Scheming lasted well in to the early hours of this morning for these Big Brother 18 Houseguests after I wasn’t sure we’d be able to top the Vote Flip flop for Tuesday. While this week appears settled what happened overnight with Michelle’s help could set us up even better for more clashing next week.
Backing up a bit to the drama with flipping the vote from Tiffany last night we saw things end with Nicole telling Corey she was ready to target Da’Vonne. Later that night Nicole went back to Frank and reaffirmed her interest in his plan. She was also interested in him not telling others of her involvement, but so much for that.
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Michelle joins Frank and Bridgette outside on the couches. Frank is telling Michelle she needs to win HoH after she thought she needed to throw it. Michelle asks why Frank doesn’t win it himself. He explains he needs to be free to win when it’s clutch. Heh. A few minutes later he mentions that possibly tossing the win to Nicole or Corey. This is important for setting up his later discussion.
Move ahead to 2:13 AM BBT as Frank brings up Da’Vonne and suggests she may be the bigger target for next week. Michelle says she’d be fine with that “as long as it isn’t me.” Frank doesn’t think Day is coming after him next week but she might be going for Paulie and Corey.
Jump to 2:27 AM BBT as Bridgette leaves. Frank asks Michelle if she’s sure she’s okay with targeting Da’Vonne. Michelle says she is. Here’s where Frank screws up. Frank tells Michelle that Nicole didn’t think she’d be on board. Oops.
Michelle immediately catches that slip and asks if Nicole knows about this plan to target Da’Vonne. Frank smirks and says he wasn’t supposed to tell her that. Michelle wants to know who all is on board to VTE Day. He says the three of them (Frank, Michelle, and Bridgette) plus the two of them (implying Nicole & Corey).
At 3:15 AM BBT we find Michelle back in the London bedroom talking with Da’Vonne. She’s relaying everything Frank told her about his plan to get Day out next week. Nicole shows up and this prompts Michelle to add that Frank was claiming Nicole and Corey were in on it. Nicole doesn’t hesitate to deny, deny, deny. Problem is she won’t stop denying it or getting heated about the claim.
Nicole leaves the room (3:38 AM BBT) and that sets off Michelle and Da’Vonne discussing her reaction. Day says they can’t tell Nicole anything more because she reacts too strongly. She is also now suspicious of how Nicole protested too much.
Outside the bedroom Nicole finds Corey and sends him back in there after warning him Frank has revealed their involvement. Corey goes in and calmly denies it without going overboard. He says Frank’s been saying that for days about them being in with them to get Day out. Michelle says she didn’t think anything of it and assumed Frank was lying. Looks like Nicole should have played it cool.
I waited to see what Nicole and Corey discussed later, but the cameras weren’t on them until Day joined them outside later. If they talked privately somewhere else in the timeline then I missed it. At this point I imagine Nicole was in a panic.
So two options: Nicole and Corey concede they were out’d by Frank’s loose lips and more openly embrace Frank’s plan to target Day or they try and deny it further and ride with Day. Considering Day doesn’t much trust Nicole and we know Nicole doesn’t trust Day anymore well her options seem limited.
I was initially a little surprised at Michelle’s willingness to spill everything she has on Frank since he’s on her Team, but then I remember Michelle is with the Fatal Five/Four and likely feels more allegiance to Day than Frank as a result.
I still can’t help but think she should keep more to herself though as it’d be helpful to wait and see which way the game goes on Thursday. If Frank finds out Michelle is revealing what he tells her then it’ll put her in a bad spot. It really could be though that she didn’t think anything of the Nicole/Corey claims by Frank and didn’t realize she had stumbled upon the real deal here.
Thursday night is going to decide a lot and we’ll have to go from there. Everyone should be playing hard to win this next Head of Household comp so that’s good news for us.
What do you think of Michelle finding out this info and telling Day? Was it the right move? And what can Nicole do now that she may be exposed by all the free talking? Share your thoughts below!