Big Brother 26
dingo's Hamsterwatch
 
I don't care who wins, I'm just here for the cheap entertainment.. the cheaper, the better
This site is about the Big Brother 26 feeds and contains spoilers! It isn't necessarily thorough: it's what I catch and/or what interests me. It's about watching hamsters: who's doing what and why. Thanks for encouraging my behavior.
Your pal, dingo



 

Donations via Ko-fi are gratefully accepted!

Or subscribe on Patreon
And get my recaps in your inbox!


0

BB26 DRINKING GAME

Take a swig because we made it through another one!

0

VIEWER VOTES

Week 3: Who should be the third nominee to go into AI Arena?
> Quinn

Week 5 (for Week 6): Who should be AI Instigator?
> Tucker

Week 6: How much should Tucker win as AI Instigator?
> $20,000

Week 13: Who should get $50k viewer favorite?
> Tucker

0

QUICK LINKS & BOOKMARKS

-SIGN UP FOR FEEDS

-WATCH THE FEEDS
after signing up - disable ad blockers

Official site and socials:
-BB26 official CBS site
-Twitter
-TikTok
-Instagram
-YouTube
-Facebook

-Live show tickets

-Donate to support this site - thank you!
Ko-fi - anytime, any amount
Patreon - subscription

-My Twitter - my screencaps

-Dick at Night with @EvelDick

-BB Viewer browser extension by @liquid8d
-Requires Paramount Plus account

-BB26 Wiki

-Hamster Twitters
    BB USA: chron - members
    BB Canada: chron - members
    BB USA Celebs: chron - members

-Advice for cast friends/family

-My Amazon.ca portal for Canadians

-VPN to protect your online privacy

0

EAST COAST AIR SHOWS

East coast air show live streams:
Unfortunately VideoBrother has stopped streaming BB USA.
If you have Paramount+ with Showtime plan, you can watch live TV for your local timezone.

0





Get Paramount Plus
to watch Big Brother
all seasons
Plus tons more CBS and Viacom content

0

Big Brother 26 SEASON FAQ
-Day 1 July 16: Move-in
-Day 2 July 17: Premiere
-Tucker entered the house first
-Day 90 October 13: Finale

Feeds are streamed by Paramount Plus, with a Paramount Plus subscription. Call 888-274-5343 for account help, including cancellation.

BB26 finalist prizes are likely the same: $750k for the winner, $75k for 2nd place, and probably still $10k for 3rd, $7.5k for 4th, $5k for 5th.
Stipend is probably still $1k per week for all except finalists, including pre-season sequester. Stuntcasts may get more.

The habitat has 94 HD cameras (no change) and 113 microphones (no change).

The recorded in-house announcements are the voice of producer Don Wollman. He and Julie Chen are the only senior staffers who have been there since Big Brother 1.

0

Paramount Plus
BIG BROTHER LIVE FEEDS ON PARAMOUNT PLUS
Click for a free trial!


>> Previous Hamsterwatch Episode >> BB26 Directory
>> Status/Schedules >> Daily Recaps >> Ratings >> Lines & Links of the Day >> Tallies >> Season Stats
>> Permalink this page: http://www.hamsterwatch.com/bb26/101324.shtml

Power Status

Winner Part 1: Chelsie
Winner Part 2: Makensy
Winner Part 3 & Final HOH: Makensy
Evicted: Cam

Season winner: Chelsie 7-0
Season runner-up: Makensy
Viewer favorite: Tucker


Alliance charts by @89razorskate20

Alliance maps by @Dolffica

Diary segment tallies by @clamperls4

TV episode ratings by @bigbrotherwikia



Season Stats

HOHs in order: Angela; Chelsie; Cedric; Angela/Quinn used Deep Fake HOH; Tucker; T'kor; Quinn; Chelsie; Leah; Makensy; Chelsie; Makensy; Chelsie; Makensy

Veto winners in order: Lisa; Kenney; Tucker; Tucker/Makensy used America's Veto; Tucker; Cam; Leah; Makensy; Angela+Leah; Makensy; Kimo; Makensy; Makensy

Evictions in order: Matt 8-3; Lisa 11-1; Kenney 10-1; Cedric 6-3; Brooklyn 8-1; Tucker 5-3; Joseph 4-3; Quinn 4-2; T'kor 4-1; Leah 4-0; Angela 3-0; Kimo 2-0; Rubina 1-0; Cam 1-0



Get Paramount PlusGET THE FEEDS to see the real show!

