Hey Big Brother fans, so McKenzie is making some moves to take out Tucker since they are both on the block with Angela. But now there's a secret house-flipping Blindside plan in place to shake up the game. We've seen McKenzie's been busy putting Tucker in the crosshairs to save her game. But is she kind of low-key misrepresenting what Tucker said to her to make him look worse? Because there are two versions of this story. And you know that saying: three sides to every story—your side, my side, and the truth.
What's the truth about what Tucker has said? Last night, McKenzie was all over the house stirring things up, trying to save her game. She knows if she doesn't beat Tucker in the AI Arena, she may well be evicted. So McKenzie is taking a multi-pronged approach to avoid leaving the house. She got Angela aimed at Tucker like a day or two ago. It's like McKenzie blew up the house. You can check it out on our main page here. So, Quinn and McKenzie talked to Angela, then they had blabbed to Tucker that she was after him.
It was kind of mad genius because it was McKenzie who planted the seed of Angela targeting Tucker. And then when it blossomed, Angela ran with it. McKenzie exposed it to Tucker, and so did Quinn. It was brilliantly wicked. While pretending to be on Angela's side, McKenzie then went up to Tor and was pushing her to renom Angela instead of Leah, and it worked. So McKenzie is now doing all she can to keep everybody focused on Tucker and Angela off of her, which is very smart in her position.
So here's the latest: last night, McKenzie was spreading around that Tucker told her to throw the AI comp. Yes and no, there's context needed. So Wednesday night, McKenzie told Chelsea that Tucker asked her to throw the AI comp. Chelsea seemed to believe it because then she took it to Quinn and told him. Chelsea also told McKenzie, “definitely don't throw it; you never throw a comp.” Later, McKenzie also told Tor the same thing, who told her not to listen to Tucker. And then Cam also got it from McKenzie—the line that Tucker told her to throw the comp.
At various points in her retelling, McKenzie is going around the house just parsing this out to different people. Her language varied from he asked me to told to saying Tucker implied, which is very different than saying or asking. When she was talking to Leah, she used kind of another vague adjective like basically he said. That had me wondering.
Joseph and Tucker also had a talk yesterday, and he told Joseph what he actually said to McKenzie, or you know, his version of part of it. Tucker said to Joseph, “I've been saying to McKenzie that me winning is us winning.” Okay, so there's more to what happened. While Tucker and McKenzie were talking about the AI Arena, apparently, McKenzie is very worried about the arena, as I'm sure all three nominees are. Tucker told her, “you know, even if she loses, we'll be fine.” He's trying to keep her calm, makes sense. Then somebody walked up on McKenzie and Tucker. I'm not sure who it was and asked, Hey, what are you talking about? Tucker made a joke. He said, “I was just telling McKenzie to throw the AI comp tomorrow,” and then he laughed.
Tucker also apparently told McKenzie he believes in her. I doubt this footage of her and Tucker will make it onto the heavily edited CBS live eviction episode tonight, but given that McKenzie’s been running around making up stuff, overblowing, telling lies and half-truths, I'm now wondering if she is deliberately misleading the houseguests with what she's saying about Tucker, or if she really believes what she's saying. That joke Tucker made about him telling her to throw it—it’s funny. If he really was serious, I doubt he would have said it out loud to that houseguest that interrupted them.
Also, you know, I think it's fair for Tucker to have a conversation with McKenzie about the AI Arena outcomes because they got to think about voting and stuff. In his mind, if he wins, comes down, Angela versus McKenzie, and he's telling McKenzie she has the votes to stay, but Tucker wants her gone, and he knows that there are probably votes to get her out, so he was lying about that part. But it's Big Brother; lies are gameplay. So then, you know, he was saying if McKenzie wins, he'll be going home for sure because the house will vote him out and keep Angela. Now, I'm not sure if Tucker really believes that, but he wants McKenzie thinking about outcomes.
As for him saying directly to her to throw the comp, I don't think it went that way. Maybe Big Brother will prove me wrong, but from what I'm seeing, that's not what went down. Tucker was still talking last night about him throwing the AI Arena. I don't think he's going to. I think that was more of his talk like he does when he has the veto. McKenzie is trying to make Tucker look bad, scared, you know, look shady in case he doesn't win the arena, and that is smart campaigning on her part.
