{"id":365445,"date":"2026-07-08T15:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/365445\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:05:10","slug":"big-brother-season-28-cast-includes-contestants-from-austin-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/365445\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Brother Season 28 cast includes contestants from Austin, Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin resident Barrett Pfeiffer, a Jumbotron engineer, and Dallas native Chuk Anyanwu, a supply chain management analyst, are among the list of 16 contestants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pfeiffer described himself as \u201cgiggly, charming, spicy\u201d and said he is 6-foot-6. The 27-year-old said he thought the game would be a \u201cbreeze for him\u201d because people may underestimate him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not actually a caterpillar, I am a snake,\u201d Pfeiffer said on his Instagram.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyanwu, also 27, is a first-generation immigrant who said he has an \u201cinsane social game,\u201d adding that he could \u201ctruly talk to anyone.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing on Big Brother feels insane right now, because one, it does not feel real,\u201d Anyanwu said on social media. \u201cThere\u2019s one end, where there\u2019s so much money I can win, and there\u2019s a whole other end where I am about to be in a house with insane people.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CBS\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/big-brother-season-28-premiere-date-revealed-11973514\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">confirmed the cast list<\/a> for the 28th season, which will premiere on Thursday, July 9, with a 90-minute installment beginning at 7 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, the show will become the first primetime series to reach 1,000 original episodes, according to CBS. The network also teased that the season willfeature the \u201cmost programming hours ever.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The show will be accompanied by its Friday-night companion series, \u201cBig Brother: Unlocked,\u201d a talk show featuring interviews, special guests and exclusive footage from inside the house, which will premiere on Friday, July 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin resident Barrett Pfeiffer, a Jumbotron engineer, and Dallas native Chuk Anyanwu, a supply chain management analyst, are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-365445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}