Paramount Plus plans are as follows:
-$7.99/month or $59.99/year includes feeds, does not have live local CBS, does have commercials for shows/movies

-$12.99/month or $119.99/year includes Showtime, feeds, does have live local CBS, does not have commercials for shows/movies
-You can up- or downgrade at any time

-Legacy All Access plan still has feeds and live local CBS

Feeds are free on Pluto TV, with ads


Daily Feeds Recaps

Day 90 - Sunday - October 13, 2024

Finale day finally arrived and they woke up happy, excited, and a little emotional to that realization. Chelsie and Makensy paused in front of the hologram swirly, and a bit later Chelsie went off for a quick cry. Cam said "who's crying? It's 9 in the morning!" She recovered quickly and they started their final day of picking up and vacuuming for tonight's show. BB told them (behind fishies) to gather to tell us good-bye, which they did, wondering which camera to face to be seen by us feedsters. Maybe they'll eventually find out any of them would work.

 

Cam joked about being bullied by Chelsie, Makensy said she was probably mostly boring, and Chelsie thanked her Chisme fans and supporters. The wall cam did a very long zoom out that felt kind of final and bittersweet, and then the fishies came. They didn't swim for long, and feeds came back to our final three still in place and waiting to be excused. Then came more fishies, and more waiting, and finally the finale splash screen and better, calmer music came at 10am, and that was the end of BB26 feeds.

Huge thanks to @89razorskate20 and @Dolffica for sorting out the ever-changing alliance stew for us again, @liquid8d for BB Viewer and especially its short but valuable rewind, @clamperls4 for Diary tallies, and @rbbq for perfect, succinct, daily summaries with TL;DR skills I can only dream of. Thanks to all the many accounts, both large and small, who posted updates and clips to keep us all in the loop and were more valuable than ever this year without Flashback. And to the many talented, creative people who made jokes, memes, graphics, lists, and edits that were so clever and often hilarious. They really kept me going, and I highlighted a lot of them in my Lines and Links of the Day. I am forever in awe of the creativity we have in this fanbase. Props to Joseph's brother and friends, Leah's sister, and Cam's dawgs at the crib for playing along on BB Twitter and handling this messy, dysfunctional family so well. And thanks once again to my personal support team here at Hamsterwatch headquarters: Loosee, Hazo, and Flaca.

My biggest thanks go out to my Patreon subscribers and Ko-fi supporters! Covering 90 days at 12-16 hours per for a mostly unpaid "job" is a lot, and I literally couldn't do any of this without the financial support you guys contributed! And also to everyone who continued to visit my cluttery, text-based dinosaur site in this age of podcasts, thank you so much!!

Okay, on to the business at hand. We picked up Part 1 where we left off, and added lasers from the evil robot army that dropped cold green slime onto the backs of their necks. Drop times were Makensy at 26 minutes, and Cam at 37 minutes, giving Chelsie the win, as we knew. They got another video message from Derrick saying they had to take out Ainsley's brain to destroy her and save humanity, and he said it was too dangerous to send their instructions by fax anymore.

 

They entered the Part 2 arena which was an elaborate, techy looking set, and - get this - a RAVEN flew across the arena to deliver their instructions à la Game of Thrones! It was called Cerebral Shutdown and they had to move three "neurons" through a revolving vertical maze (similar to one they did on Reindeer Games), and then connect nine wires of different lengths into the proper slots. There was only one correct solution which Makensy got first, as we knew. That plunged Ainsley's brain into an acid bath or something, and she died like Hal 9000 (but faster, and without singing about Daisy).

Julie announced Taylor was taking over jury roundtable duties from Dr Will, and then she lapsed into some Canada-esque sponcon BS by saying they'd meet on "comfy blue sofas by Lovesac" in relation to some CBS ad campaign? Stop that. Rubina was brought out to join them and they did the usual back and forth about worthy winners, comps versus strategy versus social, and related chatter and misdirection.

Part 3 was Data Destruction, to identify data Ainsley corrupted. Each of the jurors appeared as a hologram in the Proto box with three statements about their own season trivia, one of which was false. Chelsie and Makensy both correctly identified the false statements for Quinn, T'kor, Leah, Angela, Kimo, with a bit of chatter as they went, which was different. Then Chelsie missed Rubina's question and Makensy didn't, giving her the final HOH win.

 

Chelsie and Cam made their pleas, and Cam gave a final shoutout to his dawgs at the crib (at Julie's prompt). Makensy evicted Cam (giving a speech before she did, like she did when she evicted Rubina - stop that). He was expecting it no matter which of them won, and he went out in good spirits with hugs and smiles. Julie asked about him telling Makensy he'd take her to the end if he won the final HOH and he said he was just finessing her, he would have absolutely taken Chelsie. Back inside, Chelsie and Makensy shared an F2 hug. Congrats to them for being the first pair of women finalists - no, not ever, but for the first time since Season 13.

