SEASON 28 TIMELINE

A Time-Trip jump to 851 AD: a Viking training course run against the clock, six buttons to hit, fastest lap wins, with Big Brother 18 and 19 alum Paul Abrahamian presiding. Drew Campbell posted the time to beat and it stood until Dee ran it down. Rick Devens and Barrett Pfeiffer lasted longest chasing it, while Melody Morris and Mallory Aurichio barely tried, happy to keep the blood off their hands. Outgoing HOH Yash Patel was ineligible. It was Dee's second HOH of the season after her Week 1 win.

Dee Valladares · Drew Campbell · Rick Devens · Barrett Pfeiffer · Melody Morris · Mallory Aurichio

The weekly viewer vote sent Drew Campbell into the Time Capsule and he cleared the challenge, earning the Never-Not Pass — permanent immunity from ever being a Have-Not again. He carried it straight upstairs and tried to trade it for trust, telling Dee that "America has consistently all voted for their side." Dee wasn't buying it: she doesn't care what America thinks.

Drew Campbell · Dee Valladares

Dee put up LaTrice "LaLa" Verrett, Drew Campbell and Taylor Brown, calling all three "sus" — houseguests she believed had been conspiring against her. LaLa and Taylor denied it flatly. Drew's name was the shock: seven weeks into the Mosh Pit with her, he was on the block because his own allies had decided his information flowed in every direction at once.

Dee Valladares · LaTrice Verrett · Drew Campbell · Taylor Brown

Taylor Brown finally called Drew out in front of the whole house over playing both sides, and he had no clean answer. Afterwards LaLa broke down in tears, frozen out of the vote conversations and openly ready to go home until Taylor talked her back — before the two of them turned on each other hard enough that Haley Thogmartin called it straight-up bullying. Dee had a softer moment of her own, homesick and undone by a message from her family, while Yash Patel — still nursing the HOH the Diamond took from him — decided Abraham Lincoln "would NEVER do this."

Taylor Brown · Drew Campbell · LaTrice Verrett · Haley Thogmartin · Dee Valladares · Yash Patel

Red and yellow balls whipping through a wind tunnel, ten of each to be sorted into matching tubes. While Kamu and Haley chased balls through the air, Angela worked the floor — the "Tucker Method," lifted from BB26 — and buzzed in first for the upset that pulled her off the block.

Angela Murray · Kamuela Kirk · Haley Thogmartin

Kamu did not go quietly: he told Mallory Aurichio about Dee's secret BB Bribe, torching his old partner's best-kept advantage in a last-ditch attempt to swing numbers that were never coming. Yash muddied it further, telling Mallory and Melody Morris that Dee had asked him to nominate them — a lie with a shelf life. The Mosh Pit voted as a bloc and sent him out 8-1, with LaTrice Verrett casting the lone vote to keep him, the only member of the week-old Covenant who actually honored it. "It is what it is; it's a good move," Kamu told the house on his way out.

Kamuela Kirk · LaTrice Verrett · Mallory Aurichio · Melody Morris · Dee Valladares · Yash Patel

OTEV returned for its twentieth anniversary as a belligerent 1950s B-movie Blob, demanding headshots out of a slime-slicked scavenger hunt. Yash outlasted Barrett Pfeiffer in the final round after the Blob had chewed through Angela, Dee, Haley and Melody — two comps in one week for the quietest man in the house.

Yash Patel · Barrett Pfeiffer · Angela Murray · Dee Valladares · Haley Thogmartin · Melody Morris

Yash declined to use his own veto, leaving the all-women block intact and trusting the house to take his target out. Rick Devens had other plans: he had been carrying the Diamond Power of Veto since Week 3, telling almost nobody and wavering on it all weekend from a hammock — "you can't play these games scared." At the ceremony he took Dee Valladares off the block and, with no HOH input at all, named Kamuela Kirk in her place, calling him "the biggest threat in the game."

Rick Devens · Dee Valladares · Kamuela Kirk · Yash Patel

A Time-Trip jump back to 1999 that asked the house to spot which computer zone carried the most Y2K bugs. Yash outlasted Barrett Pfeiffer in the final round for his first competition win of the season, and walked into the HOH room with one rule already written: no men. Devens, Drew, Barrett and Kamu were safe before he'd unpacked.

