Paul and Victor did not give up this week on Big Brother 18. I love to see Houseguests go out swinging. Even better, I love it when a plan comes together. At least this one might have.
Okay, quick back up to last night. Paul was convinced that Victor was going and when Victor couldn’t get reassurances from his previously stable allies he seemed to be sure of his demise as well. Time to throw a Hail Mary and they did so in grand fashion.
Plan was for Victor to go to Natalie and James to re-up their friendship meanwhile Paul would go to Nicole and Corey and start dumping on James and Natalie about what was said and the original goal of getting Corey out. Well Paul did what Paul does best and he got in their heads. Meanwhile Victor was working the angle that Paul had abandoned him and they were drifting apart. The idea here being that Victor and Paul wouldn’t be so tight if Victor stayed and Victor might even put up Paul. I know, I know.
Soon James was getting curious, not paranoid though as he denied that, and Nicorey made a trip to the HoH room. Both denied Paul had been talking game with them even though he had been brain dumping a lot of details to them. Instead they covered for Paul that he was just sad about Victor going. Suspicions started to mount.
As the night wore on Natalie and Michelle were back to thinking that Corey needed to go while James was hard fast against it. Jump forward to this afternoon (1:20 PM BBT) as Natalie was again questioning James on his decision to vote out Victor and James was still hard against this. Time to execute Phase 2 of Paul and Victor’s plan.
James decided to call out Paul in the kitchen after he had just had an aggressive (relative to Nicole’s potential for aggressiveness) conversation with Nicole about trust. She got upset when questioned about their trustworthiness. James wants to dig.
Flashback to 2:08 PM BBT as the crazy kicks off.
James is weakly calling out Paul but Paul is amping this up. Remember it’s all part of his plan with Victor. Paul is arguing with James, Michelle, Natalie, Corey, even Victor. It’s a heated mess and everyone is jumping on the pile.
James calls Paul out for abandoning Victor which he believes because Victor told them Paul was saying things about having to cut him loose. Paul calls out James and Natalie for playing each other’s game as a unit. James makes a big mistake and says that Natalie wanted Victor to stay… in front of Corey! Oh yeah, Corey heard and ran that back to Nicole later as a reason for them to not trust James and Natalie and even put Natalie up on the block.
The Feeds craziness continues on the next page…
Anyway, the pressure continues to build as Paul is letting loose and telling them he’s now a “lone wolf” and has no one in the game as they all try to target him. This is a long, long talk but the short of it is Paul was trying to make himself look alone while suggesting he might try to work with Nicorey.
Groups split up. Nicole and Corey are off talking and Nicole thinks they can now trust Paul. Meanwhile we’ve got James, Michelle, and Natalie in the Lounge. Jump to 3:10 PM BBT.
Natalie is pushing hard for James to vote out Corey. Michelle is with her. They are adamant that James needs to do this and James for once sounds like he’s considering it! He tells them how Nicole got upset at him earlier and it’s causing him concern. They’re telling James they can use Victor to go against Paul. It’s all too much to believe that any of them believe this but it seems like they do.
James and Natalie tell Victor he needs to make sure he (Victor) can recover a vote from Paul or they won’t have two to keep him. Well no worries, Victor never lost that vote, but he may just gain a second from James.
Victor heads off and James is worried that he’ll try to vote out Corey then Paul will vote out Victor and James will be left hanging. James really seems to be considering this. Victor returns after having a private chat with Paul and assures them he can still get Paul’s vote.
James is definitely nervous about Nicole & Corey acting sketchy now but he’s also worried this is just a ploy by Paul and Victor. (Shhh, it is!) Natalie continues to pressure James as he remains cautious. Michelle assures James that Nicole will be too rattled to compete well in the HoH if Corey goes.
So? So?? What did they decide?? Houseguests were then called to the living room for eviction show rehearsals and the Feeds cut. Ahhh! Amazing Feeds this afternoon! And on a Thursday none the less when things are often settled which this day they are anything but.
James was definitely swaying and he’ll be the deciding vote as he has been all week. Victor and Paul played an amazing strategy here and I’ll give it a “definitely, maybe” chance of happening. If nothing else it’ll shake things up even more on top of the returning Juror tonight. James’s position has weakened and so has Natalie’s with Nicole and Corey even if Victor still goes this week, but with the Jury Battle Back who knows what will happen.
We’ll find out at the live show (9/8c) whether or not it worked. Then don’t forget that tonight is the Live Feeds Endurance HoH comp starting at 10PM ET and you can actually watch this one play out on your Feeds for a change. Grab the Feeds now with the Free Trial, rewind to watch all this insanity, and then be ready for tonight’s HoH comp with the returning Juror. Big Brother 18 is back!