Big Brother 28 Spoilers: Icons Fume as Veto Players Are Picked “Just too soon. Too soon, Barrett.”

9:39 AM — Angela, Devens, Barrett and Drew (Backyard)

Angela goes straight at Barrett. He made the move against people he had been working with, and she thinks he did it too early.

Angela: “You’re going up. You know that.”
Barrett: “I might have gone up anyway.”
Angela: “You never know.”
Barrett: “That has nothing to do with me picking him for the veto, though.”
Angela: “Kind of feels that way.”
Barrett: “But that’s not how it was.”

Angela: “Just too soon. Too soon, Barrett. There’s still five more evictions that have to go. You just played too soon. I get it. I respect it, but too soon.”
Barrett: “Maybe I’ll regret it.”
Angela: “I think you might.”

Barrett turns it back on the veto draw.

Barrett: “You might regret not picking Drew.”
Angela: “I was on the fence about it. I wanted to. I did. But I don’t know either. I’m trying to pick somebody that I could beat.”

That gets Devens into it. Drew is irritated too, but mostly with Barrett.

Devens: “Whoa, what was that? You can’t be upset at Barrett for not picking you and Angela for not picking you. That’s two different sides.”
Drew: “No, I know.”
Devens: “I don’t know how you can be upset with both of those.”
Drew: “No, I’m mostly mad at Barrett. I get Angela’s decision.”

Devens: “Barrett would want you to keep it the same, and we’d want you to change it, so one of us, you would be deceiving.”
Drew: “Well, Barrett was telling me upstairs last night that if I would win or if he would win, we would take Angela off.”
Barrett: “We did talk about that.”
Drew: “And then we would try to get Yash out.”

Drew: “Because I still want Yash out. That’s the one dude I don’t want in this house. I’ve told him 18 different times. I’ll tell him 18 more times today.”
Barrett: “You’ve been very consistent about that. Thank you for that explanation.”
Drew: “Yeah, no problem.”

Angela wishes Drew had told her where he stood before the veto draw.

Angela: “I wish that you had talked to me, Drew.”
Drew: “It’s all good.”
Angela: “I mean, we had all morning. I didn’t know that’s where you stood.”
Drew: “No, it’s fine.”

Then Drew puts the question directly to Barrett.

Drew: “But I don’t think Barrett would want the noms to change anyways. Were you just lying upstairs?”
Barrett: “No, I really thought about this last night.”
Drew: “That’s fine. I wish you just told me.”
Barrett: “No, I should have.”

A few minutes later Drew keeps insisting everybody is fine. Devens isn’t buying it.

Angela: “I wish you’d talk to me, but I guess it wouldn’t have mattered anyway.”
Drew: “No, we’re good. And I’m cool with Barrett, too. It doesn’t matter. I didn’t want to play in the veto.”
Barrett: “It does matter, because I don’t like… Vetoes are lame.”
Drew: “Vetoes suck. No, Angela, we’re good. And Barrett, we’re fine.”
Devens: “That’s less than good.”

Devens finally says what the whole conversation is really about: the Crossovers turning on each other.

Devens: “It’s four for four for Crossover members. What happened?”
Barrett: “Social came in, man.”

Devens: “You know, that’s the game. It’s like, on the one hand, I do kind of think it was too soon, because it will make it difficult to get to the end.”
Devens: “But if you defy what I think are the odds and get to the end, 100%, you got my vote. 100%.”

Angela: “Who has your vote?”
Devens: “Barrett, if he makes it to the end. If he’s able to get there. That would be an impressive run.”

A little later, Devens explains that even the jury compliment was game.

Devens: “I say that just to put a bigger target on him.”
Devens: “I say he gets my vote at the end just to put a bigger target on him when I leave or if I stay or whenever.”
Devens: “So don’t believe it.”

The argument cools off there. Barrett has already put Angela, Dee and Devens on the block. Later today they play for the Power of Veto.

10:00 AM — Barrett, Melody, Yash and Taylor (Backyard)

The other side has heard plenty from the Icons already this morning.

Melody: “F—ing… Dude, I’m not in the mood. They’re so disrespectful, bro, in this house.”
Barrett: “Devens got mad we were just inside.”
Taylor: “He was?”
Barrett: “Yeah.”
Taylor: “Why?”
Melody: “He was like, are you scared of us? Because me and Barrett were sitting in the chair.”
Yash: “Wait, for real?”
Melody: “Yeah.”
Taylor: “He is spazzing.”
Melody: “And we were like, bro, we’re just chilling inside. He’s like, I’ve never seen you guys hang inside when the outside was open. And we were like, okay.”

Yash wants to answer back. Melody says she has been stopping herself for exactly that reason.

