Kevin Robert Martin is the winner of Big Brother Canada 5. He previously competed on Big Brother Canada 3.
In Big Brother Canads 3, Kevin was most commonly known for his reserved and secretive gameplay where he was difficult to read and where his true intentions became ambiguous. This benefited him as many houseguests were prone to confiding in him big secrets and information that he would keep to himself, without offering back his own secrets. After winning POV in week 2 when he was the target, he was able to lay low for a couple weeks with the help of getting into a serious showmance with alliance member, Pilar. Despite his abilities, his membership with The Diaper Alliance made him a big target, and he was unable to escape eviction during the Triple Eviction. He finished in 9th place. While he was originally the fourth member of the jury, he became the third jury member after Jordan Parhar was evicted from the jury house by Sarah Hanlon.
In Big Brother Canada 5, Kevin was best known for his relationship with William Laprise Desbiens, bromance with Bruno Ielo, his rivalry with Demetres Giannitsos during the later stages, and his dominance in mental competitions. Kevin joined The Six alliance early on, and this alliance kept him safe until the jury phase. However, the alliance splintered once the jury phase began. In week 7, HoH Demetres made him the target, but he was spared when William used the Secret Power of Veto on him. After losing his core allies, Kevin was all alone and made the main target. However, he managed to win the remaining HOH's he was eligible to compete in and two must-win PoVs. His numerous competition wins, likability, ability to make it to the final two without allies and the jury's lack of respect for fellow finalist Karen Singbeil won him the game. He won in a unanimous 9-0 vote, thus making him the first Big Brother Canada winner and second overall winner to win in a unanimous vote and play a Perfect Game. Kevin managed to win several competitions, most of them in the latter part of the game. He won 3 HoHs and 4 PoVs thus making him the second Big Brother Canada HouseGuest to win seven competitions.
Biography[]
Big Brother Canada 3[]
Kevin Martin is a 22-year-old professional poker player from Calgary, Alberta. He describes Big Brother as the "ultimate game of mental warfare", and plans to throw competitions and "sit on the sidelines" in the game. He claims he will lie to the other HouseGuests about his occupation, and that he will be able to easily manipulate them.
Big Brother Canada 5[]
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Retrieved from Global Describe yourself in three words: What have you been up to since being on your season of Big Brother Canada? Is your strategy to win Big Brother Canada different going in for a second time? If you could call one former houseguest from your season for advice, who would it be and why? What element of Big Brother Canada did you not have a chance to try before, that you’d like to experience this time around? What perk within the game means the most to you: a letter from home, a luxury party, a season’s slop pass, or a vote from Canada? Which Big Brother Canada past competitor would you like to channel this season and why? If you could travel into the future or the past which would you choose and why? What do people from Calgary have that gives them an edge to win Big Brother Canada? |
Player History - Big Brother Canada 3[]
Competition History[]
| Week 1 | POV | Loss |
| Week 2 | HOH | Loss |
| Have/Have-Not | Have | |
| POV | Win | |
| Week 3 | HOH | Win |
| HOH | Previous HOH | |
| POV | Loss | |
| Reward | Loss | |
| Week 4 | HOH | Loss |
| Have/Have-Not | Have | |
| POV | Loss | |
| Week 5 | HOH | Loss |
| POV | Not Picked | |
| Week 6 | HOH | Loss |
| Have/Have-Not | Have-Not | |
| POV | Not Picked | |
| Week 7 | HOH | Win |
| POV | Win | |
| HOH | Previous HOH | |
| POV | Loss |
Have/Have-Not History[]
| Week 1 | Have |
| Week 2 | Have |
| Week 3 | Have-Not |
| Week 4 | Have |
| Week 5 | Have |
| Week 6 | Have-Not |
| Week 7 | Have |
Nominations/Voting History[]
| Week | Nominated | Nominated By | Final Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bruno Ielo Risha Denner |
Sarah Hanlon | – |
| Week | Position | Voted for | With Majority? |
| 2 | Used POV on Self | Sindy Nguyen | Yes |
| 3 | HOH | – | – |
| Vetoed | Graig Merritt | Yes | |
| 4 | – | Johnny Colatruglio | Yes |
| 5 | – | Godfrey Mangwiza | No |
| 6 | – | Sindy Nguyen | Yes |
| 7 | HOH/POV | – | – |
| Nominated | – | – | |
| Finale | Jury Member | Sarah Hanlon | Yes |
HOH History[]
| Original Nominees | Post-Veto Nominees | Intended Target | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day 15 | N/A | ||||
| Week 7 | |||||
