DAY 32 • WEEK 5 • HOH: LATRICE • EVICTED: LYRIC, 8-3 • BB LACKLUSTER WINNER: DREW • HAVE-NOTS: BARRETT, CHUK, DREW, HALEY • SECRET POWERS: RICK DEVENS — DIAMOND POWER OF VETO • DEE — BB BRIBE
The Big Brother 28 Day 32 live feed update begins with something this house has not experienced all season: the people who spent four consecutive weeks protected by the same overlapping power structure are finally scrambling under an HOH they do not control.
LaTrice Verrett winning The Wall did more than end that streak.
It exposed how little of the old structure actually exists anymore.
The Toolshed is practically dead. Red Corner is damaged, exposed and questioning itself. Drew and Barrett finally know they were expendable. Melody and Mallory survived the blindside and suddenly have room to build something different. Taylor has quietly gone from sitting on the block to becoming one of the most influential people in the new HOH’s ear.
And somehow, in the middle of another house explosion, Dee Valladares, Rick Devens and Angela Murray — The Plants — may once again be positioned to benefit without absorbing the consequences.
That is the real story of Big Brother 28 Day 32.
LaTrice has the power.
But what she does with it will determine whether the house has actually changed or merely rearranged which players are doing The Plants’ dirty work.
LaTrice Makes Big Brother History on The Wall
Before we get into the strategy, LaTrice deserves her moment.
At 58 years old, she became the oldest regular-season Houseguest in Big Brother history to win The Wall.
And she did not back into it.
Angela fell first.
Taylor followed.
Then Barrett.
Devens.
Dee.
Melody.
Mallory.
Chuk.
Yash.
Drew.
That left Kamu and LaTrice hanging with the entire direction of Week 5 sitting between them.
Kamu had already won an HOH this season. He had spent several weeks embedded in one of the strongest information structures in the house. He had just been blindsided by Lyric’s eviction and desperately needed power to stabilize his game.
He nearly got it.
LaTrice simply refused to fall.
Kamu eventually dropped, LaTrice became HOH and the house immediately changed.
There is another layer that makes the win even crazier: LaTrice had just completed a week as a Have-Not.
She went from slop and uncomfortable sleeping conditions to outlasting Houseguests decades younger than her in one of Big Brother’s signature endurance competitions.
Whatever anybody thinks about LaTrice’s strategic game, give the woman her credit.
She earned this HOH.
Now comes the harder part.
She has to know what to do with it.
LaTrice’s Initial Nomination Idea Was Actually Better Than the Complicated Version
This is where Day 32 became messy.
LaTrice initially discussed combinations involving Kamu, Haley and Devens.
That made sense.
Kamu and Haley are two of the most obvious people who have actively operated against her interests.
Devens is far more insulated, but LaTrice is also aware that he may have significant protection through the BB Time Capsule.
Then Taylor became increasingly involved in the strategy conversation.
The nomination picture started shifting toward combinations involving Kamu, Drew and Barrett, with Haley potentially sitting there as a replacement or backdoor possibility depending on how the Veto plays out.
That is considerably more dangerous.
I understand why Drew and Barrett are available to LaTrice.
Neither man has built much of a personal strategic relationship with her.
They spent weeks floating through Toolshed and Crossovers.
They were comfortable while LaTrice and Taylor repeatedly found themselves discussed as expendable outsiders.
You cannot suddenly discover the value of someone’s relationship because they won HOH.
But there is a difference between saying Drew and Barrett have not invested enough in LaTrice and saying nominating both of them is the best move for her game.
Those are not the same thing.
If LaTrice’s actual goal is weakening the structure that targeted her and Taylor, putting two people on the block who were just betrayed by that same structure is unnecessarily complicated.
Especially in a season with three nominees, the Veto, the BB Lackluster and multiple secret powers.
We have already watched pawn plans blow up.
We have watched intended targets save themselves.
We literally just watched Lyric leave because Drew won the BB Lackluster after the entire week had originally revolved around getting Drew out.
