Mallory Aurichio
The Stealth Strategist
WHERE THEY STANDEP 25
Evicted 6-2 on the show's 1,000th episode, undone by an HOH she chose not to win. Named her own two votes on the way out and got a standing ovation from a room full of former players.
SEASON JOURNEY
total pts
Mallory Beats the Clock
Down bad on the block, Mallory asked Dee who she actually wanted out, heard "Yash," and turned it into fuel: "I'm Mallory and I've got this." Then the aerospace engineer solved the pipe puzzle and won the whole thing.
Ashley Takes the Empty Chair
Mallory pulled herself down and Dee needed a body. She picked Ashley - not out of spite, but math: fewest allies, smallest blowback. The block is now Yash, Taylor and Ashley.
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.
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.
Yash Invents a Nomination
The HOH who lost control of his own week tells Mallory and Melody that Dee wanted them on the block. It isn't true, and both of them believe it.
"It's Nothing Personal"
Dee passes over the one man she owes a bribe-bought favor and names Mallory instead — framing it as breaking up For the American People rather than aiming at anybody. Two of the four are now on the block.
"The Survivor Players Are the Worst Allies Ever"
Dumbfounded turns to screaming. Mallory tears into Dee, the icons, and her own game — admitting the HOH she threw is the decision she'd take back first.
Drew Ran Back and Said "C"
A trivia comp about Big Brother on Big Brother's thousandth night: three clues, thirty seconds each, a wall of clips, three boxes. Drew ran back, said "C," and was right. Mallory wasn't. The house's original target pulled himself off the block by knowing his own show better than the woman sitting next to him.
Six to Two, and One of Them Was Drew
Angela, Yash, Haley, Devens, LaTrice — and Drew, who had been sitting on the block beside her that same morning. He won his way off, then voted her out. Melody and Barrett were the only two who didn't, exactly as advertised. The resistance was fully formed and still lost by four.
Mallory Named Her Own Two Votes
Julie asked who she thought had kept her, and Mallory got it right on the first try: Barrett and Melody. She read the house correctly on the way out of it — which is the specific tragedy of her game, because she read it correctly on the way in, too.
"I Should Have Tried Harder"
She threw the HOH. She said so on the stage, without being cornered into it: she got nervous at the end, slowed down a little, and should have tried harder. Six days later the house made her pay for the week she declined to control. Still called the summer awesome.
A thousand episodes of this show, and it still comes down to one person on a stage finding out their own alliance did the arithmetic without them.
CBS spent the front half of the night looking backwards, and it earned it. Big Brother became the first primetime series in television history to reach 1,000 episodes, a milestone that came with two Guinness World Records and a "BB Time Machine" retrospective cutting across all 28 seasons. The fan-voted awards went about how a fandom with a long memory would vote them: Dan Gheesling took Favorite Winner, Janelle Pierzina was named the best to never win and the comp beast, "Floaters, you better grab a life vest!" won Favorite Quote, and The Cookout was named Favorite Alliance. Twenty-six years, compressed into one segment, in front of a live audience packed with people who used to sit in that chair.
Then the show remembered it had a game running.
The Block Buster was built for the occasion. "BB Grand Cliptacular" put the three nominees in front of a wall of clips from seasons past and made them match three thirty-second clues to boxes labelled A, B and C — a trivia comp about Big Brother itself on Big Brother's thousandth night. Drew ran back, said "C," and was right. Mallory was not. The man who had spent a week as the house's original target pulled himself off the block on the strength of knowing his own show, and in doing so handed Dee exactly the decision she had been angling toward since the veto ceremony.
Because Dee's target was never really a person. It was a number. She joined the Mosh Pit two weeks ago as one of three icons inside a seven-person bloc that four ex-F.A.P. members controlled, and she has spent two ceremonies quietly correcting that. Nominate one. Renominate another. Let the Block Buster pick which of the two goes. Drew won, so it was Mallory — and the arithmetic works the same either way, which is the whole point.
The part that actually stung was watching the bloc find out. Dee and Devens had to break it to Drew and Barrett that Mallory, not Taylor, was the week's target, and Barrett did not take it well: he told the icons to their faces that he would not be a vote to send her home. He wasn't. Neither was Melody. That was the entire resistance — two votes, delivered exactly as promised, and 24 hours of notice did nothing to grow the number.
