There are two different experiences, both called “Big Brother”.

One is the television show Big Brother, as the CBS producers present it to broadcast tv audiences, three times per week. But the other is what is actually going on in the Big Brother house; the experience of the house guests, unfiltered — or at least less filtered — by television editors.

Fetchland presents Ruining Big Brother. It’s less “spoiling” Big Brother and more pulling back the curtain, to ruin our collective illusions about reality television. Enjoy! Or better yet, recoil in horror…

Daily BB House Stats:
HOH – Paulie
HOH Nominated – Tiffany, Natalie
Roadkill Comp Winner – Tiffany
RK Nominated – Corey
Veto Winner – Corey
Evicted – #1 Jozea #2 Victor #3 Bronte
Battle Back challenge players – Glenn, Jozea, Victor, Bronte +1

22nd will be a special Battle Back episode of Big Brother

Have-Nots – Team Unicorn: James, Natalie
Safe team this week – Category4: Frank, Michelle, Paulie, Bridgette

Team Big Sister: Da’vonne, Paul, Zakiyah
Team Category 4: Frank, Michelle, Paulie, Bridgette
Team Freakazoids: Nicole, Corey, Tiffany
Team Unicorn: James, Natalie

Sad Tiffany puts her fightin’ pants on

The July 17th TV episode reveals how Frank stayed pretty chill despite the eviction and HOH of last Thursday. After all, he knew he had plenty of time to figure out what happened with the flipped vote. Still, he was a major part of that fight with Tiffany and Day. Both Tiff and Frank accuse Day of telling each of them the other was gunning for them. Day fights back at first (shown in our featured pic today) but quickly controls herself. Afterwards Tiff gets sad and then rolls right into her machinations while Day has the opposite reaction, realizing that her fight last year on the show ended up getting her evicted. So, she goes to Frank right away and makes peace. They don’t really trust each other but pretend to “peace out”, just like Nicole and Frank did recently. So, now Tiff’s got her fightin’ pants on while Day’s just chillin’ this week.

James attempts to reason with others

James points out that Bronte wouldn’t be doing all this drama that Tiff’s doing. He calls Tiffany a “loose lip cannon” and from what we’ve seen on the feeds Thursday until tonight, she’s certainly earned that namesake. Frank joins Tiffany for their heart-to-heart and it’s a real deal. They tell each other “everything” and decide to get rid of Mama Day soon. Right then Day walks in to see them and then reports back to HOH about the two of them talking. So, Day approaches Tiff then about her chat with Frank while Nicole and Paul listen, crouched outside the door. Day has Tiff cry in her lap while dry-eyed Tiffany keeps repeating that she “did this already” and it’s true, she cried her eyes out with Natalie only a little while before. Timing is everything. It’s literally too late for Day… in every way when it comes to Tiffany.

Paulie nominates Tiff and Nat

Nominations are next for the TV show and nobody’s surprised to see Tiffany and Natalie on the block. Afterward Tiff and Frank talk and he decides if he wins the Roadkill he’ll put Corey up to shake up the showmances. Tiffany digests this information and will put it to good use sooner than one might expect. Because Natalie’s on the block, James is particularly protective of her. He points out that it’s not Natalie playing both sides when people bring up her name as a potential “spy” or “leak” and it’s sweet to see him looking out for her but at the same time he’s just telling the truth. She’s loyal and honest.

Tiffany wins the Roadkill challenge

The Roadkill competition seems made for Frank because it focuses on stinky farts. The challenge requires placing air fresheners delicately on colorful poles. Many houseguests are too rough and fast in their process, knocking the fresheners off the poles. Tiff stays pretty relaxed and careful, though using her long, lean, limbs to master the challenge and win it. After the win, she approaches Frank about putting up Corey to mess with “cocky Paulie” joking that Frank’s cocky too but she’s using him right now. Ha ha.

Deciding Mama Day “needs to go”

On the July 17th feeds Tiffany continued to blow up Day’s game, planting seeds around the house and creating a stir with her whisper bombs. Paulie, Corey, and Frank end up having a conversation where it starts to look like Day’s on the way out. James ends up having to defend Natalie (again) because Michelle and Day think she’s bringing info to the other side. So, James says what about Paul? He’s clearly playing both sides. Time for them all to notice that too.

– Katherine Recap

There are two different experiences, both called “Big Brother”.

One is the television show Big Brother, as the CBS producers present it to broadcast tv audiences, three times per week. But the other is what is actually going on in the Big Brother house; the experience of the house guests, unfiltered — or at least less filtered — by television editors.

