ConspiRUcy Theory: This Season’s Wildcard Pick

(up front - I’m not a spoiler-reader and this is all purely me guessing!)

Last year, Kerri Colby was sent through as the wildcard pick, with Mistress being the other nominee-of-sorts. While we can’t know for sure what the reasoning behind those two options was, one of the theories I saw floated was that Kerri was local to LA and could easily come back for the final episode, while Mistress obviously could have just stayed around without going home.

This year, in the first bracket, Morgan narrowly missed the merge after Ru chose Akeria over her. That left us with an LA queen who arguably deserved to make the merge and could justifiably be brought back.

And now, in the second bracket, we have another LA queen - Salina - narrowly missing the merge. Notably, in this bracket, Crystal and April are LA-based as well, which may have contributed to how much the wins were spread out compared to any previous brackets.

Based on this, my theory is that Hershii (the only LA girl from the third bracket) will narrowly miss the merge and be set up as a third viable wildcard option. Obviously, this relies on Hershii doing well enough to justify at least one challenge win, but we don’t know very much about her skills since she only got to do a couple challenges on her season.