This weekend was wild! Originally, I’d planned to include some things from last night’s episode, plus a few other random things but there’s not time. I’ll be lucky if I get this posted before the veto ceremony is over. Yesterday’s activity in the house, by itself, is a lot to cover. Vince continues to keep himself in hot water with almost everyone because he can’t stop talking. I don’t completely mind the whiny ‘I don’t know what to do’ strategy, except he takes it way too far. If he manages to make it to the F2 and he’s done too good a job of convincing everyone he’s spineless, he’ll have a hard time convincing everyone it was just an act.
The hg’s finally got the backyard again and the day started with Will attempting to do some laundry. Initially, he put his dirty clothes in the dryer instead of the washer. (Lol)
Rachel was busy making slop for Morgan, Ashley and Will and then moved on to making French toast for Lauren’s birthday.
There was also some talk about the veto comp. It became clear Mickey’s win was kind of, sort of handed to her by accident. It was a pick your opponent style comp and even the people who want Mickey out didn’t choose to go against her. (I keep telling y’all, this is the dumbest cast i’ve ever seen!)
Rachel congratulating Mickey on the win:
After Avas dream or vision or whatever about Vince winning AFP, Mickey had a dream of her own. She said her dream told her she couldn’t trust Vince anymore. (Maybe this is just me, but I think going on the block would’ve told me that but you do you Mickey)
Morgan exhausted after working Vince all night:
After working all night, Morgan was right back at it yesterday morning. She kept pushing the Judges, how they need to stay loyal and basically, don’t put Rachel otb!
To bring in reinforcements, Morgan got most of the Judges alliance up in the hoh room. (Everyone but Ashley) After Rachel left, Will said he understood Vince’s dilemma. He hasn’t been trusting Rachel all season so its hard to start now. Both Will and Morgan said they’d take out Rachel when it was the right time.
They just don’t believe that time is now. This appeared to make Vince feel a bit better since he’s thought no one on Rachel side would ever go after her. As Will left, he told Vince to “put Katherine up, don’t make it calculus.”
Katherine took a turn with Vince to say she didnt want to go otb. Kelley joined and she had all kinds of plans. She suggested they convince Mickey to use her veto on Ava. Kelley said they can lie and say Vince will put up Keanu in Ava’s place. (?)
Her next plan was to go on a “cleaning strike.” (Both Katherine and Kelley have been on a cleaning strike) Kelley wants Ashley to go on the block, thinks Rachel will see how much Kelley had cleaned before her strike and thinks Rachel will keep Kelley over Ashley so she has help cleaning. (??)
Katherine’s been faking being with Vince but she isn’t going to do it with Rachel. She told Vince and Kelley, Rachel’s only here to get a check and to rebuild her brand or something equally stupid. (These people really have no idea who Rachel Reilly is, do they?) Rachel is the person who begged CBS to let her play on BB22 All Stars WHILE she was pregnant. She offered to sign every release form imaginable if they would let her play. Unlike most of this cast, Rachel loves this game.
Mickey also put some time in with Vince to try and get Katherine otb. I’m not gonna lie, this one surprised me. Like Will and Morgan, Mickey also told Vince, she didn’t have a problem taking out Rachel later. (I’m guessing this is the truth) There’s no way Mickey is actually good with Rachel but maybe she’s finally calmed down a little bit. She may be realizing, wiping out to the other side and worrying about Rachel later is better for her game.
A group of women that called a temporary ceasefire against each other for a common goal:
Morgan found out Keanu is targeting Rachel from Vince. She told Will about it but said she didn’t want to tell Rachel yet. She wanted to wait until the week is over to tell her. She said, that way Rachel will target Keanu for them. Rachel didn’t find this out exactly but during the Judges meeting upstairs, Vince did tell Rachel that Keanu suggested “putting up someone from the other side.” She knew that meant Rachel, Ashley or Will.
For some stupid reason, (the reason is called lack of self control) Rachel confronted Keanu about it. He denied it, and in my opinion, didn’t do a very good job of it. He started their conversation by saying something like, “if you’ve been hearing I’m trying to get you on the block, I’m not.” (Haha)
Rachel repeated what Vince had said and Keanu continued to deny ever trying to get her otb. He asked Rachelwhy Vince would tell her something about Keanu. Rachel had to explain that Vince doesn’t know she and Keanu like each other.
