Not every season can make history, but Big Brother 26 is on a roll when it comes to that. The latest historic moment came during Wednesday night’s episode when the veto competition players made OTEV history by doing what this cast has done best: being a mess.
The latest messy episode picks up right after Chelsie nominated Angela and Kimo. Chelsie lets us know that Angela is her target because if she goes for her this week, she should be on solid ground with the others in the house when she can’t compete in the next HOH competition.
Kimo is feeling whatever, but Angela is feeling very “same sh*t, different day” as she’s been on the block week after week now.
Chelsie is a little concerned that Leah will win the veto and use it on Angela again. And Quinn picks up on Chelsie’s concern over Leah and realizes she could end up a replacement option if the veto is used this week.
So Quinn goes and tells Leah that Chelsie is concerned about her using the veto. Leah lets Quinn and us know that she is definitely not interested in saving Angela this week. She wants nominations to stay the same so she and Quinn won’t be at risk of going up. She seems to have learned her lesson after losing Joseph last week.
And speaking of Quinn, he wants Kimo to go this week over Angela, particularly to make Chelsie get extra blood on her hands. And Makensy and Quinn have a conversation about that and she agrees that Kimo should go to break up the trio he’s a part of and they can keep Angela as a bit of a shield a little longer.
Makensy tells Chelsie that she and Quinn talked and they’re leaning more toward keeping Angela. And Chelsie decides that maybe that’s not the worst plan – especially if she can just play it off as another oopsy. But nothing can be decided until the Power of Veto competiton is played. And they can’t play the veto competiton without picking players. Oh look, it’s time to pick players for the veto completion.
Joining Chelsie, Angela and Kimo in the competition will be Quinn, Makensy and Rubina. And Angela was very happy to draw Makensy’s name. She thinks that since she’s been getting closer to Makensy lately, maybe she could use it on her if she wins. Surely that wouldn’t happen a THIRD time for Angela. Would it?
And now it’s time for the veto competition, and it’s OTEV! You all know how this competition works. They play in rounds, looking for whatever OTEV tells them to find and then the last person to make it back to OTEV is out. Or anyone who answers incorrectly is out.
OTEV starts off as usual. But then the first round starts dragging. They show the players really digging deep for their answers. And it just keeps going and going. Why are they stalling for time, I’m sure many viewers were asking. There’s a very good reason. OTEV asked the players to retrieve the first-evicted player to not participate in the first HOH competition. Most of the houseguests thought the answer was Tucker because he and Makensy were not picked to play on a team in that HOH. But they did participate whereas Cedric and Chelsie didn’t even participate because they were AI mascots. So Cedric was the correct answer.
So, Makensy is the only one who got it right. SO everyone is out but her. She wins the Power of Veto after ONE ROUND. ONE. Just one. That has never happened before. What a hilarious moment. But to be fair, that was a really tricky question and probably a dumb idea on production’s part for a competition that is mostly about speed than it is remembering game facts.
So after the veto flop, it’s looking like Chelsie’s nominations will be able to stay the same since she and Makensy are working together and are both good with Angela or Kimo going this week.
But then we see Angela wake up in the middle of the night to an empty house. She realizes most of the houseguests are outside so peeks out and sees a group of five – T’Kor, Quinn, Rubina, Leah and Kimo – hanging out. And of course she thinks they are up to something. She convinces herself that they have formed an alliance and are going to vote her out this week over Kimo (they did not form an alliance). The next morning Angela goes to Chelsie to tell her that she heard something getting cooked up… Angela exaggerates the situation and presents it to Chelsie as a fact.
She tells her that that five solidified something and Chelsie and Makensy is not a part of it. Then Chelsie tells Makensy the news. Chelsie knows that Angela might just be dreaming stuff up, but it does remind Chelsie that Quinn did blow up their past alliance and that he tends to scramble and turn on people.
Makensy and Chelsie decide that even if there isn’t some new alliance, it might make more sense for them to go after Quinn or Leah instead of Angela or Kimo this week. So they decide Makesny should use the veto. But in a cliffhanger, we don’t find out if the replacement nominee will be Quinn or Leah.
