BB28Jul 30, 9:07 PM

Evening Update: Mallory Wins the Blockbuster, Jason Goes 12–0

Mallory won Video Tape Tumble 8–7, Jason's Dracula pitch met a unanimous eviction, and Week 4 began with the next HOH underway.

Mallory did not wait for the house to save her. Facing a live-show BB Blockbuster with her game on the line, she pulled out an 8–7 win over Jason, took herself off the block, and left the vote everyone had been predicting to play out exactly as expected. Jason made one last maximalist pitch — keep him around as the house's shield, its shot-taker, its "Dracula" — and then all twelve voters evicted him anyway. He left banging Julie's tea pot and promising to stay messy.

Video Tape Tumble

At 5:25 PM PT, Jason, Lala, and Mallory — the week's three nominees — began the Blockbuster, called Video Tape Tumble. Each player had two minutes to remove VHS tapes one at a time from a tower and slot them into a return; if a player's tower fell, their score locked where it stood.

Lala's tower toppled after two points, ending her run early and guaranteeing she would face the vote. Mallory and Jason went the distance, and Mallory edged him 8–7. Julie announced her safe, and the group hug from Lyric and Melody followed almost immediately.

Jason took the loss hard. When Kamu approached to hug him, Jason told him not to touch him. The final nominees were set: Jason and Lala.

The Speeches and the Vote

Lala kept her speech simple — she loved everyone and still had a lot to offer. Jason went bigger. He argued the house could see one side holding power and urged them to keep him as a shield who would take the shots for them. He could be their Dracula, he said, the one who gets blood on his hands. Without him, the season would be boring.

The house was unmoved. Haley, Chuk, Dee, Angela, Melody, Mallory, Drew, Barrett, Taylor, Lyric, Yash, and Devens all voted to evict Jason — 12–0. Kamu, as outgoing HOH, did not vote because there was no tie to break. Jason joins Ashley and Rome on the evicted side of the board.

The Tea-Pot Exit

Jason left in character. On his way out, he grabbed the tea pot Julie had provided, told the next target to air out their tea, and banged it as he walked through the door.

The interview was more reflective. Jason acknowledged he had told too many people too many things, but he wasn't apologizing for the style — he said he would keep being messy and own it. Julie also told him that he had placed in the top three in every BB Time Capsule vote so far.

Feeds Return: Week 4 Starts Immediately

Feeds came back at 6:05 PM, and the house barely paused before pivoting to the next HOH. Devens, Dee, and Drew talked through the landscape; Devens believed none of the three of them would go up, while Drew floated the possibility that Lala, if she won, might target Devens or Kamu. Devens also mulled how he might disclose or leverage his Diamond Power of Veto with the incoming HOH — thinking out loud, not a settled plan.

Lighter aftermath came at 7:05 PM, when Taylor told Lyric that Jason deserved a sympathy vote and joked that maybe she would start handing them out. She admitted to nothing beyond the joke.

By 7:35 PM, the house had settled into pre-HOH study mode, with Lala reviewing dates and competition names with Taylor. At 8:27 PM, the feeds switched to animals for the Week 4 HOH competition.

Settled and Open

Settled: Mallory is safe by her own hand, Jason is out 12–0, and the board has rolled cleanly into Week 4 with every remaining player accounted for. Open: everything else — HOH, veto, and nominations all wait on a competition that was still underway behind the animal cams as of the last check. No winner has been confirmed, and we won't guess at one.

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