‘Big Brother’ Player Sam Bledsoe Melts Down After ‘Robot’ Setback

Big Brother proved Westworld isn’t the only show making us feel bad for robots.

As competition heated for who would be named the first head of household, inching closer to the season’s first elimination, house guest Sam Bledsoe found the pressures of being a robot too rough.

Bledsoe was cursed (blessed?) with having to replace herself with a robot at different times during the game after ending up in last place during the first competition.

After Tyler Crispen won the Head of Household competition, Bledsoe felt insecure about having to constantly “leave” the house and communicate with her fellow contestants only via her robot replacement.

“Nobody wants to be the first person out during the first Head of Household competition,” Bledsoe said holding back tears after losing.

The pressure led to Bledsoe to break down to the cameras, feeling isolated and calling herself an outcast.

“In my profession, I stood on my own plenty but I’ve never been shunned…” she told the cameras as she worried about the upcoming eviction.

As a robot, Bledsoe appealed to Crispen and, through robotic tears, made her case about being nominated.

“Nobody wants anything to do with me, even as a person I got to come back and felt completely alone… I’ve never been an outcast, I feel like I’ve been shunned… I don’t know what to do,” she told Crispen, attempting to get him not to nominate her.

Fans of the series were feeling for Bledsoe’s plight on Twitter.

In the end, Bledsoe and Steve Arienta were nominated for the first eviction. The first houseguest eviction will happen during Sunday’s episode of the episode.

Big Brother follows a group of people living together cut off from the outside world in a house outfitted with almost 100 HD cameras (94, to be exact) and more than 100 microphones (113), where they’re under constant, 24/7 surveillance.

On the show, house guests vote weekly to evict one another, with the last remaining contestant receiving the grand prize of $500,000. They also compete in weekly Head of Household competitions to gain control of the house and decide who will be nominated for eviction.

The show also introduced the BB App store as a way for fans to influence the fame in season 20. The BB App Store is accepting votes until 9 a.m. PT on the day of the next episode, and is open to U.S. residents 18 and older. Each person gets 10 votes while the polls are open, and can cast a vote on the CBS Messenger Bot, available on Facebook, Kik, Skype and Twitter.

Big Brother will air episodes Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays this summer on CBS.