‘Big Brother 17’ live feed spoilers: Halfway home and jury talk

Can you believe that we are halfway through this season of “Big Brother“? File it under surprising, but true. Today was the annual halfway party for the remaining houseguests, but it must not have been very exciting given how little we’ve seen the remaining players talk about it.

Instead, the mood has been a little bit awkward in there, with Clay and Shelli mostly keeping to themselves and celebrating their last night together. Interestingly, there still is some ambiguity when it comes to the vote. It does look like Johnny Mac is keeping his promise from earlier in the week to evict Clay, though, and if that holds he is probably a goner. He needed to vote to get rid of Shelli for Austin to be even remotely a swing vote in all of this. It’s possible that James could go after Austin and Steve, but there is little incentive for Steve to flip when he is hiding behind Vanessa on the other side.

It is pretty clear that Vanessa will be the target for Meg (pictured, just because she rarely is) and Jackie if one of them wins Head of Household, but it otherwise seems pretty clear that James is toast if someone from the Sixth Sense gets the power. His fate is ultimately in the hands of people this coming week who we cannot count on as real assets in the challenges.

One last night we’ll say here tonight: How completely not-shocking would it be in the event that we see the jury expand to ten minute like this past season of “Big Brother Canada,” just to keep Clay and Shelli together? We wouldn’t be that shocked at all. The “eliminate a juror” twist was one of the few we really liked; sure, it has to stink for that jury member, but they at least are paid for chilling out all summer and it introduces some strategy.

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