‘Big Brother’ Week 7: Fans React After Blockbuster Leads to Katherine’s Eviction

Another houseguest was sent packing on Big Brother last night. The playing field would be evened a bit more as a woman was sent home, compared to the last four weeks when men were evicted.

To kick off the week, Vince Panaro became the new HOH for the second time in the iconic wall competition. He was on the verge of going home, but came out victorious instead. He was the deciding vote on evicting Rylie Jeffries, and half of the house was not happy with him.

He debated putting up Rachel Reilly since she put him up last week, but his allies advised him against it since he had just made an alliance with her a few days prior. Vince knew he wanted to put up Mickey Lee, despite being in a final three with her and Morgan Pope. The second person he decided on was Ava Pearl, since she is the only person in the house who isn’t in an alliance with him, and put him up on her HOH.

But he was stuck on the third nominee. Vince couldn’t decide between Rachel, Katherine, Ashley Hollis, or Kelley Jorgenson. He has had a final two with Kelley since day two, but has voted against her for two evictions without consulting her, so their relationship is rocky. Vince decided that Kelley could take herself off with either the Veto or the Blockbuster since she has done it before.

When it came time for the nominations ceremony, Vince settled on Mickey, Ava, and Kelley. Mickey was mad since they were supposed to be in an alliance. Ava shrugged it off since she put him up. Kelley was also mad because she said she was slowly trusting Vince again.

During Wednesday’s Veto competition, six houseguests had to choose between two wines. One was “poisoned” and one was not. They could decide to give their opponent the “poisoned” wine right away or see if they would switch with them. Whoever got the “poisoned” one got a strike against them. If they drank two “poisoned” glasses, they were eliminated from the competition.

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The final round came down to Vince and Mickey. Vince offered her the non-poisoned one, hoping she would switch with him. She didn’t, so he was poisoned and lost the competition.

Mickey won the Power of Veto and took herself off the block. Vince struggled between backdooring Rachel or Katherine Woodman. Many of his fellow houseguests tried to sway him one way or the other. After much deliberation and a few tears, Vince decided to put Katherine up.

His alliance member, Keanu Soto, was disappointed in him. Katherine was mad because she thought he was putting up Rachel. Tensions were high.

Thursday’s episode began with the aftermath of the veto ceremony. Keanu was mad at Vince and confronted him in the weight room. Vince admitted that he knew he had messed up and cried. Rachel popped her head in to tell them food was ready, and Keanu said that she would spin it to look like Keanu made Vince cry, when that wasn’t true.

As the target was now off the block, houseguests discussed who they would vote out, sometimes right in front of a nominee without knowing. Lauren Domingue and Ashley talked in the train room, with Ava “sleeping” in her bed up top. This caused Lauren to freak out after she noticed, but Ava didn’t say anything, even though she heard the whole conversation.

When it came time for the Blockbuster, the three women had to put pieces together on a ramp to get the ball in the hole first. They had to make sure to place the pieces correctly, or the ball would stop before it got to the end. Katherine and Kelley were close, but Kelley came out on top and was removed from the block.

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Houseguests then had to choose between Katherine and Ava. The contestants said earlier in the episode that Ava would be hard to get out because she was so likable.

The vote was seven to one in Ava’s favor. Only Lauren voted out Ava, which was to be expected, since she and Katherine were close friends.  Katherine left the house in tears. When she talked to host Julie Chen Moonves, she said she and Rylie will play it “day by day.”

Fans reacted to her eviction. “Katherine came into the house as a self proclaimed raging feminist and now she’s leaving and will only been known for a showemance with a horrible man #BB27,” one X fan said. 

“I’m loving her eviction!” wrote another.

“katherine’s about to get told a lot of tea by her family #BB27,” a fan tweeted.

“Never have a showmance on Big Brother. Katherine spent all her time talking to Riley; she forgot how to play the game and connect with other people. #bigbrother, #bigbrother2025,” another wrote.

“I feel bad for Katherine, seems like a nice girl…but her head is going to be gone by the end of the night about the info that she’s gonna learn,” one last fan tweeted.  

Tune in on Sunday to find out who becomes the next HOH, and who will send the last pre-juror home.

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