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Wednesday 15 August 2018

Big Brother USA 2018 - Episode 21 - Nominations 7 and final Hacker twist

On our previous BB USA adventure....

"Tyler got a power in the BB App Store. A new twist was unleashed on the house. Haleigh won the first Hacker competition of the season, and she secretly targeted Tyler. The Level 6 alliance thought Bayleigh was the hacker. So after Angela saved Tyler with the Veto, she backdoored Bayleigh.

Feeling guilt about her friend getting framed, Haleigh tried to clear Bayleigh's name, but it backfired. At the live eviction, the flight attendant was cleared for departure. With the Head of Household on the line, the power shifted to the other side of the house...."


As it stands at time of writing this, Haleigh is the new Head of Household and she will place her nominations, plus the 2nd and final hacker competition is played out. Unlike the Head of Household power, the person who was the hacker first, in this case Haleigh, can play for the Hacker power again.

Tonight....

Opening credits make an appearance for this episode

We pick up the action after Haleigh's HoH victory

Haleigh: Guess who won HoH, baby. It's me this week. I am pumped, if I was to ever going to win HoH this was the week to do it. I thought after my big speech this was going to be my last week in this house. I mean, no-one can send me home now

Tyler: Haleigh is one of the....no....THE worst person to win HoH. Remember that whole hacker thing where she put me up? Yeah. Well I have a little handy dandy power app that can keep me safe at one nomination ceremony or one Veto ceremony. It might finally be the time to break this thing out.

Angie: This is very bittersweet for me as I am still here, but Bayleigh's gone. I mean I'm very glad I stayed, I want to play this game and want to make it very far. I didn't leave my family NOT to win this game.


Angie and Faysal share a hug, and Faysal apologises to Angie for crying after voting to evict Bayleigh. She tells him not to worry as it was hard for him to do that. Sam apologises to Angela for voting to evict Angie, as Sam felt Angie was all alone.

Faysal: It really killed me having to vote to evict Bayleigh. After weeks of being on the wrong side of the vote, I really couldn't take the chance this week and had to go with the house. But for now, my girl Haleigh is HoH, happy as can be and couldn't have come at a better time

In the bedroom, Faysal picks up Haleigh and drops her on the bed and they share a kiss

Haleigh: Faysal, I don't need you doing that, but I kind of liked it, so fine....whatever

Brett tells Haleigh she is a fast reader and knew that was her kind of competition. Angie says how awesome it is that Haleigh is HoH

Not crying now is she, Angie's perfectly happy. Guess she only rolls out the tears when Level 6 win a competition, but hey ho....

Haleigh: As great as it is that I won HoH, and that my side has the power this week, the Hacker competition could honestly throw a massive wrench in our plans. One of us HAS to win, or this could go very wrong.

In the living room, Sam is mulling over things in regards to Bayleigh

Sam: Bayleigh was one of the only people in the house that I feel like genuinely cared about me outside of her own personal game. I am struggling right now, I refuse to cut other people down. Everything in this house makes me feel uncomfortable, apart from my bed.

In the pantry, Tyler and Kaycee discuss their next move now their side of the house doesn't have the power. Kaycee reminds him they still have the Hacker and Veto competitions to play for, and Tyler admits he doesn't know who Haleigh may put on the block. Discussion then turns to Sam, to which Tyler says he is over her and Kaycee agrees.

Tyler: I love Sam to death, but she is really starting to get so bad for my game, and I have been trying to get her to vote with us to get Bayleigh out of here all week, and I even let her in on a little secret.

Flashback to just before Bayleigh's eviction, Tyler is telling Sam about his Cloud power app

Sam: He says he has the other power, but I don't think he does. I think that's a lie. If he does, it kind of hurts my feelings that he didn't tell me about it sooner.

Tyler: Maybe it wasn't a good idea to tell Sam about my power app. Definitely didn't work. I just can't have people throwing these emotional votes out, when that could mean the difference between somebody staying, who's targeting me, or going.


In the HoH room, Haleigh tells Angie how Angela is very sneaky and needs to go on the block. She asks Angie if Kaycee should go on the block next to Angela as they are both targets. Angie agrees with this.

Haleigh: At this point in the game, if you are not with me you are against me, and there is a clear line of sides and right now it's time to strike and take out some numbers from the other side.

