Vanessa Rousso has positioned herself in Big Brother 17 in the middle of two alliances that will be tighter and more difficult to break than anything she has to offer. Well, aside from cash apparently.
On Thursday we heard Vanessa ask John what he thought could happen in a final stages scenario with the Austwins, but it was later that night that she went right to Austin to ask how that might go.
Look at what Vanessa has set herself up to work with. She’s got a showmance with Austin and Liz and a twin sisterhood between Liz and Julia. Neither of those players are going to break their bonds to take Vanessa to the end. If she gets to F4 she will have to win every critical comp to make sure she isn’t cut. So yeah, she should be worried.
Flashback to 10:11 PM BBT 8/27 as Vanessa and Austin are alone in the Lounge. She wants to know what he thinks would happen if the two of them and the twins got to the F4 and if they could work out some sort of financial deal.
Vanessa suggests to Austin that while she expects the twins to want to get to the end together doing so would only benefit them each an extra $25K. The math there is that $500K (1st) + $50K (2nd) combined is $550K. The twins have discussed splitting the money, supposedly not allowed by the rules, so that $50K split is an extra $25K. Of course that assumes one twin will win either way.
Vanessa tells Austin that $25K isn’t a lot of money and suggests a deal could be worked out to cover that. “It’s a difference of twenty-five thousand each. We can make that up in some kind of deal. Easily. Are they amenable to that kind of logic?” Vanessa asks Austin.
Again, not allowed according to the alleged rules restriction that discussion. Wait, if that’s not a lot of money to her and she’s saying a twin would win then shouldn’t they question why she’s saying to keep her? But now we’re getting off course and in to how it sounds like Vanessa is trying to use her wealth and money skills back home to buy her way to the end.
As for the F4 scenario Austin says there’s no way Liz will go against her twin sister. Austin says that while he’s never discussed it with Liz, he has assumed that if it’s the three of them at the F3 (Austwins) then he’s going home. That doesn’t answer her question though.
Vanessa presses Austin wanting to know, just between them and not to be repeated, what he’d do at a F4 of their alliance. Austin says if it’s him, Liz, and Vanessa at F3 then he might just pull a Boogie, drop out, and force them to decide.
Well gee, that’s gotta make Vanessa feel good to know her ally wouldn’t fight to help get her farther, but then again he also wouldn’t be standing in her way if he would have decided to take Liz to the end instead as he’d obviously do.
Vanessa says she wants to have all four of them sit down and talk it out so they have a plan for who is the best at all the comps to get ahead. Wait, if it’s the F4 of them and they’re all in this together then why would they need to do that, Vanessa? There’d be no competition left to go against the four of you… Or maybe Vanessa has a plan for that too.
Jump back to earlier in the night when Vanessa talks to Steve about forming a threesome with JMac to go against the Austwins. Flashback to 7:48 PM BBT to watch. Vanessa tells Steve that her, him, and John would be able to best the Austwins in any competition. Vanessa is covering her bases, but which field would be better to play on?
Vanessa needs to seriously work on breaking up the Austwins. She won’t survive the first round of a F4 with them if she doesn’t win either HoH or Veto and that’s disregarding any previous rounds where options will be limited and she’s likely to end up on the Block. Austin won’t nom Julia or Liz instead of her if he’s F5 HoH, of F6 HoH and the Veto is played. What’s she thinking?
I do not believe we’ll see her make a move against them this week as she’s got things set up to go after James, but Vanessa will need someone besides her or an Austwin to start winning things or she’s going to be stuck in a rut with the only exit out the front door to talk with Julie Chen.