She says she's not putting up Paloma, Alyssa, or Indy. She's not putting up her roommates [Indy and Alyssa], she's not putting up Terrance, Daniel, Nicole, Pooch, who she had a conversation with, or Turner.
Someone was telling them that she was going to put Pooch up, which irked her, which was like, she doesn't feel like playing anymore. Because then she had to persuade Pooch that she's not going to put him up anymore. So she's not putting up Pooch and Turner, and she's running out of choices. so if she gets HOH, it's going to be a disaster.
But she has to go for it because she's scared, especially since people are already saying things like "Ameerah is trying to put you up". If that's already going around, especially after this whole Taylor thing...
Why would anybody say that. She says she's thinking about it, she's not doing anything, that's crazy.
She's not putting up Joseph either, because she likes him.
Terrance say sshe still has two people.
Ameerah asks him if he's gunning for it. He says he's trying to make it a priority.
She says she feels like everyone's gunning for it. She feels like it's gonna be kind of a luck type thing; not much skill involved.
Terrance says he thinks it'll be full endurance or some trivia. With 15 people you can't do a lot, even if they did a big production like the three different stations in the first comp. He thinks it'll be endurance or question and answer.
Ameerah says she wouldn't be surprised if it was endurance. They don't need an HOH crowned this episode. She could see them not crowning it until Sunday's episode.
Ameerah says she thought there was going to be more drama. There was drama, but it was just sad.
Terrance says he thought Taylor was going to poke her chest out and flex a little bit. She just folded up and he was like "aw, damn". That made it look bad for a hot minute for him, but then everybody started being like they don't give a f*** about no tears.
Ameerah talks about going to bed early and people still being in her room whispering. Do they not know she's there, she was completely in a ball under the covers.
A lot of people use that back room. The Have Nots, Nicole, plus all three of them, so it's a lot going on back there.
Terrance says he's never been back there really.
Ameerah says she can't believe they haven't called her to the Diary Room. She's about to go back to bed.
[Just as she says that, they call her to the diary room]
Pooch tells Turner he almost slipped up in a conversation with Jasmine today. They were talking game earlier in the day and he gave her two people he doesn't want going up like Turner and Kyle.
Later, she pulled him into the storage room to continue the conversation, and she said two people she's good with are Alyssa and Ameerah, and he thought she was talking about who her target was, one or the other.
Ameerah says she wants to vote Brittany gone but then she'd have to tell people what happened to get the votes.
She says between the three of them [herself, Pooch, and Turner], and Jasmine, Paloma, and Alyssa, they're good.
She asks who Monte is working with, feels like he's not working with anybody.
Coming into the house she felt like anyone who was big and strong, she'd have to vote them out, but then she came into the house and saw him and she's like "I'm not voting him out"
Pooch asks Ameerah how long she wants to keep Indy around for her game.
Ameerah says it's not even a game thing, she just likes her and she's starting to connect with her.
Pooch says if she could get game out of her, that could potentially help.
Ameerah says she's not telling them not to put Indy up, but she'll see what she can do.
Pooch asks who her two people would be, Alyssa and Paloma?
Ameerah says no, Jasmine is her number one
Pooch says that whole sh** with Paloma, he needs that. Alyssa is more checked in, she's kind of more of a threat, just going off of what they were talking about, and who's not being called to the diary room four times in a night.
Ameerah tells them that Monte is an Alpha, and that it's "a big, black fraternity", so now she talks with him about black colleges. And Jasmine's husband is also an Alpha.
They start talking about the HGs social media followings, and different social networks. Pooch asks if he's the only person that didn't know Kyle had a super big following on social media. They talk about Jasmine's social media following, Turner tells them his follower count, Ameerah mentions Alyssa.
Pooch says with 500,000 followers, he would think girls would have found Kyle.
Ameerah says she could see him as the type to get married and be happy and have a great life in Salt Lake City.
She says Kyle, Jasmine, Alyssa, and Turner have the biggest followings that she knows of. She asked Monte if he was a fitness influencer and he said no.
