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Big Brother 18 Day 60 - Victor wins the Power of Veto
August 13, 2016
7:00-8:00 AM: Have-nots were revealed. The have-nots are the first three to be eliminated from the HoH competition. Those three were Michelle, Natalie and Nicole. Seeing as Natalie has the never-not pass, Michelle and Nicole will be the only two have-nots this week. In addition to slop, the have-nots can have sunflower seeds and corn on the cob.
9:00-10:00 AM: Players were picked for the veto competition. Victor, Corey, Paulie, James, Nicole and Paul will be competing. Natalie is hosting. Paul told Victor they are going to blow Paulie up before the veto so that he loses his mind. In the kitchen, Paulie commented on how Paul looks pissed while eating his sunflower seeds. Michelle said he has reason to be pissed. Paulie asked if he actually is. Paul said he is a bit. Paul said he is hearing Paulie said he started the guys alliance. Paulie denied that and said he took full credit for it. Michelle said Paulie told her that Paul was behind it. Paul told Paulie he heard there is only one person he trusts in the guys alliance, which wont be him. Paul said it sure as hell is Corey. Paulie said he is still loyal to the guys alliance. Paul said he is offended that Paulie doesn’t trust him. Natalie asked Paulie if he ever said it would be hysterical to get her out of the house. Paulie said yes because he was playing along with everyone else was talking about it except for James. Paulie said he admitted to manipulating everyone but the guys he was loyal to. Paul questioned if Paulie manipulated him to put Da’Vonne up. Michelle said he did because Da’Vonne was not after Paul. Paul said Paulie still did not trust him and asked James if he could be trusted. Paul said that sucks when he had Paulie’s back. Paulie questioned how Paul can say he doesn’t have his back when he left Zakiyah on the block for them to make a decision. Paul said he doesn’t know if he believes that since Zakiyah was after him. Paul said it seems that Paulie has been tossing his name out lately. Michelle said Paulie throws names out to different people to turn them against each other. James said he doesn’t want to hear things about loyalty and respect when Paulie threw his name out there as a possibility for a backdoor. Paulie asked Paul if he can sit there with a straight face and say he never had a conversation about backdooring James. Paul said he did not have one. Paul told Paulie that he and James grew a distrust for each other because of things that Paulie said, but they came together and realized it didn’t make any sense. Paulie told Paul the reason why he said his name to James is because James came to him on Day 20 and they agreed to have each other’s backs. Paulie told Paul that he brought information to James but didn’t bring information regarding Corey or James to Paul and Victor. Paulie said he wanted to get down to five with the five guys in their alliance. Paul said there was still a triangle and he was not a part of that triangle. Paulie said he had to stay loyal to the initial thing he had. James said Paulie would never have heard anyone say he is coming after him since he didn’t say it to anyone. Paulie said Michelle was able to convince the guys in his alliance to turn on him. Michelle said “LOL you convinced them, not me”. Michelle told Paulie he is never going to be Cody or Derrick. Paulie said he was from a loyalty perceptive. Michelle said “loyalty my ass” and told him that he has alliances with everyone. Paulie said he can’t disrespect them if they are presented to him. Paulie said he didn’t want anyone picked off before the guys got to the Final 5. James said it seemed like Paulie was covering a lot of bases. Paulie said James’ name was never thrown out by him. He said he is waiting for Paul to admit it. Paul brought up Paulie saying James’ name after the latest eviction. Paulie said he was emotional in the moment after James had backstabbed him. Paulie insisted that he was loyal to the five. Michelle said she is going shoot herself in the head if he says loyalty one more time. Paulie said he can say loyalty all he wants because he was loyal to the five guys.
