
Upstairs in the HoH room Austin, John, Liz, and Steve debated the merits of targeting Vanessa this week with a Backdoor while she quietly slept downstairs below. Soon her Spidey sense was going off and her paranoia had her up and moving looking for a new target.
Flashback to 4:49 AM BBT 8/21 Cams 1/2 to find John returning to his bedroom and flipping on the lights. If you accidentally select Cams 3/4 you’ll find Austin mounted on Liz for yet another make-out session, so tread carefully. John’s choice to use the lights wasn’t a great idea as it woke Vanessa who sat up and wanted to know who was up, what he was doing, who was around, and where Steve was.
Vanessa grabs her trusty sidekick green beanie and heads out looking for Steve. She finds him near the Lounge and asks to talk with him. No thanks, says Steve. Heh. Steve explains he’s not in a good mental state to listen to her and give her the full attention she deserves. Vanessa then asks if she can just talk to Steve instead. Steve again tells Vanessa he’s not in the right state of mind. Cue the fake tears.
Vanessa begins her choked up voice and worried looks saying she just wanted to talk to Steve and have him listen. She doesn’t want to talk game. (Hah!) Steve apologizes and says he was trying to explain that he can’t listen to her in the way she deserves to be listened to. Steve is doing a good job of handling Vanessa’s standard behavior of freak out, play the victim, and guilt trip the Houseguests.
Next step in Vanessa’s MO? Hands to the beanie. Check. Vanessa says “I’m tired of being the bigger person in every scenario” as she turns and walks down to the bathroom. Steve calls out to her and she just walks away ignoring him and goes in the WC.
After a few mins Vanessa emerges and when Steve asks to talk with her she replies, “I, unlike other people in this house, will always hear other people out.” Now that refers back to earlier in the night when Vanessa wanted to extend her game talk with Austin by “3 more minutes.” Austin declined. Vanessa has been freaking out ever since. Well, that suggests she wasn’t before, but you know what I mean.
What was supposed to be an apology from Vanessa to Steve was instead Steve apologizing to Vanessa. Now she returns the favor and says he’s been receiving misdirected anger from her. Vanessa says she’s upset about Austin making a deal with the Goblins and that she’s still upset when he didn’t immediately promise her a vote the other week. Soon she’s back off and running on her game talk. Remember that whole “no game talk” promise from a few mins ago? Yeah.
Vanessa is crying again that Austin denied her “3 minutes” request. Flashback to 4:57AM BBT. Steve offers a hug but she backs away from him. Vanessa continues her talk while crying and says Austin owes her for that time she didn’t Backdoor him, or as she put it, “for saving Austin.” You mean the time she created a plan to Backdoor him and then didn’t? Gee, that’s a swell deal! Vanessa points out she made a huge target by BD’ing Jason after not going through with the BD-Austin plan. Well, all of that is really her fault since she made both decisions, but okay again.
The stress point for Vanessa is that she’s very worried about going up on the Block. Remember her crying session in the Hammock on Sunday night earlier this week? This is standard operation procedure for Vanessa. Just before a nomination event she freaks out, cries, guilt trips her allies, and then safely escapes danger. It’s effective, but sure seems like it should be transparent to the Houseguests by now.
Vanessa calms down then sits with Steve in the bathroom and mixes general chatter with plenty more game talk. She’s worried about Austin’s upcoming choice, but Steve tells her he trusts Austin. Vanessa wants to know if Steve considers nominating an alliance member as a betrayal of a deal akin to a safety-deal with HGs outside of a core alliance. Steve deflects, but you can tell she’s propping up ammo against Austin in case it happens.
Steve keeps trying to soothe Vanessa by telling her if he gets evicted this week then he’ll compete to return, get beat by Jackie or Becky, and then go enjoy a nice month long vacation in Jury House. I’d say this was a little bit of “inception” in what he hopes Vanessa will start to think.
Wrapping things up you can jump to 5:19 AM BBT as Vanessa pushes once more. She asks Steve to tell her if he knows of anything going on with her being the target. Vanessa wants him to bring her info and if he has any concerns at all that he owes her the chance to defend herself. Steve says there’s nothing he’s worried about. They end their talk and Steve goes to bed. Vanessa lays down in the bathroom and her eyes pace the room for a solid ten minutes before she also returns to bed.
Right now, Steve expects Vanessa to be the target and I’d say he’s already working on cutting all ties. This was a cover to protect himself for if/when she goes up on the Block, but as we’ve heard from Austin that’s most likely going to be a Backdoor if anything at all. Vanessa is of course right to be paranoid even if Austin goes against the BD-Vanessa plan, but either way we should get some drama out of her until Monday’s Veto Ceremony.
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