I am so excited that you guys are into this season and that we have a late night commenting crew to discuss the live feeds! The feeds and After Dark both start tonight. For some reason I was expecting them to start last night. I have such a busy night on Tuesdays, I may be a little late to the After Dark Party in comments tonight!
Julie’s dress is interesting tonight. I think I like it! Tom Green’s lowkey shade to Tamar on episode one, “How are the grapes” was the quote from the previous season. I used to play a Big Brother game where we guessed lots of things and the quote from the previous episode was one. I feel like Tom Green will have the majority of those for as long as he remains in the game. In the comments tonight, why don’t we guess what the quote from this episode will be to kick off the next episode?
I may have to get the feeds just because the theme music makes me happy and think of summer. It runs when the feeds are down a lot of the time.
Jonathan tries to explain the game (which requires math) to Ryan. Good luck with that,dude. Jonathan’s plan is to form an alliance of seven to control the game and keep both Ryan and Jonathan safe in the first eviction. What a novel concept. In addition to these two Jonathan suggests Kandi and Tamar (as if they are a real pair) and Natalie and Lolo (Lolo hates Lochte) and Joey. This is never going to be an alliance, y’all. NEVER. And of course Jonathan and Ryan have a final two. Tamar and Kandi both agree to the alliance… at least for the first week. Both are playing nice with each other until they can take the other out. When Lolo and Tamar approach Joey he says he hates the word alliance and would never want to be in one. And this was before they even explained the alliance and its purpose to him. Jonathan tells Lolo that means they can just nominate Joey.
Apparently,production agreed to put an endless practice pool in the backyard for Ryan to use for training. It’s also impressing the ladies who enjoy watching him. Ryan will be around for a while.
Tom Green and The Mooch bond over both being fired by Trump. Tom was on Celebrity Apprentice many years ago. They are both sort of smart. So they sit around and talk like two old men playing checkers. Jonathan makes a finale four with Natalie, and Lolo. Why does everyone think hosting Cupcake Wars means you are a genius? Lolo and Natalie have bought in to that theory now just like Ryan. I’m calling this the FOUR SURE alliance unless and until they name themselves officially.
Meanwhile, Tamar sets up an alliance of four with Kandi, Lolo and Natalie as the four girls who will never stab each other in the back. Lolo points out it will never work. Even Destiny’s Child couldn’t stay together. I’m going to call this group Destiny’s Child unless and until they name themselves. And just like that they name themselves The Four Fox. Not Foxes. Fox. Le sigh. EDIT: Clearly I need hearing aids. I believe they are The Four Tops.
It’s time for the first HOH comp. I do not remember the challenges being so physical for the first Celebrity Big Brother. In this challenge they have to swing on ziplines and knock over blocks with their bodies. Lochte creams Jonathan at first. The Mooch makes jokes about “the wall.” Ryan has a ton of trouble getting the last two boxes down. It takes him several swings and he is exhausted. But he finally gets them. He is super tired and he is an Olympic athlete. These challenges are brutal! Julie announces there will be three nominees this week. He has thirty minutes to pick the nominees. I really am not ready for any of these people to go home! I guess Ricky can go.
Ryan and Jonathan try to strategize but the guys keep interrupting them. Kandi gets a moment to ask Ryan what he is thinking and he won’t tell her. Kandi points out in the diary room that if he is not sharing strategy with her, they are NOT in an alliance.
Meanwhile, The Mooch asks Tom Green and Kato how alliances work. Tom explains it and The Mooch is like, “OOh that sounds good! Let’s be an alliance!” Kato is so excited someone wants to ally with himself he pees his pants just a little. I fear that Tom left out and important part of his brief explanation about alliances. You don’t tell anyone you are in an alliance. I can see both of these clowns skipping through the house telling everyone “I’m in an alliance! They like me! They really like me” using their best Sally Field impression. Sigh. I think they named themselves K-Train. If they didn’t I just did.
