11 ~ Jackie Ibarra
The Amazing Race 26 (7th Place)
Big Brother US 17 (10th Place)
Jackie is for sure on here because of her BBUS stint so let's get her TAR stint out of the way: TAR26 was a low-key trainwreck due to the Blind Date twist, where half of the teams were random strangers who never met and were matched up with the hopes of finding #TrueLove. Since terrible twists like this are just designed to fail, just about every team figured out after Leg 2 that there's no way they could possibly date each other. Jeff and Jackie were the one team that entertained the idea of possibly dating, and thus they received a pretty good MORP edit. They also like kissed once and had a kinda boring fight once? IDK, they really were a random footnote on TAR26.
And because Jeff and Jackie were the only team to not make the Blind Date twist a complete flop, production rewarded them by throwing them into the BBUS house this summer! Or maybe you can view that as a form of punishment, idk. Jeff got bounced kinda early and Jackie was pretty UTR at first. The show didn't edit her whatsoever, Chenbot shaded her as a floater
, etc. This all changed in Week 5 when Jackie rose to power and was co-HoH with Vanessa in THE turning point week of BB17.
To recap the whole Dark Moon fiasco: it was the last week of the twin twist and Shelli/Clay/Vanessa/Austin/twins were running things. HOWEVER, Vanessa found The Reason to get rid of Austin and thus Dark Moon was born. Vanessa and Jackie came to an agreement for Jackie to be the sole HoH and get Austin evicted, and they made a F8 deal with Clay, Shelli, Meg, James, Jason, and Becky. Things went awry when Vanessa was the sole HoH, Clay ended up winning POV and Shelli was PISSED because Jason didn't cheer loudly enough or something, and thus Vanessa ended up backdooring Jason instead of Austin
the feeds post-Dark Moon were some of the best we've seen in years. James, Meg, and Jason were a tight alliance (ADC) and obviously felt betrayed, but they didn't really take it upon themselves to do much other than sit back and cry and wonder how it all went wrong. Jackie, on the other hand, was PISSED even though she didn't have any real attachment to ADC alol, and she was ready to raise hell. She ended up piecing together the Sixth Sense and was DONE with Vanessa and Shelli and all of them. Take this brilliant exchange for example:
(Jackie, Shelli, Vanessa, and Liz are up in the HoH Room. Jackie is fed up with their bull**** and is interrogating them as to why Jason's getting backdoored)
Vanessa: A majority of the people in the house agree with me.
Jackie: That Jason should go?
Vanessa: That Jason should go. A big majority.
Jackie: (immediately turns to Shelli and nearly gets whiplash) Are you in that majority?!?!
Shelli: ..........I don't want Jason to go but she (Vanessa) just said that he's someone who can win this game O_O
Jackie: ...a lot of people can win this game.
Shelli: ..........(visibly ****s her pants and babbles some more about how she doesn't want anyone to go home)
and from that moment on Shelli HATED Jackie
The Jackie Ibarra Experience was THE reason to watch the feeds in the summer of 2015. She was edited as an MOR2 townsperson, but in reality she was the audience surrogate for all the people who were sick of the Sixth Sense's bull****. She became the hardest player for the ADC, an alliance that she was forced into more than anything. She clocked onto everyone's bull**** and was THE scrappy underdog. It was all so refreshing and unexpected and a necessary component for BB17.
After Jason was evicted we had another two glorious weeks where ADC took control and got rid of Clay and Shelli, but then unfortunately Jackie was swiftly taken from us in a Double Eviction
it was such a rough ending because Jackie had so much unfinished business. Her story was incomplete and she never got to even shine in many of the episodes or anything. Oh well, maybe she'll complete the CBS trifecta and end up on Survivor 34 or some ****.
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