DAY 79 · SEPTEMBER 23, 2026
FINAL FOUR: Taylor Brown, Dee Valladares, Rick Devens and Drew Campbell
HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD: Taylor Brown
FINAL FOUR POWER OF VETO: Drew Campbell
FINAL THREE PLACES SECURED: Taylor Brown and Drew Campbell
PRE-VETO NOMINEES: Dee Valladares and Drew Campbell
EXPECTED NOMINEES AFTER DREW SAVES HIMSELF: Dee Valladares and Rick Devens
DECIDING EVICTION VOTE: Drew Campbell, after using the Veto
EVICTION STATUS: Pending. Drew says he knows what he will do; his choice between Dee and Devens remains unconfirmed in this coverage.
COVERAGE: Verified available updates after the previous article’s 2:12 AM BBT cutoff through the latest post at 1:25 PM BBT on September 23. Times are approximate and listed in Pacific Time; some reflect when a conversation was posted.
LAST CHECK: September 23, 1:27 PM BBT / 4:27 PM Eastern.
Drew Campbell says he already knows which Icon he is sending out. That is the biggest development in the Big Brother 28 Day 79 live feeds: after a night spent hearing arguments about loyalty, jury votes and who would take him to the end, Drew told Dee Valladares that his decision had been made before he even won the Final Four Power of Veto. He still had not named that decision in the conversations verified for this update. Dee kept pushing him toward Rick Devens, framing the move as a willingness to trust himself instead of depending on somebody else to bring him to Final Two.
Our previous update ended with Drew back in Melody Morris’ old pod, his safety secured and his eviction choice unresolved. Wednesday added something more useful than another reading of his emotions: his own claim that he had already settled on a plan.
That changes how the campaigning should be evaluated. If Drew is describing his thinking accurately, the conversations may be testing a decision he already reached. Neither Dee nor Taylor Brown can assume a persuasive conversation means she changed his mind. Devens cannot assume their relationship has saved him, either.
The day also exposed the question Dee still needs to answer. She wants Drew to believe in his ability to win without Devens. What she would do for Drew if she survives remains a separate issue.
9:03–10:39 AM BBT — The House Wakes Up With Drew Still Holding the Decision
The morning began slowly. The wake-up call was noted shortly after 9 AM, with feeds back around 9:38. Drew and Devens greeted each other in the bathroom a few minutes later. Taylor remained in her HOH bed while Dee, Devens and Drew eventually gathered downstairs and revisited the season.
There was no new competition result or completed eviction in that stretch. Taylor’s HOH keeps her safe. Drew’s Veto gives him the route off the block and control of the sole eviction vote. Once he saves himself, Devens is the only eligible replacement, leaving Drew to choose between the two remaining Icons.
Taylor can campaign for an outcome. She cannot cast Drew’s vote for him.
Around 10:30 AM BBT — Barrett’s Move Against the Icons Still Bothers Them
The discussion of Barrett Pfeiffer’s HOH offered a revealing reminder of how the Icons view people who take a shot at them.
Drew believed Barrett would stand by his decision to nominate all three Icons. Dee questioned the value of the move, connecting it to Barrett eventually leaving. Devens said that after Barrett made those nominations, getting Barrett out had become his overriding objective. Both acknowledged being angry about the move.
My issue with Dee’s argument is the way it uses the eventual result to settle the entire strategic question. Barrett’s eviction does not, by itself, prove that targeting the Icons was a mistake. A move can identify a real threat and still fail because the player cannot secure the votes or survive the retaliation.
That distinction is relevant to Drew now. If he cuts Devens and later loses, that alone would not establish that saving Devens offered him a better chance. The alternatives have to be judged against each other, including the danger of keeping an opponent who could beat him at the end.
Drew defending Barrett’s willingness to own the move is interesting. It is not confirmation that he intends to make the same kind of move himself.
11:08–11:29 AM BBT — Dee Pushes Drew to Bet on Himself
Drew had said he wanted fuller conversations with Dee and Devens, and the late morning brought another substantive exchange with Dee.
Her approach acknowledged the emotional cost. Drew would hurt one of them regardless of whom he chose. Dee said she did not envy his position, but she would cut Devens if she were making that decision because she would back herself.
That is a stronger argument than demanding loyalty. It asks Drew to consider what he can accomplish after this vote: compete for the final HOH, choose his own opponent and explain why removing Devens improved his chance to win.
