Wednesday in the Big Brother 18 house was a day fans have been waiting for from the start.

Head of Household: Victor Arroyo

Nominees: Michelle Meyer and Zakiyah Everette

Other houseguests: Bridgette Dunning, Corey Brooks, James Huling, Natalie Negrotti, Nicole Franzel, Paul Abrahamian and Paulie Calafiore

The plan to flip the vote and save Michelle has been in the works all week, but things were fully cemented on Wednesday. It all began early in the morning as Natalie, Bridgette and James went to Paul with all the intel they've gathered on Paulie. Some of this intel included Paulie's making deals with just about everyone in the house and him throwing many of those people under the bus, including Paul.

Paul was enraged by this and while it wasn't initially clear if he was playing it up or being sincere, it soon became clear that he was ready to go against his "PP" alliance. James said that as part of his America's Care Package power, he would be cancelling Paul and Corey's votes. Natalie, James and Bridgette would vote to evict Zakiyah while Paulie and Nicole would vote to evict Michelle. This would cause some confusion in Paulie, and the guys would blame it on Nicole. In that way, their bases would be covered if Paulie were to win HOH, thinking he would target Nicole.

Later in the day, Natalie decided to fill Zakiyah in on all the stuff Paulie has been pulling both on a game level and on a personal level, including how he hasn't really protected Zakiyah. Zakiyah was upset by this and was thankful for Natalie looking out for her, but then proceeded to fill Paulie in about everything she said. Paulie was not happy about this, calling Natalie a "Jersey girl" in the pejorative sense, saying this is what they're like. Zakiyah did not come to Natalie's defense.

Paulie then went on the warpath to anyone who would listen to him, calling Natalie out for all sorts of things that have nothing to do with the game. One of his go-to arguments against Natalie was (and continues to be) about her fake breasts, and said she might be trying to build up a case for a sexual harassment suit.

Meanwhile, Corey and Nicole tried to get some reassurances from James that the plan was still to vote out Michelle on Thursday. James mostly played along, saying they didn't have anything to worry about, even though he plans on blindsiding them. Natalie was concerned about James' feelings on the whole matter, considering he's been rather quiet and shifty as this blindside plan has been happening. However, there were some personal attacks that happened later that may have cemented James' stance as against Paulie.

A house meeting went down late in the night, in which Paulie attacked Natalie for flirting with everyone. Natalie defended herself but eventually excused herself from the meeting. Bridgette then went on Paulie for how he's treated Zakiyah, at which point Paulie started attacking Bridgette.

As the night went on, Paulie continued to talk trash about Natalie, repeating his line about "Jersey girls" hundreds of times. Eventually, Michelle decided to start openly trashing Paulie in front of the house, including Paulie. She said his game was exposed and that she was glad he wasn't winning this season so he could spend it on girls and trips to Vegas. Paulie said that she was going to the jury house, still under the assumption that this would be happening on Thursday.

This is bound to be a highly entertaining double eviction night with Paulie, Corey and Nicole still having no idea about the plan to save Michelle. Then, if any of Michelle, Bridgette, Natalie, James or Paul wins HOH, the plan is to target and evict Paulie.

Big Brother 18 airs another new episode Thursday at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

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