Yash: “I want to clap back so bad.”
Melody: “No, same point. When Angela was over here talking to you, I literally had to restrain myself from coming over here because I was like, I can’t. I’m going to f— up everything if I go over there.”

The conversation turns to Devens and the veto.

Taylor asks if Deven’s was like this on Survivor.
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Melody: “I think there’s less time to bug out on Survivor. You don’t have time to do that. You’re playing a competition or you’re just going home.”
Barrett: “He can’t find an idol or s— here.”
Taylor: “Yeah, also that.”
Barrett: “You don’t got a Diamond Power of Veto anymore.”
Barrett: “He can win a veto, though. I wouldn’t be shocked if he did win the veto.”
Yash: “Nah, we’re not going to let him. We’re not going to let him.”
Melody: “Please don’t let that happen. Whatever you do.”
Yash: “I want that s— so f—ing bad, bro.”

Yash does the math.

Yash: “It’s a 3v3. That’s literally the best odds we could have. It’s a 3v3.”
Yash: “Somehow, some miraculous way, it’s a 3v3.”

Angela appears at the door.

Yash: “F—ing Angela, bro. She literally just came to the door and looked outside.”
Taylor: “She’s scared.”
Melody: “She is, and she should be. Get the f— away from me. I don’t like you.”
Taylor: “I’m about to play. I literally looked her in the face. I’m about to play my ass off.”

They go right back to the Icons complaining that everyone stayed inside.

Yash: “I’ve never seen y’all inside when the outside’s open. It’s crazy.”
Melody: “We was inside yesterday.”
Melody: “God forbid I want to chill inside, bro. Like, goddamn. I just woke up, bro.”

Taylor tells Barrett not to take the bait.

Taylor: “Stick to the plan, bro.”
Melody: “I think they’re trying to psych you out, Barrett, with everything that they’ve been saying to you.”
Taylor: “They’re definitely trying to haze you right now.”
Melody: “Devens trying to be like…”
Taylor: “They’re bullying you.”
Melody: “They’re bullying you. Like, you did it too soon. Like, you did it too soon. Like, putting them up and s—.”
Barrett: “He’s saying that s—, too.”
Melody: “Exactly.”

They think Devens is especially angry because Barrett got to him first.

Melody: “He’s probably mad as f— because he probably also doesn’t like Angela that much.”
Taylor: “Yeah, Dee is the glue between them two.”
Yash: “And he’s just mad he got got first.”
Melody: “Mm-hmm.”
Yash: “He’s never got got.”
Taylor: “Oh, 100%.”
Melody: “This is his first time being on the block. Yeah, because he was going to do this to you. That’s why he’s so mad.”
Yash: “Exactly. Definitely confirmed 1,000%.”

Taylor points back to things Devens has said about other players.

Taylor: “Y’all got to listen. His reasoning for putting up Carmel and Rome was because everybody loves them.”
Melody: “And that’s why he said he had to get out Mallory. Because everybody loved her.”
Taylor: “Y’all listen to what the f— they be saying.”

Drew comes up next.

Melody: “That’s why it cracks me up with Drew. He’s probably happy as hell with Drew, though, because he knows nobody really f—s with him.”
Yash: “That’s the issue, though. And he knows Drew’s easily convinced, like, by him in particular.”
Melody: “Completely. And it’s irritating.”

For them, the veto is simple.

Taylor: “We just can’t let them win. That’s all it is, period.”

Then they start comparing how the Icons are handling the block to what everybody else had to deal with earlier in the season.

Yash: “But now they finally get to see what it’s like to actually play, like, when it’s not f—ing Disney World for them.”
Yash: “Good. Let them crumble.”
Melody: “Like, yeah, y’all handling this like s—.”
Melody: “If y’all was up on the block Week 2, you motherf—ers would’ve folded by now.”
Yash: “They’d be origami by now, bro.”

Taylor remembers being on the block while also being a Have-Not.

Taylor: “Week one, as a Have-Not twice. Every time I was on the block, both times she put me up while I was a Have-Not. You have no humanity. You’re not a person.”
Taylor: “She put all three of our asses on the block. She said, somebody go ahead and volunteer. I already have to make hard decisions. And then put all three of our asses on the block.”
Barrett: “She put Drew on the block too.”
Taylor: “She put all three of us on the block.”
Taylor: “We were all Have-Nots. I said, oh my God, you have no heart. No heart, bro.”

For Melody, the contrast is mostly funny.

Melody: “This is probably one of the funniest weeks there’s been.”
Yash: “Yeah.”
Melody: “It’s always a try-not-to-laugh challenge for me.”
Yash: “Dude, I saw you during this s— just now.”
Melody: “Oh my God.”
Yash: “First I looked at Drew, and you’re just sitting there looking at the ground, just trying not to smile.”

