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Thirteen complete strangers walked into the BB house, and after 71 days, 11 evictions and 27 competitions, all that was left were two Renegade players–Dan and Memphis–and one shot at $500,000.

When the final votes were counted, always-shifty Dan was showered with the confetti of BB victory. Dan, the man with the plan, walked away with one more zero on his giant check than his Renegade partner, which meant Dan played the BB game exactly as it should be played: to win at any cost.

And Dan won by a landslide vote of 7-0.

Initially, the Jury House was split, with Keesha and Renny aiming to displace the all-too-confident Memphis. Meanwhile, Ollie and April focused their ire on Dan. But with half-a-million on the line, the player who played it “straight’ was the person to beat.
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And then there were two. With the always feisty Colonel out of the BB house, what better way to celebrate the walkup to the season 10 finale than with dinner and a clip show?

The Renegades Reminisce: An alliance that started out with an adolescent nickname and an annoying secret handshake had actually secured both Renegades a seat at the money-winner’s table. After Memphis and Dan were treated to a celebratory meal, replete with enough champagne and beer to make the two conniving pals actually start to miss their ousted housemates. Dan began the meal with what must be the Renegades’ creed. “God,” he said, addressing the Big Man upstairs, “Thank you for the Renegades, and pushing us through to the end. We’ll do our best to make you proud. Amen.” We question whether God actually watches Big Brother (may he just Tivo’s it).
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In the blink of a teary eye Keesha went from final two contender to the latest disgruntled Jury House member. Meanwhile, the final three–Memphis, Dan and Jerry–were strapping themselves in for the first round of a three part final HoH competition. From the start, all-star floater Jerry may have had a wing, but the never really had a prayer.

The Renegades Wing It: Part one of the final HoH had the two Renegades, and their septuagenarian patsy, doing a bit of wing-walking. Despite the obvious warning signs, Jerry approached the competition as a way of proving his worth to his faux ally Memphis. “This was the first time someone actually did what they promised me,” the misguided Colonel later recounted, “and that was Memphis sending Keesha home.”

All the while, Dan kept playing the “I hate Memphis” game, almost to a fault. Jerry ate up the ham-fisted act between his two rivals, with the Colonel later saying, “Memphis and Dan now feel betrayed by each other, and it’s now leading to quite a rift.”
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Memphis from the Block: After being put on the nomination block by his pal Dan, Memphis continued the ruse by not shaking hands with his fellow Renegade in crime after the nomination ceremony. “By Dan nominating me,” Memphis said with a near guffaw, “He gets Keesha’s trust, and Jerry comes to me ready to go to war with Dan and Keesha. If this all works out, me and Dan control everything in this house!” Simple as the plan seemed (and with the bad acting to boot), it proved too complex for either Keesha or Jerry to see through.

Keesha started to believe that Dan fancied her over Memphis, and The Colonel took the bait as well. “You serious about going all the way?!” Jerry excitedly asked Memphis, following the bartender into the kitchen like a lovesick puppy, and making a legion of BB viewers shift uncomfortably in their seats when he cried out, “You’re my only hope, baby!”
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Following Renny’s ouster, Jerry found solace in the simple fact that he had survived another week. But in the BB house, with every success, comes failure. Jerry lamented that his reign as HoH hadn’t rid him of a certain Catholic schoolteacher. “It was a failure,” Jerry said, “because I didn’t send Dan home.”

Not only did Dan survive Jerry’s best efforts to evict him, but the “Kid” then went one step further, taking the title of HoH and securing his place in the final three. “Talk about a huge win,” the birthday boy crowed, “This key ensures me that I have a one-in-three chance at $500,000.”

Keesha, despite all of the evidence laid out before her, still couldn’t put her finger on why she distrusted Dan and Memphis. Meanwhile, Memphis basked in the glow of his Dan’s latest victory. But then in a rare moment of clarity, Memphis said, with a more than a hint of menace, “Last time Dan was HoH, he did put me on the block. If he puts me on the block again, I’m going to hurt him.”
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With Memphis riding to his Renegade buddy Dan’s rescue–and betraying the Colonel’s trust by using his newly won PoV power to remove Dan from the eviction block–Renny found herself as a victim of a BB numbers game: she was the only houseguest left eligible for eviction.

“The veto meeting sucked!” an irate Renny spouted in her confessional. “Memphis can kiss my ass!” Less interested in Memphis puckering up was a tearful Keesha, who saw the upcoming eviction ceremony as the end of the run of BB’s version of Thelma and Louise.

