Big Brother Week 5 Spoilers: HOH Champ Crowned – This Player Overturns the House!

Big Brother week 5 head of household results are in and it broke a record and will flip the house even though the nominations she’s talking about are 2 out of 3 not what I would’ve chosen.

Before we get into the HOH comp results, how satisfying was it to see Haley Thogmartin’s jaw drop when Julie Chen announced that Lyric Medeiros was evicted? Drew Campbell was her initial target, Melody Morris was her back-up target. They’d talked about Lyric but then decided to keep her, then BOOM. Flipped!

Big Brother: Week 5 Betrayal

The icons betrayed the rest of the Red Corner. Haley’s look was everything. To her credit, Dee Valladares faked looking absolutely stunned about it. And then, when her back was to Haley, I saw Dee’s scheming face on and she was in damage control mode.

Chuk Anyanwu and Kamuela “Kamu” Kirk’s faces were also so incredibly vacant and stunned. After all of Haley’s drama about having 3 rough weeks, she ran power mad and then was totally blindsided.

On the plus side, Lyric really didn’t want to be in the house. She wants to be with Rome Seymour who I bet is hopping a flight right now from Delray Beach to get to LA to canoodle with his future fiancée.

Big Brother 28: Icon Damage Control and Strategic Maneuvering

So, after the icons hijacked eviction night, Angela Murray, Dee and Rick Devens had to cover their butts. Angela immediately ran over to chat with Haley and Chuk about this shocking turn of events. Haley was upset saying she made it clear she wanted Melody gone.

Angela talked to Melody and promised to save her. And right after eviction reminded Mallory and Melody no one could know that she flipped on the others. They are sitting on her and Dee’s secret. What’s funny is Angela convinced Haley it wasn’t her.

Dee playing shocked convinced Haley. And Devens owned his vote but played it off saying he thought he was supposed to do that after Drew won blockbuster. Devens claimed he thought Lyric was the target. And that seems to have bought him some grace since he owned it.

Big Brother: Doubts in the House

What’s funny is Chuk, Kamu, Haley and Yash Patel are now all doubting each other. Angela even floated an idea that Lyric might’ve earned a penalty vote. Angela said “You know how when you are a have-not and if you eat there is a penalty?”

She told Haley if you are on the block you get a penalty vote on you. Haley asked “So you mean a vote got taken away?” Angela said, “It could be either way”. Haley said “So you think Lyric ate something?”

Angela told her,” I don’t know. We were suspect. I’m just wondering cause it’s a special season.”

Haley actually bought it which is insane because the math doesn’t math. There would’ve been one more vote than expected. Next, Haley suspected a power was used to swap votes and maybe no one flipped. And Haley later suspected Kamu flipped on her because of a dream she had.

Big Brother 28: Wall Competition and Lala’s Victory

Then the feeds went down for the wall comp but then came back up. Angela was instantly down, with her pink shirt spotlessly clean. One tilt and boom. It was a national forest themed comp and the competitor was in a park ranger outfit.

Big Foot showed up and after each appearance they got splattered with colored slime and the obligatory freezing cold rainstorms. Next off the wall, which surprised me, was Taylor Brown dropping next after 30 minutes.

Long tall Barrett Pfeiffer was out 10 minutes later. And Devens went right after him. I’d predicted Angela then Devens so Taylor and Barrett surprised me going out so soon.

Lala Makes Big Brother History

This year, they had more of a variety of handholds. Each person had a height-adjusted station with an overhead bar parallel to the ground and then the usual hand holds to each side of your hips.

Dee fell 20 minutes after Taylor which was surprising as well. 10 more minutes, Melody. Another 10 minutes and musclebound mini Mallory was off the wall and Chuk went next but he slipped.

Yash slipped and fell maybe two minutes later. That left Kamu, LaTrice “Lala” Verrett and Drew. An hour and 20 minutes into it, Drew slipped, swung by the upper bar for a moment then fell.

That left Kamu vs Lala. And then of course, production cut the feeds so we didn’t get to see how much longer Kamu lasted. In less than two hours, the houseguests were back inside the house and Lala had the HOH key.

Lala won. Which is truly impressive since she’s had reconstructive surgery on both her shoulders. And she’s the oldest woman in the house. And this makes Lala the oldest wall comp winner in Big Brother history – regular Big Brother that is.

Because in Celebrity Big Brother S2, Kato Kaelin actually won the wall comp at age 59. You know, the guy who used to live in OJ Simpson’s guest house. Taylor and Devens did a cute skit on the wall that I hope makes it to the CBS edited episode.

Big Brother 28: Lala’s Nomination Strategy

So, Lala and Taylor had an epic celebration. And now, Lala’s planning to nominate Drew, Barrett and Kamu and save Haley for a backdoor to give the poor girl a rest for a day or two after her really rough week abusing her power.

Lala said she will not nominate Angela or Dee, and won’t nominate Chuk because he’s another black houseguest. Lala was very clear on that even though Taylor kinda wanted him on the block.

As for her nominee choices, although they’re not locked in yet. Drew is an emotional choice, I feel like more so than strategic. But I get it. He’s been hating on Lala since day 1. I heard Drew talking about how he hates seeing Lala walk around in her bikini and heels. Drew actually used the word hate.

Barrett’s in the middle with him and Kamu’s problematic. However, last night, things were still in flux and Lala told Taylor that she wanted Devens out. Thing is, Lala doesn’t know he won’t go on her HOH. Devens can’t be evicted this week because of his power.

Big Brother: Diamond Power of Veto Not Used?

Lala doesn’t know Devens is sitting on the Diamond Power of Veto. At least if she doesn’t nominate Angela and Dee, he won’t use it. Not sure if Devens would use it on Angela but he would on Dee. Because if Lala nominated or renoms Devens, he can pull out that DPOV.

Then, he pulls himself off the block and renoms someone else. He could renom Haley or Chuk so 2 of the 3 Red Corner triplets are block-sitting on eviction night. Lala and Taylor suspect Devens has a power and want to flush it.

But it will flush Lala’s HOH down the toilet if she does but she has no idea. Fortunately, Devens got closer to Taylor this week and they’re lowkey working together. So, Devens asked Taylor if it’s okay to mention to Lala they’re working together and she said yes.

And then Taylor went to work as soon as Lala brought up Devens name and talked her out of putting him up. Taylor gently worked her around asking if it was good for Lala’s game or was it retribution for Rome. Lala admitted she didn’t like Devens lying to Rome’s face.

Big Brother: Barrett’s Not Getting it

Ultimately, Taylor convinced her not to go after Devens. She said it could come back and bite Lala later. Drew anticipated that he’d be nominated again. But Barrett’s going to be blindsided. He thought Lala being in power meant he was safe, but he’s more of a pawn.

Kamu nommed with Haley as backdoor are Lala’s targets. And the icons will live to fight another day. They got away with their vote flip. Have Nots for the week are Barrett, Chuk, Haley and Drew.

Suffice to say that Haley’s about to have a really bad week after being a bit of a tyrant on her HOH.