[Nixa]

So here we are in the final week, and it seems it’s Ali’s to lose. My question is, is she pulls this off, is the Red Witch the greatest game player in Big Brother history?

Let’s examine.

She surrounded herself with expendable happy idiots early in the game. She loaded the bullets, the likes of Daze, Martha, Dean fired them and were duly evicted.

She challenged the “patriarchy” solo. Particularly in the early days vs Khalid. She was the epitome of a strong, independent woman facing down the cool kids. She was intelligent enough to realise she may have gone in too strong on Khalid, turned her fire on Marcello, cried and threatened to leave in the diary room & broke out the Palestine/trans rights T Shirts when she was up for eviction. When it became obvious Khaled & Marcello weren’t as unpopular as she thought, she completely softened to them and backed off.

She knows her enemy. Nathan is the closest to her intelligence wise. She has never once taken him on. Instead it’s been an arm’s length, loose alliance. She was the first to undermine Rosie, but knew she was popular in the house, so instead did it via the diary room. She showed Hanah compassion, then confronted her for her differing reactions to Emma & Ali during HoH.

Lily. Her biggest asset and her biggest rival. She played the caring big sis protector role perfectly. She got in on Lilys screen time, defended her to the house, comforted her, led her and most importantly enabled her. The difference between winning & top 3 was always going to be how she handled the Lily situation. She played it beautifully. “Keep being you Lily, (keep getting nominated), “the public love you Lily” (don’t worry if you’re up, they won’t vote you out) Gave Lily enough rope to hang herself without having to turn on her. And she’ll absorb the vast majority of Lily fans.

This has been a multi tiered, high level game plan on both the house & the viewers. She’s been the strong female lead, the protector, the underdog, the vulnerable, the compassionate & the martyr.

Surely there has never been a game plan executed as well in the history of BB. An absolute masterclass.