So why volunteer additional variables?
If Kamu and Haley are legitimate targets, nominate people you are comfortable losing.
Otherwise, you are creating your own problem.
Drew’s One-on-One May Have Helped Him
Drew walked into his conversation with LaTrice needing to accomplish something he probably should have done weeks ago.
Build an actual relationship with her.
For most of this season, Drew’s game was built around having pieces everywhere.
Barrett.
The Jugglers.
The Crossovers.
Toolshed.
Melody.
Various relationships with Devens, Dee, Kamu and others.
It looked impressive until everyone compared notes.
Then Haley targeted him.
Kamu was willing to lose him.
The people Drew assumed were protecting him were preparing to vote him out.
Suddenly all those connections did not mean nearly as much.
That may have been the best thing that could have happened to Drew’s game.
He survived the week.
He won the BB Lackluster.
He learned the truth.
And now he is finally being forced to play from the bottom instead of pretending he is comfortably sitting in the middle.
His conversation with LaTrice reflected that.
Rather than behaving like they had some deep strategic partnership that never actually existed, Drew leaned into the reality that their relationship needed work.
That approach appeared to land better than expected.
Does that mean Drew is safe?
No.
But I would feel better about Drew following that one-on-one than I did when LaTrice and Taylor were initially throwing his name around upstairs.
For Drew, the assignment this week is simple.
Stop trying to belong to everybody.
Pick people.
Barrett Has a Bigger LaTrice Problem Than He Realized
Barrett’s situation is similar to Drew’s but with less room for error.
Barrett has spent most of the season socially comfortable.
He has Drew.
He has connections with Dee.
He has worked around Angela and Devens.
He has increasingly developed trust with Mallory and Melody.
He has rarely been the biggest target in any room.
That is normally a fantastic place to be.
The problem is that Barrett did not invest enough in LaTrice.
Now LaTrice is HOH.
That makes him one of the easiest names to use when she needs three nominees.
This is the danger of becoming too comfortable in Big Brother.
You can have eight decent relationships and still go on the block because the ninth person wins HOH.
Barrett does not appear to be LaTrice’s preferred eviction target.
But being a pawn during Week 5 of Big Brother 28 is not remotely safe.
Drew was supposed to be expendable last week.
He won safety.
Lyric went home.
The same thing can happen again.
If Barrett touches that block, he should treat it like he is the target.
Kamu Is the Cleanest Strategic Target Available
If LaTrice wants to weaken the structure that has been controlling this game, Kamu is the most logical target.
Not Chuk.
Not Drew.
Not Barrett.
Kamu.
Kamu already won HOH.
He finished second on The Wall.
He has relationships throughout the house.
He spent last week pushing to keep Lyric while Drew was in danger.
Then the vote flipped without him.
Now he knows his information network is broken.
What did he do?
He immediately started rebuilding.
That was good gameplay.
Kamu did not sit around complaining about being blindsided.
He started talking.
He started figuring out who knew what.
He started determining where he could reposition himself.
That is exactly why he is dangerous.
People sometimes confuse being blindsided with being bad at Big Brother.
Those are different things.
Kamu got blindsided.
His reaction afterward was actually fairly strong.
If LaTrice leaves him alone long enough to repair everything, she may regret it.
And after watching him nearly win The Wall directly against her, she has another reason to understand how dangerous he can become.
Kamu belongs on the block.
Haley Has Gone From HOH to One of the Most Vulnerable Players in the House
Haley could not have imagined this sequence when she won HOH last week.
She wanted Drew vulnerable.
Drew survived.
Taylor was nominated.
Taylor won Veto.
Melody touched the block.
Melody survived.
Lyric became the replacement nominee.
Lyric went home.
Then the 8-3 vote blindsided Haley’s side.
Then LaTrice won HOH.
That is a nightmare week.
Haley is now one of the easiest targets in the entire house because her relationships are visible and her personal feud with LaTrice gives the new HOH an obvious justification.
There is also very little incentive for the rest of the house to stick its neck out for her.
