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Hello all my fellow BB fanatics. You can get an exclusive first look inside the Big Brother house right now at TV Guide.com. Click here for our awesome gallery.

Also, be on the lookout for my cool preview of the new season, which will be running on our site tomorrow in Interviews and Features!

After talking to the executive producer, this season sounds like it is going to be the best ever!

Ahh, isn't it bromantic? Will's best buddy Mike Boogie Malin is now a half-million dollars richer and the proud winner of the Big Brother: All-Stars crown. OK, he didn't actually get a crown, though that might have been cool. Perhaps Julie could have fashioned one for him out of her origami-looking top. Sorry, I've been really good about not picking on Julie most of the summer, but I just couldn't resist. I honestly can't imagine anyone else hosting this show, but who comes up with these ridiculous outfits?

The jury members got to pose a bunch of questions to the final two

So I've made it pretty clear all season that I'm not a fan of Boogie and his behavior. I haven't really been a big Erika supporter, either (though I do admire her manipulation of the situation this week), so I'm sort of unimpressed with the final two. That said (and I can't believe I'm typing this) I can't see Erika winning Big Brother: All-Stars. I'm not talking about who in the jury would vote for her or anything, I'm referring to the fact that this is All-Stars and that that term should really apply to someone more memorable than Erika.

But Boogie's comments tonight were totally obnoxious and somewhat appalling:

— "I'm just glad that America knows that Erika is in fact a ho. I've used that girl up for all I need. I've gotten myself in a position to win this game, and that's all she was good for."
— "I give her credit for being a backstabbing bitch."

Oh, and his hair during the flying-car competition... what the heck? Did he take hairstyling tips from Jase?

So what are Erika and Mike going to do in the house the next few days? Wait, don't answer that. After Erika's comment, "I hate the fact that I'm still attracted to him because I hate him so much," I doubt that she'll be turning him away.

We got to see Will's entrance to the sequester house. Only Chicken George seemed surprised, but Will took it well: "I'll give credit where credit is due: They spanked my ass, both cheeks, and it still hurts."

Finally, there's Janelle. I can't believe that after winning nine competitions she couldn't take home this one, too. That HOH comp should have been hers. I guess I'll try to text-message to give her the jury prize.

So who's going to win? I think the votes will probably go to Boogie, but it will probably be close.

I'd love to hear what you all think, and since I can't imagine there are really any spoilers aside from the fact that Mike and Erika are talking or making out, I say we can probably all just play nice and post together about this penultimate episode.

For someone who claimed gleefully that he was going to hell for how he treated Erika, Mike Boogie looked shocked that the Big Brother house turned into a hell on earth for him in a matter of minutes. I was so annoyed that he jumped off of Mt. HOH, stupidly insisting that either Erika or Janelle would be forced to take him to the finals. That irks me. I know that he and Will claimed to throw competitions all season, but this blatant disregard for the game is really irritating. Plus, comparing himself to Richard Hatch isn't exactly a selling point. I'd think that one of the girls would be familiar enough with reality TV to know that taking the unlikable strategist to the end is a bad idea. His dropout also made this the lamest endurance challenge ever. Seriously. Mike jumped off within a minute, and less than five minutes later Janelle accidentally let one of her hands slip. I feel kind of bad for the prop guys who probably spent a week creating the volcano, and it never even got a chance to erupt. I'm also bummed because I got my laptop out and was all excited to watch this live competition until the wee hours of the morning, and then: nothin'.

I am pretty impressed, however, that the girls finally realized that the boys were playing them. It is about time. I've been wanting to go into the BB house and shake Erika for several weeks now. Up until Janey actually said Will's name, I was still unsure of which way she was going to go. After her lame choices during her reign as HOH, I wouldn't have been surprised if she kept her flirty friend around. My favorite part of the Erika and Janey conversation was when they collectively realized not only that they'd been used by Chill Town but that America must be laughing at them. Laughing, shaking their heads in shame, whatever. The Evil Doctor didn't look all that upset about being voted out. Worried that Howie was going to attack him in the jury house, sure, but upset? Not really. Boogie was upset at the mere concept of his best friend getting evicted. "This is our show and the bitches think they can take it away from us." He's such a charmer. I think Will hit it on the head when he said, "Who would want to date us scumbags? I don't know." Despite his nickname, I think Will is by far the lesser of two evils in Chill Town. He seems to have a good perspective on the fact that at the end of the day, this is a game. I honestly wish it had somehow been Boogie who had gone home instead. But Will's unwillingness to win any of the competitions eventually led to his dismissal.

