BB day 54

As part of the POV comp. there is sometimes a "prize and punishment" element, as yesterday.

Saturday, August 12, 2017
'Big Brother 19' Spoilers: Who Won the Week 7 Power of Veto?
John Kubicek

Senior Writer, BuddyTV

With Alex (aka Paul's #1 puppet) as HoH on Big Brother 19, it should go without saying that the plan is to backdoor Cody. So the Power of Veto is a crucial part to this plan. Did everything go smoothly and will Paul once again get exactly what he wants?

SPOILER WARNING: This article contains Big Brother 19 spoilers.

Mark won immunity and Matt is the third nominee.

Alex nominated Elena and Jason.

Mark and Paul were picked to play.

Matt won the Power of Veto!

It was a prize and punishment competition, and it seems Elena took $5,000 (from Alex) and Mark got a vacation. Meanwhile, Jason got the unitard and Alex has some type of camping punishment that involves making hot dogs. Paul will be shackled to Christmas for 48 hours.

Cody should be getting evicted, but there's some drama. Obviously Matt can't use the PoV on himself because then there is no replacement nominee, so he would have to save someone else (probably Jason). But there's definitely a lot of animosity directed at Elena and Mark because they got the prizes, so there's even some talk of evicting Elena instead of Cody this week. That will probably die down, but it's interesting.

Will Matt ultimately decide to use the Powr of Veto to save himself or will he become the first nominee in history to use the PoV on someone else that he's not related to (Evel Dick and his daughter Daniele both saved each other when they were both on the block and Brendon saved his fiancée Rachel in season 13)?

Here are the specific prizes and punishments;

Feeds went to Kittycam and Puppycam around 2.25pm for veto comp, for about 2.5 hours again. Players were Alex, Elena, Matt, Jason plus Mark, Paul, and Josh hosted. It was the pass-the-prizes veto and Matt won the veto. Other prizes/repercussions were as follows: Elena $5,000; Alex set up a campsite, cook hot dogs, and tear down campsite (in one hour?); Jason one week extreme-o-tard; Mark one week Colorado trip for two plus Outback dinner; Paul attached to Christmas for 48 hours. Mark planned to have Elena, Matt, Paul, possibly Jason as Outback dinner guests. They got different colored shirts again, and Matt's was turquoise. Once again, he changed back to one of his standard blues right away.

HOH group was angry at Elena for taking cash over the veto, and there was some talk about sending her to jury and saving Cody for later. But Matt said he'd use his veto on Jason rather than himself to get Cody gone. Alex said she'd asked Elena for her finals vote if she gets there, but that Elena wouldn't commit. Alex seemed to intend this in an Elena-can't-be-trusted way, but it got Paul's attention that one of his main minions was courting final votes. Alex opened her HOH beers and shared them around, and Raven said she chipped her tooth on her bottle. Later she dropped some HOH frozen food and hurt her hand. Cody joined the HOH group and was welcomed, and joined in the chit-chat.

Jason got his extreme-o-tard around 7.30pm: a clingy (hot) unitard with fringed sleeves, (heavy) helmet with giant red X and TREME down the chest. When BB announces his room movements and the like, he has to yell "I'M SO EXTREME" for one week. His X kept popping up into shots and hitting cameras. Paul and Christmas got their tandem skydiver outfits around 8.30pm, and they debuted it sharing her scooter. More helmets, bodysuits, and they were tethered together, only able to unhook to use the bathroom or Diary room. Between Jason's heavy helmet and two on a scooter, we'll be lucky to avoid more injuries this week.



Alex got her camping gear around 9.30pm: she had a LOT of gear and she was not a happy camper. She carted everything out to the yard and set up her campsite and tent, no help allowed, griping all the time about Elena having lied about the two of them not passing "curses" in the comp to each other. Everyone went out to watch, support, and commiserate except Elena and Mark, who stayed in the kitchen. Alex has to carry everything around at all times for a week, and set up her camp, tent, and grill whenever a bugle sounds. She has to make a hot dog for everyone, if they want it or not, then restuff and repack everything. Her mini propane grill set off #BabyGrillSmackdown when its hot lid melted the fake grass. As soon as she finished packing up, the bugle sounded again and she had to do it all again. Elena joined the observers for part of the second round. It'll be a miracle if Alex and Elena don't fight before the week's out.