Tamar and Lolo ambush Ryan for his nominations and he says Dina and Anthony. Wow he didn’t have any trouble telling them. Kandi is right to feel like she is on the outside. Then Kandi comes in realizes that Ryan told the other girls who his nominations are. She realizes she needs to befriend the other side of the house. When Ryan talks to Jonathan, he tries to save Dina because he is like a second mom to him. He pushes for Tom and Anthony. NO! NOT TOM! Why not Ricky! Ryan still can’t make up his mind and says he is just going to wing it when he gets up there. Oh Lord the dumb is strong in this one.
Ryan nominates Anthony and Tom. Well hell. I guess The Mooch will be leaving us. Or we can pray for Tom to win POV?
I really like Tom’s sense of humor. Dry, witty, acerbic. It’s the only kind of humor I understand. I dont qanna see either Tom or the Mooch go. Mooch is a lot smarter than people are giving him credit for, I think. Tom gets it. Is Ryan really has dumb as he appears?
Someone on Twitter said 4 Tops, but I like Fox better. Show on on yet here.
BBAD and feeds will be on on less than 2 hours so we’ll know who won veto. Maybe 1 of the 3 is off the block by now.
In any case I think it’s bye Mooch, another short stay.
The Four Fox reminds me of a person who fancied herself a copy editor and changed all of the Stanford Cardinal to Cardinals. My friend moved to a Vegas paper and noticed the page topper said “ORBITS” instead of “OBITS” and it went back months. No one noticed that another Darwin candidate had carefully changed the templates.
I like Tom Green’s humor. He’s back! I have never watched, but I will now for Kandi and Tom and Eva Marie (I guess she didn’t use Natalie before because there was a an established WWF Diva named Natalie (Natty). I thought that was who was playing.
I don’t want to be judge. Julie is beautiful and I am an old woman but that dress looks like something sheana from Vanderpump might wear. No hate she is beautiful
I kind of liked it the longer I looked at it.
I think it might just be the cranky old lady in me but I kept hearing Tim Gunn saying the designer needs to edit ideas. Julie’s dress had way too much going on, see through lace, ruffles verticality, ruffles horizontally, short skirt, unfinished edges, it was too much.
Julie has a history of styling snafus. You’d think by now she would hire someone with some trendy class but apparently not.
I loved her premiere dress..yesterday’s not so much.
Kind of Little House on the Prairie glam……
I thought they said The Four Tops as well but I questioned it and was too lazy to rewind. When Tamara said why can’t they nominate Ricky I kept thinking who is Ricky and then I remembered and I agree with her whole heartedly considering he seems to be a non player as this point. At least based on what we’ve seen. Tom is hilarious and I am also really digging Kato. That being said I’m not ready for Mooch to go either. I wish he had considered Dina. Maybe Kandi will wise up enough to flip the votes and get Jonathan out so we can keep our old souls. 19 minutes and counting until BBAD!
I thought Kandi’s girl alliance was the Four Tops, too. Hahahahaha Tamar cracked me up wearing her hood and wearing sunglasses.
Ryan swimming made my night. He’s still dumb as rocks, but oh my! Ryan and Jonathan’s billboard competition was hilarious. I thought Ryan was letting Jonathan win, but Ryan pulled out the win.
I think The Mooch is going home Friday, too.
It might be the four tops. Y’all know I am blind and deaf. Getting old sucks.
Apparently it is The Four Tops. I have become a bit reliant on lip reading a bit and can’t do that and type at the same time. #OldLadyProblems
That’s why always toggle the cc. I can’t hear or understand people half the time. Neither can the cc interpreter some of the time.
Why is Jonathan wearing a winter coat in the house in LA?
Lolo and Natalie said it was cold in the house. Natalie put on more clothes but Lolo is strolling around in her bathing suit looking for attention. Ryan kind of implied that’s what she’s doing. I agree Johnathan looks burned. When I’m tired, I get real cold.
There is a diary room upstairs now?
Yes. There are 2 this season.
Tamar is irritating in the live feed. Kandi looks bored and cringes when Tamar talks LOL! I can’t believe I’m watching this It’s so addictive. I say Tamar will be gone soon. She can’t stand not getting attention. Just my opinion!!!
Kandi does look bored but she is in the poker game with the boys bonding. That is good.
Dina seems uncomfortable in her own hair. How long until the wig comes off? Agreed Tamar is very annoying. Jonathan looks burnt out already.
