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" Sunday night was an amazing one in the Big Brother house, since that&amp;#039;s when Head of Household GinaMarie, of all people, changed the game by putting Amanda and McCrae on the chopping block. One or the other of them will be going home on Thursday, but which one it&amp;#039;ll be depends on how the Power of Veto competition goes tonight. Let&amp;#039;s get on with it, shall we?  Following the elimination ceremony, Amanda heads to the diary room to cry about how blindsided she was and how she wanted to be the first showmance to make it to the end. McCrae is also a little teary-eyed, and I kinda feel bad for him. Too bad he&amp;#039;s such a doormat for Amanda, or he maybe could have won this thing. Of course, Amanda soon springs back from the tears and begins scheming on who could be working together in the house since she&amp;#039;s admittedly &amp;quot;pissed&amp;quot;.   Because of this, Amanda marches into the other room to confront Spencer (who&amp;#039;s chatting to Andy) and accuse him of working with Judd, Elissa and GinaMarie in alliance. He then suggests everyone should go upstairs and ask GinaMarie what happened, since it &amp;quot;doesn&amp;#039;t make sense&amp;quot;. Everyone hates you - what&amp;#039;s so hard to understand?  Amanda then marches up to the HoH room to &amp;quot;figure this out&amp;quot;, shouting about how she doesn&amp;#039;t understand the logic. Amanda seems to be enraged that Gina lied to her, but Amanda has been orchestrating this whole game and filling it with lies, previously! Now that it&amp;#039;s turned on her, it&amp;#039;s not working out too well. GinaMarie says that Amanda wasn&amp;#039;t there for Aaryn when she needs her and claims that now she has targets on her back, which is why she should have put Elissa up. GinaMarie holds her ground, though, and insists that they had to be split up. Amanda continues screaming and making idle threats about how GinaMarie &amp;quot;f**ked herself&amp;quot;. God, I cannot wait until she walks out the front door. I really hope she doesn&amp;#039;t win the Power of Veto. A fight then erupts when Amanda claims that Spencer or Andy would pull her off the block and that whoever GinaMarie puts up in their place will end up going home. Obviously she doesn&amp;#039;t know about The Exterminators alliance, and because she doesn&amp;#039;t get her way, she just starts crying and shouting about how she doesn&amp;#039;t even want to be in the house anymore. She then goes to pout in the Have Not room, where McCrae has to come and comfort her despite her insane behaviour. She&amp;#039;s finally beginning to realise that GinaMarie has the votes either way to get one of them out. Good... say your goodbyes, jerk!   Amanda is particularly upset that she&amp;#039;s going to be separated from the man she &amp;quot;loves&amp;quot; (having met on a reality TV show and been shut in a house with him for two-and-a-half months). McCrae really cares about her, too, and they both insist how &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; their relationship is despite the bizarre factor. I&amp;#039;m sure they think that&amp;#039;s the case, but I doubt they&amp;#039;ll do anything besides fizzle out once this whole thing is over. Soon after, Amanda goes crying to Andy in the kitchen about how she wants to stay in the game and doesn&amp;#039;t want to &amp;quot;take&amp;quot; the competition experience from McCrae. Andy is trying to tow the line because he doesn&amp;#039;t want a target on his back, but little do they both know that Elissa&amp;#039;s listening outside the door. Elissa&amp;#039;s not sure who Andy is loyal to, but it seems he&amp;#039;s more loyal to Amanda than he his to her. I think he&amp;#039;s equally disloyal to them both, actually. Spencer marches in soon after, revealing that Elissa was listening until he walked up - he doesn&amp;#039;t want his alliance getting in any trouble. This seems to really upset Amanda, who claims that if she or McCrae win the veto, she&amp;#039;ll &amp;quot;make sure&amp;quot; that Elissa goes on the block and goes home. She clearly still doesn&amp;#039;t get the fact that she&amp;#039;s not in charge here anymore. It&amp;#039;s time to pick players for the Veto competition, and it&amp;#039;s Amanda, McCrae, GinaMarie and then the randomly drawn players - Elissa, Spencer and Andy. This should be interesting. There&amp;#039;s also another special announcement to be made: Judd and Spencer don&amp;#039;t have to wear their chicken costumes anymore. Joy!   