Erika not yet ready for her close-up

Janelle arrives at the jury house

The Jury Meets

The fans go crazy for Big Brother

Janelle enters the studio

The votes are cast.

Erika and Boogie

Janelle wins America's Vote

This season on Big Brother Al-Stars, 14 all stars moved in for a second chance at the half million dollar prize.  The four season sixers picked up where they left off and quickly formed an alliance.   Big Brother Two winner Will and his best friend Mike resurrected Chill Town.   In the beginning season six seemed unbeatable, winning the first four head of household competitions, and evicting Alison,  Nakomis, Jase,  and Diane.  When season six finally lost power in the house to Danielle,  Chill Town went on the offensive, secretly making Janelle the prime target.   Janelle proved that she was the ultimate competitor.  Chill Town put a new strategy into effect, a mission called "operation double date."  Mike manipulated Erika, and Janelle fell under the puppet master's spell.   Working behind the scenes, Chill Town played everyone in the house perfectly,  taking chill town to the final four.  Finally, after weeks of Chill Town pulling the strings, Erika unraveled their plan and convinced Janelle to send the puppet master packing.

In the final three part HoH competition, Erika,  won  round one,  Mike won round two, and the stage was set for Erika to face off against her summer Showmance.  And when the last head of household was crowned, Janelle was finally evicted, making Erika and Mike the final two.

Janelle arrived at the jury house, some were surprised, others were not.   Janelle quickly fills them in on the HoH competition and Mike selecting Erika.  Will guessed the outcome exactly:  "Third competition,  they strike a deal to let Boogie win it, sending you home, Erika stabs you in the back"  Janelle has an announcement for the jury:  "Erika is a back stabbing B-I-T-C-H."  Danielle asks "You think?" Janelle says that Erika is the ultimate floater that I pray to god will not win. Please, God, do not let Erika win. She is horrible."

They get to discuss Erika's game play and if floating is game-play,  or riding on someone else's coattails.  Danielle said, "Yes, she was lying, yes,  she was floating, yes, she was having deals left and right.  But boogie did the same thing.  She's in the final two. Everyone is all pissed off because we believed her and we didn't take her out. That's not her fault. That's our fault."

Janelle argues,  "At least Boogie was loyal to someone.  He was loyal to Will.  Erika was loyal to no one.  No one.  She was not loyal to you. She was not loyal to George.  She was not loyal to me.  And she was not loyal to Danny."  James interjects, "It was not a team sport."

They realize most of their attention is on Erika, and evaluate Mike's game, only to find he was quite effective at riding Will's coattails when he needed but also was strategic,  won a competition when he needed to, lied and all those good things too.  They note that it was it an incredible advantage to come in with his best friend."

Before they go to question Mike and Erika, Danielle has one request,  "I'm just asking and pleading with the jury,  do not make this personal. It's not a good thing.  I know how that feels.  That's all I got to say. "  See the video

Marcellas gets to be the first to ask the finalists a question:  "I think I have the same question for each of you.  Strategically, what do you think was your best move during the game?"  Erika replies:  "My best move was convincing Janelle to vote out Will.  He was the one I know I needed to get out in order to position myself where I am now."  Mike's reply:  "My best move in the game was not using the special power that I had and keeping Janelle in the game and aligning with her for the home stretch.  I knew if I did, I would only be able to use it on Janelle or the rest of the house would figure out we were working with her keeping Janelle in the game was the best move. "

George goes next and asks,  "My question to Boogie is this.  Boogie, will you ask Erika's hand in marriage on the live show just as you did with Krista on Big Brother 2?"  Mike replies, "Thanks, Georgie.  I had a great time with her.  But I will not be proposing on the finale.  I got to keep my bromance with Will."  George asks Erika, "My question to Erika is this:  You kept whispering,  George, you're safe,  and in turn you voted me out of the game.  How do you think I probably feel at this point?"  Erika replies:  "Well,  I know, Georgie,  that I told you that you were safe. The week after, we didn't have a deal, and I knew I had to keep Mike in the game to help me go further and I -- I mean,  I feel horrible, George,  but I had to choose him over you at that point.  I'm sorry. I hope you can forgive me."

Will's up next:  " Ring, ring."  Boogie answers, " Hello?"  Will:  "Hey,  Boogie, it's  Will.  What's up, man, how are you doing?   Dude,  are you in the final two?"  And they laughed as always. 

Janelle cut to the chase by asking, "Erika, was kissing butt and throwing competitions part of your strategy?"  Erika responds with, "Well, honestly I have to tell you Janelle the only competition I threw was the one to Danielle and I knew her and I had a similar agenda.  In terms of kissing butt,  I had your back,  I would have taken you to the final two,  it was awesome we got together to try to get out Chill Town.  And I really hope that you can respect how I played the game."  Boogie is making some incriminating faces while Erika answers.

James asked Erika:  "Erika, in the house you told me that on season four you thought Alison's strategy was deplorable and that's why you could not vote for her in the end because she used the floating technique and flirtatious to get to the end.  How is your strategy different and why should I give you a vote?"  [Good job James -M]    Erika replies: "I really didn't come into the house looking to flirt or hookup.  I actually, honestly just like Mike.  When I came in,  I didn't really have anyone.  I didn't technically want to even be a floater.  But that was kind of what I had to do to get through this house.  So I hope that you can respect that." 

