The tense exchanges between James and Natalie continue on and off for the rest of the night but there’s thankfully also some game talk mixed in there including possibly a new plan for Nicole and Corey.
6:03 PM BBT – Natalie and James pause argument. James asks himself why he got into a showmance.
6:20 PM BBT – Natalie says it’s hard for her to talk to Paul because she knows he makes fun of everything she says. She tells James that the others are talking to him but not her. She says she doesn’t even care, but she clearly cares.
7:06 PM BBT – Nicole shaves Corey’s chest. No, really.
7:11 PM BBT – James thinks there could be an eviction both Wednesday and Thursday this week. He tells Natalie they might only have a day apart from each other if that’s the case. Natalie says she feels like she’s the one getting evicted this week.
7:17 PM BBT – James tells Natalie that Paul and Victor want to keep her but Nicole and Corey want to keep him.
7:23 PM BBT – James wonders if Nicole and Corey will blindside Victor this week by voting out Natalie or if they’re truly working together.
7:40 PM BBT – James and Natalie are quietly arguing in the hot tub. She’s upset and thinks she’s going home while regretting having campaigned to the guys that they keep James. Natalie asks if he has a F3 deal with Nicole and Corey. He gets annoyed. She eventually leaves.
8:30 PM BBT – House is quiet. Natalie again tells James she knows she’s going home.
9:05 PM BBT – James tells Corey about his spat with Natalie and how she thinks she’s going home and she’s blaming him.
9:27 PM BBT – Corey and Paul talk about Natalie and James. Paul says Natalie acts nice when James isn’t around but changes her tune when James shows up. They think James believes he’s going this week and Paul thinks once Natalie is evicted, James will be too rattled to win HOH.
9:40 PM BBT – All HGs are outside hanging out, working out, etc.
10:00 PM BBT – Natalie and James have made up and are playing dominoes together.
10:05 PM BBT – Corey warns Nicole that James is upset and taking the blame for Natalie going. She wants them to work on a plan to get James back in their corner if he’s staying. They wonder if Victor and Paul think they have a plan to get James to nominate Nicole and Corey if he stays and wins HoH.
10:30 PM BBT – Paul, Nicole, Corey, and Victor talk about how surprised Natalie will be when the vote is revealed 3-0 against her.
10:55 PM BBT – James and Natalie are joking about Jury House life and how bad Paulie must have it there now.
11:00 PM BBT – Paul talking with Victor suggests best case is Nicole wins HoH so the next round they go against Corey in the next HoH comp.
11:10 PM BBT – Natalie again saying she’ll be going this week and James agrees that she might.
11:21 PM BBT – Nicole tells Corey she wants their F3 to be with James. She suggests James would take Corey over her to the F2.
1:00 AM BBT – Lights are out already and HGs are working toward bed.
1:15 AM BBT – Paul is up and on the move so he hangs out with Nicole and Corey and the lights have come back on.
2:30 AM BBT – Natalie has joined the group and chatting away.
3:00 AM BBT – Everyone is back in bed.
Plenty of drama on Monday between James and Natalie and I suspect we’ll get more of that “hot and cold” between them like James was describing. As for the F4 they’re sticking together for this vote but now both sides think they’ve got the advantage with James. Beyond this round we may get a change of plans though if Nicole sticks to this new idea.
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At this point I wish they had Live Feeds in the Jury House. (They’re all being paid so earn it a bit.) If Natalie goes this week James is going to be a mopey baby slugging around looking heartbroken. And if James goes Natalie’s going to attach herself to Victor like a Remora. Therefore I hope James goes because after a season of Meech and Paulie I don’t think I can tolerate much more #MiserablyMopey.
I don’t think if James stays that he is gonna mope. .I think hes gonna be relived that Natalie is gone…James may be lonesome but nooo hes not gonna mope.. I know Natalie would elated if James left.. James is waking up after a 2 month puppy love slumber. Natalies pissed because James has stopped campaigning for “her”…James stopped doing that when Paul told him that Natalie was throwing him UTB…(Natalie does not know about the talk with Paul)….The more Natalie talks the deeper she digs her hole with James.. He is catching on that she has been using him to get farther in the game…Unless I miss my guess James is “playing” Natalie this week and is trying to keep things civil with her till one of them is evicted…We just have to see how the “nomance’ plays out..
Great post! I’m just working off of the boards and show so I don’t have the best viewpoint. Great insight! Thanks!
Personally I think Natalie’s going for the sympathy. Hoping the others will vote james out. Like she did with Victor trying to get him to drop on the ropes comp. No Beuno.
I hope you are right.?
Littlefly I think you’re BANG ON!! Let’s hope so anyway!
At this point, I wish the broadcast shows were all jury house. It would be much more fun to watch than a show with Natalie and James bickering, which is what I expect we will get on Wednesday. I would much rather watch the women deal with Paulie in the jury house.
I agree I really thought Sunday’s show would show updates in the jury house. What a wasted opportunity for production to keep things interesting. I usually am rewinding & re-listening to what was said. On Sunday it kind of didn’t really matter to me.
