BB day 87

With Corey winning the HOH that put him and Nicole in a good position to go all the way, but I thought he would nominate James for eviction along with either Paul or Victor.....those are the only choices left of course. But he decides to go with Paul and Victor and tells James he is safe.  Then Nicole reveals that she wants to go to F2 with James, rather than Corey her showmance. This seems odd because James is very popular with the jury and her chances of getting more votes than him are slim to none. Of course going to F2 with Corey wouldn't improve her chances much anyway because we have already been told that none of the female jury members would vote for her, ever.  She may make it to F2 but winning seems unlikely.



‘Big Brother 18’: Nomination Anticipation In Week 12
By: Matthew Boyer | September 9, 2016 at 12:00 PM EDT






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Here we go. It’s nearly down to the wire on Big Brother 18 with just five HGs left and two more are about to be evicted in the next week, “but first” one thing at a time as we need a pair of nominees and a target for the first round. Check and check.

Once the HoH endurance comp was over last night things were obvious for Feedsters on which way this was going to go, but not everyone in the house had their eyes open to the threat ahead. That’ll be corrected in just a few hours with the Nominations Ceremony later today.
Corey is the new HoH and he’s ready to execute the plan with Nicole to break up their alliance by targeting one of the Sitting Ducks so they can flip back to that other alliance they helped break up before that other time they, oh you get the point. Good for them but shame on any of the HGs who thought they could be trusted as Victor still does.
Flashback on your Live feeds to 11:43 PM BBT 9/8 on Cams 1/2 (get your Free Trial now).
The HoH room has just emptied leaving Nicole and Corey alone to discuss. “We’re playing Big Brother, brah,” says Corey to Nicole. He’s ready to put up Victor and Paul together. Nicole wants to know what his excuse is going to be for the flip. Corey explains he doesn’t want to be going against a pair. Nicole adds that it’ll be 2 against 1 next round if Victor and Paul stayed (just as it was in this HoH comp where Paul failed miserably).
Corey tells Nicole he can say that neither of the guys offered him a F3 so he was suspicious plus Victor got out his ally Paulie so now he’s doing it to them. Nicole is excited.
Later (12:30 AM BBT) they’re discussing their plans again and Corey says he won’t reveal his target but they agree it’s going to be Victor that they want out this week. Either way, by putting both up one of the Ducks will go. Say Victor wins the Veto then James goes up, vote ties, Corey breaks it against Paul. To survive the week Victor and Paul would have to rely on James being off the Block (a near certainty), winning the Veto, and then being able to flip him against Nicole and Corey. Nah.
Speaking of James, he came up to the HoH room around 1:33 AM BBT to check in. Nicole told James they were always keeping James. He tells Nicole and Corey that Natalie was definitely with Victor and Paul. They ask James what he thinks they’re going to do this week and James says he expects them to go after “big fish” this week. Yep, looks like it.
Later today Corey will nominate Victor and Paul. Victor is the target as the next step in Corey, Nicole, and James going to F3 and Nicole and James closing in on their F2 as Nicole all but wrote it in neon letters for Corey that she wanted to take James to F2 instead of going to the end with him.

I don't know if this has ever happened before, something similar could have without the HG admitting it, but this is the first time that an HG actually admitted it and production ran with it.



‘Big Brother 18’ Live Feeds: Nicole Franzel Admits Faking Conversations For Footage
By: Matthew Boyer | September 9, 2016 at 2:00 PM EDT







If you’ve watched the Big Brother Feeds or followed along with online recaps then you’ve fully come to expect the CBS TV version of Big Brother to vary wildly with incomplete scenes, out of context comments, and often completely slanted representations often at odds with the reality of the game. Now we’re even getting that on our Live Feeds thanks to Nicole Franzel.

This isn’t an isolated incident in the season and with it coming from one of the returning Houseguests it’s possible we’ve got another negative side effect of bringing back people who are already intimately familiar with the way not only production operates but how the audience receives them. When the HGs are more concerned about “packages” for the next episode than playing the game, then we’ve got a problem.
Last night Nicole began challenging Corey on his plans for the week ahead. After several looping conversations Corey was puzzled and asked why she wasn’t seeing what needed to be done. Oh, she did, Nicole explained, but she was just faking the talk so production had the content to use, you know, for the lies and deception to viewers for creating false tension and drama.
Flashback to 1:15 AM BBT 9/9 Cams 1/2 on your Live Feeds (get the Free Trial now).
Nicole is sitting in bed with Corey as they continue to debate who should go up on the Block. They had already agreed on the plan hours earlier but now Nicole seems unsure. She’s questioning Corey’s plan to put Victor and Paul up on the Block together and he’s getting agitated about it.
“We can beat James in any comp in the world we want, so why would we want him out of the house? It’d be like someone wanting you out of the house,” says Corey to Nicole. Heh. He wants to know why she’s struggling to understand this basic concept.
“You’re arguing putting up James. What’s going through your head?” asks Corey. “I’m just giving them footage,” Nicole quickly explains. Yep. Blink and you’ll miss Nicole admit she’s lying to viewers for the sake of production.
Nicole is either obliging production with a request or doing so of her own volition to create false segments intended to deceive viewers on TV and on the Feeds. That’s some sketchy stuff right there. It’s not the first time she’s done it either.
Back during Week 10 after she won the Power of Veto Nicole had a talk with Corey debating whether or not they should flip on their F4 alliance that week. Flashback to 4:46 PM BBT 8/27.
Nicole is sitting with Corey in the HoH room and has just proposed that they could flip and take out either Victor or Paul before saying she doesn’t want to do that. She details why they can’t keep Michelle in the house. Corey agrees and they continue to discuss when Nicole makes her admission.
“I’m just giving them some footage right now. Just act like I’m contemplating on what I’m doing,” says Nicole as she explains this latest back and forth over what to do about with their power this week.
When this scene played out on TV Nicole’s admission of deceit obviously wasn’t in there. But even worse, production edited out the middle of their conversation when Nicole said “but that’s not what I want to do” when it came to possibly flipping on Victor and Paul, thus changing the context of the conversation.
So not only are TV viewers battling deceptive tactics from Big Brother production but now we’ve got at least one Houseguest, Nicole, actively lying to Feedsters for the sake of “giving them footage.” As Nicole likes to say, “that’s frickin’ bullcrap.”