At the top of the episode, #CelebBB appeared on screen. Nope! It’s #CBBUS. My Twitter poll confirmed it by a whopping 81% majority. The fans have spoken. I solved your hashtag identity crisis before the season started. Stop trying to make Fetch happen!
The gift bag twist has the houseguests nervous, except James who likes gifts. Shocker. Social Media ‘Merch’ whore. All the girls agree that a guy needs to go first. Ross says in DR that usually you just have to suck up to the HOH, but now he must suck up to 10 people. He says that’s a whole lot of sucking, even for him. (I knew he’d be a DR star! Love him!)
There’s a lot of paranoia surrounding the gift bags. Mark and Ross discuss how stone-cold focused Shannon was during the HOH. Mark says in the DR that she’s a tough competitor (i.e. threat). Omorosa, Shannon and Marissa worry that if one of the boys gets power, they’ll put up 2 girls and they can’t lose numbers. Meanwhile, Chuck tells James that if Shannon puts up 2 guys, they’ll be low on numbers. They wonder if Ross is automatically going to be on their side or the girls.
Shannon reveals how the gift bag twist works. Prior to the nomination ceremony, a gift bag logo will appear on the screen in the living room. The first houseguest to come to the DR and claim that they want to open their gift bag will open their gift bag at the nomination ceremony. If that person’s gift bag contains the Re-Cast Power, they will immediately become the HOH and must make nominations on the spot. The ousted HOH can’t be nominated for eviction. The power to recast can only be used once. Once used, the gift bag twist is over. If multiple houseguests claim that they want to open their gift bags, the person that gets to open the gift bag will be selected by random draw. Mark says, “Big boy moves cost big boy dues.”
As Shannon and Marissa discuss, Marissa says she’ll request her bag, but the alliance has to have her back next week. They realize that if a guy gets it, 2 girls are going on the block. They think the other option is that everyone from the alliance go into DR if they’re willing to tip their hands that the girls are aligned (Like it’s not completely obvious.)
James and Chuck know each other from outside the game and had no clue that they’d both be playing. (Yeah, right.) They want to team up. They don’t think Metta will be a strong player, even though he’s a vote for the beginning of the game. They want to team up with some girls, namely Shannon. James comes up with the fucking lamest alliance name ever, “Celebrators.” The noise maker and hooray sound effects show how cheesy BB agrees with me. James thinks that they’re the most athletic, strong minded warriors to ever play BB. He knows so much from watching BB16, which all were required to watch before coming into the house. He’s a master of the game.
Mark talks to Shannon, telling her that James and Shannon are the biggest threats. Shannon can’t believe he told her that—not a good idea to tell the HOH she’s a threat to your game. Shannon rolls with it and says that she doesn’t want to be a threat; she wants to work with people. She tells Mark that she needs 2 volunteers as pawns. Mark says he’s willing, but they’ll talk later. As Shannon leaves the room, Mark says, “That’s a smart chic right there!” That was one of the more brilliant exchanges I’ve seen and could only come from a super fan!
Shannon wants to pull Ross in with the girls. He says Girls + Gay. He can be a spy for them. Ross says that it makes sense for him to join the girls because he’s always gotten along with women. He’ll keep his mouth closed and ears open.
Meanwhile, Chuck, Metta and James are working out. James says that he doesn’t like that the game is shaping up to be guys verses girls, and that they must socialize with the girls more, so they all do a spa day with the girls giving them facials, painting their nails and afterwards they say that the girls were totally emasculating them.
Omorosa tells Shannon that by being loyal to him (Trump) for the past 2 years, it made her lose a hundred others. As she is explaining, Keisha comes into HOH and Omorosa tells her that she was loyal to Mr. Trump the way that Keisha was loyal to Mr. Cosby. Keisha says that it’s totally different. Omorosa is surprised she’s not able to see the parallels. Um, you’re a black woman who publicly worked for a racist misogynist by choice while witnessing his abhorrent behavior and standing by it until you were fired. The only correlation between the two men is sexual assault. Keisha took the hit to her career for publically supporting Cosby, and she regrets it. You, on the other hand, are saying these things because most celebrities are liberals, and you’re doing this apology tour to further yourself in the game and to rehab your image. WE SEE YOU!
Now comes the revolving door of houseguests to talk to Shannon. Chuck tell Shannon that the other guys aren’t counting Ross among their numbers, which tells Shannon that the other guys are a foursome. James, on the other hand, denies that they are working together. He also tells Shannon that he sees her as a threat. She wants to get him out this week, with apologies to the ladies for taking away eye candy. Girl, he’s a douchebag; we don’t mind. Metta tells Shannon that he wants her to nominate him because he misses his wife. Cut to him crying in the DR. Nut up, man! You took a spot from another celebrity, and you’ll be out of there in 2 weeks. Metta tells her that he won’t claim his gift bag.
Omorosa starts talking to Ross about her time in the White House, crying about the choices she made. Ross reads her in the DR, saying he doesn’t know if this is real. We do; it’s not. This is PR for the cameras. She tells Ross that she tried to be the person telling Trump not to tweet but Ivanka and Jared are there. She says, “It’s bad.” She thought of it as serving the country, not serving Trump. (Bitch, please.) Ross wants her to say it’s going to be okay. She says that it’s not. She says she wouldn’t vote for him in a million years. Never. You say that now, but in December you threw a fucking fit to keep working for Trump. Fuck—I don’t like mixing politics in with Big Brother. Shall we just talk about religion, too? Nope? Back to BB then. Fuck Omorosa’s apology tour.
Shannon is planning to put up Mark and Metta with a James’ backdoor. The girls and Ross decide that if any of the guys go to claim their gift bags, then all of them will go to claim theirs. Shannon makes her rounds with the guys, and they all say that they won’t claim their bags. Then, Chuck goes rogue. Brandi motions for all the girls to come to the DR. They all request their gift bags, except for Marissa. She deadpans that she’s there to request that BB check to see if there’s a propane leak in the backyard. Love her!
At the nomination ceremony, Keisha gets the Re-cast card. She nominates James and Chuck. The gift bag twist is over. Shannon is glad there are 2 huge targets on the block without getting blood on her hands.
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