At last, welcome one and all, citizens to the finale recap for CBB USA 2019, and apologies it is so late.
This final episode sees who will follow in Marissa's footsteps as winner, with the remaining 5 whittled down to one and also we see who gets America's Favourite Houseguest.
So without further ado, let's get this show on the road. Take it away, Julie.
After welcoming us in, Julie explains how the evening will go, and there is quite a lot to get through as:
HoH, Veto, 5th place comes out, Final HoH, Jury Vote, Winner is crowned. Add to that various interviews to fill the time, including one with quitter, and he is a quitter even though production want people to believe differently, Anthony.
In case you missed it elsewhere, there is a twist as once the final HoH of the season is crowned he or she will have to choose two houseguests to evict as there will be no Veto in the final four, and the remaining houseguest left with the HoH moves into the final two to compete for the $250,000 top prize
Think that's about the size of the evening, and now down to business of getting this winner crowned....
HoH competition
The first HoH competition of the evening is called Bats, The Musical. Last year's winner, Marissa, will be hosting. The houseguests except Lolo as she was ineligible due to being outgoing HoH, that is Ricky, Tamar, Dina and Kandi, will have 20 seconds every time they push their button to enrgise the magnetized board. If they failed to get back to their buttons before the 20 seconds was up then the pieces would fall off the board, and they would have to start again. The houseguest who assembles their puzzle correctly and hits their button first, becomes the next HoH
And that particular honour went to RICKY, and now with only four to choose from must nominate two for eviction pre-Veto.
He nominated DINA and KANDI.....but there is still the Veto to come and as there are only 5 houseguests left, everyone gets to play in this one.
Veto competition
This competition is called Veto Heist, and here is how it works. Each houseguest gets to play and they have to break into the Celebrity Museum and steal artefacts from this season and get out without hitting the lasers as that will add on precious time to their final times. They each have a case to which they must find said artefacts through clues given, and store them in their provided cases. If they trigger the alarms via the lasers, then they must hit a button to stop the alarms eating up more precious seconds. The fastest houseguest will win the final Veto of this season
Order of play:
Ricky - 9.21
Lolo - 5.08
Dina - 17.34
Tamar - 13.22
Kandi - 9.53
And by that reckoning, Lolo wins the final Veto of the season and stamps her place in the final 4 with Ricky.
She decided not to use the Veto, so Tamar is also guaranteed final 4 with Dina or Kandi falling at this particular hurdle. But we have to wait to find out who is going to finish in 5th as we have some pointless filler on the way in the form of Anthony the Quitter getting an interview.
Anthony will not be on the jury nor is he eligible to win America's Favourite Houseguest. Oh boy has he been prepped, as he talks in detail about the 'fake housemate' twist. Who do they think they are fooling with this twist, when it's obvious to everyone this is just a cover story to gloss over that he quit the show. Tak then turn to politics, which we don't really need as this is Big Brother not some daily politics show. Send him on his way, wherever that is.
Back to the matter at hand after that brief interruption, and it's Dina v Kandi to see who will finish 5th place. As you know, the nominees are not allowed to vote, and as HoH Ricky will only vote in the event of a tie. After the usual pleas to stay in, the vote went:
Lolo voted to evict Kandi
Tamar voted to evict Dina
A rare deadlock, so Ricky has the casting vote and he decided to get rid of KANDI. Not too surprising, but potentially dangerous if Dina makes it to final 2.
In her interview with Julie, Tamar is feeling emotional as she admits her and Tamar have managed to build some bridges and believes they will be friends outside of the house once the season is over. Ultimately she is disappointed that she was evicted, and thinks Ricky made a mistake and admits she would have taken Ricky to final 2 had she won the final HoH.
