Tonight on CBS Big Brother airs with an all-new Sunday, August 10, 2025, season 27 episode 16 and we have your Big Brother recap below!
In tonight’s exciting Big Brother season 27 episode 16 called, “HoH & Nominations” as per the CBS synopsis, “The newly selected Head of Household takes residence in their special Head of Household room and nominates two other Houseguests for eviction.”
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Well, Jimmy went home last week. It was supposed to be Rylie’s week as HOH. Mickey stole it from him and then sent home one of her biggest allies in a move that didn’t entirely make sense. Not that you can tell her that. Mickey thought her HOH was successful. She nominated him because she heard that he was talking of an alliance with the other side of the house. It upset her. There was no need for her to be upset with him when he didn’t get upset with her. She lied to him about a secret power. He never lied to her. He also said outright that his supposed alliance with Keanu was a faux alliance to protect himself.
Jimmy tried to come at Keanu. Keanu kept winning Veto and so Jimmy tried to protect himself. Who wasn’t trying to protect themselves in this game? Mickey should have held onto Jimmy until she no longer needed him. Her big move last week did not help her game in the slightest. The show was filmed 24/7. There were already talks over the weekend of people making moves and none of that benefits her. They were outright targeting her as well as her allies. Rachel was also a target. She tried to get votes to keep Jimmy and ultimately there were only two people that voted for him.
One was by mistake. Ashley voted to evict Kelley. She realized her mistake less than a minute later and tried to take it back. She couldn’t. The rules didn’t work that way. The house knew for sure that Rachel voted to keep Jimmy. They just didn’t know that Ashley also voted to keep him. There were rumors it was her. Jimmy hugged two people before he left and one of them was Ashley. It showed he put his trust in her. Mickey and Morgan suspected it was Ashley that voted to keep Jimmy. They simply couldn’t prove it. The one person that could was Will. And Will wasn’t talking.
Will was close to Ashley. He wasn’t going to blow up her game for anyone. He’s been working with Mickey and voting with her, but Ashley was a friend. She was a reliable friend. He knew that if Mickey knew for sure that Ashley voted against her decision during her HOH that Ashley would become a target. Mickey told Will as much. Will then tried to warn Ashley. He told her that people think it’s her and that she has to do damage control. Ashley was left so scared by that conversation that she needed a win.
There was the HOH competition. The new game was called Jack the Dipper. The first two to play were randomly selected. They later had to pick two to replace them in a game of knockout until only one winner was left. There was just one issue at the start. People kept trying to be nice. They wanted volunteers. This game was about choosing enemies so that they could knock out each other. Rachel knew the game. The others not so much. Zach even nominated Morgan to play against Will. It lessened his alliance’s chances at winning and he was bound to hear from Morgan about it.
Surprisingly, it was Ava who won HOH. She won it by default. She was up against Will and Will was quick to the buzzer only wrong with the answer. It led to Ava winning. She’s now HOH. Keanu was a given at this point as a target. He and Ava also had that spat last week. Ava needed to nominate three people in all and she wanted to nominate Ashley. They don’t get along. The one person that was safe was Zach. Zach helped Ava out on night one and the two of them have always been cool with each other since then.
Ava even gave him her word.
Rachel was also safe. Ava was a huge Rachel fan. Vinny realized that and tried to suck up. Ava made it hard for everyone. She didn’t want any One on Ones. She said she’d come to you if she had anything to say. Now, some worked around that. Mickey for one. Mickey wanted to keep Ashley. She advocated getting rid of Zach because Zach was closer to Morgan than Mickey was to Morgan. Vinny also got his own name thrown around because he went to Ava’s allies hoping to convince them to talk her into not targeting him.
All it did was annoy Ava. Mickey working with Will got Ava to go back on her word. Ava later nominated Keanu, Zach, and Vinny. She chose sides and now it’s up to the house to deal with it.
THE END