And finally we got to see some sequester-house scenes. It's pretty unbelievable that they had to relocate because they were in the direct path of the hurricane. Marcellas said that now the only hurricane they had to contend with was Howie. The one-time weatherman has turned into a powerful tropical depression that just won't leave. I feel for James. He just looked so miserable, having to suffer through Howie fighting with everyone. Howie's out to make his roomies pay for evicting him by acting like an obnoxious bully. That's not really Jedi behavior. However, it did make for some great quotes:

"Something in there needs to die," Marcellas said wistfully while hoping that a toxic level of chlorine would be added to the pool Howie was in.

"You are a fat Jabba the Hut" — another gem from Marci.

"You are a 10-year-old stuck in a 36-year-old body." OK, that one's not hysterical on paper, but the fact that it came from the wacky dresser who is Chicken George was pretty darned amusing to me.

So Thursday night should be interesting. I wonder if Janey or Erika will win HOH and if Mike will even bother getting off his butt for it. As always, please post your spoilery comments here and your chatter about this specific episode below. Talk to you all soon.

When are they going to do some more exciting HOH competitions? These question-and-answer ones are getting a tad boring, sort of like tonight's episode. I guess that a final four that consists of a flirtmance, a showmance and a bromance isn't really that exciting to watch. It was unsurprising that since Boogie won, he put up Janey and Erika. I couldn't see him putting up Will, especially considering how close they are. "There's nothing wrong with two men bein' in a hot tub sometimes... right?" Will asked. Do they really not care which of them ends up winning in the end? Because I think if Chill Town goes to the final two, the winner will sort of be a toss-up. Anyway, at this point I'm rooting for Janey or Will, if only because Mike's just weird. I loved Will saying, "Psycho... I said 'Sweetheart,'" to Janelle. I hated Mike Boogie celebrating winning HOH by jumping up and down shirtless, wearing tight white pants. I hate to base my fandom on attractiveness, but I've said before that I don't get the appeal of Boogie. Although Erika sure does — she wants to have his babies. Oh, she'll never learn. She seemed willingly to hop on the "Big Brother Baby" bandwagon even though she's got to have a hunch that Boogie is more loyal to his best pal. "We're sleeping in the same bed and he's probably going to nominate me. It's so hot. Gotta love those bad boys." And then she was worried that she'd "look like a homance." Oh, if only Erika could have heard Boogie's comments on tonight's episode:

"Erika is going to be extremely hurt after the show. I'm a bad, bad person. I'm going to hell."

"I'm the king of reality showmances. No. 1 Rule — don't ever get real feelings."

I think if this is the case, Erika better start looking for someone else to father baby Chilliam.

Anyway, too much filler, not enough excitment. I'm with the fans who want to see the sequester house, that should be interesting.

If you are chatting about the live feeds, please go ahead and keep commenting on the post made especially for that purpose. 'Night, all. Have a nice Labor Day.

Well, Danielle was sent home... that seemed like a given. I like that she went out gracefully and told the other players to basically step up their games. I seriously thought she'd go out taking some verbal swings at Erika. I couldn't believe that Erika had the nerve to tell Danielle that she was hurt that Dani wouldn't give her a vote in the final two. I guess Erika didn't get the memo that this is how Big Brother is played. If you backstab and lie to someone, you stand a good chance of losing their vote for good.

Then the show went into fast-forward mode, and Janelle won HOH. I was so excited and started writing a post about how that was the best birthday present I could have asked for. But I feel like someone used salt instead of sugar in my cake because she made the lamest nominations possible. Janelle this season has been a tough competitor, but I can't believe she fell under Dr. Will's spell. I really thought she was just "flirtmancing" with him for fun but knew that she'd have to vote him out for strategy. Sigh... sigh... sigh....

Well, I guess there is really no use in sitting here on my couch huffing and puffing and falling into depression because Operation Double Date became the final four. Don't get me wrong, I think Will's a gamer, but I just wish that either Erika or Janelle were smart enough to realize what the Chill Town boys were up to. Sigh... so, I guess we have to wait until Sunday to see who wins HOH and who they decide to get rid of next. My guess: It's got to be either Janey or Erika. If Chill Town makes it to the final two, then it'll be the houseguests' own stupid fault for not splitting them up sooner. Random question of the night: If Mike and Will do make final two, who do you think will win?

If you are chatting about the live feeds, please go ahead and keep commenting on the little post made specially for that purpose. 'Night, all.

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It's Doogie, or rather, it's Barney; either way, I'm digging the fact that Neil Patrick Harris is a Big Brother fan. You may say corporate synergy and all that, but I think it was so cool that he got to go into the house and liven things up a bit. I know that in the past I've seen people get out of the house to go to show sets as prizes, but has anyone (who wasn't on a previous season of Big Brother) ever come into the house like that before? It doesn't surprise me all that much that Dr. Will is a fan of Dr. Doogie. Neil's Barney character is someone I imagine Will can really relate to. Do you think that Will's got Barney's rules of dating memorized? I bet he suits up when he goes out. But it almost bordered on obsession: "All he wanted for Christmas was Neil Patrick Harris." That's a little weird. Don't get me wrong, I love Neil, too, but I'm thinking for different reasons. I thought it was especially neat that Neil got to do a diary session, play on the trampoline and even bravely taste slop. His comments were dead-on: "The houseguests got a lot of clothes, which they desperately needed because if I see Mike Boogie wear a Dolce shirt one more time on the show... really." Then he called George "simple." Yeah, he's got them all pegged.

