Big Brother evicted Victor Arroyo from the house (again) and surprised the houseguests by revealing one of the season's first five jury members will get to return to the game during Thursday night's live episode on CBS.
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Victor, a 25-year-old gym manager from Slidell, LA, was evicted from the Big Brother house via a 2-1 vote over fellow houseguest Corey Brooks, a 25-year-old baseball coach from Dallas, TX.
Victor and Corey had been nominated for eviction by houseguests Natalie Negrotti and Michelle Meyer, who had served as the week's co-Heads of Households.
Paul Abrahamian, Victor's closest ally, had originally been nominated alongside him, however Paul, a 23-year-old clothing designer from Tarzana, CA, won the week's subsequent Power of Veto competition allowing him to remove himself from the chopping block.
Michelle -- who had technically been the HoH to nominate Paul -- had then nominated Corey for eviction as a replacement nominee.
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With only seven houseguests left in the house, only three houseguests had been eligible to vote in this week's elimination: Paul, James Huling and Nicole Franzel. Paul has been openly allied with Victor throughout the game with Corey similarly allied with Nicole, leaving the deciding eviction vote in James' hands.
But, despite allying themselves with Victor and Paul last week. James and Natalie decided to ally themselves with fellow showmance couple Corey and Nicole this week -- leaving Victor evicted via a 2-1 vote.
However, after he left the house, Big Brother host Julie Chen surprised Victor -- who had already been evicted from the house earlier this season but earned the right to return via the "BattleBack" twist -- with the news that he and the season's four other existing jury members would get to compete in the season's next HoH challenge and the last juror standing would get to return to the game.
In addition, if the final juror standing was also the HoH challenge's overall winner, they would not only get to return to the Big Brother house but also serve as the week's Head of Household.
As Julie noted, the season's latest twist meant that Victor would receive the chance to potentially get to compete in the Big Brother house for an unprecedented third time in the same season.
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Juile then informed Big Brother's six remaining houseguests of the twist -- although several of them seemed to have already anticipated it.
Victor and fellow jurors Paulie Calafiore, Zakiyah Everette, Bridgette Dunning, and Da.Vonne Rogers then re-entered the Big Brother house and assembled for the challenge alongside Corey, James, Nicole, and Paul. (As the outgoing Heads of Household, Michelle and Natalie were not eligible to compete in the challenge.)
Dubbed "Welcome to Loch Ness," the endurance challenge required the four houseguests and five jurors to stand on a small platform holding onto a wall as the wall repeatedly angled forward and back and they were sprayed with water.
Big Brother's Thursday night broadcast then concluded with the challenge still ongoing.
[Spoiler Warning: To find out the HoH competition results, highlight the area below.]
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Victor lasted about 48 minutes and was the final juror left in the challenge, earning him the right to return to the game yet again! Da'Vonne and Zakiyah were the first two contestants to exit the challenge, and were followed by Corey, Bridgette, and Paulie. Victor appeared to intentionally quit the challenge right after Paulie was out. Paul fell after about 95 minutes, leaving only James and Nicole in the challenge. James then appeared to intentionally drop and allow Nicole to win after about another half hour.
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