Drew has no reason to.
Barrett does not need to.
Mallory and Melody have no reason to.
Taylor just helped blindside her side.
The Plants can live with Haley leaving if it keeps the attention away from them.
Even Red Corner is no longer operating with the confidence it had before Thursday.
Whether Haley starts on the block or becomes the potential replacement nominee, she is in real danger this week.
The only question is whether LaTrice makes the direct move or tries to get cute with it.
Red Corner Is Finally Cracking
The funniest part of the Lyric blindside may be what happened afterward.
Red Corner spent weeks sitting inside a larger structure with Dee and Devens helping connect everything.
Haley, Kamu and Chuk believed they had information.
Then Thursday happened.
Lyric left 8-3.
Kamu, Yash and Chuk were the only votes to evict Melody.
Suddenly everybody started asking who knew.
Who flipped?
Who lied?
Who was really loyal?
That is exactly what happens when an alliance has been receiving information through people who are more loyal to somebody else.
Dee and Devens were never simply Red Corner soldiers.
They were connectors.
There is a massive difference.
When keeping Drew became more beneficial than keeping Lyric, they changed direction.
Red Corner found out when the votes were read.
Now Haley, Kamu and Chuk are left trying to determine how something they thought they understood slipped away from them.
The problem is that they are looking at each other almost as much as they are looking outside the group.
Once that starts, an alliance rarely returns to what it was.
Chuk Is Still Mostly Collateral Damage
I still have not changed my opinion on Chuk.
He is attached to a dangerous group without personally playing a dangerous enough game to justify the size of the target now attached to him.
That does not mean he is playing well.
He is not.
Chuk has allowed his association with Haley and Kamu to define him.
He voted on the wrong side of the blindside.
He has been asking questions about who flipped.
People know where he sits.
But if LaTrice has Kamu and Haley sitting directly in front of her and somehow decides Chuk is the person who needs to leave, I would not understand it.
Why eliminate the extension when you can eliminate the source?
Chuk can become a replacement option.
He can become collateral damage.
But he should not be LaTrice’s priority.
Taylor Is Quietly Holding a Lot of Power — Maybe Too Much
Taylor’s game has changed dramatically in one week.
She was nominated.
She won the Veto.
She took herself down.
She helped participate in Lyric’s blindside.
Her closest ally then won HOH.
Now Taylor is essentially sitting inside the HOH room helping LaTrice process the board.
That is an incredible turnaround.
Taylor deserves credit for maintaining LaTrice as a relationship when other players did not.
People spent weeks treating LaTrice as expendable.
Taylor kept that relationship.
Now LaTrice has power.
That investment paid off.
But Taylor needs to be careful.
There is a difference between helping your ally and accidentally becoming known as the person running your ally’s HOH.
Some of LaTrice’s original instincts were cleaner than the more complicated nomination combinations Taylor entertained with her.
If Drew and Barrett hit the block beside Kamu while Haley and Chuk escape initial nominations, people are going to start wondering exactly whose interests the nominations serve.
Taylor should absolutely influence LaTrice.
She should not make the influence obvious.
There is no reason to inherit the blood from an HOH you did not win.
Drew, Barrett, Mallory and Melody Suddenly Have a Reason to Become Real
This may become one of the most important developments coming out of the blindside.
Drew and Barrett already existed as The Jugglers.
Drew has long maintained a relationship with Melody.
Barrett has become increasingly comfortable around Mallory and Melody.
But those relationships existed while Drew and Barrett were simultaneously attempting to remain connected to the larger power structure.
That game is over.
Haley targeting Drew changed it.
Kamu being willing to lose Drew changed it.
The blindside changed it.
Now Drew and Barrett need somewhere to go.
Mallory and Melody need numbers.
That creates an obvious opening.
I am not declaring those four some locked alliance because Big Brother 28 has already given us enough fake alliance names.
But the incentives finally line up.
That is what matters.
An alliance becomes real when the players involved actually need one another.
For the first time, those four increasingly do.