It also serves Dee’s immediate need to stay. She is asking Drew to accept the uncertainty of Final Three in exchange for removing the person she wants evicted. Drew has to evaluate whether that trade is worth making for him.
Dee also challenged the security Devens was offering, telling Drew that Devens would not take him to the end. That was her argument against keeping him; it did not establish a change in Devens’ intentions. She was attacking the main practical benefit of his campaign while presenting herself as someone who would cope if she left. Drew should recognize both parts of that approach: she is acknowledging his discomfort and trying to weaken the promise that could save her opponent.
The useful part of her pitch is that relying on somebody to take you to Final Two does not answer whether you can beat that person once you arrive. The missing part is what protection Dee herself would provide if Drew keeps her and then loses the deciding competition.
Confidence can help him make a difficult move. It cannot substitute for examining the incentives of the people who would remain.
Late Morning — Dee Valladares Leaves Her Own Final Two Choice Unclear
Dee also discussed Taylor as a potential winner. In the conversation with Drew, neither expressed enthusiasm for Taylor winning, and Dee identified her ability to talk as a threat. Dee said she would not be comfortable losing to Taylor in Final Two.
Those comments require some care because of what Dee said the previous day. Privately, she had expressed a preference to take Taylor rather than Drew to the end. Criticizing Taylor’s chances of winning does not establish that Dee has abandoned that preference.
Dee could want Taylor beside her and still expect to beat her. She could also be emphasizing Taylor’s strengths because that argument helps her connect with Drew. The available conversation does not settle which consideration would determine her final decision.
For Drew, the question should be specific: if Dee wins the final HOH with him and Taylor still there, whom does she evict?
Agreement that Taylor should not win is not an answer. Neither is affection for Drew. He needs to know whether the person asking for his vote is offering him a place in her preferred Final Two or merely an opportunity to compete for one.
Dee’s earlier preference gives him a legitimate reason to be skeptical of how much saving her would buy him.
By 11:29 AM BBT — Drew Says the Decision Came Before the Veto
The clearest new statement came when Drew told Dee he knew what he would do and had known before winning the Veto. The subsequent account of his remarks also indicated that the conversations had not changed his decision.
That is a meaningful development from the uncertainty at the end of our previous coverage. Drew was presenting himself as someone with a plan, even while the identity of the person he intends to evict remained undisclosed in the material verified here.
His emotional reaction to winning does not resolve that missing piece. Being upset could reflect the prospect of cutting Devens, cutting Dee or reaching the final stretch without Melody. Picking one explanation and treating it as a confirmed vote would go beyond what he said.
If his account is accurate, it also limits how much credit anyone can claim for changing his mind after the competition. A campaign might reinforce an existing preference without creating it.
The remaining question is whether that plan survives the rest of the campaigning and whom it actually sends to jury.
11:51 AM–12:38 PM BBT — Casual Conversation Resumes Without an Eviction Announcement
By late morning, Drew, Dee and Devens were back in ordinary bathroom conversation, discussing BB Comics and their experiences on reality television. Devens said he was tired. Dee described becoming more energized as the end approached after feeling overwhelmed earlier in the game.
Taylor joined the group around 12:38 PM.
The house had returned to everyday conversation. Neither player’s mood supplied an answer to Drew’s eviction choice.
12:52 PM BBT — Rick Devens Asks Taylor Brown What Moves She Would Claim
Devens then asked Taylor which moves she would take credit for in a Final Two speech. Taylor named flipping a vote from Lyric to Melody and keeping Dee as moves she would claim. Their discussion also touched on how the final week would unfold.
Taylor was laying out her own résumé. Those claims would still have to stand up against other players’ accounts.
The exchange is still useful because the remaining players are already thinking about how to explain their games. Devens was asking a potential opponent what she intended to claim while his own place in Final Three depended on Drew.
For Taylor, getting a preferred outcome and owning the decisive action are different things. If Drew evicts Devens, Taylor can discuss whatever influence she exerted. Drew can point to the Veto he won and the vote he cast. His statement that he had decided beforehand would complicate any argument that somebody else created the move for him.
That could become a contested part of a jury discussion. The strongest explanation would identify what each person actually did, when the decision was reached and what changed because of it.
1:09–1:16 PM BBT — The House Briefly Settles Down
Early-afternoon entries had Dee listening to music in the HOH room, Taylor curled up on the bathroom couch and, at 1:16 PM, Devens working out in the gym.