Yash Patel · Barrett Pfeiffer

Before the ceremony Dee Valladares reached for the one advantage nobody else in the house had, offering Yash $5,000 from her secret BB Bribe to leave her off the block. He refused flat: five grand is real money, but a clean path to $750,000 is more.

Dee Valladares · Yash Patel

The nomination chairs went to Angela Murray, Dee Valladares and Haley Thogmartin, and the speech pointedly settled a Week 1 debt: Dee put Yash up during her HOH, so Yash put Dee up during his.

Yash Patel · Angela Murray · Dee Valladares · Haley Thogmartin

Melody Morris came out the wrong side of the Time Capsule — no power, just a punishment. For 24 hours she wore the costume, guarded the bathroom door and announced every single houseguest who walked through it.

Melody Morris

LaTrice's target all week, Haley took the "Newton's Apples" Block Buster and pulled herself off the block on eviction night — leaving Chuk Anyanwu and Barrett Pfeiffer to face the house vote.

Haley Thogmartin · Chuk Anyanwu · Barrett Pfeiffer

The fifth houseguest evicted, and the first casualty of the Kamu-and-Dee era. Haley cast the only vote to keep him. Chuk refused to hug LaTrice on his way out — payback, he said, for her declining to shake his hand before the comp — and told Julie he was "completely shocked," insisting "one person turned the house" and that "LaLa is legitimately confused about this game." Haley burst into tears as his photo faded to black-and-white.

Chuk Anyanwu · Haley Thogmartin · LaTrice Verrett

Sent back to "August 13, 1977" for a dance-floor memory challenge — cross the floor on green tiles only, a red tile sends you back to the start — the six players ran a bracket: Kamu beat Chuk, Haley beat LaTrice and Barrett edged Dee in Round 1, Barrett knocked out Haley in Round 2, and Kamu took the final over Barrett. It was Kamu's second memory-comp win of the season.

Kamuela Kirk · Barrett Pfeiffer · Haley Thogmartin · Chuk Anyanwu · Dee Valladares · LaTrice Verrett

For the first time all season the Power of Veto went unused. Kamu left Haley, Chuk and Barrett on the block, giving his old Red Corner allies a cover story — that using it could put Devens up as a renom — while telling the Diary Room he needed to distance himself from the alliance and "move differently." LaTrice's target, Haley, stays exposed heading into Thursday.

Kamuela Kirk · Haley Thogmartin · Chuk Anyanwu · Barrett Pfeiffer · Rick Devens

To cement her new partnership with Kamu, Dee Valladares revealed her secret BB Bribe power — the same one Devens had pried out of her earlier in the week. Meanwhile Angela Murray cracked, confessing to Haley that she'd voted the "wrong way" on Lyric with no real reason, before melting down in tears until LaTrice walked her out. LaTrice, unimpressed with Haley, made her target plain: get Haley out.

Dee Valladares · Kamuela Kirk · Rick Devens · Angela Murray · Haley Thogmartin · LaTrice Verrett

After four straight Red Corner Heads of Household, LaTrice Verrett ended the streak on Big Brother's iconic Wall endurance comp — standing on a shrinking ledge for over 90 minutes until Kamuela Kirk dropped to hand her the win. At 58, she becomes the oldest houseguest ever to win the Wall on a regular season, and the first HOH from outside the ruling Red Corner.

LaTrice Verrett · Kamuela Kirk

Mallory Aurichio took her turn in the BB Time Capsule and came out the other side with the "Adam & Eve" punishment, roping Melody Morris in to serve it alongside her.

Mallory Aurichio · Melody Morris

LaTrice walked in planning a Barrett/Drew/Kamu backdoor of her target Haley, but Yash Patel talked up Chuk as the bigger threat and Kamu climbed to the HOH room to throw his own Red Corner allies under the bus — pitching a new four (Kamu, LaTrice, Yash, Taylor). Final nominations: Haley Thogmartin (target), Chuk Anyanwu (backup) and Barrett Pfeiffer (pawn) — the first time two Red Corner members sat on the block together.

