Tag: Final Four Veto

Big Brother 28 Day 79 Live Feeds Update: Drew Says His Mind Is Made Up as Dee Pushes Him to Cut Devens

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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September 23, 2026

Big Brother 28 Day 78 to Day 79 Live Feeds Update: Drew Wins Veto, but Can He Cut Devens?

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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September 23, 2026

Big Brother 28 Day 78 Live Feeds Update: Taylor Wants Devens Out and Plans to Turn Drew Against Him

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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September 22, 2026

Big Brother 28 Day 77 to Day 78 Live Feeds Update: Taylor Wins HOH, Dee Wants Drew to Cut Devens

DAY 77 INTO EARLY DAY 78 · SEPTEMBER 21–22, 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

FINAL FOUR POWER OF VETO: NO WINNER CONFIRMED AT THE COVERAGE CUTOFF

GUARANTEED FINAL THREE: TAYLOR BROWN

LIVE FEEDS CONTINUATION WINDOW: THE FINAL FOUR HOH OUTAGE THAT CLOSED THE PREVIOUS UPDATE THROUGH 1:38 AM BBT ON SEPTEMBER 22. ALL TIMES BELOW ARE BIG BROTHER TIME, PACIFIC.

Taylor Brown took the one available HOH result that would force Dee Valladares, Rick Devens and Drew Campbell to turn on one another. After surviving the round that sent Melody Morris to jury, Taylor won the Final Four Head of Household competition Monday and guaranteed herself a place in the Final Three. The trio could keep making promises, comparing jury votes and talking about finishing together. They could no longer make all three of their games survive the week.

That is where this Big Brother 28 Day 77 to Day 78 live feeds update picks up. The previous update ended with the house waiting for a new HOH. By Monday evening, Taylor had the room, Dee and Drew had the nominations, and Devens was telling himself the remaining Veto outcomes looked good for him.

Then Dee started talking to the cameras after midnight.

She believed Devens would be extremely difficult to beat. She had been telling Drew that. She could see the appeal of Drew winning Veto and evicting him. But when she considered making the same decision herself, she hesitated and returned to cutting Devens at Final Three.

Dee can explain why Devens should leave. The uncomfortable part is whether she will actually send him out when the opportunity belongs to her.

4:31–4:34 PM BBT — Taylor Wins HOH and Ends the Trio’s Preferred Final Three

The feeds returned around 4:31 PM, and Taylor was soon visible wearing the HOH key. This was the Final Four competition: the win secured Final Three, with the final HOH contest still ahead.

The houseguests described a puzzle involving mixed-up faces. Drew complained about the competition having two rounds and wished it had ended after one. Dee was frustrated with her performance and did not want to relive another puzzle loss. Taylor discussed using differences in the pictures’ shading to work through the challenge.

The result mattered more than the complaints. Devens, the outgoing HOH, could not compete. Drew and Dee both had the chance to keep Taylor available for eviction. Neither did.

Drew quickly recognized the consequence: he, Dee and Devens could no longer all make Final Three. At least one of them would have to leave before Taylor did.

That is a substantial win for Taylor even before anyone argues about her jury chances. She removed herself from the next eviction and made three people with overlapping loyalties choose between each other. Whatever happens with Veto, nobody gets to describe her survival this round as a favor they did for her.

4:42 PM BBT — Devens Thinks Every Veto Outcome Gives Him a Way Through

Devens’ first private assessment was remarkably comfortable for someone who had just lost the protection of his HOH.

He expected Drew to evict Dee if Drew won Veto. He expected Dee to evict Drew if she won. He also expected a Taylor Veto win to produce Drew’s eviction.

Those were Devens’ predictions. Taylor would not personally cast the eviction vote as HOH; a Veto win would let her determine which non-HOH houseguest remained off the block to cast it.

Still, the confidence explained how Devens saw his position. He believed his separate relationships could carry him through a round he did not necessarily have to win himself.

