Big Brother 21 — About Tonight

I’m just as shocked as anyone.

Seriously, anyone who watched the live feeds from Friday morning to Wednesday afternoon would have been totally justified in believing that Christie was going home. Jackson couldn’t stop talking about how much he was looking forward to getting rid of her. Everyone was agreeing that she had to go. As opposed to the way it was edited to look on Thursday’s show, her attempt to blow up Nick’s game on Tuesday was actually a huge mess that left everyone saying that they were eager to get rid of her.

And yet, somehow, Christie has survived another week. Jackson decided that he’d rather get rid of Analyse and even said that, if there was a tie, he would break it by sending Analyse out of the house. So, as a result, only Nick voted to keep Analyse. Everyone else voted to evict her and Analyse is now off to the jury house.

Was Jackson really motivated to change his mind by the fact that Analyse couldn’t definitely tell him who she was planning on putting on the block if she won HoH? That’s what he’s been saying.

But still, it feels very strange and, as always, there’s a lot of conspiracy theories floating around out there. On twitter, a lot of people are convinced that the Diary Room may have influenced Jackson to target Analyse. We do know that someone in the Diary Room told Jackson to tone down his earlier behavior because he’s let it slip a few times while talking to Holly that the viewers were offended by some of the things he said during the first few weeks of the game. So, we do know that Jackson can be influenced by production and I would assume that the show’s producers would rather keep drama-causing Christie in the house over a boring player like Analyse.

Who knows? Please don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that’s what happened because I have no way of knowing for sure. It could just be that Christie really did get lucky and everyone spontaneously decided that they needed to keep her around so she could go after Nick. Or maybe the universe really does want Christie in the house. Who knows?

Well, regardless of how it happened, Christie survived. And Holly is the new HoH! Who is Holly going to nominate? Well, that’s an interesting question. Nick seems like an obvious target, now. And Jessica’s been getting on a lot of people’s nerves. However, this is Prank Week which means there’s a twist!

And that twist is a big one. Basically, the viewers get to vote for one player (other than Holly) to be America’s Prankster. Holly will have to split her HoH power with America’s Prankster. That means that Holly will only get to make one nomination and the other will be made by the Prankster. The Prankster’s identity will also remain a secret.

How will this effect the game? Well, it depends on who wins the role. To be honest, though, I wouldn’t want to be the Prankster. Everyone’s going to be super paranoid once the twist is revealed and my main fear is that, as happens so often with twists like this, the rest of the house will accuse the wrong person of being the prankster and that person will be voted out as a result.

We’ll see what happens. Nominations are tomorrow!

Lisa Marie