LaTrice putting Drew and Barrett on the block could destroy that potential structure before it even forms.
Or it could force the survivors even closer together.
Either outcome matters beyond this week.
The Toolshed Is Dead
We can stop pretending now.
The Toolshed is finished.
It was never a real eight-person alliance in the first place.
It was two overlapping structures connected by Dee and Devens.
Drew and Barrett sat on one side.
Haley, Kamu and Chuk sat on another.
Dee and Devens connected them.
Angela remained protected beside Dee and Devens.
Everybody benefited from temporary cooperation.
Then Haley’s side decided Drew could leave.
Dee and Devens decided Drew staying was more useful.
Lyric went home.
That was the end.
There may still be individual relationships between former Toolshed members.
Of course there will be.
But there is no meaningful eight-person alliance anymore.
The name survived longer than the loyalty did.
The Plants Are Somehow Winning Again
This is the part of Week 5 everybody should be paying attention to.
Dee.
Devens.
Angela.
The Plants helped flip the vote.
Red Corner got blindsided.
Drew became angry with Red Corner.
LaTrice won HOH.
And now the names dominating nomination conversations are Kamu, Haley, Drew and Barrett.
Notice anything?
The Plants are missing again.
Devens is more complicated because everybody knows or strongly suspects he possesses serious protection.
But Dee and Angela are sitting there watching the rest of the house fight.
Again.
If LaTrice sends home Kamu or Haley, The Plants lose somebody who could eventually challenge them while keeping Drew pointed toward the same side.
If LaTrice sends home Drew or Barrett, The Plants remove another potentially dangerous middle player without doing it themselves.
Either way, they can benefit.
That is why I said after The Wall that winning HOH was only the first step.
Breaking the visible power structure while leaving the hidden beneficiaries untouched is not necessarily changing the game.
Sometimes it is doing their work for them.
Where Everyone Stands With LaTrice Before Nominations
LaTrice’s position with the house is strange because she has relationships but very few rigid commitments.
Taylor is clearly her strongest strategic relationship right now.
Mallory appears relatively comfortable compared with the names being seriously discussed.
Melody has some vulnerability because her name has floated as an alternative pawn, but putting Melody up makes almost no strategic sense if LaTrice does not actually want her gone.
Drew improved his standing through his conversation but remains vulnerable because the relationship was weak entering the day.
Barrett remains one of the easiest pawn options for the same reason.
Kamu has every reason to worry.
Haley absolutely should worry.
Chuk is vulnerable by association.
Yash is not currently sitting in the center of LaTrice’s target structure.
Angela and Dee are doing what they have done extremely well all season: maintaining just enough individual relationships to avoid becoming the obvious immediate problem.
Devens remains protected by both relationships and the looming Diamond Power of Veto.
That leaves LaTrice facing an important question.
Does she nominate the people she actually wants weakened?
Or does she start filling chairs with people she believes will survive?
Big Brother has punished the second strategy repeatedly.
The Time Capsule Could Blow Up the Week Again
And because apparently this season does not have enough variables, another BB Time Capsule result is coming.
Julie Chen Moonves confirmed during last night’s eviction episode that the latest Time Capsule power or punishment will be revealed on Big Brother: Unlocked tonight.
However, as we have seen throughout the season, the live feeds can expose the recipient before the television broadcast once the Houseguest is called away, returns with a punishment or begins behaving like someone who has just received information.
The online speculation entering today has been particularly strong around Mallory, with a significant fan push developing behind her.
Drew and Melody have also been discussed heavily among viewers.
But speculation is speculation.
Until someone actually enters the Time Capsule and the feeds give us evidence, I am not declaring a winner because Twitter thinks it knows one.
We have already watched this twist create enough misinformation inside and outside the house.
What we do know is that the next recipient could drastically affect Week 5.
Devens already possesses the Diamond Power of Veto.
Dee has the BB Bribe.
Another active power landing with someone outside their structure could finally create a counterweight.
Another punishment would obviously do nothing strategically.
