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BB28 DRINKING GAME

Take a swig whenever someone says the word 'paranoid' - take two if it's Angela

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VIEWER VOTES

BB Time Capsule 1: TBA
-Opens 5.15pm PT July 10
-Closed 9am PT July 17

BB Time Capsule 2: TBA
-Opens 5.15pm PT July 19
-Closes 9am PT July 24

BB Time Capsule 3: TBA
-Opens 5.15pm PT July 26
-Closes 9am PT July 31

BB Time Capsule 4: TBA
-Opens 5.15pm PT August 2
-Closes 9am PT August 7

BB Time Capsule 5: TBA
-Opens 5.15pm PT August 9
-Closes 9am PT August 14

BB Time Capsule 6: TBA
-Opens 5.15pm PT August 16
-Closes 9am PT August 21

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Power Status

Evicted: Ashley

Head of Household: Devens
Have-nots: Barrett, Jason, Kamu, Lyric, Rome
Original noms: TBA
Veto winner/outcome: TBA
Post-veto noms: TBA
Blockbuster winner: TBA
Final noms: TBA
Evicted: TBA

Alliance charts by alliance (click on Latest) by @bigbrotherjunkie.bsky.social

Alliance maps by person (click on Latest) by @dolffica.bsky.social

Diary segment tallies by @clamperls4

TV episode ratings by @bigbrotherwikia.bsky.social



Upcoming Events

Usual CBS schedule is Sundays 8pm - Wednesdays 8pm (90 minutes) - Live Thursdays 8pm
Times are Eastern/local, deduct one hour for Central

Exceptions:
-Sunday, August 23 8pm two hours
-Thursday, August 27, 8pm 90 minutes
-Thursday, September 10, 8pm two hours
-Wednesday, September 16, 8pm two hours
-Finale is probably Thursday, October 1, time TBA

BB Unlocked episodes:
-Friday, July 24, 8pm
-Friday, August 7, 8pm
-Sunday, August 23, 9pm
-Friday, September 4, 8pm
-Friday, September 18, 9pm

Usual feeds schedule - times are Pacific:
-Mondays noonish: Veto meeting*
-Wednesdays midnight: Have-nots eat
-Thursdays: Eviction run-thru afternoon*,
  live eviction show 5pm*, HOH room late evening
-Fridays: Nominations late afternoon/early evening*
-Saturdays morning: Draw veto players*
-Saturdays afternoon: Veto comp*
*Feeds blocked - adoptable anipals on feeds


Daily Feeds Recaps

Day 11 - Friday - July 17, 2026

There's a lot to catch up on. A housekeeping item, the HOH comp was played in pairs, which had some repercussions but I don't have the details to untangle exactly what. And dancing was involved so maybe line dancing, with the western costumes. Devens held meetings after his room cleared out last night. He had said he might put up three women (Lyric, Melody, and LaLa or Mallory), but that changed to a potential plan of Jason, Lyric, Melody, with Rome as his target via the backdoor. I know! Expect the you-know-what. Rome did say during his one-on-one Devens could put him up as a pawn if he needs to. (If we have another volunteer season, what are we even doing?)

A mega alliance was formed at nearly 5am in HOH, made up of Angela, Barrett, Chuk, Dee, Devens, Drew, Haley, Kamu, and they called themselves the Tool Shed. Rome tried to join them in the room but they wouldn't let him in, reminiscent of Nicole A being locked out on BB22, or Danielle being locked out on BB7 and endlessly ding-donging the doorbell. They finally cracked open the door and included Rome in the alliance (in a fake, keep-the-peace way).

This morning brought apology tours from both Angela and Rome. Her rounds were for those who weren't included in the big HOH meeting, his were for being weird about being ignored, and they finally wrapped up by apologizing to each other. Jason told Taylor they need to win one of the powers being voted on, with pandering to us. (That effort was wasted as the first vote closed this morning and the second doesn't open til Sunday night.) Also, Jason confessed to Rome at some point that he'd actually been on Drag Race, rather than not making it past auditions as he'd told them all previously. Also this morning, the Littles (Lyric/Mallory/Melody) compared notes with various others, resentful about realizing they're on the outs. Lyric told Rome she'd warned him "that alliance" was a thing three days ago, which he acknowledged, and then he said "baby, you just turn me on, whoo, grrrr" and they moved on to clinch and slurp.

