“I feel like shit… Because I didn’t get it.” -Dee “Oh, you’ll get it next week. We’re too powerful.” -Deven

Veto day on Big Brother 28 opens with the block comparing notes: Melody Morris and Taylor Brown discover Haley Thogmartin gave them the same speech word for word, and Mallory Aurichio guesses at the pawn plan without knowing how right she is. Upstairs, Dee Valladares admits she slipped and told Barrett Pfeiffer that Drew Campbell is the real target, while Rick Devens — secretly holding the Diamond Power of Veto — consoles her that America skipped them because they’re “too powerful.” Haley and Kamuela “Kamu” Kirk lock the plan: keep nominations the same, and Lyric goes up if anyone forces a renom.

“She said if she wins veto, she’s not pulling me off.. which means I’m a nominee, not a pawn.”

Big Brother 28 spoilers: nominated alongside Melody Morris and Taylor Brown, Drew Campbell spends the night hunting for reassurance. He tells Kamuela “Kamu” Kirk that Haley Thogmartin gave him no heads up and that her refusal to pull him off with the veto makes him a nominee, not a pawn — then asks Kamu directly whether he’d use the veto to save him. Kamu says he would. Upstairs, Haley walks Drew through the same pawn reasoning and he leaves saying there’s no bad blood. Downstairs, Mallory Aurichio, Melody and Drew close the night on old punishments and a Nine Inch Nails song about control.

Nomination Results! Melody “If I have to be the poster kid for hating Haley, I will be because I don’t like her. .”

Bedroom – Melody, Mallory and Lyric
Melody – She heard me talking sh*t about her last night. Lyric – how did she find out? Melody – Someone told her. Lyric – Not me! Melody – No, someone definitely overheard me talking sh*t the whole f**king night. If I have to be the poster kid for hating Haley, I will be because I don’t like her. I will tell everyone that and I told her that to her face. Lyric – you told her to her face? Melody – I said Yes, I said those things about you. Yes I said I would put you up on the block. It just cracks me up because she was the one that orchestrated the whole Rome sh*t. Nobody even really knew until she started asking everybody. Like Kamu has a crush on you and you’re mad like maybe I’m just being a b*tch again but seriously I mean.. What is this achieving for your game? Mallory – I think I would be the replacement nominee. Lyric – I don’t know.

“She comes in here all chippity-happity, motherf—ing skippy-doo-doo.” – Haley

Haley Thogmartin, Rick Devens, Chuk Anyanwu, Angela Murray and Dee Valladares lock down the Big Brother 28 HOH room and plan the week: Drew Campbell goes up as a “pawn” who is actually the target. Angela architects the blindside — reassure Drew, keep nominations the same if anyone wins the Power of Veto, and let him walk into it. Haley replays quoting Melody Morris’s trash talk back to her face, Devens confirms he and Kamuela “Kamu” Kirk both want Drew out, and Yash Patel has turned on Drew after learning about the Four Seasons alliance. Mallory Aurichio is safe from nominations — but nobody promised her anything about a backdoor.

“I have bases loaded. And I’m up to bat.” – Haley

Haley Thogmartin runs back-to-back one-on-ones the morning after winning Head of Household on Big Brother 28, and nearly everyone leaves with a different story. LaTrice “Lala” Verrett learns Taylor Brown was campaigning for Jason De Puy. Rick Devens gets the full debrief and tells her to keep driving wedges in. Barrett Pfeiffer gets floated as a pawn and refuses. Drew Campbell leaves convinced he is safe. Meanwhile Kamuela “Kamu” Kirk pitches Haley, then Dee Valladares, on scrapping the pawn plan entirely and making Drew the target so Lyric can replace him in the Tool Shed. Barrett walks into that conversation midway through.