6–2. Angela, Yash, Haley, Devens, LaTrice — and Drew. Drew, who had been on the block beside her that morning. Drew, whose safety she had been counting toward. He saved himself and then voted her out, and the vote was over before the resistance finished forming.
Mallory took it better than the week deserved. She got through the eviction and the post-game questions without any real tears, correctly named Barrett and Melody as her two votes on the way out, and then said the quiet thing plainly: she threw that HOH. She "got nervous at the end," she "slowed down a little," and she should have tried harder. It is the most honest exit interview of the season and it doubles as the epitaph — she declined the power in the week she could have had it, and the house handed her the bill six days later. She still called the summer awesome. The room full of former houseguests gave her a standing ovation, which on this particular night was worth something.
Then Julie blew the game up. No HOH. No Veto. No Block Buster. The remaining ten are being sent to the year 1000 — a medieval week with none of the show's furniture, run by four alumni in costume: Keanu Soto, Britney Haynes, Tiffany Mitchell and Cody Calafiore. Someone's game ends before the next live eviction, by a mechanism nobody has explained. And the feeds went dark for three days on the way out the door.
A thousand episodes in, the show's best trick is still telling you exactly how much it isn't going to tell you.
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She was never the plan. Drew was. The Mosh Pit decided he'd been feeding every side at once, Dee put him up, and the case against him half-collapsed on camera at the nomination meeting when he conceded Taylor had never actually named names. When LaTrice won "Feel The Burn" and took herself off the block, Dee named Mallory as the replacement — the renom Devens had been quietly pushing before the veto comp ever ran, and the one Mallory had been saying out loud she was afraid of.
Then Drew won the Block Buster and the choice made itself.
The vote to evict Mallory: Angela Murray, Drew Campbell, Yash Patel, Haley Thogmartin, Rick Devens, LaTrice Verrett. The vote to evict Taylor: Melody Morris, Barrett Pfeiffer. Dee Valladares, as HOH, did not vote.
The split is the story. Mallory's own bloc supplied four of the six votes that ended her game, and one of them came from the man she'd been on the block with that morning. Barrett and Melody — the only two ex-F.A.P. members who weren't nominated this week — held the line and were never close to enough.
She left clean. No breakdown on stage, the right read on her own vote count, and an unprompted admission that throwing the Week 6 HOH was the mistake that set all of this in motion. The alumni in the audience stood up. On the show's thousandth night, the seventh houseguest out of BB28 got the best exit of the season.
Where it leaves the Mosh Pit: six members, three icons (Dee, Devens, Angela) and three ex-F.A.P. (Drew, Barrett, Melody). Two weeks ago Dee was outnumbered inside her own alliance four to three. She is now level — with the tiebreak, the last HOH's authority, and a bloc that just watched her eat two of its own without losing a vote she needed.
And then none of it matters. No HOH, no veto, no Block Buster next week. Ten houseguests, the year 1000, four alumni in medieval costume, and someone gone before the next live eviction.
Upset she didn’t beat Dee’s time in the balancing HOH comp
Lose the 3-screen Block Buster to Drew
Evicted Week 7
ALLIANCES
FUN FACTS
An actual rocket scientist who says she "was watching before she could even speak."
BackstoryDeliberately downplays the genius label to avoid becoming an early target.
QuirkAdmitted on the live stage that she threw the Week 6 HOH — "got nervous at the end," "slowed down a little," and should have tried harder. Six days later it cost her the game.
MomentEP 25Correctly named both of her own votes to stay — Barrett and Melody — on the first guess in her exit interview. She read the house right on the way out and on the way in.
QuirkEP 25Says throwing the Week 7 HOH is the decision she'd take back first — she was named the replacement nominee by the alliance she'd just joined.
MomentEP 24Went off after her renomination with the line that defined the week: "the Survivor players are the worst allies ever."
QuirkEP 24Learned that Dee had a secret BB Bribe from Kamu — minutes before she voted him out.
MomentEP 22A founding member of the Mosh Pit, the seven-person merger of The Crossovers and For the American People that formed in the backyard on a Sunday night.
