It was an intense day of Live Feeds for the Big Brother 25 Houseguests on Tuesday as a vote flip was taking shape but then by nightfall the rally for Reilly was limping towards Thursday’s vote.
Since Hisam Goueli set his targets on Reilly Smedley with Cameron Hardin as the alternative we’ve been hearing from Cirie Fields on her desire to flip that order and send Cameron on out the door. Of course Izzy was quickly on board with what Cirie wanted and the idea simmered for several days without gaining much traction. Then Tuesday happened.
Tuesday brought a strong shakeup in the plans against Hisam as he was losing not only support for his preferred target but also his own long-term safety in the house. Houseguests were widely agreeing that Hisam should be a top next target with Backdoor written all over it. And if they were going to send him out the door next then why worry about upsetting his HOH this round?
As the day went on the word spread and votes were piling up. Reilly learned of the effort and began to celebrate her expected success to survive Hisam’s HOH and stay to take a swing at him in return. Hold that thought.
Part of the frustration Cirie and Izzy had against Hisam was due to what they had learned about Hisam teaming up with Jag and Blue. So when the Professors alliance met up they were waiting to hear if Hisam would admit to his new partnership. Sure enough he did offer up that info and even said he’d want to go after Blue and Jag before long.
Soon after on Tuesday night the strong winds had started to calm and Cirie was having doubts. Flashback to 9PM BBT 8/15 to watch Cirie and Izzy discuss the situation in the Storage room. Both are agreeing it makes more sense to evict Reilly after all and just keep Cameron. They go over how to let Jag know since he’s Reilly’s close ally.
Mecole arrived in Storage and learned from Izzy and Cirie that they were back to 50/50 on this vote flip. Now Mecole had already said she wanted to see Reilly go, but what was more important to her was to be seen as voting with the group and going with what they wanted. So while she’s probably relieved at this shift it’s all the shifting that’s driving her nuts with her fellow HGs.
Soon Cirie is sitting with Reilly to let her know she may need to tamper her excitement on this one and start packing her bags instead. Naturally Reilly is disappointed and she faults the early start to this flip attempt as too much time was left for it to fizzle and lose momentum.
The discussions continued on around the house with the now uncertain vote-flippers over what to do. Cory discussed it with Izzy and sounded like he still wanted to keep Reilly. Then later when talking with Mecole Cory expressed it most likely that Reilly will be out the door in the end. I’m agreeing with him on that.
Reilly isn’t giving up though and worked with Matt late into the night to set a strategy for talks on Wednesday. Watch for lots more talks and uncertainty over the next day and a half over whether or not it’ll be Reilly or Cameron out to meet with Julie Chen Moonves.
What do you think will happen and why do you think the flip has flopped at the moment? Any chance it’ll come back to life or is Reilly as good as gone this week on Big Brother 25?