Obviously, I don’t know for sure what Vince was planning on doing. However, if you go by his tells, I think Morgan, with an assist from Mickey and Will, had actually convinced Vince to go ahead and put Katherine up. He’d stopped telling Katherine and Lauren he wouldn’t put her up. He told Lauren he may have to and he even had a similar conversation with Katherine and Keanu. It felt like he was doing the prep work for it. The conversations were mixed with a lot of “everyone’s going to hate me,” “I feel like I have no choice” and “they’re trying to make me do it.”
When Vince talked to Lauren, she said she was tired of the strong-arming BB game and said “it’s my birthday and I feel like shit.” Vince tried to sell it to Lauren as Katherine going up being the safe move. He said it will get them both further in the game. Lauren went on to say a pawn goes home every week. (That’s not true, Lauren just doesn’t know what’s going on) Lauren’s solely blaming Rachel, without recognizing Vince is the one destroying her game.
Kelley told both Lauren and Katherine she thinks Katherine may go up. She said if it happens, she’s going to throw block buster to Katherine to make sure she stays. She also said she’ll spend the rest of her time in the house making sure Rachel has no jury votes. (Isn’t Vince the one doing it tho?)
After Keanu spoke with Rachel and realized he’d been busted, he tried to change directions. After pushing hard to get Rachel on the block for a couple of days, Keanu told Vince he thought Will should be the replacement nom. His reasoning was because Will wasn’t as likely to win the blockbuster as Kelley. (Keanu’s been telling Rachel he didn’t want Kelley to leave. He said Kelley was one of the only people who wouldn’t put him on the block) She actually would but you know who wouldnt? Rachel. Keanu also told Vince about Rachel telling him that Vince said Keanu threw her name out. This pissed off Vince to the point he didn’t really try to cover himself with Keanu. Instead, Vince said he couldn’t believe Rachel ran that back to Keanu. After Vince basically admitting Vince had told her, Keanu said “maybe Morgan said it.” (One thing Keanu’s gonna do is NOT believe Rachel, ever)
It’s like the whole evicting Rylie thing. He forgave Vince for doing it because Vince said Rylie was going to target him. Rachel’s BEEN trying to tell Keanu that Rylie was going to target him! Even after finding out it was true, he quickly forgave Vince but decided to target Rachel for taking Rylie out. Even Kelley told Keanu that Vince was lying but he won’t believe it. Kelley said Vince’s story is that he gave Morgan a sympathy vote, thinking she would leave anyway AND he intentionally evicted Rylie to save Keanu. Kelley said “it can’t be both.”
Obviously, Vince isn’t going to put up Will but Keanu ratting out Rachel has him rethinking working with her. Let’s be real, it wasn’t going to take very much. My read from the beginning (which could be wrong) has been that Vince wanted to take out Rachel, but needed to do it without upsetting Morgan and Will. That way, he’d still have Morgan on one side and Lauren on the other. I think he settled for targeting Mickey, which was going to be the perfect happy medium for him until she won the veto.
Both side of the house were fine with it and he could pretend to work with the Judges for another week. It might keep him safe next week but it would still have taken a number away from the group he doesn”t want to work with and an alliance he doesn’t want. (win, win)
One big dysfunctional family:
There was a break in all the gaming (for most) with an alcohol delivery. Rachel made dinner and cake and they had another ‘family’ dinner together.
Morgan and Ashley compared notes and Ashley was filled in on all the Keanu drama. Let me tell you, Morgan put in some WORK the night before and yesterday to keep Rachel AND Ashley off that block. For part of the weekend, Vince thought he’d put up Ashley. Once he was toldputting up Ashley would be the same as if he put up Rachel, he kind of let it go. Ashley said if Rachel left, they’d never make it to F5 but they agreed if Rachel went otb, it was her own fault. (They weren’t wrong) I did wonder if Morgan regretted not going ahead and telling Rachel she couldn’t trust Keanu sooner though.
