Celebrity Big Brother Season 2: Episode 2 Live Recap

CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER – SEASON 2

  • January 21 – February 13, 2019
  • Channel: CBS
  • Start Time: 8 PM ET (Sunday, January 27th will be at 10)
  • Primer / Full Cast

After an eventful episode one, six-time Olympic champion Ryan Lochte will be back on episode two of the second season of Celebrity Big Brother tonight on CBS.

Lochte, partnered with actor Jonathan Bennett, won the first Head of Household challenge last night, but found out afterwards the two of them will battle head-to-head to find out who will actually become the first HOH. Whoever loses will instantly be nominated for eviction.

EPISODE 2 LIVE UPDATES

  • Lochte and Bennett, both surprised they’ll have to battle head-to-head, meet to discuss a potential alliance. They’re planning a seven-person alliance to make sure neither of them go home this week. Jonathan says he’ll be the brains of the operation, making Ryan the brawn.
  • The alliance, which looks to be coming together, is shut down by actor Joey Lawrence. Joining Lochte and Bennett in the potential alliance of what is now six: Olympian Lolo Jones, reality TV star Tamar Braxton, former WWE wrestler Natalie Eva Marie, and singer Kandi Burruss. After hearing Joey didn’t want to join an alliance, Jonathan goes “…then he’s out!”.
  • Lochte hops in the endless pool in the backyard and busts out some freestyle and butterfly. Some are in awe, some are throwing out chirps. Upon seeing his speedo, “do they have any in men’s?”.
  • Jonathan, Lolo, and Natalie opt to form a final four alliance with Ryan, though Lolo and Natalie commit as each other’s ride-or-die. Ryan is expected to bring athleticism to the group, leaving the brains to the others.
  • Lolo and Natalie also jump in a four person alliance with Tamar and Kandi.
  • Ryan and Jonathan have to swing on a zipline and knock down billboards to see who becomes HOH. Ryan yells ‘BOOM!’ as he takes down most of his, and looks well on his way to becoming the first Head of Household. He now has one of the two completely down.
  • “I didn’t win twelve Olympic medals to lose this competition to Jonathan…who hosts cupcake shows”.
  • Lochte wins the competition and becomes the first Head of Household of the season. “I didn’t mean to get this much blood on my hands..BUT I can’t help it I’m a strong competitor”.
  • Ryan will nominate two additional houseguests for eviction, so it will be a total of three along with Jonathan.
  • Ryan and Jonathan try to discuss who he’s going to nominate, but both Tom and Kato barge in and things get awkward. He won’t give anyone a straight answer when they ask him, claiming he’s ‘going to wing it’.
  • These two nominations will be his first real game moves of the season, and could prove crucial down the road. No matter what, whoever he puts up will likely hold a grudge. Many didn’t seem impressed when he wouldn’t tell them who was getting nominated.
  • Ryan is now targeting Dina and Anthony. Jonathan is against nominating Dina, who he knows as she’s Lindsay Lohan’s mother (and he was on Mean Girls with Lindsay).
  • After saying he has no idea what to do…Ryan says “Julie said with great power comes great responsibility…and I TOTALLY understand what she was talking about”. Ryan then tells Jonathan he’s gonna wing it again.
  • Ryan nominates Anthony Scaramucci, former political consultant, first, and then comedian Tom Green second. He really did wing it.
  • The female members of his alliance are confused by his picks, Jonathan is happy he left Dina off the block.
  • Lochte has undoubtedly been the star of the show thus far, and has likely appeared as the alpha male in the house as the first head of household and such an athletic threat. This could very well make him a target as soon as next week.

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Jody
5 years ago

Great start Ryan!!! Now bring home the gold!!!GOGATORS🐊

tea rex
5 years ago

Kind of unfair, the competition was knocking down billboards? Might as well have made it a 200 IM…

2Fat4Speed
Reply to  tea rex
5 years ago

Oh goodness, I did not even think about Ryan’s experience when it came to billboard destruction….

Love to Swim
5 years ago

Hands down the best Live Recap since Pan Pacs.

I want more!

I think James Sutherland is one of Swimswam’s better writers.

Tim
5 years ago

Love these recaps. Lochte sounds like he’s smashing it at the moment.

welp
5 years ago

is this sponsored content? if so, it needs to be designated as such.

2Fat4Speed
Reply to  welp
5 years ago

CBS is throwing money at SwimSwam?!

welp
Reply to  2Fat4Speed
5 years ago

it would make a ton of sense — trying to convert a swimming-focused audience to watch the show

2Fat4Speed
Reply to  welp
5 years ago

Swimming focused audience is unfortunately small.

welp
Reply to  2Fat4Speed
5 years ago

That doesn’t matter, though — this site grosses a really strong amount of traffic, and the audience is extremely relevant one for them. (And it’s probably an audience that may not typically consume their content)

Admin
Reply to  2Fat4Speed
5 years ago

Hey, if you know someone at CBS who wants to pay us for this, holler at your boy!

But no, we have no financial relationship with CBS. We did at one point have a financial relationship with NBC, but that is no longer the case. As anybody who reads SwimSwam with any regularity knows, we label all advertisements as such.

Don Megerle
Reply to  welp
5 years ago

Excellent point.

CrinkleCut
5 years ago

This is perfect — thank you for doing these live updates!

Snarky
5 years ago

Brains rotting across America. I will be reading some Faulkner tonight to balance out the karmic stupidity. Ommmm.

ArtVanDeLegh10
5 years ago

I love how there is now a Live Recap for a tv show Lochte is on. This is the closest I’ll get to ever watching the show.

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James swam five years at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, specializing in the 200 free, back and IM. He finished up his collegiate swimming career in 2018, graduating with a bachelor's degree in economics. In 2019 he completed his graduate degree in sports journalism. Prior to going to Laurentian, James swam …

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