Fetchland presents Ruining Big Brother. It’s less “spoiling” Big Brother and more pulling back the curtain, to ruin our collective illusions about reality television. Enjoy! Or better yet, recoil in horror…

Daily BB House Stats:
HOH – Paulie
HOH Nominated – Tiffany, Natalie
Roadkill Comp Winner – Tiffany
RK Nominated – Corey
Veto Winner – Corey
Evicted – #1 Jozea #2 Victor #3 Bronte
Battle Back challenge players – Glenn, Jozea, Victor, Bronte +1

22nd will be a special Battle Back episode of Big Brother

Have-Nots – Team Unicorn: James, Natalie
Safe team this week – Category4: Frank, Michelle, Paulie, Bridgette

Team Big Sister: Da’vonne, Paul, Zakiyah
Team Category 4: Frank, Michelle, Paulie, Bridgette
Team Freakazoids: Nicole, Corey, Tiffany
Team Unicorn: James, Natalie

Corey won Veto then heard lotsa “news”

July 16th brought the Power of Veto challenge and lots of subsequent whispering and scheming. Da’Vonne and Paul compete in the Veto competition with Paulie, Corey, Natalie, and Tiffany while Zakiyah plays host. The houseguests expected a dice-related challenge, so they’ve been practicing dice rolls continuously to prepare. Paulie and Tiffany even came into the house with dice game strategies ready. He coached Corey and Natalie in his methodology while Tiffany shared her practice tactics with Mama Day. But July 16th’s Veto isn’t a dice challenge at all, though there probably will be one eventually as they’re prevalent in the Big Brother competition archive.

Natalie’s cute post-Veto look

The Have-Nots for the week are James and Natalie because of their last place Team Unicorn status in the HOH competition. For some inexplicable BB reason their supplements for the week are baked beans, baguettes, and basil. Natalie eats a bowl of beans for breakfast and then says it’ll be cool when she blows out her butt during the POV competition. She then advises James about how they should eat more beans than bread through the bathroom door while he takes a dump, explaining that otherwise they’ll get constipated. Thus, Natalie and James seem to have completely skipped the whole fun and romantic stage of dating and just dove straight into the frank discussions of bowel movements stage.

Tiffany senses sketchiness

Corey wins the Veto and plans to take himself off which will mean the Roadkill winner has to secretly nominate someone new. That person, of course, is Tiffany. She’s in a Have-Not room bumper car near James in his respective bumper car when Day comes in and asks Tiffany who she’s going to put up in Corey’s place. Tiff says she doesn’t know and Day abruptly leaves, which Tiff then tells James seems mad sketchy. Right after that Tiffany tells Frank she’s going to put Mama Day up for nomination. She also tells him about the Fatal5 alliance. Paul comes in so Frank and Tiffany tell him about the alliances as well as all sorts of sketchy stuff about Mama Day scheming.

Chips and chatter in ridiculous outfits

Paul quietly collects the info and then immediately runs to tell the other side that Frank told him about the 8Pack and all the Mama Day dirt. He also buddies up with his bros in the HOH bed later, planning a detailed scenario in which he shouts a lot of F-Yous and wins a competition. Sounds fun, Paul! We love when you entertain us. Right after this Tiffany tells Corey Mama Day has been screwing with her behind the scenes during the whole game. Tiff reveals info about the 8Pack, Fatal5, and that she won Roadkill too. Then Frank joins the conversation along with silent Bridgette. Frank drops an allegorical/emotional bomb on Corey, saying he made a Final2 deal with Nicole.

Jacuzzi chat w/ Paul, Nicole, and Day

This leads to some awkwardness between Nicole and Corey for the afternoon but then they talk it out in the backyard later and it henceforth seems smoothed over between them. A bit afterward Nicole sits with Paul and Mama Day for ice cream in the jacuzzi and at one point Paul says that Frank and Tiffany are “going to try to use every piece of information to break us apart” which is exactly right. That’s precisely what they’re doing. Tiffany keeps swearing on her mother’s life etc. and then spilling every info bit, like a toddler with a tray of beads. Will it work? We don’t really care much because we’re just here to have fun and all this “blowing up people’s games” via Tiffany’s truth-telling creates popcornorific entertainment. Even if the other houseguests don’t believe Tiffany and Frank now… the seeds are sown. Thus, the tension and potential for further outbursts grows like weeds in the Big Brother garden of delights.

– Katherine Recap

There are two different experiences, both called “Big Brother”.

One is the television show Big Brother, as the CBS producers present it to broadcast tv audiences, three times per week. But the other is what is actually going on in the Big Brother house; the experience of the house guests, unfiltered — or at least less filtered — by television editors.

