James Weir recaps Big Brother Australia 2020 episode 17

Two housemates who started up a romance have been destroyed with one backstabbing move. James Weir recaps.

Reality TV’s most innocent romance is destroyed on Tuesday’s Big Brother when a pact is shattered and an international-male-model-slash-construction-worker is left to deal with the traitors who destroyed his fling.

Hell hath no fury like an international-male-model-slash-construction-worker scorned. They could shiv you with their defined cheekbones.

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Kieran has survived one night in the white room without staining anything which he really should be commended for. But inside the actual house, things are getting weird. We survey the night vision footage of the bedroom at 3am and things are just feral.

It’s honestly a zoo.

Who’s even left? Dan and Mat have their alliance. Chad and Sophie have their preschool relationship. And Sarah is a lone wolf. She proves to us why she should win when she utters this one sentence:

This slogan should be screen printed on Lorna Jane tank tops.

Chad has agreed with Dan and Mat that they should all work together to shoulder out Sarah. Of course, Dan and Mat secretly plan to do the complete opposite and shove out Sophie. It’s all in the name of winning $250,000 in prize money. The fact they get to destroy young love in the process is just a bonus.

A month of backstabbing has got Mat questioning his moral compass and he has a dark night of the soul.

“I’m still Mat from Broken Hill – don’t just burn your morals for the sake of a bit of money,” he tells himself, basically quoting Jenny From The Block.

Still, morals are for losers and, when Dan wins the elimination challenge, he follows through on the plan and chucks up Sophie with Sarah in the nominations.

Despite Chad’s reassurances, Sophie knows she cannot rest. Dan and Mat are not to be trusted.

“I feel like we made this pact … And I’ve trusted it the whole way,” she tells Mat, omitting the fact she considered ousting him and Dan not 24 hours ago. “And I’ve been loyal to it. I’ve always thought about putting us four first. I think even last night I had your back. I really wanna be there with you guys. I would hope you’d do the same for me.”

Mat refuses to promise he won’t vote her out. She’s furious. How dare he even entertain the idea of ousting her in the same way she considered ousting him. What about the pact! The pact!

“The least they could do is not stab us in the back right now!” Chad says, as if this is not a game that involves betrayal and voting people out.

“This is exactly why I said yesterday that I want to get him out,” Sophie complains, regretting not doing to Mat what he is now doing to her in a contradiction that never gets tired.

When the time comes for the elimination ceremony, she’s an emotional wreck.

“My heart hurts so much tonight,” her voice wavers.

We assume she’s talking about having to potentially leave Chad but … no.

“Everyone knows this is, like, my biggest dream,” she says of the esteemed reality series.

“It ruins me. It destroys me.”

‘Chad who?’

Kruges is trying to juice as much emotion out of tonight as possible, so she turns the spotlight on Sarah and looks at her with sad eyes.

“What would winning the $250,000 mean to you, Sarah?” she asks, hoping Sarah talks about her family’s financial struggles which will in turn lead to tears.

“Oh, it would mean the world to me. It would mean so much to everyone here,” she smiles.

The upbeat response is not what Kruges is looking for. She wants tears, dammit. And she’s not hanging up on this Zoom call until she sees snot.

“But, what would it mean to you?” she probes again.

Finally, Sarah gives her what she wants.

Good work, Kruges.

She’s then forced to use a weird triangle cushion as a tissue.

Dual purpose.

With her mission accomplished, Kruges allows everyone to vote. Of course, only Mat and Chad are allowed to place votes tonight. And if there’s a tie, which we know for sure there will be, then Dan gets to be the decider.

Chad votes out Sarah and, even though we obviously expected this, there was still a tiny part of us that was hoping he’d vote against Sophie and just completely snake out of their relationship with no explanation. Now that would’ve been a punchy ending.

Mat follows through with the plan and votes out Sophie. With the decision up to Dan, he doesn’t hesitate in ruining the innocent love affair.

“I got played,” Chad stews as Sophie leaves the house and he’s left to face the boys who stabbed him in the back.

Chad totally rehearsed this facial expression in the mirror.

But we know something they don’t. Sophie is secretly invited into the white room.

As they say: when one door shuts, another door opens. And behind that door is usually something terrifying.

Spooky.

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