The Big Brother 18 house continued to go back and forth between who is going home this week, but an unlikely pair emerged Tuesday that has decided to work overtime to get the house on the same page and expose Paulie for running the game.
Update: After initially publishing there have been a lot of changes and events that could be shifting this week’s outcome. More details have been added.
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Big Brother 18 Live Feed Highlights – Tuesday, August 9, 2016:
9:30 AM BBT – HGs starting to move around. James and Nicole head outside. Light chatter.
9:40 AM BBT – Michelle asks James if he’s heard anything about the vote. He denies any discussions and she’s surprised. He promises to tell her if he hears anything but says everyone would keep it a secret to keep her from blowing up. Michelle says she wants to make sure to have a chance to warn everyone about what she knows if she is going.
10:20 AM BBT – Michelle and James have moved outside. She’s telling him about all the money that Paul and Corey have back home.
10:25 AM BBT – Michelle still asking for insight to what might happen on Thursday. James tells her no matter what to keep her head up. She asks if he’s trying to tell her something, but he denies it. Michelle says she talked to Paul and now needs to talk with Victor next.
10:30 AM BBT – Michelle tells James that Nicole lied to her in Week 1 and that Paulie really was a pawn. She’s suspicious of how they were working together from the start. Michelle warns James that no one is going after Paulie.
10:35 AM BBT – Michelle warns James that she thinks Paulie and Nicole are running the house this season. She worries she’s in a house of oblivious people who won’t stop what’s going on.
2:12 PM BBT – Natalie tells Bridgette she wants Zakiyah to go because she gets jealous. Bridgette says Paulie is running the house and Natalie says yes and Zakiyah will do whatever Paulie wants her to do.
2:15 PM BBT – Michelle says she’s realizing everything Frank said was true. Bridgette hopes James could be talked in to using his power strategically. Minutes later she comments that James probably doesn’t have the guts to do it.
2:25 PM BBT – Michelle again promising to blow the game up on her way out.
4:05 PM BBT – Bridgette and Michelle talking again. Bridgette is again worried that James won’t be willing to make this move with his votes. Bridgette says they need Paul to be solid if they’re going to make this move and not be left out to dry. She’s nervous that he won’t come through for them.
4:10 PM BBT – Michelle admits, “I regret everything.”
4:20 PM BBT – Bridgette suggests Paulie is frightened by independent women and that’s why Tiffany, Da’Vonne, and now Michelle are being targeted while Nicole, Zakiyah, and Natalie aren’t targets since they’re paired up and he thinks they can be controlled by their paired guy.
4:30 PM BBT – Paul is doing a Feeds podcast with Michelle and Bridgette.
4:50 PM BBT – Nicole tells Corey she wants a F4 deal with Paulie and James. She wants Paul and Bridgette gone next.
4:55 PM BBT – Nicole is jealous that James may cancel Natalie’s vote. She wants her vote cancelled instead so she’s not on record having voted out Michelle.
5:00 PM BBT – Michelle goes to Victor in HoH room. She asks who he honestly wants out. He admits it’s not Michelle. She tells Victor they can make it happen with just three votes. Michelle promises she’s not coming after Victor. He says it would be better for his game if she stayed.
6:08 PM BBT – Bridgette tells Paul that the next target after Michelle won’t be Zakiyah. Bridgette is trying to key Paul into the fact that Paulie is running things and Paul might not be as safe as he thinks.
7:08 PM BBT – Nicole is talking to Bridgette about her favorite subject: Corey.
8:00 PM BBT – HGs just hanging out, general chit-chat.
10:01 PM BBT – Natalie and James are having a spat. Natalie tells James she tried talking to him today but he ignored her. She tells him that she’s not really mad she’s just confused.
10:08 PM BBT – James tells Natalie that they do this every few days. He says he’s tired of the dance. Natalie says he doesn’t even treat her like a friend. James says it’s weird that the two of them always have this tension between them. They agree they both often think the other is ignoring the other.
10:19 PM BBT – Michelle tells Bridgette that Victor said he doesn’t want her to go. They are worried James isn’t going to help them because he was hanging out with Corey all day. Bridgette asks Michelle if she thinks she’s going to go home why wait until the last minute to blow up everyone’s game. Michelle says she has already started doing that.
10:21 PM BBT – Bridgette suggests they need to start something to make Zakiyah a threat to Paulie’s game since he’s the one running things and the people who threaten his game are the ones who go (Tiffany, Frank, Da’Vonne).