There was no confirmed eviction or completed Veto ceremony in those updates. Taylor and Drew had secured their routes to Final Three. Dee and Devens were still competing for the remaining place.
1:25 PM BBT Update — Dee Takes Drew’s Answer Back to Taylor
The next exchange brought Dee and Taylor back to the decision they were trying to influence. Dee told Taylor that Drew had said he knew what he would do before winning the Veto. Her assessment was that there was nothing she could say.
Taylor still believed Drew knew what he needed to do, but questioned whether he could avoid making the emotional choice. In the context of her campaign to remove Devens, she was still considering whether Drew would carry out the move she wanted.
This was Dee relaying Drew’s answer and Taylor interpreting it. Neither woman announced a confirmed commitment from him to evict Devens.
For Dee, the immediate problem was the apparent limit of her persuasion. For Taylor, it was whether Drew’s understanding of the strategic argument would overcome his attachment. Both were responding to the same unresolved issue: Drew was saying the decision existed without giving them a result they could confidently claim.
Big Brother 28 Day 79: What Each Eviction Would Actually Give Drew
The choice is easier to assess when the immediate benefit is separated from the problem Drew would face afterward.
| Drew’s vote | Resulting Final Three | What he gains | What remains unresolved |
| Evict Rick Devens | Taylor Brown, Drew Campbell and Dee Valladares | Removes the opponent Dee and Taylor have urged him to cut and gives him a major eviction tied directly to his Veto win. | Dee previously preferred taking Taylor. Drew still needs a credible route to Final Two and enough jury support to win. |
| Evict Dee Valladares | Taylor Brown, Drew Campbell and Rick Devens | Keeps the ally who has offered to take him to Final Two and removes Dee as an option for Taylor. | Devens could become his final opponent. Drew must judge both the reliability of that promise and his chances of beating him. |
Taylor had also told Drew the previous night that she would take him to Final Two. That gives him another promise to weigh against Devens’ offer. Dee privately preferring Taylor does not automatically make that preference mutual. Treating the two women as certain to take each other would overstate what has been established. Drew needs to evaluate Taylor’s incentive to keep her promise separately from Dee’s, even though both women want the same eviction now.
My preference remains cutting Devens, but the case should be made honestly. Removing him would not make Dee harmless, guarantee Taylor’s loyalty or deliver a winning jury vote. It would remove a player whose relationship with Drew has made the eviction especially difficult and whose presence creates a serious obstacle in a potential Final Two.
Keeping Devens could give Drew another route to Final Two if Devens honors his promise. That has value. The question is how much value it has if Drew believes the person taking him is also the person most likely to defeat him.
There is also a difference between keeping Devens now and committing to sit beside him. Drew could keep him, win the final HOH and choose Taylor instead. But that plan postpones the difficult cut and depends on Drew regaining the power to make it.
Evicting Devens now uses power Drew already possesses. Waiting for another opportunity means accepting that the next decision might belong to somebody else.
Drew Campbell Still Has to Make His Case to the Jury
Dee and Devens had already discussed supporting each other from jury if one of them left. That gives Drew another reason to think beyond Thursday’s eviction, but it does not mean either Icon controls how the other jurors will vote.
There is no verified final tally to hand Drew for a matchup with Devens, Dee or Taylor. Promises made in the house, personal relationships and assessments of gameplay can all inform an argument. They cannot turn a hypothetical Final Two into a completed jury vote.
Drew does have concrete material to present. He won the competition that protected him at four, and the eviction decision will belong to him after he uses the Veto. If he cuts Devens, he can explain the threat he removed. If he cuts Dee, he needs to explain why retaining Devens improved his path and what his plan was for the next round.
Either explanation should show how the decision improved his chance to win. That is the part neither friendship nor another person’s reassurance can answer for him.
Final Thoughts
The Big Brother 28 Day 79 live feeds have moved the story forward without resolving the eviction. Drew says his decision predates the Veto, and Dee has now relayed that answer to Taylor. Taylor still questions whether he will make the move she wants. Devens remains in the house, dependent on the player he needs to spare him.
Dee’s argument has merit, but her survival would leave her free to pursue the Final Two she believes she can win. Devens’ promise also has value, but Drew has to consider what accepting it could cost him in the final vote.
If Drew keeps Devens, he needs an explanation that goes beyond being taken to the end. If he cuts him, he needs to recognize that Dee still has her own interests. He has earned the right to make this choice. Neither Icon is owed the result.
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