#losinginterest
Nicole kills me. She’s constantly worried that people will be loyal to Corey and her. But after she makes a F4 with Paul & Vic, now she’s saying she wants to be F3 with James. Grr.
How is that a problem? I get that her whine is impossible to deal with but it feels like going to the end with James (as opposed to Vic or Paul) is a much smarter game move, no? Victor’s going to be hard to beat if he makes it to F2 and the Jury reward his repeated wins. And Paul seems to have played well and had a much better social game. Seems like she might actually be thinking. James is a lot easier to win against than V&P are.
As much as I want Vic or Paul to win, from here on in everyone needs to be playing for themselves and figure out how best to place themselves for the next rounds. Loyalty is nice but they are going to have to betray each other if they want to win.
Right. So we agree.
This is the hardest time of the game IMO. It’s part luck & part Who do you trust?
That’s the smart thing, but she should have thought about that before they betrayed James and Nat. I just hate that Victor wants to take her to the finals because of his stupid crush.
11:00 PM BBT – Paul talking with Victor suggests best case is Nicole wins HoH so the next round they go against Corey in the next HoH comp.
WHAT?!?!?! Great, just great. Paul is so stupid if he throws this HOH, Victor or Paul WILL go home if Paul doesn’t win HOH. They’ll be nominated as a pair by the remaining three so even if one wins veto the other goes home. Why oh why would he think Nicole would keep them over James?
Yeah, I had the same reaction when I read that. Does he not see that if Nicole wins there is a good chance that he or Vic will be evicted? I can’t believe that he is that naive to think that Nicorey won’t be coming after them next round just like they would be going after Nicorey.
Because Nicorey had the opportunity the week before and didn’t take it. Paul and Vic now trust them 100%. That’s why giving Vic the $5000 was actually a genius move by Corey. Complete faith in the f4 alliance.
Well Paul’s an idiot to trust them going forward. The only reason Nicorey saved them last week was so they wouldn’t come for them next, but can easily take one out next week bc it’ll then be top 4. Nicole will have a 3 out of 4 chance of being in the finale since Corey and James would both take her. Such a joke that her of all people is guaranteed $50k for doing absolutely nothing but sleeping.
Even if she somehow makes final 2 she won’t win. The jury won’t vote for her no matter who she’s against. That’s why everyone would take her to final 2. And yeah Paul and Vic owe loyalty to Nicole and Corey this week only but considering Nicole wants to team up with James, he’d be an idiot to throw this next hoh, if he doesn’t win, chances are him and Vic are on the block together
Oh I know she won’t win, I think everyone there including her knows she won’t win which is why she’s guaranteed second place if Vic or Paul leave this coming week bc the remaining player of that duo would as well take her to the finale. It’s so dumb someone can come into the house now and float to $50k.
I think she could win against James but probably nobody else. I think Da might respect her as a player and Zak would follow suit. Vic Paulie and Paul would definitely give it to her over James. Even if she cut Corey, I still think he’d vote for her. Michelle, if she were a true super fan, should give her the vote, but we know she’s petty so she wouldn’t. Natalie and Bridgette wouldn’t either. But she only needs 5 so it wouldn’t matter. Let’s face it, she’ll have a much better resume than James.
Oh god I don’t even want to think about a finale that pitiful
I haven’t been following fan reaction as much this year (reading this blog, but not in the comments so much), and haven’t been on the feeds, so I know I’m missing a lot of detail, but is the prevailing view that she’s totally undeserving? I’m not rooting for her, but the scorecard implies she played pretty well, no? She seems to be driving Nicorey decisions, and they’re both in final 5 despite the showmance. She’s never been nominated, despite the 3-nom roadkill weeks and being a returning player. She survived being called out publicly several times and now she might have a 3-in-5 shot of being in the finale (if we’re reading James’ loyalty to her right). All-in-all that’s not a horrible resume.
What you’re saying about Nicole has been clear to me all season and I don’t understand why most people are so unwilling to give Nicole credit for her gameplay.
I agree. People can’t call her a snake and then say she’s been doing nothing at the same time. They’re calling her last night because she made moves they didn’t like. Just because she out maneuvered many of the favorites they’re not giving her credit. She has been playing the game.
As someone who is a fan of Paul and it Nicole, I’ll admit that if Nicole’s a snake then so is Paul. They’ve both lied, played both sides of the house, and teamed up with people in power to further their game. Take away Paul’s loud mouth and Nicole’s showmance and they’ve basically played a similar game
I hope Paul goes home. He is definitely the wrong person to take. I think him and Victor have a 50/50 chance of winning.
I’m not sure jury will vote for Paul. Even last night it seemed Nicole & Victor were kind of rolling eyes on some of his comments cuz they’re always regarding himself.
Victor did immediately tell Paul “to win it and worry about the next week later”. Hopefully Paul really listened to Victor.
Where do I even begin? IMO it looks like Nat is a user, atleast in this game. Blaming James for everything is not cool. Hope she goes this week and James may have a fighting chance, not that I think he’d win, but he can atleast play w/out her leaching on him. He needs to wake up and stop even entertaining women like her. He seems like a really nice guy, but for his age he’s not too bright with women/relationships/etc. Hope he can learn from this experience, and NO I don’t think he needs to come back to BB anytime soon!
