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.