Nicole Franzel

Nicole Ann Franzel was a HouseGuest on Big Brother 16 and is the winner of Big Brother 18.

Nicole started the game quietly, forming bonds with Hayden and Christine. As the game progressed, Nicole began to play more aggressively, managing to win several HOH and BOTB competitions and becoming a major threat. When Christine abandoned her allegiance with Nicole and Hayden for the Detonators, Nicole found herself in the minority, along with Hayden and Donny, whom were blindsided when Jocasta was evicted. Eventually, the fallout resulted in Hayden's eviction. Nicole was able to become HOH once again, but was dethroned and unanimously evicted after being nominated by Christine who believed from Derrick that Nicole was going to backdoor her when Nicole was planning on evicting Frankie, becoming the third member of the jury. Nicole returned to the game after competing with the fellow jury members at the end of Week 8, immediately casting her as the main target. However, Nicole's return proved to be unsuccessful for her and she was permanently evicted once again two weeks later, placing seventh.

At the finale, Nicole was named as one of the Top 3 vote-getters for the Fan Favorite Award along with Donny and Zach, but ultimately lost to Donny.

Nicole returned for Big Brother 18 alongside Da'Vonne Rogers, Frank Eudy, and James Huling as a part of the first twist of the summer. In the beginning of the game, Nicole found herself in a large eight person alliance, the 8-Pack, as well as an all girl alliance, the Fatal Five. Unfortunately, both of those alliances fell apart prior to the jury stage of the game. Similar to her prior season, Nicole found herself in a showmance with Corey Brooks and he became her ride or die. Together, the two mainly worked with Paulie Calafiore and Zakiyah Everette, notably alienating themselves from the majority of the house following the house turning on the latter two. After managing to constantly place a bigger target in front of her, Nicole avoided the block until the final four. After being taken to the final two by Paul Abrahamian, the jury decided that Nicole's impressive game of managing to fly under the radar and avoid the danger of eviction defeated Paul's aggressive and strategic style of gameplay by a vote of 5-4, and she was crowned the winner of Big Brother 18.

Many viewers and former houseguests believed that Paul should have won over her because of the gameplay that he displayed compared to her.

Biography
Nicole Franzel (born June 30, 1992) is a small town girl born and raised in Ubly, Michigan where she currently resides. Nicole recently graduated from Nursing school and is 23 years old.

Trivia

 * Nicole is the first female in Big Brother history to beat a male in the final two.
 * Nicole is the first houseguest to wear two different costumes for two consecutive weeks.
 * She is the second person and first female to wear two costumes in one season, following Frank Eudy.
 * Coincidentally, they both returned to compete again in Big Brother 18, along with both being in the Top 3 for the Fan Favorite Award of their seasons, but unlike Nicole, Frank won the award in his season.
 * Nicole is the second female to win Head of Household in Big Brother 16, the first being Amber Borzotra.
 * Nicole is the first female to remain Head of Household for the week after the Battle of the Block competition.
 * Nicole is the only female houseguest to win HoH multiple times in Big Brother 16. However due to Battle of the Block, she was only HoH officially once.
 * Nicole has also won 3 of the 5 HoHs won by female in Big Brother 16.
 * Nicole is the first person in Big Brother history to win HoH and be evicted in the same week in a non-double eviction week.
 * If you include double eviction week, Nicole would be the second houseguest since Jeff Schroeder won HOH and was evicted all during a double eviction week in Big Brother 13
 * She is the first female to re-enter the game through a twist since Amy Crews in Big Brother 3 (Sharon Obermueller from BB9 did not re-enter the house due to a twist).
 * If the Battle of the Block is included or not, Nicole is tied with Christine Brecht for the most competition wins for a female in Big Brother 16.
 * She is the second houseguest to return to the house from jury and not win HoH or be evicted immediately upon returning, the first being Judd Daughtery.
 * Nicole did not cast a vote throughout the Jury Stage of the game in Big Brother 16.
 * Nicole is the only female from the first group of eight houseguests to reach the jury phase.
 * Nicole is the only person to win a permanent HoH outside of the Bomb Squad.
 * Nicole is the fifth women in the history of the show to ever win 3 HOHs. The first females to do so were Nakomis, Janelle, Rachel and Aaryn respectively. She would later be followed by Big Brother 17 houseguests Liz and Vanessa.
 * Nicole is the first female to win 2 competitions in Big Brother 16.
 * Nicole is the first female since Rachel Reilly to win the first Head of Household of a season.
 * Coincidentally, both won the first HoH during their second season and went on to win their respective season.
 * Nicole is the first and only female to win HoH twice on Big Brother 18.
 * Nicole holds the record for the second most HoHs won in multiple seasons, behind Rachel Reilly and Janelle Pierzina who each have six.
 * Nicole holds the record for most days spent for a female without being nominated with 91 days.
 * Nicole is the fifth houseguest (and second female) to win HoH and PoV in the same week in Big Brother 18 following Paulie Calafiore, Bridgette Dunning, Corey Brooks and Victor Arroyo (and later Paul Abrahamian) respectively.
 * Nicole has won a total of 9 competitions in multiple seasons (5 HoHs, 2 PoVs, and 2 BotB competitions).
 * Without the Battle Of The Block, she would have seven wins in total.
 * Nicole is the fourth HouseGuest (and third female) to win the first Head of Household competition and win the game following Lisa Donahue, Hayden Moss and Rachel Reilly.
 * Nicole is the sixth houseguest to win 2 PoVs and go on to win the game. The other houseguests were Dan Gheesling, Rachel Reilly, Ian Terry, Andy Herren, and Steve Moses respectively.
 * Nicole is the first houseguest who had been evicted and returned to the game to win the game, although she did not win in the same season in which she was a PEHG. Thus, she is the first person to be evicted twice before winning the game.
 * Her first and last vote to evict on Big Brother 18 were to evict Victor Arroyo. He was evicted both times.
 * Nicole holds the record for most consecutive votes to evict in one season with 12, beating McCrae Olsen and Victoria Rafaeli's previous record of 10.
 * Nicole is the only returner on Big Brother 18 who was in the top three to win America's Favorite Houseguest and didn't win it.