Big Brother: Unlocked

Big Brother: Unlocked
Also Known As	BB Unlocked
Host	Derrick Levasseur Taylor Hale
Panelists	Chelsie Baham Alumni & Celebrities
Country	United States
No. of Seasons	1
No. of Episodes	5
Production
Television Network(s)	CBS Paramount+
Executive Producer(s)	Allison Grodner Rich Meehan Chris Roach
Original Release	July 25, 2025 - September 19, 2025
Viewership	1.89m
Series Chronology
Preceded by	BB Rewind

Big Brother: Unlocked is a spin-off after show held for Big Brother 27 (US) hosted by a panel of alumni.

Development

The Big Brother 26 panel likely led to the concept of Big Brother: Unlocked.

During Big Brother 26 (US), a special catch-up episode was aired during Week 4 featuring a panel of former winners: Cody Calafiore (BB22), Taylor Hale (BB24) and Jag Bains (BB25) discussing the events of the season up to that point.

On May 14, 2025, it was announced that Big Brother: Unlocked, would air every other Friday at 8 PM starting on July 25. The show will feature an alumni panel of three "All-Stars", similar to the special episode mentioned above. This new spin-off plus the extended runtime of the Wednesday night episodes of the main show totals up to four and a half hours of Big Brother on air weekly, the most hours since its launch, honoring the 25th anniversary of the premiere with this "super-sized" season, marketed as "the biggest season ever". Each Unlocked episode was officially classified as another episode of BB27. For example, Unlocked Episode 1 is listed as BB27 Episode 8 on channel guides and streaming services.

Big Brother: Unlocked Press Photo

Additional details were released on July 22, 2025, confirming that the series will be hosted by Taylor and Derrick Levasseur (BB16), with a rotating cast BB legends and celebrity superfans joining them in each episode. The show will dive into strategy analysis, live eviction fallout, and behind-the-scenes commentary with guest alumni and fan-favorite segments.

In the first episode, former winner Chelsie Baham (BB26) was revealed to be a recurring guest with her own segment to focus on their fantasy draft, along with a different alumni coming back for their own unique segment every episode.

Although the show was originally stated to receive 6 episodes, on the Wednesday, September 17 episode of BB27, it was announced that the upcoming fifth episode would be the finale of Unlocked. The remaining Friday episode on September 26, two days before the main season finale, would be converted to a regular episode.

Production

The hosts of Unlocked.

The "Fantasy BB" Drafters.

Broadcast

The show airs bi-weekly on Fridays on CBS and Paramount+ at 8 PM EST.

Format

The program features Taylor and Derrick leading recurring segments including: "Big Move/Bad Move", "The Rant Room", "Binge Worthy or Cringe Worthy", "The H.O.T./N.O.T. List", "BB Breaking News", and "Who To Goo?" along with a brief interview with the most recently evicted houseguest from the Thursday night before. Other unscripted moments and raw reactions from former houseguests are set to give deeper insights into weekly gameplay, along with some "never-before-seen" footage from the live feeds that never made it into the final episodes until now, the segment being titled "Cutting Room Floor". Beginning with the second episode, Unlocked would also see the revival of hometown & family segments, checking in with the family of certain houseguests still in the game.

Every episode, a former alumni will come back to host their own unique pre-recorded segment where they discuss the houseguests, while Chelsie participated in the first ever "Fantasy BB" houseguest draft for the season alongside Taylor, Derrick and "Intern Andrew", hosted by Matthew Berry, and will continue to pop in as they check in on their draft status as the official correspondent. When the show returns from commercial break the hosts will quickly look at some viral fan and alumni tweets through the weeks following the episodes. Jerry O'Connell also had a recurring segment called "Terrible Takes", where he challenges Derrick and Taylor on an opinion they held the prior episode. There would also be a dedicated segment to the "Intern Andrew" character. There was a one off segment in the first episode, "Who To Goo?", which prompted the audience to vote on a random superlative about the houseguests, where the winner of the poll will get blasted with the traditional Big Brother paint and slime splatter during the following Unlocked episode. The finale episode featured the season's first look at The Jury House, and "The BBies", an award show dedicated to the moments of the season with an alumni coming to set to host.

Each Unlocked episode ends with one last segment, where Derrick and Taylor will showcase a "Sneak Peak" at the upcoming Head of Household competition that would be shown on the following Sunday episode.

Fantasy BB Draft

Draft Teams
Chelsie The Diamonds	Taylor Hale Raisers	Derrick Head of Household
Undrafted Andrew & Matthew Team 22-Hour Workday

Alumni Segment

Episode	Alumni	Segment Title
1/3	Nicole Franzel	"Wine or Whine"
2	Jag Bains	"Getting Jaggy With It"
4	Jessie Godderz	"Shirtless Sherlock/Pec-uliar Behavior"
5	Britney Haynes	"The BBies"

Who To Goo?

Episode	Poll Prompt	Goo Victim
1/2	Vote for the houseguest with the worst fashion sense.	Rachel Reilly

The BBies - BB Awards

Episode	Category	Nominees	Winner
5
	Best One Liner	Ashley Jimmy Katherine Keanu Rachel	Katherine
	Best Comic	Jimmy Keanu Kelley Lauren Rylie	Keanu
	Best Fight	Ashley vs Keanu Jimmy vs Keanu Keanu vs Rachel (Go to war with me) Keanu vs Rachel (Obsessed with me) Mickey vs Rylie	Keanu vs Rachel (Obsessed with me)
	Dignity Lost Moment	Keanu Morgan Rachel Rylie	Morgan
	Best Zing	Ashley Ava Keanu Kelley Lauren Morgan Vince	Morgan
	Worst Game Move	Rachel Rylie Zach Zae	Zach

Episodes

List of Big Brother: Unlocked Episodes
#	Title	Release Date	Evicted Houseguest1	Guest Panelist	Other Guests	Views (millions)	Source
1	"Episode 1"	July 25, 2025	Amy Bingham	Bobby Moynihan	Chelsie Baham Matthew Berry Nicole Franzel	1.53
2	"Episode 2"	August 8, 2025	Jimmy Heagerty	Jerry O'Connell	Chelsie Baham Family of Rachel Reilly (Brendon Villegas) Jag Bains The Mastermind	1.44
3	"Episode 3"	August 24, 20252	N/A3	Rob Mariano	Family of Will Williams Nicole Franzel Jerry O'Connell Gavin Smith (Competition Art Director)	3.20
4	"Episode 4"	September 5, 2025	Mickey Lee	Lance Bass	Chelsie Baham Family of Ava Pearl Jessie Godderz Nancy Fisher (Competition Costume Designer) Tyler Crispen	1.71
5	"Episode 5"	September 19, 2025	Rachel Reilly4 Will Williams4	James Gunn	Chelsie Baham Britney Haynes The Zingbot	1.57

^1 Houseguests who were evicted on weeks with no Unlocked episode (Zae Frederich, Adrian Rocha, Zach Cornell, Katherine Woodman) were not interviewed.
^2 Abbreviated by 30 minutes and aired on a Sunday as a 90-minute special packaged with the regularly scheduled episode that night due to a scheduling conflict with college football the prior Friday.
^3 This week's evicted houseguest, Rylie Jeffries, was not interviewed due to the abbreviated episode.
^4 Instead of bringing the most recent evicted houseguests (Kelley Jorgensen and Lauren Domingue) onto the set, this episode featured a Jury House segment with the two Jurors who had already been living there.

External links

• Official Press Release – Big Brother: Unlocked