Fetchland presents Ruining Big Brother. It’s less “spoiling” Big Brother and more pulling back the curtain, to ruin our collective illusions about reality television. Enjoy! Or better yet, recoil in horror…

Daily BB House Stats:

HOH – Paulie
HOH Nominated – Tiffany, Natalie
Roadkill Comp Winner – Tiffany
RK Nominated – Corey
Veto Winner – TBD
Evicted – #1 Jozea #2 Victor #3 Bronte
Battle Back challenge players – Glenn, Jozea, Victor, Bronte +1

22nd will be a special Battle Back episode of Big Brother

Have-Nots – TBD
Safe team this week – Category4: Frank, Michelle, Paulie, Bridgette

Team Big Sister: Da’vonne, Paul, Zakiyah
Team Category 4: Frank, Michelle, Paulie, Bridgette
Team Freakazoids: Nicole, Corey, Tiffany
Team Unicorn: James, Natalie

Tiffany and Frank high five her Roadkill win

July 15th was basically a feeds-free day during daylight hours with the houseguests only coming on the screen briefly in the morning after the HOH nominations. Paulie surprised nobody when he put up Tiffany and Natalie for eviction. Then the feeds went out for the rest of the day to return late at night after the Roadkill competition. They were making dinner after eleven o’clock so it must’ve been a mighty long challenge. Once the feeds returned we learned that household power changed hands once again when Tiffany won the Roadkill competition and told only Frank/Bridgette. So, if their alliance wasn’t solidified before, it definitely is now. They high-five in the Have-Not bumper car room and then Tiffany secretly nominates Corey for eviction. If he ends up getting evicted this week, the entire Big Brother house dynamic would shift once again into a whole new dimension of gameplay. What will happen to those showmancers? Love on the rocks is what.

Paulie holds court in his bossypants

In the meantime Paulie succumbs to a raging case of HOHitis, holding court in various houseguest configurations while proudly sporting a pair of cranky grandpa bossypants. He’s due for a major takedown because Paulie keeps declaring how Tiffany can’t beat him in the Power of Veto competition and such proclamations are rarely followed with victory. Statistically speaking, unless you’re Muhammed Ali, overconfidence and underestimating one’s opponent foretells failure and sometimes even agonizing humiliation. But we don’t wish Paulie ill-will… it’s just that sometimes we make predictions based on Big Brother precedent. Those on pedestals often fall farthest.

Late night Paul

Paul gives a solo “late night friendship with Paul” talk at around 3:30AM to chat about various topics but mostly about his beard. The one audience question the houseguests received on the live show Thursday was whether Paul would shave it to stay in the house. So, in his “friendship talk” he said please don’t make me do that, guys. It’ll be all pale under there and it took four years to grow. It’s cute (and wrong) that Paul thinks it’s up to us. America has zero power this season on Big Brother, at least thus far, anyway.

Bumper car banter between Natalie and James

Right now we think the most interesting partnership in the house remains James and Mama Day. Fiercely loyal to each other, they roll with external punches while looking out for their interests as a duo. It seems like they both have the long term game top-of-mind in a way the other houseguests don’t. Right now it looks like Day and James may drop the showmancers (Corey/Nicole & Paulie/Zak) in order to work with Frank and Tiffany instead, or at least in addition… but we’ll soon find out how it all shakes out for real. At one point on the evening of July 15th James points out to Frank and Nicole that, “It could’ve just stayed us four,” and sighs, speaking about how the returners could have kept their alliance strong. He and Mama Day have talked about this before as well. They’ve kept their side of the returner alliance strong but Nicole and Frank both veered off on their own paths. In fact, now Nicole and Frank are on opposite sides even as they pretend to still have a Final2 pact with each other. It’s as if they each have a pair of crossed fingers permanently behind their backs.

As of around 3:30AM Frank and Tiffany are making games plans together including that he’ll take her off the nomination block if he wins the Veto this week. “Can you imagine the look on their faces?” he asks about the showmancers. Meanwhile Natalie and James have a flirty, non-game late night rendezvous in a bumper car. The other two showmances share the HOH bed for the night. Paulie and Zakiyah snuggle up on one side while Corey and Nicole share the other. They seem a bit oblivious to the storms raging below them in the rest of the house, which just means it’s going to be that much more fun when the rains finally fall on it all.

Quote of the day:

Paulie says, “If Tiffany would have just kept her mouth shut and stayed loyal, I would have just back doored her,” from his pedestal.

Keep coming back for our daily ruination of Big Brother 18 at Fetchland.com and check our tweets @RuiningBB18.

– Katherine Recap

There are two different experiences, both called “Big Brother”.

One is the television show Big Brother, as the CBS producers present it to broadcast tv audiences, three times per week. But the other is what is actually going on in the Big Brother house; the experience of the house guests, unfiltered — or at least less filtered — by television editors.

