Heading into Sunday’s live eviction episode of “Big Brother 25,” the penultimate Head of Household of the season had just been crowned: Bowie Jane. The Australian DJ would soon name her two nominees for eviction, but as we all know, it’s really the Veto winner who holds all of the power in the Final 4, because they’ll have the sole vote to evict. So which person won the Power of Veto, and who ended up being sent to the jury house by the end of the live hour?
Below, read our minute-by-minute “Big Brother” Season 25, Episode 40 live recap to find out what happened on the night of Sunday, November 5 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.
10:00 p.m. – “Previously on ‘Big Brother’!” In the 39th episode, both Mama Cirie and Mama Felicia tried to convince The Mafia alliance to keep them. But when it came time for the live eviction, the votes hit Cirie and she was eliminated from the game. In her exit interview, Cirie told Julie that “Big Brother” is “harder” than “Survivor,” and that working with her son Jared Fields “complicated” her game. Later in the backyard, Bowie won her third HOH comp of the season, setting the stage for tonight’s Final 4 live eviction. Let’s go!
10:03 p.m. – With only four players left in the game, Bowie’s HOH win put her in the precarious position of having to nominate one of her closest allies alongside Felicia. Jag was banking that the work he’s put in to get closer to Bowie in the last few weeks would pay off to get her to put Matt up instead of him. Matt was hoping that she wouldn’t put him up because he hasn’t been nominated all season and that’s a key to his narrative to put in front of the jury at the end of the game.
10:04 p.m. – To decide her nominees, the three of them decided to pick a number from 1-100 and the closest would be safe. In the game, Matt said 77 and Jag said 73 and then Bowie said her number was 70, but unbeknownst to Matt, that was planned before the game even started. A few minutes prior, Jag and Bowie devised the plan to play that game of luck and have her say a number that is closer to Jag so that Matt would always be the unlucky person to be nominated between the two of them.
10:07 p.m. – Sure enough, at the Nomination Ceremony Bowie nominated both Felicia and Matt. Regardless of the nominees, all four players were aware that the only thing that mattered this week was who wins the Power of Veto because that player will save themselves and be the only houseguest to vote in the eviction.
10:12 p.m. – At the jury house, the jurors were dismayed to see Cirie arrive, especially considering it was one her allies (Matt) that put her on the block in the first place. But Cameron was proud of Jag for doing what he said he would — taking everyone out of the game — while Cirie and everyone else was mad at Matt for not taking the shot at Jag when he could have. Still, Cirie was rooting for Matt to go all the way because of what he’s “overcome” to last this long in the game.
10:20 p.m. – Last year’s winner and America’s Favorite Houseguest Taylor Hale stopped by the studio to dish the latest season with Julie. Of course the first thing Julie wanted to know the status of her relationship with Joseph Abdin, but Taylor said that they are no longer a romantic partnership and are still great friends. Taylor thinks that the best move of the season was getting Reilly Smedley out and the worst move was the alliance taking Hisam Goueli out. When Julie wanted to know how they could all win, Taylor said that Bowie has an impressive run of wins and not being nominated, Jag has dominated the challenges, Felicia is a “fellow blockbuster,” and Matt has “the best combination of comp wins and social game” and has the “trump card” of having saved Jag after he was unanimously evicted.
10:31 p.m. – For the final Veto Competition, each of the final four headed into a scrambled timeline data center with the task of sorting 12 event tiles in order and placing number tiles underneath them to correspond to the right days that they happened. Even though all of the players had studied the times that comps happened, they were thrown off by the “events” of this challenge including random moments as well. Jag was the first to hit his buzzer, thinking he was done, but he had two dates wrong. It took only one more hit of his buzzer to get it correct though, earning yet another Power of Veto and setting a new record as the most Veto wins in a single season (seven).
10:38 p.m. – With he Veto in Jag’s hands, Felicia had the task of convincing him to evict his best buddy Matt simply because he’s his strongest competition left. Felicia said that competitively Jag has outplayed Matt, but in terms of social game she believes that Matt has outplayed him. Jag knew that it would be hard for him to beat Matt if it comes to that, but his sense of loyalty to Matt was just as strong of a feeling.
10:46 p.m. – At the live Veto Meeting, Jag had the sole vote to evict either Matt or Felicia. In their last plea to remain in the game, Matt said nice things about all three of the other players and appealed to Jag by saying how proud of him he is and Felicia said that the four of them still in the game are the ones that played the best game with trust and truth and so she’s honored to be among them. Jag told the nominees that he knows it’s an important decision, but wanting to stay “true to who he is” he decided to vote to evict Felicia.
10:50 p.m. – In her interview with Julie, Felicia mentioned that her pitches to Jag didn’t work because he was truly a friend to Matt and his sense of loyalty won out. Putting loyalty aside, Felicia said that Jag made the wrong decision for the game because Matt might be hard to beat and thinks that Jag could very well lose to Matt. Felicia admitted to there being many things she would change about her game if she could, knowing that she “talked too much” and trusted the wrong people.
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