James

**James** is a houseguest on *Big Brother 23* and *Big Brother: Over the Top 4*.

In *BB23*, in Cycle 12, the HOH competition was crucial for solidifying plans for all of the Final Five. Katrina had lost all of her allies after the last cycle, so she was left alone; James and Joaquin had conflicting Final Three alliances with Aiden and Anaizi; and Anaizi was unsure of where she stood. Ultimately, it was Anaizi who secured another HOH win. All four of the possible nominees put in work to not be initially nominated. Aiden, James, and Joaquin threw Katrina under the bus for being a threat, and the latter two brought up their Final Three pact with Anaizi while Katrina threw everything against the wall, including outing herself as a threat to go before her; she also promised she wouldn’t target Anaizi if she remained in the game. Anaizi had wanted revenge for her ally Cristal’s eviction since she left at the Triple Eviction, so she finally decided to turn on her former alliance with James and Joaquin and nominated them both for eviction. They also were threats to her and she wanted to break them up. They were stunned by their nominations, but not necessarily surprised. After the nomination ceremony, Anaizi formed a truce with her enemy Katrina, and agreed to stick together to get rid of one of the nominees. James and Joaquin then had their own conversations with each other, Aiden, and later Anaizi about the possibility of them both staying. Aiden planned to use the POV if he won on either of them, but when they went to Anaizi about her plans, she flat out told them that made a mistake betraying her, and she was done working with them for the time being. They tried to reason with her, but she refused and wished them both luck in the POV. The two men left the HOH room with many emotions: anger, disappointment, and respect for Anaizi. They knew they made a blunder, but they weren’t going to give up. They ultimately hoped that Aiden would win the competition and save one of them so they can finally get rid of Katrina. At the POV competition, Joaquin won yet another competition. Not too long after, the three remaining men went up to Anaizi and again proposed getting rid of Katrina. Once again though, Anaizi put her foot down and stood strong with her moving: James and Joaquin would pay for betraying her, and since Joaquin was now immune, the fall would be on James. At the POV ceremony, Joaquin took himself down, and Aiden went up in his place. Katrina was relieved that Anaizi stayed loyal while James thought of any way he could stay in over Aiden. He realized his best bet was to convince Katrina to vote out Aiden over him. He campaigned to her for the rest of the cycle since Joaquin was choosing to keep him in regardless because of their close relationship. Katrina found herself in the swing vote position as both parties of Anaizi, and James and Joaquin, were in her ear about who to evict. At the vote, Joaquin voted to evict Aiden while Katrina chose to evict James, seeing him as the bigger threat. This led to a tie in the vote, forcing Anaizi to break it. All to pleased to be the nail in his coffin, Anaizi voted to evict James for betraying her.

In *OTT4*, at the Chain of Safety, Willfried chose the person he felt like his trio alliance with Aman and Jennie could proceed forward with: Owen. Because of this, their side allies Hailee, James, and Jordie were left to compete in the second safety competition. Hailee ended up winning, making James and Jordie the final nominees. The trio alliance preferred to keep Jordie in as a better suited ally, so they tried to convince Hailee and Owen to side with them. Unfortunately for them, Hailee and Owen trusted James more, so they chose to keep him instead. This led to a 3-3 tie, ultimately making Aman the tiebreaker since he won the original safety competition. He had the decision to switch his vote from James to Jordie, but he didn’t. James was thus evicted in a 4-3 vote.