Fetchland presents Ruining Big Brother. It’s less “spoiling” Big Brother and more pulling back the curtain, to ruin our collective illusions about reality television. Enjoy! Or better yet, recoil in horror…

Daily BB House Stats:
HOH – Paulie
HOH Nominated – TBD
Roadkill Comp Winner – TBD
RK Nominated – TBD
Veto Winner – TBD
Evicted – #1 Jozea #2 Victor #3 Bronte
Battle Back challenge players – Glenn, Jozea, Victor, Bronte +1

22nd will be a special Battle Back episode of Big Brother

Have-Nots – TBD
Safe team this week – Category4: Frank, Michelle, Paulie, Bridgette

Team Big Sister: Da’vonne, Paul, Zakiyah
Team Category 4: Frank, Michelle, Paulie, Bridgette
Team Freakazoids: Nicole, Corey, Tiffany
Team Unicorn: James, Natalie

The July 14th live show started with an excited audience on the edge of our seats due to the multitudinous flip flops all the live long day and night… and day again. The TV producers portrayed much of it in the early stages including when Michelle, Mama Day, and Nicole first make a pact to keep Tiffany and evict Bronte. They swear an oath to keep it quiet but of course it’s all around BB sketch-city by mid-afternoon when Paulie puts the nix on the “Keep Tiff” plan in the backyard. The show made funny stuff out of James perched high on the lawn chair for his pronouncement that he’s “playin Big Brother” giving it a soundtrack and everything.

Nicole – busted in front of Mama Day

As we know, Frank and Da’vonne were after each other all week with Nicole stuck between them. James chose Mama Day’s side early on. But the TV show focuses on Nicole’s particular plate of waffles. She’s been waffling all week and now it’s finally time for Nic to choose sides. Initially it appears that Nicole aligns with Frank just because “it could be good for her to have a side alliance with Corey and Bridgette,” but this deal between them was never really cemented – merely penciled-in as an idea. Frank, though, makes the monumental error (which Nic warned him not to do) of telling Michelle about this idea to sack Day soon as if it’s a done deal. Michelle is TIGHT with Da’vonne and confronts Nicole right in front of Mama Day. This, of course ruins Frank’s chances to gain Nicole’s trust while at the same time making us LOVE Michelle. Nicole will continue to pretend with Frank going forward but it’s all lies. She’s anti-Frank now.

Next the show reveals the BIG 10PM conversation about keeping Tiffany just in order to rattle Frank and hopefully prevent him from winning HOH. So, the audience without the feeds was semi-prepped for the Frank blindside we feedsters all saw coming. In the eviction ceremony, Tiffany gave a biting speech about a dictator (Frank) and his Cabbage Patch Kid (Bridgette) before Bronte claimed to never say anything mean in her brief adieu. We all heard Bronte talk about “sending James back to Hong Kong” on the feeds only a couple weeks ago, though. Nobody’s perfect, we know, which is why we don’t claim to be. Glass houses and all. But hey, Bronte, here’s a newsflash: You’re meaner than you think… Also, what’s Mandarin for goodbye?

Reactions when Bronte is evicted

The VOTES of July 14th

Frank-Tiff
Natalie-Tiff
James-Tiff
Michelle- Bronte
Nicole- Bronte
Zakiyah- Bronte
Corey- Bronte
Paulie- Tiffany
Da’vonne- Bronte

Michelle’s hilarious fake fury after eviction

Bronte is therefore evicted and in her Julie interview we learn she found out twenty minutes before that she’d be leaving. It was a good thing they told her because Bronte hadn’t even packed a bag at that point. After this high drama and Michelle stomping around the house in a delightful display of fake frustration, the HOH competition, called “Euro trippin,” is true or false questions, just as the houseguests anticipated and prepped for. Still, half the house goes out on the first damn question and then it quickly ends up a trio with Nicole, Paulie, and Frank in the final three. Then Paulie reluctantly wins HOH and thus, Category4 is safe for the week.

Mama Day realizes she needs to talk less

After the show Mama Day and Frank scream at each other in the Japan room and then make up soon after, shaking hands with it’s just a game-type muttering. Frank then grills everyone, especially Nicole, and can’t imagine how he’s a dictator when he “never lies” and “never said that” and “doesn’t tell people what to do” and although everybody’s smiling and nodding he’s not fooling anyone other than his Cabbage Patch Kid, which is 100% true. They’re all aligned against him and he can finally feel it now that they set off their own brand of glitter bomb in his face – a bomb named Bronte.