There is real social work behind having multiple people consider keeping you. The danger is treating each person’s reassurance as a settled decision. At Final Four, someone can like Devens, want his approval and still decide that beating him in the final vote is too much to ask.

Dee’s overnight camera talk would expose exactly that tension.

4:50–4:51 PM BBT — Dee and Devens Work on Taylor’s Final Two Options

Dee and Devens discussed telling Taylor that each would take her to the end. They also believed Drew would prefer bringing one of them over Taylor if he reached the final decision.

That gave them an obvious pitch: Taylor should feel that keeping both veterans would leave her with two possible routes to the Final Two.

It also gave Taylor a reason to be careful. Two people making the same promise are useful only if at least one intends to honor it. Their willingness to coordinate what she hears does not prove what either would do with the final HOH.

Taylor had already earned Final Three. The remaining sales job concerned who would sit beside her there, and which of those people might bring her to the final two chairs.

Dee and Devens were trying to make their continued partnership look compatible with Taylor’s individual chances. That is a sensible pitch for them. Taylor still has to judge whether it is a sensible arrangement for her.

After 5 PM BBT — Drew Starts Treating Taylor Like a Potential Winner

Drew told Dee and Devens that Taylor could beat them at the end. His concern was no longer hypothetical: she had just won the competition that none of them could undo.

That did not establish a jury verdict. Drew was making an assessment from inside the house, with the same incomplete information everyone else has about the jurors’ current thinking.

But his reaction showed the immediate change in how he viewed Taylor. A player who could be discussed as the next person to remove was now safe, with a meaningful late-game win to explain on finale night.

The others do not have to believe Taylor played the best overall game to recognize that she has become dangerous. They need to consider her relationships, what she can explain to the jury and whether they would get another chance to stop her.

They lost the chance to do it at Final Four. That part is settled.

Around 6 PM BBT — Drew and Devens Discuss Cutting Dee

The clearest reason not to declare Drew the inevitable next eviction came from Drew’s own conversation with Devens.

They discussed Dee as a difficult person to beat in the final vote. Drew acknowledged that sending her home would be hard. Devens agreed and framed the choice as a situation in which he could not let personal attachment make the decision for him.

That is a very different conversation from Devens being committed to keeping Dee under every possible outcome.

It also complicates Dee’s later confidence that a Devens Veto win would mean Drew leaving. Dee might expect that protection. Devens was giving Drew reasons to expect protection too.

Neither conversation should be mistaken for an eviction that has already happened. The useful information is that Devens was preserving an option with Drew while maintaining his relationship with Dee.

For Drew, the appeal is clear: if Devens genuinely believes Dee is harder to beat, Drew has a reason for Devens to keep him beyond friendship. The risk is equally clear. Drew would be trusting Devens to choose him, then potentially needing to beat the same man he helped preserve.

7:03–7:19 PM BBT — Taylor Gets Her HOH Room and Names Dee and Drew

Taylor received her HOH room shortly after 7 PM. Her letter came from her mother, and her music was Kehlani. After a day that began with Taylor still vulnerable to eviction, she finally had space to enjoy a win that belonged to her.

She also understood the limits of the round’s nomination power. Taylor told the others that Veto would determine the crucial decision, and she individually informed them that she intended to nominate Dee and Drew.

Drew did not turn the nomination conversation into a confrontation. He joked about catching up with Taylor’s trips to the block and acknowledged how little the initial nominations determine at four.

The ceremony followed that evening, leaving Dee and Drew nominated and Devens off the block.

That last distinction needs to stay precise. Devens was not nominated initially. He was not guaranteed safety. If either nominee wins Veto and saves themselves, he becomes the only available replacement.

Taylor is the only person whose Final Three place was secured at this point.

9:45–10:23 PM BBT — Drew and Devens Keep Their Partnership Alive

The night supplied more evidence that Drew and Devens still considered their relationship useful.

They exchanged their finger-gun alliance gesture. Later, they discussed how obvious their partnership had been, including whether nominating one another had made people believe they were less connected. Drew said he had not told people that Devens had volunteered for the block.

