DeSales Big Brother: All-Stars

**DeSales Big Brother: All-Stars** is the third season of DeSales Big Brother, and the fourth season of Johnston-hosted Big Brother games overall.

## Background

### Development and Casting

Initial messages gauging interest in competing on All-Stars were sent out to a select few former HouseGuests, starting on May 24, 2022. As interest grew, more casting invitations were sent out on a rolling basis, dependent on responses from the prospective All-Stars (no more than 13 invitations could be pending at a time). The season was not announced online until June 3, 2022, after 12 All-Stars had already confirmed their participation. Peyton McPeak was the only All-Star to be added to the cast after the initial season announcement (but before the cast reveal).

### Theme

The theme for this season is **The High Life**-- fame, money, and power. Examples of competitions designed to reflect this theme include Farming for Likes, Knight Moves: Red Carpet Edition, BB Fashion Week, and others.

## Twists

* **All-Stars:** For the first time, all of the HouseGuests this season are veterans from past DeSales Big Brother seasons. These include former jury members, pre-jury evictees, runners-up, and even winners.
	+ **CSW Big Brother Returnees:** On Day 1, the first 10 HouseGuests (all from Seasons 1 and 2 of DeSales Big Brother) were shocked by the revelation of three additional HouseGuests: Lucia Pastor, Evan Graham, and Peyton McPeak from CSW Big Brother entered the house to join the competition.
* **The Saboteur:** On Day 1, It was revealed that one of the 13 HouseGuests was not actually there to win the game. Instead, they are secretly the Big Brother Saboteur, and it is their goal to wreak as much havoc as possible on the other HouseGuests for a limited time, before eventually exiting the game on an undisclosed date (this was Day 22). This person would still be eligible to vote and win competitions, just like any normal HouseGuest. If the Saboteur is evicted prior to their scheduled exit date, the HOH who nominated them will be rewarded with safety the following week. The secret Big Brother Saboteur was Emily. Multiple times throughout each week, Emily would be given a choice as to either how to sabotage, or who to sabotage. Some of these sabotages unleashed temporary twists onto the game.
* **BB Bonus Wheel:** The HouseGuests were told that on Day 2, at two random but predetermined times between 10:00 p.m. and midnight, the BB Bonus Wheel would appear in the HOH room. When this happens, everyone present in the HOH room (minus the HOH, if applicable) would have their names placed on the wheel, and the wheel would spin. Whoever the wheel lands on will receive a bonus power during Week 1: the BB Fast Forward.
	+ **BB Fast Forward:** The two winners chosen by the BB Bonus Wheel receive the BB Fast Forward, meaning there are safe for the week, and they much each choose one other HouseGuest to share their safety with. They will each have only 24 hours to decide with whom to share their safety.
* **"CHOOSE THEIR FATE" Twist:** On Day 28, a message appeared on the DeSales Big Brother Instagram story, which read CHOOSE THEIR FATE and two symbols: a large key (labelled A), and a veto symbol (labelled B). Below this was a poll box for HouseGuests and viewers to vote for either A or B, and underneath read the message, "No explanation. Just make a choice..." The next three days, a voting box appeared for HouseGuests and viewers to vote for one HouseGuest to receive a mystery power. The first two days of voting took place prior to the Week 4 double eviction. The third day of voting took place after the double eviction, and thus the two people evicted that night were disqualified from the vote. The HouseGuests were informed that all votes cast on the third day of voting would count double. The person who won this vote would be granted a special power, the nature of which being determined by the results of the first vote between options A or B.
	+ **Option A: HOH Key:** If this option is chosen, the winner of the vote will automatically be named Co-Head of Household for the week along with the current HOH. Both Co-Heads of Household will be safe for the week, nominate one HouseGuest each for eviction (and name the replacement nominee if their nominee is saved with the Power of Veto), and will be unable to compete in the next week's HOH competition. This option won the community vote.
	+ **Option B: Veto Medallion:** If this option is chosen, the winner of the vote will be granted a Secret Power of Veto. The Secret Power of Veto works like another standard Power of Veto, and can be used at the conclusion of either of the next two Veto ceremonies (regardless of whether or not the standard Veto was used). The holder cannot tell anyone that they have the Secret Power of Veto prior to using it; otherwise, they will instantly lose it. If it is not used at either of the next two Veto ceremonies, the Secret Power of Veto will expire. This option lost the community vote, so it was not implemented. The HouseGuests did not learn of what this power would have done until finale night.
* **Two Double Evictions:** For the first time, this season featured not one, but two double evictions-- one during Week 4, and another during Week 6. After the first eviction took place, the HouseGuests were forced to play a week's worth of game in one night, culminating in a second eviction for the week.

