DAY 78 → EARLY DAY 79 · SEPTEMBER 22–23, 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; Taylor and Dee want Devens out, but Drew’s final choice is unconfirmed
COVERAGE: After the previous update’s 12:59 PM BBT cutoff through 2:12 AM BBT, September 23. Conversation times are approximate and listed in Pacific Time.
LAST CHECK: September 23, 3:43 AM BBT / 6:43 AM Eastern. Latest available overnight entry: 2:12 AM BBT.
Drew Campbell won the Final Four Power of Veto, and the Big Brother 28 Day 78 to Day 79 live feeds immediately became a fight over whether he would use that power to end Rick Devens’ game.
Taylor Brown already had her place in Final Three. Drew now had his, along with the deciding vote once he removes himself from the block. Dee Valladares and Devens could no longer protect each other through this eviction. One of them would have to convince Drew to leave the other behind.
Our last update ended with Taylor wanting Devens gone and waiting to see who would win the competition. By Tuesday afternoon, the opportunity she wanted had arrived. By Tuesday night, Drew was still struggling with the relationship standing in the way.
The conversations gave him plenty to question. Devens offered Final Two protection while Drew challenged him over putting him on the block. Dee sold herself as the safer player to keep while privately favoring an ending with Taylor. Taylor pushed Drew toward a move that would help her, too, and discussed how much of the jury picture they should actually tell him.
Devens was the target of Taylor and Dee’s campaign. He was still in the house when this coverage ended.
Drew had won the competition.
He had not yet made the decision.
2:17–2:24 PM BBT — Drew Wins Veto and Ends the Icons’ Shared Route to Final Three
The feeds returned around 2:17–2:18 PM after the afternoon competition, and Drew’s victory was clear within minutes.
That result narrowed the round to one decision.
Taylor remains safe as HOH. Drew can remove himself from the block. Devens is the only eligible replacement, leaving Drew to vote between Devens and Dee.
The ceremony and eviction were still ahead. The existing nominations therefore remained Dee and Drew, with Dee and Devens the expected final pair once the Veto is used.
For Taylor, the result put her preferred target within reach without giving her the vote.
For the two remaining Icons, it ended any realistic hope of entering Final Three together. Their shared ally now controlled which one of them survived.
Around 2:25 PM BBT — Drew Campbell Has Safety, but the Win Hurts
Drew’s reaction was emotional almost immediately.
In the gym, he acted out a phone conversation with the evicted Melody Morris, telling her he was safe and had reached the finale stretch. This was an imagined conversation, not contact with Melody outside the house.
He knew the decision waiting for him.
He also struggled with what he believed Melody would want: Devens out.
When Devens joined him, he congratulated Drew, encouraged him to enjoy the win and gave him room to think. Their conversation included the father-and-son description of their relationship.
Later, Drew described choosing between Devens and Dee in terms of choosing between a father and a big sister.
That attachment explains why the decision is difficult. It also explains why Devens still had a campaign after losing the competition.
Drew could recognize the strategic argument against him and still feel responsible for protecting him.
Devens did not need to invent a relationship in the final days. He already had one Drew found painful to break.
The question was how much of Drew’s chance to win that relationship was worth.
2:50–3:03 PM BBT — Rick Devens Considers a Jury Threat He Might Not Mean
Alone with the cameras, Devens began working through the pitch he would make.
He wanted Drew to believe Dee and Taylor would choose each other while he would take Drew to Final Two. He also wanted to argue that Drew had a better chance against him than against Dee.
Then came the pressure he considered adding: telling Drew he would lose Devens’ jury vote if he evicted him.
Devens privately acknowledged that he might vote for Drew anyway.
The point would be to make Drew fear the consequence before casting the eviction vote.
At this stage, that was a contemplated tactic. The conversations covered here did not establish that Devens had actually delivered the threat to Drew.
That distinction matters.
It was still a revealing calculation. Devens understood that their bond could help him survive, and he was considering making Drew believe ending that bond in the game could also cost him support afterward.
Devens became emotional himself, disappointed with his performance and the possibility of leaving.
He still wanted to fight.
Both things could be true: losing the Veto hurt him, and he was already looking for a way to make keeping him feel safer for Drew.
2:50–3:05 PM BBT — Dee Valladares Makes Herself the Easier Opponent
Dee’s private preparation took a different approach.
She wanted Devens associated with the major moves and the competition danger. She wanted Drew looking at her and Taylor as the more manageable opponents in the final HOH.
That was a useful survival pitch, especially with Devens’ relationship with Drew so strong.
Dee needed Drew to judge what keeping each player would actually do for his game.
At 3:05 PM, however, Dee told Taylor she would take her to Final Two and did not intend to tell Drew.
That immediately complicated the argument.
Drew could evict the player he considered hardest to beat and still find himself needing to win the final HOH because the person he saved preferred somebody else.
Dee had every reason to campaign.
She also had every reason to keep her preferred ending out of that campaign.