I wasn't sure if Will was happier about Neil or the trampoline, but combining them seemed like it made his summer. "First a trampoline and now Neil Patrick Harris. What's next? I'm going to win the show?" At this rate, it doesn't seem too far-fetched. I cannot believe that Erika nominated Danielle instead of Will. I'm shocked. Seriously. She keeps saying to Mike that she's going to kick his ass if he's playing her. If she's suspicious enough of his motives to say that, then she should know better than to trust him. He wouldn't even give her a straight answer when it came to whom he'd choose in the final two; her or Will. Now Erika's got no chance of winning, and I've got a hunch that any of the houseguests who hear Danielle's side of this story in the sequester house will be less inclined to throw votes Erika's way. They'll just think she got played, plain and simple.

Will and Janey seem to think that Danielle lost her mind when she discovered that Erika was planning to get her ousted, but I truly think she was just mad and tipsy. I can't believe more people don't turn into angry drunks when they are up on the block. I'm sure I would be... especially if all I had to eat in the house was meat and alcohol. Loved her sitting and being annoying by ringing the doorbell. Why be nice to someone if they betray you or plan on betraying you? "If I went out by Chill Town or Janelle I would understand," Dani told Erika, "but by you... it hurts." And I'm sure watching Boogie and Erika canoodling just rubs salt in that backstab wound.

Random stuff: Who knew that George had been struck by lightning? The Chill Town boys raised a valid point: Why did he wait 60 days to mention this? I'm sure after a week in, I'd be like, "Did I ever tell you about the time that I had thousands of volts of electricity charging through my body and I passed out?" But maybe that's just me. Boogie threw the POV competition, but more surprisingly, to me at least, was that Will actually tried to win it. I cannot believe that it took George 24 minutes to solve that game. Wait a sec, yes I can. This is "simple" George after all. But Janey rocked that game with her one-minute time. She must have been flying. I'd love to have seen her whole part in real time.

Here's to a sure-to-be-memorable Thursday show, especially since two evictions are supposed to happen. Still not sure how they are going to squeeze all that in, but it wouldn't surprise me if karma came back to bite Erika and she followed Danielle out the door.

Until then, feel free to share all your theories and such here. If you want to discuss the live-feed happenings, please be kind and blog away at this specially created post that I created just for all the live-feed discussion. Thanks!

Erika got her HOH room. I love the flowery bedspread that she got, but it was too much of a good thing. Will said, "It looked like a florist had an epileptic fit." Even the food competition was flower-oriented. I did enjoy Will picking on the Season 4 people, though.

Will summed up Chill Town's strategy like this: "Keep our fingers crossed, hope for the best and backstab as many people as we can." But I liked that Erika tried to break up Chill Town's alliance. Did she really think that Mike would pick her over his best pal? "Am I really putting my [trust] in Mike Boogie's lovemaking ability? This might not be pretty."

And I've got a new favorite word: "showmantical." Lance Showmance apparently used his persuasive powers to keep himself and Chill Town off the block. Erika is going to be so annoyed when she sees the footage from this. Will's not really one to talk about Boogie's bedroom moves since his attempt at coming onto the camera in the backyard was just plain weird. "My relationship with the camera is as perfect as one can be." So freakin' bizarre.

I think they've cracked up from the lack of interaction with the outside world. They must be really bored if watching Chicken George belly-flop is the highlight of their day. Speaking of the Chicken man, I was giggling watching him jump on top of Mike. And Georgie got a slop pass, courtesy of his fellow houseguests. They didn't exactly make the wisest choices when it came to food. They only ended up with wine, beer and meat. Will called it, "The Atkins diet for alcoholics."

So Janey and George are on the block again. Will Janey's flirting with Will in the diary room help? What is up with these duo diary rooms? I did like their hot-tub conversation, though. Janelle admitted to having a little crush and, if he was the last man on earth, "I wouldn't like you, but I'd still have sex with you."

Guess we'll find out if the lucky gal can stick around another week.

As always, please put "Spoiler Alert" in anything pertaining to the live feeds, and have a nice night.

Till Tuesday....

I'm doing the live Emmy blogging so tonight's Big Brother post will be delayed probably until tomorrow morning. In the meantime go ahead and discuss amongst yourselves.