10:23 PM BBT – Bridgette says it’s as if Paul is OK with getting 5th place. Michelle and Bridgette talk about how they don’t remember Nicole playing this dirty in her first season. Bridgette says it must be because she got played so much in BB16 that she decided to play that way this season.
Feed Highlights continue on the next page…
Bridgette continues her campaigning efforts to save Michelle and take down Paulie as the night rolls on.
10:27 PM BBT – Bridgette tells Michelle what Frank told her the night before his eviction. He said he told her to get Nicole out and then Paulie since he’s running the house. Then he said to go for James so she can have Natalie close to her. Michelle regrets not using the veto on Frank. Michelle is pretending like if Bridgette and Frank had told her more about what Paulie was doing she would’ve saved Frank (she wouldn’t have).
10:36 PM BBT – Bridgette mentions to Michelle that they could trick James into erasing the wrong votes if they can’t get him on their side.
10:42 PM BBT – Michelle says she’s going to tell the house if they don’t get Paulie out soon they all have pea brains. Michelle says no one is here to win $500,000 and they’re there to just kiss Paulie’s butt.
10:45 PM BBT – Michelle brings up the fact that Paulie wasn’t a part of the original 8-Pack and he somehow worked himself into it. Bridgette asks Michelle if the Fatal 5 was a real alliance and she tells her it was.
10:53 PM BBT – Bridgette and Michelle know they need to talk to James about flipping the vote this week to keep Michelle.
10:54 PM BBT – Michelle and Bridgette swear they won’t vote for Paulie to win this season. They say they’d vote Natalie over Paulie and that Da’Vonne would too.
10:55 PM BBT – Bridgette suggests they flirt with Paulie to make Zakiyah mad so that she annoys Paulie into wanting her out. Bridgette says they have to make keeping Michelle Paulie’s idea.
11:04 PM BBT – Michelle asks if Bridgette is a secret super fan. She says she’s really not and that she’s seen Seasons 16, 17, 14 and half of season 7.
11:10 PM BBT – Michelle goes to talk to James (and Natalie). Michelle says Victor wants her to stay and asks James if he knows Paulie is running the house. James of course only makes jokes and won’t talk real game. Michelle continues to give James the rundown on how Paulie has decided all the evictions and that he manipulates people and wins competitions. Michelle tells James Paulie has even mentioned James’ name before about how he’s playing a good social game.
11:20 PM BBT – Michelle tells James to spread out his power and she’ll get an extra vote so it’s less obvious what he did.
11:30 PM BBT – Michelle points out to Natalie that Nicole is jealous of her and was mocking her at the half-way party. She says Paulie has also said he knows stories about Natalie’s personal life (they have overlapping circles of friends back home).
11:45 PM BBT – Natalie talking with James after Michelle left. She isn’t happy with Paulie and says he made comments about them making out and no one knowing, he’d like to take a bit out of her butt, and they’d go out on a date back home. James is very surprised.
11:50 PM BBT – James says he wants to call Paulie out on what he’s said but knows he can’t because of the game.
11:55 PM BBT – Natalie tells James she wants to expose what Paulie has been doing.
12:05 AM BBT – James is upset about Paulie’s comments and thinks it makes him (James) look bad.
12:10 AM BBT – Bridgette has joined the discussion. She lets him know she wants Michelle to stay and so does Victor. Natalie also says she wants Michelle to stay.
12:15 AM BBT – James is surprised by how many people are wanting Michelle to stay, but he won’t do a blindside and will have to announce that this is what he wants.
12:35 AM BBT – James remains concerned about going against Paulie. Bridgette warns him they have to do something or Paulie will win the whole game.
1:05 AM BBT – Natalie and James discussing the idea again. He doesn’t think now is the time to upset the game and rock the boat. She asks when that would be, after she gets evicted? James says he would do it if the whole house is for it.
1:15 AM BBT – Natalie says she’s ready to take a shot at Paulie, but she has to win HoH first.
1:20 AM BBT – Paulie and Paul talking the couples. Paul is still worried about all the pairs and wants to get Nicole or James out. He’s also nervous about what Zakiyah will do if she stays this week. Paulie still isn’t having it and reminds Paul that Michelle called him (Paulie) as her target.
1:25 AM BBT – Natalie warns James that if Zakiyah stays then Paulie will use her previous nomination as an excuse to avoid her going up again. She says she’ll tell James “I told you so” when Paulie wins.
1:45 AM BBT – Zakiyah worries that Paulie said he was okay with her leaving. Nicole promises her that’s not true. Zakiyah decides she won’t believe what Michelle is saying and wouldn’t go against Paulie.