Her argument about Devens’ danger deserved consideration.
Her own intentions deserved just as much scrutiny.
3:06–3:17 PM BBT — Taylor and Dee Discuss What Drew Should Hear
Taylor’s argument was blunt: keeping Devens could leave Drew playing for second place.
Removing him would give Drew a major move to explain to the jury and eliminate someone Taylor considered capable of beating everyone.
The less flattering part of that conversation came when Dee questioned whether Drew could actually get Angela Murray’s or Yash Patel’s vote.
Taylor’s response was essentially that this was not what they should be telling Drew.
They were discussing how to sell the eviction.
Their private uncertainty about Drew’s jury support did not fit the confidence Taylor wanted to present to him.
Taylor also said they should avoid making identical pitches. Both women wanted Devens out, but repeating the same argument too closely could make their coordination obvious.
This was more active than Taylor simply hoping somebody else would remove her target.
She was thinking about Drew’s motivation and how to influence it.
She was also trying to persuade a potential finalist to improve her own path.
Taylor recognized the strength of Devens’ social game during the discussion. She could see that he was playing them while still believing the affection was real.
That is precisely why telling Drew the move is obvious would not necessarily make him comfortable doing it.
3:49–4:37 PM BBT — The Competition Talk Adds Context to Drew’s Win
The houseguests’ post-competition discussion pointed to a memory challenge involving pictures and days from the season.
Drew described using a nomination graphic visible in one image to work out when it belonged.
Dee later said Drew had not answered anything incorrectly.
That was Dee’s description of his performance; no complete official score breakdown was available in this coverage.
Drew deserves credit for working through the clue when he did not immediately know the day.
He earned control of this round in the competition.
The arguments about whether he can make the right eviction decision should not erase that.
5:51–6:35 PM BBT — Drew Questions What the Icons Have Actually Done for Him
Early in the evening, Taylor offered to help Drew think through both options.
He wondered whether Dee and Devens would have saved each other if one of them had won. Taylor believed they would have.
That concern followed Drew into his conversation with Devens.
Devens presented Dee and Taylor as a pair who would take each other to the end and offered Drew a Final Two with him.
He also worked through possible jury votes, arguing that Drew’s chances were better beside him than beside Dee.
Drew returned to something more concrete: Devens had nominated him instead of Taylor in the previous round.
Devens explained that he feared Drew using the Veto to protect Melody.
Drew then challenged the wider pattern.
He had not seen the Icons prove they would save him and had repeatedly needed to get himself out of trouble.
That was one of Drew’s strongest points all day.
Devens’ explanation described why putting Drew at risk had served Devens’ interests.
It did not explain why Drew now owed him safety.
Still, Drew was unconvinced that he could beat the people left. He worried about Taylor’s chances and questioned what a Final Two with Devens would look like.
Devens continued offering himself as the person who would bring Drew along.
The pitch addressed a real concern. Someone who might take Drew to the end has value.
Drew also needed to decide whether that route offered a realistic chance of winning once he arrived.
His skepticism about Dee was supported by what she had told Taylor privately.
His skepticism about Devens was supported by a nomination he had already survived.
Neither option came with the clean reassurance its advocate wanted to sell.
8:21–9:28 PM BBT — Taylor Presses Drew to Take Out Devens
Drew indicated that he wanted fuller conversations with both Icons the following day and wanted Taylor’s perspective as well.
He was still gathering arguments rather than announcing a final choice.
Later in the HOH room, Taylor pushed the case for evicting Devens.
She told Drew that cutting him could help Drew win. She also presented Dee as the less formidable person to keep and said she wanted two new players in Final Two, offering to take Drew.
Taylor invoked Dee’s previous winnings and financial success as part of that pitch.
That was an argument for why Taylor would choose Drew. It did not establish how the jury would judge Dee or make Taylor’s promise binding.
By 9:20 PM, Drew directly questioned whether Taylor had a Final Two with Dee.
Taylor denied having a Final Two with anyone, including Yash.
Dee’s earlier private promise to Taylor makes Drew’s concern important.
That promise alone does not establish a mutually agreed Final Two deal, but it does show that Dee had expressed exactly the preference Drew feared.
Taylor later acknowledged why Drew might still keep Devens, comparing the personal pull to how she would have felt about keeping LaLa.
That gave her pitch more room than simply telling Drew he was foolish for caring about him.
She wanted him to make the cut while leaving him space to discuss why it hurt.
By the end of the exchange, Taylor had made her case clearly.
The available conversation still did not establish that Drew had committed to carrying it out.
9:36–10:57 PM BBT — Dee Campaigns, Then Admits Drew May Not Be Her Final Two Choice
Dee joined Drew and Taylor in the HOH room and continued making her case.
Later, talking to the cameras, she felt the discussion had gone well.
Her confidence was her assessment of the conversation, not an announcement from Drew.
At 10:43 PM, Dee considered another way to undermine Devens’ promise: getting Taylor to make Drew think she might have a Final Two with Devens.