Player History - Big Brother Canada 5[]
Competition History[]
| Week 1 | HOH/Immunity | Loss |
| POV | Loss | |
| Week 2 | HOH | Loss |
| Have/Have-Not | Have | |
| POV Advantage | Ineligible | |
| POV | Not Picked | |
| Luxury | Loss | |
| Week 3 | HOH | Loss |
| Have/Have-Not | Have | |
| POV | Not Picked | |
| Week 4 | POV | Loss |
| Have/Have-Not | Have | |
| HOH | Loss | |
| Luxury | Win | |
| Week 5 | HOH | Loss |
| Have/Have-Not | Have | |
| Luxury | Win | |
| POV | Win | |
| HOH | Loss | |
| POV | Not Picked | |
| Week 6 | HOH | Loss |
| POV | Not Picked | |
| HOH Advantage | Loss | |
| Black Hole POV | Loss | |
| Week 7 | HOH Part 1 | Win |
| HOH Part 2 | Loss | |
| HOH Part 3 | Ineligible | |
| POV | Loss | |
| Luxury | Win | |
| Week 8 | HOH | Win |
| Luxury | Win | |
| POV | Loss | |
| HOH | Previous HOH | |
| POV | Win | |
| Week 9 | HOH | Win |
| POV | Win | |
| Week 10 | HOH | Previous HOH |
| POV | Win | |
| HOH Part 1 | Loss | |
| HOH Part 2 | Win | |
| HOH Part 3 | Win |
Have/Have-Not History[]
| Week 1 | Have |
| Week 2 | Have |
| Week 3 | Have |
| Week 4 | Have |
| Week 5 | Have |
| Week 6 | Have-Not |
| Week 7 | Have |
| Week 8 | Have |
| Week 9 | Have/Have-Not Phase Over |
| Week 10 |
Nominations/Voting History[]
| Week | Position | Voted for | With Majority? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | – | Demetres Giannistsos | No |
| 2 | – | Dallas Cormier | Yes |
| 3 | – | Cassandra Shahinfar | Yes |
| Week | Nominated | Nominated By | Final Position |
| 4 | Dre Gwenaelle Gary Levy |
Karen Singbeil | – |
| Position | Voted for | With Majority? | |
| – | Ineligible | ||
| 5 | POV Holder | Emily Hawkin | Yes |
| – | Neda Kalantar | Yes | |
| 6 | – | Jackie McCurach | No |
| 7 | Nominated | Nominations Void | |
| Vetoed | Karen Singbeil | No | |
| 8 | HOH | – | – |
| Used POV on Self | Dillon Carman (To Save) | Yes | |
| 9 | HOH/POV | – | – |
| 10 | Used POV on Self | Ika Wong | Sole Vote |
| HOH | Demetres Giannistsos | Sole Vote | |
| Finale | Winner | – | – |
HOH History[]
| Original Nominees | Post-Veto Nominees | Intended Target | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 8 | OR | THEN | |||||||
| Week 9 | |||||||||
| Day 69 | N/A | ||||||||
Post Big Brother[]
Kevin's cast photo for The Traitors Canada
Kevin and Gurleen's Cast Photo for The Amazing Race Canada 10
- Kevin dated fellow houseguest, Pilar, after their season completed, from mid-2015 to early-2017. They got back together following Big Brother Canada 5.
- Kevin proposed to Pilar and they got engaged on February 7, 2021.[1][2] They were married on September 18, 2021 and held their official wedding about one year later.[3][4][5]
- Kevin and Pilar are the first BBCAN HouseGuests to get married.
- They later announced their separation on September 21, 2023.[6]
- Kevin proposed to Pilar and they got engaged on February 7, 2021.[1][2] They were married on September 18, 2021 and held their official wedding about one year later.[3][4][5]
- On November 20, 2017, Kevin appeared on The Taran Show to talk about life after Big Brother Canada 5 and girlfriend Pilar.[7]
- Alongside Sabrina Abbate and fellow BBCAN5 houseguest Ika Wong, Kevin appeared on Big Brother Canada 6 as part of the "Night in the BBCAN Museum" HoH competition in Week 4, recreating his famous Triple Eviction Power of Veto win from season 5.
- He later returned again alongside fellow season 3 houseguest/winner Sarah Hanlon and fellow winners Jillian MacLaughlin, Jon Pardy, and Nick & Phil Paquette to speak to the final three houseguests of season 6.
- Kevin appeared alongside fellow season 5 finalist Karen Singbeil to participate in a skit for a Wendy’s® Have-Not task in Big Brother Canada 7.
- On April 17, 2020, Kevin competed in the Big Brother Canada versus Big Brother U.S. mini of Sequester hosted by Audrey Middleton. He finished in 14th after being voted out.
- Kevin later returned in Big Brother Canada 10 to give advice to the Week 6 HOH Marty Frenette through the Wendy's Window.
- He later returned in Week 9 for a secret strategy session with POV winner Haleena Gill.
- Kevin competed on the first season of The Traitors Canada alongside Kuzie Mujakachi.[8] As a Faithful, he was wrongly suspected of being a Traitor and banished in Episode 6, finishing in 11th place.
- Kevin competed on the tenth season of The Amazing Race Canada with his new girlfriend Gurleen Maan, who he met on The Traitors Canada. They were eliminated in the ninth episode, finishing in 5th place.[9]
Trivia[]
- Kevin is one of the first people to be evicted as a result of a Triple Eviction, the other being Willow MacDonald who was evicted alongside him.
- Coincidentally, in both of his seasons, he was HOH in the first round of triple eviction and was nominated during the second round.
