Big Brother: Twists, Turns And Records June 20, 2007
Big Brother 6 holds the record for going longest without a double Head of Household win by any of the contestants with nine consecutive times, starting at the beginning of the game. Rachel Plencner, Eric Littman, Kaysar Ridha, Maggie Ausburn, Howie Gordon, Jennifer Vasquez, Janelle Pierzina, Beau Beasley, and April Lewis all won HoH before Howie became a repeat winner.
Big Brother 6 also holds the record for having the most number of different contestants who became HoH at some point, with a total of ten. Those ten are the nine HoH mentioned above (Rachel, Eric, Kaysar, Maggie, Howie, Jennifer, Janelle, Beau, and April), as well as Ivette Corredero. James Rhine was not one of them, but he would eventually become HoH for the first time in Big Brother All-Stars.
Big Brother 5 and Big Brother 2 on the other hand, had the least number of unique Heads of Household. Only Jase, Marvin, Drew, Diane, Nakomis and Adria served as the Head of Household throughout season 5, and only Mike, Krista, Hardy, Kent, Nicole and Monica throughout season 2.
The most people on the block in any one round in Big Brother history was six. In the fourth round of the first season of Big Brother, Eddie McGee, Josh Souza, Curtis Kin, Cassandra Waldon, George Boswell, and Brittany Petros were all nominated, with Petros being evicted. Since the rules changed when Big Brother 2 began in 2001, this is unlikely to be duplicated.
Season 6 was the first to have four females in the final four. After Howie Gordon's eviction, four females remained in the game: Janelle Pierzina, Ivette Corredero, April Lewis and Maggie Ausburn. It was also the first time that there had been an all same sex final four in Big Brother America history. The first season of the series was also the first one have an all same sex final three, which was three males.
In each complete season since the format change, six houseguests per season were evicted in a unanimous decision. Autumn, Shannon, Kent, Krista, Hardy and Monica in season 2, Amy (twice), Josh, Gerry, Roddy, and Jason in season 3, Amanda, Dana, Nathan, Jee, Erika and Robert in season 4, Mike, Adria, Marvin, Karen, Nakomis and Diane in season 5, and Kaysar, Rachel, James, Beau, April and Janelle in season 6 were all evicted without opposition. Season 7 continued this pattern. Jase, Marcellas, Danielle, George, Will and Janelle have been unanimously evicted.
Lisa Donahue of season 3 is the only houseguest to win the first HoH Competition and be the winner of the season. All other first HoH'S (Mike, Nathan, Jase, and Rachel, Janelle), were all evicted at some point or another.
Going into season seven, none of the original group of nominees up for eviction has ever won their season. Nicole Saffarich-Nilson came the closest to winning after defeating Sheryl Braxton in the opening vote to stay in the house, and stayed in until the final night, losing the final vote to Will Kirby.
The CBS broadcast on June 21, 2006 to introduce the 20 houseguests the audience voted for in six of the twelve positions was notable for two reasons. It was the first time a Big Brother show had aired on the network in June, and that it was the first time in Big Brother USA history that an episode didn't have houseguests in the Big Brother house in some form.
Currently, Janelle Pierzina is in the lead in every category. She has won the most HOH challenges with 7, the most POV challenges with 7, and the most America's Choices with 5. She has also been saved the most amount of times with the POV with a total of 6, five of which were by herself.
During season 7, there have been three separate occasions in which three Heads of Household reigned over a period of less than 6 hours. The first occasion occurred when Janelle and Jase finished their co-HoH reign on day 11, with Kaysar assuming the role thereafter. The second occasion was on day 39. Danielle finished her HoH reign on this day, handing over the key to Erika after she won the HoH competition. However, when the competition was deemed to be faulty, Janelle took the reins. Finally, on day 60, Erika finished her reign as HoH, after which Janelle assumed the reins. However, Janelle's reign was extremely brief as it was a double eviction night. Later that evening, Mike took the reins as the third HoH of the day.
Janelle Pierzina and Nicole Nilson-Schaffrich are the only houseguests who have ever hosted a Head of Household competition.
On two occasions did a house guest win HoH twice in a row. The first being Drew Daniel in Season Five, and the second being Mike Malin in Season Seven. Both occurred in the Final Three, the only occasion where the previous HoH can compete for the power.
Since the current final HoH format debuted (in season 2), Mike Malin is the first person to have not won part 1 of the final HoH Competition, but won the competition overall. Past final HoHs (Lisa, Alison, Drew and Ivette) all won part one of the competition.
The most times the Power of Veto has been used in one season is 9 times during season 7. It was used by Janelle on four occasions, and once each by George, Mike, Danielle, James and Erika. All of these uses of the Veto were to save themselves, marking the first season since the PoV debut that the Veto has not been used by one person to save another.
Janelle Pierzina and April Lewis are the only HoHs who have changed their own nominations through the use of the Power of Veto. Janelle initially nominated Maggie and Jennifer for eviction in season 6, won the Power of Veto, saved Maggie, and nominated Ivette in her place. April initially nominated Janelle and Howie for eviction, won the Power of Veto, saved Janelle, and nominated James in her place.
"Chicken" George Boswell is the only houseguest from season 1 who got to play the game under the current format with the HOH and Veto.
A number of seasons have had tags go along with the title, such as "Big Brother 4: The X Factor", "Big Brother 5: Do Not Assume", "Big Brother 6: Summer of Secrets" and most notably "Big Brother 7: All-Stars".
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