OK, so Will and Boogie kept to their plan and actually voted James out. But what I really wanted to see was more of Howie and Marci, I mean Marcellas, in that big house. Marcellas' "Damn, paradise is lost" comment was priceless. Those two cracked me up when I interviewed them. (Read my Q&A with Howie here and Marcellas here.) I did like Boogie's take on Howie's temper-filled exit, "If I sold lightsabers for a living, I'd be angry, too." Nice. Oh, and does anyone else think Julie seems to be telling them more on the live show lately? I can't pinpoint any exact moment, but I'm always worried she's going to spill the beans about something. And where are the endurance challenges? I signed up for the BB live feeds mostly so I could watch those. I'm never home or awake when anything else interesting is happening. I'm tired of the yes/no and true/false games.

So Mike and Erika are having a full-on showmance. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about that. I just don't really find Boogie all that attractive, so in a way it is just kind of icky. But it is kind of weird in general to be making out with someone when you know the cameras are watching, although I guess some people are into that kind of thing. And it bodes well for Mike that Erika has HOH power this week. If Danielle or Janelle or even Chicken George had it, I think Chill Town could have expected a blow. Danielle looks really pissed off now, and that's fantastic. She seems to play harder when she's angry. "If Boogie and Will pull something and James walks out the door... god help them." Yeah, I can't wait to see what happens when this former Legion of Doom member turns on them.

Any guesses on who Erika will put up? Janey seems a given, but she had a tentative alliance with George, she's got feelings for Boogie and she's friends with Danielle. Could she possibly put up Dr. Will? Or will Boogie talk her out of that? Guess we'll find out soon enough.

And I'm really excited for next Thursday's double-elimination night. That sounds really cool.

As always, please put "Spoiler Alert" in any comments pertaining to the live feeds, and have a nice weekend!

So Janey won POV and took herself off the block. Sure, she might have had some help from Goofus and Gallant, but she was unafraid to tackle James in order to take home tonight's prize — which, of course, he griped about, saying it was foul play. I think I'm with Will on this one: "Way I saw it, she just whooped his ass." No matter if she wins or loses or if you love her or hate her, she has undeniably played the game this season. She wore crocodile tears so people would think she wasn't a threat and that she needed coddling. It sort of worked since Chicken George has decided to align himself with her. And Mike and Boogie even offered up shoulders to lean on. I'm still not entirely sure that Janey can trust those Chill Town guys. They are the Big Brother bad boys and would probably lie to their own mothers in order to win the prize. The fact that they are considering going against Legion of Doom member James is just proof of their scheming ways. Boogie warned James in his diary-room session that "I think there might be a freight train coming in your direction." Too bad James won't know that he's been tied to the tracks until he's out the door. Will said, "James thinks the show is fixed in Janelle's favor. Well, it is. I'm the one fixing it." Can't wait until Thursday to see if the Chill Town folks stick to their plan.

I'm sure you are tired of my reminders by now, so I'll keep it brief for you posters: "Spoiler Alert," please.

So Janelle's only remaining ally, Howie, was ousted from the house. Can I just say that I love it when people go out all ticked off instead of with the lovey-dovey fake hugs? Anyway, now Janelle's in it for herself. There was this one great image after Howie left of the whole house clustered around the table and her standing in the middle of the kitchen by herself. While so many people say they are in this game for themselves, now she really is. But since Mr. Boogie won the HOH competition, the odds of her being nominated are pretty great. If she does go this coming week, and the Legion of Doom continues to dominate... that might make the rest of the summer a bit boring. I get excited by some shaking up, but since Boogie won HOH and is unlikely to use the coup power on himself, that potentially cool twist is going to go to waste. And Will is already back to using his lame "nominate me" strategy. Have we already come full circle?

Oh, and did anyone else think they went with a pretty lame answering technique for this week's HOH comp, after last week's problems? The whole "stick your head through the cutout hole" was very theme-park-like, and with the gnomes I just kept thinking that maybe I was watching the Big Brother Carnival and they just forgot to make pretty banners. Hey, they've already done prom night, so it isn't that unlikely.

Despite the fact that Howie had an excellent exit, I'm not altogether sorry to see him go. He really did seem to be riding the Season 6 coattails all summer. Plus, George gave him the chance for a rebuttal and he let debate champ Boogie do all the talking. Howie made a big mistake by not being vocal until his butt was already on the line.

My favorite part of the night had to be Janelle's conversation with James right after Marcellas' eviction. When Janey confronted him about his vote and asked how he knew which way the other side was leaning, he just said, "Because I do that." He does do that playing-both-sides thing very, very well. Maybe the other Season 6 players should have thought about that before they snagged him for their alliance.

Two reminders for tonight: Tuesday's episode is on at 9 pm/ET instead of 8 pm/ET like normal; if you are posting stuff about what is happening in the house, please remember to put "Spoiler Alert" at the top of your comment.