Ian won Big Brother 14 on 19 September 2012, beating Dan in the final two by a jury vote of 6–1. He took four Heads of Household to get there, every one of them in the closing weeks, and he won the final HOH that let him pick who he sat beside. He came back eight years later for Big Brother 22 All-Stars and was evicted in week six.
- Won: Big Brother 14, 19 September 2012.
- Final vote: 6–1 over Dan. Only Danielle voted the other way.
- Head of Household: four times, including the final HOH.
- Veto: won it on the 6 September double eviction and used it on himself. Frank went up instead and went home.
- Coach twist: voted his own coach, Boogie, out of the house 5–2.
- Returned: Big Brother 22 All-Stars in 2020, evicted 5–3 in week six.
- Billed on finale night as: the boy genius.
How Ian won Big Brother 14
He won the end of the game, not the start of it. All four of Ian’s Heads of Household landed in the last four weeks. The first came on the 23 August double eviction. The second came on the 6 September double. The third came the following week. The fourth was the final HOH.
On that same 6 September double-eviction night he also won the veto and pulled himself off the block. Frank went up in his place and was voted out 3–1. That is the move the season turns on. Frank had taken three Heads of Household of his own and kept pulling himself off the block with vetoes; Ian removed him by saving himself.
At the final four Ian was on the block again and survived when Dan cast the only vote and sent Shane out. Then came the three-part final Head of Household: Dan took part one, Ian took part two, and Ian beat him in part three. He evicted Danielle and chose to sit next to Dan — the returning coach who had spent the summer being the most dangerous player in the house — rather than the easier seat.
The jury went six to one.
- For Ian: Frank, Ashley, Joe, Britney, Shane, Jenn.
- For Dan: Danielle, the seventh and final juror.
- America’s Favourite Houseguest: Frank.
Our live coverage of the night is here: Big Brother 14 finale results. Dan’s jury speech is worth reading beside it — his argument was that being hated had been the plan all along, and it got him one vote.
Ian and Boogie
Big Brother 14 opened with four returning players installed as coaches. The twist collapsed mid-season and the coaches came into the game as players, and on 23 August Ian was one of five votes to evict Boogie, his own coach, 5–2.
He was still relaying what Boogie had said on his way out in the last days of the season.
Ian on the live feeds
Ian is one of the reasons people who watched Big Brother 14 on the feeds remember it differently from people who only watched the episodes. Late nights ran to Bernoulli equations and shout-outs.
Dan spent the final week managing him. In one of the last conversations before the finale, Dan warned him he was about to get “out-chicked” by Danielle in front of the jury, and Ian had to ask what that meant. Days earlier Dan had been telling him to relax about Danielle tainting the jury. Danielle was the only vote Dan got.
Ian on Big Brother 22 All-Stars
He lasted six weeks. Ian came back for Big Brother 22 in 2020. Dani was Head of Household in week six, Da’Vonne used the veto on Kevin, and Ian went up as the replacement nominee. He was evicted 5–3. Da’Vonne, David and Kevin were the three who tried to keep him.
Most of the feed coverage below is from that 2020 run. The season he won is archived under Big Brother 14.
