The Celebrity Coven 1 (US)

**The Celebrity Coven 1 (US)** is the first season of *The Celebrity Coven (U.S.)*, and the third official season of *The Reality Channel* franchise.

## Background

### Development

After the huge success of The Coven US, the producers decided to do a celebrity version of the series, due to the high ratings and a lot of the viewers wanting to see a lot more of The Coven seasons.

Every week, the players compete in a Proprietor competition wherein the winner will be named as the Proprietor. The Proprietor gains safety for the week along with its perks such as having his/her own private suite and gifts/photos from home. However, the Proprietor also gains the responsibility to name two nominees that will face banishment. In the nomination ceremony, the Proprietor must announce his/her nominees to the rest of the houseguests and must state valid reasons for their nomination often through a speech. Throughout the week, the nominees are allowed secure their safety by encouraging and influencing other houseguests to save them against their fellow nominee.

However a special power, called the Tenant, gives the nominees chance to remove themselves off the block. All houseguests are allowed to compete in a Tenant competition and the winner will have the power to save a nominee, prompting the Proprietor to replace a nominee. If the Tenant Winner decides not to use the veto, the nominations will remain the same.

As the format allows housemates to strategize, the most of the housemates have formed alliances during their time in the house to further themselves in the game. An alliance is a group of housemates that are considered loyal to each other by working together throughout the game.

During the live banishment, the houseguests must individually go to the Diary Room to cast their banishment vote and the nominee with the highest amount of votes will be banished. In addition, the Proprietor is not allowed to cast a vote, unless there has been a tie.

The Jury is a council usually consisting of 7 to 11 houseguests that have been banished out of the game, and they have the responsibility to select the winner at the end of the season.

Usually when it comes to finale night, 2 or 3 people will face the jury, and they jurors will vote for one of them to become the winner. The final eviction sometimes take place days earlier, and others it takes place the same day as the finale.

### Casting

Instead of regular civilian houseguests, a group of celebrity houseguests will enter the house to compete. This season the producers made up a cast of 12 celebrities to enter the house for a shot at winning a smaller $50,000 prize.

## Twists/Changes

* **Celebrity Players:** For the first time in The Coven history, a group of celebrity players will enter the house.
* **Shorter Season:** Despite the whole house being able to commit to a 3 month season, the game was still shortened to 28 days, or exactly 4 weeks, just to be wary of the celebrities.
* **Jury Format:** Due to the Celebrity format, the players will all be apart of the Jury once evicted. However, they will be sent home instead of being sequestered in a Jury house, meaning they can watch the episodes play out before coming back to cast their final vote.
* **Final Three:** This season featured a final 3 instead of a final 2 like normal seasons.
* **Smaller Cash Prize:** Due to the Celebrity format, the seasons winnings was cut from $1,000,000 to a small $50,000 prize.

## Players

 **Jury**

 **Jury**

## Trivia

* This is the first Celebrity season in The Coven history.
* This season holds the record for the smallest cash prize, with $50,000.
* This season also holds the record for the smallest cast with only 12 players.