The jury was assembled onstage, Cam joined them, and Julie said together they'd come up with three questions for each finalist. They fired those off one by one, and they were more or less boilerplate about their overall games, and what they did to get there, and why they deserve to win over each other. Chelsie gave generally better answers than Makensy, partly because she'd been anticipating them and practicing for several days. Cam came up with his own question, which was asking Chelsie what differentiated her game from Makensy's, and an interesting bit of Chelsie's answer was she said she could have showmanced (like Makensy) at the beginning but chose not to. Huh. Okay then. Then the jurors trotted their keys up to the box and placed their votes, with a snappy little comment from each as they did so.

Pre-jurors were assembled onstage next, and that kicked off with Julie asking Joseph about his family in Tampa after Hurricane Milton. He said he almost skipped coming to the finale as his area had several deaths and a lot of damage, including some damage for his family but they were okay so here he was. Tucker apologized to Cedric for the bad misunderstanding about offering to go on the block those many weeks ago, Lisa said she was surprised at Chelsie's outgoing Diary persona compared to her quieter in-house self, and Tucker crossed the stage to give Rubina flowers and a hug, aww. Julie assured her Tucker had said in his eviction interview that his feelings were real and he wants to continue the relationship if she does, which everyone out here already knows. And she said she'd like that too.

Julie told Makensy she'd been saying she had a flirtmance with Matt all season but she used the word showmance twice tonight in her jury questions and speech, which is it? Both she and Matt said "conversation is due." And Matt did an "Angela, Angela, Angela" slow clap re-enactment, and said he'd love to bury the hatchet with her. She said she's fine with that, and they hugged. Brooklyn said she doesn't regret her gameplay but there was something about "alleged theft" and they all saw Charcuterie Gate play out. Julie told them Tucker was the AI Instigator, which shocked Rubina, and he said it was the worst feeling when he made Rubina cry about that when his plan to reveal their showmance backfired, and they had another hug. And Julie told them all Biden dropped out of the election and Kamala Harris is running against Trump.

Finally it was time for Julie to read the votes. Quinn, T'kor, Leah, Angela all voted for Chelsie to win and that's all it took. She and Makensy came out hand-in-hand as Makensy had requested, the confetti flew, the tears came, along with all the hugs and reunions between winners, losers, jurors, and pre-jurors. Massive congrats to Chelsie from me for a brilliant game of Big Brother the way it was meant to be played.

 

Julie revealed Kimo, Rubina, Cam also voted for Chelsie, making it a unanimous win. And she announced Tucker won the $50,000 viewer favorite vote, the first pre-juror to ever win that (deservedly!) and that the other top vote-getters were Angela and Quinn. She began to wrap up the show saying she'd see us again next summer, with no mention of Reindeer Games (boo, though it probably only happened because of last year's industry strikes). Then we were back in the house where Jankie was reconstituted because Ainsley had been destroyed, and everyone onstage and in the audience sang his J-A-N-K-I-E song. And that was that.

Remember, IF YOU MISSED what came before, check my previous episode, always linked up top, or from my season index.



Upcoming Events

Big Brother UK is back again and underway

CBS schedule: times are Eastern/local, deduct one hour for Central
Shows were usually Sundays 9pm - Wednesdays 8pm - live Thursdays 8pm


Ratings - All Obits edition

Ratings are based on entertainment value

Check out the bonus special edition ratings I did for @realityblurred

Noms count: original/renom/twist
*3rd, 4th, 5th place bonuses included below with Winnings are not confirmed



 
My season wrapup is at @realityblurred but suffice to say, it was a pretty good season, especially for those of us who are here for the entertainment, cheap or otherwise. And here's a tidbit I haven't shared before: one of them was almost replaced by an alternate when they tested COVID+ in pre-show hotel sequester. Rather than send them home immediately like they did Christie before Season 23, they waited it out until the test came back negative. I'm not going to say who, but it was one of our three finalists. I bet whoever made that call to keep them is pleased with their decision.

A lot of things could have been done better but production stepped it up and shined in many ways this season. Despite whatever problems, I thank them for bringing our annual guilty pleasure back to us again, and as always, big ups and thanks to each one of the 16 hamsters for putting themselves out there for our amusement.

PS Thank you for reviving young Jankie. He didn't deserve to go out like he did.





Won: $750,000; Week 1 mascot/can't compete or vote; Week 5 AI Arena; Final HOH Part 1

HOH 4 - Veto 0 - Noms 0/1/0 - HN 0

 

Chelsie Baham - 27
Instagram
Single - fan applicant
Nonprofit director
Rancho Cucamonga, CA

She played this game hard and well from the minute she moved in. She had a hand in nearly every nomination and eviction and while she took a few losses along the way when those noms or votes didn't go how she wanted, she adapted rather than insisting she get her way. Then she brought in Makensy as a shield/weapon, and she controlled every week for the last half of the game. Along the way she ranted into her Febreze mic about Cam and his feet, socks, and laundry, and she gave us her thoughts regularly with her Chisme and Prediction shows. Like Makensy, she talked religion too much for my tastes, but as a gamer, she played the hell out of this thing from every angle: comp wins, manipulation, mental sharpness, and social relationships, including comfort and support for evictees on their way out. She gave a masterclass in BB every week and most every day, and her game should be studied by future hopefuls. She fully deserved her win.




