DAY 78 · SEPTEMBER 22, 2026
FINAL FOUR: TAYLOR BROWN, DEE VALLADARES, RICK DEVENS AND DREW CAMPBELL
HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD: TAYLOR BROWN
NOMINEES: DEE VALLADARES AND DREW CAMPBELL
OFF THE BLOCK: RICK DEVENS
GUARANTEED FINAL THREE: TAYLOR BROWN
FINAL FOUR POWER OF VETO: NO WINNER CONFIRMED AS OF 12:59 PM BBT / 3:59 PM EASTERN
COVERAGE: CONTINUING AFTER 1:38 AM BBT ON SEPTEMBER 22 THROUGH THE EARLY-AFTERNOON FEEDS OUTAGE. CONVERSATION TIMES ARE APPROXIMATE AND LISTED IN PACIFIC TIME.
Taylor Brown wants Rick Devens out, and she has identified the argument she hopes will get Drew Campbell to do it: Devens will choose Dee Valladares over him. That is the new development driving this Big Brother 28 Day 78 live feeds update. Taylor already secured Final Three with Monday’s HOH win. Tuesday morning, she began explaining how she wanted to shape the group that would join her, even while telling Devens to his face that he could win unanimously.
Dee had her own reasons to worry about Devens. She feared what he could win in the remaining competitions, believed Drew might be easier to beat in the final vote, and still imagined Devens taking her to the end. Later, Devens brought their conversation back to a much simpler arrangement: if either of them controlled this eviction, they should keep each other.
The previous update ended with Dee considering the convenience of Drew cutting Devens while admitting she might struggle to make that cut herself. This morning added Taylor’s interest in the same eviction and a fresh reminder of why it could be difficult to deliver. Devens remained useful to people who also understood how dangerous he could be.
The final Veto had no confirmed winner when this update closed. What the morning supplied was a clearer look at the promises competing for that power.
After 1:38 AM to 8:43 AM BBT — The House Sleeps Before Its Last Veto
The overnight continuation was quiet. Drew remained in Melody Morris’s former pod, and Taylor slept upstairs in the HOH room. There was no new competition result in that stretch.
Production began waking the house around 8:01 AM. Taylor changed her microphone battery, got a drink and returned upstairs. She watched the HOH monitor while waiting for the others to become active. Devens was making coffee by approximately 8:43 AM.
Taylor could afford a calmer morning than the other three. Her place in the next round was already secured. Dee, Drew and Devens still needed to win their safety or persuade the eventual voter to keep them.
Around 9 AM BBT — Taylor Wants Devens Out and Identifies Her Pitch to Drew
Taylor’s private assessment was direct: she wanted Devens evicted this round.
She also pushed back on his argument that he lacked friends in the jury house. In her view, that did not prevent him from winning. Jurors can respect a game without considering the finalist their closest friend, and Taylor was not prepared to accept his relationship concerns as proof that he would be easy to beat.
Her proposed approach to Drew addressed his position inside the house. She wanted to convince him that Devens would take Dee to the Final Two.
That is a more useful pitch than simply asking Drew to dislike Devens. Drew has continued maintaining that relationship, as the previous update covered. Taylor would need to make keeping Devens look dangerous to Drew’s own chance of reaching the end.
There are two separate decisions here: whether Drew could beat Devens, and whether Devens would even give him the opportunity to try. Taylor’s proposed argument presses the second problem.
This was Taylor describing what she wanted to accomplish. It was not confirmation that she had secured Drew’s agreement or that Devens had privately settled on Dee as his final partner.
Before 10 AM BBT — Dee Asks Whom to Evict, and Taylor Leaves the Decision With Her
Dee asked Taylor whom she wanted evicted if Dee won Veto. Taylor told her to make the decision that benefited her own game.
Taylor also downplayed her own chances of winning the season during their discussion. That was part of what she presented to Dee; it should not be treated as an objective assessment of Taylor’s jury prospects.
Taylor left Dee responsible for her choice. If Dee became the sole voter, she would have to decide whether her relationship with Devens outweighed her concerns about facing him.
Taylor could identify a target in private and still avoid issuing an order to someone whose cooperation she might need. That approach keeps the conversation open. Its weakness is that Dee can interpret permission to play her own game in a way Taylor does not like.
At four, an HOH cannot enforce a preferred eviction simply by naming it. Taylor’s influence would have to survive somebody else holding the vote.
The Same Conversation — Dee Fears Devens Winning Out but Still Sees Him Taking Her
Dee’s assessment of Devens contained the central contradiction in her endgame.
