Celebrity Big Brother is the American adaptation of Celebrity Big Brother and second spin-off of the United States version of Big Brother . It premiered on CBS on February 7, 2018. [1] The series is hosted by Julie Chen Moonves, [lower-alpha 1] and is produced by Fly on the Wall Entertainment in association with Endemol Shine North America; Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan serve as executive producers. [2]
Celebrity Big Brother, also known as Big Brother: Celebrity Edition, is a reality television spin-off series of the American adaptation of Big Brother created by John de Mol. The series premiered on CBS in the United States on February 7, 2018 and is simulcast in Canada on Global. The series is filmed at CBS Studio Center in sound stage eighteen located in Studio City, Los Angeles. Julie Chen Moonves reprises her role as host from Big Brother with Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan also returning as executive producers. The series is produced by Fly on the Wall Entertainment in association with Endemol Shine North America.
Big Brother is a television reality game show based on an originally Dutch TV series of the same name created by producer John de Mol in 1997. The series follows a diverse group of contestants, known as HouseGuests, who are living together in a custom-built home under constant surveillance. The HouseGuests are completely isolated from the outside world and can have no communication with those not in the house. The contestants are competing for a $500,000 grand prize, with weekly competitions and evictions determining who will win the show. The series takes its name from the character in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The series launched on July 5, 2000, to a successful start, though ratings and critical reaction continued to grow increasingly negative. This led to the second season being a revamp of the show, featuring a more competition-based challenge. The series has since continued to be a hit for CBS, and is the second longest-running adaptation of the series to date, after the Spanish adaptation.
Big Brother is a Dutch reality competition television franchise created by John de Mol Jr., first broadcast in the Netherlands in 1999, and subsequently syndicated internationally. The show features contestants called "housemates" or "House Guests" who live together in a specially constructed house that is isolated from the outside world. The name is inspired by Big Brother from George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, and the housemates are continuously monitored during their stay in the house by live television cameras as well as personal audio microphones. Throughout the course of the competition, they are voted out until only one remains and wins the cash prize.
The Celebrity HouseGuests for the first season were revealed during a live pre-show of the 2018 Grammy Awards on January 28, 2018. [3] [4] [5] The first season began filming on January 31, 2018 and concluded twenty-six days later on February 25, 2018, when Marissa Jaret Winokur and Ross Mathews were announced as the winner and runner-up of the season, respectively. [6] On May 5, 2018, CBS renewed the series for a second season, [7] which premiered on January 21, 2019. [8] Twelve HouseGuests were announced on January 13, 2019, during a commercial break of CBS's NFL football coverage. [9] [10] The second season lasted for twenty-nine days and ended on February 13, 2019, when Tamar Braxton won in a unanimous vote over Ricky Williams. [11]
Celebrity Big Brother, also known as Big Brother: Celebrity Edition, is a spin-off series of the American version of the Dutch reality television franchise Big Brother. This season aired during the winter of the 2017–18 network television season on CBS and was the second U.S. Big Brother season to air outside the usual summer television season, the first being Big Brother 9 in 2008. Julie Chen returned as host, with Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan returning as executive producers. The series is produced by Fly on the Wall Entertainment in association with Endemol Shine North America. The first season premiered on February 7, 2018.
Marissa Jaret Winokur, sometimes credited as Marissa Winokur, is an American actress known for her Tony-winning performance as Tracy Turnblad in the highly successful Broadway musical Hairspray, an adaptation of John Waters's film, as well as her work on the Pamela Anderson sitcom Stacked. Some of her other TV credits include Curb Your Enthusiasm,Moesha,The Steve Harvey Show,Just Shoot Me!,Felicity, and Dharma & Greg.
Ross Mathews is an American television personality known as an intern and a correspondent for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, where he was known as "Ross the Intern".
