Dee Valladares turned the big brother schedule on its head in Week 1 of Big Brother 28, winning the first Head of Household and putting Mallory Aurichio, Taylor Brown, and Yash Patel on the block. The opening move came after live feeds officially opened Friday night, giving viewers the first real read on who held power.
Rick Devens and Angela Murray
Dee got there after getting past Rick Devens and Angela Murray, then moved into a 13-houseguest decision pool because Chuk Anyanwu, Jason De Puy, and Rome Seymour had already locked up safety during the Night 1 time travel competitions. That left the first HOH with a narrow but consequential choice set: three names to target, three players already unavailable, and the rest waiting to see where the week would land.
Week 1 nominations
Mallory Aurichio, Taylor Brown, and Yash Patel now face the first real pressure point of Big Brother 28. In a season that still has its opening shape to define, Dee’s nominations set the early order of play before anyone else could build a public case for safety.
Old-school Big Brother logic says winning HOH in Week 1 is a rookie mistake, but recent seasons have shown the opposite can be true. The first power holder can either become the season’s easy target or dictate the first voting map; Dee chose the second path, and the first block already tells the house which way the numbers are leaning.
Survivor 45 crossover
Dee also arrives with a built-in storyline as the Survivor 45 winner, but the immediate business here is simpler: first power, first nominations, first test of whether the house reshuffles around the new HOH or keeps its early loyalties intact. The question now is how much these Week 1 nominations move before eviction, if they move at all.
