Kamu Kirk built this backdoor two weeks ago and spent every day since defending it. Thursday night he finally got paid. Mallory Aurichio pulled herself off the block in the Block Buster, the house voted 12-0, and Jason De Puy walked out of Big Brother 28 as the third evictee of the season. Then Julie Chen met him at the door holding a tea kettle, and the whole night turned into something softer than anyone expected.
Mallory Won Video Tape Tumble and Sealed It
The Big Brother 28 Block Buster was Video Tape Tumble, a throwback build where all three nominees raced through a wall of VHS tapes, and it ate roughly half the episode. Mallory, LaTrice Verrett and Jason all had a real path here, and for a stretch it looked like the two strongest competitors in the group were going to decide it between them. Mallory got there first. She took the safety, stepped off the block, and left Jason sitting next to LaLa with nothing between him and the vote.
That was the entire ballgame. Jason’s only realistic exit from this week was winning that comp, and he knew it walking in.
The Vote Was Not Close and Nobody Pretended Otherwise
Twelve houseguests voted. Twelve voted to evict Jason, the third Big Brother 28 eviction of the summer. There was no flip, no dramatic single vote to soften the number, and no last-minute Mallory chaos of the kind the feeds had been fantasizing about all afternoon. The house had settled on this days ago and simply executed it.
The campaign never really materialized either. Jason spent his final stretch doing what he had done all week: naming the plan out loud, telling anyone who would listen that he was being Rome’d, and being entirely correct about it without being able to stop it. Being right early is not a power in this game.
Do Not Touch Me, Kamu
The goodbyes gave the night its sharpest moment. As Jason made his exit, Kamu went in for the hug and got four words back instead: don’t touch me, Kamu. It landed exactly the way Jason intended, and it will be the clip that follows this eviction around all season.
It also crystallized the thing the house has been slow to understand. Kamu’s tea party ambush worked mechanically and cost him something reputationally. He got his target out and inherited every bit of the sympathy Jason accumulated on the way down.
Julie Was Waiting Outside With the Kettle
Then the episode did something Big Brother almost never does. Jason stepped out the door and Julie was standing there holding the tea kettle, the same kettle he had spent days banging through the house after the tea party detonated on him.
Jason had gone out believing the audience was against him. Julie told him it was not true, and that he had finished in the top three in every single BB Time Capsule vote this season. He got emotional. So did a fair chunk of the audience, judging by the episode threads, which spent the next twenty minutes on the fact that a host who is famously prop-free picked up a teapot for one evictee.
For a player whose whole arc was believing the house and the country had turned on him, it was about as generous a landing as an eviction gets. His fans were banging teapots at watch parties. He walked out knowing.
What This Costs the House Going Forward
Jason was the loudest destabilizing force in the Big Brother 28 house and the house just spent a unanimous vote removing him instead of a single actual threat. LaLa stays despite a thin competition record and a strategic position nobody can quite describe. Dee’s quiet control of the middle went completely unexamined on the broadcast. And Rick Devens is still sitting on a Diamond Power of Veto that has not been spent.
The bill for taking out the entertaining player rather than the dangerous one usually arrives around week five, and Big Brother has a long history of proving it.
The Kamu Backlash Is Now Bigger Than the Eviction
Jason’s exit line — “don’t touch me, Kamu” — landed differently once the internet caught up. TMZ reported Thursday that a video Kamu Kirk posted back in December had resurfaced, in which he films a man being arrested outside his residence and mocks the man’s cries for help with a reference to George Floyd. The clip spread fast this week, and the reaction was ugly.
It compounded something feed watchers had already flagged. On the broadcast, Kamu called Jason — a drag queen — his “zesty bestie,” a phrase that fans and Big Brother alum Frankie Grande read as homophobic. Put those together and you get where Big Brother 28 fandom sat by Friday morning: alumni posting, viewers contacting production, and a running demand that CBS remove him from the house.
CBS has not commented. Kamu has not addressed the video. And with his HOH reign over, he is eligible to be nominated for the first time all season.
After the Cameras: Big Brother 28 Week 4 HOH
The Head of Household competition ran late, after the East Coast broadcast wrapped, with 13 houseguests eligible now that outgoing HOH Kamu had to sit out. Haley Thogmartin won it. She is not a Jason sympathizer, she is walking into a house that just proved it will vote as a bloc, and she has a Diamond Power of Veto floating somewhere behind her nominations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who was evicted on Big Brother 28 this week?
Jason De Puy, known to Drag Race audiences as Salina EsTitties, was evicted by a unanimous 12-0 vote. He is the third houseguest out this season.
Who won the BB Block Buster?
Mallory Aurichio won Video Tape Tumble, the Big Brother 28 Block Buster, and removed herself from the block, leaving Jason and LaTrice Verrett as the final two nominees.
What did Julie Chen tell Jason?
That the idea America had turned on him was wrong, and that he placed in the top three of every BB Time Capsule vote this season. She was holding his tea kettle when she said it.
Who is the new Head of Household?
Haley Thogmartin won the Week 4 HOH competition in a late-night comp after Thursday’s episode.
Who still has the Diamond Power of Veto?
Rick Devens. It lets him pull a nominee off the block and name the replacement himself, taking that choice away from the HOH.
When does Big Brother 28 air?
Sundays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8 PM ET on CBS. The season premiered July 9, 2026 and runs through October 1.
