Big Brother 18 — A Few Thoughts on Thursday’s Show!

Hi, everyone!

Well, tonight was the first live eviction!  A houseguest was voted out.  A new HoH was determined.  And we learned about a new twist!

First off, here’s the specifics.  By now, you’ve probably heard that, last night, Frank finally snapped and told Natalie that the plan was to vote out Jozea.  Word spread around the house but I don’t know if Jozea found out that he was going to voted out or not.  During the live show, he looked really nervous.  He was not his usual talkative self and his final plea for votes was unusually subdued.  When he found out that he had been evicted, you could tell that he was upset but he didn’t look shocked.  This leads me to suspect that, before the show went live, he found out that he was going to be voted out.

Paulie’s pre-vote statement was funny and confident.  He did an imitation of Al Pacino in Scarface, which showed that he knew he was safe.  As for Bridgette — she basically argued that she should be kept in the house because she’s “sweet.”  She looked sincerely worried, despite the fact that she was told last night that Jozea was the target.  Maybe she thought that she was about to be blind-sided, who knows?

Here’s how everyone voted:

Victor — Paulie

Zakiyah — Josea

Paul — Paulie

Frank — Jozea

James — Jozea

Corey — Jozea

Da’Vonne — Jozea

Michelle — Jozea

Bronte — Paulie

Natalie — Paulie

Tiffany — Jozea

There were rumors that Julie would not be revealing the vote totals this season but that turned out not to be the case.  She announced that, by a vote of 7-4, Jozea had been evicted from the house.  Jozea hugged everyone but he didn’t say anything as he left the house.

During his interview with Julie, Jozea was obviously angry.  Oddly, he accused Natalie of betraying him, despite the fact that she voted for him to stay.  (Even after being evicted, Jozea doesn’t have a clue what’s happening in the house.)  Jozea talked a lot about karma and declared that everyone who had betrayed him would live to regret it.  Seriously, it was super creepy.

Anyway, it turns out that Jozea may be coming back!  In an idea borrowed for Survivor, the evicted houseguests will compete against each other every week.  For instance, Jozea is going to compete against Glenn.  The loser of the competition will be sent home.  The winner of the competition will stick around for a week so that he or she can compete against the next evicted houseguest.  They’ll keep doing this for five weeks until the last evicted houseguest standing will be sent back into the house!

So, we might not be done with Jozea.  I’m pretty sure that Jozea can defeat Glenn but we’ll see what happens.

As for the HoH competition, everyone is still playing in teams.  In this case, the four teams had to carry a bunch of balls back and forth, from one end of the backyard to the other.  After a team had managed to gather 40 balls, they would select one teammate to go across to get the 41st ball.  Assuming that teammate managed to make it across the obstacle course without losing the ball, he or she would become the new HoH and the entire team would have immunity.

Now, this is interesting because, with the way the teams are set up, James could not allow his team to win the competition.  Team Unicorn, after all, is made up of James and three of the people who voted to keep Josea in the house.  Apparently, those three wanted Victor to become HoH.  So, apparently, James threw the competition in order to keep Team Unicorn from winning.

Who did win?

PAULIE!

That’s right — Paulie won HoH.  That means that Frank, Michelle, Paulie, and Bridgette are all safe this week!  It’s also bad news for Paul, Victor, Natalie, and Bronte because the 8-pack is still in control of the house.  And those four players have been so obnoxious that I doubt anyone is going to want to help either one of them out.

That’s it for now!  Jozea is gone and Paulie is HoH!

YAY!

Lisa Marie