Since Amanda picked Spencer as houseguest&amp;#039;s choice, she feels the need to explain to Andy why she didn&amp;#039;t pick him. Basically, she didn&amp;#039;t want to put Andy in the position to decide between herself or McCrae if he won. Little does she know that not a single person - besides herself or McCrae - will use the Veto if they win it. At the same time, Elissa confides in Judd that she believes Andy is playing both sides of the house. Obviously Judd already knows this, considering he&amp;#039;s in an alliance with him, but he plays dumb very well. Judd repeats this to Andy, and he&amp;#039;s a bit nervous - it&amp;#039;s crucial she&amp;#039;s not suspicious so that he doesn&amp;#039;t become a target. Andy goes to talk to GinaMarie about all of this, and Judd and Spencer come up soon after, when a bunch of obnoxious/not at all funny &amp;quot;exterminator&amp;quot; puns are made, along with pretend motions of spraying chemicals along the floor, etc. They can all taste the final four, but first they&amp;#039;ll need to dominate the Veto competition. Let&amp;#039;s hope they can, or things can go up in smoke yet again. It&amp;#039;s time for the Veto competition, and it&amp;#039;s bowling themed. Basically, they&amp;#039;ll have to spin on a rope in a circle for 15 rotations to lower a barrier, and in pairs, they&amp;#039;ll need to knock down all their pins. The last person standing at the end of this wins the Veto. If that doesn&amp;#039;t really make sense to you, you&amp;#039;re not alone. Let&amp;#039;s all just go with it.  Amanda challenges Elissa first, and unfortunately dizzy bowling isn&amp;#039;t really Elissa&amp;#039;s strong point. Amanda does a bit better, and eventually knocks her out. Ugh, this cannot be happening. Andy then chooses Amanda again, which he does for three reasons - he can pretend he&amp;#039;s going to throw it to Amanda, appease his alliance and make Elissa less suspicious of him. So he hopes, anyway. Amanda beats him, as well. Ugh. When it comes to GinaMarie, she decides to go against Amanda, as well. Obviously she&amp;#039;s hoping that Amanda&amp;#039;s exhaustion will make her easy to knock out. God, please let that be the case. Amanda seems to be ahead, and indeed she keeps that lead, knocking Gina out, as well. This is going really, really badly. McCrae and Spencer pair up next, and it&amp;#039;s a pretty good match. They&amp;#039;re nearly even, but eventually McCrae beats him out, meaning it&amp;#039;s just him and Amanda against one another. This is a terrible scenario - for them and everyone else. This final round is a tense one, and it&amp;#039;s pretty hilarious that McCrae describes trying to beat her is &amp;quot;taking Old Yeller out in the fields to be put down&amp;quot;. Ha! Right now, they&amp;#039;re not in a relationship, they&amp;#039;re arch enemies. It seems to be pretty evenly matched, but then, with one pin left, it&amp;#039;s McCrae who gets the final one and the Power of Veto. That means Amanda will be going home tomorrow! YES! There is justice in the world, after all! McCrae is upset that he won&amp;#039;t have his &amp;quot;greatest ally and lover&amp;quot; in the house (ew) and thinks that Amanda is a better player than he is. Please tell me he&amp;#039;s not stupid enough to give her the PoV. Amanda is emotional, but she seems to finally realise that her game is over and that it&amp;#039;s time to go back to the real world, where hopefully she&amp;#039;s a slightly more decent human being than she has been on the show.  Inside later, Amanda turns on the waterworks for McCrae, claiming that she &amp;quot;fought so hard&amp;quot; to be here. Uh, yeah, in THIS competition. Meanwhile, The Exterminators are upstairs talking about who the replacement nominee is going to sit on the block &amp;quot;looking pretty&amp;quot;. Elissa is suggested, but GinaMarie wants to &amp;quot;do her a solid&amp;quot; since she didn&amp;#039;t nominate her last week. They&amp;#039;re going to make the decision via a good ole game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. Sweet.  At the Veto meeting, McCrae lets Amanda have her say on why he should use the PoV on her. She starts another round of her tears before saying that she &amp;quot;kicked everyone&amp;#039;s ass&amp;quot;, but if she had to lose to one person, she&amp;#039;s glad it was McCrae. She can&amp;#039;t ask or expect - nor does she want - him to use the Veto on her. Please tell me he&amp;#039;s not dumb enough to do it anyway.  Luckily, he isn&amp;#039;t. McCrae uses it on himself and GinaMarie puts Spencer up in his place. Things should still go to plan tomorrow night - Amanda is absolutely horrendous and has to go, so I hope she enjoys her last bit of time in the house. Of course, Amanda isn&amp;#039;t dealing with being bested, claiming that GinaMarie is a &amp;quot;bimbo&amp;quot; who only nominated her because she&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;jealous&amp;quot; of her relationship with McCrae. God, I can&amp;#039;t wait to watch her leave.  Will all go to plan? And who will be the second person to leave during this week&amp;#039;s live double eviction episode? Tune into CBS on Thursday, September 5 at 9/8c to find out!  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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