by Gina Scarpa

Gina Marie's reaction to Nick's elimination on Thursday night's episode of Big Brother was just the tip of the iceberg. She sobs uncontrollably all night long, on the couch, in the diary room, clutching his clothing... oh yeah, it's that crazy! Aaryn tries to calm her down before the HOH competition, but she just screams at everyone in the house, calling them cockroaches.

After Helen's win (in which she celebrated just a BIT too much), Jeremy sucked it up and went to congratulate her and Elissa on their impeccable game play. It's too bad that everyone else in his alliance can't be as gracious. In fact, they're the exact opposite. Aaryn and Kaitlin start in on Jessie for flipping on them and when Judd innocently walks in the room, Kaitlin shouts at him to get out. Aaryn flips Candice's mattress, sending pillows and clothing flying everywhere. When Candice confronts the girls about it, Aaryn mocks her and Gina Marie gets in her face, while Kaitlin laughs in the corner. Howard literally has to carry Candice away before things get uglier, and Jeremy laments that the girls aren't making things better, which may go down as the understatement of the year.

While Howard calms Candice down, the girls start in on Jessie again, saying that the other side of the house talks crap about her. Amanda steps in to defend Jessie, and says that the girls are coming across as racist and are going to be in for a rude awakening when they get out of the house. Afterwards, McCrae owns up to being part of The Moving Company to Amanda and instead of being mad, she's mildly impressed and still trusts him. In the living room, Gina Marie continues her meltdown, and Candice actually sits down to comfort her! Aaryn takes that moment to sort of apologize for her comments, but basically says in the diary room that it was to save face.

For the Have Not competition, players split into three teams and move rotten milk from a trough to an empty milk jug via buckets passed between people. On the blue team, Howard does his best to throw it, given that he's stuck with Gina Marie, Kaitlin, and Aaryn but McCrae is so bad at throwing milk over on the yellow team that they are the ones who come in last. The red team are the first to finish, which is a sweet victory for Candice, Elissa, Spencer, and Andy since most of them have been Have Nots more than once.

Before nominations, Jeremy continues to try to make peace with Helen by saying he needs to distance himself from Aaryn. Howard admits to Helen as well that he was the fourth vote to save Nick, and she says she could get him evicted for that lie. She needs to chill on the power trip or she's not going to make it nearly as far as she hoped.

At the nomination ceremony, Helen decides that it's best for Aaryn and Kaitlin to go up on the block.  Will one of them walk out the door later this week and is that the best move for the majority?

Find out who wins the Power of Veto on Big Brother, Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

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