“The person that I are about most in this house,” the blonde waitress wailed, “Is the one standing besides me on the block. Either way, it’s lose, lose.”

With the ladies consoling each other in the bedroom and the Renegades rejoicing in the kitchen, an angry Jerry retired to his fortress of solitude, wrapped a comforter around himself and swore revenge: “Memphis screwed me over at the PoV meeting. He broke his word. Betrayal in this game should not go unpunished.”
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The “Final Four” alliance of Dan, Memphis, Renny and Keesha achieved their collective goal with last week’s surprise double eviction that sent Michelle and Ollie to the BB “Sequester House.” But when the new HoH was decided, all bets were off.

With the “Final Four” alliance gunning to displace the remaining “Floater” Jerry, the only thing that stood in the way of the four-person power play was the HoH competition. In a shocking twist that should make all of the BB producers proud, Jerry took the coveted title of HoH. The former Marine then set his wrinkled sights on ousting long-time nemesis Dan.

Memphis’s Triple Play: As HoH, Jerry’s first order of business was to make sure that nemesis Dan was put on the eviction block. That’s when resurgent player Memphis made his move. Despite their earlier run-ins, Memphis cozied up to the Colonel and struck a deal to take Jerry all the way to the final two. Little did he know Memphis had closed similar deals with both Keesha and Dan.
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During his reign as HoH, Dan played the role of BB puppet master to perfection. He blind-sided Ollie and back-doored Michelle by forcing her to join Jerry on the chopping block. Dan knew that a trail of broken promises might come back to haunt him, so in a BB play for the ages, he fractured the rest of the house with his ingenious game of “replacement nominee roulette.”

After the veto ceremony, a glib Dan joined allies Keesha and Memphis in the yard, saying, “You wanna make an omelet, you gotta break a few eggs.” But in this BB cooking lesson, the broken eggs were looking for some immediate payback. An incensed Ollie rallied troops Michelle and Jerry and went on the offensive, calling Dan out in front of the houseguests.

Ollie thought he could trip Dan up by revealing the details of their HoH deal, but didn’t realize that the rest of the house already knew what went down. “Dan is a plant!” Ollie ranted. “He’s lied about the entire game!” Michelle added her two cents, revealing that Dan had played her into naming Keesha as her replacement nominee. With tempers flaring, the high school football coach pulled a new page out of his HoH playbook and walked away.

“Let the chaos ensue,” Dan said, safely inside the house and away from group. And ensue it did. (more…)

On Sunday, Dan took the title of HoH, but the deal he struck with Ollie left the schoolteacher looking less like a champ and more like a chump. Under the terms of Dan’s “Bungle in the Jungle,” he kept the HoH key, but Ollie would be calling the shots from behind the scenes. In the first order of business, Ollie forced Dan to put an angered, bewildered Memphis up for eviction, then secured safety for his ally Michelle.

Deal or No Deal?: “I couldn’t be in a better position right now,” Ollie boasted in his confessional, “I get to call all the shots, but at the same time my hands are clean.” Dan, however, had other plans. “I made a deal with Ollie that was too good to be true,” he admitted in his confessional, “In no way, Ollie, am I going to send someone from my own alliance home. That’s just not going to work, and you’re dumb for believing it.”

To placate his angry Renegade partner Memphis, Dan was forced to reveal the terms of his deal with Ollie. Memphis’s response to Dan’s master plan: “What the hell were you smoking when you were up there!”
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When we last left our plucky houseguests, outgoing HoH Renny was watching with sadistic glee as her six remaining housemates battled it out to take her seat of power. In the King of the Jungle competition, the objective was simple: be the last contestant hanging onto your vine, and become the new Head of Household. But simple does not mean easy. Not only were the contestants pelted by freezing rain, but the vines they clung to repeatedly lifted them high above the BB courtyard and then viciously slammed them into a padded makeshift barrier.

Everyone seemed determined to take the HoH key from Renny, but one player in particular saw this competition as his last hope. “This is basically do-or-die for me,” Ollie admitted. “It’s me against the world Even though Michelle and I are close, it’s still me against the rest of the house.”

For some, the ride was short-lived. After 26 minutes, Jerry was the first to show signs of weakening. “There was no way I could keep the rope from cutting into my groin,” he admitted in the over-share of the night. After forty-one minutes, and innumerable face-to-facade meetings with the padded wall, Jerry dropped out. An obviously fatigued Keesha quickly followed. (more…)