Then they talk about Indy being verified on a dating app.
Taylor and Alyssa go upstairs to the bumper pool area to talk privately. Pooch is up there possibly sleeping. They don't mind and sit down to talk.
Taylor tells her she can understand if it was about being too good or weak a competitor, or maybe she made a bad move, but the last bit about hurting people was really hard to hear. She says that Daniel saying that was a courtesy he didn't have to extend to her, and she appreciated him doing that.
It's not about game talk, just clearing the air. She asks Alyssa if there's anything she's done to make her feel out of place.
Alyssa says personally no, not from her at all. The only thing she heard was game. Something about Paloma, like she was trying to target someone.
Taylor says she'll talk to Paloma.
Looking back at the week it's very obvious to her that it looks like she was trying to be the hot girl around the guys, and that's the opposite of what she feels she was trying to show to the girls.
Game talk aside, she doesn't want Alyssa to feel like she was intentionally alienating the girls. She also didn't know that they were all hanging out in the back room. She wasn't trying to avoid them.
Alyssa says they didn't really talk that much so she didn't know where Taylor's head was at, but she gets how she may have been socializing and just never in the right room, because there are so many rooms to be in.
She thought that Taylor maybe didn't want to work with her or wasn't interested in getting to know her, but seeing her so lively, she loves it. It just took her some time to get comfortable and maybe they misunderstood that.
Taylor says considering the setting she thought she was supposed to be a little more guarded, and she naturally is, and she didn't think it would be a bad thing to be more slow about revealing more things about her life. She's always been like, she doesn't want to burden other people with her past experiences and trauma.
Alyssa says first week, obviously it's hard to read people, and she may have just got misread for people down there, thinking since she's not opening up, maybe she doesn't want to be a part of their group.
Taylor says not opening up and not being in the room.
Alyssa says she's only heard amazing things about Taylor.
Taylor says she appreciates that and she's happy that she hadn't hurt Alyssa, and everyone has been kind in telling her that hasn't been personal.
[Feeds cut in and out on the end of the conversation]
Daniel joins Pooch, Kyle, and Turner, upstairs by the bumper pool. Pooch tells him about the situation, with Brittany telling him Ameerah wanted to put him up. If they go two more weeks and two girls go home, it's going to make Ameerah think that they have something going on.
They might have to throw the girls off this next week.
He tells him the strongest girls in the game were Taylor, Nicole, and Ameerah.
Kyle leaves.
Pooch says if Ameerah wins HOH in four weeks and puts up him and Daniel or him and Kyle, why wouldn't she?
Daniel says that's another thing about him being so busy. Nobody thinks that he's working with them.
Pooch says as much as they love Monte and Kyle, when they get to top five, it's three against two.
The name of their three-person alliance is Inception.
Turner asks Daniel if he's tight with Nicole. Daniel says he's getting closer with her. She seems like the most even keeled, like the mom. Because of that reason, and her cooking, he would love for her not to go on the block.
Turner tells Daniel, best case scenario this next week is one of them five win HOH, or six including Joseph.
Daniel asks worst case scenario?
Turner says Indy
Indy, Brittany, Michael
Turner says it's crazy way this week worked out. At first it was just him and Pooch about Taylor, and then it blew up. That was very convenient for them.
Daniel says if Jasmine had told him about that comment, that alone he would've put Taylor up.
Kyle tells Monte Pooch is playing hard ball he's going crazy.
He's talking a ton of game with Ameerah. Kyle doesn't know if Monte knows about Brittany saying something about Ameerah.
Monte says yeah, he does
Kyle says he was here in the Have Not room with Michael, and he was talking about a guys alliance, and and wasn't if he could tell Michael.
Monte says they should
Kyle says wanted to make sure he and Monte are on the same page
They talk about Paloma
Monte says today she's a lot better
He thinks she was sleep deprived.