Won: $75,000; Hawaii trip; America's Veto/used Week 3; Weeks 4 & 6 AI Arena; Movie screening; Final HOH Part 2

HOH 3 - Veto 4 - Noms 2/1/1 - HN 2

 

Makensy Manbeck - 22
Twitter - Instagram
Single - recruit
Construction project manager
Houston, TX

She cozied up with Matt at the start, and Angela became her season-long nemesis when she mentioned Makensy in the 'Crazy Eyes' breakfast rant. She was out of all game loops for the first half of the game, so she had lots of shockfaces at the early blindsides. She won one of the two move-in comps plus two AI Arenas, establishing her as a self-proclaimed comp beast, but she earned the title in the second half. Unfortunately for her, Chelsie made all her HOH and veto decisions for her, including using a veto on Angela when her prime objective as HOH that week was to get Angela gone. Her main conversation topics for much of the season were about her ex, being young, tall and pretty, and working in construction, plus she talked about her religion too much for my tastes. Despite winning a lot of important comps, she never balanced that with playing the actual game of Big Brother, especially on the last night when she gave away an easy win by keeping Chelsie.




Won: $10,000*; Movie guest

HOH 0 - Veto 1 - Noms 3/0/0 - HN 1

 

Cam Sullivan-Brown - 25
Twitter - Instagram
Single - recruit
Physical therapist
Bowie, MD

7th juror - 14th evicted - Day 90

He was very low profile and unbothered at first but they all loved him, and his quick wit came out more and more as numbers thinned. Chelsie liked him but he liked Leah, and that triangle made for some awkward flirting and related reactions. He only won one veto and he kicked himself repeatedly for his poor comp performances, especially in the last weeks. His Week 1 Core/CCC alliance with Chelsie and Cedric was the foundation for Pentagon and Collective, but their trio stayed solid even when the add-ons blew up, and Cam and Chelsie stayed tight after Cedric's eviction. He starred in group skits and shows as Midnight Hour and Starfish Delight, and he loved his horsie Ghost Pepper in Jankie World. He remembered his dawgs at the crib every Thursday, and he gave us the best side game of the season when he randomly said Brooklyn in her red top looked like a 'pasty Michael Jackson.'




Won: $7,500*; Week 7 AI Arena; Movie guest

HOH 0 - Veto 0 - Noms 3/2/1 - HN 1

 

Rubina Bernabe - 35
Twitter - Instagram - Instagram 2
Single - recruit
Event bartender
Los Angeles, CA

6th juror - 13th evicted - Day 87

She was often a lot of fun, and she was liked by nearly all of them. She jumpscared a lot, laughed a lot (loudly), danced a lot, and she cried a lot too, most notably after Tucker's first AI Instigator task backfired. The two of them fell hard for each other, but she had to be constantly reassured he was sincere and not gaming her. She also bonded tightly with T'kor and Kimo, so much and so visibly that they were dubbed The Trio in there. She made strong social connections that kept her safe, so she stayed well insulated as targets lined up ahead of her. Her only comp win was the tangled rope AI Arena, but she beasted that and saved herself. She usually accepted her many nominations and comp losses gracefully, and often comforted her co-nominees who didn't take theirs as well. She lasted til fourth place because Makensy did Chelsie's bidding rather than looking out for her own best interests.




Won: $5,000*; Week 1 AI Arena; Movie guest

HOH 0 - Veto 1 - Noms 7/0/0 - HN 3

 

Kimo Apaka - 35 36
Instagram - Instagram 2
Single - fan applicant/occasional feedster
Mattress sales rep
Hilo, HI

5th juror - 12th evicted - Day 80

Definitely one of the nicest hamsters in this cast, he was well-liked by virtually all of them and most viewers as well (not counting his noisy eating habits and thunderous belches). He wrote several BB songs in there and sang them a lot, and he has a good singing voice, but eventually it got to be a bit much. Gamewise he spent a lot of time in the first half in marathon whisper sessions with T'kor, and they generally had very good reads, but they rarely did much with that knowledge. He saved himself in the first AI Arena but then didn't do much until he won the high pressure double eviction veto. He became a perma-pawn along with Angela and Rubina, and he didn't put up any fight about those nominations, or even campaign some weeks. But he lived his dream of being on the show, and he formed super tight bonds with T'kor and Rubina that will likely last a very long time.