This was an idea Dee floated privately, with no confirmation in this stretch that Taylor acted on it.
The intended effect was clear enough.
Make Drew doubt whether keeping Devens would actually protect him at three.
Dee then acknowledged that she was less emotionally close to Drew than Devens was and said she probably would not take Drew to Final Two herself.
She also did not want Drew seeing her spend too much time with Taylor the next day because she worried it would alarm him.
Dee understood how the relationship could look to the person deciding her future.
She wanted the benefit of working with Taylor while limiting the evidence Drew could use to question her.
That gives Devens’ argument some substance, even though he was using it to save himself.
Drew was entitled to ask whether keeping Dee would leave him facing two people more interested in each other.
It also exposes the limits of Dee’s presentation as the easy option.
Being less threatening in a competition does not make someone loyal.
Surviving this vote would leave Dee free to pursue the ending she preferred.
10:47 PM–12:08 AM BBT — The Icons’ Jury Loyalty Outlasts Their Shared Final Three Plan
Dee’s late-night comments made clear that competing against Devens for survival did not mean abandoning him as a possible winner.
She said the jury should judge gameplay rather than friendship while also saying she would vote for Devens regardless.
She spoke about campaigning for him if she left and even about being willing to lie in jury.
Those were statements about what she intended to do.
She had not entered jury, controlled its discussion or secured anyone else’s vote.
By 11:45 PM, Dee and Taylor were still on the same page about the immediate objective: Drew needed to use his vote to send Devens to jury.
There had been no late-night target reversal.
At 11:58 PM, the commitment between the two remaining Icons became mutual.
Dee told Devens she would work hard in jury if evicted. Devens said he would do the same if he went.
They wanted one of them to finish the job.
That conversation creates a problem for Drew either way.
Evicting one Icon may put a determined advocate for the other in the jury house.
He should expect the surviving player to have someone explaining their game favorably.
Around 12:08 AM, Devens expressed hope that Drew would do the right thing.
Dee questioned what that meant, including whether taking them out was actually the right move for Drew.
She had identified the problem with the appeal.
There was no choice that protected both Icons anymore.
Drew’s responsibility was to choose the person he could afford to keep.
12:28–2:12 AM BBT — Early Day 79 Brings No Confirmed Final Decision
Drew was called to the Diary Room after settling into Melody’s old pod.
Devens went to bed in the Have-Not room.
By 2:12 AM, Drew was back in the pod with the lights out, with intermittent sniffling noted.
The overnight activity added no confirmed eviction, completed Veto ceremony or settled announcement of Drew’s vote.
Taylor and Drew had secured two of the three places.
Dee and Devens were still competing for the third.
Big Brother 28 Day 78 to Day 79: Which Icon Is in Danger?
Devens is the player Taylor and Dee are trying to send out.
Drew has heard that argument, understands the potential value of the move and remains emotionally attached to him.
The current evidence supports calling Devens their target.
It does not support declaring him the fourth-place finisher.
| Drew’s choice | Resulting Final Three | Potential benefit | Main risk |
| Evict Rick Devens | Taylor Brown, Drew Campbell and Dee Valladares | Removes the player Taylor and Dee identify as the biggest winning threat and gives Drew a clear move of his own. | Dee has privately favored taking Taylor; Drew could need to win his way into Final Two. |
| Evict Dee Valladares | Taylor Brown, Drew Campbell and Rick Devens | Keeps the ally offering to take Drew to Final Two and removes Dee’s preferred partnership with Taylor. | Drew preserves an opponent he worries could beat him, with Dee promising support from jury. |
My read is that cutting Devens gives Drew the stronger argument for playing to win.
He can connect the eviction directly to his own competition victory and decision while removing a player whose social influence has made even discussing the cut difficult.
But Dee’s private comments are a reason to negotiate seriously before doing it.
Drew should press both women on whom they would take and compare their answers.
Accepting their confidence about his jury chances would be especially careless when they had already discussed withholding their doubts from him.
Keeping Devens could still be a calculated choice if Drew believes he offers a substantially better route to Final Two.
The weakest reason would be deciding that hurting Devens’ feelings matters more than evaluating whether Drew can actually beat him.
Final Thoughts
This Big Brother 28 Day 78 to Day 79 live feeds update leaves Drew with the power his allies now need.
He earned it.
He also finally challenged Devens on the difference between promising protection and providing it when nominations were being made.
Taylor has followed through on her earlier intention to push for Devens’ eviction.
Her work deserves to be evaluated as a campaign: she identified what Drew feared, offered him an alternative and helped shape the argument.
The vote is still his.
Dee has made a practical case for staying while concealing a preference that could leave Drew out of Final Two.
Devens has leaned on a valuable relationship while considering whether to turn his jury vote into a threat.
Neither is giving Drew advice without something to gain.
The Veto answered who gets to decide.
Drew now has to make a decision he can defend to the jury, especially if the person he keeps is sitting beside him on finale night.
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