AMANDA AND JEE NOMINATED FOR EVICTION
Things are heating up in the BIG BROTHER house, and Nathan's feeling the pressure as first Head of Household. With alliances and sub-alliances forming in the house, all are scrambling to win Nathan's favor before the dreaded Nomination Ceremony. The growing tension mounts, until finally, the first nominations are announced. Amanda and Jee are the first two HouseGuests nominated for eviction from the BIG BROTHER House, and their futures hang in the balance.
MASTER OF THE HOUSE
Taking his reign as Head of Household, Nathan enjoys the perks that come with the job title: a private (lockable) room, a favorite CD, a stocked robe and a robe fit for a king. But along with the perks come some hefty responsibilities. As HoH, he can control his housemates' futures, a fact that hasn't escaped the HouseGuests. In Nathan's own words, "People are…sucking up a bit." Nathan takes his role as HoH seriously, knowing that the impending nominations "might cause me to make some enemies."
But Nathan's not the only stud in the game. The House is oozing with testosterone, with muscle-bound David, Robert, Scott, Justin and Jee pumping iron and impressing the ladies with their he-man posturing. Flexing begets flirting, and the girls are responding to the boys' macho moves. Jun admits "there's some nice meat to stare at." But the flirting isn't distracting people from the object of the game, and Erika is emerging as a threat. Is Nathan speaking for everyone when he says that "nobody trusts her"?
A TEMPTRESS AND A TATER TROT
Nineteen-year-old virgin Michelle has the boys drooling and the girls talking. Like most of the boys, Nathan thinks Michelle is as "cute as a button." But is all the male attention she's receiving annoying the other women? As Justin puts it, "the girls are jealous of a 19-year-old."
But Nathan and Michelle's flirtation hasn't stopped Alison from getting a lot of personal time with Nathan, and the two seemed to have formed an alliance, with Alison saying, "Nate and I might try to ride this game to the top." In the HoH room, the pair talks about the upcoming nominations, specifically about Erika and how "everybody is threatened" by her. Alison tells Nathan that Erika is "conniving" and that she wants her "out."
But before anyone can be evicted, the HouseGuests have to compete to earn some food for the week. The HouseGuests head outside for the Food Competition, appropriately called "Spuds." Separated into boy/girl teams, each pair designates a "lifter" and a "stander." After each pair is assigned a food group that they will be competing for--meats/poultry/seafood, dairy, fruits/vegetables, breads/pasta/cereal, snacks/desserts, beer/wine/soft drinks/juice--Nathan reads the rules of the Competition. In order to win their team's designated food group, each lifter has six minutes to fill a bin with the amount of potatoes he thinks equals the weight of the stander. Each pair that comes within 25 pounds of the weight of the stander wins their food group for the entire house. The stander can never reveal his/her weight, but the lifter may lift him/her up as often as he wants to compare the stander with the bin of potatoes.
The games begin, and each lifter runs back and forth between a giant mound of spuds and his/her bin and stander, frequently lifting the stander to compare the weight with the growing bin of potatoes. But the Competition is a challenging one. While Alison/Justin, Amanda/Scott and Jee/Dana win their food groups for the House, the other teams fail to come within 25 pounds of the stander's weight, leaving the HouseGuests with no dairy, no meats/poultry/seafood, and no fruits/vegetables.