Twenty-three participants have competed in Celebrity Big Brother, but Anthony Scaramucci was declared to be a fake HouseGuest as part of a twist. [12] The series follows a format similar to the main edition in which players leave the game when they are "evicted" from the house by vote of their fellow HouseGuests. [13] In 2018, Mathews and Jaret Winokur received their own aftershow, Off the Block with Ross and Marissa, that aired alongside the twentieth season of Big Brother. [14] In addition, some of the first season contestants returned for the second season to host competitions. Brandi Glanville previously participated in the twentieth season of the United Kingdom's version of Celebrity Big Brother . [15]
Anthony Scaramucci, nicknamed "The Mooch", is an American financier, entrepreneur and political consultant who briefly served as the White House Director of Communications from July 21 to July 31, 2017.
In television, an aftershow or after-show is a talk show discussing one of the same channel's other television programs, and usually broadcast just after it.
Off the Block with Ross and Marissa is a reality aftershow and spin-off of Big Brother hosted by Ross Mathews and Marissa Jaret Winokur who were both HouseGuests on the first season of Celebrity Big Brother. The show premiered on June 29, 2018 as a Facebook Watch exclusive.
Season | Name | Age | Hometown | Profession | Status | Finish | Ref. |
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CBB 1 | Chuck Liddell | 48 | Calabasas, CA | Retired UFC fighter | Evicted: Day 10 | 11th | [20] |
Keshia Knight Pulliam | 38 | Atlanta, GA | Actress/entrepreneur | Evicted: Day 13 | 10th | [21] | |
Shannon Elizabeth | 44 | Cape Town, South Africa | Actress/conservationist | Evicted: Day 17 | 9th | [22] | |
Metta World Peace | 38 | Los Angeles, CA | Former NBA player | Evicted: Day 20 | 8th | [23] | |
Brandi Glanville | 45 | Los Angeles, CA | Reality television personality | Evicted: Day 24 | 7th | [24] | |
James Maslow | 27 | Venice, CA | Actor/musician | Evicted: Day 24 | 6th | [25] | |
Omarosa Manigault | 44 | Jacksonville, FL | Television personality | Evicted: Day 26 | 5th | [26] | |
Ariadna Gutiérrez | 24 | Miami, FL | Actress/model | Evicted: Day 26 | 4th | [16] | |
Mark McGrath | 49 | Studio City, CA | Musician | Evicted: Day 26 | 3rd | [16] | |
Ross Mathews | 38 | Palm Springs, CA | Television host | Finalist: Day 26 | 2nd | [16] | |
Marissa Jaret Winokur | 44 | Toluca Lake, CA | Actress | Finalist: Day 26 | 1st | [16] | |
CBB 2 | Anthony Scaramucci | 55 | Port Washington, NY | Former White House director of communications/financier | Left: Day 6 | Fake HouseGuest | [12] |
Jonathan Bennett | 37 | Rossford, OH | Actor/Talk show host | Evicted: Day 10 | 11th | [27] | |
Ryan Lochte | 34 | Daytona Beach, FL | 12-time Olympic medal-winning swimmer | Evicted: Day 13 | 10th | [28] | |
Joey Lawrence | 42 | Philadelphia, PA | Actor/producer | Evicted: Day 18 | 9th | [29] | |
Kato Kaelin | 59 | Milwaukee, WI | Actor/host | Evicted: Day 20 | 8th | [30] | |
Natalie Eva Marie | 34 | North Tustin, CA | Former WWE wrestler/Actress | Evicted: Day 24 | 7th | [31] | |
Tom Green | 47 | Ottawa, Ontario | Comedian | Evicted: Day 24 | 6th | [31] | |
Kandi Burruss | 42 | Atlanta, GA | Singer/reality television personality | Evicted: Day 29 | 5th | [17] | |
Dina Lohan | 56 | Long Island, NY | Momager | Evicted: Day 29 | 4th | [17] | |
Lolo Jones | 36 | Baton Rouge, LA | Olympic track and bobsled star | Evicted: Day 29 | 3rd | [17] | |
Ricky Williams | 41 | Venice Beach, CA | Former NFL running back | Finalist: Day 29 | 2nd | [17] | |
Tamar Braxton | 41 | Washington, DC | Singer/reality television personality | Finalist: Day 29 | 1st | [17] | |
Omarosa Onee Manigault Newman, often mononymously known as Omarosa, is an American reality television show participant, writer, and former political aide to President Donald Trump. She became widely known as a contestant on the first season of NBC's reality television series The Apprentice.