Monte says this alliance right here needs to be a siloed group
At the same time, if Paloma keeps going off rails, they might have to have a look at the other side of the coin
if that's more stable
then have the two groups go at each other and maintain the in-between
Everyone wants to work with the two of them (himself and Kyle) which is beautiful, but at the same time it makes it hard for him to give information to one side or another
Kyle says the reason he wasn't sure about telling Michael about the boys' group is that he can see Pooch and Turner making waves later on
Monte says his thing with Pooch is that he's so obvious. Monte thinks Pooch is more unstable as far as his communication, and is putting his cards out too much.
He say even Brittany came to him asking about making an alliance.
He was like lets think about it after this week, but he can't.
He feels really good about the six because its discreet
He says it's onvious the guys are working together because Pooch is obvious.
Kyle says and Pooch is telling them everything.
Kyle says he can see if they win HOH, the girls wanting them to target Pooch, and if they don't that might be something for them to address.
Monte says he thinks his and Kyle's game are identical right now.
They need to do very straight forward house eliminations.
If Taylor stays this week, he has to win HOH.
He thinks the backstage passes will end up being the three backstage people and the two evictees compete, and the worst two stay on the block. If that's the case, have mercy, he's going to sh** a turtle. If Taylor stays, he's gunning for HOH, but if she doesn't he's chilling.
Kyle says at this point winning HOH probably isn't a good thing, having to choose a side.
Monte says the ideal scenario is for Michael to win HOH, he's down to put the two of them up.
He doesn't know what Turner would do without Pooch.
Pooch without turner would still be fine, but at least it takes out a pawn for him to work around.
Kyle says he walked in on Pooch talking to Ameerah
Monte says Pooch is young, he doesn' tunderstand how obvious he's coming off,
but with Paloma, his only thing with her is that he knows she would be loyal, and she knows how to keep her cards a little close.
At the same time she's also entertaining Pooch's convesation.
She doesn't want to to put Pooch up
Ameerah doesn't want to put Pooch up
So if next week they can get Michael to win HOH, they'd be perfect
Monte says he doesn't think any of them are targets. He thinks next week and the week after, Pooch has confirmed, and a lot of people can confirm, that Indy is someone people can vote and and the house be be unanimous. He doesn't know what kind of dynamic the backstage is going to cause.
Ameerah says Pooch also asked her if she was close with Monte, and she said no.
Michael walks in and says everyone sees Pooch and Turner together.
Monte says they're showing their cards.
[They hear a noise and switch the conversation to the backstage thing next week]
Monte says he was talking to Kyle about Pooch and Turner showing their cards and being obvious.
Ameerah says they were trying to talk to her last night.
Monte says they know how strong she is especially after seeing the two of them in the comp.
For the next two weeks, it's very obvious, Indy is an obvious target because she's not talking game with anybody. The house will unanimously vote her out. And then Brittany, after she talked that stuff about Ameerah.
Ameerah asks MIchael what that was about, she was on her side. Brittany told Pooch that someone's coming for hime and tells him to guess, and he said Ameerah just throwing a name out, and she said yes.
Monte says Brittany's desperate. She feels socially isolated.
Ameerah says she actually really liked Brittany, she would've protected her for a while, so she's just shocked that she did that.
Monte says that's going to continue to happen. People are going to make themselves targets each week.
Michael says he was thinking about it, between the six and Brittany, which one is goin got help his game. He's probably not going to be associated with her at this point.
Ameerah says she's monitoring Nicole and what Nicole and Daniel are doing because they're working with Terrance and trying to get something together.
Monte says Pooch and Turner are going around trying to make alliances with everybody that's breathing air.
Michael says except for him.
Monte says which is cool because if he wins HOH next week...
Michael says he told Pooch was was open to solidifying things with people, and he was like yeah totally. Michael says he opened the door and...
Monte says things are playing out exactly how they need them to. If Michael wins HOH, those are obvious selections.
If any of them other than Michael win, then Indy and Brittany are obvious selections.
The only other thing is, he thinks Paloma is getting back on track. It seems this morning she's a little more clear. Yesterday she was stressing him out.
Michael says they need to babysit her. Go to bed, stay in bed.
