We’ve not heard much about this season yet but we’re just under a week away and it is pretty much confirmed to feature vets, newbies and contestants from other reality shows, I would think Survivor for sure will be represented. I’ll be interested to see if they go for big names (since all of them have done the Traitors that’s kind of boring to see them again, although I’d be happy to see the likes of Sandra again) or if it’s kind of random like when Jeff and Jackie came on from The Amazing Race idk what other shows they could be from, I guess even Love Island since that’s CBSowned.

Everyone is mentioning Angela too but I feel like we did that last time when Rachel played so is it gonna just be every year we assume Angela is on, I would do anything to see her play again though.

Julie has hinted it’s “controversial” reality vets, idk if I really want them to go that route with too many big names as it becomes more about the casting and BB should always be about the game/show more so, but we’ll see. A lot of the names in the mix I would love to see so we’ll just see how they inevitably mess it up somehow lol

Edited July 2Jul 2 by Calum

A lot of these rumoured names are feeling like fanfic to me lol like it will not be that good. Some names in the mix:

Dee Valdares (Survivor and The Challenge)

Salina Estitties (Drag Race)

Tyson Apostol (Survivor, The Challenge, House Of Villians)

Ashley Mitchell (The Real World, The Challenge, House Of Villians)

And from BB:

Angela

Vanessa

Victor

Eric

Derek Xiao

Jen Johnson

Watch them f*** that off and give us Cameron Hardin, Terrance, Christmas and Holly Allen 24 Wyoming 😍 Everyone is kinda throwing every name in the mix if they’re inactive since the HGs will be in sequester now but I’d love to see Angela, Jen, Vanessa, Dee and Derek, I liked victor at the time but why do I feel like he’d be a horrifically boring Cody BB22 steamroll type.

All I know is diva mother supreme Dee is running that shit like the Navy if she is on.

Reliable source has comfirmed:

Angela is on

18 houseguests - 6 newbies, 6 vets and 6 reality vets (Survivor and other shows). They’ve hinted there may be more people but they may not all make it into the house?!

Survivor female rep is either Dee or Sandra, possibly both and Dee reps The Challenge

Dee is gonna be messy but amazing, Sandra I would be interested to see as she is one of the best to ever do it socially on Survivor but like Cirie she was never a comp beast, love her though I’d LOVE to see both on. Survivor is also very edited to how they want and to show a story with the winner but BB with live feeds 24/7 is so different, I could see Sandra as a Cirie type but Dee will 1000% be great feeds, not a great person type I will assume lol

57 minutes ago, Liаm said:

Reliable source has comfirmed:

Angela is on

The mere IDEA of Jen Johnson, Dee Valladares and Angela Murray in the same house is absolutely peak television

It looks increasingly likely Angela is the only BB returnee lol, idk if that’s a cast full of CBS/paramount vets or more newbies. It feels like lazy stunt casting really but it will depend on the names. It might as well be newbies and give them a chance if it’s gonna be random people from like Survivor or The Challenge, if they get bigger names I think it runs the risk of being more about them than the show itself. But I don’t expect to see the likes of Sandra, Parvati, Tony Vlachos or Boston Rob tbf. Dee seems pretty set in stone.

Cast reveal is tomorrow so we’ll see.

Salina EsTitties confirmed to be on the series

No former housemates, although I guess doesn't mean some, or one wont be introduced - look at Rachel last year

Edited July 7Jul 7 by ElectroBoy

There are four more, I assume they will save those for the launch officially. I thought Salina/Jason would be included in the reality shows as Paramount shows Drag Race but it seems not.

Pretty certain on Angela and Dee then I’ve seen Rick Levins who also just did Survivor 50 with Dee. Not sure on a fourth or if it’s just three, people are saying four.

Apparently they’re ADLR so with Angela, Rick and Dee that leaves someone starting with L

The third L was a guy called Levi, who was replaced by Yash very last minute (Levi's picture was released in Sharon Tharp's article so it really must have been last minute!), so think we're expecting three more.

Oh yeah just seen that, that’s really boring lowkey lol especially given both Survivor players have just done Survivor 50. I do absolutely love Angela and Dee though. Rick was shit at Survivor but very much a showman/big personality/good TV who casuals love from what I know.

In BB terms, Dee is like a more firey Nicole F mixed with Morgan and Rick is like… potentially a showboating Tucker type. Like I’m seeing strong AFP contender who the fans aren’t arsed about by the causals eat UP (I did love Tucker though). Obv Survivor is a totally different show and they may come across differently so they may be different but that’s how I’d describe them.

Those three are now confirmed by various news sources, it seems they won’t enter on launch night as such, they have moved in and will be revealed on thst stupid Unlocked thing they keep trying to make happen 💀

Any way to watch this in the UK?

2 hours ago, Henessy Lake said:

Any way to watch this in the UK?

Have to use a VPN and the CBS app sadly, idk why ITV don't just show it on ITVX but they barely care about our Big Brother lol

Going to try to follow this season live this year after checking out a bit early on but losing interest pretty quickly last year. Been back and binged a few seasons in the past year and while this will forever be Survivor's low-IQ MAGA cousin to me, there's been some really good seasons along the way.

Now just watch the season become a dull steamroll...

I could lowkey see Dee/Rick having a Cody/derrick steamroll from pregaming lol. Part of the fun of BB is kinda just knowing it could be shit but having that optimism that this time it won’t be.

Also Kamu is super insane far right MAGA, flush

"Welcome back to Big Brother. Just moments ago, a velociraptor threw _____ into a volcano."

The way Julie said that with a straight face, I am deceased x

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Absolutely loved Unlocked last year, glad it's been brought back!