LaTrice Verrett · Haley Thogmartin · Chuk Anyanwu · Barrett Pfeiffer · Kamuela Kirk

The three nominees raced a two-layer Paw Patrol-themed dinosaur puzzle on the live show. Drew Campbell — the majority's actual target — solved it first, pulling himself off the block and forcing the house to choose between Melody Morris and Lyric Medeiros.

Drew Campbell · Melody Morris · Lyric Medeiros

Melody had been the plan all week, but Dee and Devens flipped the house barely four hours before the live show — cobbling votes onto Lyric to keep both Drew and Melody as shields against the Red Corner. Barrett, Taylor, LaTrice, Drew, Devens, Mallory, Dee and Angela voted to evict Lyric Medeiros, 8–3, over Melody; only Kamu, Yash and Chuk voted to keep her, blindsided in the minority. HOH Haley — who engineered the week — was left visibly stunned.

Lyric Medeiros · Melody Morris · Haley Thogmartin

Lyric told Julie Chen she was "not surprised" and "grateful," then correctly named the three houseguests (Kamu, Yash, Chuk) who voted to keep her. Asked about Rome Seymour, evicted weeks earlier, she confirmed she wants to pursue the showmance outside the house.

Lyric Medeiros · Rome Seymour

In a candlelit Victorian masquerade hosted by BB27's Morgan Pope, the six players sipped from goblets where one pour was "poisoned" — two bad guesses and you were out. Taylor Brown read the table best and took the Power of Veto, the fourth veto save of the season. Mallory Aurichio (Melody's houseguest's-choice pick) and Chuk Anyanwu (Haley's pick) rounded out the field alongside HOH Haley and nominees Drew and Melody.

Taylor Brown · Haley Thogmartin · Melody Morris · Drew Campbell · Mallory Aurichio · Chuk Anyanwu

Taylor used the veto on herself, forcing HOH Haley Thogmartin to hand out a replacement. Haley called Lyric Medeiros to the HOH room, told her she didn't trust her word, and put her up anyway — breaking a comp-day promise to do it. Final nominees: Drew Campbell, Melody Morris and Lyric Medeiros.

Taylor Brown · Haley Thogmartin · Lyric Medeiros · Drew Campbell · Melody Morris

The renom drama was a smokescreen: Drew Campbell was always the real target, his own eight-person Toolshed lining up the votes to cut him with only Drew and Barrett Pfeiffer left out of the plan. Lyric, meanwhile, dissolved into tears with LaTrice Verrett as the house floated the words "mean girl" about Haley's tone.

Drew Campbell · Barrett Pfeiffer · Lyric Medeiros · Haley Thogmartin · LaTrice Verrett

Haley Thogmartin ran down the Week 4 Head of Household, handing the ruling Red Corner its fourth straight HOH to open the season's fourth week — a bloc that still hasn't lost a single Head of Household.

Haley Thogmartin

America voted Dee Valladares into the BB Time Capsule; she cleared the challenge and emerged with the BB Bribe — a power good for the entire game that lets her pay a houseguest to do her bidding. The power landed with someone already sitting in the majority.

Dee Valladares

Melody Morris and Taylor Brown were the predictable chairs — both had been circling Haley as a target. The third, Drew Campbell, was the shock: the eight-person Toolshed agreed to eat one of its own, with Angela Murray pushing hardest to cut the ally she'd long branded a leak. Haley sold Drew a pawn pitch, but the majority wants him gone.

Haley Thogmartin · Drew Campbell · Melody Morris · Taylor Brown · Angela Murray

In a Time-Trip throwback, the three nominees raced to pull VHS tapes from a teetering video-store tower without toppling it. LaTrice Verrett's tower fell first at just two tapes; Mallory Aurichio and Jason De Puy went tape-for-tape until Mallory pulled her eighth to Jason's seventh — saving herself off the block by a split second and leaving the season's real target exposed.

Mallory Aurichio · Jason De Puy · LaTrice Verrett

With Mallory safe, the vote was a formality: the house evicted Jason De Puy unanimously, 12–0 — the third houseguest gone and the backdoor target Kamu Kirk had built the entire week to catch. LaTrice Verrett survived the block with zero votes against her.

