[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for the premiere of Big Brother Season 27.]
Who turned out the lights?!
Quickly after the primary 4 houseguests entered the home, the digital camera zoomed in on a mysterious digital clock, which was counting down from 10 because the contestants poured in. It wasn’t till Julie Chen Moonves got here on the display screen in the lounge throughout the closing minute that any of the contestants observed one thing was awry. Cue: a sudden blackout and a lacking host.
After the 16 houseguests entered the home throughout the Huge Brother Season 27 premiere, they have been immediately hit with Huge Brother: A Summer season of Thriller‘s first main twist: the surprising disappearance of Julie Chen Moonves. Or at the least, that was what contestants have been led to imagine as they watched the host’s warning to “anticipate the sudden” get minimize quick by a sudden lack of energy. When the lights turned again on, Moonves was gone—together with the season’s first HoH relic.
Because it turned out, Moonves’s sudden disappearance was the lead-in for the primary two competitions of the summer season, the place eight houseguests looked for the host and the opposite eight looked for the HoH relic. On the finish of the primary competitors, the place contestants needed to construct a bridge connecting them to a group of doorways emitting audio prompts, Zach Cornell rescued Moonves from The Mastermind’s Lair.
Whereas Moonves’ disappearance was short-lived, the introduction of The Mastermind, an ominous determine in a creepy pink masks, teased a number of the quite a few secrets and techniques of the home, together with the HoH relic on the coronary heart of the evening’s second competitors.
The second half of the contestants have been challenged with discovering the true HoH relic. Whereas a number of the contestants rapidly chosen false relics, Jimmy Heagerty’s endurance received the second competitors, foiling the plans of the mysterious Mastermind.
Following the competitions, Moonves revealed that Zach received $10,000, whereas Jimmy received the facility to pick the solely 4 contestants who will take part within the Head of Family competitors.
What’s Huge Brother‘s subsequent summertime thriller? Solely time will inform…
Huge Brother, Season 27, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays at 8/7c, CBS.