Spoiler alert. This post covers Big Brother 28 live feed activity from Monday night into the early hours of Tuesday, August 18. None of it has aired on CBS yet. If you are waiting for Wednesday’s ninety minute episode, close this tab now.
The Diamond Power of Veto went off on Monday and the house did not explode. It went to a birthday party instead. Then Kamu Kirk spent eight hours quietly counting votes that are not there.
Where Week 6 Actually Stands
Yash Patel won Head of Household and nominated Haley Thogmartin, Angela Murray and Dee Valladares. Yash then won the OTEV veto himself on Saturday and declined to use it, leaving his own board intact.
Rick Devens ended that at Monday’s ceremony, pulling Dee down with the Diamond Power of Veto and naming Kamu as the replacement. We broke that down in the Week 6 veto ceremony spoilers. The block is now Kamu, Angela and Haley.
Kamu Started Campaigning Fifteen Minutes After the Feeds Returned
Feeds came back at 12:50 in the afternoon. By 1:06 Kamu had already found Dee in private to patch things up, telling her flatly that he was not the one who leaked that she was holding the BB Bribe.
That is a smart first stop and a wasted one. Dee has wanted Kamu gone for days. On Sunday afternoon Devens called him public enemy problem number one and Dee answered that she wanted to get him out of there so bad. Kamu is negotiating with the two people who built the trap.
Yash Is Whipping Votes for the Wrong Side of the House
The strangest thread of the night is that the Head of Household who nominated the other two is now the loudest voice trying to save the replacement. Yash was pitching Barrett Pfeiffer, Melody Morris and Drew Campbell on keeping Kamu by 1:05, framing Kamu and Haley as weapons the newbies can aim at the returning players.
His logic is honest enough. He has said he believes that if Kamu leaves, he is the next big target. He is not wrong about that part. He is wrong about the votes. Barrett gave him a vague nod. Mallory Aurichio told him she had not spoken to the nominees yet, which is the polite version of no. At 1:15 he asked America for a power, which tells you how the room felt.
The Mosh Pit Has Six of the Nine Votes
Here is the arithmetic Kamu is working against. Twelve houseguests remain. Yash does not vote as Head of Household. Two nominees stay on the block after the Block Buster and do not vote. That leaves nine voters and five to evict, which matches the number Kamu himself landed on with Haley in the backyard at 5:30.
The eight non nominee voters are Devens, Dee, Barrett, Drew, Melody, Mallory, Taylor Brown and LaTrice Verrett. Six of those eight are in the Mosh Pit, the seven person merger of the Crossovers and FAP that Mallory and Melody named on Sunday night. Six is already a majority of nine. That is the whole story.
Dee Wanted a Fight and Got a Birthday Party Instead
Dee was openly annoyed that the blindside landed softly. Angela told her at 1:38 that everyone was taking it well and Dee shot back that she did not want everyone to take it well. She wanted blood and she got cake.
Angela’s birthday ran the evening instead, with a gratitude speech around 8:35 and a backyard variety show after it. The one strategic move Dee made all night was telling Angela at 7:45 that the two of them look too close and need visible separation, then adding that she would go against everybody in this damn house if it came to that.
The Band of Misfits and the Covenant
Two alliance names matter more than the Mosh Pit right now, and neither has been anywhere near a CBS episode.
The first is B O M, the Band of Misfits, workshopped by Drew and Barrett in the backyard just after one in the morning on Monday. Five people: Drew, Barrett, Dee, Angela and Devens. They rejected Bra Nation and Motley Crue first. Barrett asked whether they could say it in a French accent. Dee, asked when the rest of the house finds out, said never, they are going to find out in October. Functionally it is the Mosh Pit’s inner core.
The second is the Covenant, named by LaTrice on Sunday: LaTrice, Kamu, Yash and Taylor. That is the bloc this eviction is designed to break, and Devens has already sketched what is left of it afterward.
Kamu Worked Drew at 12:40 in the Morning
The last real game conversation of the night ran in the have not room. Kamu probed Drew about where Melody and the others were leaning and voiced open suspicion about what Devens is actually doing. Drew, who spent the afternoon calling Devens his Big Brother dad, told Kamu there is probably some distrust toward Haley because she put both of them up.
Drew is playing both nominees at once. At 2:08 in the afternoon he was telling Haley that Dee should be the next target. At 12:40 in the morning he was giving Kamu a read on the vote.
The Block Buster Is the Only Math That Saves Him
All three nominees play the BB Block Buster on Thursday and the winner comes off the block. That is Kamu’s only genuine out, and he knows it. He told Haley it might be possible that at least one of them wins it. Yash’s parting advice to him around eleven at night was to win that thing.
Run the branches. If Angela wins, it is Kamu against Haley and Kamu goes. If Haley wins, it is Kamu against Angela and Kamu goes. Only if Kamu wins does the week change, and then it is Angela against Haley, with Angela holding the alliance votes and Haley going home. Kamu has to win a competition or he is the sixth juror.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is on the block in Big Brother 28 Week 6?
Kamu Kirk, Angela Murray and Haley Thogmartin, after Devens used the Diamond Power of Veto Monday to remove Dee Valladares and name Kamu.
Who is the target for Thursday’s eviction?
Kamu. The Mosh Pit controls six of the nine votes and every outlet covering the feeds has the plan holding as of Tuesday morning.
Can Kamu still save himself?
Only by winning the BB Block Buster on Thursday. If he does, Haley becomes the likely evictee, because Angela has the alliance votes to stay.
What is the Mosh Pit alliance?
A seven person group formed Sunday night: Devens, Dee, Angela, Barrett, Drew, Melody and Mallory. It merges the Crossovers with the alliance the newbies call FAP.
Did Dee use her BB Bribe this week?
No. She offered it to Yash for safety before nominations and he refused, and she has not spent it since. She still holds the five thousand dollars.
When does the veto ceremony air?
Wednesday, August 19, in the ninety minute Episode 21, along with the OTEV veto competition itself.