“I wanted to tell you…” James to tearful Natalie

Tiffany has a few breakdowns throughout the night and then a 2AM ends up aligning with Frank. If that alliance sticks, it would be a tough team to overcome. They talk in the bumper car room about blowing this whole thing up after Tiffany tells Frank the whole group was in on it, so it doesn’t matter who cast what vote. They were ALL out to get him and he can’t trust anything any of them say. So, now Frank knows the whole deal pretty much and they both have the majority of the house aligned against them but are fully aware and ready to fight. One thing Frank says to Tiffany in their two o’clock chat summarizes the last game move particularly well, “They ruined everything by not sending me home and thinking they were sending a big ‘fuck you’ to me,” oh yeah, that’s right. Evicting the less dangerous player to “send a strong message” actually sends a weak one. And what an apt reminder that BB is all about ruination and distraction and sending the wrong-ass people home. We love it. Let’s play the game of Big Brother, baby.

It’s gonna be a hell of week thanks to all the events of July 14th! Get ready to rumble Big Brother style.

Quotes of the day:

Bridgette: Apparently I’m really bad at reading people.

Natalie: No, you’re good.

We’ll have all the updates here on Fetchland.com for daily feeds watching and tweets via @RuiningBB18.

– Katherine Recap

There are two different experiences, both called “Big Brother”.

One is the television show Big Brother, as the CBS producers present it to broadcast tv audiences, three times per week. But the other is what is actually going on in the Big Brother house; the experience of the house guests, unfiltered — or at least less filtered — by television editors.

Fetchland presents Ruining Big Brother. It’s less “spoiling” Big Brother and more pulling back the curtain, to ruin our collective illusions about reality television. Enjoy! Or better yet, recoil in horror…

Daily BB House Stats:

HOH – Bridgette
HOH Nominated – Tiffany, Paul
Roadkill Comp Winner – Frank
RK Nominated – Bronte
Veto Winner – Bridgette
Evicted – #1 Jozea #2 Victor
Battle Back challenge – Glenn, Jozea, Victor

22nd will be a special Battle Back episode of Big Brother

Have-Nots – Team Freakzoid: Nicole, Corey, Tiffany
Safe team this week – Category4: Frank, Michelle, Paulie, Bridgette

Team Big Sister: Da’vonne, Paul, Zakiyah
Team Category 4: Frank, Michelle, Paulie, Bridgette
Team Freakazoids: Nicole, Corey, Tiffany
Team Unicorn: James, Natalie, Bronte

The Veto competition player pick resulted with Natalie and Paulie joining Bridgette and the three nominees to play in the challenge. Because of the feeds, we already know Bridgette wins the Veto but it’s fun watching the houseguests scramble before the comp even begins; worrying about what might happen and what they’ll do based on possible results.

Bronte amplifies Tiffany’s failure

It’s a recipe competition involving ingredients and sequences with memory playing an important role. The fun part is that when they fail the bowls they mix their ingredients in explode in their face, covering them in colorful glitter. It’s particularly funny when Paulie explains how he’s going to do better than his brother did in this same competition just seconds before his bowl blows up in his face. When Tiffany loses, Frank, James, and Corey are a bit excessive in their celebration as can be seen in our featured photo this week. Speaking of excessive celebrations, Frank crushes Bridgette’s ankle during their cheering and she ends up on crutches, smiling. Then Bronte tells the, utterly defeated, Tiffany that she “did so well,” and “nice job,” because Bronte apparently mistook all those math classes for social skills lessons.

She’s talking about Frank… before thanking him

Next we see Frank telling Bridgette he won the Roadkill this week and the first one too. You know, the one where he put HER up for eviction. She then reaches the pinnacle of Bridgette weirdness when she thanks him for putting her up. She’s creepy AF right after too when she says, “Frank really knows best,” as if this is some kind of fifties family TV show – black, white and perfectly ominous. Then we see the Veto ceremony in which Bridgette doesn’t use the Veto. Paul makes a funny comment about the results in the Diary Room saying that, “Like most antibacterial soaps, he’s 99.9%” sure he’s staying in the house this week. And for once, a Big Brother houseguest is correct about that.

Don’t tell a soul… until 3 minutes have passed

Meanwhile on the feeds things have been back and forth all week with the cage affecting the players a bit more every day. They’re climbing those walls in multitudinous emotional ways. Tiffany rarely leaves the bed and then when she does gets shunned at every turn. Still, even with her absence duly noted in every conversation, the tide turned in her favor anyway. After many many waffles, enough to cause a gluten catastrophe, finally, on July 13th at 10PM, a team of Keep Tiffany formed, with a seeming certainty to vote out Bronte. Composed of Zakiyah, Paulie, Corey, Michelle, and Nicole; the team talked and talked and talked and decided to tell NOBODY. They were so sure of it they said so many times before repeating it a few more. 100%. In fact, they seemed so certain that they actually TOLD Tiffany about it right after agreeing not to tell anybody. It’s a typical BB mind-fuck that’s often used to cement an alliance member into your clutches. See how loyal we are? See how transparent? We’re telling you everything when we could have said nothing. So, even though half of the “everything” is that not too long ago we were evicting you, just focus on the other half. OK?

