Hi, everyone! Apologies again for the late update.
So, I’m sure everyone has heard the big news by now. The feeds went down after Mickey was unanimously evicted on Thursday night. (Mickey was stunned too — she really thought everyone was going to keep her!) While the feeds were down, the houseguests competed in a safety chain competition and a maze competition and, long story short — RACHEL IS NO LONGER IN THE HOUSE!
That’s right, Rachel lost the competition and was eliminated from the game. There’s been a lot of online speculation as to what exactly happened. (The houseguests have been talking about it but the folks in charge of the feeds have been cutting away from them, presumably to keep us from hearing too much before the next show.) Ava apparently had first pick in the safety chain comp but did not pick Rachel because Rachel and Keanu got into a big argument before Ava made her picks and, according to Ava, Rachel “put her hands on me” in a threatening manner. I’m not totally sure what happened (we’ll find out on when the show airs on Tuesday) but the important thing is Rachel is gone and her fans on twitter have been crying for three days straight.
(I just find it interesting that Rachel was safe as long as it was just nominations — despite nearly every HoH thinking about nominating her before being summoned to the Diary Room — but the minute she had to actually win a competition on her own, she was eliminated.)
There’s been a lot of online speculation that Rachel might come back but this show has only got three more weeks to go and there’s a double and maybe even a triple eviction coming up. There’s no time to bring Rachel back. Instead, Rachel is now the first member of the jury. Because it was their anniversary, Rachel was allowed to call Brendon after she was eliminated. On twitter, Brendon said that Rachel was very angry over being eliminated. That doesn’t surprise me. I saw how she reacted to losing three seasons of The Amazing Race.
The current HoH is Laruen. She nominated Ashley, Morgan, and Will for eviction. (Will injured himself during the Safety Chain Comp so he’s pretty much incapable of competing right now.) Morgan won the veto and used it on herself earlier today. Keanu was nominated in her place.
Now, despite what I originally expected, they’re still doing the Blockbuster even though the jury selection has begun. Will can barely move so he’s not going to win the blockbuster. Ashley is terrible at comps, as we saw on Thursday. Keanu is the clear favorite to win the blockbuster so, if I had to guess, I’d say Ashley is about to go to jury.
What’s interesting is how disillusioned all the remaining players are. None of them were happy with how Rachel was eliminated but, even more importantly, they’re now realizing that the social game is pointless this season. Instead, it’s all coming down to who can win competitions. Ava, Will, and Ashley have been talking about how Kelley is probably going to make it to the end just by winning comps.
In short, the entire house is currently bitter and miserable!
We’ll see what happens!
Lisa Marie
Too many of these HGS don’t really know about the game. BB used to be very dependent not just on who can sit around and talk but who can actually compete!
So glad she’s gone.
I am glad she’s gone too! I totally hope Ashley is out this week. If she does she and Rachel can be back together
I can’t believe after winning nothing since the season began she has won two POV”s in a row !
PS. I also wish Rachel was totally gone and not going to the jury. It.will be just like when she was in the competition. Meaning she will try and manipulate who wins.