Heading into the 21st episode of “Big Brother 26,” Cam Sullivan-Brown had just used the Veto to save himself, which caused Head of Household T’kor Clottey to name a replacement nominee. She decided to nominate the paranoid Angela Murray alongside Tucker Des Lauriers (her pawn) and Makensy Manbeck (her target), even though Angela was a part of T’kor and Tucker’s Sixth Avenue alliance. So which houseguest was evicted live on Thursday night?
Below, read the minute-by-minute “Big Brother” Season 26, Episode 21 live eviction recap to find out what happened on the night of Thursday, August 15, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT.
Here are the names of the 11 remaining houseguests: Angela Murray, Cam Sullivan-Brown, Chelsie Baham, Joseph Rodriguez, Kimo Apaka, Leah Peters, Makensy Manbeck, Quinn Martin, Rubina Bernabe, T’kor Clottey and Tucker Des Lauriers.
8:00 p.m. – “Previously on ‘Big Brother’!” In the 20th episode, the Power of Veto competition took place in the backyard, which featured a mix of prizes and punishments. Cam won the Veto, T’kor won $5K in cash, Makensy won a Hawaiian vacation, Joseph had to endure 24 hours in solitary confinement, Tucker had to wear a unitard and be Ainsley’s assistant, and Angela had to pick up 1,000 orbs in the backyard one by one. Elsewhere in the episode, Tucker continued teasing the houseguests anonymously as the A.I. Instigator, and then he and Angela had an argument about whether he was a loyal friend or an influential liar. In the end, T’kor decided to betray her Sixth Avenue alliance by putting Angela up on the block as Cam’s replacement. Who will be voted out tonight? Let’s go!
8:06 p.m. – Immediately after the veto meeting ended, Tucker stormed off upset at T’Kor for going against his wishes to put Leah up. Tucker’s reaction made T’Kor question whether she might be willing to corral the house to vote him out if the opportunity presents itself. But with everyone still gathered in the living room, Angela came clean about asking to be a part of Tucker’s alliance and that she kept it quiet until she couldn’t any longer. She also made it clear that Quinn betrayed her confidence again and that he can’t be trusted.
8:10 p.m. – Wanting to keep her core of four together, Rubina attempted to bridge the divide between Tucker and T’Kor by going to Tucker, but he insisted that he’s justified in being upset at T’Kor. He explained that from his perspective he’s done “a lot of favors” for other people and they aren’t grateful for it. In the conversation, Tucker said he’s unsure “if anything is real,” and that “crushed” Rubina because she would assume that he trusts that their romantic connection is real.
8:15 p.m. – Later, Tucker went to Rubina with an ask to make a final two deal together, saying that she’s the only thing that will keep him in the game, but she wasn’t immediately open to believing it was true. From the diary room, she expressed that she’s not sure she can trust what he says because he’s a good talker and she knows that they’re in a game.
8:17 p.m. – Wanting to “flip the house” to regain some power, Chelsie started planting seeds with the idea of taking Tucker out this week if he’s still on the block after the A.I. Arena. The first person she got on board was Cam, but they were both aware that they can’t fall “on the wrong side of the vote again.” Chelsie avoided openly campaigning for Tucker and instead tried to quietly gauge where other people’s heads are at. Both Leah and Makensy intimated that having Tucker on the block is a juicy prospect because of how close he is with Rubina, T’Kor and Kimo.
8:20 p.m. – Leah thought that Quinn would be a good fifth person to bring into the fold to get Tucker out. Chelsie approached Quinn first, agreeing that the two of them have to stick together. Quinn told Chelsie that he’s committed to voting Tucker out, but in the diary room he said it would be tricky for him because it would isolate him from Kimo and T’Kor who might lose trust in him.
8:27 p.m. – In the A.I. Arena, Tucker, Makensy and Angela raced in “Puzzling Password” to assemble an oversized puzzle that would reveal a numerical password that they should match out of a series of encrypted choices. Of the three, Makensy put piece after piece perfectly in place and in one dominating swoop completed the puzzle and chose the right code in one attempt. Angela and Tucker were no where close to finishing by the time Makensy had won.
8:37 p.m. – When the houseguests learned that Makensy won in the arena, Angela started to beg openly that she wants to remain in the game to be there with them and Tucker appealed directly to Quinn to save him. Of the players not on the block, T’Kor looked the most worried which makes sense since the two alliance members she nominated were the ones left on the block. When all the voters secluded themselves in a room, Tucker told Angela that he thinks they’ll vote for her to stay because he’s been telling them to send him home all week.
8:40 p.m. – In their pleas to the houseguests, Tucker expressed his love for everyone in the house and asked to stay so that he can continue to keep the attitude light in the house, but admitted that “it’s just a game and I love to play games.” Angela followed by very passionately reminding them that she’s connected with them all and she wants to stick around to spend more time with them to live out her dream.
8:43 p.m. – When called by Julie to cast their votes, Rubina voted to evict Angela and Chelsie voted to evict Tucker.
8:47 p.m. – The votes continued: Kimo voted to evict Angela, Joseph voted to evict Angela, Leah voted to evict Tucker, Makensy voted to evict Tucker, Quinn voted to evict Tucker, and Cam voted to evict Tucker.
8:50 p.m. – When Julie read the results, Tucker did not seem surprised, but his showmance Rubina did and Cam had tears rolling down his face despite voting to evict him. Before leaving, Tucker picked Rubina up in his arms and gave her a big sloppy kiss while everyone else cheered them on.
8:55 p.m. – Julie’s first question for Tucker was “Did you throw it?” about the A.I. Arena, but he said no and admitted he was building it backwards. About the votes, Tucker said that he doesn’t feel betrayed by anyone and knew that once he was left on the block that people would move to take him out. He did say that Makensy told him she’d vote to keep him so he was slightly surprised that she didn’t, but it was fair because he would have voted her out over Angela.
8:58 p.m. – In the last moments, Julie revealed to Tucker that America voted to award him with $20,000 for his role as the A.I. Instigator and then confirmed for everyone that it’s the “real deal” with Rubina. He got teary eyed saying that it will be hard being away from her while he watches her go for the win from home.
Want even more Big Brother spoilers, updates, and news? Then be sure to join us on our Facebook page @BigBrotherUScom, Facebook group @BigBrotherUS & Twitter:@BigBrotherUS to always stay connected and never miss any update.