If he doesn't win, Julie Chen may be saying hey to the protein bar chef tonight because Chelsea and Quinn have cooked up a plan to flip the house and Blindside Tucker with an eviction vote. Let's talk about that real quick. There are eight houseguests voting tonight. So, it's four to tie, five to evict, and Tor does not want to break a tie. She's already said that. But we know even with McKenzie saying all these things, Tor and Kimo want Tucker to stay tonight. So, this Blindside plan also involved lying to them and being very careful around Joseph. If you want to know who should get the credit for coming up with it, looks like Chelsea was the one who came up with it. She's always conspiring. Then Chelsea rolled it over to Quinn, and they ran with it together.
So the notion is they have to wait to pull the trigger until they see who wins the Arena, but they have to have the votes against Tucker locked down already. Then it's go time if he loses and remains on the block. That's what they're thinking. So Chelsea and Quinn also have pulled in Cam and Leah. That's four votes that would push it to a tie, but unless Tor girds her loins and breaks the tie against Tucker, you know, he'd stay. It would be smart for him to go, but a tiebreaker is not the best scenario. They really need a fifth vote.
So that would hinge on who comes off the block—McKenzie or Angela. One of them is down if Tucker stays up, right? McKenzie is a look, absolutely. She would vote to take Tucker out; she's been aiming at him all week. But what about Angela? She's a wild card. She blew up with Tucker, then said it was her biggest mistake. They've been back and forth, so I tend to think Angela would flip if she's the one who comes down. That seems like it's probably not going to happen. I think she's least likely to win tonight. She may not want to deal with him anymore and all the drama. Vote him out.
They could get possibly one more vote if they sprang it on Joseph at the very last minute, like when they find out who won the arena, pull him aside, and Quinn says, “Look dude, this is how it's going. If you want to be on the right side of the house, you know. That would give them a little bit of buffer. I think if Joseph sees the writing on the wall, yeah, he'd vote Tucker. But all of this is a moot point if the comp Beast wins the arena. Chelsea and Cam and Quinn are kind of locked and loaded for this flip, but they've also been planning false flags. Chelsea told Rabina she can't get anyone to talk about votes with her—lie. Chelsea also told Rabina she thinks Tucker has the votes to stay—lie. Chelsea also told Kimo and Rabina that she will vote with the house and doesn't want to be on the wrong side of the vote—lie.
Let's wrap this up real quick with a vote count for the three scenarios. If Tucker wins the AI Arena, we've got McKenzie and Angela on the block. That may also be a tie. Tor would have to break. Kimo, Joseph, Rabina, and Tucker would vote to evict McKenzie. Quinn, Chelsea, and Cam vote out Angela. They could pull Leah in for a tie. You know, she may be down for that, but she's been hanging with Angela a lot. If they don't get Leah in, then McKenzie goes. If they do get Leah in, Tor breaks the tie, and McKenzie goes anyway. If it's McKenzie versus Angela, you know.
If Tucker loses the AI Arena and goes up against either McKenzie or Angela, this is what we expect. If nobody wins out, Quinn, Chelsea, and Cam vote to evict Tucker. That's three. Angela or McKenzie, whoever’s off the block joins them to make four. They need Leah to make five, and Joseph would be an insurance policy. Blindside hamsters voting to protect Tucker would be Rabina and Kimo, possibly Joseph, most likely Joseph. But that would put it 5 to 3, Tucker out the door. If they don't get Leah to flip, it's a problem. If they do, but then Angela sides with Tucker, it goes to a tiebreaker. Tor would need to make a big move, but I don't know if she's up to it. And, of course, we just have Angela playing emotionally versus strategically someday.
The infrastructure is there. I'm just not sure how it's going to go if somebody gets scared and wimps out. Not helping his odds of staying in the house, by the way, is that Tucker decided to pick up Rabina, wrap her legs around him, walk through the room where the rest of the house was, making out with her, playing tonsil hockey in front of the whole house. Tucker now thinks it's okay because their showmance has been outed, but it's not okay. That bothered a lot of people, including their allies, because Rabina then ran to apologize to Tor and Kimo. Since the four of them are seen together a lot in the house, she knows what Tucker did just painted a bigger target on them by association with the showmance. She gets it. Tor gets it. Tucker doesn't. Rabina is apologizing. That could go in favor of the Blindside house flippers. If it does come to a tiebreaker, Tor's got that on her mind.
What Tucker's not getting is he thinks he has Angela and Quinn's votes. He does, but he doesn't think they're going to be votes to evict him. We’ll see how it goes today and tonight, but the arena this week is more critical than ever. I do love a good Blindside, and heck, if they try and they fall short because one of their number flips back on them, then it might even be a more fun week. Tucker would be gunning hard for the ones who targeted him, throwing tantrums, doing all the stuff that he does, just Tuckering around the house.
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