'Big Brother' recap: Ronnie Dangerously

While chatting with Julie Chen in the HOH room (feel free to speak your mind!), Ronnie was back in ''all part of the plan'' mode, assuring America that his sequestering was just an act for sympathy from the house, and he still had five people in his alliance. Uh, Ronnie, the avatar you made out of Pringles dust and a pack of Lik-M-Aid does not count as a person. I'm not sure how he's doing this math: perhaps Jessie and Natalie are still with him, but who else? A lot can happen in a week, and other people have come back from worse odds, but those people had a plan that wasn't the strategic equivalent of closing your eyes and pinwheeling your fists in the air.

When the vote came down, it was 8-1 to boot out Laura. The one dissenting vote was from Natalie. Hey, don’t doubt her reasons, she's a poker player with a slop pass! I don't get why she did that, unless it was to throw doubt into the house. And seeing how well that worked for Ronnie, that seems crazy. Post-eviction, when Laura teetered out to talk to Julie in a red dress that was only slightly bigger than a pocket square, she got a goodbye message from Ronnie that said, ''You have probably the worst case of diarrhea of the mouth that I've ever seen. If you hadn't spoken your mind in the backyard, you'd probably still be here.'' This cemented just how deluded he is: She was already marked for elimination in the backyard. All her outburst did was take him down with her.

Finally, the HOH Challenge, a blend of shotput, catapult, and skee-ball that Jessie won, making him HOH again. What will this mean for the house? Will he keep his loyalty to Ronnie, or will he bend to the prevailing desire to boot the nerd? Now that he has another chance at bat, should he target Russell? If so, can even Jessie sleep through the sound of Russell foaming at the mouth outside his door? (Addendum: Sorry, readers have rightly pointed out to me that Jessie can't target Russell, since they're in the same clique. Oops. That's what happens when you're finishing your TV Watch at 1:30 a.m. and are starting to hallucinate.)

Don't forget to check out Julie Chen's blog today. (Admit it, she is bringing her A game!) And check out below for Lynette Rice's interview with last week's ousted contestant, Braden. And the losers keep coming: check out EW.com on Monday, when we'll have a chat with Laura herself.