By around 10:23 PM, they were again encouraging each other, hugging and looking ahead to the last Veto.

That does not mean neither would ever cut the other. It means the partnership was still being actively maintained after Melody’s eviction and Taylor’s HOH win.

This matters when evaluating Dee’s hope that Drew could remove Devens. She would not be asking him to cut someone he had already abandoned. She would be asking him to break a relationship he continued to reinforce throughout the evening.

There may be a strong argument for Drew to do that. There was not yet a confirmed decision that he would.

10:05–10:06 PM BBT — Drew Counts the People He May Have Upset

Drew’s confidence looked shakier when the discussion turned to the jury.

He worried about his role in LaLa’s eviction. He acknowledged that he had not connected with Angela. He was uncertain about Barrett, although Devens argued that Barrett would support him. Drew also hoped he would have Melody’s vote, while Devens questioned whether that could be taken for granted.

Yash came up too, with Drew acknowledging that their decisions had given him reasons to be unhappy with them.

These conversations are revealing because they show Drew beginning to separate surviving the game from winning it. A competition can keep him in the house. It cannot require the people he helped eliminate to accept his explanation afterward.

That does not mean the jury will be bitter, or that Drew has already lost anyone’s vote. It means he has real decisions to explain. Assuming Barrett will understand, Melody will support him or Yash will respect the move is not a substitute for making a convincing case.

Devens also benefits from Drew seeing him as a manageable final opponent. When the two discuss their chances together, each has an incentive to make the other comfortable with that pairing.

Drew should be testing that assumption as carefully as he tests the women’s jury support. Being reassured by the person who wants you to take him to the end is useful information about his pitch, not independent proof of your chances.

11:50–11:58 PM BBT — Dee Warns Drew About Taylor’s Final Speech

Later, Drew again worried that Taylor could beat them. Dee pushed back against treating defeat as inevitable, but she also warned him about Taylor’s ability to speak.

Her advice was specific: if Drew ended up beside Taylor, he needed a serious, persuasive presentation. Jokes alone would not carry him against someone she considered a strong public speaker.

That was one of the more useful pieces of endgame advice given all night. A finalist has limited time to connect their decisions into a coherent argument. Being involved in a lot of moves does not automatically explain why those moves should earn the money.

Dee encouraged Drew to bring the passion she had seen from him. Drew wanted to win but did not sound certain that he could.

Dee also told him she would rather sit beside him or Devens. That is part of the case she was making to Drew, not a promise that can be removed from the conversation and treated as binding.

The jury projections remained guesses. Taylor’s speaking ability is a legitimate concern; assigning her a fixed collection of votes before the jurors have voted is not.

12:03–12:11 AM BBT — Dee’s Private Plan Has a Devens Problem

Once Dee spoke to the cameras after midnight, the conflict in her thinking became much clearer.

She did not feel that she was going home. She expected Devens to evict Drew if he won Veto. She also believed Taylor would give her the deciding vote if Taylor won and used the Veto on her.

Those expectations describe the protection Dee thinks she has. They do not settle what either player would actually do.

Dee then returned to the problem of beating Devens. She believed he would be exceptionally difficult to defeat and acknowledged that she had damaged relationships on the jury. She said she had been telling Drew he would lose beside Devens.

By 12:09 AM, Dee floated Drew winning Veto and evicting Devens as a potentially ideal outcome.

The appeal is obvious. Dee would advance without personally casting the vote against her longtime ally. Drew would accept responsibility for the eviction, and Devens would no longer be available to win his way into the final two chairs.

But a minute later, when Dee considered winning the power herself, she questioned whether she could evict Devens to his face. She returned to the idea of cutting him at Final Three.

That is the weakness in the plan. Final Three is not a guaranteed opportunity to make the same decision later. Dee would still need the final HOH, or another finalist willing to make the cut. Keeping Devens gives him another chance to win the power that prevents it.

Her reasoning also contained a second problem. Dee recognized that she and Devens had coordinated promises to Taylor about not taking each other to Final Two. Yet she also thought Taylor might want Devens retained because of his promise to take her.

