SAFE: Jag, Matt, America
HAVENOTS: Cory, Luke, Felicia, Kirsten
1:06am Bedroom – Cirie and Felicia
Felicia – Did she say something to Jared? Cirie – about? Felicia – because remember we said us four girls, each one of us gets somebody. Cirie – well he (Jared) told me that .. and you know I don’t take anyone .. I take everyone with a grain of salt. That kirsten, is trying to get a five with him, Matt, her and somebody. You know she is on the block. And I was like .. I didn’t even realize she was on the block. I mean, I know do your thing.. Felicia – also already she’s gone behind it. Cirie – I am like oh my god. Felicia – see that is dangerous already. Cirie – I know. Because I was out there with her and I was like what do you think about her? So I am going to ask Izzy. I like Izzy. Felicia – see so she is doing that behind us though so that means that she doesn’t even trust the four of us if she is already doing a separate thing. Cirie – she is just trying to.. Felicia – she is just desperate trying to make sure she stays. Cirie – yes. Because she is trying to get a five with them. So she has a five with them and a four with us. We do vote.. we going to vote for her.. right? Felicia – Mmmmhmmm. Cirie – so.. Felicia – so she’s got two separate alliances going? Cirie – already.. and I respect the game play but we haven’t even built our core yet.. for you to be trying to get into another five. Felicia – and watch her try and go behind them and say that we are.. Cirie – and I don’t want to say anything to Mecole yes because I don’t know how tight they are. Felicia – see .. Heffers .. Can’t trust Heffers. Cirie bursts out laughing. They can’t even stick to a plan.. that’s why the cookout was so good because they stuck to a plan. Felicia – so who is the five she is trying have? Cirie – all boys and her. Felicia – What?! Oh so she is using that sexuality thing .. that’s what she is doing. She thinks because she is cute they’re going to keep her in the house. We got to get her gone! Cirie – That’s what I said! Felicia – if she is doing that already .. then get her a$$ gone! Cirie – that’s what I am thinking. Felicia – and I am with you on that one. And we pull Jared in. Cirie – MMmmmhmmmm. That would be me, you Jared and Mecole. Felicia – and Izzy.
1:20am – 1:30am Bedroom – Jared and Cirie
Jared – Kirsten, Cory and Cameron are the three that I am not so sure about right now. Cirie – I am not so sure about Cory and Cameron .. me either. Jared – yeah.. Cory and Cameron are the two that I am most worried about. Cory seems like a complete snake. Cirie – so me, you, Felicia, me.. Jared – Felica can’t vote because she is on the block. Cirie – oh! Jared – so me, Felicia and Kristen. They think they hear someone and leave the room. Jared – so official me, you, Felicia and Jag for sure.
2:05am Bathroom – Mecole, Jag and Hisam.
Mecole is talking about being a teacher..
8:00 am Zzzzzz
9:00 am Houseguests getting up
9:18 am Jag and Reilly
Jag – we’re solid
Reilly – we’re helluva good
Reilly – everyone really nice and I love everybody that is the issue.
Matt joins them. Jag says they need to start mingling with the people they haven’t talked to yet. They don’t know what twist is next.
jag – we’re good lets try and mingle
Matt – yeah yeah yeah .. I’ll do my best. I might not hear what everyone is saying but I’ll put in the effort
11:20 am – 1:30 pm Feeds on pound puppies
NIGHT ONE
NOMS: Cory, Kirsten, Felicia, Jared.
HAVE NOTS: Hisam, Luke, Cory, Jared. Volunteers.
First pairing: Jared, Izzy (she knows Jared is Cirie’s son).
(aside: feels like word of Grod came down no one else is allowed to notice the family clone resemblance… expect Izzy to be Jared’s shield).
First alliance: Phalanx5. Kirsten, Reilly, Matt, Luke, Jared.
(aside: i give it 5 minutes). already outed.
Cirie and Felicia will be the new Azah and Couch by week 3. Statler and Waldorf level pesky kids shaming alert.
Cirie’s black widow brigade idea: Felicia, Cirie, Kirsten, Meme. plus Jared.
(aside: i give it 2 minutes, age gap and flirting will scare the bed by 10 broads). the strategy as she explained is more brigade, but she keeps throwing cookout as the strategy.
Jared’s core idea: Cirie, Jared, Izzy, Jag, Felicia.