Monte says he wants to share something with them. It's very obvious, there's probably suspicion that the guys, the bros... He thinks Pooch tried to establish something official called the Oasis with the guys in the house, so that's an alliance that he's formed. Monte says he's loyal to this.
Michael says he wouldn't tell them about it if he wasn't loyal to this.
Monte says he just has to make sure they're tight.
He wants to keep all information siloed here. He and Kyle feel their games are pretty similar with who they could put up. They've both been approached by the same people with the same stuff.
This six alliance is a lot more on the low, and they fired him up when Michael won that veto.
Ameerah says she's shocked people aren't coming to Michael for alliances.
Michael says he's two days behind. He understands like why go out of your way to start an alliance with someone who's about to leave.
Monte says if someone does put Michael on the block he has their votes.
Michael says he can target people.
He tells them that Pooch said if it comes down to him and four people, he'll drop.
Monte says he talked to Pooch and he's in alignment that the next two targets are Indy and Brittany. It works perfect for them. It would be a unanimous vote.
Ameerah says all the girls have been talking about trying to protect eachother.
Monte says when she talks about all the girls...
Ameerah says she forgot half the girls are in their alliance.
Monte says POoch is in agreement, so even if POoch wins HOH
Ameerah says Pooch told her he's not nominating her.
Monte says he did the same with him. THe only wildcards to win HOh next week would be Nicole because he has no idea, and she talked to him and Pooch and said she's neutral. She said everybody can feel safe, but everybody's probably not safe. So she can't win HOH next week. If there's any way they can set it up for her to not win...
Terrance is another one.
Ameerah says Terrance is working with Nicole and Daniel
Michael says he saw them in the kitchen whispering
Monte says Daniel is part of that bigger group, Joe, Daniel, himself, Kyle, Turner, Pooch
Ameerah says to Michael, that's all the guys except for you.
Monte says he didn't start it, don't blame him.
If Terrance or Nicole win, they still have the votes. He thinks next week, indy and Brittany seem to be the progressions. The next two weeks are good as long as they keep it lowkey. Dont' say anything.
Michael asks if they want it to be Indy and Brittany.
Monte says they can cut off the head of the snake for a lot of these pseudo alliances, and continue working inconspicuously.
Michael asks Monte if he can convince the guys to put up Indy and Brittany next week. Understands if he can't be too pushy, they might expect something's up.
Monte says he talked to Pooch. They agreed that Indy and Brittany would be solid. You know Pooch, he talks at people. Once he says Indy and Brittany are the next two targets, Monte thinks they're fine.
Him and Kyle will try to finesse a secret meeting with that group. He doesn't want to see Michael on the block, and nobody else in their alliance will be on the block because they're all in alliances with them [Pooch, Oasis].
Ameerah says and she doesn't trust Brittany, Brittany can't be trusted.
Michael says she knows that if pooch has any power, she's not safe.
Monte says if Brittany keeps going, she might be the first one out instead of Indy.
Ameerah says she's about to be.
Monte says he's sure Ameerah would like that.
Ameerah says she would have a goodbye message for her too.
She says this group is the only one that's not saying anything.
Monte says they'r emaking it to final six. The only other wildcard is Taylor somehow stays, he's going for HOH for sure next week.
Ameerah asks if he thinks she'll go for him.
Monte says for sure. He tells her that Taylor told him her intention was to let him know that the girls were worried that the guys were working together.
Ameerah says she's just covering her ass.
Michael says Taylor told him that she thought there was a misunderstanding between her and Monte and was hoping she could talk to him. She said she thought she had Turners vote and his.
Monte says she's delusional, that's what it is.
If one of the three backstage people take Terrance's spot, then it's still Taylor, but if one of them takes Taylor's spot; obviously if it's Paloma or Alyssa, they have to vote out Terrance. But if it's Terrance or Brittany...
Ameerah says Brittany.
Michael says he does think Brittany would pu tup Pooch and Nicole but if Ameerah doesn't trust her...
Ameerah says if he trusts her, then fine.
Monte says he also want to be conscious of the time that they spend together.