I think his ship has sailed whether he is evicted this week or not… :(
Agree!
Hope so
James went through the same kind of “experience” last year, and obviously did NOT learn a thing! IMO, I think James sets his sights way to high for a girlfriend. “IF” he ever does get a “Girlfriend” that last more than a one night stand or a BB season, will he know what to do with her??
Yep, if he hasn’t learned by now will he ever??
Well James did blow her off every time Nat told him she had a hunch about something. And she was always right and was ALWAYS wrong, she’s pretty perceptive. And he refused to vote out Corey instead of Victor. But Nat shouldn’t have been dumb enough to put victor/paul up based on Nicole’s word.
Seems Nat’s gut is the one James should listen to rather than his own
I’m sure it’s growling, too. ;)
I find it amusing that James would discuss his concerns over traveling with his daughter, and the COST…. Uh…. Didn’t he have the opportunity to win 500K? Wouldn’t that make it easier to do things with your daughter? Wouldn’t it cover the costs for such a trip? hmmm. Unfortunately he was using the wrong Head all season and just now realized hes playing Big Brother. Come on dude. Such a dissapointment.
Him talking about cost is a laugh. He already is getting paid just for returning, he is getting a weekly stipend and he gets paid extra if he goes to jury. I can see him making close to 100G even if he does not win.
He acts like traveling with a child is hard? Well maybe he should try it for once. Try more than one child. Geez, people do it everyday. What I gather is his daughter lives in another state from him. This is only the second time I can recall him mentioning her.
He pays child support, but I doubt most of his expenses go to her.
Exactly! He sure hasnt put her first at all this game.
Didn’t he win 5gs in the zingbot comp then 20gs last year for afp? Where’d all that money go?
I’m really hoping that James doesn’t even make it to second place with his horrible game play. America should take notice even if he is their favorite and not vote for him. AFP should be given to someone who actually played a decent game and was liked by most.
I’m hoping Big Brother doesn’t have an AFP this season just because James thinks he’s already won.
I’m hoping there is an AFP and someone else gets it , hopefully Victor. I don’t want Nat, James Nic or Paul to win it.
Like Victor
It’s interesting he never talks about his daughter. My guess is they aren’t all that close, but still you would think that he would mention her from time to time.
Soooonot true. He talks about his daughter often. Sometimes a conversation just doesn’t arise to talk about your 4 year old with a bunch of strangers. Duh? It’s a little crappy to suggest he isn’t close to his daughter. These are people on reality TV playing a game for our enjoyment.
I’m private about my family too. I think I would be very private about them on TV.
And Day dropped off the wall to enjoy the rest of the summer ‘in luxury’ in the jury house…… Hmmm!!
I think no one brings Day up is because shes a lost cause, and has been since the moment she ruined her game, which happened within the first few weeks of her being in the house. I saw her give up during the jury back comp, and honestly, she did exactly what I thought she would because shes all mouth and no bite. She talks a big game, but NEVER delivers. James should’ve learned from his season that no one can be trusted, not even the people telling you to your face that you can trust them. Especially this close to the end. Everyone is looking out for themselves (or at least they should be by now), and he has proven over and over that he doesn’t take this seriously. He could’ve been HOH instead of Nicole, but he threw the win to her.
Branden – please consider a post about AFP. I’d be interested to hear your perspective on who will/should win, along with a poll of the readers. Thanks!
Natalie still telling james she campaigned for him and thats why shes leaving. Granted it is a strategy, but i have never seen a bb player rely on guilt tripping, victimization, and begging more than her. The way she was trying to get vic to throw her hoh was very annoying.
Kinda funny how everyone was so sure Vic and Paul were gonna flip on Nicole and Corey when Nicole is the one talking about taking James to final 3. Thing is I think James would rather team up with Paul and Vic since Nicole and Corey turned on him. Also I think Corey is getting sick of Nicole meanwhile Vic seems to have a thing for her. Next week should be interesting regardless of who wins hoh. Some real cards will be shown.
“10:55 PM BBT – James and Natalie are joking about Jury House life and how bad Paulie must have it there now.”
Only positive in here
Every season you hear Big Brother say how the season is going to be better, bigger with more twists. I have a suggestion for them, why not next year have people who are 30-35 and up be the majority in the House. Stop having a House filled at 90% or more of just 20 somethings. This season was the worst in terms of the feeds, high-school catty mindless conversations over and over. Immaturity and women interested in being in a showmance more than playing the game. HG’s who confuse being loud to having a personality. You have given us 4 season of Jersey Shore/VH1 because you wanted to cater to the young audience…maybe just maybe its time for BB to care about what the audience that has been loyal to them since BB1 again….we dont care to watch people in showmances, having sex, sleeping until 1-2 in the afternoon….
Absolutely agree. All of the teeny bopper drama going on gets tiresome. A few twenty-somethings – okay. But it would definitely be a better show if at least half of the players were 30+. Also tired of one token “old guy” who immediately is targeted by the kiddie crowd. Need a substantial change in player demographics. Now THAT would be a good season!