Check back with us tomorrow for a full report on the live eviction and feeds from July 14th and our twitter @RuiningBB18.

– Katherine Recap

There are two different experiences, both called “Big Brother”.

One is the television show Big Brother, as the CBS producers present it to broadcast tv audiences, three times per week. But the other is what is actually going on in the Big Brother house; the experience of the house guests, unfiltered — or at least less filtered — by television editors.

Fetchland presents Ruining Big Brother. It’s less “spoiling” Big Brother and more pulling back the curtain, to ruin our collective illusions about reality television. Enjoy! Or better yet, recoil in horror…

Daily BB House Stats:

HOH – Bridgette
HOH Nominated – Tiffany, Paul
Roadkill Comp Winner – Frank
RK Nominated – Bronte
Veto Winner – Bridgette
Evicted – #1 Jozea #2 Victor
Battle Back challenge – Glenn, Jozea, Victor

22nd will be a special Battle Back episode of Big Brother

Have-Nots – Team Freakzoid: Nicole, Corey, Tiffany
Safe team this week – Category4: Frank, Michelle, Paulie, Bridgette

Team Big Sister: Da’vonne, Paul, Zakiyah
Team Category 4: Frank, Michelle, Paulie, Bridgette
Team Freakazoids: Nicole, Corey, Tiffany
Team Unicorn: James, Natalie, Bronte

Deciding to keep Tiffany and oust Bronte

Big Brother house or Waffle House? July 12th feeds raise this question high to the sky because these houseguests have officially moved into waffle city. Everybody is up each other’s butts with whispers and plans while shifting back and forth between tactical choices. Most of the plans involved changing the vote to send out Bronte rather than Tiff and then they evolved into taking out Frank next week.

After a swift resolution among Nicole, Michelle, Mama Day, James, and Zakiyah to get Bronte out and keep Tiffany this week, Paulie poo pooed the whole deal. He quickly convinced Zakiyah applying his sensual magic superpowers in a hammock chat. Then, much more slowly and carefully, he shifted the others back to evicting Tiffany with a long talk on the fake grass. So, after all this backyard discussion, the houseguests shifted gears back to evicting Tiffany. It helped when Paul came out to join them and they were forced to change the conversation anyway. Not only is Paul “on the block” this week but Bronte is “his girl” so any talk about ousting her has to end when he comes around. Thus the convo changes  to the topic of getting Frank out and all the potential scenarios for doing it. Paul has established a new habit of referring to himself as “your boy” which is a nice little trick that makes them feel like he’s on their side. It’s kind of simple and obvious but seems to be working too.

The BIG backyard convo – led by Paulie

Confusion reigned all night long because alliances crumbled like chips on game day as character loyalties flipped with each conversation. The Mayor of Waffle City prize probably goes to Paul who has basically every iteration of alliances convinced he’s their willing pawn. There was a hilarious conversation in the London room that began with Day/Corey/Nicole/Michelle at around 3:30AM Big Brother time and was still rolling full blast, with Paul and James now included, after five AM. The main focus of the convo circled around the question: How do we get Frank out pre-jury? The bonus being a Bridgette/Better Crocker eviction.

Michelle confronts “your boy” Paul

At one point “your boy” Paul joins them to talk a big game about how he’d nominate Frank if he won HOH and gives great speech for what he’d say to Frank = TV gold and getting everybody excited. James played the voice of reason role at times, giving examples of how you never know what might happen from his previous season. He says the least risky route is the backdoor plan but they never really land on a plan because, after all, it’s pointless. Who knows what’ll actually happen next week? If any of them did they’d be buying a PowerBall ticket, not sitting in a cage with twelve strangers they can’t stand. There are so many houseguests it makes for countless potential scenarios but they’ll try to consider all of them anyway. All the while Michelle keeps the laughs coming with cute quips.

Mama Day muttering “stupid, stupid people”

In the end at around five or six AM Paul tells Bronte that the info he’s told her is getting back to James via Natalie. Bronte immediately tells Natalie this and then when Paul sees them whispering frantically  in the bathroom they tell him it’s because Natalie got her period. He jokes around with them to try to ease the tension and then reports back to Corey, Nicole and Day that they weren’t freaking about anything game-related. At the same time James talks to Bridgette which Da’vonne sees as she walks by, Day tells the others she saw this and assumes he’s collecting information and the circle goes round and round an the painted ponies go up and down. This was the tenor of the night and even the early morning on and on and on.