- Kevin is the first houseguest to win HOH twice in Big Brother Canada 3
- Kevin is the only male to win HOH twice in Big Brother Canada 3.
- Kevin and fellow contestant Willow Macdonald are the first 2 houseguests to be evicted without any votes cast against them. They would later be followed by Dre Gwenaelle, William Laprise Desbiens, and Johnny Mulder.
- Ironically, they were all evicted due to a triple eviction.
- Kevin is the first BBCAN houseguest to win HOH and be evicted in the same week. He won HOH during the first round of the Triple Eviction and was evicted during the second round.
- He, Jeff Schroeder, Nicole Franzel, Johnny Mulder, and Tom Green are the only houseguests to achieve this feat. Although Jeff and Tom were evicted during a Double Eviction and Nicole was Dethroned after winning HOH that week.
- Kevin, along with Ika Wong and Sindy Nguyen, is one of three returning houseguests on Big Brother Canada 5 to place higher than they did in their original season.
- Kevin is the first person to win HOH and POV in the same week during Big Brother Canada 5.
- Kevin is the first HouseGuest in Big Brother Canada history to win HOH in the first part of a Triple Eviction and then again after it happened.
- Kevin is tied with Shane Meaney, Ashleigh Wood, Kaela Grant, James Zinkand, Frank Eudy, Kaycee Clark, Rohan Kapoor and Jag Bains for the most consecutive Power of Veto wins with 3 in a row, sometimes referred to as the Three-peat Veto.
- Kevin is tied with James Rhine, Shane Meaney, John McGuire, Jackson Michie, Nick & Phil Paquette and Adam Pike for the second most Power of Veto wins in a single season with 4.
- Kevin is tied with Brendon Villegas for the second most Power of Veto wins in two seasons with 6.
- Kevin is the third Canadian to win the Power of Veto in all three situations (as HoH, as a nominee, and as a person picked to play), sometimes referred to as the Trifecta Veto, following Jon Pardy and Nick Paquette. They were followed by Kaela Grant from Big Brother Canada 6.
- Kevin is the first Canadian houseguest to play a Perfect Game, in which he had no votes cast against him and received all the jury votes in Big Brother Canada 5.
- He is the second houseguest in Big Brother History to play a Perfect Game following Big Brother 10 (US) winner Dan Gheesling. They would be followed by Big Brother Canada 7 winner Dane Rupert and Big Brother 22 (US) winner Cody Calafiore.
- They are the first two to win in an unanimous vote, followed by Celebrity Big Brother 2 (US) winner Tamar Braxton, Dane, Cody and Big Brother 23 (US) winner Xavier Prather .
- Kevin is the only Big Brother Canada houseguest to play more than once and never have an eviction vote cast against him.
- He is the second houseguest in Big Brother History to play a Perfect Game following Big Brother 10 (US) winner Dan Gheesling. They would be followed by Big Brother Canada 7 winner Dane Rupert and Big Brother 22 (US) winner Cody Calafiore.
- Kevin never faced eviction during Big Brother Canada 5.
- Kevin, along with Alison Irwin from Big Brother 4, Drew Daniel from Big Brother 5, Jon Pardy from Big Brother Canada 2 Ricky Williams from Celebrity Big Brother 2 (US) and Cody Calafiore from Big Brother 22 are the only HouseGuests to never face eviction in a single season.
- Kevin is the only male returning player in Big Brother Canada 5 to win HOH.
- Kevin is the second LGBT winner of Big Brother Canada, following Sarah Hanlon.
- Coincidentally, both Kevin and Sarah were originally on Big Brother Canada 3, and Kevin voted for Sarah to win.
- Both times Kevin won HOH In Big Brother Canada 3, Brittnee Blair was one of his original nominees as a pawn while the intended target got evicted.
- All three times Kevin won HOH in Big Brother Canada 5, one of his original nominees and intended target was Demetres Giannitsos.
- Kevin is the first houseguest to go four or more weeks with an uninterrupted competition winning streak to reach the Final 2. He won a competition and was immune for every round from the Final 8 onward, although the Final 7 and 6 rounds were combined due to the Triple Eviction. He would be followed by Monte Taylor.
- From Week 7 onward in Big Brother Canada 5, either Demetres Giannitsos or Kevin was the HOH.
References[]
- ↑ https://twitter.com/KevinRobMartin/status/1358556659631616001
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Pili_Nemer/status/1358556449991888898
- ↑ https://twitter.com/KevinRobMartin/status/1439299050923192321
- ↑ https://twitter.com/KevinRobMartin/status/1573474406730534913
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Pili_Nemer/status/1573676801334861824
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CxdebUCxzM9/?img_index=1
- ↑ Armstrong, Taran (20 November 2017). The Taran Show 19 - Kevin Martin. Rob Has A Website. Retrieved on 18 April 2018.
- ↑ https://twitter.com/traitorscanada/status/1703835611373646001
- ↑ https://amazingrace.fandom.com/wiki/Kevin_%26_Gurleen
| Preceded by Season 4  Nick & Phil Paquette |
Winner Season 5  Kevin Martin |
Succeeded by Season 6  Paras Atashnak |
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