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Rick Devens Wins Big Brother Season 28
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In Short: The finale of Big Brother season 28 aired, revealing Rick Devens as the winner of the $750,000 grand prize.
The finale of Big Brother season 28 aired, revealing Rick Devens as the winner of the $750,000 grand prize.
Devens, a contestant from Survivor's 50th season, also won the title of America's Favorite Houseguest, earning an extra $50,000 from fan votes.
Host Julie Chen Moonves announced the winner after the jury cast their votes, with Devens receiving six out of seven votes from the jury.
The final three houseguests, Drew Campbell, Rick Devens, and Taylor Brown, competed in a series of challenges to determine the ultimate winner.
In the final showdown, Devens and Campbell faced off in a slingshot game where they knocked down cardboard cutouts of former houseguests.
Devens emerged victorious after winning the last round, choosing to evict Campbell and secure his place as the winner.
Among the icons were Dee, the winner of Survivor 45, and Angela, a Big Brother alum.
The houseguests spent 87 days in the Big Brother house, with contestants earning $1,000 per week.
Devens' win marks the first time a Survivor player has won Big Brother.
Host Julie Chen Moonves also announced that Big Brother has been renewed for two more seasons, taking the series to Season 30.
What's confirmed
- Rick Devens won the $750,000 prize and is the winner of Big Brother.
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- America’s Favorite Houseguest was crowned and took home $50,000.
- The prejurors — Ashley Trail, Rome Seymour, Lyric Medeiros, Jason de Puy, Kamu Kirk, Chuk Anyanwu, Mallory Aurichio, and Haley Thogmartin — joined the rest of their Houseguests on stage.
- Earlier this week, TVLine asked you to weigh in on not only who would win Season 28, but who should win Season 28, and both polls heavily favored Devens.
- It's been 86 days since Rachel Reilly was tossed into a volcano by a vicious velociraptor, and there are three people who have spent every single one of 'em inside the "Big Brother" house.
- But after having his "Survivor" torch snuffed out twice, could Devens indeed pull off a "Big Brother" victory instead?
- In the Shakespearean second part of the competition, Drew and Devens face off in multiple rounds of gameplay, each one requiring them to use a slingshot to knock down cutouts of their former fellow houseguests, until only the houseguests that fit each round's theme are left standing.
- Drew takes an early lead, beating Devens handily in Round 1, but the next three rounds just don't go Drew's way; Devens catches up nicely and dominates the rest of the game, taking the Part 2 win after four rounds.
- (We take a short break from the competition to visit the jury house, where Dee joins her fellow jurors and they all debate — with the help of "BB26" winner Chelsie Baham — the merits of the Final Three.
- Season 28 marked the second time Survivor players made the jump to Big Brother ; Cirie Fields appeared on season 25 of the latter season, as both Dee (winner of Survivor 45 ) and Devens were announced as surprise additions to season 28 this year.
- Dubbed the “icons,” they joined Big Brother alum Angela as previous reality TV vets to join this summer’s cast.
- Jason De Puy also previously appeared on RuPaul’s Drag Race and the All Stars spinoff, but opted not to tell his fellow houseguests about his unscripted TV experience.