Rome Seymour

The All-Around Athlete

Pickleball Coach

16th place — Out Episode 8

SEASON RECAP

Gone 2nd, 12–1, on the wrong end of a backdoor. Declared his love for Lyric and kissed her goodbye moments before learning she'd voted him out — but left them laughing: "I was a puddle."

SEASON JOURNEY

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total pts

Three Timelines, Three Safe HGs

Rome (1988 mall), Chuk (2018 Fiji), and Jason (2010 Vegas) each won their era's safety trip, locking immunity from the first eviction and +3 to whoever drafted them.

Rome Rings Up the First Win

Rome balanced his way through the Long Beach mall comp for the season's first safety and dragged BB26's Angela Murray back to the present as his prize.

12 Vials, 14 Houseguests

Enzo's Meow Meow Industries sent the house scrambling for 12 vials of BB-Tonium, and the math was brutal. Barrett and Ashley came up empty, locking them out of the night's time-travel comps entirely. Barrett spent his sidelined evening clocking a possible Ashley-and-Rome spark before week one's dust had settled.

Kissing on Day 2

Rome & Lyric cuddle up in the bunk beds — 'sorry to her grandparents' — for BB28's first showmance (+2 each), sending Yash fleeing the room.

Mama's Angels Strike the Pose

Rome pulled Jason and LaTrice into the gym, named the alliance, and made them hit a Charlie's Angels pose. It was split before the pose finished — Jason's real targets are Angela and Devens, Rome's was Ashley. Three people, three different games.

Ep 6Power Tools

Rome Gets Weird While the Toolshed Meets

While the eight-person Toolshed huddled in the dead of night to plot his exit, Rome Seymour prowled the house sensing the freeze-out — drifting into rooms that went quiet, striking up conversations nobody wanted, and getting louder and stranger as the 3 a.m. meeting he wasn't invited to ran on without him.

The Cover Story on the Block

Devens nominated Melody, Lyric and Jason, telling them they “didn't talk enough game,” while the real plan hummed underneath: if the veto gets used, Rome goes up as the backdoor target.

The Fake Breakup That Fooled No One

Together since Day 2, Rome and Lyric staged a very public split to drop Lyric's threat level so she could work votes freely. Drew clocked it the instant it happened — “why now?” — and warned Devens the whole thing was a con.

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.

“I'm Sorry and You're Welcome”: The Backdoor Lands

Devens used the veto to pull Lyric off the block, then slid Rome — never nominated, always the target — into the seat beside Jason and Melody. He pulled Rome aside first: “I'm sorry and you're welcome.” The plan, executed clean.

So Many Waterworks

The tears came in waves. Melody broke down after the noms held (“the kid sitting alone at lunch”); LaTrice cried over Rome's betrayal while Taylor whispered to lay low and “let them kill each other”; then Rome and LaTrice cried it out in a hug. The recap didn't name itself Waterworks for nothing.

Down to Two

With Jason safe, the block came down to Melody and Rome — and the Toolshed's math never wavered: Rome was the target, and the votes were counted before the house sat down.

"I Am in Love With You"

Before the vote came back, Rome went all in: "I don't care who knows it now, but Lyric Medeiros, I am in love with you," pulling her in for a grand goodbye kiss on his way out the door.

The Cruelest Reveal

Julie broke the news on the exit couch: the lone vote to keep Rome wasn't Lyric or Jason — it was Taylor. Rome learned the showmance he'd just kissed goodbye had voted him out. "She batted her eyes twice and I was a puddle."

EVICTION

Eviction Night

Week 2 came down to a live Block Buster, and Jason De Puy — the self-styled "cursed" houseguest — picked the worst possible night to get lucky, solving the "Pirate's Booty" gemstone-stacking race to rip himself off the block.

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Loses BB Blockbuster (face vote)

Didn’t beat Jason while organizing Pirate’s Booty pieces

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Gets evicted

Evicted 12–1 on the wrong end of a Week 2 backdoor — Taylor cast the lone vote to keep him — moments after telling Lyric he was in love with her.

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Ep 15A Last-Minute Blindside

"I Want to Pursue It Outside"

Julie asks about Rome; Lyric drops the pretense and confirms the showmance is real, evicted-partner and all. The one honest moment on a night full of lies.

Ep 41Who Wins It All

ALLIANCES

Mama's Angels

FUN FACTS

Real name is Jack — he's gone by "Rome" for as long as he can remember and reveals "Jack" only to people he trusts.
Backstory
A self-professed "secret nerd" who collects trading cards.
Quirk
Part of the early "Safety Trio" power bloc — Rome, Chuk, and Jason, safe by default on night one.
Alliance
EP 1
Was kissing on the freakin' 2nd day with Lyric — BB28's first showmance.
Showmance
EP 3
Rome named the "Mama's Angels" alliance in the gym and made Jason and LaTrice hit a Charlie's Angels pose to seal it. When Lyric walks in, the Angels talk stops dead.
Alliance
EP 5
Wasn't nominated, but was the Toolshed's real plan: Devens set him up as the intended backdoor target for the Week 2 veto.
Moment
EP 6
Was kissing Lyric by Day 2; the two staged a fake breakup to lower her threat, and Devens backdoored him at the veto anyway.
Showmance
EP 7
Declared "I am in love with you" and kissed Lyric goodbye on his way out the door — then learned on the exit couch that she'd voted him out. His verdict: "She batted her eyes twice and I was a puddle."
Moment
EP 8
Announced at the finale that he and Lyric are moving in together.
Showmance
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BIO

A professional pickleball coach who wants to be a comp beast with the social game to match: "I'm extremely competitive and want to win all the challenges." The athlete part isn't a bit — he's coached for a living, and he intended to make the house feel it.

🎯 PRE-SEASON FANTASY TAKE

The best all-around fantasy bet in the cast — a pro athlete's comp ability wrapped in genuine social confidence and a built-in identity twist. Comp points plus the people skills to survive being a threat is the profile that wins fantasy leagues. The "loud mouth" is the only real red flag.

PRE-SEASON STRATEGY READ

Win the comps, work the house, and control who even knows his real name.