Julie Suzanne Chen Moonves is an American television personality, news anchor, and producer for CBS. She has been the host of the U.S. version of the CBS reality-television program Big Brother since its debut in July 2000 and is the longest-serving host of any country's version of the show. Chen Moonves was a co-host and the moderator of the CBS Daytime talk show, The Talk, for eight seasons. Previously, she was a co-anchor of The Early Show on CBS.
Brandi Lynn Glanville is an American television personality, author and former model. In 2011, she became a cast member on the reality television series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills; she was a friend of the housewives in the second season, and was a starring housewife from the third through fifth seasons. She also hosts a podcast called Brandi Glanville Unfiltered and has appeared on Celebrity Apprentice, Celebrity Big Brother, Famously Single, and My Kitchen Rules. She has written two books and is a #1 New York Times bestselling author.
Nicole Ann Franzel is an American television personality who was born in Ubly, Michigan. She graduated from college as an ER nurse in 2014. She is best known for her appearance on Big Brother 16 in 2014 and for winning Big Brother 18 in 2016.
Big Brother 19 is the nineteenth season of the American reality television series Big Brother. It is based upon the Dutch series of the same name. The season premiered on June 28, 2017 on CBS in the United States with a two-hour season premiere and Julie Chen returning as host. The season was titled "Summer of Temptation" with the various contestants able to receive a temptation which gave the taker a surprise reward or game advantage but also unleashed a game change for one or more other players. Viewers at home were able to vote to offer selected chosen players a secret temptation. A weekly opt-in competition, known as the Temptation Challenge, would give the winner immunity from the week's nomination but also put the last-place finisher on the block as a third nominee, able to compete in the weekly Veto Competition and avoid a backdoor nomination.
Big Brother 20 is the twentieth season of the American reality television series Big Brother. It is based upon the Dutch series of the same name.
Celebrity Big Brother 20 was the twentieth series of the British reality television series Celebrity Big Brother, hosted by Emma Willis and narrated by Marcus Bentley. The series launched on 1 August 2017, and concluded on 25 August 2017 after 25 days, making this the shortest series since Celebrity Big Brother 12 in 2013. The series will air on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom and 3e in Ireland. Rylan Clark-Neal will continue to present the spin-off show Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side. It is the thirteenth celebrity series and twentieth series of Big Brother overall to air on Channel 5.
Cody Lee Nickson is an American reality television personality, best known for competing in Big Brother 19 and winning The Amazing Race 30 with his then fiancée Jessica Graf. Previously, Nickson served in the United States Air Force and United States Marine Corps.
Jessica Furtado Nickson is an American reality television personality, actress, and model. She first came to national prominence after competing in Big Brother 19, where she placed twelfth. After Big Brother, she went on to win The Amazing Race 30 with her fellow Big Brother competitor and then-fiancé Cody Nickson.
Celebrity Big Brother 2 is the second season of the American reality television series Celebrity Big Brother, also known as Big Brother: Celebrity Edition, premiered on CBS on January 21, 2019 and concluded on February 13, 2019. It consisted of thirteen episodes, each approximately 60–120 minutes long, with Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan as executive producers for Fly on the Wall Entertainment, in association with Endemol Shine North America. CBS ordered the season on May 12, 2018 and confirmed it for a mid-season return when the network revealed its 2018–19 fall schedule on May 16, 2018. The network confirmed on November 27, 2018 that Julie Chen Moonves would continue her role as host despite media speculation that she may not return after her husband Les Moonves' departure from CBS Corporation due to sexual misconduct allegations against him.