{"id":753977,"date":"2026-07-10T04:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/753977\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T04:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:32:10","slug":"big-brothers-levi-banks-on-dropping-out-before-season-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/753977\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Big Brother&#8217;s Levi Banks On Dropping Out Before Season 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs a new group of strangers moved into the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/big-brother\/\" id=\"auto-tag_big-brother\" data-tag=\"big-brother\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Big Brother<\/a> house, one contestant decided to check out of the competition early.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLevi Banks, who dropped out of Season 28 just before filming began, explained that the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cbs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cbs\" data-tag=\"cbs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS<\/a> reality series was \u201cnot the right fit\u201d for him, but he is \u201cso freaking excited\u201d to watch the new season, which premieres Thursday with a special 90-minute episode at 8pm ET\/PT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWhat is up, Big Brother fans?\u201d he began in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DalwbHbgKQE\/8BIM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">video<\/a> on Instagram. \u201cMy name is Levi Banks and I just wanted to give you all a quick update and to let you know that I am doing great.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI was all set and ready to move into the Big Brother house this season, and as we got closer and closer and closer to the move-in day I just kinda realized that this was not the right fit for me personally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBanks continued, \u201cI am back home in North Carolina right now. And I am on good terms with CBS, Big Brother, and everyone, and I just wanted to let them know and you all know that I am so, so, so thankful for this opportunity. It has been very life-changing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhile Banks will not be part of Season 28, he\u2019s still looking forward to watching the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/gallery\/big-brother-season-28-cast-photos-cbs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Houseguests<\/a> compete for the $750,000 cash prize, including his apparent replacement Yash Patel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI am so freaking excited to watch the show tonight,\u201d added Banks. \u201cOh my gosh, I am pumped! It\u2019s gonna be a little bit of a different POV than going in the house as to being in my couch, so I will take that one thing at a time. But I want to say thank you all so much for your support. I appreciate each and every one of you, and let\u2019s go Yash!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a new group of strangers moved into the Big Brother house, one contestant decided to check out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[990,991,88,92],"class_list":["post-753977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-big-brother","tag-cbs","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}