In the end pretty much everybody ended up with a smear on their character; some more innocuous than others. Of all of them, Michelle probably ended up with the fewest scars. Her worst crime was when Paul entered the London room during the BIG conversation and she confronted him outright in front of everyone about one of the things they were wondering if he did (telling Bronte something). Others took a lot more heat, whether they knew it or not. Nicole got busted for being in on Frank’s plan to backdoor Mama Day, Paul and James were called out for giving too much info to their “showmances,” Natalie and Bronte. Bridgette and Frank both got slammed continuously for their HOHitis and subsequent master-of-the-house attitudes. But the biggest overall conclusion seems to be that all the showmances are “on blast” as they like to say in the BB House. The only houseguests not paired up in any way (Frank and Bridgette are an honorary showmance BTW) are Mama Day, Tiffany, and Michelle. So, arrows were flying at all the duos and defenses were raised.

An eternal strategic chat as dawn breaks

After all the early morning strategizing, Paul made bacon breakfast, like the home-maker extraordinaire he’s recently become, filling the fractured Big Brother house with the smells of a happy, functional homestead. Yes, folks, it’s that easy to make it all better the morning after a long night of gossip, strategy, and slander.

Quote of the day:

Paul: When you guys see my DR sessions you’re all going to effin’ be in tears.

Michelle: I’m glad… somebody’s gonna have to make up for mine. They’re terrible.

Make sure to visit Fetchland.com for our next daily report tomorrow. Our tweets continue twittering too @RuiningBB18.

– Katherine Recap

There are two different experiences, both called “Big Brother”.

One is the television show Big Brother, as the CBS producers present it to broadcast tv audiences, three times per week. But the other is what is actually going on in the Big Brother house; the experience of the house guests, unfiltered — or at least less filtered — by television editors.

Fetchland presents Ruining Big Brother. It’s less “spoiling” Big Brother and more pulling back the curtain, to ruin our collective illusions about reality television. Enjoy! Or better yet, recoil in horror…

Daily BB House Stats:
HOH – Bridgette
HOH Nominated – Tiffany, Paul
Roadkill Comp Winner – Frank
RK Nominated – Bronte
Veto Winner – Bridgette
Evicted – #1 Jozea #2 Victor
Battle Back challenge – Glenn, Jozea, Victor

22nd will be a special Battle Back episode of Big Brother

Have-Nots – Team Freakzoid: Nicole, Corey, Tiffany
Safe team this week – Category4: Frank, Michelle, Paulie, Bridgette

Team Big Sister: Da’vonne, Paul, Zakiyah
Team Category 4: Frank, Michelle, Paulie, Bridgette
Team Freakazoids: Nicole, Corey, Tiffany
Team Unicorn: James, Natalie, Bronte

Bikes call out to be ridden by beautiful bods

In the Big Brother house of July 11th the houseguests awakened much earlier than on the 10th, mainly just to sunbathe and whisper once the Veto ceremony ended. Bridgette left things as they were with her POV: Power of Veto and thus, the whispering proceeded from there. Mainly people muttered about either getting Frank out of the house or how much it blows to be a Have-Not, especially when it’s somebody’s birthday.

Corey – calorie deprived with a bumper car bed

Corey can’t sleep much in the bumper car beds and subsisting primarily on peanuts or popcorn, even all day, isn’t quite enough calories for the six foot six dynamo. He sat out in the sun with the others. We could tell, though, that Corey wasn’t feelin’ it no matter how good he looked doin’ it. Still, all we can think is that Corey promised us sleepwalking in his pre-show interview and the guy has been utterly disappointing on this front. Granted, Nicole peeing her pants was pretty darn entertaining, but Corey sleepwalking just brings up soooooo many enticing late-night feed possibilities. Alas, if the stress of bumper car beds aren’t bringing it on, probably nothing will. Meanwhile in the realm of the utterly predictable, Michelle sustained her 900th sunburn. We recommend sunscreen, next time, girl. Just a suggestion.

Frank gives condescending advice to Paul

In other news, Frank pissed off yet another houseguest after the Veto ceremony when he chatted with Paul about the potential aftermath for the house. Because Frank’s currently embracing the omniscient mindset, he decided to advise Paul that his frequent references to “friendship” could get him evicted. Of course, this pissed off Paul, who’s been getting the opposite vibe from everyone in the house. He seeks post-Frank solace in a conversation with Bronte where he gives her lots of solid advice that we hope she at least considers. The way they interact feels a lot like a showmance but it’s a challenge to know what’s really going on between them. The only thing we know for certain is that Paul definitely touched her side boob. Yes, that’s the news thus far this summer on BB boob patrol.

