Sarah Walker

Julie introduces the live Day 59 show with a long recap and tells us that old man Jerry “shocked” the youngsters by winning HOH. Tonight’s offering includes a number of poignant, touching segments showing our beloved houseguests opening their hearts to one another. So you might want to have a small trash can or other receptacle handy. You’ve been warned. We also visit the inmates of the jury house, which now includes lovebirds April and Ollie. Forewarned is forearmed.

Like a breath of fresh air, Renny opens the opening Diary Room confessions: “The veto meeting sucked for me today. Memphis can kiss my ass. He wanted to split up Keesha and I. I’m on the block with a friend, I mean, I’m not going to campaign against Keesha.”

Keesha interviews “The person I care about most in this house is the one sitting beside me on the block. So either way, it’s a lose-lose situation. I don’t want to lose Renny, but I do not want to leave the house.” No kidding.

Memphis tells us “I don’t think I can trust anybody more than I do Dan.” That’s what you call a problem. “The Renegade alliance is still alive, and Dan and I have a deal to the end.”

Jerry comments “Memphis screwed me over at the POV meeting. He told me that he would work with me and get Dan out of the house and he broke his word. And the beat goes on…. Betrayal in this game should not go unpunished. I feel like I stand alone in the house. Again.”

Happy, smug Diary Room Dan says “Memphis came through with flying colors, put the necklace (the necklace?) around my neck for my birthday, and I’m just the happiest I’ve ever been in this house. This week the Renegades control the votes. We decide who stays and who goes.” God help us, we’re in actual danger of having a bandanna moment.

Memphis tells Dan that the POV meeting was hard. He did what had to be done but still “feels bad.” He doesn’t know if Jerry is going to “flip out” because he took Dan off the block.

Time to find out! Memphis is in the bathroom area when Jerry comes through. He gives Memphis the icy shoulder as he walks past. No flip out. The flip outs of past weeks, plus the malnutrition caused by endless meals of slop have left old Jerry too exhausted for a good flip out. Instead, he goes to Keesha and asks her to talk. He tells her “I couldn’t believe he didn’t get rid of Dan. It’s obvious they are playing to the end.” Keesha agrees. Jerry says he wants her to stay in the game. “I could be a tremendous advantage to you. I think you’re going to find that Memphis has an agreement with everybody.” Keesha interviews “Memphis tells me he’s going to take me to the end. But Jerry has my mind working big time right now.” You can see the strain of the effort on her face. Jerry advises Keesha not to say anything to anyone. Not a problem. Too hard to have your mind working and talk all at the same time, anyway.

Keesha and Renny are in their bedroom. Keesha tells Renny her head is spinning. “Do you think Dan and Memphis have a deal to take each other to the end?” All this thinking has led Keesha to conclude that Memphis taking Dan off the block was simply a random act of kindness. Or maybe just a thoughtful birthday gift. Renny merely replies “I think so.” Then after some thought, deciding Keesha’s mind might be able to handle it after all, Renny says “Listen. He’s not going to take Dan off the block for nothing. He could have taken you. He took him off for good reason….he’s very shrewd. So is Dan.”

Dan is doing some kitchen clean up when Jerry takes the opportunity to hot box him. “What do you think Memphis is keeping you around for? He thinks he can beat you if you go to the final.” He asks Dan for his “support to get to the final three.” He tells him what he already knows: “If one of the girls gets there, they’re going to win it.” He continues “The only person in the house who hadn’t betrayed me was Memphis; that’s why I didn’t put him on the block. He betrayed me the other day when he took you off the block. You’re no different than anyone else right now.”

Dan and Keesha are in the storage room sharing a beer. Keesha looks kinda wasted, but it’s so hard to tell with her. Dan asks if Jerry came to her. She replies “Yes, of course, (hic) what do you think? Did he come to you?” Dan says “Yeah, he’s trying to stir s*** up.” Memphis joins them; Keesha informs him that they were talking about how Jerry has been trying to work them both. “Has he come to you?” Memphis says no. Keesha continues “He’s saying that you have deals with everybody in the house.” Memphis points to each in turn and says “Well, you know that’s not true and you know that’s not true, so here we go. As long as he doesn’t win POV….”

Dan and Memphis regroup in private. Dan says “We gotta be careful with her.” Memphis interviews “Jerry told Keesha that I had a deal with everybody in the house. If Keesha believed Jerry, it’s a bad thing for me and Dan.”

Remember, I warned you…. Keesha and Renny are sharing a bottle of wine in the kitchen, getting drunk off their butts and mushier by the second. Renny tells her friend “When I leave here I’ll be a different woman. I’ll be the same Renny, but things in my life will change.” Keesha responds “Me too. I’ve already thought that.” She continues “I was immature and naive before.” Before! Not even a trace of irony. Maybe you can’t be ironic if you don’t know what it means. Or can’t spell it. I don’t know. Anyway, she goes on to say “It’s made me respect different things in life.” The two continue to gush, professing their undying love, admiration and friendship for one another. Renny sobs “I want you to be a mother. You’d be a beautiful mother. I mean it from my heart.” (Just no “freakin’ gorillas” with anyone who looks like Steven, okay?) Keesha says she has never met anyone like Renny and can’t imagine being in the house without her. Renny will never forget her. “I’ll always love you, Keesha Marie.” The two women embrace, and just as it looks like they are going to topple from their barstools in a drunken heap, BB mercifully cuts to commercial. I’ve never been so happy to hear about a refreshing new dental care product.