More later

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Day 10 - Thursday - July 16, 2026

Not much changed as of this morning since my late update last night: Ashley's still likely to meet Julie if she's up against either Taylor or Yash, and Yash will leave over Taylor. Still subject to change of course, but there wasn't a huge amount of gametalk or vote chat this morning so it seems pretty set. Jason did approach Dee to suggest they boot Yash if he's an option, and Dee played along as he laid out Reasons. (If we do end up with a Taylor vs Yash vote, Jason will think he did something.) Before that, Jason and Angela shared a long good morning hug. We know he's playing her emotionally and we know she knows that, but these two could form a legit personal bond at this rate, despite all that, and I hope they do.

On the show, the narrator's recap went back to Rachel in the volcano, and the catch-up segments laid out the big stories of the week, mostly Angela's paranoia and Ashley needlessly messing up her game (though she didn't have much game to mess up). Julie said tonight's evictee won't have a chance to time travel back into the game, so pack up your Battle Back hopes, at least for now. (A revival is unlikely with such a big cast anyway.) Julie started Ashley, Taylor, Yash on their Block Buster which was as per her demo and similar to the very first AI Arena comp back on BB26. They had two minutes to study three screens with montages of hamsters with hairstyles from different eras - a Deathrace tribute? HA HA no. They had to guess who appeared most, and all three were back to their podiums before time up. Taylor and Ashley both guessed Devens, and Yash won by correctly guessing Mallory.

They did the usual victor-plus-losers re-entry down the stairs and into the living room, but Julie finally gave up on telling them to strategize for two minutes. Instead it was hugs all around with a lot of close-ups, and casual tv-onlies probably wondered who half of them are. Ashley and Taylor gave their speeches, and Ashley was evicted 14-0. After her QA, Julie told the rest of them about the Time Capsule vote underway and that it would continue for weeks, so now we'll be sure to have them pandering to us for votes, and I feel sick. Feeds were announced as coming back "after every show" in the pre-season Broveal press release, including the new Youtube stream, but that was a lie: Youtube had two hours of post-show adoptable anipals, and we had more.

Feeds finally came back around 9.45pm. Devens won the HOH. It was the 1990s, the comp was played in elimination rounds, and they were all dressed in cowboy western wear. Devens joked with Barrett he'd put him up as a pawn so people don't think they're close, and I think he made the same joke with Drew. He told Haley she's got nothing to worry about, partly because she finished second in the comp. And he said he doesn't want to repeat any noms from the week just ended so Taylor, Mallory, Yash should be safe, and he said he wanted to go to bed at 10pm but oops, Thursdays tend to run later than that, often by a lot. Apparently Drew threw the comp, noticeably to some, and Rome told Lyric he also threw it. Feeds went away for lengthy blocks again, with more time off than on. Have-nots were picked, and sounded mostly if not completely voluntary: Barrett, Jason, Kamu, Lyric, Rome will be in the dungeon. Rome said Lyric was a "stupid little idiot who's too nice all the time" because she volunteered.

Rome suggested pitching to Devens a group with Drew, Lyric, Melody, likely in a bid to save himself and them from the block. He did that later, including telling Devens about Four Seasons by name. Rome and Lyric said they want to say I love you to each other, but they're holding off a bit longer for that. Later they made out on the pantry island because they won't be able to bed-snuggle when sharing the Have-not catherine wheel with three others, and they wished one of them had won HOH so they could share that room, and they said they heard there's no cameras in the HOH shower. And Rome called for a moment of silence over spaghetti in memory of Ashley. Devens' noms plans will become clear sooner or later, but he told Dee he might have "no choice" but to put up three women. (He named various of the women as problems during the week, so this didn't surprise me.) And he knows Jason is gunning for the three vets, so he could also be a contender or a renom.

Devens got his room around 12.20am. The WHO WANTS TO SEE hollering was withheld from us for some reason (I'm not complaining about that) as well as the initial oohs and ahhs over the photos. He got the now-usual huge assortment of food items, along with more glasses(!) and various everything else. Everyone sat down to hear the letter, like they do, but he wouldn't read it out loud because he knew he'd fall apart and didn't want to do that. I'll flesh out the noms plans tomorrow when they've become clear. Feeds could be down a very long time tomorrow if they're all sent one at a time to disguise whoever wins the Time Capsule vote and does the challenge? I don't know.

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Season Stats

HOHs in order: Dee; Devens

Veto winners in order: Mallory

Evictions in order: Ashley 14-0


Ratings - TBA edition

Ratings will be updated later, based on entertainment value, free neutrals for now

Noms count: original/renom/twist


 
Downs are here to stay unless/until they remove the ban on BBViewer. That's probably corporate's doing and not a BB decision, but we still lose no matter what the cause. Especially since a lot of staffers use BBViewer themselves. This show is not like any other and should get a little consideration.





