Skip to main content

‘Big Brother’ season 28 cast revealed by CBS

Julie Chen Moonves stands inside of the ‘Big Brother’ season 28 house. (Matthew Taplinger/CBS)

The new Big Brother cast has been revealed.

CBS has announced 14 new houseguests who will compete on Big Brother season 28. Among the different personalities are a Jumbotron engineer, a drag queen, an MMA fighter and a rocket scientist.

“This new group of houseguests is stepping into a summer where nothing is as it seems, where every twist rewrites the rules, and where time becomes the ultimate twist,” according to a press release from CBS.

The names of the new houseguests competing on the season are Ashley Trail, Barrett Pfeiffer, Chuk Anyanwu, Drew Campbell, Haley Thogmartin, Jason De Puy, Kamuela “Kamu” Kirk, LaTrice Verrett, Lyric Medeiros, Mallory Aurichio, Melody Morris, Rome Seymour, Taylor Brown and Yash Patel.

In addition to these 14 houseguests, Big Brother teases more surprise houseguests will be revealed on air during the premiere episode. Those houseguests will also compete for the $750,000 prize. Big Brother similarly added a secret houseguest last season. That ended up being returning player and fan-favorite Big Brother season 13 winner Rachel Reilly.

Big Brother follows a group of people who live together in a house without the ability to leave it or access anything about the outside world. The house has dozens of cameras and microphones that record their every move, every second of the day. Each week, another person gets voted out of the house, until the last remaining houseguest wins the cash prize.

Big Brother season 28 premieres with a 90-minute episode July 9 on CBS.

Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Houston City College Celebrates Helen Callier and 10 Years of Permit Us Now Success

Click here for updates on this story    August 24, 2026 (Houston Style Magazine) -- HOUSTON — Some business plans stay in binders. Others become businesses. And every once in a while, one grows into a company helping keep some of Texas’ biggest construction projects moving.That is the entrepreneurial story of Helen Callier, President and Founder of Permit Us Now, who is celebrating 10 years of building a company that specializes in building permit management and regulatory approvals for commercial and government clients.Callier’s journey has deep roots at Houston City College, where she participated in the HCC Business Plan Competition in 2016 after graduating from Cohort 9 of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program. Already an entrepreneur through Bradlink, LLC, Callier entered the competition with another idea demanding her attention: build a strategic growth plan for a new company called Permit Us Now.The objective, she has said, was bigger than winning prize money. She wanted the training, advising, accountability and structure necessary to turn an idea into an enterprise.By summer 2016, Permit Us Now was open for business.photo Helen Callier and Permit-Us-Now-2025 Sponsor Spotlight Then came Houston’s Super Bowl moment.Permit Us Now played a permitting role connected to Super Bowl LI, eventually earning recognition among small businesses highlighted in the commemorative NFL Super Bowl program and Texas Monthly. That visibility helped put the company on H-E-B’s radar, leading to work on H-E-B Curbside locations during 2017 and 2018 and a client relationship that has now stretched roughly a decade.Not bad for something that began with a business plan. From Houston Startup to Texas-Sized Projects
Read Next Story