Won: 1000 orb pickup + decontaminations

HOH 2 - Veto 1 - Noms 6/1/0 - HN 1

 

Angela Murray - 50 51
Twitter - Instagram
Married with kids & grandkids - fan applicant
Real estate agent
Syracuse, UT (orig Long Beach, CA)

4th juror - 11th evicted - Day 73

Easily the co-star of the season, alongside Tucker (for different reasons), but she lasted a lot longer than he did. She won two HOHs and a veto, she was on the block seven times, and others veto'd her off it an unprecedented three times. She marched back and forth in the yard overnight for 9.5 hours, including a lot of full goop treatments, and she held up a marshmallow skewer overnight for 9.75 hours. That resumé would win many seasons, but a lot of them didn't like her. She added layers of drama, tantrums, self-deprecating humor, paranoia, kindness, a whole lot of crying, and a game strategy that mostly consisted of 'I want to be here.' She was often loyal and often not, and she was both a pleasure and a chore to watch, depending on the day, and she polarized viewers like few others. She proved that the older woman slot in the casting formula doesn't have to be a doomed early boot, or a dud.




Won: *Week 9 janky veto

HOH 1 - Veto 1+1* - Noms 0/1/0 - HN 1

 

Leah Peters - 26
Twitter - Instagram
Single - recruit
VIP cocktail server
Miami, FL (orig Pittsburgh, PA)

3rd juror - 10th evicted - Day 73

She was a social chameleon and she wasn't in many real alliances, but she had F2s (or close enough) with Lisa, Kenney, Quinn, Brooklyn, Joseph, Makensy, and Angela. She was often fun, often annoying, and a unique personality that the edits unfortunately overlooked for the first half of the season. Things that irk me with most were endearing with her, like wearing the veto necklace or HOH robe all the time, not to mention her Jankie World toy tiara. Cam liked her but Chelsie liked Cam so that got complicated, so she switched to Tucker but he liked Rubina. Both Joseph and Quinn liked her but she kinda liked Quinn, eventually. She often talked nonstop about herself, sprinkled liberally with 'like' and 'literally,' and she came across as being ditzy but she was smarter and savvier than she seemed, and she reminded them of that often. Her bond with Angela was fun to watch as it developed, and then they went out on the same night.




Won: $5,000

HOH 1 - Veto 0 - Noms 0/1/0 - HN 0

 

T'kor Clottey - 23
Instagram - Instagram 2
Has a boyfriend - Survivor applicant?
Crochet business owner
Atlanta, GA (orig Chicago, IL/London, UK)

2nd juror - 9th evicted - Day 66

She bonded with Kimo and Rubina early on, and the trio quickly became inseparable. That's heartwarming to see but a voting block of three is a big threat in this game. She was seen as their leader but she was beloved by everyone so it took awhile for her to hit the block. When she finally did, she didn't take it well and withdrew back into her self-described shell, and didn't fight hard enough to stay. She got Tucker out on her HOH, but he would have been a useful ally for her if he'd stayed. She and Kimo had excellent reads on the game and their fellow players throughout, but they didn't do much with those reads besides stealth-whisper to each other a lot. In Week 4 they orchestrated a vote flip but later denied doing so, even to each other. She's accomplished a lot in life at a young age and I have no doubt she'll continue to do so, and I wish her well.




Won: Deep Fake HOH/used Week 4; Viewers' nominee Week 3

HOH 1 - Veto 0 - Noms 1/1/1 - HN 1

 

Quinn Martin - 25
Twitter - Instagram
Single - fan applicant/RHAP listener
Nurse recruiter
Omaha, NE (orig Lawton, OK)

1st juror - 8th evicted - Day 59

He was a different kind of superfan, having seen episodes and RHAP podcasts, but no feeds. He got the best power this show's ever handed out on Day 2, but blabbed it to two people, so by the time he used it everyone knew and the fun was spoiled. That week he put his ally Cedric on the block and he went home, and later he put his ally Joseph on the block, and he went home. But he was allied with nearly everyone at some point, with F2s all over town, and he blew up alliances like it was a hobby. He continually thought he had everyone in his pocket, unaware his pocket had a huge gaping hole and couldn't hold anything. He shouted in Diary but was light and fun much of the time, even when his game was tanking, so props for that. He fell hard for Leah and made 'googleah' eyes at her, and his 'sick nasty' speech to her was instant inspiration for a million memes.




Won: 24 hours solitary

HOH 0 - Veto 0 - Noms 0/1/0 - HN 1

 

Joseph Rodriguez - 30 31
Twitter - Instagram
Single - fan applicant/feedster
Video store clerk
Tampa, FL

7th evicted - Day 52

He brought a lot of unintentional comedy as he deluded himself about his power and influence, and he proclaimed himself 'star of the show' in one solo talk to himself/us. To his credit, his intentional comedy was every bit as good, although his dry sense of humor wasn't appreciated by some. He had a BB birthday that helped him settle in better socially, and he became the eighth hamster to get 24 hours in solitary. Three of those won their seasons but not this time. Joseph had extra chatty, holographic mini-Matt for company, and he said later he used his toilet tent for extracurricular purposes. He apologized to Angela after being brutally honest about her game, and he acknowledged he had some self-work to do about his 'mean streak.' I'll miss him, and wish him nothing but the best. Props to his siblings and friends for running the best hamster-adjacent socials we've ever seen.