Won: Nothing yet

HOH 0 - Veto 0 - Noms 0/1/0 - HN 0

 

Angela Murray - 52
Instagram - TikTok
Married with kids & grandkids - BB and TAR veteran
Real estate agent
Syracuse, UT (orig Long Beach, CA)






Won: Nothing yet

HOH 0 - Veto 0 - Noms 0/0/0 - HN 1

 

Barrett Pfeiffer - 27
Bluesky - Instagram - TikTok - Our Reality podcast
Single - fan applicant, feedster
Jumbotron engineer
Austin, TX (orig Benton, AR)






Won: Safety Week 1

HOH 0 - Veto 0 - Noms 0/0/0 - HN 1

 

Chuk Anyanwu - 27
Instagram
Single - recruit
Supply chain analyst
Dallas, TX






Won: Nothing yet

HOH 1 - Veto 0 - Noms 0/0/0 - HN 0

 

Dianelys "Dee" Valladares - 29
Instagram - TikTok
Single - Survivor and Challenge vet
Travel influencer - Miami, FL






Won: Nothing yet

HOH 1 - Veto 0 - Noms 0/0/0 - HN 1

 

Rick Devens - 42
Twitter - Instagram
Married, 2 kids - Survivor vet
News anchor
Macon, GA






Won: Nothing yet

HOH 0 - Veto 0 - Noms 0/0/0 - HN 1

 

Drew Campbell - 22
Instagram - TikTok
Single - fan applicant
Surgical dental assistant
Temecula, CA






Won: Nothing yet

HOH 0 - Veto 0 - Noms 0/0/0 - HN 1

 

Haley Thogmartin - 29
Instagram
Single - recruit
Telemedicine exec
Wildwood, MO (orig Neosho, MO)






Won: Safety Week 1

HOH 0 - Veto 0 - Noms 0/0/0 - HN 1

 

Jason De Puy - 35
Twitter - Instagram - TikTok
Pre-BB26 part 1 - part 2 - Reality press event as Ainsley

Single - BB fan/pre-season test run veteran
Drag queen - West Hollywood, CA (orig San Francisco, CA)






Won: Nothing yet

HOH 0 - Veto 0 - Noms 0/0/0 - HN 1

 

Kamuela 'Kamu' Kirk - 32
Twitter - Instagram
Single - fan applicant?
MMA fighter
Phoenix, AZ






Won: Nothing yet

HOH 0 - Veto 0 - Noms 0/0/0 - HN 0

 

LaTrice Verrett - 57 58
Instagram
Divorced, 4 kids - fan applicant, feedster
Boutique sales
Maplewood, NJ (orig Kankakee, IL)






Won: Nothing yet

HOH 0 - Veto 0 - Noms 0/0/0 - HN 1

 

Lyric Medeiros - 25
Instagram - TikTok - Twitch
Single - fan applicant?
Attorney
Honolulu, HI






Won: Nothing yet

HOH 0 - Veto 1 - Noms 1/0/0 - HN 0

 

Mallory Aurichio - 24
Instagram
Single
Rocket scientist
Township of Washington, NJ






Won: Nothing yet

HOH 0 - Veto 0 - Noms 0/0/0 - HN 0

 

Melody Morris - 24
Instagram - Comedy Instagram
Single? - recruit?
Corporate game show host (and stand-up comic)
Maricopa, AZ (orig Thornton, CO)






Won: Safety Week 1

HOH 0 - Veto 0 - Noms 0/0/0 - HN 1

 

Jack 'Rome' Seymour - 28
Instagram - Trash Instagram
Single - recruit






Won: Nothing yet

HOH 0 - Veto 0 - Noms 1/0/0 - HN 1

 

Taylor Brown - 27
Instagram
Single - fan applicant
Elementary school counselor
Deerfield Beach, FL






Won: Nothing yet

HOH 0 - Veto 0 - Noms 1/0/0 - HN 0

 

Yash Patel - 24
Instagram
Single - recruit
Financial analyst
Monroe Township, NJ






Won: Nothing yet

HOH 0 - Veto 0 - Noms 0/0/0 - HN 0

 

Ashley Trail - 24
Instagram
Single - recruit
Bartender (and actormodel)
Chicago, IL (orig Alton, IL)

1st evicted - Day 10

Obit to follow




Won: Hot lava bath

HOH 0 - Veto 0 - Noms 0/0/0 - HN 0

 

Rachel Reilly - 41
Instagram
Married, 2 kids - three-time BB veteran
Casting agent
Hoover, AL (orig Concord, NC via Las Vegas, NV)

Eliminated via volcano - Day 1

She came in dramatically after (almost) everyone else again, dressed in red again, but this time she was there for a stunt. We've had a couple other fake move-ins before - think Anthony Scaramucci on Celebs 2 or human Ainsley (Cosette Rinab) on BB26. Rachel had people going and thinking she was there as a player but no: 175 million years ago, a dinosaur carried her off and threw her into a volcano before she even got to play a comp or invent a new catchphrase.