Jason De Puy · Kamuela Kirk · LaTrice Verrett

Jason took his eviction with his chin up but no warmth for the HOH: when Kamu reached in for a goodbye hug, Jason waved him off — "don't touch me" — and walked out telling the house to grab the kettle and "air them out." On the couch, Julie Chen revealed Jason had placed top three in the BB Time Capsule fan vote, quietly torching his week-long fear that America disliked him.

Jason De Puy · Kamuela Kirk

At the veto ceremony Lyric Medeiros took herself off the block for the second straight week, and HOH Kamu Kirk named Jason De Puy as the replacement nominee — completing the backdoor. Final nominees Mallory Aurichio, LaTrice Verrett and Jason De Puy will all play the Thursday BB Block Buster, with the two losers facing the eviction vote.

Lyric Medeiros · Kamuela Kirk · Jason De Puy · Mallory Aurichio · LaTrice Verrett

Sent to the block, Jason De Puy grabbed a kettle and a wooden spoon and marched down the hallway sarcastically hailing the HOH who'd condemned him — "My queen! That's my girl right there!" — banging the kettle as the rest of the house tried to sleep.

Jason De Puy · Kamuela Kirk

Rick Devens' secret Diamond Power of Veto — known only to Dee Valladares and good for six weeks — went unused again. It looms over every remaining week but produced no move this one.

Rick Devens · Dee Valladares

Mallory Aurichio planned a dress-up tea party for the whole house; HOH Kamu Kirk turned it into an hour-long interrogation of Jason De Puy over his game moves and the rumors he'd been gunning for the returnee "Icons" (Dee, Devens and Angela). Jason demanded Kamu name his accusers, Kamu refused, and the confrontation fizzled into awkward silence.

Kamuela Kirk · Jason De Puy · Mallory Aurichio

Even from a safe seat inside the eight-person Toolshed, Barrett Pfeiffer told the feeds the alliance only mattered to him "unless it's advantageous to me," while Drew Campbell's shirtless HOH-bed "sexy pose" waiting on Kamu became the week's viral bromance moment.

Barrett Pfeiffer · Drew Campbell · Kamuela Kirk

In a time-travel comp set in July 2051, players danced with a giant pickle partner and then paddled balls into a scoring zone across five rounds. Lyric Medeiros outscored Mallory Aurichio 82–47 to take the Golden Power of Veto — with LaTrice Verrett, Kamu Kirk, Jason De Puy and Haley Thogmartin also competing. Her win set up exactly the backdoor HOH Kamu wanted.

Lyric Medeiros · Mallory Aurichio · LaTrice Verrett · Kamuela Kirk · Jason De Puy · Haley Thogmartin

The houseguests watched a March 31, 1985 wrestling match and answered a string of true/false questions — get one wrong and you were "down for the count," with BB alum Jessie "Mr. Pectacular" Godderz turning up for a cameo. Kamu Kirk outlasted the field, making it three straight weeks a Toolshed member has held the crown (Dee, then Devens, now Kamu).

Kamuela Kirk

For the week's BB Time Capsule, America voted in Rick Devens, who came out holding the Diamond Power of Veto: he can use it like a normal veto to save himself and also name the replacement nominee, with no HOH input, for the next six weeks. Devens told only his ally Dee Valladares and the two agreed to keep it secret, with Devens planning to spend it only to protect himself or her.

Rick Devens · Dee Valladares

HOH Kamu put up LaTrice Verrett, Mallory Aurichio and Lyric Medeiros — but the block is a decoy for a plan to backdoor Jason De Puy, an idea Drew Campbell pitched after Jason won the Week-2 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.

Kamuela Kirk · LaTrice Verrett · Mallory Aurichio · Lyric Medeiros · Jason De Puy

Two new alliances took shape under the Toolshed: the four-woman "Honor Society" (Dee Valladares, Angela Murray, LaTrice Verrett and Taylor Brown) made itself official — even as Angela privately clocked Taylor as a "winner threat" — while HOH Kamu and Drew Campbell turned their red-hot bromance into a two-man deal called "The Handymen."

Dee Valladares · Angela Murray · LaTrice Verrett · Taylor Brown · Kamuela Kirk · Drew Campbell

The three nominees raced to re-stack oversized treasure — three emeralds, three pearls, three rubies and three doubloons — onto four poles without letting a piece touch the ground. Jason De Puy solved it fastest, beating Rome Seymour and Melody Morris to pull himself off the block.