10:00-11:00 AM: Paulie continued to get called about Final 3 deals that he has. Paulie explained that the deals were only within his alliance and it was clear that he was loyal to Corey and James because the information was only going one way. Paulie said he gets it that he is going if he doesn’t win the veto but it’s an eye for an eye and Victor gets that. Paulie said if he saves himself or returns, it was an eye for an eye and he is cool with Victor. Paulie told Michelle that he was loyal to his boys no matter how much she wants to paint him as a liar. Michelle asked if he is ready to play veto. Paulie said he is already. Michelle said that’s awesome and she hopes that he has a clear head. Paulie said he has been in bigger games than this. Michelle said like in HoH a couple days ago when he went out in the first round. Paulie said he was taking a gamble and did not want to win HoH because he knew the veto was the ball pit and there is no one faster than him in the house. As for the next HoH, Paulie said he thinks that maybe over the course of a week the loyalty of the five guys would have returned. Michelle said she guarantees Paulie would have made Final 2 deals with everyone in the five just like Derrick did. Paulie said no. He told her that Cody did not do that, though Derrick did. Paul said he doesn’t know why Cody and Derrick are being brought into season 18 when they are not here. James again said that he was loyal to Paulie and never said his name to anyone because he had his back. James said he will walk out the front door if anyone says he has dropped Paulie’s name. Paul said he can say the same thing, so the one person within the five who cannot say that is Paulie. Paulie brought up that Paul and Victor wanted James and Corey out first once they got down to five, which he relayed to James. Victor said it’s because he thought he was with Paul and Paulie. James said that makes sense. Victor told Paulie he was playing a game, he got caught on both sides, and the information came out. After things wrapped up, Paulie told James that he is causing turmoil to ensure that Corey stays if they remain on the block together. Paulie said Corey is the one he went to week one. He told James that Corey is his Derrick. James said he knows that Corey is his Derrick. Paulie asked James to please not let Corey go home if they are on the block together. James gave his word that he will not. However, James told Corey and Paulie that one of them is going home. James said Michelle will be put up and the house is going to want to vote one of them out. Paulie told James that they will have two votes and he will be the deciding factor. James asked when the whole Paul, Paulie and Victor thing happened. Paulie said they approached him about it. James told Paulie that he should have came to him and told him. James mentioned hearing that there were talks about backdooring him. Corey and Paulie denied it. Corey pointed out that he won HoH and did not go against James. James told Paulie that making him feel a little more a part of the team would have made it easier to look past all of the information that was being presented to him. Paulie told James that his heart hurt when James made this move, as did Nicole’s. James said he got underestimated and he saw that Corey, Nicole and Paulie had the tighter bond. The guys assured James that they would have clipped Nicole even though they are close to her. After the conversation wrapped up, Paulie told Corey that they need to hope that they win the veto and James keeps his word. Corey told Paulie that it would be so amazing if it was the two of them, Nicole and James. Paulie said they could turn it around and run things.
4:00-5:00 PM: Feeds returned following the veto competition. Victor won the Power of Veto. Zingbot was in the house. It was a prize and punishment competition. James won $5,000, Nicole won a trip for two anywhere in the USA, Paul received a secret service punishment that has yet to start and Corey received a “Patriotard” costume. Paulie has to make apple pies whenever he is instructed to by Big Brother. Paulie went to Victor and told him that he will not campaign against Corey. He said if Victor can find it within himself to use the veto on him, he would like to have a chance to fight for his life. If he doesn’t want to use the veto, Paulie said he will sit and be quiet because he wont campaign against anyone in his alliance. Paul told James they have to tell Victor not use the veto. James said Victor wont do it seeing as he passed up on $5,000. Natalie worried that Victor would be upset James took the $5,000. James said Victor told him to take it. Paul said they cannot have any sympathy from this point on. James said they are voting Paulie out and he is going. Natalie said he is gone. James said it should be a smooth week.
5:00-6:00 PM: Michelle spoke to the live feeders and said experiencing Zingbot was worth every second of it and a dream come true. Michelle said Paulie is going home this week. She claimed to feel a little bad for blowing up his game. However, she said it’s a game. Michelle worried that Natalie secretly hates her and is only being nice to her face. She said she loves Natalie as a person and hopes that it is not the case. Michelle mentioned that her zing was pretty hilarious, but she did not want to reveal it before it aired. Paul joined her and told the live feeders to hook them up with a care package next week. Michelle asked the fans to vote for her, Paul or Victor to get it. In the kitchen, the houseguests discussed some of the zings. Zingbot called Victor a douchebag in Spanish. He told Paul that he has a lot of catch phrases, such as “your boy”, “friendship” and “pissed”. Zingbot said he has a catch phrase that they can all get behind, that being “shut the f*ck up”.