Fun was had by several (Have-Nots had none) later when the houseguests celebrated Zakiyah’s birthday. Michelle and Nicole made a delightful cake for her. Even though they crankily ignored Frank’s all-knowing advice about cake-baking, it somehow still turned out great anyway. Miracles happen every day in the Big Brother house! A funny moment of tension arose when Nicole nearly ingested some frosting with an absent minded finger-lick but all was not lost for her Have-Not status when she spit it out. Stay strong, sister!  Meanwhile Natalie and James stayed super flirty and close, even giving Bronte advice (eerily similar to Paul’s, actually) like parents talking to an incessantly exercising baby who’s wearing full-blown workout regalia. We’re excited to see what happens on July 12th in the Big Brother house because it feels like a breeze of game change is due to hit these houseguests. Do we smell a whiff of keeping Tiff on the incoming winds? She certainly wants to get rid of Frank just like the rest of them… Only tomorrow will tell.

Stay tuned to Fetchland.com for daily BB ruination updates as well as our Twitter @RuiningBB18. If you watch the feeds and need a quick way to get wasted just do a shot every time someone in the house mentions how much they want to oust Frank.

– Katherine Recap

There are two different experiences, both called “Big Brother”.

One is the television show Big Brother, as the CBS producers present it to broadcast tv audiences, three times per week. But the other is what is actually going on in the Big Brother house; the experience of the house guests, unfiltered — or at least less filtered — by television editors.

Fetchland presents Ruining Big Brother. It’s less “spoiling” Big Brother and more pulling back the curtain, to ruin our collective illusions about reality television. Enjoy! Or better yet, recoil in horror…

Daily BB House Stats:
HOH – Bridgette
HOH Nominated – Tiffany, Paul
Roadkill Comp Winner – Frank
RK Nominated – Bronte
Veto Winner – Bridgette
Evicted – #1 Jozea #2 Victor
Battle Back challenge – Glenn, Jozea, Victor

22nd will be a special Battle Back episode of Big Brother

Have-Nots – Team Freakzoid: Nicole, Corey, Tiffany
Safe team this week – Category4: Frank, Michelle, Paulie, Bridgette

Team Big Sister: Da’vonne, Paul, Zakiyah
Team Category 4: Frank, Michelle, Paulie, Bridgette
Team Freakazoids: Nicole, Corey, Tiffany
Team Unicorn: James, Natalie, Bronte

How can you listen? … Too dreamy

On the TV episode showmances blossomed and the Roadkill comp was clarified for us. Butt first… we saw Bridgette make her nominations after claiming to have “never expected this” even after obviously trying and then winning HOH.

The show gave some time to the Mama Day and Frank situation as far as his insensitivity and her reaction. Luckily the show handled it well and gave her a chance to talk a bit. Their portrayal was pretty fair in giving his perspective that they were just “fooling around” and then realizing that he was the only one having fun. He apologized.

Frank apologizes to Mama Day

There’s a reason why we have a need in our culture for “sensitivity training” and it would be a positive result overall if Frank’s behavior and the consequences (they want him OUT of the house) help highlight that need in every day life a bit more for people in general.

Frank wins Roadkill… again

We see Bridgette nominate Paul and Tiffany as well as the subsequent eyerolls from each of them. The show also devotes time to the Corey/Nicole and Natalie/James showmance situations. Then it’s time for the Roadkill competition. It’s a horn blowin’ challenge called “Horn Star” with a sequence of horns to remember and copy the pattern within a time limit – much like the game Simon. As we already know, Frank wins the competition and nominates Bronte. When he tells the 8Pack their main conclusion after he leaves the room is that Frank’s dangerous and they should get him out. It isn’t likely Frank has a clue that their minds are shifting in this way.

Telling Paul about the “Frank Out Plan”

Feeds-wise the houseguests didn’t even awaken until nearly three thirty in the afternoon on July 10th and even then, reluctantly. Their maximum comfort level has thus been achieved at this point. They feel at home. By four in the afternoon Paulie and Corey were confiding in Paul that they want Frank out soon because he’s wheeling and dealing all over the house. James walks in during the convo to join in the head-nodding. So, the news continues to spread. Meanwhile, in other news, Frank tells Bridgette about how he won the first Roadkill and put her up. So, now the 8Pack don’t have that blackmail bit of info in their back pocket anymore. It’s a bummer for them. In fact, not only does Bridgette already know, for some insane reason she even THANKED him for doing it. We may never figure that Bridgette out…

– Katherine Recap