Dee was considering the consequences of a pitch she had helped create. If Taylor believes Devens offers her a better route to the end, persuading Taylor to hand Dee the vote does not necessarily mean Taylor would welcome Dee using it against him.

Dee also considered using her puzzle struggles as an argument for being taken farther. There is logic in making herself look less threatening. But being someone other people want to bring is only half the job. She still needs a winning explanation once she gets there.

If Dee truly believes Devens is the opponent nobody can beat, delaying the cut deserves more scrutiny than the discomfort of making it.

Big Brother 28 Day 77 to Day 78: What Each Veto Result Means

All four remaining houseguests play for the Final Four Power of Veto. Taylor’s HOH safety cannot be removed. The other three are competing for both survival and influence over who joins her.

Veto winner	What happens to the eviction decision
Drew Campbell	If Drew saves himself, Devens replaces him. Drew casts the sole vote between Dee and Devens.
Dee Valladares	If Dee saves herself, Devens replaces her. Dee casts the sole vote between Drew and Devens.
Rick Devens	Devens remains off the block and casts the sole vote between Dee and Drew.
Taylor Brown	Taylor determines the voter through her Veto decision: leave nominations unchanged and Devens votes; save Dee and Dee votes; save Drew and Drew votes. Taylor does not cast the eviction vote.

That is why the initial nominations cannot settle the target discussion. Winning Veto would give Drew or Dee a choice that their current position on the block does not allow. A Devens win would force him to resolve the competing expectations he has encouraged. A Taylor win would require her to decide whose judgment she trusts with the sole vote.

At the coverage cutoff, no Final Four Veto winner had been confirmed. The houseguests expected the competition Tuesday. Their plans were still conditional.

Taylor’s Next Decision Is About the Final Three She Wants

Taylor can enjoy the HOH room without overlooking what comes next. The people offering her a path to Final Two are also discussing whether they can beat her there.

If she wins Veto, choosing the voter means evaluating both the immediate eviction and the pair of opponents left afterward. Saving someone who follows her preferred eviction plan would be useful. Saving someone who then reunites with the other survivor of the vote could leave her needing to win the final HOH herself.

The same scrutiny applies to promises from Dee and Devens. Taylor should consider each person’s individual incentive to take her, rather than treating two similar pitches as twice the security. Drew and Devens’ continuing partnership deserves that scrutiny as well.

Taylor has earned a concrete achievement she can explain to the jury: she won safety when losing would have left her vulnerable. How much credit she receives for the next eviction will also depend on what she does with any additional power she wins and how she explains her influence.

She does not need to pretend she controls every outcome. She needs to make the strongest decision available to her actual position.

1:38 AM BBT — Drew Ends the Night in Melody’s Pod

The final verified overnight entry brought the day back to Melody’s absence.

Drew went to sleep in her pod, carrying his pillow with him. Her name tag was beside his microphone pack on the chair near the bed. Devens had given him the tag earlier in the afternoon after finding it among his things.

It was a quieter ending to a day in which Drew lost a close relationship, missed the HOH and started preparing for another competition that could determine whether he stays.

His attachment to Melody and his continuing partnership with Devens existed alongside each other. The night showed both. Neither should be erased to make his game easier to explain.

Final Thoughts

Taylor’s HOH is the decisive change in this Big Brother 28 Day 77 to Day 78 update. It guarantees her another round and makes the remaining three choose which relationship they can afford to lose.

Drew has reasons to fight for Veto beyond escaping the block. Winning would let him choose his opponent instead of waiting for someone else’s promise to hold. Devens has cultivated enough options to feel comfortable, but those options include people discussing whether he is too dangerous to keep.

Dee’s position is the most revealing. She sees a possible benefit in Drew evicting Devens while admitting she may struggle to do it herself.

If the Veto gives her that choice, she will have to decide whether protecting the relationship is worth giving Devens another chance to end her game.

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September 22, 2026