6:00-7:00 PM: Nicole told Corey she feels like Paulie is going to try to self evict. Corey didn’t think so. Nicole said she just has a feeling about it. She said she thinks there is still an eviction if that happens. Corey said Paulie had better not do it but he doesn’t think that he would. Nicole mentioned she did not expect Paulie to take the veto from Corey. Corey said their best bet was to have Michelle up in Paulie’s place, because he would likely stay over Michelle. Corey figured that’s why Paulie took the veto from him. Nicole said she didn’t want Paulie to win since Corey would go home. Corey said it’s still a possibility since he needs two more votes in addition to Nicole’s. Nicole said he has three votes since he has hers, Natalie’s and Michelle’s. Paulie joined them and said he will try to get Victor to use the veto on Corey. He said there is always a chance that he has the round trip ticket or that a juror will be returning. Paulie told Corey and Nicole that people are going to trash him if he leaves. He said he wants them to know that he always loved them and had their backs. Paulie said he is being left open to get crushed in the goodbye messages. He said he doesn’t want to say anything nasty in his speech but he is worried that Natalie is going to slam him like she did to Victor. Both Corey and Nicole said they don’t think that Natalie will do that.
7:00-8:00 PM: Paulie told Nicole his mind is racing and his body is shaking. He figured part of it could be that he hasn’t eaten. Paulie said he is going to start to lose it if he cannot sleep. Nicole encouraged him to keep his cool. Paulie told Nicole that he will not be staying longer than a week or two in the jury house. Nicole asked why a week or two. Paulie explained that he will leave once he knows that there is no competition to return to the game. Nicole told Paulie that Cody would not want him to do that. Paulie said he knows his mind and knows that he will go insane if he is locked in the jury house. Nicole mentioned that Zakiyah will be in jury, though she doesn’t know if that is good or bad. Paulie said he doesn’t know what Bridgette has been telling her. Corey, Nicole and Paulie chatted in the safari room. Paulie said he thinks that deep down James, Paul and Victor are good guys. As for Michelle and Natalie, Paulie doesn’t think that they are good people. Paulie said he has been through a lot of obstacles to get to this point. Paulie said he talked to his psychiatrist from back in the day to ask if they think he would be alright putting himself in this situation. He said he was told that he would be playing with fire going on the show. Paulie said he lied on everything before the show, telling them that he had never seen a psychiatrist or anything. Paulie said he would rather go out peacefully than be ganged up on like some people have been on their way out. Paulie said he couldn’t care less that his game was figured out. He said he was playing for his parents and his aunt, hoping to help pay for his parents and his aunt’s cancer treatment. Paulie was unhappy about Natalie going to James and Zakiyah about him, making him out to be a way that he isn’t. Paulie said it feels like he is being ganged up on since he apologized to Natalie and then she came at him again. He felt the same way about how Michelle has been treating him.
9:00-10:00 PM: Corey received his costume, the Patriotard. Not only does he have to wear the unitard all week, but he has to have a stuffed eagle on one hand and a sign saying “Zingbot” on the other at all times. Corey even has to leave one of the two on while showering. Victor joined James and Natalie in the bedroom. James told Victor he took a good swing. Victor said it’s mission accomplished. Natalie said she is so pumped. Victor told them that Paulie knows his intentions since he got him out after using the veto to backdoor him.
10:00-11:00 PM: Victor old James and Natalie that the two of them and Paul can ride this out until the Final 4. Natalie said she is cool with that and they have her word. Victor said he is hoping that America will give them the care package next week. Natalie said she has been talking to the live feeders about it because they have to campaign. Paul received a secret service outfit as part of his punishment from the veto competition. Whenever an alarm goes off, he has to pat down each of the houseguests and clear five checkpoints within the house.