Won: $70,000; Weeks 2 & 3 AI Arena; 1 week AI Assist; Week 6 AI Instigator

HOH 1 - Veto 3 - Noms 2/0/2 - HN 1

 

Tucker Des Lauriers - 30
Twitter - Instagram
Single - recruit
Marketing and sales exec
Brooklyn, NY (orig Boston, MA)

6th evicted - Day 45

He demolished two AI Arenas and was the first pre-juror to win three vetos in a row(!), along with an HOH. All that plus his boasting made him most everyone's target but he seemed to relish that spot (along with puzzles and biscuits). He was a welcome change from the usual 'comp beast' type, often showing compassion and empathy, and shedding tears over missing his min pin Ziggi. He fell in love with Rubina, and was often loud, sometimes obnoxious, frequently funny, and he usually owned whatever room he was in, including Diary. His gameplay was reckless and unpredictable, nearly always leaving chaos in his wake. He was that extremely rare breed of hamster: a hard gamer, often a good one (sometimes horrible), while being entertaining. He will be missed.




Won: Nothing

HOH 0 - Veto 0 - Noms 1/0/0 - HN 0

 

Brooklyn Rivera - 34
Twitter - Instagram
Married with kids - fan applicant
Business administrator
Dallas, TX (orig Covington, GA)

5th evicted - Day 38

She brought us a number of classic shockfaces for various blindsides, and she said 'this doesn't quite feel like Big Brother' when she was on the block and on her way out. I beg to differ. She confessed her sports dancer secret to Quinn (who told several), her Mrs America secret to Chelsie (who didn't), but I don't think she told anyone she's friends with Aaryn. Thanks to Cam, she provided a fun Michael Jackson side game out here for her last couple weeks. She never tired of saying she wanted a married mother to win this season, so I guess we can assume she'll be rooting from home for Angela.




Won: Week 1 mascot/can't compete or vote

HOH 1 - Veto 0 - Noms 0/0/1 - HN 0

 

Cedric Hodges - 21
Twitter - Instagram
Single - recruit
Former Marine
Boise, ID (orig Running Springs, CA)

4th evicted - Day 31

He prepped by watching analysis clips and didn't see any full seasons so he had an unusual balance of BB lore and knowledge. He was a good sport about being sidelined Week 1 and he used that time well, becoming well-liked by all of them. 'Young Cedric' was an ongoing, evolving skit and his own elaborate life stories usually had them and us in stitches. Between expecting volunteers for the block and painting himself into a no-win corner between his various alliances, his HOH was a disaster. Then he volunteered to be a pawn the following week and learned the meaning of 'pawns go home.' He was funny, genuine, wise and mature beyond his years, and he'll be missed.




Won: Nothing

HOH 0 - Veto 1 - Noms 3/0/0 - HN 0

 

Kenney Kelley - 52
Instagram
Married with kids - fan applicant
Former undercover cop
Boston, MA

3rd evicted - Day 24

He adopted Matt and lost him fast, then he won a veto, and the rest of the time he said he wanted to quit. He rallied a bit at the end when he teamed up with Cedric and Tucker, adding Cam when he walked in on them, but that got blown up immediately. He mostly sat by himself and shouted out his family, or he complained to others about missing them, so they sent him back to them.




Won: Nothing

HOH 0 - Veto 1 - Noms 2/0/0 - HN 1

 

Lisa Weintraub - 33
Twitter - Twitter 2 - Instagram - Instagram 2
Single - recruit?
Celebrity chef
Los Angeles, CA

2nd evicted - Day 17

She's a legit chef/caterer and ran that into the ground, along with sprinkling edible glitter on everyone's food whether they wanted it or not. Tucker's rants about her were an early highlight, and she crumbled after Angela mocked her walk and called her a twit. Props for winning the first veto (rare for a woman), but she wasn't cut out for this setting. Most of that was simply being a bad roommate: she made (and wasted) food they didn't want, dabbed non-consensual essential oil on her roomies' pillows, propped filthy feet on food surfaces, and she never tired of telling everyone what a special and unique person she was.




Won: Nothing

HOH 0 - Veto 0 - Noms 0/0/1 - HN 0

 

Matt Hardeman - 25
Single - recruit?
Twitter - Instagram
Tech sales rep
Roswell, GA (orig Loganvilla, GA)

1st evicted - Day 10

He filled the pretty boy/brojock casting slot perfectly but didn't like Angela pointing that out openly and immediately. He was adamant about not being 'that guy' and to his credit, he did talk a lot against toxic masculinity. He cried after Angela yelled at him, but went out in high spirits with ginormous smiles for Julie.