Jason De Puy · Rome Seymour · Melody Morris

With Jason safe, the Toolshed sent its backdoor target home: Rome Seymour was evicted 12–1, with Taylor Brown casting the house's only vote to keep him. Rome became the season's second boot and the first casualty of Devens' mega-alliance, ending Devens' Week-2 HOH reign.

Rome Seymour · Melody Morris · Taylor Brown · Rick Devens

Before the results, Rome told the house "I don't care who knows it now, but Lyric Medeiros, I am in love with you" and kissed her goodbye. On the exit couch, Julie Chen revealed his lone supporter was Taylor, not Lyric — his own showmance had voted him out. "She batted her eyes twice and I was a puddle," Rome said.

Rome Seymour · Lyric Medeiros · Taylor Brown

Devens used the veto to pull Lyric Medeiros off the block — after she promised she'd never nominate him — and named Rome Seymour as the replacement, completing the Toolshed's backdoor. "I'm sorry and you're welcome," he told Rome beforehand. Final nominees: Rome, Jason and Melody.

Rick Devens · Lyric Medeiros · Rome Seymour · Jason De Puy · Melody Morris

Sensing the freeze-out, a spiraling Rome unloaded on Chuk Anyanwu — "You have been snarky for the last three days! You are unbearable as a human being" — then broke down crying and hyperventilating, comforted by LaTrice Verrett.

Rome Seymour · Chuk Anyanwu · LaTrice Verrett

Kept on the block through the veto, Melody Morris vowed that if she wins the next Head of Household, Rick Devens goes up first.

Melody Morris · Rick Devens

In a time-travel "Festival of Love" competition set on July 22, 1967, the houseguests raced to build a 12-piece "Flower Power" festival poster. Rick Devens locked his in just before Jason De Puy to take the Power of Veto — putting the HOH and the veto in the same hand — and compared his solve to "A Beautiful Mind."

Rick Devens · Jason De Puy

Together since Day 2, Rome Seymour and Lyric Medeiros staged a public "breakup" to lower Lyric's threat level so she could work votes freely. Drew Campbell saw through the act almost immediately.

Rome Seymour · Lyric Medeiros · Drew Campbell

In a time-travel "June 30, 1992" Nashville competition — country boot-scoot rounds into a disc-sliding final — Rick Devens edged Haley Thogmartin 35–27 for his first Head of Household, after telling the house he wasn't sure he even wanted it.

Rick Devens · Haley Thogmartin

Devens merged his two alliances — the Crossovers and the Red Corner (the group Dee Valladares had invented weeks earlier to keep Kamu busy) — into a single eight-person bloc: Barrett, Chuk, Drew, Haley, Kamu, Devens, Dee and Angela. Drew Campbell gave it a name: "The Toolshed."

Rick Devens · Drew Campbell · Dee Valladares · Barrett Pfeiffer · Chuk Anyanwu · Haley Thogmartin · Kamu Kirk · Angela Murray

America's first Time Capsule vote sent Angela Murray in to play for a past-season power. She missed the button timing and drew the punishment instead — the "Hard-boiled Detective" costume for a week, the same penalty Vince served on BB27.

Angela Murray

Devens put Melody Morris, Lyric Medeiros and Jason De Puy on the block, telling them they "didn't talk enough game" — cover for the Toolshed's real plan to backdoor Rome Seymour if the veto is used. Jason, shut out of the new alliance, broke down and insisted the HOH was really Angela's.

Rick Devens · Melody Morris · Lyric Medeiros · Jason De Puy · Rome Seymour · Angela Murray

The three nominees had to name which houseguest appeared most often in a reel of hairstyle-themed images. Yash Patel answered Mallory Aurichio and was right; Taylor Brown and Ashley Trail both answered Rick Devens. Yash took himself off the block.

Yash Patel · Taylor Brown · Ashley Trail · Mallory Aurichio

After telling Melody Morris that "a whole group" was saving her — and naming all eight of them — Ashley's pitch travelled to Barrett Pfeiffer and Drew Campbell, then to Dee Valladares. The house voted unanimously; not one vote was cast against Taylor Brown. Ashley left smiling, telling Julie Chen everyone had been "so non-committal."