11:00-12:00 AM: Victor told Paul that James and Natalie are super excited about the idea of getting to the Final 4 with the two of them and Paul. Paul told Victor that they can take this thing. He said it will be done if they win HoH next week. Victor said he wants to be able to compete the night that Nicole is going home and Corey and Paulie are already gone home. Victor talked about how Paulie is the only person he worries about beating him in competitions. Victor explained that he doesn’t worry about Paul since Paul is on his side. Downstairs in the bedroom, Corey and Paulie discussed the possibility of convincing people to open up their tickets in order to see if there is a chance that either of them have the round trip. They said it’s the last week for them to be used, so it wouldn’t matter if the others opened theirs. Corey said people are unlikely to do it and production may not even let them since there would be no hype for Thursday’s show. Once Paulie went to the diary room, Nicole told Corey that Paul is the only person she could see flipping this week. She said she really hopes that Paulie does not campaign against Corey. She said Paulie needs to drop it and go out proud. Nicole thinks that Paulie’s only argument would be to pretend he has no attachment to her but Corey is close to her. They talked about how Paulie has been acting weird. Nicole said Paulie needs Cody or his parents. She said he is in a state of mind where he is willing to self evict if the veto is not used.
12:00-1:00 AM: James told Natalie that they will try to get Corey or Nicole out next week. Natalie said Michelle wants Nicole out. James said he wants Corey out. Natalie agreed that Corey should go first since it would be easier to get Nicole out. Paulie spoke to Michelle in the safari room. He said he is over getting ganged up on and having to defend himself. Paulie asked Michelle who is going to beat Victor now, given that he is a monster. Michelle said it is what it is. Paulie said he could see Victor winning out. Paulie told Michelle he betrayed her and then karma got him back because he was betrayed by the people closest to him.
1:00-2:00 AM: Michelle and Paulie continued to talk. Paulie said his only play is to plead to Victor to take Corey down. Michelle asked who he would have him put up. Paulie said Natalie. Michelle said she has gotten quite close to Natalie and therefore she doesn’t know if she could vote her out. Paulie said Michelle would be the deciding vote, so he wont push for it if he has no shot at getting her vote. Paulie said he broke Michelle’s trust and he wants to make it up to her in order to feel better about himself. Michelle said he doesn’t have to. Paulie said the guys are all together and he wont be able to get them to see that Victor is the bigger target even though he is. Michelle again told Paulie that she doesn’t think she could vote against Natalie. Paulie said Michelle would be the only thing he has other than Corey. He also said he could be used to get Victor out of the house. Paulie suggested that now would be a good time to go after Victor since he cannot play for HoH next week. Paulie asked Michelle to please not blow him up this time by revealing the plan he is talking to her about. Michelle swore that she wouldn’t. Paulie mentioned that if he stays he could share information that he has, then Michelle could use her skills to blow things up with it. Paulie told Michelle that he could see it being James, Natalie, Paul and Victor, so she is one of the disposable ones. Michelle asked if Paulie saw James and himself as Cody and Derrick. Paulie said no. Michelle asked if would have taken James. Paulie again said no. Paulie revealed that he planned to ride it out with Corey and James, having Paul as the fourth. Michelle told Paulie that she is saying no to voting Natalie out right now, though there is lots of time. She said she would give Paulie a sympathy vote though because nobody should leave without a vote. In the bathroom, James and Natalie discussed that Michelle and Paulie have been whispering for a long time. Natalie said Paul is unsure about Michelle. James said Michelle may need to be the next one to go because she is being sketchy. Natalie disagreed, saying Michelle is with them for now. Natalie said they can control Michelle because they have the numbers. Natalie still wants Corey and Nicole to go next. Natalie told James that it will be 3-2 if Michelle votes the other way. James said Paulie would still go home. Michelle said it would make Michelle a target. She brought up that Paulie talks and talks and talks, with everything he says being a lie. James said they need to be careful what they say to Michelle. They agreed to be careful about the game information that they share with Michelle.
2:00-3:00 AM: After her talk with Paulie, Michelle went to Nicole and told her that she feels really bad for Paulie because he is beat down. Nicole figured that Paulie would be better in a couple of days. In the bedroom, Natalie told James and Paul that tomorrow she will find out everything that Paulie was talking to Michelle about. Paul said they really need to be careful with Michelle. Paul told Natalie to keep reassuring Michelle that she does not want to go against the grain with this. Natalie said she doesn’t get why Michelle and Paulie had to be whispering for two hours. Natalie said she wont get paranoid about it but it’s just an observation. Paul said Michelle gets hot and cold. Paul said they just need Michelle this week for votes because they wont need her vote next week. Paul wanted to make sure that they keep Michelle willing to nominate Corey and Nicole next week.
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