‘Big Brother’ host Julie Chen Moonves.Photo:Sonja Flemming/CBS
Sonja Flemming/CBS
From a live double eviction to zombies entering the game, the Scary-Verse has really shaken up theBig Brotherhouse lately.
While it seemed for a while thatSurvivoralumCirie Fields, along with her alliance members Izzy Gleicher and Felicia Cannon, had been running things, Izzy’s eviction — and the exposure of fake alliances — changed the game, literally.
“I don’t think there’s been genuine alliances formed,” hostJulie Chen Moonvestells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. “There’s been a lot of deception in that house and the bonds just haven’t been as strong. The showmances even feel a little bit [like] just a matter of convenience rather than true love.”
‘Big Brother’ season 25 houseguest Cirie Fields.CBS
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TheBut First, Godauthor thinks that Cory Wurtenberger targeted Cirie’s son Jared when he won Head of Household because “Jared does win games,” she says. “And Cirie not winning game, not as big of a threat.”
The Daytime Emmy winner believes Cory and Cirie hold most of the power right now, with Cory being the one really running the house at this point in the competition.
“He has the gift of being a persuasive speaker,” notes Chen Moonves. “He also has a fair amount of people under his belt, not just America, and that’s a duo right there. I mean, Jag is good at winning games, but he hasn’t been able to steer the direction of the house.”
‘Big Brother’ season 25 houseguest Cory Wurtenberger.CBS
Chen Moonves feels that Jag Bains should be the next target because “Jag is good at winning things,” she says.
Jared and Cameron Hardin got voted out during the double elimination, but returned as zombies with the ability to fight their way back into the game during a week without an HOH or Veto winner.
“The little zombie twists, that kind of stuff, is just a fun thing,” says Chen Moonves. “They don’t necessarily tell me weeks in advance on something like that.”
But Chen Moonves learns about other twists, like a double eviction, “weeks in advance,” she says. “It’s a little bit fluid because we lost someone before the first live eviction show. That also factors in.”
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Julie Chen Moonves talking to Cameron Hardin on ‘Big Brother’ season 25.Sonja Flemming/CBS
At the start of season 25, houseguestLuke Valentinegot eliminated for using the N-word while talking to a group of fellow competitors.
“He broke a rule— and the rule I wish we had that in life: no hate speech,” Chen Moonves explains. “It’s just zero tolerance for that. That is unacceptable. That word really stings me. I can’t imagine anyone using it even casually. I don’t condone it at all.”
“I feel like being on a show likeBig Brother, being an Asian face on a popular reality show, that alone [does] a world of good,” she says. “I feel like there are probably some people who would be like, ‘Oh, but you’re different.’ And it’s like, ‘No, but I’m not different.’ That little signoff at the end is me with my Asian name and my Asian face saying, ‘Love one another.’”
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source: people.com