Ashley Trail · Taylor Brown · Melody Morris · Dee Valladares

Julie Chen appeared on the living-room screen: for each of the next six weeks, America votes one houseguest into the BB Time Capsule to compete for a power from a past season — or take a punishment if they lose. Winners are told in secret and each houseguest can compete only once. Julie confirmed the first evictee has no path back into the house.

Digging himself deeper, Jason De Puy told Angela Murray he was nervous the house would target her, Devens and Dee for being returnees — then assured her "you're not on the radar at all." She wasn't buying it any more.

Jason De Puy · Angela Murray · Rick Devens · Dee Valladares

The season's unlikeliest pair went public on the feeds — hand-holding, Barrett Pfeiffer sneaking up to wrap his arms around her, and Dee Valladares on camera: "he's a nerd, but he's my nerd."

Dee Valladares · Barrett Pfeiffer

Jason De Puy kept feeding Drew Campbell his plans and boasting about which houseguests he 'controls.' Drew carried all of it to Dee Valladares, Rick Devens and Angela Murray.

Jason De Puy · Drew Campbell · Dee Valladares · Rick Devens · Angela Murray

Feeling played by someone she'd been close to, Angela Murray began questioning where the rest of the house really stood with her.

Angela Murray · Jason De Puy

The house celebrated LaTrice 'Lala' Verrett's 58th birthday.

LaTrice Verrett

The season's first showmance kept building, with Rome Seymour and Lyric Medeiros pulled further into the house's alliance math.

Rome Seymour · Lyric Medeiros

Mallory Aurichio used the Power of Veto on herself, forcing HOH Dee Valladares to name a replacement. Dee — torn over the call — went with Ashley Trail, who started the game as an outcast and had passively accepted she was going up. The final block: Yash Patel, Taylor Brown, and Ashley Trail.

Mallory Aurichio · Dee Valladares · Ashley Trail · Yash Patel · Taylor Brown

Jason De Puy started The Court Jesters with Drew Campbell and Melody Morris as a vehicle to pick off the three returning reality vets. His target is Rick Devens, whom he nicknamed "Big Daddy" — "The sooner we get them out, the sooner the game becomes ours." What Jason didn't know: only he and Melody meant it.

Jason De Puy · Drew Campbell · Melody Morris · Rick Devens

Drew Campbell was never really a Court Jester — he was loyal to The Crossovers the whole time. He took Jason's plan to backdoor Rick Devens straight back to Dee, Devens and Angela, and the trust he bought doing it cemented his standing with the vets.

Drew Campbell · Dee Valladares · Rick Devens · Angela Murray · Barrett Pfeiffer

Told that Jason De Puy had been working her for sympathy, Angela Murray was aghast at the manipulation and broke down in the diary room, saying her heart was broken.

Angela Murray · Jason De Puy

Returnees Angela Murray and Dee Valladares bonded fast on the feeds — agreeing they were already 'so tired' of Chuk and Haley, whom Dee figured were 'toast.'

Angela Murray · Dee Valladares

Melody Morris — one of Mallory Aurichio's closest players alongside Lyric Medeiros — started putting distance between them once Mallory hit the block.

Melody Morris · Mallory Aurichio · Lyric Medeiros

Rome Seymour cooked Ashley Trail the first hamburger of her life — a day before she landed on the block as Dee's replacement nominee. "I'm tasting all the flavors, I'm soaking all of it in."

Ashley Trail · Rome Seymour

In the HOH room, Kamu and Haley bonded with Dee and Devens to form The Red Corner — a nod to Kamu's MMA background. Full five: Dee Valladares, Rick Devens, Kamuela Kirk, Haley Thogmartin, and Chuk Anyanwu.

Dee Valladares · Rick Devens · Kamuela Kirk · Haley Thogmartin · Chuk Anyanwu

As noms neared, Dee locked in a second, returnee-heavy alliance — The Crossovers — saying that's where her loyalty lies: Dee Valladares, Rick Devens, Angela Murray, Drew Campbell, and Barrett Pfeiffer.

Dee Valladares · Rick Devens · Angela Murray · Drew Campbell · Barrett Pfeiffer

Rick Devens tipped Angela off about the freshly formed Red Corner — leaving Dee furious and warning that if it blew up, it would fall on him. The season's first trust crack.