AllianceEP 21Mallory earned her keep the hard way — she won last week's 'Video Tape Tumble' Block Buster to yank herself off the block by a single tape.
BackstoryEP 13Won the **"Video Tape Tumble"** Block Buster — basically reverse Jenga with VHS tapes — pulling eight to Jason's seven to save herself off the block.
MomentEP 12Planned a genteel dress-up tea party for the whole house — which HOH Kamu promptly hijacked to expose Jason, turning her own event into the week's biggest blowup.
MomentEP 11Mallory cried for most of Week 1 and then won the Power of Veto anyway — and was the correct answer to a Block Buster she wasn't even competing in.
QuirkEP 5Mallory is an aerospace engineer, and she used it — solving the pipe puzzle in "Back From The Future" to win the veto and pull herself off the block.
BackstoryEP 4Melody quietly distanced herself from Mallory while Mallory was spiralling on the block — days before Mallory won the veto and saved herself.
MomentEP 4Missed her window with Dee — misreading a chat as 'Dee didn't want to talk game' — then landed as the week's real target.
BackstoryEP 3Bonded instantly with Lyric on move-in — the season's first friendship-alliance seed.
AllianceEP 1
IN THE NEWS
Latest articles & podcasts featuring Mallory
‘Big Brother 28’ Star Mallory Aurichio Rethinks Who She Could Trust
Reality Tea
Big Brother, Season 28: Evicted Houseguest, Mallory Aurichio Talks Game Regrets + Who She’d Vote Out
Soap Opera Spy
Big Brother’s Mallory Talks Feeling ‘Betrayed’ by Her Ally Drew
Us Weekly Reality
BIO
Mallory describes herself as "funny, hard-working, and outgoing" — three words chosen, you suspect, very carefully. What she leaves out is the day job, and she'd very much like the house to leave it out too.
🎯 FANTASY TAKE
Threw an HOH in Week 6 because she was afraid of the nominations, and the house handed her the bill six days later. Called the backdoor before it happened, called her own two votes on the way out, and admitted on stage she should have tried harder. The most self-aware exit of the season.
STRATEGY
Lead with the fun, likable social game and keep the genius under wraps.
Mallory Aurichio
The Stealth Strategist
"Mallory describes herself as "funny, hard-working, and outgoing" — three words chosen, you suspect, very carefully. What she leaves out is the day job, and she'd very much like the house to leave it out too."
PLAYER INFO
WHERE THEY STANDEP 25
Evicted 6-2 on the show's 1,000th episode, undone by an HOH she chose not to win. Named her own two votes on the way out and got a standing ovation from a room full of former players.
SEASON JOURNEY
total pts
Mallory Beats the Clock
Down bad on the block, Mallory asked Dee who she actually wanted out, heard "Yash," and turned it into fuel: "I'm Mallory and I've got this." Then the aerospace engineer solved the pipe puzzle and won the whole thing.
Ashley Takes the Empty Chair
Mallory pulled herself down and Dee needed a body. She picked Ashley - not out of spite, but math: fewest allies, smallest blowback. The block is now Yash, Taylor and Ashley.
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.
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.
Yash Invents a Nomination
The HOH who lost control of his own week tells Mallory and Melody that Dee wanted them on the block. It isn't true, and both of them believe it.
"It's Nothing Personal"
Dee passes over the one man she owes a bribe-bought favor and names Mallory instead — framing it as breaking up For the American People rather than aiming at anybody. Two of the four are now on the block.
"The Survivor Players Are the Worst Allies Ever"
Dumbfounded turns to screaming. Mallory tears into Dee, the icons, and her own game — admitting the HOH she threw is the decision she'd take back first.
Drew Ran Back and Said "C"
A trivia comp about Big Brother on Big Brother's thousandth night: three clues, thirty seconds each, a wall of clips, three boxes. Drew ran back, said "C," and was right. Mallory wasn't. The house's original target pulled himself off the block by knowing his own show better than the woman sitting next to him.
Six to Two, and One of Them Was Drew
Angela, Yash, Haley, Devens, LaTrice — and Drew, who had been sitting on the block beside her that same morning. He won his way off, then voted her out. Melody and Barrett were the only two who didn't, exactly as advertised. The resistance was fully formed and still lost by four.