Back to the show, and if you thought it was safe to rinse out your trash can and put it away, think again. Julie tells us “From day one, Memphis has played a cool and calculated game. Is there more to this Hollywood player than meets the eye?” Memphis and Dan are sharing a heart to heart on the back porch. Memphis confesses that being in the house has made him realize that he needs to be “a better boyfriend.” It seems his girlfriend, Ashley, enjoys staying home, but her man is an unrepentant party boy. He tells Dan that when he goes out, it’s not to a sports bar or something. “We go out - and don’t come home ’til seven AM.” Dan replies that it takes a special kind of woman to put up with that. Memphis agrees, saying “She’s one of the nicest girls ever.”

Here’s Ashley, in the apartment she shares with Memphis. When she met him three years ago, he was a cocky, arrogant ladies man. But then she got to know the Memphis underneath it all. The real mixologist, if you will. She tells us that Memphis “went through a lot of stuff growing up” and that it made him stronger. Here’s footage of him in the house one night, telling Keesha “My father was not a good guy. He was married five times.” This is why when Jerry called Memphis a “womanizer” he took it so dang personally. Memphis’ BFF, some guy on a beach, tells us that Memphis is most definitely not a womanizer. Okay, let’s throw this thing into reverse right here. In Memphis’ own backstory video, he brags about his lifestyle, and how he gets women to buy him cars and 2K suits. So which is it, dude? Anyway, the ‘reformed’ Memphis tells Dan he wants to be “more selfless” and take his relationship to the next level. Ashley hopes that being in the house will make Memphis appreciate her more. Although the relationship doesn’t depend on Memphis winning the 500K, she just might get herself a bigger ring if Memphis wins it all. So touching! Or maybe, if Memphis falls short in the BB house, he could get one of those other women to buy him a diamond ring instead of a car or a suit.

Even BB realizes the need for a break from all the slop. Julie returns with a “splash.” It’s footage of Jerry accidentally falling into the pool. Dan is overcome with the giggles, and to his credit Jerry is also laughing heartily at himself. He calls it a “senior moment.” Julie calls it a “cute moment.” At least it’s not a “puke-inducing moment,” and we’re all relieved.

Julie wishes Dan a happy 25th birthday. He says something to the effect of having to act mature now. Ha, says Julie, or something like that. She asks Dan “What is it about Renny that makes you want to tease her?” Dan says he teases his mom at home, and Renny is like his “Mom away from Mom” and he has “so much fun with Renny that to not tease her would be an insult.” To Dan, tease = love. Awww! Dan is already workin’ that jury vote. For her part, Renny says she enjoys Dan’s antics. She says something about how it sometimes ends up in the bed. Julie interrupts her, saying “Too much information!” Amen, Jules. Renny concludes that “It’s all in good fun.”

Time for Jerry’s Chen Chat in the HOH. “What made you trust Memphis enough to enter into a deal with him?” Jerry replies that he was “running out of bodies.” He tried to make a deal with all three remaining. “All three remaining.” He obviously saw Renny as a dead gal walking. Jerry says he wants to be like Velcro and stick around awhile. JC asks “Who would you most like to see next to you at the end?” Without hesitation Jerry answers “Keesha!” Julie asks if this is strategic. It is. “The other two are like glue.” I don’t follow the logic at all, because Jerry himself said that no one could beat either of the girls, and he would stand a decent chance against Dan or Memphis. Anyway, Jerry asserts that he has to “win a POV and an HOH, and then you can’t stop me.” Simple as that!

Let’s take a trip to the jury house. Unlike her fellow housemates Keesha and Renny, the BB experience hasn’t brought any self-revelation desire for change to Libra. She interviews “I don’t want anyone to win. I should have won.” Libra is glad to see April walk in, and not because she enjoys her company. April interviews that she is in a state of shock after being whacked. Libra correctly guesses Michelle will be the next through the door. April tells us she hopes it will be Keesha, and that there will be no bedrooms available, and she will have to sleep outside. In comes Michelle with a raucous “Guess who got back doored!” She gives a brief rundown of events and pops in a BB DVD. The inmates see the HGs on the jungle vines. April remarks “Keesha is not losing any weight.” Michelle adds “She gained 15 pounds in her ass.” What was that they each said in their final address before eviction? No hard feelings?

April interviews “I have no respect for Keesha. I’ll say it to her face. I left the house with all my respect and dignity and pride, and some people actually have to live with themselves outside this game, and I feel sorry for them.” Unlike them, April left with her self-respect, proud of all the dignified internet-broadcast sex she had in the house.