(aside: Jared is attempting onion strategy, blaming other members for making the groups.
Doesn’t want to be the only guy in his mother’s plot, he’ll sabotage it.)
To Izzy, Jared states core as Jared, Izzy, Matt, Blue. with Cirie.
Izzy and Cirie and Felicia know about Phalanx5. Jared said it was Kirsten’s idea… but did she form it, or is Jared sabotaging a woman in his mom’s plot? more than possible.
EARLY HOUSE TARGETS: Cory (revealed too much Cirie knowledge), Kirsten (Jared scapegoat, too showmantic for the older women), Cameron (lacks group social skills, only liked by Felicia).
note, Kirsten was EVERYwhere social gaming for about 90 minutes… then the feeds seemed to become the Cirie show. Why nobody has whispered let’s boot the professional reality gameshow contestant??? I blame Grod.
The nobody is playing yet morons:
Blue, America, Bj, Red. sorta Hisam too.
As of turning off feeds they’d made no real strategic alliancing movements that I saw
Izzy, Kirsten paired. maybe fake.
Reilly, Jag hip glued.
Alliances with more than one nom forming without clear majority… learn math.
Impression: don’t dislike Cirie, HOWEVER, she didn’t have to compete for safety night one and has family member advantage and a higher average cast age. when they give her friendship bracelets to hand out and d/r starts telling HOH’S no nominating the woman that’s been on 4 seasons of survivor, snake in the grass, celeb price is right, and won the million on Traitors us… don’t say nobody warned you. Plus, get real… nobody can tell they are related? Helen Keller could see it.
According to his Survivor fam brother, Cory knew. We saw Kirsten point at Cirie, look at Jared, and saying that’s your mom… tail end of episode before Izzy / Jared pinky promise…. So why is everyone playing dumb? Eyeroll.
Cirie will play harder for Jared than Jared will for Cirie. Their goal may be grand prize, but they didn’t coordinate method well enough.
Oddities: Matt doesn’t know how to sign. just struck me as odd.
America entered first, Izzy seventh. both active cursed positions.
Good morning another name. Nice to have you back.
Thanks Simon!
Not sure if I’ll be able to be around as much as previous seasons, but i’m enjoying the updates!
I already feel like Felicia is going to be problematic and it’s only night 1. She is doing too much and already talking smack. I wanted Kirsten gone at first but now I for sure want Felicia gone.
unfortunately contestants are often too big of superfans to get rid of past players (i’m counting cirie as a past player). it was very obvious paul’s first season. he was adamant about getting out past players but no one agreed with him and he had to hold his tongue, he still somehow made final 3 with 2 past players (mostly using the unevictable victor as a shield), ultimately getting robbed and losing to one before going full tyrant the following season. with at best half the house wanting to work with past players, and half not, past players are usually savvy enough to sus out the people not wanting to work with them and steamroll to a majority before the non-fans have a chance. this is unfortunately the likely outcome here but at least for now it’s a bit ambiguous who cirie’s allies will be and maybe the week 2 hoh will put this together and target her before the inevitable dull steamroll that always happens when past players play with newbies (please please please stop using this format cbs), for now the ptb seem to want to give cirie immunity week one.
The “BD”of Da’ and evicting James caused Paul to lose fairly. Like his overlying second try. This season gives the vibe of a steamroll with Cirie playing.
Yay Another Name ! I’m late to the party but so glad to see you’re here ! Hey Simon and Dawg, thanks for all the hard work of keeping us up to date. Love all you guys !
I have a theory… ?there will be 3 more prior reality contestants (assuming not everyone is from BB) each will be released with whatever verse has been activated for that week, or might be doing 2 per week? Either stuck at 17 or 18 houseguests for next 3 (max) weeks?. Explains the beds. Cirie is the Scrambleverse twist. It’s gonna drag a bit.
If it’s Britney/Danielle/Frankie, my request is gift Frankie for Humiliverse.
Agree, Andle! If we must be burdened with more Frankie (Blech!) pray yes, Frankie for Humiliverse.
OMG – I can’t handle him on another season – let him be the VERY LAST to enter & exit (if at all) the same week. I CAN’T!!!!
If all three comes back I think the fandom will be able to handle it. If you don’t Love Brittney you love Danielle. It would balance out the hate for Frankie.