Mallory Named Her Own Two Votes
Julie asked who she thought had kept her, and Mallory got it right on the first try: Barrett and Melody. She read the house correctly on the way out of it — which is the specific tragedy of her game, because she read it correctly on the way in, too.
"I Should Have Tried Harder"
She threw the HOH. She said so on the stage, without being cornered into it: she got nervous at the end, slowed down a little, and should have tried harder. Six days later the house made her pay for the week she declined to control. Still called the summer awesome.
A thousand episodes of this show, and it still comes down to one person on a stage finding out their own alliance did the arithmetic without them.
CBS spent the front half of the night looking backwards, and it earned it. Big Brother became the first primetime series in television history to reach 1,000 episodes, a milestone that came with two Guinness World Records and a "BB Time Machine" retrospective cutting across all 28 seasons. The fan-voted awards went about how a fandom with a long memory would vote them: Dan Gheesling took Favorite Winner, Janelle Pierzina was named the best to never win and the comp beast, "Floaters, you better grab a life vest!" won Favorite Quote, and The Cookout was named Favorite Alliance. Twenty-six years, compressed into one segment, in front of a live audience packed with people who used to sit in that chair.
Then the show remembered it had a game running.
The Block Buster was built for the occasion. "BB Grand Cliptacular" put the three nominees in front of a wall of clips from seasons past and made them match three thirty-second clues to boxes labelled A, B and C — a trivia comp about Big Brother itself on Big Brother's thousandth night. Drew ran back, said "C," and was right. Mallory was not. The man who had spent a week as the house's original target pulled himself off the block on the strength of knowing his own show, and in doing so handed Dee exactly the decision she had been angling toward since the veto ceremony.
Because Dee's target was never really a person. It was a number. She joined the Mosh Pit two weeks ago as one of three icons inside a seven-person bloc that four ex-F.A.P. members controlled, and she has spent two ceremonies quietly correcting that. Nominate one. Renominate another. Let the Block Buster pick which of the two goes. Drew won, so it was Mallory — and the arithmetic works the same either way, which is the whole point.
The part that actually stung was watching the bloc find out. Dee and Devens had to break it to Drew and Barrett that Mallory, not Taylor, was the week's target, and Barrett did not take it well: he told the icons to their faces that he would not be a vote to send her home. He wasn't. Neither was Melody. That was the entire resistance — two votes, delivered exactly as promised, and 24 hours of notice did nothing to grow the number.
6–2. Angela, Yash, Haley, Devens, LaTrice — and Drew. Drew, who had been on the block beside her that morning. Drew, whose safety she had been counting toward. He saved himself and then voted her out, and the vote was over before the resistance finished forming.
Mallory took it better than the week deserved. She got through the eviction and the post-game questions without any real tears, correctly named Barrett and Melody as her two votes on the way out, and then said the quiet thing plainly: she threw that HOH. She "got nervous at the end," she "slowed down a little," and she should have tried harder. It is the most honest exit interview of the season and it doubles as the epitaph — she declined the power in the week she could have had it, and the house handed her the bill six days later. She still called the summer awesome. The room full of former houseguests gave her a standing ovation, which on this particular night was worth something.
Then Julie blew the game up. No HOH. No Veto. No Block Buster. The remaining ten are being sent to the year 1000 — a medieval week with none of the show's furniture, run by four alumni in costume: Keanu Soto, Britney Haynes, Tiffany Mitchell and Cody Calafiore. Someone's game ends before the next live eviction, by a mechanism nobody has explained. And the feeds went dark for three days on the way out the door.
A thousand episodes in, the show's best trick is still telling you exactly how much it isn't going to tell you.
---
She was never the plan. Drew was. The Mosh Pit decided he'd been feeding every side at once, Dee put him up, and the case against him half-collapsed on camera at the nomination meeting when he conceded Taylor had never actually named names. When LaTrice won "Feel The Burn" and took herself off the block, Dee named Mallory as the replacement — the renom Devens had been quietly pushing before the veto comp ever ran, and the one Mallory had been saying out loud she was afraid of.
Then Drew won the Block Buster and the choice made itself.
The vote to evict Mallory: Angela Murray, Drew Campbell, Yash Patel, Haley Thogmartin, Rick Devens, LaTrice Verrett. The vote to evict Taylor: Melody Morris, Barrett Pfeiffer. Dee Valladares, as HOH, did not vote.