Back to business, and we are down to the final 4 for this season and it will be all to play for as Ricky is eligible to play for this final HoH. Either Tamar, Ricky, Lolo or Dina will make the final 2 and I really don't envy them the decision whoever is HoH in a little while
Final HoH competition
The final four will be judges at the Junior Celebrity Lookalike competition, and it's a multiple choice question kind of competition as in three statements, and one of them is false. The final 4 must choose A, B or C to get a point. No penalties for wrong answers as in gunge or anything like that. The competition will be 7 rounds, and the highest scoring houseguest will be crowned the final HoH of the season, and if there is a tie at the end of 7 rounds then there will be a tie breaker
Order of appearance:
Tom Junior
Ryan Junior
Natalie Junior
Kato Junior
Anthony Junior
Jonathan Junior
Joey Junior
The final scores ended up being:
Lolo - 5
Ricky - 6
Tamar - 6
Dina -1
Ricky and Tamar will face the tiebreaker question, "In hours, how long was it from when Kevin Frazier announced the first piece of breaking news, to when it was announced that the Breaking News twist was over?"
Ricky - 185 hours
Tamar - 15 hours
Ricky once again was crowned HoH, and he stamps his place in the final 2. Now who will he take, let us all find out as Julie announces he has to make his decision almost immediately. Some last minute pleas from the remaining ladies ensues, but he ultimately opts to evict LOLO and DINA.
Final two will be RICKY and TAMAR, and 2 firsts in North American Big Brother as in an all black final 2, and also a first black winner is guaranteed.
Now to say Lolo is upset would be a massive understatement, but at least Dina took it in good grace. Lolo acting like a VERY sore loser, but seemed very confident Ricky made the right move as she would have probably got more votes to win had she made final 2. But on the other side of the coin, she said they probably won't be friends outside of the house.
Meanwhile, Dina, who is a lot calmer by the way says she was surprised she lasted as long as she did. To be frank, I'm surprised as well as she did nothing to merit getting this far, although I am happy she is gone as there was a real danger she would actually win, and I don't think that would have gone down too well in the general fandom.
Time to rumble as we head back to the final two of Tamar and Ricky, the mad woman versus the fink of the series.
Normally about now the jury would have been in lockdown, but with the celebrities they are allowed to watch, and this is absolutely genuine in that they don't know how this finale has gone down until now.
Jury - Ryan, Natalie, Joey, Jonathan, Kato, Lolo, Dina, Tom and Kandi.
In case you missed it earlier, Anthony is NOT on the jury so will not be casting a vote
Some questions follow, and then Tamar and Ricky give their final pleas, and then some more filler as in reuniting the jury and Anthony and having a little chat with everyone. It is THAT time now as Julie announces it is time to vote.
After the votes are cast, Julie goes on to reveal that Tamar had a secret power as in the Power of the Publicist power. Tamar revealed how hard it was to keep that power under wraps, but wouldn't have used it as she didn't want create any negativity.
This is it, time to end this season with the announcements of both winner and America's Favourite Houseguest
The votes are in from the jury:
Jonathan voted TAMAR
Ryan voted TAMAR
Joey voted TAMAR
Kato voted TAMAR
Natalie voted TAMAR
Tom voted TAMAR
Kandi voted TAMAR
Dina voted TAMAR
Lolo voted TAMAR
Pretty unanimous really, and only the second time a unanimous vote to win has happened. The first time was way back in the civilian series of 2008 when Dan Gheesling took the honours
Ladies and gentlemen your 2019 celebrity series winner is TAMAR, and America's Favourite Houseguest is TOM
Tamar takes home $250,000, Ricky takes home $50,000 and Tom wins $25,000
As stated earlier, a number of firsts as in the first ever all black final 2 and also the first ever black winner of North American Big Brother.
Final thoughts
A very satisfactory series in which everyone played their part, ultimately it was Tamar who took the honours and I am not too upset with that. The finale didn't drag and flew by very quickly. Thoughts now turn to Big Brother Canada 2019 which premieres on March 6 (local time that is) and early morning March 7, and I will return to recap the episodes.
In closing, please be sure to check out the links on the right for all your USA, Canada and UK news concerning Big Brother.
Be sure to check out the finale podcast from BB on Blast right here if you haven't already, or want to listen again
Thank you everyone who has popped in to read my recaps, and I do hope I have done a good job
Onwards and upwards to Big Brother Canada, hope to see you there as we start the first of two very long slogs, the other being Civilian USA in mid to late summer.
Until then, stay frosty, keep on rocking and cheerio....
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