 

Won: Control of the game

HOH 0 - Veto 0 - Noms 0/0/0 - HN 0

Ainsley/AInsley - 24
Surf shop worker
San Diego, CA

She lost two votes to join as #17 so reverted to her robotic persona aka Artificial Intelligence Network Self-Learning Entity, and became a comp host.




 


Lines and Links of the Day

Lines

Cam to feedsters: You guys know the real

 

Links

@s are Twitter

GET YOUR FEEDS includes a free trial

BB Viewer is back by @liquid8d -
requires P+ subscription

Why BB26 was one of Big Brother's better seasons, despite an appalling leak by me for @realityblurred

The BB Fandom BB26 Edition by @realityreacts

Post-finale interviews from @sharontharp:
-Chelsie
-Tucker
-Makensy
-Cam

Post-finale interviews from @AMikeBloomType:
-Tucker
-Chelsie
-Makensy
-Cam

BB26 house and houseguests packs for The Sims 4 by @BBTeamNorth

Take surveys - earn cash! It's not lottery-type amounts but it adds up - huge variety of topics

Rancho Coastal Humane Society temporary home of our feeds anipals, including adoption updates - visit them or your local shelter to find your new best friend

Live like a hamster! Available from Amazon:
-LED acrylic chess set: Amazon USA - Amazon Canada
-17-inch Orwell owl, for the memories: Amazon USA - Amazon Canada



Tally Items

Extracurricular Tally

Major fights: 2
-7/20 Angela at Matt
-8/5 Angela vs Quinn

Minor fights: 4
-7/22 Angela at Kenney
-7/23 Angela vs Lisa (not on feeds)
-7/27 Angela at Quinn
-8/5 Tucker at Cedric
-9/15 Chelsie vs Cam

House meetings: 1
-8/5 Cedric's, at/after veto meeting

Booze deliveries: 21
-7/17 Angela HOH White Claw
-7/25 Chelsie HOH White Claw
-7/28 Joseph's birthday 1 wine, 6 beer
-8/1 Cedric HOH White Claw
-8/7 2 wine, 6 beer/coolers
-8/8 Angela HOH hard lemonade
-8/11 1 wine, 6 beer/coolers
-8/13 3 wine, 6 beer/coolers?
-8/14 6 beer/coolers?
-8/15 Tucker HOH Tequila coolers
-8/23 T'kor HOH wine
-8/28 Halfway party
-8/29 Quinn HOH hard iced tea
-9/5 Chelsie HOH wine coolers?
-9/7 2 wine, 6 beer
-9/20 Makensy HOH beer
-9/21 2 wine, 6 beer
-9/26 Makensy HOH wine
-10/3 Chelsie HOH wine
-10/5 2 wine
-10/10 F3 champagne

HOH music
-Angela: Janet/Janet Jackson
-Chelsie: Diary of Alicia Keys/Alicia Keys
-Cedric: All Eyez on Me/Tupac Shakur
-Angela: Rumours/Fleetwood Mac
-Tucker: The Vision/The Vision
-T'kor: 4/Beyoncé
-Quinn: How Do You Sleep at Night?/Teezo Touchdown
-Chelsie: FutureSex/LoveSounds/Justin Timberlake
-Leah: None (Jankie World week)
-Makensy: Lucky/Megan Moroney
-Makensy: Carrying Your Love With Me/George Strait
-Chelsie: Dangerously in Love/Beyoncé

BBQ Smackdown scorecard:
-BBQ 1, Leah 0

Scandals outside our BB world: 4
-The end of Flashback
-Angela's breakfast tirade
-Angela's employer fires back at crazy fans
-Rubina/Tucker sexytime

 