## Competition History

*Main article: List of competitions by season*

## Voting History

**Notes**

* Note 1: □ On Day 2, the BB Bonus Wheel was set to appear at two random times and randomly award a power to one HouseGuest out of those present. After being present when the BB Bonus Wheel appeared and being chosen by the spin of the wheel, Evan and Lucia were awarded the BB Fast Forward; they were both immune from nomination for the week and were each instructed to share the Fast Forward with another HouseGuest; Evan chose Nicole, and Lucia chose Kylie.
* Note 2: Peyton was given a penalty vote for eviction after being absent from the first Eviction meeting without warning.
* Note 3: □ Emily was secretly the Big Brother Saboteur, who was to perform various tasks to disrupt the lives of the other HouseGuests. She was set to leave the game on Day 22 if she was not evicted in the first two weeks. She was not evicted, and thus left the game on Day 22. Had she been evicted, the HOH that nominated her would have earned safety the following week.
* Note 4: As the Saboteur, Emily hijacked Evan’s nominations ceremony, putting up a special third nominee. Emily chose Sammi to be the third nominee - this nomination is shown in **bold**. Sammi was given the chance to submit a guess as to the Saboteur’s identity, and if Sammi’s guess was correct, her nomination would be nullified. Sammi’s guess (Bobby) was incorrect, so she remained on the block. As Sammi was nominated by the Saboteur and not the HOH, her using the Veto on herself did not call for a replacement nominee.
* Note 5: □ A discrepancy was discovered following the Week 4 Head of Household competition, which indicated that Molly was the rightful winner of the competition over Kylie. Because the error was first discovered soon before nominations, as a compromise the two were initially offered to become Co-Heads of Household; however, Molly offered to let Kylie remain the sole HOH. Kylie agreed to this and remained HOH, while Molly was given safety for the week.
* Note 6: This week was a double eviction week. Following the first eviction, the remaining HouseGuests played a week's worth of games—including HOH and Veto competitions and Nomination, Veto and Eviction ceremonies—during the remainder of the meeting, culminating in a second eviction for the week.
* Note 7: □ For winning the "CHOOSE THEIR FATE" fan vote, Lucia was named Co-Head of Household, earning the right to make one of the nominations and replacement, if necessary. Her nominations are shown in **bold**.
* Note 8: During the finale, the jury members voted for which finalist should win DeSales Big Brother All-Stars.

## Memory Wall

* After Premiere
* Before Premiere

## Trivia

* This is the only season to...
	+ ...have two double evictions.
	+ ...not feature the Prize Swap or Love Letter Laboratory competitions.
* This is the first season to not give out a "Favorite HouseGuest" award at the finale. This would continue to be the case for Season 3.
* This season saw quite a few instances of *déjà vu* from past seasons.
	+ Four All-Stars got the same placement as their original season: Peyton (12th place), Bobby (9th place), Sammi (3rd place), and Lucia (1st place).
	+ Just like on Season 1, Molly and Sammi were the last two standing in the OTEV competition.
	+ Just like on Season 1, Nicole was evicted sitting next to Molly on the block, after receiving 2 of 3 eviction votes.
	+ Just like on Season 2, Moriah and Gabby were nominated alongside one another during a double eviction.
		- Both times, the one that survived the double eviction went on to be the runner-up of the season.