Lauren’s birthday celebration continued with a cake, pizza, mac and cheese and party hats. Ava suggested they all say something nice about the person sitting next to them. (This was amusing since most of them hate each other) Rachel downed her wine and smirked into the camera. Later, Kelley said something to Vince about Rachel pouring too much wine. There was also an issue about a white claw but admittedly, I missed the details. (Sorry)
After Ashley reported this back to Rachel, Rachel and Vince talked and she said Kelley and Katherine were just trying to get her put up over Katherine. She told him she didn’t even want the white claw and she was “just being a petty bitch” and didn’t want Kelley to have it.
Most of the talk was about how Rachel will be loyal, she’s known for being loyal and how ‘back in my day’ they didn’t have a problem picking sides and fighting it out. (True)
Morgan (with Ashley’s help) got back to work. Morgan pulled out her beloved M&M’s while Vince complained about Rachel telling Keanu everything he’d said earlier. (Rachel gave Vince the perfect way to put her on the block, say he can’t trust her and force Morgan to be okay with it)
Kelley came over to Rachel and her group to say goodnight when they were haning out in the backyard. Rachel had also told Kelley not to sit in the hammock since she was about to sit in it. She told Kelley “there isn’t room.” When she tried to hug Rachel, Rachel said she didn’t want to hug. Kelley asked her what was wrong and asked if it was because she hadn’t been cleaning? (Hahaha) Normally, I’d have a problem with this stupid level of pettiness. In this case, I don’t.
Kelley has spent over a month talking about Rachel like she’s one step above satan. She’s talked about her family, laughed when Rylie said something about “wanting to take a shit on Rachel” and purposely wanted her to be sent home after jury starts so she’ll miss her wedding anniversary. She’s made it very personal against Rachel and that’s also really petty. She also talks almost every day about Rachel being a bully. (Rachel hasn’t been a bully. She’s been persuasive at times which is a big part of this game. I’m looking at you too, Katherine and Lauren since they also call this bullying)
Maybe if they see what Rachel’s like when she’s actually being an asshole, they can realize the stuff up to this point wasn’t anything but game. (Maybe I’m just old but I get so tired of everyone thinking everything is bullying) Remember when Zach said Rachel was “soft bullying them?” (Ya, its called persuasion!)
Kelley left and Will was doing all he could not to burst out laughing. Mickey, Morgan, Will and Rachel said everytime they try to chill out with Kelley, she pulls more bullshit. (They’d been retelling the wine-gate and white claw situation)
Kelley ran off and cried to Keanu by saying Rachel was mean and no one had ever talked to her that way before. (If she’s always this way, I personally find that hard to believe but again, I’m old. My generation IS the f*ck around and find out group)
Ashley talked to Rachel again and told her she needed to chill out. Ashley didn’t hold back and told Rachel if she goes on the block, it’s her own damn fault. She asked Rachel why in the hell she told Keanu what Vince said before the renom happened? Rachel admitted it was stupid and said she’d never tell Keanu anything again. She’s also planning on targeting him next. (Maybe THIS is what she needs to tell Vince, haha)
Vince told Keanu if he put Rachel up, he’d use the reason that Rachel spilled info to Keanu. Keanu said he didn’t think that was a good idea. (I bet not) Vince said he would have to because that actually was the reason.
Keanu talked to Rachel about what happened with Kelley. Rachel said Kelley was blowing it out of proportion. (Ashley’s encouraged Rachel to fake being nice with Keanu, for now) Kelley talked to Mickey and Will about it too. They all think Kelley’s trying to make a bigger deal out of it and wants to cry to Vince, since the renom is about to happen.
Vince was in the DR for a VERY long time. It was obvious half the house was waiting around and not going to bed because they wanted to get in his ear after he came out. Morgan knows there’s damage control still needing to be done regarding Rachel. She also wanted to give her version of the Rachel vs Kelley incident before Kelley could spin it.