Rick Devens · Angela Murray · Dee Valladares

Spiralling on the block, Mallory went to HOH Dee to ask which nominee she actually wanted gone. Dee's answer — "Yash would be a good option" — steadied her before the comp: "I'm Mallory and I've got this."

Mallory Aurichio · Dee Valladares · Yash Patel

The veto draw filled out the standard six — HOH Dee Valladares, nominees Mallory Aurichio, Yash Patel and Taylor Brown, plus Barrett Pfeiffer and Melody Morris.

Barrett Pfeiffer · Melody Morris

The season's first veto ran on the Time Trip theme: Dr. Will Kirby appeared by video and BB6's Howie Gordon turned up in the house, with the story that Will had stolen the time table on premiere night to build his future empire. Players fitted time tubes together through amplifier lanes to flip a switch and get back from the future. Mallory Aurichio — a rocket scientist — won it, beating a busted pipe along the way. (Aired on the Episode 3 broadcast.)

Mallory Aurichio · Dee Valladares · Yash Patel · Taylor Brown · Barrett Pfeiffer · Melody Morris

The debut of 'Big Brother: Unlocked' unveiled the season's mystery third returning alum as Survivor 45 champ Dee Valladares — the replacement Julie went back to fetch after Rachel Reilly's premiere volcano exit.

Dee Valladares

Rachel's exit forced Julie Chen Moonves to send herself through the Dining Table Time Machine to December 20, 2023 — the night Dee Valladares won Survivor 45 — to retrieve her replacement.

Dee Valladares

Jason De Puy said he's playing BB28 as himself, leaving his drag persona 'Salina EsTitties' at the door.

Jason De Puy

HOH Dee Valladares nominated Mallory Aurichio, Taylor Brown and Yash Patel, reasoning that one from each team was fair. The feeds launched hours later and carried the news.

Dee Valladares · Mallory Aurichio · Taylor Brown · Yash Patel

The BB28 live feeds went live at 9pm ET on Friday — Day 4 — for the first unfiltered look inside the house. Everything before this point is known only from the broadcast.

Rome Seymour and Lyric Medeiros were 'kissing on the freakin' 2nd day' — the season's first showmance. It happened well before the live feeds existed; CBS titled its own clip of it 'Day 2 Showmance? Lyric & Rome Get Cozy'.

Rome Seymour · Lyric Medeiros

The BB28 'Time Trip' cast moved into the house, with rooms and comps themed around different eras. It all aired two days later on the 90-minute premiere.

Chuk Anyanwu won the Fiji jungle-river safety comp — the same comp that recruited Survivor's Rick Devens into the house.

Chuk Anyanwu

Rome Seymour won the mall-themed Long Beach '88 safety comp, which recruited BB26 alum Angela Murray.

Rome Seymour

Jason De Puy (drag persona Salina EsTitties) won the Vegas slushy-themed safety comp.

Jason De Puy

BB26 alum Angela Murray, 52, joined as a surprise houseguest via the Long Beach comp.

Angela Murray

Survivor's Rick Devens, 42, entered the house as a surprise crossover recruit via the Fiji comp.

Rick Devens

BB legend Rachel Reilly made a Time Trip cameo (not as a houseguest): a velociraptor chased her into a volcano, and Julie confirmed her 'untimely demise' — she's out of the game. The stunt set up the reveal of the season's mystery third returning alum on the next night's 'Big Brother: Unlocked.'

Rachel Reilly

Groups of four stood on a boulder and held a suspended stacking platform up with ropes while their icon assembled a fire-themed puzzle — and Dee Valladares' team finished it. The comp ran out of the volcano sequence; the premiere froze it on a cliffhanger and the footage aired on Day 4's 'Unlocked'. (Exact day unconfirmed — Day 1 or Day 2; no source commits.)

Dee Valladares

Rick Devens' group finished with the fewest pieces on their platform and became the season's first Have-Nots: Rick Devens, Drew Campbell, Chuk Anyanwu, Haley Thogmartin, and Taylor Brown.

Rick Devens · Drew Campbell · Chuk Anyanwu · Haley Thogmartin · Taylor Brown