Danielle tells Erika to listen very carefully because this is going to decide her vote.  "Was it your decision or was it Chill Town' decision to get rid of me?"  Erika answers,  "Honest to God's truth,  yes, of course Chill Town -- I made them believe that it was their idea but you were the second strongest player in the house and I could not beat you in competitions. The only move I could make was to vote you out. "  Danielle moves on to Mike,  "Boogie, you looked me in my face and said you were going to be my Jason.  Well, boogie,  Jason would have never done what you did to me.  So justify yourself."  Mike turns the tables on her with this reply,  "I will make you a deal, Danielle, you give me your vote to win the money,  and if I go watch my Tivo and if I don't see more than one Jason,  I will give you half.  I think James was your Jason.  I think Erika was your Jason.  I think out of your Jason.  You were a very dangerous player that had to go.  And I just won't apologize for it."

Howie gets to ask Boogie the next question, "Boogie, you told me in the house it was bros before hos,  Don't you think sending me a steppin' was going to cost you a vote in the jury house."  Mike replies,  "I want to give you the evolution of your demise. When I saw you hang off the spider ropes,  I looked at your arms,  they were bloody, and I said to Will,  we have got to get this guy out of here,  and no one is talking about here and he's the most entertaining guy,  he may never get nominated.  I deserve a lot of credit on getting you nominated.  I did it on no notice in one minute's time in the red room.  Again I'm sorry for your feelings,  but I deserve a lot of credit for making that happen with Chicken George that day.  When the opportunity presented itself,  Chill Town took it." See the video 

Closing Remarks: 
Erika gets to speak first:  "I came into Big Brother All-Stars not really knowing strategically how I was going to play.  I needed to go after the puppet master.  And I found that I couldn't because he had lots of puppets protecting him.  So what I decided was that I needed to go into the final four and get that final four veto so I could vote h out myself.  Well,  I didn't.   I knew I wasn't get to get Janelle to vote out Will, he had her so tightly wrapped around him that I didn't think I was going to get her.  Well,  I did.  And in pure puppet master form,  I had his best friend put him up and his best girl vote him out.  So I want to ask you is this, would you rather give the Big Brother All-Star crown to the person who did all of his dirty work or would you rather give the All-Star crown to the person who took him out?" 

Mike's final remarks (he stands):  "With the excerption of Chicken George and Will,  I tried each and every one of you.  You all didn't know it but you were all one big member of Chill Town.  There was one big alliance and we were smart enough to keep you in the positions we wanted to.  When you started to figure it out is when you got evicted.  I have a lot of respect for all of you guys, because the seven of you gave me a little something that you probably didn't even know.  Marcellas, you motivated me,  Howie,  you entertained me.  Janelle and James, you challenged me,  and Danielle and George, you inspired me and, Will, you did all of the above.  If you can't vote for Chill Town, then vote to reward my game play.  I humbly and respectfully ask you to vote Mike Boogie as the champion of Big Brother  7. Thank you."

The jury returns and casts their votes by placing a key in the nomination box with the name of their choice on it.   They each got to make a brief remark,   Howie's comments were notable, "It's hard to justify giving half a million dollars to a person with six restaurants and threatened their way through a reality TV show.  Erika, we were friends before the Big Brother house.  I still love you but unfortunately,  I think America hates you.  If either of you want to continue this discussion with me later,  you can at HowieGordon.com."  See the video

Next Julie brought in Alison, Nakomis, Jase, Diane, and Kaysar.  The first five evictees have been home and watching Big Brother, so they know all the details the jury doesn't a couple facts Erika isn't aware of.  Julie asks each, starting with Kaysar to reveal something they think the jury should know, then they show a tape to back up the indictment.  Kaysar tells how James said horrible things about Janelle and broke away from the season six alliance.  Janelle said James already apologized for the words he used in the in the house.  Jase and Diane revealed the did have an alliance [pitiful].  The most vicious of the revelations was delivered by Alison to Erika, she started by addressing Boogie,  "Mike Boogie, congratulations.  You played Erika the whole season long,  better than Big Brother,  you played that girl.   Erika, I hope you use that money and buy yourself some dignity."  Then we saw the now famous clip of Boogie in the DR:  "Number one,  don't ever get real feelings for the person.  Showmances can be effective for you.  It kind of turned into a ho-mance and I'm glad America knows that Erika is a ho.   I have used that girl up for all I need.  I have myself in a position to n this game and that's all she was good for. "  

Julie asked, "Erika, what do you have to say about what you saw?"  Erika replies,  "I'm sitting here in the final two, so obviously,  it did -- we played each other.  That's the Big Brother game."  Mike said that some of the harshest comments were ten minutes after she got Will evicted, and "So, you know, it's an edited television show,  remember that."

The evicted HGs were then asked who they thought played the best and should be in the final two,  they pretty much agreed it should have been Will and Janelle.  See the video

Last week, they asked America to vote for which jury member they think deserved to win a $25,000 jury prize. 

But first. . .  Julie removed the keys.  Marcellas voted for Erika.  Howie's vote goes to Mike.  Danielle's vote goes to Mike.  Chicken George voted for Mike and  Will's vote went to Mike.  Janelle and James also voted for Mike.

Mike Boogie Malin has Won Big Brother All-Stars!  

The last thing that had to be done was to open the envelope to find out who won the $25,000 jury prize,  it went to Janelle and the crowd roared, she still America's favorite.  See you next July for Big Brother 8.  See the video