Taylor: “And when she don’t laugh, and you can tell she’s trying not to laugh, her face turns red, which is just as bad. It’s like, oh my God, she’s laughing with her face.”
Melody: “Even during the noms, when Devens’ face showed up, I was like… Because it’s not that funny. But, like, you know what I mean? But it is, though.”
Melody: “And then he’s sitting there, like… perplexed. They look perplexed.”

Yash wants the block frozen exactly where it is.

Yash: “Bro, let’s get a f—ing win later today. Please, bro. Please.”
Yash: “All three of them are iced out, bro. They’re in the f—ing… all three of them sitting there on Thursday.”

Taylor wants the next part too: making the three nominees campaign against each other.

Taylor: “I want to see them campaign against each other.”
Melody: “That’s going to be… You know Angela’s going to be f—ing going crazy, bro.”
Melody: “She’s just going to cry.”
Melody: “It’s funny. It’ll be fun.”
Barrett: “It’ll be fun.”

The conversation finally wanders into joking about a possible movie reward. The funniest version is Barrett being forced to take the three nominees with him.

Yash: “You should pick all three of them just on some funny s—.”
Melody: “Hell nah. That’s a nightmare. That’s literally my nightmare.”
Yash: “We’re not watching the movie. We’re going to talk about how much of a liar you are.”
Yash: “That’d be the angriest movie watch of all time, bro.”

And that is where the tape ends.

Taylor: “Imagine being put on the block because you didn’t pick me to watch a movie.”
Barrett: “I wanted a movie.”
Taylor: “And I told you that.”

11:03 AM — Barrett and Drew (HOH)

Veto players have been drawn and Drew was not one of them. Barrett had the pick and used it on Yash. Drew comes up to the HOH room to find out whether that meant something.

Drew: “Hey, handsome. Are we still friends?”
Barrett: “Yeah. I don’t know why you’d think that we weren’t. I just put on lotion.”
Drew: “Yeah, I was like, you’re a little slimy.”

Barrett gets to the apology fast.

Barrett: “You had every right to be as upset as you were after the veto meeting. Truly.”
Drew: “Because you know I’m rocking with you.”
Barrett: “I hope you didn’t think that changes anything about you being completely safe. Yash stole my renom this week.”
Barrett: “Yash, I think, has a better chance to win. I kind of want to keep him the same as what I woke up with this morning. And I didn’t tell you that s—.”
Drew: “Dude, just let me know, man. I thought we’re on the same team.”

There was a second calculation behind the pick, and Barrett admits he should have said it out loud.

Barrett: “I really did think, okay — if I pick Yash, Drew might get picked by the other three Icons anyway. So that s— might just work out.”
Barrett: “I didn’t explain that s—, and it would be a lot easier if I did. So I’m sorry.”
Drew: “But no, we’re good. I’m still not gunning for your ass, dude. I think you already have enough people gunning for you.”

Then Drew says what it actually felt like standing there.

Drew: “Right now I’ve got jack s—. That’s how I felt. I was like — well, I don’t have Taylor, don’t have Yash, all the Icons are up. And Barrett just didn’t pick me after saying he would.”
Barrett: “If one of the Icons wins veto, let me prove it to you by putting Yash’s ass up.”

The rest of the house has already read the draw as a crack and started working it.

Barrett: “Taylor’s already trying to get in my ear about putting you up.”
Drew: “Already?”
Barrett: “I think they’re assuming I’m going to put you up. Like last week.”
Drew: “Because that’s what they want. They’re just trying to skate by. But please don’t do that. Because I would not put your ass up, dog.”
Barrett: “Bro, I got enough going against me as it is. I don’t want you also in that mix.”

Drew makes sure it is heard as reassurance rather than a threat.

Drew: “I don’t think you want four people gunning, but I’m not threatening you. I’m not saying I’m going to do that. Because honestly, you and Melody are the only people I’ve got.”
Drew: “I would have done whatever you wanted, by the way. If it was, like — cool, let’s leave them the same — I’d be like, all right, this is the route we’re taking. I got to lock in.”

Which was the plan they had actually discussed the night before. Barrett confirms it: the two of them talked about Drew using the veto on Angela.

And then Drew stops managing it and just says the thing.

Drew: “Everything you do is a reflection of me and everything I do is a reflection of you. So just know that I’m equally as f—ed as you are if it comes to this. We’ve been the middlemen since the beginning.”
Drew: “They thought I was going to put you up as a renom, and now they think you’re going to put me up.”
Drew: “I think we’re locked in for the rest of this game, and hopefully as far as we can run it.”

Then the one real ask.

