Kamu

The Comp Beast

MMA Fighter

12th place — Out Episode 22

SEASON RECAP

Evicted in Week 6 by an 8–1 vote after Devens' Diamond put him on the block. Torched Dee's Bribe secret on his way out and left with a shrug — "it's a good move." Two comp wins, one abandoned alliance, and a sixth-place exit.

SEASON JOURNEY

total pts

Dee Infiltrates the Red Corner

Kamu, Haley & Chuk start the newbie alliance — named for Kamu's MMA corner — and HOH Dee slips right in, five strong (+2 each).

The Toolshed Gets Built at 3 A.M.

Devens gathered both of his alliances — the Crossovers and the Red Corner — in the HOH room in the dead of night and merged them into a single eight-person powerhouse. Drew gave it a name: The Toolshed.

Ep 7So Many Waterworks

Rome Boils Over

Sensing the freeze-out, a spiraling Rome turned on Haley — “You are unbearable as a human being!” — and the two nearly came to blows over her “small balls” jab, his chair tipping as Barrett, Kamu and Chuk stepped between them.

Kamu Body-Slams His Way to HOH

"Wrestlegasm '85" put the houseguests through a true/false wrestling quiz — watch a 1985 match, get one wrong and you're "down for the count" (Jessie "Mr. Pectacular" Godderz cameo). Kamu outlasted the field for the third straight Toolshed HOH (Dee → Devens → Kamu).

The Handymen

Kamu and Drew's bromance went red-hot — a viral clip caught Drew striking a "sexy pose" on the HOH bed, surrounded by snacks, waiting for Kamu to come out of the bathroom. The two-man alliance now has a name.

Kamu Loads the Block

LaTrice, Mallory and Lyric went up, but the real plan is a Jason backdoor — an idea Drew pitched after Jason won last week's Block Buster. Kamu's reasoning: "It's not personal… Mallory's strategic, and LaLa hasn't talked game to me once all season." Lyric is the intended pawn.

Ep 11A Pickled Tea Party

Kamu Pours the Tea

Mallory's genteel dress-up tea party became HOH Kamu's ambush: an hour-long interrogation of Jason over his game — that fizzled the moment Kamu refused to name a single accuser.

“My Queen!”

Jason's answer to his own backdoor: a kettle, a wooden spoon, and a march down the hallway sarcastically hailing Kamu — “My queen! That's my girl right there!” — as the house tried to sleep.

The Backdoor Snaps Shut

With Lyric safe, Kamu named Jason the replacement nominee — the target all along. The three-nominee “decoy” block was built for exactly this moment.

Ep 12The Tea Kettle Boils Over

12–0, Not One Vote

The house sends Jason home unanimously; the backdoor Kamu built all week lands without a hitch.

Ep 17LaTrice Climbs the Wall

The Oldest, and the Last One Standing

LaTrice outlasts the house on the Wall after 90+ minutes to become the oldest houseguest ever to win it on a regular season. Kamu takes second.

Kamu Torches His Own

To dodge a backdoor, Kamu climbs to the HOH room and sells out allies Haley and Chuk, floating a new four with LaTrice, Yash and Taylor.

The Backdoor That Wasn’t

LaTrice’s original plan (Barrett/Drew/Kamu to backdoor Haley) dies in the HOH room; the house talks her into hitting Haley head-on instead.

Kamu Wins the 1977 Memory Comp

Sent back to August 13, 1977, the house dances across a memory floor — Kamu outlasts Barrett in the final for his second memory-comp win of the season and the Week 5 veto.

Kamu Cuts the Red Corner Loose

In the Diary Room Kamu drops the act — he’s done with the Red Corner and needs the house to see him “move differently.” The alliance that ran the house is finished.

The Veto Stays in His Pocket

For the first time all season the veto goes unused. Kamu leaves Haley, Chuk and Barrett on the block and hands his old allies a cover story instead of a rescue.

Kamu Goes Up, and the HOH Can't Stop It

The Diamond names its own replacement with zero HOH input. Yash's closest ally lands in the third chair, and the Head of Household watches his own week get taken away from him.

Kamu Torches Dee's Bribe

Out of numbers and out of time, Kamu tells Mallory about Dee's secret BB Bribe — burning his former partner's biggest advantage on a vote that was never going to move.

Angela Runs the Tucker Method

Red and yellow balls howling through a wind tunnel, and Angela ignores all of them — scooping off the floor the way BB26's Tucker did — to buzz in first and yank herself off the block.