She worried about him winning the competitions in the next round. Taylor agreed that he could run through them. Taylor contrasted that danger with her belief that Drew would face a more resentful jury.
Those were the women’s projections. Nobody in the house could verify how the jurors would ultimately vote.
Dee nevertheless believed Devens would take her to the Final Two. She also described Drew as easier to beat there, while telling Taylor she would rather go with her.
Those possibilities offer Dee different benefits. Devens could provide a route to the final chairs if he won and chose her. Drew could offer a matchup she considered more favorable. A finish with Taylor was something she was willing to discuss directly with Taylor.
They do not add up to a settled final choice.
The difficult question for Dee is how much she is willing to pay for the possibility of Devens bringing her. If she truly thinks he can win the remaining competitions and command the jury’s respect, keeping him may improve her chance of reaching the last night while making the actual victory harder.
That is the decision she was already avoiding overnight. Tuesday’s conversation made the tradeoff more explicit.
Dee also recognized that a Drew Veto win could require serious work to persuade him to keep her. Her preferred outcome depended on changing someone else’s mind. Winning the Veto herself would remove that uncertainty and force her to own the decision.
After 10 AM BBT — Taylor Reassures the Man She Wants Evicted
Taylor’s later exchange with Devens sounded very different from her private target discussion.
She asked how he felt about the Veto competition and expressed confidence in him. Devens asked about her position, and Taylor said she was already thinking about the next round. He pointed out that winning both HOH and Veto could help set her up.
As they continued talking, Devens described how constantly he was thinking about the game. Taylor reassured him about his chances and told him he could win unanimously.
That statement matters because it came after she had identified him as the person she wanted removed. It gives a clearer picture of how Taylor was managing him while considering an eviction that would end his game.
My read is that Taylor was keeping Devens comfortable while she considered how to remove him. She could discuss his strength, hear his concerns and preserve a normal conversation without announcing what she wanted Drew to do.
The danger for Taylor is stopping there. She still needs someone willing and able to cast the vote, and Devens can shut down the entire plan by winning Veto.
Her comment about a unanimous win was reassurance from another player. It was not a jury count.
11:32–11:34 AM BBT — Dee Questions Why Drew Keeps Counting Jury Votes
By late morning, Dee was discussing Drew’s approach to the jury with Devens.
She found it strange that Drew talked through his possible votes with other people. Devens questioned why she considered that unusual. Dee said she had not handled her own vote calculations that way and questioned whether Drew genuinely believed the support he described or was trying to mislead her.
Drew counting votes is hardly surprising at Final Four. He needs to consider whom he can beat and what the people he helped eliminate might think of him.
Discussing those calculations with an opponent creates another problem, though. A confident count can make someone look dangerous. A weak count can look like an attempt to be taken to the end. Dee was questioning which version Drew was selling.
The conversation revealed her suspicion of his presentation. It did not establish that Drew had lied about a specific juror or that either of them possessed a reliable vote count.
They were evaluating each other’s claims with very little outside information.
Around 11:34 AM BBT — Devens Pushes Mutual Protection With Dee
Dee told Devens that she had been explaining to Taylor that the two of them could not take each other to the end.
Devens brought the discussion back to the immediate eviction. If one of them held the deciding vote, he said, they would keep each other.
Reaching Final Three together and sitting in Final Two together are separate choices. Dee can tell Taylor that she cannot finish beside Devens while still preserving him through this eviction. Devens’ proposal gives that distinction a practical use.
It also identifies the obstacle in Taylor’s plan. A Taylor Veto win would allow her to choose the voter, but giving Dee that vote would not automatically produce Devens’ eviction. Dee would still have to reject the protection Devens was offering.
Devens’ statement was a proposal and an assurance to Dee. It was not proof that both had made an irreversible commitment. The previous update also covered him discussing Dee’s removal with Drew.
That competing conversation is why his reassurance deserves scrutiny. Devens has given more than one person a reason to believe he will keep them. The sole vote would require him to choose.
11:35 AM BBT Onward — Drew Is Still Uncertain, and the Jury Counts Do Not Agree
Devens and Dee acknowledged that they did not know what Drew would do.
That was a useful correction to the comfort Devens expressed the previous evening, when he expected a Drew Veto win to lead to Dee’s eviction. By late morning, the possibility required more consideration.
Dee and Devens believed Taylor might protect Dee if Taylor won Veto. Dee’s reasoning was that Drew would not take Taylor to the Final Two, making a path with the veterans more attractive.
That was their sales argument and their assessment of Drew. It was not a verified promise from him about the final HOH.
