'Big Brother 11': Chima calls Braden out

Hey there, "Big Brother" fanatics! I'm back for season 11 and more than ready to kick one of these jokers out of the house. How about you?

First, though, a recap: the houseguests were divided into high school cliques; Jesse won HOH and an alliance quickly formed between the athletes and the brains; Jesse nominated Lydia and Chima; Ronnie played way too hard; Russell won POV and took Lydia off the block, Jesse put Braden up in her place.

Julie welcomes us, looking lovely in a red belted dress. We can finally see her baby bump! We go immediately to the post-veto reactions. Braden is completely confused at his nomination, so he obviously hasn't been paying attention to Lydia's desperate attempts to suck up to the boys in the athletes clique. Jeff realizes them putting Braden up was actually a shot at him, since they are aligned and Jessie can't put Jeff up this week. Jordan cries because people are turning against each other. Apparently she thought she was auditioning for "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" or something. Lydia is upset because Jordan cried when Braden was nominated but didn't cry when she was nominated. This makes her determine that she and Jordan were never actually friends. Or something. I cannot follow such idiotic logic, so I do not even try.

Braden suspects Lydia sold him out, and Russell tells him she pretty much "threw him under the bus." Braden confronts Lydia about what happened and she denies everything until Braden begins to personally attack her out of frustration. Kevin gets into it and a stupid three-way argument between Lydia, Braden and Kevin ensues. Lydia then brings Jordan into the mix, asking her why she didn't cry when Lydia was nominated. Jordan sanely says she was crying because Braden is on her team, and Lydia isn't. Lydia then says Jordan should be upset because it COULD have been her nominated instead of Braden. I seriously have no idea what is going on at this point. Lydia is crazy, yo. Then Jeff somehow gets into the mix and Kevin yells at him for not leaving Braden's side immediately when he was being a jerk to him and Lydia. Jeff is pretty incredulous. as am I. These people are yelling just to yell at this point. Jordan decides she's not letting her team lose a member without a fight and talks to Laura about getting them, Jeff, Ronnie, Michele and Casey together and getting Chima out of the house instead of Braden.You go, Jordan! I like it when people don't take things lying down, especially when those things help Jessie.

Now it's back live for Julie's Q&A with the houseguests. Here's what we learn: Russell and Jeff are both unapologetic about their screaming match, and instead of insight Jordan simply gives us a play-by-play recap of the fight between her and Lydia. In case we didn't see it, I guess? Does she not realize she's on television?

Finally, it's time for the good stuff: nominee speeches! Normally these are boring, but this week they are oh so wonderful. Braden meekly stands and talks about theirs being the best first week in "Big Brother" history (yeah, so not), and apologizes for saying mean things earlier in the week. When it's her turn, Chima totally calls Braden out, revealing that he called Lydia and Kevin _________ and __________ and ___________. At least that's what it sounded like on my TV. I love it when any reality TV contestant is called out on their BS, so it would have been AWESOME had CBS not censored what she said. Apparently, it was something misogynistic AND racist, so obviously there were some things edited from our broadcast seeing as we only heard the misogynistic remarks. Live feeders, any insight?

Next is the live vote, and it is actually interesting for once, with Jordan's plan seemingly working until things come up as a tie! Ronnie was the last vote and obviously too chicken to cast the deciding vote to evict someone in his own clique, which I can understand. Still, the look on Jessie's face had this happened would have been priceless. Of course, Jessie votes to evict Braden but for like five seconds there was some real excitement in this show! Woo!

In Braden's exit interview with Julie, he says he isn't surprised to be sitting there and either Ronnie, Michelle or Casey sold him out. Julie admits it was Ronnie, and Braden cops to thinking Ronnie has something inside of him that's sinister and dark. Heh. 

The HOH competition this week is "Most Likely To," which is one of those typical contests where BB polls BB fans on the internet, this time asking them their first impressions about the houseguests' cliques. The goal is to guess who America picked as the majority. If you get one right, you get to eliminate someone, with the last man or woman standing winning. Laura is strong in the competition until she jumps the gun and guesses wrong, eliminating herself. Things get down to Ronnie and Michele of the Brains clique to fight out the last question, with Ronnie winning. The question is, who is he really aligned with right now? I would love to see some athletes on the block next week...but I have a feeling the only athlete who might make it up there is Jeff.

Sunday: Dan is back for a surprise! I love Dan.

Favorite quotes:

• "I'm pretty much the biggest schemer here and I don't go on the block as a replacement nominee? Oh my God, yes! That's gravy, baby. Gravy." - Ronnie
• "I was being sincere to him. You're just a bitch. And you're a friggin' skank." - Braden, being oh so charming
• "I defended you. What did you want me to do, drown him?" - Jeff, to Lydia and Kevin post-Braden incident
• "It amazes me how short some of the memory spans in here are, because my opponent here called both of my very good friends ____________________. Yes, he did. And, so, a vote for Braden is the vote for a bigot. Anyone who aligns themselves with a misogynist and a bigot, you deserve to go home." - Chima's awesome nominee speech
• "Well, Chima, I think that's the most memorable last plea speech we've ever heard." - Julie
• "I vote to evict Chima's melodramatic behind." - Casey, who as a white man probably has never had to deal with the "melodrama" of a racism like Chima has

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