8–1, and LaLa Stands Alone

The Mosh Pit votes as one and Kamu is gone. LaTrice casts the only vote to keep him — the lone Covenant member who kept the deal.

“It Is What It Is; It's a Good Move”

No bitterness on the way out the door. Kamu tips his cap to the swing that got him, telling Julie it just stinks to be standing on the wrong side of it.

EVICTION

Eviction Night

Eviction night, and the man who spent all of Week 5 refusing to use a veto never got one to use.

Read the full recap →

Loses BB Blockbuster (face vote)

Loses floating ball stacking to Angela

-1

Gets evicted

Evicted 8–1 after Devens' Diamond Power of Veto pulled Dee off the block and named Kamu the replacement — LaTrice cast the only vote to keep him.

-2

ALLIANCES

The Red Corner

The Toolshed The Wolf Pack The Covenant

FUN FACTS

A pro MMA fighter who competes as "The Jawaiian."
Backstory
Says his fight career "battle-tested" him to be the next Big Brother winner.
Quirk
The Red Corner alliance is named after Kamu's MMA background — the fighter's corner of the ring.
Nickname
EP 3
Won the "Wrestlegasm '85" HOH — a true/false quiz over a March 31, 1985 wrestling match, with a Jessie "Mr. Pectacular" Godderz cameo — for the third straight week a Toolshed member holds the crown.
Moment
EP 10
Formed The Handymen with Drew Campbell — the house's newest two-man deal, born out of their HOH-week bromance.
Alliance
EP 10
Turned Mallory's dress-up tea party into an hour-long interrogation of Jason — grilling him over his game moves but refusing to name his accusers, letting the confrontation fizzle into awkward silence.
Moment
EP 11
The MMA fighter landed an **"HOH TKO"** in Week 3, then spent close to an hour "airing out" his target at a tea-party house meeting before backdooring him.
Nickname
EP 12
The Week 5 nominations flipped because Kamu — a Red Corner member — personally lobbied LaTrice to put up two of his own allies.
EP 17
Held the season's first unused veto: he won the Week 5 Power of Veto and left the nominations exactly as they were.
Moment
EP 18
Kamu's Week 5 win was his second memory-competition victory of the season — he quietly became one of the house's sharpest recall players.
EP 18

IN THE NEWS

Latest articles & podcasts featuring Kamuela

Haley Thogmartin on keeping Kamu in the ‘friend’ zone and why she’s ‘rooting for Devens’ to win ‘Big Brother 28’

NEWS

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Haley Thogmartin on keeping Kamu in the ‘friend’ zone and why she’s ‘rooting for Devens’ to win ‘Big Brother 28’

Gold Derby

STRATEGY

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The BB28 Intro Credits nearly predicted the entire Jury Phase

Reddit r/BigBrother

NEWS

about 1 month ago

Rewatching the first episodes of BB28 and noticed that Melody has really changed her tune on gameplay since week 1…

Reddit r/BigBrother

BIO

A professional fighter with a laid-back island demeanor — the contrast is the whole story. Kamu is as driven as anyone in the cast, but he wore it lightly enough that the house didn't clock it until he was holding the HOH key.

🎯 PRE-SEASON FANTASY TAKE

The rawest physical ceiling in the cast — a pro fighter built for endurance and physical comps means HOH and veto points on the board. The flip side is obvious: comp beasts get targeted early, so it's a high-floor-of-points, high-variance-of-longevity draft.

PRE-SEASON STRATEGY READ

Out-compete the house and dare them to take a shot at the fighter.

Kamuela Kirk

The Comp Beast

"A professional fighter with a laid-back island demeanor — the contrast is the whole story. Kamu is as driven as anyone in the cast, but he wore it lightly enough that the house didn't clock it until he was holding the HOH key."

PLAYER INFO

Age: 32

Phoenix, AZ

MMA Fighter

CONNECT

Wiki Instagram

12th place — Out Episode 22

SEASON RECAP

SEASON JOURNEY

total pts

Dee Infiltrates the Red Corner

Kamu, Haley & Chuk start the newbie alliance — named for Kamu's MMA corner — and HOH Dee slips right in, five strong (+2 each).

The Toolshed Gets Built at 3 A.M.

Ep 7So Many Waterworks

Rome Boils Over

Kamu Body-Slams His Way to HOH

The Handymen

Kamu Loads the Block

Ep 11A Pickled Tea Party

Kamu Pours the Tea

Mallory's genteel dress-up tea party became HOH Kamu's ambush: an hour-long interrogation of Jason over his game — that fizzled the moment Kamu refused to name a single accuser.