Drew: “Just f—ing tell me s—. I’m done with your ass telling me you’re not telling me something and then not doing it. Just be straight up. That’s all I f—ing ask.”
Drew: “You’re the only person I’ve been completely honest with since the beginning of this bulls—. And it seems like you’ve not been completely honest with me.”
Barrett: “Not about everything.”
Drew: “I have nobody else, so. I’ve been telling you everything. So let’s just be friends.”

With nothing to do but wait for the competition — “it could be two o’clock or something before we go… it could be nine p.m.” — Barrett starts drafting the defence he wants to give the house. And the phrase he uses is the one Angela and Dee were rehearsing in the backyard three hours earlier.

Barrett: “I get why they’re saying it’s too early. And I get it too.”
Barrett: “But I could lay it all out to them and be like — I wasn’t going to wait around for y’all to go after me. And I didn’t want to have any regrets in this game.”

His answer to it is the season in one sentence.

Barrett: “Especially this week — if I just put up Melody, Yash and Taylor and been like, all right. I would have forever thought about this week and been like, maybe I didn’t want to do that. Or what if I had just gone after them at that point?”
Barrett: “And I’m not trying to play Big Brother as if I was playing it for the second time.”

The pair of them get sentimental about how long they spent being useful to other people.

Barrett: “I just need to tell Dee — I don’t think you realise how much I was rocking with y’all until the Mosh Pit s—.”
Drew: “You and me were completely on board with both. We were on FAP and Crossovers. We were, like, loyal like dogs.”
Barrett: “We were literally their little puppy dogs. And I would have stayed being that, to a degree. I would have been the Mosh Pit’s puppy dog. And then she did that s—.”

Drew admits the size of it, then takes it back down.

Drew: “I hope you didn’t think I was actually pissed. Well — I actually was pissed. But not to the point where I’m like, I hate Barrett. It’s like, whatever, I get it. Just f—ing tell me.”
Drew: “Because you said, let’s put all three. I was like, all right, dude, let’s f—ing ride, I guess.”
Barrett: “You were pretty chill about that.”
Drew: “So let’s be on the same page about s—. Unless you want to work with Yash instead, then it’s fine.”
Barrett: “I don’t. I’m literally putting his ass up. If anything, I’m hoping it’s more incentive for him to win the veto.”

Then they build the rest of the season out loud, which they have not done together before.

Drew: “I’ll win the double and you’ll be good, bro. Then you got to win the next one and return the favour.”
Barrett: “And I will. And then we win that final six HOH, and then we only have you, me and Melody. Because at that point it’d be two noms. Two noms, one renom.”
Drew: “That’d be unreal. Let’s do that. We’re really close.”

Drew’s read on where Barrett now sits in the Icons’ order is not comforting.

Barrett: “I’m assuming Devens wants my ass out.”
Drew: “All three of them, I think. I think you’ve jumped the rank over Yash. Because now Yash is like an unofficial ally — if it’s true that if he wins HOH, he’s good.”
Barrett: “Angela after the draw was like, so you do believe Yash. I can’t believe you believe. And I was like, I didn’t say that.”
Drew: “I honestly still don’t have any idea whether or not it’s true, and I honestly don’t give a f—.”
Barrett: “I don’t either. Y’all are all putting me on the block at this point. It don’t matter to me now. All y’all did was remind me how shady you can be in this game.”

Drew leaves him with the alliance name and a bit of housekeeping about reputation.

Drew: “I’m still a juggler, bro. You’re kind of all I’ve got besides FAP.”
Barrett: “I’ve never doubted that you were a juggler.”
Drew: “I thought you thought I was going to choose the Icons over you. Did you think that?”
Barrett: “Dude, I’ve never thought that. No, I never would have.”
Barrett: “I’m just going to piss off everybody this week.”
Drew: “That’s great, because I pissed off everybody too. So we can piss everybody off together.”

Barrett: “Am I the biggest liar in the house now?”
Drew: “Dude, I hope so. Because I’m done wearing that crown.”
Drew: “But thanks for bringing me to top seven. I’m bringing you to top six next Thursday.”

3:25pm Still blocked for the BB Comics veto..

6pm Nothing yet…

Where it stands: Barrett had the pick and took Yash over Drew without explaining why, and it cost him an hour of repair work with the only person in the house who is unconditionally his. Drew’s complaint is not the pick — it is being told nothing: “just be straight up, that’s all I f—ing ask.” He got a promise out of it, though. If an Icon wins the veto, Yash goes up as the renom, and Barrett is openly hoping that gives Yash a reason to win it himself. The quieter thing in the room is that the Icons’ campaign is already working: three hours after Angela and Dee agreed to tell Barrett it was “too soon” until it stuck, Barrett is upstairs saying “I get why they’re saying it’s too early. And I get it too.”