Lines and Links of the Day

Lines

Rome: Maybe the doorbell doesn't work

Lala: Devens was your boy
Rome: Me too

....

@Rick_Devens, July 2022: Julie Chen Moonves in all of her #BB24 interviews...
  Interviewer: Did you see what happened on the live feeds?
  Julie: I don't watch that trash. God will take care of it.

Julie Chen to Dalton Ross, July 2026: I'm surprised how little Rick Devens gets this game. This ain't Survivor, honey, this here Big Brother. Go back to the island, dude.

Julie: Lyric is in a showmantic relationship with Rome

Mallory: Very clutch of me, my first ever live vote to evict, this is Mallory, live, right now!

Kamu: I vote to evict Drew - I mean Ash
Julie: Ahh a little Freudian slip there, okay
Kamu [later]: I forget who she said, I think it's Freud, Sigmund and Freud? Yes, that's what she said.

 

Links

BB28 Showmance Watch by @geminibrat.bsky.social

Julie's Block Buster preview

Excellent thread about Jason's (and Salina's) journey to here by @coolmongoose.bsky.social

Big Brother Hub at realityblurred - lots of good stuff there!

Big Brother Dictionary compiled by Slothy

Rancho Coastal Humane Society temporary home of our feeds anipals, including adoption updates - visit them or your local shelter to find your new best friend

Behind the Mirror Taran's book about BB is pretty great, available through Taran's site or from Amazon



Tally Items

Extracurricular Tally

Minor fights: 1
-Day 9 Angela vs Haley whisper-fight

Makeout pairings: 1
Lyric/Rome

Booze deliveries: 3
-Day 1 move-in champagne
-Day 1 or 2 Dee HOH wine
-Day 10 Devens HOH beer

HOH music
-Dee: Chris Stapleton, From A Room: Volume 2
-Devens: The Who

Premature exits: 1
Rachel

Fake move-ins: 1
Rachel

 

Production Goofs

 1 Casting page had some issues
 2 Date announcement said 'series premiere' rather than 'season'
 3 Internal Paramount Chinese pitch to advertisers leaked season info
 4 Mobile and TV apps using Celebs logo for main BB
 5 Wrong premiere date on promo material
 6 China advertiser pitch mixed up Derrick L with Derek X
 7 Cast bio clips on the show's IG linked to a random, unaffiliated 'CBS' account
 8 Feeds return in premiere July 9 AND feeds open July 10
 9 Faulty stat about first HOH by Julie on premiere
10 Discrepancies with camera counts
11 Late promo email
12 Press pic captions for July 12 had wrong day
13 Forgot to change AFP graphic for Time Capsule vote
14 Broveal promised feeds after every show: didn't happen





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THE REAL SHOW IS THE FEEDS

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GAME TWISTS

-Day 1 Chuk, Jason, Rome won their respective move-in comps and earned Week 1 safety.

-Day 1 Angela, Rick, Rachel joined but Rachel move-in was fake. She was thrown into a volcano and replaced by Dee.

-Day 4 Voting opens for first of six weekly Time Capsules. Details to follow for what those entail. Each person can only win once.

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Big Brother 28 SEASON FAQ
-Day 1 July 7: Move-in, cast reveal
-Day 3 July 9: Premiere
-Jason entered the house first
-Day 4 July 10: Feeds start
-Day 87 October 1: Finale

Feeds are streamed by Paramount Plus. Call 888-274-5343 for account help, including cancellation.

BB28 finalist prizes are likely the same: $750k for the winner, $75k for 2nd place, $10k for 3rd, $7.5k for 4th, $5k for 5th.
Stipend is probably still $1k per week for all except 1st and 2nd place, including pre-season sequester. Stuntcasts likely get more.

The habitat has 94 HD cameras (down 18) and 113 microphones (no change).

The recorded in-house announcements are the voice of producer Don Wollman. He and Julie Chen are the only senior staffers who have been there since Big Brother 1.

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