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After spending three months in a house of backstabbers, liars, and cheats, Big Brother’s dazzling duo Jordan Lloyd and Jeff Schroeder apparently haven’t had enough. The newly-minted couple will try their hand at scripted subterfuge with a pair of cameo roles on CBS’s daytime stalwart The Bold and the Beautiful. From BB to B&B. What is it about that abbreviation that these kids just can’t get enough of?

Needless to say, not even the antics of their former housemates Russell and Chima could prepare these two for their daytime debut. “Oh my God!” Jordan tells PEOPLE, “I was so scared! I’ve never acted or anything like that. I only had one line, but I was like, ‘Please get this right, don’t mess up!’”

As for Jeff, cooler heads were prevailing. That is, at least until the 30-year-old got a look at the wardrobe. “It was an ’80s flashback,” he tells PEOPLE with a groan. “So I was wearing a vest attached to my shirt, and black pants with glitter thrown in there. I looked like a pirate, and not a cool pirate, but like a five-dollar costume you buy just before Halloween at the grocery store.” (more…)

For three months in the Big Brother house, theirs was the Showmance That Wasn’t. Jeff and Jordan had a chemistry that was undeniable but perplexing — although they made an adorable couple, their relationship seemed stuck at a perpetual slow boil.

Turns out getting back to the real world was just what they needed to turn up the heat because not only did BB 11 winner Jordan walk away with half a million dollars, she also walked out of the house with a best-friend-turned-boyfriend.

“Yes we are!” Jordan Lloyd, 23, tells PEOPLE when asked if she and Jeff Schroeder, 30, are finally an item. “We never really talked about it. It just kind of happened.”

The champ and America’s Favorite Player have been inseparable since the finale. For ad salesman Jeff, being away from the cameras and the competition opened his eyes to a different side of the small-town waitress who ended up capturing his heart.

“I liked her on the show, that was obvious,” he tells PEOPLE, “but after the show ended I liked her even more. I get in trouble when I say that, because Jordan is like, ‘You didn’t like me on the show, and now you like me!?’ but what I mean is that I like her even more now that I see who she is outside of the BB house.” (more…)

The credo of Big Brother is “expect the unexpected,” but even bearing that in mind, who could have seen this coming? If, at any point in the season, you had said that Jordan, the unassuming waitress from North Carolina, was going to win it all, they would have put you in a padded cell with Chima.

With all of the dominating and polarizing personalities, with all its rants and raves, threats and theatrics, watching Jordan glide through those final rounds was like watching a bunny take down a pride of lions, without ever getting her fur dirty. Big Brother is supposed to be about ruthless gameplay and out of nowhere comes an underestimated, aww-shucks beauty who seemingly kills off her housemates with kindness. (more…)

Despite having their boorish, childish and often threatening behavior videotaped for our amusement, there is one saving grace that the Big Brother house guests of season 11 can cling to. No matter how obscenely they acted out (this means you Chima), they are no Kayne West. Sunday’s clip show leading to the season finale proved to be a long, hard look into what may very well be the downfall of Western civilization. Back-biting, back-dooring, rants, raves, slurs and ample slurring, with a generous sprinkling of lies and lust to add spice to the mix, this season seemed to have it all. Keep reading for a countdown of the high/low-lights captured on camera. –Reagan Alexander

10. Jessie loving some Jessie: Even with two women in his HOH bed, the bodybuilder took narcissism to a level never before seen on BB. Jessie, your Momma may be proud of your “Moments of greatness,” but your ego-inflating stories only induce narcolepsy.

9. Casey the Chiquita Banana: Honestly, how can you not love a six-ft. banana? Deejay Mingle-Mix took Fruit of the Room to a whole new level, with mixed results. (more…)

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water … BB does it again! For the first time in the reality show’s history, the “final three” tag actually lived up to its name. In the midst of a never-ending HoH competition, host Julie Chen dropped the latest BB bomb. No one would follow Michele to the Jury House, and all three of the remaining players would make it to the finale. It was a first, and to put it simply: With half a million on the line, two is company and three is more than a crowd.

The final HoH competition was split into three parts, with Jordan literally stumbling her way out of contention during the first section, saying of her log-rolling misstep, “I kind of zoned out for a second, I would say it was a $500,000 mistake!”