As the three girls watch the competition unfold, April tears up seeing Ollie shiver in the damp cold of the jungle. Michelle describes the deal he made with Dan. Now Replacement Nominee Roulette is shown. At the end of his speech, Libra gasps “Oh, Father Dan!” April says she “doesn’t care for Dan’s game play.” Michelle “can’t stand to look at his face.” She wants a Voo Doo doll of him. Probably Renny can hook her up, once she gets back to N.O. Michelle continues “I want to see Dan walk in the door. I seriously want to do physical harm to him.” No trace of a smile; she’s not kidding.

Ollie comes bursting in. Big hugs for April, and then he demands “What’s my answer?” (To his “will you be my First Official Girlfriend?” question on his goodbye April tape). “Yes, Yes!” she shrieks. She will be his FOG. Too bad it’s not Dear Official Girlfriend, or even Damn Official Girlfriend; ’cause we know Ollie likes it like that. Ollie interviews that he has no doubt he will have April with him for the rest of his life. Well, yeah, in a way…. but even though it’s not curable, Ollie, there are effective treatments these days.

Back to the house. The nominees get to make their pointless pleas. Renny says it’s been a long journey; she didn’t think she’d make it this far. She’s “a fighter and a survivor of unimaginable grief that you don’t know about.” She praises Keesha for helping her a lot of the way, but she’d do her kids “an injustice” if she didn’t make a bit of a fight to stay. She tells Dan and Memphis that the money would be life changing, and they need to take the person they think they can win against. They are, Renny. Bye. Keesha tells Renny she loves her and she doesn’t know what she would have done in the house without her. She wishes Dan and Memphis good luck whatever they decide.

They decide to whack Renny. Hugs all around, good luck, and Renny exits to big applause. She works the red carpet like the Dahlin’ from N’awlins that she is. After blowing an extravagant two handed kiss, she shakes hands as she makes her way down the aisle to Julie. Inside the house, Keesha remarks “that was the hardest person watching go so far.” They all stand around to watch Renny’s photo turn gray.

Julie says “This was the first time you were on the block since week one. Why are you sitting here instead of Keesha?” Renny replies it was because she didn’t win POV and “the Colonel didn’t protect me.” Not exactly, but whatever. She’s proud of how far she’s come. Time for the ass-kissing goodbye messages. Dan shamelessly tells Renny she has been the caretaker of everyone, whether you liked them or not; even Jerry, and that’s admirable. Jerry tells her she did a good job with the food. Memphis is next and Renny gives him a big thumbs down to much audience appreciation. Memphis actually says he “cherished every moment we had together.” Forget it, Memphis, she’s not voting for you. Unless maybe you slipped a bottle of wine in her bag before she left. Keesha is teary and I just can’t go into all that again. Renny says she is “so proud” to be sitting next to JC, and she hopes she made her children and husband proud, and hopes “America can see what a loving woman I am.” I’ll really miss Renny, as a viewer and a recapper. Always crazy, never boring. The essence of good, solid reality television.

Julie returns to congratulate the houseguests on making it to the final four. Then it’s back to business: “Now, earlier today you had a chance to see images from competitions played this season. We’re going to show you them once again to refresh your memory. Watch the screen and pay close attention.” This is exactly the kind of thing Dan is really good at. The houseguests watch clips of bygone competitions and are sent to the backyard. There is a large, round platform divided into thirds by walls. True and False zones are painted on, along with the name of each HG in their individual partition. Julie tells them that tonight’s HOH winner will be eligible to compete for final HOH. Tonight’s competition is called Freeze Frame. JC gives the instructions: “I will ask a series of questions based on the photographs you just saw of past competitions. If you think the answer is true, step forward. If you think it’s false, step backward. You receive one point for each correct answer. The HG with the most points after seven questions will be the new HOH.

The questions are all along the lines of “In the picture of …. how many houseguests were standing?” or “How many were carrying a space helmet?” Keesha got only two right, Memphis got 5 or 6, Dan answered all 7 questions correctly.

Julie tells us that waiting inside the house is a visitor who holds a clue to an upcoming luxury competition. At stake is a trip outside the house with a twist that could change the game. The HG’s come in from the back yard to find a Sumo wrestler sitting cross-legged on a box in the living room. The others hold back but the new HOH walks right up, saying “We were just talking about Sumo wrestlers.” He suggests Jerry take him on. “You’re the toughest one here.” Sumo Guy tells them in a native tongue (there are captions for those of us who don’t speak Sumo) “I am sitting on the information you need.” Laughing nervously, Keesha looks actually terrified. Dan, meanwhile, is staring in deep concentration, game face on. Sumo Guy repeats the statement as the show concludes.

Nominations are Sunday. Tuesday holds a special live show with a live POV competition, live Veto meeting and live eviction. Thursday is another live show in which the final HOH will be crowned live and will single-handedly decide who to whack - live, of course. So stay tuned for all the fun. Hopefully the gag reflex won’t come into play like it did tonight, and it should be interesting. Get your BB fix at Media Fiends where Jax tells it like it is, and you’ll never need a trash can: MediaFiends.com - Renny on ‘The Early Show’; MediaFiends.com - Delusions of Grand Jury; MediaFiends.com - BB10 LFs: September 4th; MediaFiends.com - 9.3 Craig Ferguson Show.

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