By M. Giant | Season 15 | Episode 31 | Aired on 09.05.2013
As she enters the studio, she gets some boos and is heard to remark, "So, some of you don't like me, I take it." Wait until she finds out America nominated her when she thought it was Judd. Inside the house, Andy is a total stress-ball, as he is at this time every week. Julie starts asking Amanda what she thinks happened. Amanda admits that she isn't sure about Elissa, whose wedding ring is in Amanda's suitcase. Julie asks about what Amanda said to Andy at her exit, and she says that even then she was giving Andy cover so that Spencer wouldn't come after him.
Julie observes what a "strong" game Amanda played, and asks if she's the bully in real life that she sometimes was inside the house. Amanda claims to hate bullies and that she was mostly just honest. However, she regrets bullying Elissa, though Elissa took a few shots at her first. Yes, we do recall McCrae's birthday. Unfortunately, Julie has her list of questions to tick off, so she asks if Amanda regrets anything, which she already answered. Amanda admits that she could have been nicer, but she's not a Jordan. Julie asks what she sees in McCrae, and Amanda says she admires his personality and how much everyone loves him, because she's pretty much the opposite of that. And as for their future, she says McCrae is moving to Florida to be with her. "He wants a sugar mama." And Amanda needs someone to stop her from pissing people off at work parties.
Farewell messages. Elissa says she voted to keep Amanda for her own game, and hopes she isn't hearing this. GinaMarie taunts Amanda, clearly not thinking ahead to the jury vote. Andy confesses that he voted Amanda out because he came to win, "not get third place with a power couple." He comes totally clean, telling her all about the Exterminators and how they started with Aaryn last week, but it's nothing personal. Amanda actually looks pretty impressed. McCrae says he'll miss her and loves her. Julie asks if Elissa's getting her ring back, which she now is, and whether Amanda is mad at Andy, which she is. Julie sends her off to the jury house with a handshake. That should be a pleasant place to be after tonight, full of women who hate each other. Remember when the men in the house were taking it in the pants? Now dudes can't stay gone even when they do get evicted.
Time for the HoH competition, which is pretty simple. While outgoing HoH GinaMarie looks on, Judd, Andy, McCrae, Spencer, and Elissa will have to race through a doghouse, run to the far end of a short lane, and dig out two bones from a straw pit there. They'll have to do this one bone at a time, returning to the starting line after each one. Julie gets them started, and after a fair amount of searching inside those fairly deep pits, McCrae is the first to locate and deliver a bone to his doghouse, returning to search for his second one before anyone else finds their first. Elissa is the second to find her first bone, then Judd.