If it’s just frankie that comes back then pass me a Kraken.
Simon: “Pass me a Kraken.” Can we have that on an OBB T-Shirt?
I DO love Love Brittney and Danielle. Frankie?…Errr, not so much. I worry, because he IS so polarizing the Grod might just do it for the Oh noooooo factor. SMH.
IZZY: I have a feeling she’s going to drive me bonkers. She’s too animated… there’s something about her that’s just screaming “attention seeking”.
When Reilly was talking, I was like why do I know her? Lol!? Or who does she remind me of? It took me a minute, but her mouth, totally reminds me of Miley Cyrus for some reason. Does anyone else see it?
IZZY: I worry she might end up like another Britini D’Angelo from BB23 – too eager, too effusive, and too cringy.
Strangely or not, the swirling circle shown on the feeds as everyone was being woken up, reminds me of Doctor Who
Dawg and Simon, I have tried to Rank The HouseGuests and only a few HG’s show up to vote for. I have tried 3 different browsers but I keep getting the same few people. Is some wrong with the HouseGuest Ranking?
heya Chessie, Glad to see you’re back!
We have been having some issues with one of the servers. I’m going to upgrade it tonight. Hopefully that solves the issue.
I came back yesterday and I also donated yesterday. Glad to be back
Excited for another season, thanks Simon and Dawg for all that you do!
I’m excited as well. So far a decent cast.
great to see you back BBP1Day1
This is going to be a loooong season. Something tells me all of the best stuff is going to be going on in the live feeds
12:26pm Feeds are down for what I suspect is the Head of Household.
Reilly won HOH
Cirie is quickly navigating the house and showing her ability isn’t limited to Survivor. Case in point – – check out her early morning convo with Hisam where they connect personally over their mutual COVID stories and working in the healthcare industry.
Keep an eye on her masterclass as she develops personal bonds with each and every member of the house. This could be credited as the Dan philosophy but if you’ve watched any of Cirie’s Survivor seasons you know this is part and parcel of her style/strategy and why she’s so beloved by the fan base.
Her initial strategy was to form the quartet of four black ladies heralding a Cookout 2.0 alliance using plus ones (and obviously ensuring Jared was among them). That shifted with Jared, Felicia, and Izzy each mistrusting Kirsten. Couple that with how close Meme is to Kirsten and this morning Cirie appears to have created a new alliance of the mature folks. This is what I initially anticipated given seven players are 32 or older this season, plus two 30-year-olds.
Cameron and Cory were seemingly the two targets on night one but with Reilly & Jag moving full force on the creation of the young/athletic alliance that features the Scary Room occupants (them, Blue, Cam & Matt) as well as the other youngsters the two people on the outside looking in are Kirsten & Meme making them seemingly the first two targets.
Question: how much will Jared impact Cirie’s ability to play the game without causing her to discount her gut instinct? We probably won’t know until she shifts direction based solely on his input (the Kirsten shift occurred with Izzy/Fel both agreeing on not being able to trust her).
Moving forward the age discrepancy will require some navigation by Cirie as seven are 32 or older:
Mecole and Luke are both 30 but as noted Meme is on the outs & Luke is in tight with the young crew. With Jared tied to his Mom’s group (assuming he prioritizes them over the young crew) that means they’ll need one more from the youngsters to have the numbers.
Also worth keeping an eye on is whether TPTB (the Powers that Be) tailor the comps for the older group to win. Historically POVs favor the most athletic while HOHs tend to feature a combo of skills, Q & A (visual or game-related questions), or athletic comps with the latter occurring later in the season.
Glad to see you here TTOTambz ! You and AN are my fave contributors. Great insights and breakdowns.
Cirie is the master mind. That woman is in a class of her own!
Say goodnite, Felicia!!
So let me get the facts right, Cire and Felicia wanted to put together an alliance like the Cookout based on Race, aka being black, with Kirsten and Mecole. I’m good with that just as long as people can do the same with any race and not just black.
ALL of the previous alliances were non black. They ALWAYS HAVE done the same AND evicted black players first. Why does the singular black alliance still torment you?
List the season’s and alliance’s that was non black when they evicted all their black players first just because of race? That’s right you can’t because it’s its utter BS lie. Like I said, I’m all for a black alliance as long as any race can do the same and we don’t then have people yelling racism.