Their jury discussion exposed another disagreement. Devens believed Drew had Melody’s and Barrett Pfeiffer’s votes. Dee was unconvinced. Devens also suggested that Dee and Drew were competing for many of the same jurors.
The disagreement is more revealing than either tally. These are players using perceived jury support to decide whom to preserve, and they cannot even agree on the people closest to Drew.
For Drew, assuming those relationships guarantee votes would be a mistake. For Dee, dismissing that support because his decisions hurt people could be just as costly. The jurors will have their own reasons, and the eventual pairing will matter.
A decision about whom to evict should consider those possibilities without pretending the final vote has already happened.
Late Morning — The Veto Format Is Still a Guess
Devens speculated that the competition could involve dates. Dee liked the possibility because she thought that format might help Taylor.
That detail fits her larger calculation. Dee did not need to win every version of this round herself if Taylor won and gave her the vote. She could see another person’s competition strength as a possible route to safety.
But the format had not been confirmed. Their speculation could not establish who would be favored, much less who would win.
The conversation eventually moved to finale visitors, life after the show and former houseguests. That lighter discussion continued before the feeds cut. It supplied no new agreement about the eviction.
12:01–12:03 PM BBT — The Feeds Go to Pets With the Veto Unresolved
The feeds switched to pets around 12:01–12:03 PM, consistent with the expected Final Four Veto competition.
At the 12:59 PM BBT check, there was no confirmed winner available. Taylor remained the only houseguest with a guaranteed place in Final Three, and Dee and Drew remained the nominees.
Devens being off the block did not make him safe. Either nominee winning and using the Veto would put him in the remaining seat.
The outage closed the visible house activity covered here. It did not establish the result of anything happening while the cameras were unavailable.
Big Brother 28 Day 78: What Each Veto Result Would Mean Now
The mechanics remain straightforward. The morning’s conversations explain why the resulting vote may be much less comfortable.
| Veto winner | Who controls the eviction | The decision created by the morning’s talks |
| Drew Campbell | If he saves himself, Drew votes between Dee and Devens. | Taylor wants him to question whether Devens would choose him over Dee. No agreement to evict Devens was confirmed. |
| Dee Valladares | If she saves herself, Dee votes between Drew and Devens. | She must weigh her concern about Devens winning out against his proposal that they protect each other. |
| Rick Devens | Devens can keep the nominations intact and vote between Dee and Drew. | He must resolve the competing expectations created by his conversations with both. |
| Taylor Brown | Her Veto decision determines the sole voter. Unchanged nominations leave Devens voting; saving Dee gives Dee the vote; saving Drew gives Drew the vote. | Removing Devens requires choosing a voter willing to do it. Taylor cannot cast the eviction vote herself. |
A Taylor win offers the broadest choice of voter, but each choice has consequences. Leaving Devens off the block would preserve the person she privately wanted gone. Saving Dee would require trusting her to act against the protection Devens proposed. Saving Drew would require confidence that Taylor’s argument could overcome his existing relationship with Devens.
The person Taylor saves would owe their immediate survival to that decision. They would still possess their own vote and their own reasons for using it.
That is why the conversations after the competition will matter. The winner will determine which promises can actually be tested.
What Taylor Still Has to Deliver
Taylor deserves credit for identifying a specific obstacle and considering how another player’s interests could help remove it. Her morning plan addressed Drew’s fear of being left out of the Final Two, a problem he would have a personal reason to consider.
She has not yet earned credit for a completed eviction.
If Devens leaves, the details will matter: who won, who cast the vote, what changed that person’s mind and whether Taylor’s intervention contributed. If he stays, privately wanting him out will not erase a decision that helped preserve him.
The same standard applies to Dee. Recognizing Devens’ strength is useful. Choosing whether to leave that strength in the game is the harder part.
There is still room for either woman to act on what she sees. The morning did not settle whether the necessary opportunity would belong to her.
Final Thoughts
The most revealing development in this Big Brother 28 Day 78 update is Taylor’s willingness to consider Devens’ eviction while keeping him comfortable in conversation. She knows whom she wants removed and has identified a reason Drew might listen.
Dee sees much of the same danger but continues weighing the reassurance of being someone Devens might take. Devens, meanwhile, is offering protection while his remaining options depend on people who have discussed beating him or cutting him.
Drew could become the deciding voter and have to judge whether the relationship he has maintained is worth the risk of keeping Devens. He could also lose the competition and find the same decision being made about him.
Taylor and Dee have explained why Devens would be dangerous to keep. The unresolved question is whether either can turn that assessment into the vote that sends him out.
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