Production Goofs

 1 Price tag left on a decor mushroom in house pics
 2 The show's Youtube still has $500k prize
 3 P+ page said season is 'now streaming' before it started
 4 Cast press release link to photos wasn't a link
 5 Different spellings for Kenney/Kenny
 6 Different spellings for Tucker's last name
 7 Eliminated Flashback - big mistake, HUGE
 8 Conflicting info about Essential plan
 9 Tickets site had a Week 2 Wednesday live show
10 Press release + other sources mistakenly said Essential plan wouldn't have feeds
11 Forgot to update premiere day
12 Wrong premiere time + faulty Pluto info in press pic captions
13 Wrong 2nd premiere time on P+ homepage
14 Premiere #2 used stock eviction description
15 Mixed up Matt and Kenney in press pics
16 No working links in Instagram merch promo
17 Official show Twitter using last year's logo
18 CBS main schedule forgot about Sunday's BB
19 7/21 episode caption mixed up flexors/flexes
20 Feeds thumbnails often show last season
21 Brooklyn's DR announcement recording doesn't work
22 Press pics compounded Kenney's ongoing name error
23 Press pics misspelled Brooklyn's last name
24 Wrong season for Taylor
25 Small Diary audio leak
26 Official show Twitter link goes to Celebs page
25 1 point credit for finally fixing all ongoing name misspellings in press pics
26 Recursive screen fail on 8/8 show
27 Angela's birthday supplies were a week early
28 A.I.N.S.L.E.Y merch has an extra period
29 Wrong season for Taylor, still/again
30 Misspelled Jag's last name
31 Feeds broke/froze on P+ and Pluto
32 Tucker called to start his task 5 hours after he started
33 Misspelled Chelsie's name on Youtube
34 Wrong first novel for Charles Dickens re BBAI Assist task, even though not an official question
35 Didn't erase Brooklyn completely
36 AI Instigator cash vote results were given Thursday - official rules & show announcer said Sunday
37 Misspelled Kimo's name
38 Technical difficulties message on feeds
39 Small Diary audio leak
40 Jerry said Quinn was HOH twice - he had one HOH, and one noms takeover
41 Wrong time for subsequent show from closing announcer
42 Press pics mislabeled a Jankie World pic
43 Feed 4 self-evicted for a minute
44 Random Diary hallway glimpse during Jankie week
45 Random HOH glimpse during Jankie week
46 Julie time error on 9/19 show
47 Julie veto count error on 9/19 show
48 Julie's earpiece prompter heard on 9/19 show
49 Wrong date and year in press pics for 9/19 show
50 Press pics misspelled Leah's last name
51 Snippet of The Summit audio on feeds before their screening
52 Julie veto count error again on 9/26 show
53 Julie miscounted Angela's block survivals on 9/26 show
54 Grammar issues on Julie's Instagram
55 Julie miscounted Kimo's noms on 10/3 show
56 Staffer's reflection seen on feeds
57 Forgot to update rules when AFP vote opened
58 Misspelled producer's name in finale credits




Follow me on Twitter

Linking to any page here is fine. Please don't repost content from this site (or any other) without permission, and don't repost or hotlink images.



988 CRISIS LINE 988

The national mental health hotline is available across the US and Canada. Call or text 988 if you or a loved one is in crisis - help is out there.

0

THE REAL SHOW IS THE FEEDS



BB1 thru BB25 plus Celebs and OTT, and loads of other shows and movies, plus originals

0



0

GAME TWISTS

-First and second move-in groups of eight voted against letting Ainsley join as 17th player, and each group played comps based on their votes.

-Losers Cedric, Chelsie were Week 1 mascots: couldn't compete for HOH or veto, couldn't vote, could be nominated.

-Makensy won America's Veto: once in first four weeks, she can remove someone from the block and viewers will instant-vote the replacement. She used it Week 3 after she went up as veto renom.

-Quinn won Deep Fake HOH: once in first four weeks, the HOH's AI avatar will announce noms Quinn secretly picked, and he can spread misinfo and rumors via that fake avatar. He used it Week 4 to take over Angela's 2nd HOH (everyone knew about it).

-Weeks 1 thru 7: HOH picked three nominees, and veto renom if applicable. The three competed live in AI Arena before the vote, and the winner came off the block.

-Week 6: Viewer vote to pick someone for AI Instigator (Tucker), who could spread rumors via others' AI avatars. A second vote determined how much cash he won ($20k).

-Week 9: Jankie World: everyone lived outside in a carnival setting, with carnival food.

0

HAMSTERWATCH SWAG

Official Hamsterwatcher gear

Mugs, shirts, more
Visit my Cafe Press shop

0

PROTECT YOUR ONLINE PRIVACY


Anonymously secure your internet connection with NordVPN

0





 
>> top of page    >> latest    >> daily index    >> links    >> twitter    >> screencaps
>> Big Brother 26    >> BB25    >> BB24    >> BB23    >> BB22    >> BB21     >> BB20    >> BB19    >> BB18    >> BB17
>> BB16    >> BB15    >> BB14    >> BB13    >> BB12     >> BB11    >> BB10    >> BB9    >> BB8    >> BB7    >> BB6    >> BB5

>> BB Canada 12    >> BBCan11    >> BBCan10    >> BBCan9    >> BBCan8    >> BBCan7
>> BBCan6    >> BBCan5    >> BBCan4    >> BBCan3    >> BBCan2    >> BBCan1

>> BB Reindeer Games    >> Celebrity Big Brother 3    >> CBB 2    >> CBB 1    >> Big Brother Over the Top



 
"Position the habitat of your hamster somewhere light and airy, away from drafts, heaters, direct sunlight
and other pets. Never put it on or near a television, radio or hi-fi, or a fridge."