And if the remaining Coin of Destiny is still available, that could turn LaTrice’s historic HOH into complete chaos.
Watch the feeds closely before Unlocked tonight.
The Houseguests may tell us the answer before CBS does.
Current House Structure After the Lyric Blindside
| Group/Relationship | Current Status | Read |
| The Plants — Dee, Devens, Angela | Strong | Still one of the safest and most influential cores despite rarely becoming the immediate target. |
| Red Corner — Haley, Kamu, Chuk, with old connections to Dee/Devens | Cracking | Exposed by the 8-3 blindside and increasingly suspicious about who actually remained loyal. |
| Toolshed | Dead | No longer functioning as a meaningful majority alliance. |
| The Jugglers — Drew & Barrett | Real but damaged | Still close, but both need to simplify their games after being exposed as middle players. |
| Drew/Barrett/Mallory/Melody cluster | Emerging | Not something I am calling a formal alliance yet, but the incentives for these four to work together are becoming real. |
| Taylor & LaTrice | Very strong | Arguably the most immediately powerful relationship in the house because LaTrice holds HOH and Taylor has significant influence. |
| Yash | Floating | Lost Lyric and remains connected to different players without a dominant structure protecting him. |
Current Week 5 Nomination and Target Read
As of the latest Day 32 conversations before the nomination ceremony, Kamu appears to be one of LaTrice’s most consistent nomination options.
Barrett remains highly vulnerable as a pawn.
Drew has also been seriously discussed, although his one-on-one appeared to improve his position.
Haley remains one of the clearest potential targets or replacement nominees.
Melody’s name has floated, but nominating her would be difficult to justify unless LaTrice genuinely wants to risk losing her.
Chuk remains an obvious Red Corner alternative but does not appear to be the primary target.
The nominations are not official until the ceremony happens.
And with this house, pretending anything is locked before the keys turn is asking to look stupid two hours later.
Current Vote-Position Breakdown
The vote cannot be accurately counted until LaTrice’s three nominees are official and the Veto/BB Lackluster possibilities narrow the final nominees.
What we can establish is where everybody currently appears positioned.
Taylor is firmly with LaTrice and should support the outcome LaTrice ultimately wants.
Mallory and Melody have almost no incentive to protect Haley’s old power structure after last week.
Drew has every reason to target the people who were prepared to sacrifice him.
Barrett remains attached to Drew but will protect his own game if circumstances force the choice.
Dee and Devens appear increasingly comfortable allowing Red Corner to take damage.
Angela is likely to remain with Dee and Devens unless something dramatically changes.
Kamu, Haley and Chuk still have overlapping interests, but the blindside created enough mistrust that I would no longer treat them as an automatic unified voting machine.
Yash is one of the most important floating votes because the structure he believed existed around him just changed.
The vote is nowhere near ready to be called.
First we need nominations.
Then the Time Capsule.
Then the Veto.
Then the BB Lackluster.
Because apparently simply nominating somebody and voting them out would be too easy for Big Brother 28.
Final Thoughts: LaTrice Has the Opportunity — She Cannot Waste It
LaTrice winning The Wall was one of the best possible competition results if the goal was finally forcing Big Brother 28 into a different game.
She made history.
She broke the HOH streak.
She forced the old power structure to scramble.
Now she has to finish the job intelligently.
Putting Kamu on the block makes sense.
Targeting Haley makes sense.
Considering what Devens, Dee and Angela are doing underneath the obvious war makes sense.
Using Drew or Barrett as disposable pawns when they were just betrayed by the people LaTrice actually wants weakened is much harder to defend.
This HOH should not be about revenge for the sake of revenge.
It should be about figuring out which players benefit if each possible target leaves.
That is the difference between winning power and using power.
For four weeks, The Plants benefited while louder players stood in front of them.
Week 5 finally gives somebody else the opportunity to dismantle that structure.
The Big Brother 28 Day 32 live feed update has shown us that the house is finally broken open.
Now we find out whether LaTrice walks through that opening — or accidentally closes it for the people who have been controlling the game all along.
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