{"id":868897,"date":"2026-10-03T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868897\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T02:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:00:12","slug":"big-brother-winner-devens-on-james-gunn-drew-eviction-survivor-traitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868897\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Brother Winner Devens on James Gunn, Drew Eviction, Survivor, Traitors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOn Big Brother<\/a>, Rick Devens was labeled a reality television icon. After winning season 28<\/a> on Thursday night, he definitely has entered \u201cicon\u201d status, becoming the first Survivor<\/a> player to win Big Brother.<\/p>\n

\n\tHis casting was part of a larger twist for season 28 that saw three former reality TV<\/a> players join a pool of new contestants<\/a>; competing alongside Devens was his fellow Survivor 50 opponent and season 45 winner Dee Valladares and Big Brother season 26 alum Angela Murray. Devens himself competed on season 38 and 50 of Survivor.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show labeled them icons after they entered the Big Brother house, and the name stuck. So did their strong three-person alliance, which through strategic gameplay and season-long dominance ensured at least one of them would have a real shot at winning the game.<\/p>\n

\n\tDevens ultimately won Big Brother in a vote of six to one from the jury, beating out runner-up Taylor Brown. Plus, the audience also took to Devens, awarding him the title of America\u2019s Favorite Houseguest, which fans vote upon at the end of each season.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe\u2019s also the most-winning player from a single season, earning $750,000 from winning the show; the $50,000 prize for America\u2019s Favorite Houseguest; and an extra $10,000 he pocketed during a competition while filming.<\/p>\n

\n\tBelow, Devens breaks down why he wasn\u2019t sure if would have won Big Brother if Drew Campbell made it to the final two, his thoughts on season 28 houseguests asserting that the icons had \u201cprivileges and advantages\u201d this season, James Gunn<\/a> revealing he was supposed to make a cameo in Man of Tomorrow<\/a><\/a>, and what competitive reality shows he\u2019d do next (Survivor part three? Big Brother All-Winners? The Traitors<\/a>?).<\/p>\n

\n\t***<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter you won the final HOH, you decided to evict Drew. Do you really think that Taylor would have had enough time to flip Lala and tell her, \u201cWe\u2019re going to vote for Drew to win\u201d?<\/p>\n

\n\tI really don\u2019t think it would have taken much time. I think if Taylor walked out on stage and said, \u201cLala, we\u2019re voting for Drew,\u201d Lala would have gone, \u201cOkay. You\u2019ll explain to me later.\u201d I think that\u2019s all it would have taken, because those two were so tight. I was legitimately very concerned about it.<\/p>\n

\n\tNow that the show is over and you potentially had time to talk to everybody, if there was a scenario where Drew was in the final two with you, did the jury tell you they would have voted you to win?<\/p>\n

\n\tNo, I didn\u2019t. I haven\u2019t had those conversations. I now know that Drew and Taylor, neither of them were gonna take me to the final two, so that makes me feel better about it. But I haven\u2019t had any conversations about how a Drew, Devens vote would have gone.<\/p>\n

\n\tWow! So do you really still think that Melody [Morris] and Barrett [Pfeiffer] would have voted for Drew?<\/p>\n

\n\tI think it\u2019s very possible. I think Drew\u2019s and my game was super similar, very intertwined. A lot of the moves we made, we made together. We\u2019d won about the same number of comps. He dragged me to the final three. I would have dragged him to the final two. So I think that they had every right to vote however they wanted. I would be shocked if Melody hadn\u2019t gone for Drew, and then Barrett would have been the deciding vote. And that\u2019s a little closer than a six-one vote. I had to do what I had to do, unfortunately.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tRick Devens after winning \u2018Big Brother\u2019 season 28.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatthew Taplinger\/CBS<\/p>\n

\n\tLet\u2019s go back to when you made it to final three. If there would have been a scenario where it would have been you choosing if Drew or Dee would have moved forward, do you think you would have taken her with you?<\/p>\n

