The house spent six weeks telling each other Angela Murray could not win a competition. On Thursday night, with her own game on the line, she won the one that mattered and walked off the block.
Kamu Kirk went home 8 to 1, and the single vote against Haley Thogmartin came from the person nobody expected.
Angela Won the Block Buster
All three nominees played, which is how this format works. The winner comes off the block and the remaining two face the live vote.
Angela beat Kamu and Haley, and she looked genuinely stunned doing it. That reaction was earned. She had been treated all season as the returning player least likely to win anything physical, and the house had built its entire vote math around that assumption.
How Space Race Worked
The competition put each nominee inside an air powered gravity chamber with colored balls swirling around them. They had to capture and deposit ten red balls into the red tube and ten yellow into the yellow tube, then hit a buzzer.
Misplacing a ball meant opening a hatch and resetting it, which cost real time. It is a comp that punishes grabbing at the air and rewards patience, and the winning approach is to stay low and collect off the floor rather than chase what is flying past your head.
The Vote Was 8 to 1
Eight houseguests voted to evict Kamu: Rick Devens, Taylor Brown, Mallory Aurichio, Melody Morris, Drew Campbell, Barrett Pfeiffer, Angela and Dee Valladares.
That is a wider margin than the week suggested. Going into Thursday there was real talk of a split vote, and two people had spent days privately debating whether to break from the group. When the moment came, neither did.
LaTrice Was the One
LaTrice Verrett cast the only vote to evict Haley. She was the lone dissent in a nine person vote, and she did not know she would be alone until the votes were read.
That is the detail worth sitting with. In a house of eleven, one person was operating on information everyone else had already discarded, and the broadcast let that land without softening it.
Kamu Took It Better Than Most
He was gracious on the way out, which is not the norm for a blindside of this size. He credited the move rather than attacking it, saying he thought he had maneuvered well but that the Diamond Power of Veto got him and that it was a good move.
Speaking with Julie Chen Moonves, he correctly identified LaTrice as his one vote before being told. He said Devens activating the Diamond had effectively made Devens the Head of Household for the week and that the power changed everything, and he called it the time of his life. He also said he would come back and play again.
One Power Decided the Entire Week
The episode built its first act around it, and correctly. Yash Patel won Head of Household, nominated three people and won the veto himself, and none of that determined who went home.
Devens had been holding the Diamond Power of Veto since the third week of the season. He used it to pull Dee off the block and personally install Kamu in her place, overriding the Head of Household entirely. We broke down that ceremony in the Episode 21 recap.
The timing mattered too. Devens had roughly two weeks left on the power before it expired, which is the pressure that turned a held card into a played one. Sitting on it another week would have meant losing it entirely.
The House Came Apart on Camera
The middle of the episode was devoted to how badly the week’s information war went for everyone in it.
Kamu revealed that Dee was holding the BB Bribe, spending that intelligence to scrounge votes he never got. Yash spread misinformation about the conditions attached to Dee’s power. And Melody worked out that Barrett had been playing both sides, which damaged her trust with Mallory in the process. Almost every strategic move shown on Thursday backfired on the person who made it.
The Head of Household Competition Did Not Air
Julie sent them into the next competition and the show ended without a winner. That result was not part of Thursday’s broadcast.
It goes to Sunday, which is a supersized two hour block starting with Big Brother: Unlocked and rolling into the regular episode. That is where the Week 7 Head of Household will be revealed on television.
What Thursday actually established is that this house has a majority now, and that the majority is willing to lie to its own Head of Household to protect a vote. That is a different game than the one being played through the first month, and everyone still in it watched the demonstration.
Kamu leaves pre jury, which means no vote at the end and no return to the stage on finale night. For a player who spent six weeks near the center of every major decision in the house, that is an abrupt way to finish.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who was evicted on Big Brother 28 this week?
Kamu Kirk, by a vote of 8 to 1, on Thursday, August 20. He left before jury.
Who won the BB Block Buster?
Angela Murray, in a competition called Space Race, which took her off the block.
Who voted to evict Haley?
LaTrice Verrett, the only vote against Haley in a nine person vote.
What did Kamu say on his way out?
He credited the Diamond Power of Veto, said Devens had effectively become the Head of Household, called it the time of his life, and said he would play again.
Who is the new Head of Household?
The competition was not completed on air Thursday. The result airs Sunday, August 23.
When is the 1000th episode?
Thursday, August 27, a ninety minute live show with returning houseguests chosen by fan vote and what CBS is calling the biggest twist of the summer.