Kevin then made a brilliant play by convincing Natalie to throw the first part of the HoH by swearing on just about everything that he could that he would take the quick-lipped, conniving 24-year-old to the final two. “I swear on everything that I know,” he said, “my man, my everything, my life!” Natalie took the bait, dropping her BB key in a move that she is certain to regret. (more…)

In a world of self-professed “lone wolves,” Michele, the 27-year-old neuroscientist, howled louder than most. Although she made it all the way to the Final Four, she stumbled in the final POV and Kevin showed her the door to the Jury House. Michele sits down with PEOPLE and talks about her downfall, how Chima could have been her unlikely savior and how she ended up cast as the Princess of Darkness. – Reagan Alexander

Before Kevin sent you out the door, he said that he would have taken you to the Final Three but that he felt he couldn’t trust you. Was he right to doubt you?

No! I would have ditched Jordan and taken Kevin to the end! Jordan had burned me by getting rid of Russell among other things in the game, but I think Kevin never had the basis to trust me.

If there was one thing the house agreed on, it was that you weren’t to be trusted.

My alliances started to overlap, and I had made a deal with Russell, and it didn’t help that I paired myself up with a paranoid, crazy dude! Two crazy people together didn’t work out so well!

What do you think was your biggest misstep? (more…)

During her run in the Big Brother house, Michele has had her sanity questioned, she’s been challenged to a girl-on-girl fight, she’s been called a backstabber and a liar and, during one particularly hyperbolic eviction plea, was described by Ronnie as, “The worst person I have ever had the misfortune to meet.”

No wonder her housemates have dubbed her the Devil. And after 66 days (tack another “6″ on there, and things just start to get creepy), that distrust finally caught up with Michele, who missed her shot at making the final three and was forced to pack her bedazzled horns, her blue dress and head to the Jury House.

Not that this Devil went without a fight. Kevin may have won the final, and most important, POV, but it was Michele who played her last days in the house to the hilt. After watching Kevin and Natalie celebrate after the POV, Michele had an epiphany, albeit the sort that comes a bit too late. “They duped us,” she seethed to a defeated Jordan, “They’re still a team!”

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Big Brother is a game built on manipulation, lies and subterfuge — a skill-set that newly-crowned HOH Natalie easily took to a whole new level on Sunday’s episode.

In the real world, if you’re a liar by nature, you better have a good memory. But in a world where relationships last only sixty days and the end-goal is to throw even your best friend under a high-speed bus, moxie and manipulation trumps memory every time. At the end of the day, Natalie could safely say, “I am playing this house like a fiddle!”

After limping through the first half of the game, Natalie has finally been exposed as Nata-lies. She took the last HOH crown and the rest of the house — Kevin, Jordan and Michele — did their best to fake enthusiasm. But then again, if they were better actors, then they wouldn’t be on Big Brother in the first place.

The tiny tae kwon do champ has spun such a thick web of lies, even her closest ally was bent on burning some bridges. “If I need to sell out Natalie, betray her, backstab her, I will do it,” Kevin said. “I will knock a bitch out for half-a-million!” (more…)

When America gave him the power of coup d’etat, Jeff wielded used it without ever really mastering its pronunciation. When that same power finally came back to bite him in the BB rear, season 11’s golden boy suddenly developed a keen grasp of the French language. “C’est la vie,” he said as he headed out the door. “I lost.”

Jeff’s worst fears had come to fruition and with his back against the eviction wall, he had only one shot at surviving another week. “Work on Natalie,” he said, detailing his last-ditch plan, “get that vote and keep it completely out of Kevin’s hands.”

The first problem with his plan was that those hands were the same hands Natalie has been eating from since Jessie got ousted. When Jeff approached Natalie in an effort to sway her, he never even got to say “hello” before she quickly snapped, “I can’t vote for you.” Later, Natalie was even more forthcoming, saying, with no small amount of pleasure, “Jeff going to the Jury House will be my present to Jessie. Karma is a bitch!” (more…)

In most cases familiarity breeds contempt, but after 55 days and with just five house guests remaining in the BB House, it just breeds crazy.

Michele went from weeping to leaping with joy as Jeff and Jordan’s worst nightmare came true when they found themselves facing each other on the eviction block. Add to that the fact that HOH Kevin got his greedy paw locked in a box while the rest of the house scampered about the yard collecting cash that rained down from the sky and what you have is just another day in the BB house.

After winning HOH, Kevin has kicked his game into high gear. The graphic designer has played a smart, patient and under-the-radar strategy. Somehow, despite being aligned with some of this season’s most volatile characters, Kevin has never upset the BB apple cart. In fact, Kevin’s genius lies in the fact that he’s avoided it at every turn. The game that he has developed should make “Teflon Ron” green with envy. (more…)