Big Brother 26 Episode 12 Recap: Deepfake Angela Makes Her Nominees

Quinn activated his not-at-all secret Big Brother 26 power this week, taking over Angela’s Head of Household, and what could have been a really fun and shocking twist was a big huge dud because Quinn told too many people about his power which the whole house ended up hearing about. So it was not at all surprising. But it was cool to see a Deepfake Angela.

Sunday night’s episode picks up right after Kenney’s eviction. But the focus is all on Tucker winning the AI Arena competition and foiling the house plan once again.

Tucker is feeling like a lone wolf and knows he has to win the upcoming Head of Household competition or he could very well be toast this week. So let’s get to the HOH competition and see what happens. 

And at the perfect time, this is a knockout HOH competition. For this competition, the players will go head to head to identify anomalies in some AI photos (aka typical AI artwork). The person who answers correctly first moves on and the opponent is out. You know how it works. So let’s get to it. 

Up first are Cam and Kimo. Cam gets the first one correct and Kimo is out. Cam picks Quinn and Tucker to battle next. Quinn rings in incorrectly and is out. Tucker moves on and picks Chelsie and Angela. And Angela wins the round. Chelise is out. Angela picks Rubina and Brooklyn. Brooklyn is right and Rubina is out. Brooklyn picks Angela and Makensy. And Angela wins the round so Makensy is out. Angela picks Brooklyn and Leah. Brooklyn is out next. Leah moves on and picks Cam and Joseph. Cam wins the next round and Jospeh is out. Cam picks T’Kor and Tucker. T’Kor wins the round. Tucker is out. T’Kor picks Angela and Leah. And Angela again wins the round. Leah is out. That means T’Kor and Cam are up next. Cam wins the round. So T’Kor is out. 

The final round is Cam vs. Angela. And Angela gets the answer right first. She is the new Head of Household!

And only Tucker is happy about that win. And Angela knows this. She lets us know that Tucker is the only person she trusts and she wants to solidify something with him. Tucker seems to be on the same page. 

But of course Angela has to right away think about Quinn’s power. She isn’t sure if he’s going to use it. But one thing she wants to try to do is keep Quinn from putting up Tucker. But she and Tucker don’t quite get how the power works. The two of them discuss nominees, but it’s not going to matter when Quinn activates his power. 

And of course Quinn is going to activate his power. Quinn discusses putting up Tucker, Makensy and Rubina. But Cedric says maybe he could go up as a pawn so he could win the veto to prevent Tucker from winning it. 

And that’s what happens. Quinn takes over the HOH, and hologram Angela appears to nominate Tucker, Makensy and Cedric.