‘Big Brother’ Reveals Rachel Reilly as Season 27’s Mystery Houseguest
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[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for the premiere of Big Brother Season 27.]
We’ve been expecting the unexpected for years, but nothing could have prepared us for this Big Brother twist.
Leading up to the premiere of Big Brother Season 27, which marks the franchise’s 25th year on air, CBS teased that their newest season would be chock-full of twists and turns. From a The Traitors-esque hotel setting to the revival of last season’s second chance arena, Big Brother: A Summer of Mystery is already shaping up to be their most dramatic season yet. However, no twist has been more heavily teased than Season 27’s mystery houseguest.
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Once “The Hotel Mystère,” better known as the Big Brother house, was full, the countdown was complete, and Julie Chen Moonves had vanished. Suddenly, the sixteen contestants were faced with a masked visitor named The Mastermind. After a heroic mission to rescue Moonves and the HoH relic, the Mastermind revealed that a new houseguest would join the house. Suddenly the houseguests came face-to-face with Rachel Reilly, a former contestant best known for winning Season 13.
Before the season 27 premiere, many fans speculated that the mystery houseguest could be anyone from Celebrity Big Brother UK star JoJo Siwa to a Big Brother newcomer like Tom Sandoval from Vanderpump Rules. Viewers even hypothesized that this season, the host herself, Julie Chen Moonves, would join the cast as a contestant.
At the end of Night 1, the Mastermind revealed that Rachel Reilly was not officially the 17th houseguest; instead, the Mastermind admitted to having an “accomplice” hidden among the contestants. If the real contestants can guess the Mastermind’s “accomplice,” the contestant with a hidden agenda would be booted from the house, leaving Rachel and the remaining 15 contestants to duke it out for the rest of the summer.
Are you excited to see Rachel Reilly take Big Brother Season 27 by storm? Sound off in the comments below and let us know who you think the “accomplice” is!
Big Brother, Season 27, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays at 8/7c, CBS.
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Enough is enough with the Rachel crap. BB is getting ridiculous. You have a great show and your ruining it. Rachel needs to GO!!!
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She doesn't belong there. Time to not invite her any more.
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Come on guys what are you thinking I have watched BB since the beginning and the last 3 seasons have gone down hill get back to the way the early seasons worked all this nonsense is causing us to stop watching
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Can't stand her she had her time in spotlight see bb next year
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Rachel needs to go home. She's is on the Mt. Rushmore of Most Annoying Players of All Time. Hopefully the House gang up on her until she's gone.
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Having Rachel on this season, made me stop watching maybe I’ll see what’s on next season instead nauseating woman.
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Big Brother is over-produced and it's adversely impacting the quality of the show. The strength of the show has always been a our getting 16-20 people from vastly different walks in a house, cutting them off from the world, and then letting the social experiment begin.
That was it. It was simple and incredibly entertaining as personalities clashed and the stress of being around people who were outside your daily clique was magic.
But this season, like the last half dozen seasons-plus, seem to be putting the emphasis on realizing the set dressing and justifying the cost to turn the house into a mysterious hotel. The more this happens, the more marginalized the strength of the show—the mishmash of conflicting personalities and life experiences.
To be fair, the show has always been bashed for its undertones of racism a misogyny. The producers. Clearly tried to remedy this by over-engineering the casting process, leaving us with a cast of beautiful and diverse people with the personality of picket lint.
From first blush, I can sense the presence of CBS tinkering with the formula by concocting twists and outlandish themes that seem downright cartoonish. When Big Brother works, it's because of the cast, and when it fails, historically, it's been because of the cast. But now, with last year's malevolent AI, and this year's Saw-meets-fortune-teller-from-Big villain, it's no wonder producers are trotting in a past-her-prime Rachel O'Reilly.
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