‘Big Brother 21’ spoiler: The Week 2 Veto ceremony went as expected while Bella continues to be a rat

After being adamant about using the Veto last week on “Big Brother 21,” Sam Smith, who won the second Veto on Saturday, did not use it during Monday’s Veto ceremony. So Kemi Fakunle and Jessica Milagros remain on the block, and one of them will be evicted to Camp Comeback on Thursday. Unsurprising. But Isabella Wang is making things interesting by being the dirty rat that she is.

The plan is still for Kemi to go, but Jessica is keeping it from being a done deal by not keeping her sh– together. She’s still flipping out about her name being attached to the Black Widows alliance and is denying that an all-girls alliance was her idea (honestly, it was hers and Bella’s). She knows Bella’s the rat, but hasn’t been gaming at all to ensure her safety for the week and beyond besides denying that she came up with Black Widows. Girl is just not cut out for this game.

Kemi expected Sam not to use the Veto, so she’s been busting her butt this weekend to save herself, including chatting up Sam Sunday night. Before the Veto ceremony, she and Jackson had a chat, and she opted to tell Bella, her BFF, and Nicole Anthony before and after the Veto ceremony that Jackson said Bella is playing both sides and that he thinks Jess was telling the truth that Bella started Black Widows.

SEE ‘Big Brother 21’ spoiler: Now it’s Jack’s turn to do something very, very dumb

The rat that she is, Bella immediately told Jackson about their convo following the Veto ceremony, prompting Jackson to reveal that he was just planting seeds with Kemi to see what, if anything, she’d do with it and if she’d turn on Bella for the whole Black Widows thing. He said he never said Bella would go on the block, to which Bella said Kemi said he insinuated that Bella would because she was playing both sides. “I wanted to see if she would agree with it and throw you under the bus. She kinda stuck to her guns and stayed true to you,” Jackson said. “Jessica is 1000 percent trying to pin Black Widow on you. I don’t give a sh–. I don’t blame you.”

Both Jackson and Bella admire Kemi’s loyalty to Bella, and Jackson even said he personally likes Kemi more than Jessica because Kemi’s honest. But at this point, he wouldn’t betray Gr8ful or Bella. “Any conversation that I have had with Kemi, there is no part of me that wanted to turn on you ever,” he said. “It just doesn’t make sense for me to want to do that.”

SEE ‘Big Brother 21’ recap: Who did Jack nominate for eviction?

But there is one person who is turning on Bella now: Kemi herself. She saw that Bella went running to Jackson (so subtle, this one) and had a vent sesh to herself and Nicole about how untrustworthy Bella is. “Goddamn, bitch, keep your mouth shut. Oh my God. What the f— would she even say to him? She is so f—ing stupid,” she groaned. “Now he is going to know that I ran and told you something, which is what he was trying to do. I thought I could trust you to keep your goddamn mouth shut for an hour, but you cant seem to do that. And now I’m f—ed.”

Nicole calmed Kemi down and pointed out how Bella’s been stirring up sh– everywhere. “I certainly can’t win this game if I keep running my mouth to someone that I can’t trust,” Kemi said. “Why the f— is she like this? It’s literally pointless. You are dragging people down for no reason.”

Well, Kemi, that’s because Bella is dead-set on playing the rat game, and it’s a sloppy one at that. The rat game can be effective and sly if you do it on the down-low, like JC last year. But Bella is leaving her tracks behind everywhere. It’s almost like she’s not even trying to be secretive about it and doesn’t care what and how many bridges she burns. I mean, she admitted in the Diary Room on Sunday’s episode that her allegiance is with whoever’s in power at the moment, so Black Widows stood no chance these two weeks. (What the episode didn’t include was that Bella told Nick Maccarone right away about Black Widows after it was formed.) What Bella is unaware of, though, is that he and Nick are the outsiders of Gr8ful, and the Six Shooters within it will go after them first when the time comes.

SEE LOL, Jack’s Chaos Power on ‘Big Brother 21’ is the lamest one of them all

As if on cue, Bella went back to Kemi to share her conversation with Jackson, telling Kemi that Jackson said he was just testing Kemi’s loyalty to Bella and he now respects her gameplay. But Kemi is not buying what Bella’s selling because Jackson had asked Kemi that their convo stay between them. “I run and break that trust, and you verify it with him,” Kemi noted. “He is f—ing blowing smoke, Bella. I am definitely getting out this week. Now he feels there is no way that he can trust me.”

Bella continued to try to cover her bases (and her own ass) by insisting that Jackson is coming around to Kemi, but Kemi wasn’t born yesterday, so she shut it down. Bella now has to know that she’s losing her closest ally on the other side of the house and basically pulled a Joe Biden and checked herself out of the argument. “I’m not going to fight with you about this,” she said. “I said what I was thinking.”

“Bitch, no one is fighting with you. You are just not making sense. You f—ed my game,” Kemi said to herself after Bella left.

Kemi now plans to talk to Jack, since the house will do what he wants, but unless she can work her magic or Jess really self-destructs, it will likely be Kemi joining Ovi Kabir and David Alexander in Camp Comeback. She was already Jack’s target last week and now she’s proving herself to be a bigger game threat than Jess is.

PREDICT Who will win ‘Big Brother’?

Be sure to make your predictions to influence our racetrack odds. You can keep changing your predictions until just before the next live episode airs on CBS. You’ll compete to win a spot on our leaderboard and a $100 Amazon gift card. See our contest rules and sound off with other fans in our reality TV forum. Read more Gold Derby entertainment news.

SIGN UP for Gold Derby’s newsletter with experts’ latest predictions