\n\tI don\u2019t. I think I would have cut Dee at final three to not sit next to her, and I think Dee would have cut me at final three to not sit next to me. Two Survivor players: We know each other too well.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat elements of gameplay that you learned on Survivor do you think served you best for Big Brother?<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Survivor, everything is so much faster, so you turn a vote at the last second almost out of necessity. Dee and I came on here, and I think a lot of Big Brother is you set your vote, you decide what you\u2019re going to do, and then you just wait \u2018til the live show. Whereas her and I would go, \u201cI think we can still flip this. Let\u2019s go work on this.\u201d Even sometimes, to our own detriment, we were just bored and were like, We can flip this. Let\u2019s do it. Why not?<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso, I learned on Survivor that there\u2019s no shame in going home early or making a dumb move and getting voted out. Great players do that all the time, so you can\u2019t be afraid of that. On this season of Big Brother, I would make a pitch to someone, and they\u2019d be like, \u201cNo.\u201d I think a lot of other houseguests would have gone, Oh, that didn\u2019t go well, not doing that again. Whereas I\u2019m like, I got all week, I\u2019m going to make that same pitch to him tonight, and then I\u2019ll pitch it to him again tomorrow morning. And by the end of the week, so many times they were like, \u201cOkay, I get it, let\u2019s do it.\u201d I think just not being embarrassed and not being scared of going home early is a huge power in games like these.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhy do you ultimately think these Big Brother players did not opt to get the icons out at the very beginning of the game? Obviously that was a mistake.<\/p>\n

\n\tYeah, and then they blame that we had all these privileges and advantages. It\u2019s like, you guys had week two through 11 to come together. There\u2019s 14 of you, there\u2019s three of us. You could have gotten us out at any time, and you didn\u2019t do it. Don\u2019t blame our privilege now. Like, come on.<\/p>\n

\n\tI think some of them made a really good move; the [players] that we were working with, they realized that we were valuable to them, that we were good shields for them, and that\u2019s what we sold them. Others, I think, just didn\u2019t want to make a big splash, didn\u2019t want to put a target on themselves, and that\u2019s obviously something that we weren\u2019t worried about. We made big moves every chance we got, so I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m annoyed that they want to blame us having all this special stuff when they outnumbered us 14 to three, and they had 11 weeks to get us out. I feel like if you wanted us out, you could have gotten us out. Get it together, newbies.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat advantage do you think they thought y\u2019all had? Because as somebody who loves reality TV, I would want to get y\u2019all out because you have that knowledge of gameplay, and you have targets on your back coming in.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s what I feel like. I think they\u2019re like, \u201cYou were automatically a three-person alliance,\u201d and it\u2019s like, okay, so all it takes [to vote one of us out] is a four-person alliance. And by the way, if it had been Rachel [Reilly] there instead of Dee, I don\u2019t think we\u2019d be [an] automatic [group of three working together]. I don\u2019t think Angela and Rachel were going to work together. I don\u2019t know if Rachel and I were going to work together.<\/p>\n

\n\tI do think we had an advantage in getting into the BB Time Capsule. [Writer\u2019s note: Viewers voted which players to send into the BB Time Capsule, where they could earn a punishment or advantage.]<\/p>\n

\n\tBut even then, it\u2019s a 50\/50 chance of what you\u2019re [going to get]. Actually, a lot of people thought it was random: I\u2019m sure that I saw a pattern in there. I [looked] at the button for five minutes, saw the pattern, and got a power. Three newbies went in there, and two of them came out with punishments. That\u2019s not because we came in with a privilege. I think if anything, we were at a disadvantage. I thought half the house was going to be returning players or players from other shows.<\/p>\n

\n\tOh, really?<\/p>\n

\n\tYeah.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhy did you think that?<\/p>\n

\n\tBecause I thought that would be fair. Give us a chance. You know, half newbies and half returnees. That\u2019s even.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tAngela Murray, Devens and Dee Valladares at the \u2018Big Brother\u2019 season 28 finale.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatthew Taplinger\/CBS<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen did this opportunity or conversation for you to go on Big Brother start? Did it come out of you being on Survivor 50<\/a>?<\/p>\n

\n\tI think it might have, but I don\u2019t know the details, and I don\u2019t think I\u2019m even allowed to talk [about it]. But I think probably if I hadn\u2019t done well or I hadn\u2019t made a splash on 50, I\u2019d never be here.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen you were approached about doing Big Brother, were you game on immediately, or were you like, I don\u2019t know, maybe, maybe not?<\/p>\n

\n\tI was really hesitant about it. I had always said the one [show] I\u2019m not going to do is Big Brother, because it\u2019s so long. And then it comes up, and I\u2019m like, well, maybe I want to do it, but I was like, I can\u2019t do this to my wife. And I went home to my wife Becca and was like, \u201cHey, this thing came up. I\u2019m not saying I want to do it,\u201d and she said, \u201cYou have to do it. You\u2019re never gonna get this opportunity again.\u201d And I was like, \u201cWait, what?\u201d So it\u2019s all credit to her that I ended up going into that house and winning the game.<\/p>\n