3:30 AM BBT – James and Nicole talking. He asks about her trusting him and she promises she does. James mentions he wasn’t really trying to win the Veto comp.
4:00 AM BBT – Bridgette is back to talk more with James and Natalie about the flip. James thought Michelle was going to be saved, but they don’t think the flip will work. They’re trying to decide which votes James could cancel.
Feed Highlights continue on the next page as Paulie’s gameplay is about to be revealed…
Big shift ahead as the Houseguests start to wake up to Paulie’s game.
4:05 AM BBT – James doesn’t want to cancel Paulie’s vote to make sure he has to have taken a stance. James is quiet and says he’s mad (likely about what Natalie told him earlier).
4:20 AM BBT – Paulie and James are talking in the HN room. Paulie warns James that Bridgette could be coming after him (James). Natalie shows up and Paulie tells her Michelle was coming after her.
4:55 AM BBT – Michelle working on Paul and tells him she could get James to join the effort. She again promises him if she stays and can pull off a win she will change up the game big time. He tells her to make sure James will use the ACP for her.
5:00 AM BBT – Paulie and James alone in the HN room. Paulie again suggesting that Bridgette is coming after James. James doesn’t seem to believe it saying Bridgette and Natalie are close so why would she do it. Paulie backs off the idea.
5:05 AM BBT – James tells Paulie he’s upset with him because Natalie said he was making passes at her. Paulie denies and says Natalie is making it up and talks about Jersey girls doing this and how he has a bro code and so on and so on. James says he’s more upset with Natalie for making up these lies.
5:10 AM BBT – James worries he’s too hung up on Natalie if he was believing all she was telling him. Paulie explains more about how he and his brother wouldn’t let a girl do this kind of thing and they’d first “put her in her place” then come tell the other she was claiming they were making advances on her. Paulie says they’d get rid of girls like that back home. Sounds like he’s working on James to get him thinking Natalie needs to go.
5:15 AM BBT – Paulie tells James he won’t make jokes with Natalie anymore.
5:20 AM BBT – Michelle let Paul know that Paulie says he’s a puppy and you just have to pet him to get him to do what you want. She says Paulie said Paul had a good social game but can’t keep his mouth shut.
6:05 AM BBT – James & Natalie have been discussing the vote in Storage when Bridgette joins them. James tells Bri to make sure she has Victor on locked down. She realizes James is down to flip the vote. Much celebration and planning kicks off. This may have potential.
6:10 AM BBT – Paulie tells Paul that Natalie told James about his flirting with her. Paulie says it was “morally wrong” for her to do that. He’s going to play hard for HoH now and considers targeting Natalie for what she said.
6:15 AM BBT – James considers a house meeting to call out Paulie. Such a bad idea.
6:20 AM BBT – Bridgette is shocked to hear what Paulie has been doing and saying to Natalie with his overt flirting. James says it’s time to go to war. Bridgette & Natalie are both in.
6:30 AM BBT – Natalie goes to wake Zakiyah, but she’s too far asleep. Bridgette wakes Michelle and tells her stuff is going down. Paul is soon there and the big talk begins.
6:35 AM BBT – Natalie joins Bridgette, Paul, and Michelle. They start revealing what’s been going on. James arrives and piles on to the talk.
6:40 AM BBT – James explains how Paulie created multiple final deals around the house and they were different w/ the different groups. James says America gave him the Care Package for a purpose.
6:45 AM BBT – Paul admits he was hating on Bridgette because he was set up and told she was hating on him. Michelle says they were getting boned, but now if she wins HoH then they know who will get boned instead.
6:47 AM BBT – Paul says they have the numbers in this room (him, James, Natalie, Bridgette, & Michelle [not voting]), but if anyone backs out then they’re screwed. Everyone agrees they’re committed.
6:50 AM BBT – Paul asks James if he’s sure he’ll go against his three. James confirms he will.
6:55 AM BBT – Paul advises the group they can’t blindside Paulie or he’ll use that as fuel to his fire. Natalie wants to tell Zakiyah about Paulie’s flirting to even turn Z against Paulie. Paul later says that’s a terrible idea.
7:00 AM BBT – Group decides James can cancel out Paulie & Nicole’s votes then they can make it 3-2 to confuse the house.
After I initially published it looked like James didn’t believe Natalie and was back in Paulie’s pocket BUT then everything shifted and James realized what was going on around him. He got together with Natalie, Bridgette, Paul, and Michelle to realize they had the numbers and were being played by Paulie. Big changes could lay ahead.
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