Big Brother 2 (US)

**Big Brother 2 (US)** is the second season of *Big Brother (U.S.)*.

The second season was filled with a lot of positive feedback from *Big Brother* fans and a lot of critics around the world. It featured the 2 walks of Veer Chandrashekar and Malcolm Foxx, and a lot of intense gameplay by the 3 front-runners of the season, Rekha Udayakumar, Chantal Lovelace, and Luxx Shook. Despite entering late, Rekha's perfect gameplay, bold decisions, and social skills gave her the win by a unanimous 9-0-0 vote against Luxx and Henry Styles, making Rekha the 2nd person in *Big Brother* history to play a perfect game. For the 2nd time, Rekha managed to win the Fan Favorite award due to her gameplay, making her the first person in *Big Brother* to win Fan Favorite twice, as well as the first winner to be awarded fan favorite.

## Background

### Development

For the development, including the house, there were around 100 cameras and 201 installed around the whole house. The production on the house started around June of 2022 and finished on September of 2022, after builders were given a deadline to complete. The house consists of 4 bedrooms, 1 HOH bedroom, 2 bathrooms, 1 Have-Not room, 1 Living Room and Dining Room, 2 Diary Rooms (One for the HOH to make their nominees), and the backyard. This season there wasn't a specific theme for the house, however, there would be a clash of twists that would shake up the whole game.

### Casting

For the second season of the United States version of Big Brother, around **910,507** people around the entire world applied, as this is a record-breaking application count over other CBS sites such as CBS Network. The applicants had to go through 10 stages in the application process, where 18 letters were finally sent for the second season of the United States version of Big Brother. They wanted to aim for an incredibly diverse cast with many different personalities.

## Twists

* **Audience Immunity:** For week 1, the audience had to vote on 2 people who would gain immunity for the first week, Imani Diabla and Zayne Bezuidenhout won this.
* **Internation Houseguest:** At the jury phase it was announced that Big Brother Canada 1 houseguest, Rekha Udayakumar would be joining the game as the official 19th houseguest.
* **Three Finalists:** This season will feature 3 finalists facing a jury of 9 instead of the usual 2 finalists facing a jury of 9.
* **Winner Chooses Runner-Up:** Due to the 9-0-0 vote, Rekha got the power to choose the runner-up of the season. She chose to make Luxx the Runner-Up over Henry.

## HouseGuests

 **Winner: *Luxx***

 **Runner-Up**

 **Third Place**

 **Jury: *Rekha***

 **Jury: *Rekha***

 **Jury: *Rekha***

 **Jury: *Rekha***

 **Jury: *Rekha***

 **Jury: *Rekha***

 **Jury: *Rekha***

 **Jury: *Rekha***

 **Jury: *Rekha***

 **Evicted**

 **Walked**

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

 **Evicted**

 **Walked**

 **Evicted**

## Trivia

* *Big Brother 2 (US)* is the second season to have the winner win with a unanimous vote, following Big Brother Canada 2
* This season holds the record for the most amount of days, with it lasting for 95 Days, beating Big Brother 1 (US) by 3 days.
* This season is the second season to feature a houseguest from a different version playing on this season, following Big Brother 1 (UK).
* This is the second season where a houseguest won 4 Power of Veto competitions in a row, following Big Brother 1 (US).