Summer House

**Summer House** is the digital spin-off of the CBS comeptition reality series *Big Brother.* The show would be featured on Paramount + and CBS All Access.

The first season was officially announced during the Season Finale of Big Brother 5. Filming began during Big Brother 6 at the beginning of July, with production officially ending in the middle of August, when the contestants resumed social media activity. On February 8th, the first promo for Season 1 was accidentally leaked on the official YouTube channel revealing the season would premiere on April 19th and revealing several contestants. During the pre-season, America voted for various types of twist every weke hoping to impact the game.

## Casting

Typically, the housemates are chosen via open casting auditions held in different cities throughout the US and Canada. Open Auditions are also held overseas in countries like Australia, United Kingdom and others. From there, the auditionees would undergo a series of closed-door interviews with the network's executives and CBS representatives as part of the selection process every season.

## Format

The series generally constitutes 10 or more contestants original houseguest who live in an isolated house for the summer. Housemates are at all times under the control of Big Brother, a rule enforcing authority figure who monitors the behaviour of the housemates, set tasks and punishments and provides the mechanism for contestants to make external requests.

Housemates must remain in the house at all times, and avoid being evicted by their fellow houseguest with the aim of winning a substantial cash prize at the end of the series. Alternatively, housemates can also be removed from the house if Big Brother feels this is necessary, and can voluntarily leave the show at any time.

The houseguests will compete in Summer/College related competitions where they will earn safety the bottom performers will be at risk of being evicted from The Summer House. The Bottom players will face eviction where their fellow houseguest will vote to evict one of them from the competition and the person who receives the majority of the votes his sent home. As players are eliminated more will enter the game to also compete alongside the other competitors. Towards the end of the game, America and the evicted houseguest will decide who will become a finalist and have a chance to become the winner of Summer House.

## Twist/Changes

* **Less Prize Money:** Unlike the normal broadcast version, *Summer House* featured a cash prize of $100,000.
* **Shorter Season:** Unlike previous seasons, this season lasted only 42 days, making this the second shortest season of the American version of Big Brother.
* **Fan Vote:** There were various Fan Votes to give the viewers power like never before. However all the fan voting was during the pre-season when America didn't know who was gonna be on the cast to make sure there would be no bias in the voting. Except for Finale Night where the fan vote determined the finalist of the season
* **Safety:** For the first time, *Summer House* did not have Nomination Ceremonies. Instead, a Safety Competition took place. At the competiton, only a certain amount of contestant would be revealed safe then the following day the next set of houseguest would be revealed. Leaving the unrevealed players as the nominees for that round.
* **Live Finale:** Although the season was not live, the finale would be, with the houseguest finding out who would be a finalist and compete in the last competition.
* **Returning HouseGuest**: During the offseason, it was announced that either ?? or ?? would enter the *Summer House*. ?? ended up being the contestant who returned for the season.

## Game History

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### Week 1

Monte Massongill
 **HOH**

Jason Roy
 **Pre-Veto NomineePOV**

Kryssie Ridolfi
 **Post-Veto Nominee0 Votes**

Danielle Lickey
 **Nominee1 Vote**

Cornbread Ligon
 **America's NomineeEvicted9 Votes**

To start off the fall, the HouseGuests competed in the "BB Bug" Head of Household competition. After being the last HouseGuest standing, Monte became the first Head of Household of the summer. After being threatened by the returning player, Monte decided to nominate Jason and Danielle for eviction. Cornbread was voted to be America's Nominee, likely because he eliminated Jason from the HOH competition. Jason went on to win the Power of Veto, securing himself a spot in the next week. When Jason used the Power of Veto on himself, Kryssie was put up as the replacement nominee. After convincing Shane that Kryssie was not as big of a threat as Cornbread was, Danielle and Shane decided to flip the vote. Despite Monte and his alliance's efforts to evict Danielle, Cornbread was evicted by a vote of 9–1–0, with Alex casting a vote against Danielle to cause paranoia.