Big Brother HOH Winner

Who won Head of Household on Big Brother, week by week, written from the live feeds as it happened. Every HOH competition result and what the winner did with the power.

Big Brother crowns a new Head of Household nearly every week, and the winner runs the week: they are safe from eviction, they move into the HOH room, and they name the two houseguests who go on the block. Every HOH result of the season is below, newest first, written from the live feeds as it happened.

When is the HOH competition on Big Brother?

The Head of Household competition runs on Thursday night, straight after the live eviction. The live feeds are cut for it, which is why the feeds go quiet on Thursday evenings and come back with a winner already crowned. From there the week runs to a fixed shape:

  • Thursday night — live eviction, then the HOH competition
  • Friday — the nomination ceremony
  • Saturday — the veto competition
  • Monday — the veto ceremony
  • Thursday — the live eviction, and it starts again

What does the Head of Household actually win?

Safety and the power to nominate, and those two things are worth more than anything else handed out in a normal week.

  • Safety for the week. The HOH cannot be nominated during their own reign.
  • The HOH room. A private bedroom, a bathroom, a bed nobody else is allowed in, and a basket of things from home — plus the letter, which is usually the moment the season stops being a game show for an hour.
  • Two nominations. Made at the Friday ceremony, and the reason everybody in the house spends Friday morning in that room.
  • A replacement nomination if the veto is used, which is where the backdoor lives.

What the HOH does not get is a vote. The Head of Household sits out the eviction and only votes to break a tie.

Can the HOH win two weeks in a row?

Not back to back. The outgoing Head of Household is barred from the next HOH competition, which is the rule that stops one player running the house for a month and the reason a strong competitor often has to spend a week exposed. They are eligible again the week after.

The exception is the endgame. At the final three the three-part Final HOH runs on different rules, and the winner does not nominate — they evict, and they choose who sits beside them on finale night.

Where to find every HOH result

Every Head of Household competition OnlineBigBrother has covered is tagged on this page, in order, going back through the seasons. For the rules in full — competition types, the lockdown, what happens when a power overrides the HOH — see the Head of Household guide. For what the HOH does with the power once they have it, there is the nominations page and the Power of Veto.

Current-season spoilers as they happen are on today’s Big Brother spoilers.

TAYLOR WON Part 1 of the 3 Part HOH Competition! “We just like to make things harder on ourselves. We’re DREW-MATIC.”

Dawg 33 Comments

10:47pm – 11:15pm Kitchen – Drew and Devens. Taylor is in the diary room.
Drew – Its feeling a lot like last season.
Devens – Don’t get in your head about it.
Drew – And I’m Vince. You crack me up though.. You’re just like me when I lose.
Devens – frustrated but I got it together quick.
Drew – You did like. All right, let’s go. She crushed it. It’s like, I can’t be mad. She was just good.
Devens – She did great. She earned it.
Drew – Like that’s the things. Like, she was just good. I’m just mad that I sucked
Drew – just makes it that much more exciting, keep everybody on their toes till the end of the season.
Devens – MMmmhhmmm.
Drew – We just like to make things harder on ourselves.
Devens – Love the Drama.
Drew – That’s us. We’re DREW-MATIC.

Big Brother 28 Week 11 in Review: Drew Holds the Last Vote

Simon 9 Comments

Seven houseguests started the week and four are left. The double eviction took Barrett and Yash, Devens broke a 1–1 tie to send Melody to the jury on Monday, and Taylor won the final four Head of Household. Drew won the last veto, so tonight he casts the only vote, and his options are Dee and Devens. Plus the Wall: Devens had his best week since July, and Drew passed Dee for the first time since early September.

Big Brother 28 Week 10 in Review: The Week the Newbies Ate Themselves

Simon 4 Comments

Tonight is a double eviction — seven houseguests become five. Yash won his first Head of Household and used it to nominate three of his own side. Drew answered by standing in the Pressure Cooker for fourteen hours and nineteen minutes, cutting a deal at two in the morning to win it, and leaving Taylor in the seat he vacated. By midweek Barrett was asking the two Icons he nominated last Friday to keep him, and being told the doors weren’t closed — which is not the same as being told yes. Plus the Wall’s cleanest result of the season: every Icon up, every newbie down, seven for seven.

Big Brother 28 Week 8 in Review: The Week the Feeds Went Dark

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The feeds went dark on Thursday night and came back on Saturday afternoon to a greyed-out photo, a Head of Household already crowned and a block already set. Haley was gone, eliminated by a four-contest medieval gauntlet with no vote, no nomination ceremony and nothing on camera — the house has not talked it through out loud since. Drew won his first HOH and nominated the three players who had spent Week 7 saying they wanted the Icons out. Yash won the veto and used it on himself, and Devens volunteered for the empty seat before anyone asked him. Now Barrett is quietly counting votes to blindside him, Dee cannot decide whether she can pull the trigger, and Devens is telling the two people organising it that he feels too comfortable. Devens, Lala and Taylor play the Blockbuster tonight, and whoever loses the vote opens the jury.

Big Brother 28 Week 7 in Review: The Target Changed and Nobody Was Told

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Dee won her second Head of Household and spent $5,000 buying the one player who was hunting her. Six days later that player is organising the group that wants to blindside her, the target she has been naming all week is not the target, and Barrett has told Melody and Mallory outright that he and Drew have been with the Icons since the start. Drew, Taylor and Mallory play the Blockbuster tonight.