\n\tYou have been away from your phones and the outside world. Something that picked up once you got into the house was James Gunn said that you were supposed to do a cameo for Superman<\/a><\/a>, but you canceled last minute because of Big Brother. Have you spoken with him since you\u2019ve won?<\/p>\n

\n\tI haven\u2019t, not since I won, but I cannot wait. I shouted him out in the house. I was so upset that I couldn\u2019t be there on the set of Superman 2. My whole family still went, and he apparently treated them amazingly and made it such a special experience for them. He was filming in Macon, [Georgia,] where I\u2019m from. That\u2019s why it was all going to work out. But now, I\u2019m like: James, I will go wherever you are. Let me visit whatever set you\u2019re on. I\u2019m so excited to hopefully meet him and be able to talk some Big Brother and Superman with him. I\u2019m a huge James Gunn fan, even bigger now that he\u2019s shown what a great dude he is.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat former Survivor player do you think should go on Big Brother next?<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019ve got two. They were both on 50. Rizo [Velovic] and Tiffany [Nicole Ervin] would be absolutely incredible at Big Brother. Both of them would just knock it out of the box. They probably have even bigger targets now because the three Survivor players that have been on have done pretty well. But if anyone could pull it off, it would be those two.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhich player from this season of Big Brother should cross over and do Survivor?<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s got to be Kamu [Kirk]. He\u2019s got the physical to do those rough challenges. He has an amazing social game, and unlike a lot of the houseguests in there, I think he would actually thrive being out in the elements and going through all the suffering.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhich show between Survivor and Big Brother would you be more ready to do another season of?<\/p>\n

\n\tJust because of how long it is, it\u2019d be harder to come back to Big Brother until my kids were a little bit older. I don\u2019t want to give up another summer while they\u2019re 12 and nine years old. Whereas Survivor\u2018s a little shorter, so I\u2019d probably be more ready to go back to Survivor just because of that.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat if the Big Brother team came to you next year and was like, \u201cWe\u2019re doing All-Winners.\u201d Would you do that?<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019d say, \u201cCan you do it [for] season 33. Can Drew stand in for his dad?\u201d Maybe, yeah. But that would be a tough one to say no to for sure. But the kids made a big sacrifice letting me go, and I made a big sacrifice leaving them behind. So I don\u2019t know that Becca would be as supportive this time.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat were those first conversations like with your family when you ran off stage and reunited with them?<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was so funny. They were so proud of me, even the kids. It wasn\u2019t like, \u201cHey, we\u2019re rich. What are we gonna get?\u201d It was like, \u201cYou did it! We can\u2019t believe it.\u201d And then they were very emotional, and it turns out the reason they were emotional is because they were upset for Drew.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey love Drew, their big brother, and they were not happy with me for cutting Drew. I have a lot to answer for with the Drew thing. They told me some of the funny things that happened with Big Brother while I was gone, that I missed some of their fun social posts, and then immediately it was like we were back in regular life, and they\u2019re just telling me about the latest YouTube video they watched or what video game they\u2019re playing. It\u2019s like Big Brother\u2018s a thing of the past already.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tThe cast of \u2018Big Brother\u2019 season 28.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatthew Taplinger\/CBS<\/p>\n

\n\tIf your children came to you one day and said, \u201cI want to play Big Brother or Survivor,\u201d what would you say?<\/p>\n

\n\tI would say, \u201cHeck yeah! Let me get on the phone with Julie [Chen Moonves]. Let me get on the phone with Jeff [Probst]. We\u2019re gonna try to work this thing out. We have a lot to talk about to prepare you mentally and emotionally before you go in this.\u201d Always need to be prepared that it could not go well, but I think they\u2019d be great. I\u2019d love to see them play.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhich one would you suggest or push them to take on first?<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019d get them to follow their hearts, but I can tell you this: They both really wanted to play Survivor. And now they\u2019ve watched Big Brother, and they saw all the costumes, they saw that we got fed and that there was a bed, and I think they might both be leaning towards Big Brother now.<\/p>\n

\n\tYou have a huge name now in the reality TV space as the first Survivor player to win Big Brother. Would you do any other competitive reality TV shows? One that could definitely be in your future would have to be The Traitors. That\u2019s the next big one, right?<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019m open to all invitations. I would love to take Becca on The Amazing Race. I think that we would be maybe not this successful, but very entertaining. I just love playing these games. I feel so much gratitude that I get to play these goofy games that I know people would kill to go and play, and I\u2019ve gotten to do it three times. So if I get to do something else, I\u2019m all ears.<\/p>\n

\n\t***<\/p>\n

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