THE MOOCH HAS BEEN EVICTED! 🙁
Actually the Interwebs are guessing that he quit since he knew he was leaving on Friday anyway. What a crybaby if true.
There were also rumors that Ricky wants to take his $100K and go home. I think they should put it in their contracts that if they quit they lose half their money or something, This is ridiculous. There is speculation that Jonathan was reading the rule book to figure out if there would still be an eviction since Mooch quit.
I wonder if production will say Mooch had to leave because his breast milk was depleting. ?
Is Ricky even in the house still? I didn’t see him AT ALL this episode (but i’m not watching the live stream)
He is there. He was playing poker with the boys very briefly when AD started and then he was called to the diary room. I don’t think he is enjoying his stay.
I initially started watching for Kandi and then Tom Green happened. He is SO smart! I watched a clip of him in the diary room naming all the presidents from memory and was very impressed and it was hilarious.
Tamara, so Mooch has been evicted? I heard them say his picture isn’t grayed out yet and their not suppose to talk about it. This made me think he chose to leave. Also Ryan and tall dark-haired guy were just talking in the HOH wondering if he (Ryan) will need to pick a replacement nom.
Yeah it looks like he quit. I hope he puts Dina or Ricky up and they go next.
dstat are you watching feeds? Were Kandi and Ricky praying? What are they doing up there?
Naw, they’re playing chess.
Ah thanks. They just showed a glimpse of them on the bridge sitting across from each other heads bowed no talking and went back to the group.
My choices too.
Does anyone know why Tamar is going off about Kandi? Kandi doesn’t seem to even know Tamar is pissed. Tamar has been screaming to anyone who will listen about Kandi and now she is packing her bags to leave because “she didn’t sign up for this” um…yes she did.
She says that Kandi said she wasn’t her friend or something like that. Well they are not friends. Tamar ranted to Ricky about Kandi saying if I am not her friend, why did she invite me to her wedding? AD didn’t show what Kandi said that pissed her off. i think we were at commercial Kandi just walked up to the girls including Tamar and asked them what they were doing oblivious to the entire situation. Tamar ignored her and walked off.
Lolo Lohan and Natalie dont seem to know what is going on. It happened again during commercial. Kandi seems to be asking Ricky what happened and he is blowing her off like he is on Tamar’s side.
Tamar claims it was the way Kandi reacted to her saying that “Kandi was relevant”. Some craziness like that, and that Kandi was being fake with her. Tamar is TEAM TOO MUCH! I’m so over her. When they were in the kitchen playing cards she just couldn’t shut up. I think Ryan is going to put her on the chopping block. He told her he couldn’t eat her beans because he ate to many as a kid.
Tom and Kato talk strategy together. I like this duo. Kato won the veto and is going to take of Tom. At least that is Tom’s expectation.
I bought the feeds the second that AD went off because of Kandi and Tamar. I AM SO WEAK.
Kandi tries to explain to Dina what happened with Tamar and Dina will not STFU long enough to let her speak. Apparently it was the whole relevant conversation. It started with Kandi and Tamar and Ricky talking about what they would be doing outside the house. Tamar and Ricky both said they were homebodies, Kandi says she is always on the run with her restaurants and her office and her jobs and there always being some event that she feels obligated to go to because people expect her to be there.
Tamar says that is because you are relevant. Kandi said there are tons of people in ATL who are relevant and Tamar says no there are not she has a hit show. Kandi says there are tons of hot TV shows filming in ATL.. Apparently Tamar took that as being shady because Braxton Family Values is over.
That was it. Kandi said absolutely nothing shady! This is insane.
You heard what I heard…
Tamar is just as crazy on this show as she was on The Braxtons. She destroyed that show for her sisters and messed up the church’s money.
Tamar thinks if she creates drama, she will stay in the house longer. I hope she goes next.
Also, I am pretty sure Kandi just said she is on the block as the replacement nominee for The Mooch, NOOOOOOOOOO! So It’s Tom, Jonathan and Kandi on the block. Kato won the veto and Tom expects him to take him down. Let’s hope whoever the replacement nom is goes home.
Flash back to 11:58m Tuesday the 22nd feed 4 and listen to Lolo and Natalie for their discussion of the timeline.
