Yesterday was a very lively day in the old BB 18 house. Things started early with Bridgette and Michelle being the first two up and meeting in the bathroom. Bridgette, taking the advice she'd been given by both Frank and Natalie tried to make amends with Michelle. She apologized for anything she might have said or done to offend Michelle and tried to explain any issues Michelle had with her, but Michelle was having none of it. She made it abundantly clear that she hated Bridgette and wanted nothing to do with her. Bridgette finally gave up. James had been called to the DR during this discussion and stopped on the staircase on his way back to the HOH and eavesdropped on the conversation then went upstairs to tell Natalie about it.
Michelle then had a chat in the back yard a bit later with Frank, Davonne and Natalie where she started to tell them how evil Bridgette was only to find out that in fact, much of what she hated about Bridgette was stuff that Bridgette hadn't done. Instead of the other three supporting her, they more or less told her she was wrong which had Michelle a bit confused. Before she could process this too much it was time for the POV ceremony.
At the POV ceremony Michelle pocketed the POV and left Frank and Bridgette on the block. As is typical of the after POV ceremony, Michelle got called to the DR for a segment. She emerged from the DR upset as they'd been asking her about her confrontation with Bridgette. and she suddenly realized that she might be being portrayed as a mean girl. (Largely because she's been a very mean girl.) She then tried to make amends with Bridgette who was less than receptive after being attacked by Michelle earlier when Bridgette had tried to smooth things over. Michelle retreated to the storeroom where she started to cry. Frank, then Davonne and Zakiyah came in to comfort her and Michelle explained that she was upset that people might think she was a mean girl and she didn't want to be hated when she left the house. She told Frank she really didn't want him to go and she'd been hoping to spend time with him in the jury house. (Michelle had the POV and could have saved Frank but didn't.) The three tried to comfort her and reassure her, but Michelle ended up retreating to the Have Not room where she laid in a bumper car crying for a while.
BB decided the house guests needed a bit of prodding on looking for the secret and popped up a message on the living room TV screen stating that there was a secret in the house and clues were all around them. James and Natalie were the first to see this and James called out for everyone to come and see the message. Paulie then shushed him and told him not to tell anyone as just a few of them were then awake and knew of the clue. Frank, Bridgette, James, Natalie, Nicole and Paulie were the first out and looking for the clues while the rest of the house napped. Corey and Victor were napping on the HOH bed upstairs and Paulie woke up Corey to have him help in the search but left Victor lying there. James then woke up Victor. Downstairs, Zakiyah came staggering out of the bedroom to go to the bathroom and saw the message. She then went back to the bedroom and woke up Davonne and Paul.
Within seconds the house guests knew the phone booth upstairs played a role, but no one could figure out the number to dial. Pretty quickly they figured out they needed to call Paris, but the 211 number shown on the Departures board downstairs didn't work, neither did any of the other numbers shown on the board. Paul finally figured out to dial P A R I S and that worked and he got the message telling him to hang up and wait five seconds and the trap door would open or he could leave the booth and come back later if people were watching. Paul then desperately tried to get rid of everyone else so no one could see what he did, but the rest of the house wasn't having that and finally Paul just dialed back the number and crawled through the tunnel it revealed.
Paul found himself inside the alternate HOH/Pandora's Box room that had been decorated to look like a Parisian park. He found a note from BB that was very long and he read it to himself, then we got fish for a few seconds as BB gave him instructions then the feeds came back as Paul read the instructions aloud. There were twelve envelopes in the room numbered one through twelve and he could pick any one he wanted. One of the envelopes would hold a round trip ticket while eleven held a one way ticket. The round trip ticket would allow an evictee to immediately return to the house while those with a one way ticket would be gone. Paul picked a ticket and emerged from the tunnel as the house demanded to know what happened.
Everyone then wanted to know what had happened and he kind of skirted things a bit, but Natalie, Frank and Bridgette thought he was acting shady and went back up to try the phone again. They failed in their attempts then Victor went in and figured it out and got through the tunnel. The feeds then went down as each house guest went through culminating in Michelle. The feeds came back up as Michelle was finishing up in the Paris room and took the final envelope.
There's widespread speculation that envelope eight is the one with the round trip ticket since Ocho Rios (ocho being Spanish for eight) is on one of the posters that held the clues. Davonne has envelope number eight.
The number to dial on the phone resulted in quite a bit of controversy. Nicole was furious that Corey wouldn't tell her what number to call and Victor had to tell her. Corey explained that he didn't want the guys mad at him for telling her. This has obviously made Nicole a bit concerned about Corey's loyalties and led to some tension between them. Zakiyah was upset that Paulie not only didn't call her, but told others not to call her when the message was on the screen. This has driven her back towards Davonne and away from Paulie. (word has also reached Zakiyah that Paulie has mentioned getting rid of her soon.)
So everyone now has an envelope that may, or may not have a round trip ticket in it. Paulie is upset that this could be rigged for Frank. (BB could have no return trip tickets in the envelopes now but exchange the envelope of someone they want to save in the DR.) Paulie is revising his eviction order with Bridgette moving down the list a bit and Davonne and Nicole moving up the list a bit. Paulie still largely owns the house and seems likely to stay safe for quite a while as everyone is deferring to him for some reason. Nicole and Corey have made up and seem okay again now. James and Natalie snuck back into the Paris room together and had some fun joking around in there.
Things should be pretty quiet in the house today as James will do his HOH blog and the HOH camera will get passed around. Expect lots of photos to be taken from inside the Paris room. Frank is still the big target this week. He'll be leaving on Thursday. Whether he stays gone or not is a whole different question, but he'll go. The next HOH will be quite interesting to watch. A lot of the house is at risk this week if they don't win HOH. Nicole, Davonne, and Bridgette seem most at risk, but Natalie (who Paulie thinks they can use as a pawn for multiple weeks,) Michelle and Zakiyah are all at some risk along with Victor. Only Paulie seems really safe this week and he should be the biggest target. It's kind of bizarre that a guy who constantly talks about getting tutored in the game by a recent winner is allowed to just cruise through the game, but these aren't the brightest hamsters.
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