When Jessie walked out the BB doors, the reactions of the remaining houseguests were swift and surprisingly heated. Newly minted HoH Michelle, Jessie’s most ardent supporter (and foot massager), did little to hide her outrage. “I was seeing red!” she said in an emotional confessional. “I was enraged. I was furious. I was angry!” April’s reaction was equally as honest and a bit more visceral. “I literally think that I vomited inside my mouth,” she said before dedicating herself to becoming Michelle’s new BFF.
On the other side of the kitchen, Keesha and Libra celebrated the ouster that they engineered with open glee. “I was smiling from ear-to-ear!” Libra gloated. “Put me in a BriteWhite commercial, honey, because I was glad to see [Jessie] hit the road.” Keesha’s response to Jessie’s eviction was a bit more subdued as she seemed surprised that her master plan had come to fruition. “It worked,” she said with more than a hint of shock. “I’m pretty proud of myself.”
Michelle’s first proclamation as HoH was a private one, “I’m going to get ‘em Jessie,” she uttered, “I promise I will.” The fact that she was still in the ridiculous, ill-fitting red unitard and that she whispered the oath to an unblinking bathroom mirror didn’t take away from the fact that this outspoken firecracker meant business.
It wasn’t long before the two sides went at each other during a screaming match in the kitchen (watch a clip of the chaos). An off the cuff comment from Michelle was all that it took for Renny to go into full, “bridge burning” mode. “I don’t give a BLEEP if you’re Head of Household,” she screamed at Michelle, “don’t say that BLEEP to me!”
While Dan retreated to his bed (where he hid his head underneath his pillow), a quiet Memphis watched the two warring sides verbally abuse each other, dragging love of family, character, and even religion through the BB mud.
Food Competition: The Ghosts of BB Past Return to Bluff
Despite the fractured alliances and newly opened wounds, the latest competition united the remaining nine contestants in a common cause: winning food for the week. But standing in their way was nine of BB’s most celebrated (or reviled) contestants from season’s past, who returned to play the “true or false” game “In The News,” hosted by season 10’s first outcast Brian.
Here’s how it worked: A news item was read and the current BB player had to guess whether or not the item was true or false. Compounding the fact that they hadn’t heard a peep from the outside world in over a month, houseguests had to deal with the alumni players, who with cash as their prize, tried to lead them astray. A correct guess wins the house food for their assigned day while a wrong guess means the BB players will eat slop.
Dan opened the contest with a loss when he refused to believe that the NFL’s Brett Favre was traded to the New York Jets. Dan’s insistence that the icon would never play for another team earned the house green porridge for Monday. Next, Renny faced off against season 8’s unitard pioneer Jen, and did the house proud when she correctly guessed that gas prices hadn’t surpassed $6 a gallon. But it was (almost) all downhill after that.
Jerry fell prey to the charms of season 6 vixen Janelle and incorrectly guessed that Jessie had been offered the cover of Muscle Fitness. Memphis lost the house a grill, firm in his belief that “bald, and smelly” cabdrivers has every right to work during the Olympics. Ollie guessed incorrectly about whether China can prevent rainfall at will (they can) after season 9’s Matt gave a confused explanation of the headline that included Chinese lasers and satellites. And Libra didn’t believe Bunky of season 2, who assured her comedy-duo Cheech and Chong were reuniting.
Michelle was the only other one to win the house a feast (beer and wine included!) when she failed to be swayed by season 5 player Jase’s assertion that BB had engineered the quake that shook the compound. But the final tally of “In The News” left BB Ten, “slop happy” and looking a little green.
Nomination Ceremony: Least Shocking Ever?
From the moment she took the HoH key, it was obvious whom Michelle was going to target. Libra had robbed her of her dream of a Hawaiian vacation and replaced it with the indignity of the red unitard and Keesha engineered the ouster of Michelle’s BB dreamboat Jessie.
When Dan was announced as the final houseguest saved, Michelle lied through her teeth as she addressed nominees Keesha, and Libra, saying, “It’s really not as much personal for me, as it is strategy.”
With their alliance collectively on the block, and every girl for themselves, it’s safe to say that the PoV never looked so good. – Reagan Alexander
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