Vivian Pinhosa

## Season History

**Vivian Louise Mitchell Pinhosa** is the winner of *Big Brother 2*.

Vivian was a covert member of the Backyard Crew in the first-half of the game, who also fostered a secret side alliance called Bonnie & Clyde with Bob Pancakes. She was also known for her strong, devoted friendship with fellow houseguest Ashleigh Lyons, her showmance with Bradley Hernandez, and getting nominated eight times and staying in the game with the help of her over the top clever strategies. Vivian was able to use this collaboration to further herself in the game. Even though she played under the radar, Vivian was able to manipulate other houseguests and managed to get rid of early strong players like her own ally Tanner Knox, her former affiliate Rowan Austin-Mossle, and the figurehead leader of the Bodacious Babes, London Flores just to name a few.

On Day 38, Vivian won the first Temptation Competition and granted the Nightmare Power. During the second-half of the game, she dictated the first Double Eviction on Week 8, alongside with Bob, by blindsiding her showmance Bradley on seeing him as a liability and backdooring her strategic, competitive ally Jun Kim by orchestrating the whole house against him. While she was nominated in Week 9, she made one of the best strategic moves in Sims Big Brother history with creating the Red Herring strategy wherein then protest the house about putting up false primary targets and she saved herself by secretly activating her Temptation Power to save herself from the block and chose her competition threat Faysal Ibrahim in her place, thus resulting his eviction after she successfully flipped the Bodacious Babes' votes. In Week 10, Vivian was nominated alongside her close ally, Ashleigh, by HOH Bob. Despite being the target, Vivian was able to avoid eviction by conducting a house meeting in which unintentionally led to Ashleigh's ultimate demise.

Vivian soon rekindled her loyalty with Jun after she confessed in taking responsibility of his emotional blindside/backdoor, resurrecting the Backyard Crew. Both her and Jun managed to stay in control for the rest of the game and took out both the social and jury threat Layla Summers, and the competition prowess Madison Randall. At the Final Five, Vivian made a Final 3 pact with Greta Romano and Heidi Conrad after she caught both Bob and Jun realizing her strong, dominant gameplay, successfully blindsiding them. Despite unable to win Part 1 or Part 2 of the final Head of Household competition, Vivian managed to persuade Greta to take her to the final 2 over Heidi. Her dominant strategic gameplay and subtle manipulation earned her respect from the jury where Vivian would win in a unanimous 9-0 vote. With her consistent victory, she became the first and so far only winner to succeed in a unanimous vote, and play a Perfect Game (Not receiving any eviction votes, and getting all jury votes).

Vivian became widely regarded as one of the best players of all time along with Ramon Sanchez. Since her performance in BB2, there have been several debates on who the greatest Big Brother player is between herself and Ramon.

## Biography

**Hometown:** Philadelphia, PA
**Current city:** Queens, NY
**Occupation:** Fashion Model
**Three adjectives that describe you:** Determined, optimistic, and driven
**Favorite activities:** Spelunking, mountain and forest hiking, kayaking (I'm usually driven to outdoor activities), watching Stephen King-adapted movies (I'm a sucker for horror and fantasy genres), and sightseeing.
**What do you think will be the most difficult part about living inside the Big Brother house?**
Staying focused and positive. It seems like a lot of past Houseguests start getting paranoid and that seems to be their downfall. Every moment in the house is a chance to turn it all around. It’s like living in a fairytale book you’re creating yourself. Another difficult part for me would have to be missing and not having direct contact with my sisters again. It's been tough ever since I competed in Sims Next Top Model back then.
**Do you have a strategy for winning the game?**
I'll prove that I'm more than just a 'pretty face' with a 'banging body', contrary to what most believed. I am planning on integrating three key facets into my game: I want to build rapport with everyone, be social, and have one person I can trust until the end. I will make people feel like I am on their side. I also hope to be great at competitions when needed. It’s all about timing. You don't want to come out with guns blazing! I’ll also be sure to align myself loosely with bigger threats, so they get taken out first, but they will be more likely to win HOH competitions.
**My life's motto is...**
Don't criticize what you can't understand. Don't judge a book by its cover. You may miss out on a good story.
**What would you take into the house and why?**
Books to pass the time and continue to gain knowledge. Also, a photo of my beloved family for motivations to keep me up in the game. And lastly, my beauty kits because who doesn't love makeup.
**Fun facts about yourself:**
* I started modelling at 15 years old and was discovered while eating my BLT sandwiches in the quad area of my school.
* The other reason why I auditioned for Big Brother is to have my own redemption arc. After Sims Next Top Model, I've had a reputation as the typical aggressive, overly-dramatic young lady who tears down other girls for the lack of respect. Ever since I re-watched everything, I regretted myself from showing my toxic attitude on TV, that I even made amends with the few people who I had beef with on the show.
* I successfully travelled across the country at around 50 states, at a certain time planning a family road trip or domestic vacation, in less than 4 years. Luckily, we had the right amount of budget to pay for the transportation and food altogether.

## Player History - *Big Brother 2*

### Competition/Task History

* Note:1 In Week 11, Vivian (along with Greta) won the America’s Road Trip competition, but she decided to give away her prize spot to Heidi Conrad.

### HOH History

 **Evicted**

## Post Big Brother

* Bradley Hernandez and Vivian started a relationship after their season concluded.
* On Valentine's Day 2021, Bradley proposed to Vivian and they got engaged, which they announced via social media on February 28, 2021.
* Following *Big Brother 3*, Vivian has been ET's representative when interviewing *Sims Big Brother* houseguests (civilian and digital) both pre- and post-season, starting with *Big Brother: Over The Top 1*.

## Trivia

* Vivian is the first African-American winner of *Sims Big Brother (The Sims™ 4)*.
* Vivian is the first person to win the game with a unanimous jury vote and to play a Perfect Game.
* Vivian is first (and so far only) contestant to go on to win the game without winning any of the three parts of the final HOH competition.
* Vivian is the first contestant to transfer to *Big Brother* from another reality show.
	+ In 2018, Vivian competed in the 1st season of *Sims Next Top Model*, also known as Sims Next Top Model: Reborn. She placed runner-up, losing to Camilla Pérez.
* Vivian, along with Ashleigh, Layla, and Jun always voted with the majority.
	+ Out of all houseguests who always voted with the majority, she casts more votes than any other houseguest, with 12.
* Vivian holds the female record for the most times being nominated for eviction in one season, at 8 times.
	+ Vivian originally held the record for most nominations in a single season until it was broken by Jonas Weber in the following season.
	+ Also, Vivian holds the record for being the most nominated winner in *Sims Big Brother* history.