Sam is also mentioned as another target to put next to Angela, as she has put Haleigh on the block in the past. Angie asks who does Haleigh want to go the most, and Haleigh says Tyler, but he will have to be backdoored

Haleigh: Tyler would be hard to get rid of, so I am going to have to be smart about this and backdoor him. I literally sat in front of the entire house, and declared him my target and I will be happy to see him leave.

Into the bathroom, Kaycee says "And then there were 10". Angela seems certain that Haleigh will try to backdoor one of Level 6, and is most worried about Tyler and thinks Sam is the easiest target

Angela: Now the power has shifted back to the other side with Haleigh winning HoH. This means Level 6 is going to have at least one member on the block this week. But I don't think this is game over for us just yet. We have the Hacker competition and Sam's walking around the house crying, making herself a huge target.

Kaycee: I feel like Sam is manipulating people a bit with her emotions. She's going around moping and crying. At this point she is a liability, she's going to hurt our game in a big big way


Angela: In order for Level 6 to protect ourselves this week, we need to make sure two of us do not end up on the block. So, our plan is to convince Haleigh to put up Sam as a nomination.


Fast forward to the plan, and Kaycee is filling Brett in on said plan to convince Haleigh to put Sam on the block.

Brett goes to speak to Haleigh

Brett: Level 6 isn't in power this week, so Brett's going to work some charm and try to infiltrate the other side, push in a little influence, collect a little information. Plus, Haleigh's a smoke show, not a bad gig

Brett starts to work his so called charms, and manages to find out Haleigh has a 'quota' of people she wouldn't mind putting up. Brett reminds her she needs to consider about jury, and how they would vote if put on the block and evicted. Brett tells Haleigh he is a free agent, but we know that isn't true. The other side of the house are stupid, but you probably gathered that already.

Haleigh says to Angela, that she has to be careful in what she will do and how she will do it. Angela subtley mentions Sam in her conversations

Angela: Basically, what I am doing right now is saying whatever I need to say to prevent 2 members of Level 6 from going on the block, and if that means throwing Sam's name in for a possible pawn and blood free target, so be it.

Haleigh thanks Angela for mentioning Sam and will seriously consider throwing Sam's name in the mix for nominations

Sam: I feel dumb. I feel used. These people are not my friends, these people are here to win a bunch of money and they don't care who or what happens.

Lovely Sam, love you to bits, but don't you remember what the name of this show is or how it is played?

Sam continues to bawl her eyes out, and Haleigh tells us Sam is too close to breaking point, and at this point is considering putting her on the block

Showmance alert, as in the pantry Faysal is telling Haleigh how nice she looks today. She is looking a teeny bit uncomfortable, and asks what if someone walks in to which Faysal says "Frankly my dear I don't give a dam" or words to that effect.

Faysal: Haleigh is a unique one, she is only 21 but she is beautiful 24/7. Got a great personality, she's funny, she makes me laugh and I still want to rock with her outside of this house.

He asks Haleigh if she will be his girl when they get out of there. She says he doesn't know her, and he says he wants to get to know her, he likes her and wants her all to himself. He goes on to say he wants to spend all day with her alone, and that he think she will fall in love with him.

Haleigh: I think Faysal is very attractive. He's funny, he's athletic. However we need to lay low, as if anybody finds out we are together we will be the number one targets and go on the block together

Thankfully Sam walks in to collect something from the fridge

Speaking of Sam, she is speaking to JC about curb stomping and stomping mudholes...'nuff said

Back in the HoH room, Tyler is talking to Haleigh about what she may do in regards to nominations. She admits to him that the thought had crossed her mind about putting him on the block, and he asks her if it was straight on the block or via backdooring.

Tyler: So my Cloud power app allows me to keep myself safe in one Nominations ceremony or in one Veto ceremony. But if I use it at the nominations ceremony, there is still a chance I could go on the block at the Veto ceremony. So this might sound crazy, but I can convince Haleigh to backdoor me instead of putting me right away, then I can pull out my app at the Veto meeting and, boom, I'm safe.

Haleigh: Wait! Did Tyler just offer to be backdoored. What a great idea, think I may do that this week


Nominations Ceremony


Haleigh nominates Kaycee and Angela. But the nominations don't mean diddly squat with the Hacker power to come this week

Haleigh: I nominated Kaycee and Angela, as in all honesty I know they are coming for me. But my target this week is Tyler

Kaycee: So I'm on the block, this sucks. It's not a good feeling. Hayleigh is full of BS. I do feel a lot of fakeness coming from her, and I try to steer away from fake, and that's a lot of what she is

Angela: I'm on the block, first time. I'm very surprised me and Kaycee do not even have Haleigh on our radar. Are you trying to put something on us,because you are doing a really good job of it so far


Tyler: My pitch to Hayleigh to not put me on the block actually worked. She wants to backdoor me, guys


Angela asks Tyler and Kaycee what reason Haleigh had to put them up. Kaycee says Haleigh was not on their radar and is definitely not less blood on their hands. Tyler tells them this was only to backdoor him.