“My Queen!”

Jason's answer to his own backdoor: a kettle, a wooden spoon, and a march down the hallway sarcastically hailing Kamu — “My queen! That's my girl right there!” — as the house tried to sleep.

The Backdoor Snaps Shut

With Lyric safe, Kamu named Jason the replacement nominee — the target all along. The three-nominee “decoy” block was built for exactly this moment.

Ep 12The Tea Kettle Boils Over

12–0, Not One Vote

The house sends Jason home unanimously; the backdoor Kamu built all week lands without a hitch.

Ep 17LaTrice Climbs the Wall

The Oldest, and the Last One Standing

LaTrice outlasts the house on the Wall after 90+ minutes to become the oldest houseguest ever to win it on a regular season. Kamu takes second.

Kamu Torches His Own

To dodge a backdoor, Kamu climbs to the HOH room and sells out allies Haley and Chuk, floating a new four with LaTrice, Yash and Taylor.

The Backdoor That Wasn’t

LaTrice’s original plan (Barrett/Drew/Kamu to backdoor Haley) dies in the HOH room; the house talks her into hitting Haley head-on instead.

Kamu Wins the 1977 Memory Comp

Sent back to August 13, 1977, the house dances across a memory floor — Kamu outlasts Barrett in the final for his second memory-comp win of the season and the Week 5 veto.

Kamu Cuts the Red Corner Loose

In the Diary Room Kamu drops the act — he’s done with the Red Corner and needs the house to see him “move differently.” The alliance that ran the house is finished.

The Veto Stays in His Pocket

For the first time all season the veto goes unused. Kamu leaves Haley, Chuk and Barrett on the block and hands his old allies a cover story instead of a rescue.

Kamu Goes Up, and the HOH Can't Stop It

The Diamond names its own replacement with zero HOH input. Yash's closest ally lands in the third chair, and the Head of Household watches his own week get taken away from him.

Kamu Torches Dee's Bribe

Out of numbers and out of time, Kamu tells Mallory about Dee's secret BB Bribe — burning his former partner's biggest advantage on a vote that was never going to move.

Angela Runs the Tucker Method

Red and yellow balls howling through a wind tunnel, and Angela ignores all of them — scooping off the floor the way BB26's Tucker did — to buzz in first and yank herself off the block.

8–1, and LaLa Stands Alone

The Mosh Pit votes as one and Kamu is gone. LaTrice casts the only vote to keep him — the lone Covenant member who kept the deal.

“It Is What It Is; It's a Good Move”

No bitterness on the way out the door. Kamu tips his cap to the swing that got him, telling Julie it just stinks to be standing on the wrong side of it.

EVICTION

Eviction Night

Eviction night, and the man who spent all of Week 5 refusing to use a veto never got one to use.

Read the full recap →

Loses BB Blockbuster (face vote)

Loses floating ball stacking to Angela

-1

Gets evicted

Evicted 8–1 after Devens' Diamond Power of Veto pulled Dee off the block and named Kamu the replacement — LaTrice cast the only vote to keep him.

-2

ALLIANCES

The Red Corner

The Toolshed The Wolf Pack The Covenant

FUN FACTS

A pro MMA fighter who competes as "The Jawaiian."
Backstory
Says his fight career "battle-tested" him to be the next Big Brother winner.
Quirk
The Red Corner alliance is named after Kamu's MMA background — the fighter's corner of the ring.
Nickname
EP 3
Won the "Wrestlegasm '85" HOH — a true/false quiz over a March 31, 1985 wrestling match, with a Jessie "Mr. Pectacular" Godderz cameo — for the third straight week a Toolshed member holds the crown.
Moment
EP 10
Formed The Handymen with Drew Campbell — the house's newest two-man deal, born out of their HOH-week bromance.
Alliance
EP 10
Turned Mallory's dress-up tea party into an hour-long interrogation of Jason — grilling him over his game moves but refusing to name his accusers, letting the confrontation fizzle into awkward silence.
Moment
EP 11
The MMA fighter landed an **"HOH TKO"** in Week 3, then spent close to an hour "airing out" his target at a tea-party house meeting before backdooring him.
Nickname
EP 12
The Week 5 nominations flipped because Kamu — a Red Corner member — personally lobbied LaTrice to put up two of his own allies.
EP 17
Held the season's first unused veto: he won the Week 5 Power of Veto and left the nominations exactly as they were.
Moment
EP 18
Kamu's Week 5 win was his second memory-competition victory of the season — he quietly became one of the house's sharpest recall players.
EP 18