Unlike with last week, where we had absolutely no clue who would be leaving the Big Brother 21 house, this week seems pretty straightforward. Going into this week’s Power of Veto Competition, Cliff Hogg III was confident that he would escape eviction. He had a deal in place with all of the other three players to take him to the finals. Nicole Anthony wasn’t nearly as confident as Cliff, and her intuition proved right.

Once Jackson won the Power of Veto, he declared that he made it to the finals and planned to take Holly Allen with him. He just had to let Cliff and Nicole know his plan. He let them know on Sunday, which set Cliff up to try to campaign for safety.

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This was a rather active Big Brother 21 Wednesday. We have come to expect campaigning every Wednesday, but we haven’t seen it this explosive since spicy Taco Tuesday. Cliff Hogg III decided to go out swinging. In the morning, Cliff and Nicole Anthony talked about how to approach the campaign to Jackson Michie today. Cliff made an attempt to appeal to Jackson’s heart on Tuesday, with little effect. Now he was going for cutthroat by mentioning that Jackson might not have his jury vote if he makes the move to evict Cliff and keep Holly Allen.

The conversation between Jackson and Cliff started off like usual with the hundredth rehashing of the deals, broken deals, honor, man of your word conversations. Then Cliff slowly got to the meat of his campaign with Jackson. He brought up that Jackson might lose two votes with this move. Whereas if he evicted Holly, she could go to the jury and advocate/campaign for him, while Cliff would actively try to turn the jurors against Jackson.

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The most important competition of the Big Brother 21 season will play out tonight with the final Power of Veto (POV) competition. The winner of this competition will hold the one and only vote in the live eviction tomorrow night. Nicole Anthony won the last Head of Household (HOH) by default when Holly Allen threw her the competition, which she later regretted. Nicole is already guaranteed a spot in the final three with the HOH victory. There are only three other houseguests left vying for the golden veto.

The POV winner tonight will decide the final three houseguests fighting for a spot into the final two. Although Holly and Jackson Michie are on the block, this is inconsequential as the rules playout for the final veto. Nicole and Cliff Hogg III will be fighting hard for the POV win to break up the final showmance. Michie and Holly will be doing the same but to break up Cliff and Nicole. Who will win the final veto?

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We’re closing in on the end of Big Brother 21. While things are winding down, things are also ramping up for the final Head of Household competition, and ultimately crowning a winner for Big Brother 21. This week seems like a foregone confusion but there is quite a bit to look forward to with how the finale is shaping up.

Without further ado let’s jump into the penultimate power rankings of the season.

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As we get closer to Thursday, Cliff Hogg III began his quest to save himself from eviction. The first step of Cliff’s plan was to play on Jackson Michie‘s emotions. Nicole Anthony started this plan the night before, and now it was time for Cliff to really sell to Jackson how much Cliff wanted to be in the final three with Jackson and Nicole.

We got a lot of Cliffnotes today as Cliff explained to the viewers that he thought Jackson was being hypocritical and not a man of his word, especially by breaking the new rules of agreement after he was saved by the Veto, and not right after they were made. According to Cliff, he also showed his hypocrisy by criticizing Nicole and Cliff for almost breaking their final four deal. Cliff made sure Jackson knew how much he wanted to have his family there on finale night, and they could only go if Cliff made it into the final three.

Cliff also told Jackson that Jackson had originally said that he would prefer Nicole and Cliff in the finals over Holly Allen. Both Cliff and Jackson throw Nicole under the bus, blaming her for this entire situation. According to Jackson, none of this would have happened if it wasn’t for Nicole trying to keep Tommy Bracco. Holly would have won Head of Household, Jackson would have won the Veto, and then Jackson would have voted Nicole out over Cliff.

Nicole gave Cliff permission to throw her under the bus, and also to present Jackson with a deal about them both taking him to the final two over each other. Cliff presented this idea to Jackson, citing that now all deals were null and void, so he was a free agent to make new final two deals. Jackson told Cliff that this was a really hard decision, one that he wouldn’t take lightly. He would think about which move was best for his game, but meanwhile, he told Holly that she had nothing to worry about: He was taking her to the final three.

He also told Holly basically how Nicole and Cliff were trying to play on his emotions. While talking to the camera, Cliff admitted that he didn’t think any of this was working, but he had to try. He also said that he had another step that he was either going to try on Wednesday night or Thursday morning. He would tell Jackson that he didn’t think he had the votes to win Big Brother 21.

Cliff said that if Jackson betrayed Nicole and him, he would try to sway the jury to not vote for Jackson over Holly or Nicole (at least this is the angle he planned to present to Jackson). He also said that he would threaten Jackson by saying that this move would cost his half a million dollars, and Nicole and Cliff probably wouldn’t vote for him in the end. He said he wasn’t sure if Jackson could get enough votes to win the game after losing those two.

At one point, Nicole discussed who should she take to the end if she wins the final Head of Household Competition. Cliff suggested that she take Holly because she had a stronger argument against her than Jackson. Nicole also wondered if Jackson was trying to create some division between Holly and herself so that neither considered taking each other. Nicole said that she might talk to Holly about that, and see if they could work through things.

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