Meanwhile the other side of the house suggest if they win the competition to keep the nominations the same. Haleigh calls Brett into the HoH room and tells him the plan

Brett: Oh Haleigh. I already know what I am going to do if I win the Hacker competition, and it will NOT entail keeping the nominations the same. That moment you opened up the email and let me in, my smile was able to bypass the antivirus and compromise your environment.

Hacker competition


It's the same layout as last week, obviously the game will be a little different. As like last week, it's a three pronged power. The hacker gets to anonymously replace one of the nominees, anonymously gets to pick a Veto player and finally gets to cancel out someone's vote at eviction time.

Haleigh can play this in this competition as outgoing hacker from last week

This week, the houseguests have to hack the cameras in the house and guess which part of the house they are looking at. Like last week, the first 3 to get it right get a point and everyone else gets frozen out of the round

Off we go...

ROUND 1

Answer - Backyard

Scottie - 1
Angie - 1
Kaycee - 1

ROUND 2

Answer - Kitchen/Dining Room

Kaycee - 2
Sam - 1
Scottie - 1
Haleigh - 1
Angie - 1

ROUND 3

Answer - Game Room

Kaycee - 3
Sam - 1
Scottie - 1
Haleigh - 1
Angie - 1

ROUND 4

Answer - Backyard

Kaycee - 3
Scottie - 2
Sam - 2
Haleigh - 1
Angie - 1
Faysal - 1
Brett - 1

ROUND 5

Answer - HoH Room

Kaycee - 3
Sam - 2
Scottie - 2
Brett - 2
Haleigh - 1
Angie - 1
Faysal - 1
Tyler - 1

ROUND 6

Answer - Game Room

Kaycee - 4
Scottie - 3
Sam - 2
Brett - 2
Haleigh - 1
Angie - 1
Faysal - 1
Tyler - 1
Angela - 1

FINAL ROUND

Answer - Bathroom

Kaycee - 4

Scottie - 3
Sam - 2
Brett - 2
Angela - 2
Faysal - 2
Tyler - 2
Haleigh - 1
Angie - 1

Winner and holding the final hacker power - KAYCEE

Unsurprisingly, Kaycee tells Angela right away that she's the hacker, and Angela couldn't be more happier. Kaycee then tells Tyler to pretty much the same reaction as Angela.

Kaycee's decision

To no surprise, she has taken herself off the block, and named ANGIE as the replacement nominee

To be continued in episode 22, when Kaycee decides on one player to play in the Veto and who will win the Veto

Final thoughts

Revenge is indeed sweet, as Haleigh is knowing what it feels like to be the victim of the BB Hacker. Level 6 clawing their way back this week, and if they can get the Veto, no doubt it will be used to save Angela and won't really matter if one of Level 6 is on the block as Kaycee has still to cancel out someone's vote. But seriously, I will be glad when this Hacker stuff is over as there was no need for it with this season rolling along nicely. Please, Allison, just leave things alone after the eviction and let it all roll along to the end. This is truly the season that keeps on giving, and it doesn't need anymore shaking up.

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CBB UK just around the corner with launch scheduled for August 16 at 9pm UK time and 4pm Eastern Standard Time.

House pics have been released and can be found if you click on bbspy or Big Blaggers link on the right, and truth be told it does look quite brilliant. Shame we won't see it much apart from in the highlights, live shows or the little morsels of live feed we are getting.

Rylan will be returning with BOTS after the live launch at 11pm UK time, and then at midnight UK time, Dr Detroit will be on the air with Garry, Sarah and Erica looking back on the launch and taking calls from listeners, and that will be right here so be sure to tune in, and add your thoughts to everyone else's

I will be recapping CBB as well on here so look out for them, and also running the WHATM Little Brother thread on the BB forum section on Digital Spy and also the WHATM thread for the little snippets of Live Feed on the same forum if you want to pop in and talk about the action live as it happens.

New podcast alert, as BB on Blast have released a new podcast for BB USA right here

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Until next time, thanks for reading and someone is always watching.....

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