A single vote, cast by veto winner Drew Campbell alone, sent Dee Valladares packing and locked in the season's final three ahead of the October 1 finale.
Dee Valladares is out. Big Brother Season 28's final four became final three on Thursday night after a vote that came down to exactly one person.
Here's how it played out. Taylor Brown won Head of Household earlier in the week and put Dee Valladares and Drew Campbell on the block. Drew then won the Power of Veto on Tuesday, pulling himself off the block and, per the season's rules this cycle, handing himself a guaranteed finale spot too. That left Rick Devens as the automatic replacement nominee alongside Dee.
Because Taylor couldn't vote as HOH and the two nominees obviously couldn't vote for themselves, the eviction came down to Drew alone. He voted to keep Devens and send Dee to the jury house. Final tally: 1 to 0. Dee becomes the season's sixth jury member.
It wasn't even the only eviction of the week. An Egyptian Eviction earlier had already claimed Melody Morris, who left as jury member number five before Thursday's episode had even started. Two houseguests gone in one week is a brutal stretch for anyone left standing, and it's left the house down to three players with very different resumes heading into the endgame.
So the final three are set: Taylor Brown, Drew Campbell and Rick Devens. Taylor's been racking up competition wins at the right moments. Drew's veto this week was arguably the biggest move of his entire season, since it did double duty as both self-preservation and a finale ticket. Devens survived a vote he had zero control over, which is either lucky or a sign jurors still see him as a threat worth eliminating first — depends who you ask in that jury house.
What happens next is the part Big Brother diehards actually live for. One more HOH competition, one more veto, and then it's down to two people making their case to a jury that now includes Melody and Dee, both of whom just watched their own games end. Jury votes in this format tend to swing on grudges as much as gameplay, so how Taylor, Drew and Devens each handled these last few weeks could matter more than any single competition win.
The finale airs Thursday, October 1, on CBS, and it'll decide who walks away with the $750,000 grand prize. Whether that's Taylor's competition résumé, Drew's late surge, or Devens riding a wave of jury sympathy is still anyone's guess with a week to go.
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