‘Big Brother 26’ episode 35 recap: Was Kimo or Rubina (or someone else) evicted on October 3? [LIVE BLOG]
Heading into the 35th episode of “Big Brother 26,” new Head of Household Makensy Manbeck had just nominated Kimo Apaka and Rubina Bernabe for eviction. But with the Power of Veto competition still on the line, there was a chance that one of the nominees would win and Makensy would have to replace them with either Cam Sullivan-Brown or Chelsie Baham. After the Veto meeting, the players voted live to send someone else to the jury house. So how did it all play out during Thursday’s two-hour episode?
Below, read our minute-by-minute “Big Brother” Season 26, Episode 35 recap/live blog to find out what happened on October 3 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT. Then be sure to sound off in the comments section about your favorite “BB26” houseguests on CBS’s reality TV show, who annoys you the most and who you think will ultimately join the “Big Brother” winners list. As always, Julie Chen Moonves hosts the series.
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8:00 p.m. – “Previously on ‘Big Brother’!” In the 34th episode, viewers saw all of the secret moments that happened during the live double eviction. Later, the eligible contestants competed in the HOH competition to assemble a 30-piece tiny puzzle using tweezers, with Makensy pulling out yet another victory. She had no trouble at all deciding which two players to nominate for eviction: Kimo and Rubina. That’s because Makensy had a three-person alliance with Cam and Chelsie, and she had no interest in betraying either of them at this stage of the game. But enough about last time — let’s find out who wins the Veto and who goes home!
8:05 p.m. – At the time of nominations, Makensy’s target was Kimo because she felt like he is the least likely to take her to the end of the game if he had the power. Ideally she wanted to go to the end with Chelsie, but was close with Cam as well. Cam and Chelsie understood that Kimo is the bigger threat at the end because of how good of a social player he is so it seemed as though Makensy’s target would remain the target… for now.
8:07 p.m. – With both of them on the block, Rubina and Kimo knew that one of them would have to win the veto in order to have a hope of keeping them both in the house. Rubina thought there was also a possibility that if Makensy wins the veto that they can convince her to use it in order to get the bigger threat, Chelsie, on the block and going home through the back door.
8:09 p.m. – Still feeling like Rubina is a pawn, Makensy floated to Chelsie the idea that if they win the veto they could regain Rubina’s trust by taking her off and putting Cam up in order to make it seem like they’re all for the girls alliance. This idea, even as an idea, was a red flag to Chelsie and made her think that Rubina has the ability to get in Makensy’s ear, making her possibly more dangerous to her and Cam than originally thought. Chelsie didn’t want to tell Cam exactly what Makensy said so instead she tried to emphasize to him that Rubina is working hard at getting in Makensy’s head and so they both should try really hard to win the veto.
8:17 p.m. – For this week’s veto comp, the final five played in the iconic “BB Comics” challenge where they flew around the backyard to correctly place comic book covers for each of the houseguests. In his run, Kimo got stuck on the misplaced comics of T’Kor and Matt, delaying his finish time. Makensy’s run seemed smoother because she only hit her button once, but she decided to take each comic one by one to determine the differences first and then re-ordered them on the board later. Cam had many more failed attempts at correct answers than either of them, struggling both to get the order correct and notice the right details in each. Rubina fared even worse, seemingly swapping out covers randomly without much thought at all. Chelsie moved quickly through the challenge, but it took a while for her realize that she had the wrong cover on display for Brooklyn.
8:38 p.m. – The top three finishers were Kimo, Chelsie and Makensy. In third place was Kimo with 30:27 and the winner was Makensy with 13:51.
8:42 p.m. – Seeing the times of the finishes, Makensy was already upset that Cam didn’t do better for their alliance, but then she lost all patience when Cam confessed that he was so frustrated in the challenge that he stopped to take breaks. Later when she got to discuss with Chelsie, they were both equally upset that he couldn’t finish it in 30 minutes and they were beginning to feel like his strategy to just coast through the game was forcing them to get all the blood on their hands so that he comes out squeaky clean. At this point, they were starting to wonder if he throws comps intentionally to make them look bad as threats and him better.
8:50 p.m. – Eventually Chelsie confronted Cam about the possibility that he’s throwing comps, but he openly admitted that he just sucks at all of them. She told him to get it together because Makensy is pissed enough to consider nominating him, but he thinks she’s just getting paranoid. Later he went to Makensy to express him embarrassment at doing so poorly in the comp, and while Makensy laughed it off she didn’t necessarily believe that he didn’t throw it.
9:00 p.m. – At the veto meeting, Makensy decided to forego taking Rubina down to put Cam up and instead decided to “look out for” herself by not using the power at all.
9:09 p.m. – In the jury house, Quinn was surprised to see T’Kor follow him out of the game because he thought that she was set up to win. At this point, T’Kor felt like Chelsie was playing the best game, and then a week later was happy to see that Leah was joining her. And then based on Leah’s exit, it wasn’t a total surprise that Angela was the next to go in the double eviction. As they watched the week back, the jurors were impressed by Makensy’s dominance in the comps. But then when Chelsie won the next HOH, her profile was raised once again and she also seemed like a strong enough competitor to be the winner.
9:21 p.m. – As the houseguests settle in for the last stretch of game after 80 days of being in the house, Julie surprised them with video messages from home. Rubina’s dad and sister, Makensy’s parents and brother, Kimo’s mom and brother, Cam’s dad, and Chelsie’s family all shared their warm wishes and support for how each of them has been playing the game.
9:32 p.m. – In an attempt to save herself from eviction, Rubina checked in with Chelsie and Makensy about sticking with an all women goal for the final three. Makensy was particularly interested in this path because she feels comfortable with Rubina not sending her home if she has the sole vote in the final four and Chelsie was happy to let Rubina believe she wants an all female final three as well. But Chelsie knew that she had to be the one to communicate the conversation to Cam in order to prevent Makensy from telling him first. Cam was curious about Makensy’s strategy to “play both sides” at this point in the game.
9:35 p.m. – Kimo was also angling the gender story when he approached Cam as someone that should vote for him to stay. Kimo explained that they have the best chance at winning sitting next to each other and then Cam realized that if Rubina leaves then maybe Kimo would see him as his ideal final two. Kimo’s approach with Chelsie was a bit different. With her, Kimo positioned Makensy as the biggest threat and offered to be a benefit to Chelsie to help compete against Makensy and with a promise that he would come for her, not Chelsie.
9:37 p.m. – It wasn’t until Cam and Chelsie spoke one last time that they realized that it might be in their best interest to keep Kimo and send Rubina home this week. Chelsie was impressed that Cam was making sense with talk about how Rubina would favor Makensy over any of them while Kimo would likely favor both of them over Makensy. Chelsie was not comfortable making the switch without Makensy knowing so the three of them had a final discussion about their options where Makensy stressed that Kimo is stronger in challenges than Rubina, but Cam and Chelsie tried to point out that Rubina is just as likely to earn jury votes.
9:46 p.m. – In their last statements to the house, Kimo thanked everyone for a great season and said that he’ll respect their decision while Rubina stated that she wants to keep playing with them. From the voting booth in the diary room, Cam voted to evict Kimo and Chelsie voted to evict Kimo. By a 2-0 vote, Kimo was evicted in 5th place.
9:50 p.m. – During his exit interview with Julie, Kimo expressed confidence that he was going to win if they didn’t take him out and he understands that it was a tough choice between the two of them. He told Julie that the visibility of how close he was with T’Kor and Rubina was why a target came their way and he’s okay with that because they needed each other in the house.
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