Big Brother season 26 episode 21: Who went home tonight?

Big Brother season 26 released its latest episode on August 29, 2024, on CBS. Previously, T’kor nominated Angela as the third nomination for the elimination after Cam won the Power of Veto competition. This created a rift between Tucker, T'Kor, Rubina, and Angela's alliance, with both Tucker and Angela in the nomination zone with Makensy.

T'Kor claimed that Tucker would just be a pawn in her scheme as her real target was Makensy. In the latest episode, the three nominees had the chance to save themselves through the AI Arena competition. Makensy won, leading the houseguests to vote against Tucker and Angela. Eventually, by the end of the episode, Tucker was eliminated by a majority of 5-3 votes against him.

The names of the 10 remaining houseguests inside Big Brother's house include Angela Murray, Joseph Rodriguez, Kimo Apaka, Cam Sullivan-Brown, Chelsie Baham, Leah Peters, Makensy Manbeck, Quinn Martin, Rubina Bernabe, and T’kor Clottey, who are competing to win the prize money of $750,000.

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What happened in episode 21 of Big Brother 26 that led to Tucker's elimination?

Episode 21 picked up where the previous episode left off, as Tucker became upset due to T'Kor taking Angela's name for elimination alongside his. Tucker was already feeling betrayed by his alliance member, T'Kor— who became the HoH (Head of Household)— for putting his name up for nomination.

Angela herself prompted Tucker's name when asked by other houseguests about whom to vote out, which created a rift between the alliance that also featured Rubina. Tucker explained to Angela that he had been loyal to her and would prefer her at par with Rubina, with whom he had developed a showmance. Angela still failed to believe his words even though Tucker defended her in front of T'Kor.

Seeing Tucker's reaction, T'Kor stated in the confessional that she was thinking of rallying others to vote against Tucker if she could. Tucker was approached by Rubina as the latter didn't want their alliance to fail. This made Tucker question everyone in the house as he felt he had done a lot of favors for the houseguests but no one was grateful for them.

He further questioned the houseguests and wondered “if anything is real”, which "crushed" Rubina. Rubina later made a confessional that she was upset by Tucker's comments as he implied that the relationship they had developed on Big Brother was also fake. Seeing Rubina emotional, Tucker asked her to make a deal to be in the final two together as she was the only reason he would stay.

Chelsie was next to toy with the idea of voting against Tucker. She brought the topic in front of Cam who agreed with the idea. But both of the Big Brother houseguests also didn't want to end up on the wrong side of the voting results. This prompted Chelsie to approach the rest of the houseguests quietly.

She later approached Leah and Makensy about the same, the prospect of which both of them enjoyed, as they wanted to create a drift between Tucker's alliance that included Rubina, Kimo, T'Kor, and Angela. Leah also recommended Quinn's name as she felt Quinn would be on board with the idea of Tucker going home.

Chelsie approached Quinn and started the conversation by talking about their own bonding in the house of Big Brother. They both agreed to stick together during the tough times after which Chelsie brought up the idea of voting Tucker out.

Quinn agreed initially, but later confessed in the diary room that voting against Tucker could create unwanted rifts between him and Tucker's friends later on, which included Kimo and T'Kor.

In the AI Arena challenge which saw Tucker, Angela, and Makensy compete to save themselves from elimination, Makensy ultimately won. Later, all the houseguests voted and Tucker got 5 votes to Angela's 3, prompting him to leave the house. Before leaving, he was awarded $20,000 for his role as AI Instigator.

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