LaTrice Verrett — Big Brother 28 houseguest

LaTrice Verrett

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In Jury — Episode 28

WHERE THEY STANDEP 28

Went out 4–2 as **the first juror of BB28**, losing the Block Buster she'd just finished arguing proved she could win comps. Warm, funny and cheerfully honest that she was never quite sure what was going on — and not remotely quiet about how she felt about Barrett.

SEASON JOURNEY

7

total pts

Four Spheres, Four Minutes

"Your Game in Ruins" buried the nominees in a quarry of coloured spheres, then made them lean over a balcony and drop the right ones down a tube. All three started badly. Devens and Taylor found it. LaLa never did.

I've Always Been on the Bottom Rung

LaLa went out the way she played — funny, warm, and entirely unbothered about admitting she hadn't always known what was happening. She told Julie as much, and she didn't pretend to be happy with Barrett either.

EVICTION
Eviction Night

Rick Devens asked to sit in that chair, and then he refused to stay in it.

He'd offered himself to Drew as a pawn — a favour with a plan attached, the plan being that Drew would use the slot to backdoor Yash. Drew accepted the favour and declined the plan, which left Devens genuinely, uselessly nominated beside LaTrice Verrett and Taylor Brown, with nothing promised in return.

So he went and won it. "Your Game in Ruins" dumped the three of them into a quarry of coloured spheres and asked them to carry the right ones up and drop them over a balcony into a tube — four spheres, four minutes, or most-in-fastest-time if nobody got there. Everybody was bad at it for a while. Then Devens and Taylor started to see it, and LaLa didn't, and never did. Devens landed his fourth first and walked off the block for the second time this season.

That left LaTrice and Taylor and a house that had already made up its mind. LaTrice pitched hard — her closing argument was that she is a competitor, that she can still win things from here, and after watching her lose that particular competition it was a difficult sell. Taylor barely campaigned at all, just told the room to play their own games, which turned out to be the more persuasive speech by some distance.

LaTrice Verrett was evicted 4–2. Dee, Barrett, Yash and Devens sent her; Angela and Melody voted to keep her, from two different kinds of stubbornness. Dee and Angela had gone in not on the same page and the board said so out loud.

She is the first juror of Big Brother 28 — nine seats filled from here, and the money now runs through people already inside the game. She left funny and unbothered, told Julie she had spent a good part of the summer genuinely unsure what was going on around her, and did not pretend to be pleased with Barrett.

> "These suckers just don't know what to do… I've always been on the bottom rung." > > "These people bring tears to your eye… you feel so much in there."

No new HOH aired. Eight houseguests left, a majority of five that just held, a minority of two that just announced itself — and Barrett, who voted with the winners all night and is already drawing up the blindside that takes Devens out. Devens, for his part, thinks he and Barrett are fine.

Loses BB Blockbuster (face vote)

Loses to Devens at the ruins ballpit Block Buster comp

-1
Gets evicted

Lala evicted 4-2, Taylor safe another week

-2

FUN FACTS

  • A superfan since Season 2 who watched the overnights and the live feeds long before she ever got the call.

    Backstory
  • Sums herself up in three words: "Absolutely fantabulistic fantastic!"

    Quirk
  • Known in the house and on the broadcast simply as **"LaLa."**

    Nickname
    EP 28
  • Admitted to Julie on her way out that she'd spent a good part of the summer genuinely unsure what was going on in the house — and said it entirely without embarrassment.

    Quirk
    EP 28
  • Nominated for the third time this season and still the only houseguest left with no bloc obliged to vote for her — she has survived every one of them so far.

    Moment
    EP 27
  • Won the Week 7 veto on the "totally tubular tonguetwister" — working a lever with her tongue and nothing else — two weeks after becoming the oldest houseguest ever to win the Wall.

    Moment
    EP 24
  • Called Drew "a sneaky little liar" to his face after he accused her of lining up the icons for nomination.

    Quirk
    EP 24
  • Cast the lone vote to keep Kamu in Week 6 — the only member of the week-old Covenant who actually honored it.

    Moment
    EP 22
  • Put the name on The Covenant — her own four-person bloc with Kamu, Yash and Taylor, christened on Day 41.

    Alliance
    EP 21
  • Answers to “Lala” and does not let a grudge go quietly — her attempted apology to Haley turned into a house-wide poll on who had actually called Haley a bully.

    Quirk
    EP 20
  • No love lost with Chuk — he refused to shake her hand before the Block Buster, so he snubbed her hug on his way out the door.

    Moment
    EP 19
  • After the fallout, LaTrice said it was “sad that a pretty girl is so mean and passive-aggressive,” making clear she’s “over Haley” and wants her gone.

    Moment
    EP 18
  • At 58, LaTrice Verrett is the oldest houseguest ever to win the iconic Wall endurance comp on a regular season of Big Brother.

    EP 17
  • LaTrice is the first Head of Household from outside the Red Corner — the bloc had won the first four HOHs of the season.

    Moment
    EP 17
  • The **58-year-old superfan** survived a live eviction with zero votes against her — despite the HOH noting she "hasn't talked game to me once all season."

    Backstory
    EP 12
  • Left on the block as a genuine nominee after Kamu's backdoor — the 58-year-old Season-2 superfan will have to win Thursday's Block Buster to save herself.

    Moment
    EP 11
  • Joined the four-woman Honor Society on the same night HOH Kamu put her on the block — his reason: "LaLa hasn't talked game to me once all season."

    Alliance
    EP 10
  • Comforted a crying, hyperventilating Rome after the nominations shook out — one of several houseguests in tears during a chaotic week.

    Moment
    EP 7

BIO

The season's oldest houseguest, and she isn't here for the experience — she wants to be the oldest winner in the show's history. Big-hearted and chatty, she trades on relationships and first impressions, and she is completely uninterested in playing this quietly.

🎯 FANTASY TAKE

Turned out to be disposable after all. Two comp wins, a closing pitch built entirely on being a competitor, and then a last-place finish in the Block Buster that decided it — evicted 4–2 as the first juror of BB28. Warm, funny, frequently lost, and honest about all three.

STRATEGY

Rode the endurance Wall to a record HOH, then nominated Haley (target), Chuk (backup) and Barrett (pawn) rather than trusting a backdoor. Aligned with the new Kamu-Dee majority and cashed in by sending Chuk home. 'Game on, y'all.'

SOCIAL
CLIPS

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