Vince, who knows Lauren and Morgan can’t work together, decided it was a good idea to bring Lauren into his conversation with Morgan. Morgan tried to tell him Lauren wouldn’t say anything with her in the room but he did it anyway. It was a very awkward Rachel vs Katherine talk. Morgan was being passive aggressive and as predicted, Lauren barely spoke. Lauren finally conceded Katherine would get over being used as a “pawn.” Morgan reminded Vince that katherine would never forgive him for voting out Rylie.
Vince talked to Lauren alone and spun a story about Rachel wanting a deal to not target each other before jury. Lauren isn’t convinced this deal includes her but Vince told her it did. (Really Lauren, if your F2 with Vince is such a secret, why in the hell would you be included in a safety deal?) Vince also told Lauren he wants her and Morgan to be able to work together since he’s so close to both of them.
Rachel and Mickey took another turn with Vince. Rachel told him she planned to target Keanu. After Rachel left, Mickey said it’s too soon to target Rachel. Keanu was also trying to take his turn, but Mickey locked the door and wouldn’t let him in. (Haha) Keanu gave up and went to bed but once Mickey left, he headed for the hoh.
Vince wasn’t happy about Keanu making himself at home underneath the covers of the hoh bed. After some chatting, Vince told Keaunu it was late and they could talk tomorrow.
I have to say, alot of the cast is gaming hard lately. Some of them have been from the start but now, most of them are gaming constantly. Don’t get me wrong, they’re terrible at it but they’re doing it. To me, it’s like giving a bunch of people in kindergarten a few basic game rules, loading them up on red bull and then telling them to play big brother.
I have no idea what Vince is going to do today but we’ll know soon enough. Initially, I said he should target Rachel but Mickey wasn’t a bad consolation prize if he wanted to fake with the Judges. At this point, I don’t even know what his best move is anymore. He’s whined too much, he’s talked too much, and he’s completely screwed this week up for himself. You know the saying, ‘keep it simple, stupid?” Well, he didn’t keep it simple.
Sure, Vince couldn’t really trust the Judge’s alliance but it may have served a purpose for a couple of weeks. If that’s the direction he wanted to go while targeting Mickey, his initial noms weren’t bad. He just needed to pick a lane and stick with it after she won the veto.
If he wanted to burn the Judges alliance since he ended up winning hoh, that was fine too. In that case, he should have put up Mickey and some combo of Rachel, Ashley and Ava for the other two. There’s nothing wrong with trying to play the middle as long as you can do it well. (Vince doesn’t do it well)
In my opinion, the main thing he needed to do this weekend was get out of that damn hoh room. I get, he’s trying to go for this fake confusion thing so he talks everything out with everyone. By doing that, he talks way too much. I can’t even say he got trapped in the hoh room having to have all these conversations. Vince was the one wanting to have them.
Some random tidbits:
Will, Ashley and Rachel made a final 3.
Ashley camera talked, which gave us a little insight to her game. She said she’s only playing dumb until after jury starts and then she’ll turn it up. She wants Rachel, Will and Mickey all to think she’s their final 2. She’s also working on getting closer to Morgan. (I don’t know if i’ve mentioned this before, but Ashley and Hannah from BB23 are childhood friends. Hannah didn’t have any influence with Ashley being chosen for the season. She didn’t know about it ahead of time)
Rachel took back Jimmy’s hoodie from Keanu. I guess Jimmy left it for Rachel and Keanu asked to borrow it. (See, now that’s petty, lol)
Whatever music player they had for the hoh room finally broke. They were given some kind of old iphone to play music on for Vince’s hoh. Everyone seemed mesmerized by seeing an actual phone in the BB house.
Lauren was pissed to find out some hg’s don’t want her in jury because they said she’s indecisive. (Lauren can throw out an f bomb when she’s angry too) She said she isn’t indecisive and followed up by saying she would give her jury vote to “the most stand up, genuine and nicest person.” (In that case, we may as well have Kelley) Lauren wanted to know who said it. It was Morgan and Rachel but Vince just said it was Rachel.
After going on the block again, Kelley told Vince he wasn’t a very good F2.
Ava got all dressed up for the day:
Will is sick of ALL these people:
Here’s hoping this is posted before the veto ceremony but if it’s not, I’m sorry. Have a great Monday!
Mel
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