“She wants Taylor out… So she wants to nominate Taylor and Melody and Drew”

Haley Thogmartin wins Head of Household on Big Brother 28 and by 1:15 am Rick Devens already has her full plan: Taylor Brown is the target, Melody Morris and Drew Campbell go up beside her, and LaTrice “Lala” Verrett gets backdoored. Devens and Dee Valladares agree to hide The Wolf Pack from Angela Murray and deny the secret power to everyone, Haley included. Then Haley takes meetings until nearly four in the morning. Lyric offers to nominate Mallory Aurichio and Melody if asked. Mallory gets told she’s safe. Melody apologizes for a week of trash talk, then admits she would have nominated Haley.

HALEY WON Head Of Household! “If you have been talking sh*t about me? Don’t even f**king bother coming in.”

Lounge Room – Melody and Barrett
Melody – Those same people are never gonna see the block for the fourth f**king week. I’m f**king mad right now that sucks. Up once again. Barrett – Its just a stupid f**king game show. Melody – Yeah, true. Barrett – And just pretend like you’re not playing. That’s what I do. Like when I’m hanging out with you, should I just sit on the blanket and it’s easier just to be like, f**k this. So let’s just talk about anything else right now. But it also helps that we make fun of the same people. Melody – True.

“I give Devin credit because he did that sh!!. He opened that b**h up…. It was raw…. It was ugly….”

8pm Outside the HOH Room – Drew and Mallory
Drew to Mallory – you are so amped right now. Mallory – I know. I just want to start. Drew – Barrett was so stressed for you. Mallory – Yeah, I know. Drew – Barrett loves you. Mallory – And I
love Barrett too. Drew – Don’t we all, though? Mallory – Barrett made me think I was going to go home. Drew – Why? Mallory – Because he was so stressed. Drew – I think. Like, bro, Remember Me last week? I was so stressed out for Melody. Mallory – Yeah, but Melody was going to be fine. Drew – I know. But still, I don’t know if like, I was going to get double blindsided. Mallory – yeah. I was really, I was really stressed. I just thought people were going to flip. It would have only taken a couple of people. Drew – Oh I know, Taylor there. Mallory – With Taylor there, Taylor, Haley and Chuk.. it would have taken three more people. Drew – to tie it and then it would have been bad news. Bad news bears! Mallory – Dee, Devens, Angela. Drew – I think Melody was worried about me. Mallory – I was worried about everyone. I was like everyone was going to flip on me.

“Block wh*re over here with a bunch of block virgins” — Mallory

Big Brother 28 spoilers: a full recap of Week 3 on the BB28 live feeds, from Kamu’s backdoor plan through the tea party house meeting he rehearsed line by line to the vote count that quietly fell apart Wednesday night. Rick Devens is holding a Diamond Power of Veto nobody knows about, Taylor has told Jason De Puy she can’t vote against LaTrice, and two new alliances formed this week that the episodes haven’t shown — The Wolf Pack and the Giggle Girls.

“Barrett is not a competitive threat. He is not a social threat. He’s not an influence. He is just very tall.”

Big Brother 28 spoilers: Kamu, Yash and Dee form a new four-person alliance on the BB28 live feeds, then bring Rick Devens in — and Dee walks away believing she recruited him, when Devens engineered the whole approach himself. They name it The Wolf Pack. Elsewhere, Devens confronts Drew over inventing a red corner versus blue corner rivalry for no reason, and Drew folds mid-argument and agrees to vote Mallory Aurichio out. Angela Murray, Haley and Dee Valladares name Taylor as their target if their side wins the next Head of Household. And Yash and Chuk agree to vote with the house on Mallory versus LaTrice rather than pick a side.

“I’m like, bro, we have the numbers for Mallory, and you are the determinator.”

Big Brother 28 spoilers: Jason De Puy is sitting alone on purpose, and on the BB28 live feeds he explains why — the more ostracized he looks, the less the other side counts votes. He’s handed his whole campaign off, with Melody Morris working Drew Campbell and Taylor working Yash. Melody and Mallory Aurichio then hit the same wall from the other side: nine votes to keep Mallory over LaTrice, but only six to keep Jason, because Drew won’t budge. Mallory drafts a warning to Taylor and admits she can’t make it sound like anything but a threat. Later, Lyric raises Kamu herself — he’s more her type — before catching herself three weeks after Rome.