The split is the story. Mallory's own bloc supplied four of the six votes that ended her game, and one of them came from the man she'd been on the block with that morning. Barrett and Melody — the only two ex-F.A.P. members who weren't nominated this week — held the line and were never close to enough.
She left clean. No breakdown on stage, the right read on her own vote count, and an unprompted admission that throwing the Week 6 HOH was the mistake that set all of this in motion. The alumni in the audience stood up. On the show's thousandth night, the seventh houseguest out of BB28 got the best exit of the season.
Where it leaves the Mosh Pit: six members, three icons (Dee, Devens, Angela) and three ex-F.A.P. (Drew, Barrett, Melody). Two weeks ago Dee was outnumbered inside her own alliance four to three. She is now level — with the tiebreak, the last HOH's authority, and a bloc that just watched her eat two of its own without losing a vote she needed.
And then none of it matters. No HOH, no veto, no Block Buster next week. Ten houseguests, the year 1000, four alumni in medieval costume, and someone gone before the next live eviction.
Upset she didn’t beat Dee’s time in the balancing HOH comp
Lose the 3-screen Block Buster to Drew
Evicted Week 7
ALLIANCES
FUN FACTS
An actual rocket scientist who says she "was watching before she could even speak."
BackstoryDeliberately downplays the genius label to avoid becoming an early target.
QuirkAdmitted on the live stage that she threw the Week 6 HOH — "got nervous at the end," "slowed down a little," and should have tried harder. Six days later it cost her the game.
MomentEP 25Correctly named both of her own votes to stay — Barrett and Melody — on the first guess in her exit interview. She read the house right on the way out and on the way in.
QuirkEP 25Says throwing the Week 7 HOH is the decision she'd take back first — she was named the replacement nominee by the alliance she'd just joined.
MomentEP 24Went off after her renomination with the line that defined the week: "the Survivor players are the worst allies ever."
QuirkEP 24Learned that Dee had a secret BB Bribe from Kamu — minutes before she voted him out.
MomentEP 22A founding member of the Mosh Pit, the seven-person merger of The Crossovers and For the American People that formed in the backyard on a Sunday night.
AllianceEP 21Mallory earned her keep the hard way — she won last week's 'Video Tape Tumble' Block Buster to yank herself off the block by a single tape.
BackstoryEP 13Won the **"Video Tape Tumble"** Block Buster — basically reverse Jenga with VHS tapes — pulling eight to Jason's seven to save herself off the block.
MomentEP 12Planned a genteel dress-up tea party for the whole house — which HOH Kamu promptly hijacked to expose Jason, turning her own event into the week's biggest blowup.
MomentEP 11Mallory cried for most of Week 1 and then won the Power of Veto anyway — and was the correct answer to a Block Buster she wasn't even competing in.
QuirkEP 5Mallory is an aerospace engineer, and she used it — solving the pipe puzzle in "Back From The Future" to win the veto and pull herself off the block.
BackstoryEP 4Melody quietly distanced herself from Mallory while Mallory was spiralling on the block — days before Mallory won the veto and saved herself.
MomentEP 4Missed her window with Dee — misreading a chat as 'Dee didn't want to talk game' — then landed as the week's real target.
BackstoryEP 3Bonded instantly with Lyric on move-in — the season's first friendship-alliance seed.
AllianceEP 1
IN THE NEWS
Latest articles & podcasts featuring Mallory
‘Big Brother 28’ Star Mallory Aurichio Rethinks Who She Could Trust
Reality Tea
Big Brother, Season 28: Evicted Houseguest, Mallory Aurichio Talks Game Regrets + Who She’d Vote Out
Soap Opera Spy
Big Brother’s Mallory Talks Feeling ‘Betrayed’ by Her Ally Drew
Us Weekly Reality
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STRENGTHS
WEAKNESSES
🎯 FANTASY TAKE
Threw an HOH in Week 6 because she was afraid of the nominations, and the house handed her the bill six days later. Called the backdoor before it happened, called her own two votes on the way out, and admitted on stage she should have tried harder. The most self-aware exit of the season.
STRATEGY
Lead with the fun, likable social game and keep the genius under wraps.