After today’s eviction we’ll be down to the Final 4 HGs for Big Brother 18 and that’s going to be two solos and a showmance heading in to the final week of the season. Anyone would be nervous about being the odd man out when the hammer comes down on the F2, but is James willing to do something about it?
Victor and Paul will be split up today one way or the other and Paul is preparing to continue on in his journey with a target in mind. Last night he worked on James to see if he could turn him from playing next to Nicole and Corey into playing between them.
Flashback to 2:20 AM BBT 9/12 on your Live Feeds (get your Free Trial now).
Paul is telling James that he fully expects Nicole and Corey to take each other to the end so if they don’t do something in this next elimination, at the F4 round, then the odds of making it to the end get even worse. Now we’ve heard Nicole tell Corey she’d be a fool to take him to the F2 and has clearly expressed she wants to go there with James instead, but it might still be a surprise for her to cut her dream guy obsession even at the risk of $500,000.
James is surprised to hear Paul suggest he’d take him to F2 instead of either Corey or Nicole. Paul is reminding James that Nicole has never been nominated and “no blood on her hands” as he puts it, but she has made cuts this season. Paul moves on to detail how Corey has only been up twice with plenty of wins under his belt just like Nicole has done this season. Whether Paul is making his own case for not taking them he’s also planting seeds with James about their strength before the Jury.
James points out that if Victor had put up Corey and Nicole on the Block then they wouldn’t be in this situation. Paul agrees but says Victor’s issue was being loyal to Nicole and Corey when they weren’t loyal in return. James tells Paul they (Nicorey) did the same thing to him and he tried to warn the guys about that last week then they did exactly that very thing right back against Paul and Victor.
Paul tells James he loves Nicole and Corey, but he “ain’t writing them a $500,000 check. I don’t love them that much!” Paul is trying to convince James that “I have, we have a better chance” against each other than they do against either Nicole or Corey when it comes to that round table discussion. “Who has Corey pissed off?” asks Paul while saying Corey can completely wipe his hands clean of his entire season.
At 2:30 AM BBT Victor arrives and joins in the talk. Victor knows he’s going but he’s still willing to join in the talk and help persuade James to go against Nicole and Corey if he’s in that position next round.
Their talks continue on the next page…
Paul tells James that whether it’s him or Victor who stays, “that’s the life line,” as he points out Nicole and Corey have to expect them to be trying to split them up next. James says it makes sense and expects him and Paul to go up next round if Nicole wins HoH. Paul says even if that happens then they can still split up the couple and tells James he’ll vote out Corey over James if he (Paul) wins the F4 Veto and he hopes James would do the same. “Why would I vote you out??” asks James.
Paul says that while James might be more of friends with Corey than he is with Paul… James cuts in saying, “I’m trying to get to the end. They are too.” Paul tells James either they work together in the next round or that’s the end for both of them. James tells Paul it’s got to be a strategic choice and “take off the emotions.”
The talk between them continues on for awhile as Paul points out they will have an advantage in this next HoH comp with it being 2 against 1 over Nicole as she’ll be stressed with the pressure of protecting herself and Corey. “Either one of us gets third place, or you and I are up there in first and second,” says Paul.
It’s a good argument and I’m sure James will have to consider it here, but he’s definitely deeply loyal to Nicole and Corey. James has been playing all season for AFP instead of BB18 winner but now he’s close enough that he’ll have to decide if he wants to actually try and win. Sitting back and letting Corey stay in the game over Paul next round may have its financial benefits for James though and that may weigh even heavier on him with worries that if Paul gets to the end and wins then he won’t get his “ten grand” in the deal.
That deal was discussed yet again yesterday between James, Nicole, and Corey where James told them if they win then he wants them to remember their deal and he’ll send them his address as he swipes his hand across his palm in a money gesture. Flashback to 11:47 AM BBT 9/11 to watch them violate the rules yet again even after the weak wrist slap he and Nicole got the last time they had that talk promising their group large sums of cash after the season if one of them is the winner.
Do you think James will be willing to go against Nicole and Corey in this next round to work with Paul? If Paul is telling him he’d keep him for F3 and Nicole/Corey are telling James they’d keep him for F3 why in the world would James even bother to try this next round? Well, if he ends up on the Block next to Nicole with Corey voting then he might sure wish he had, but otherwise James could just keep doing what he’s done almost the entire season and nap his way on through to the next round. Why change up his game now?