According to them there have been TWO POV competitions.
Ricky won the first one and did not use the POV.
Kato won the second one and the ceremony is to be Wednesday.
Mooch left and Kandi is on the block to replace him.
Why TF is Kandi put on the block to replace Mooch?! I was afraid they were foreshadowing something like that on Tuesday’s show when she felt like Ryan was shading/not including her in strategy discussions.
Hopefully she’ll have enough votes to stay. So much mass confusion in the house. And I love it!
There is so much drama in this house tonight.
Apparently, Tamar talks of quitting most nights but she’s not looking like she is going anywhere.
Tamara, try that flashback.. very interesting.
Kandi and Nathan are going over days. On Monday there was a Breaking News event. It was announced that The Mooch was NOT REALLY A HOUSEGUEST.
WTF does that even mean?
Do the flashback 11:58 1/22 feed 4 Lolo and Natalie also say he wasn’t really a houseguest??
This season has so many twists and turns and I love it!
TT, your recaps are so wonderful, I’m addicted to this show now. Thank you for helping me get away from Bravo shows which I’ve wanted to do for forever.
thanks this is a great show. The summer version is even better because everyone knows how to play..
As with any reality show there is producer manipulation but they can’t force anyone to do anything. When the players go to the diary room they will try to plant seeds to get them to do what they want them to do. But in the real seasons the players are on to them.
And they will choose challenges that favor certain players, for example the challenges so far have been very physical to keep the athletes in the house. Later if say they want Tom to win they will make it a name the presidents contest lol just kidding but perhaps a memory challenge or a mental challenge they think he would be good at. They do try to exert control here and there but there is no guarantee it will work.
I am up at 5 am watching some WWE wrestler chick eat a bowl of cereal. I have a problem.
All kinds of opinions on socials this morn about what could have happened with the Mooch. I can’t figure out a “mole” or “saboteur” thing that could have played out in the first week. I don’t know. Some are saying his deal was to be out before the feeds went live.
DOR makes the only sense to me. He was in the house Monday but out by Tues pm. No tweets from him.
What happened with the Mooch and who’s the replacement nom to be answered later. Hope Kandi survives this first week. Gotta keep her there to drive Tamar batty.
Jesus…Tamar being Tamar.. They need to hold these paychecks. So did shady Ryan put Kandi up? Wasn’t she part of that alliance?
The Mooch is in Davos Switzerland at a conference.
According to the houseguests, The Mooch was never a “real houseguest” and was already intended to leave on Monday of this week. I suppose we will find out the purpose of that tonight.
We have an episode tonight???
Is it me or is Tamar super extra thirsty like NeNe. Her loud one on ones and ridiculous facial expressions are over the top. Maybe Khandi doesn’t mesh with Tamar because she behaves so much like NeNe. I think Tom is hilarious. So far from what I’ve seen his humor has not been at the expense of others. Jonathan needs to keep Ryan around. He manipulated him so easily when it came to Not nominating Dina. Maybe Ryan’s brain is waterlogged. I would like to see Tom Khandi, and Jonathan in the final three.
Tamar is the original overly dramatic loud mouth fool with lots of facial expressions. Nene used her as a template for her transformation from grifter/con artist into reality star.
Thank you TT for the Tamar /NeNe clarification. I don’t know much about Tamar but from gossip reports I’ve heard she burned bridges with talk show The Real and that she has had lots of issues with her sisters while filming their show. I watched some footage from CBB and her emotions seem to jump from one extreme to another. However I don’t know her history with Khandi so maybe Khandi is sliding her some shade with a smile.
Tamar has always been jealous of kandi.
When Joey said to Tamar and Lolo, “Alliance–I hate that word!” I could not stop laughing! OMG, I love this season already!
I am an episode behind but it seems that Jonathan is the smartest player in the house so far. Kandi is smart enough to watch her back! She has already figured out where her cards lie with the “strong competitors”. I am afraid if she ties herself to Tamar she will become a bigger target. I don’t want Tom Green to go. He is kinda lame but I need some humor in there, even if it is hit or miss.
Joey, Dina, Scaramucci, Kato are all non-factors.