Big Brother 28 Showmance Report: Is There Another Couple Blooming?
It’s still Week 1 in the Big Brother 28 house, which means we’ve officially reached the annual point where people stop pretending they’re here only for $750,000 and start pretending they’ve found their soulmate.
Leading the charge are Rome and Lyric, who apparently looked at 90-plus cameras, thousands of live feeders and a game built on betrayal and thought, “Yeah, this seems like the perfect place to fall in love.”
The pair became inseparable almost immediately. First came the flirting. Then the compliments. Then the kissing. I can think of several other shows more suitable for this kind of summer.
The rest of the house has had about the same reaction longtime viewers usually do: Already?
Rome and Lyric don’t exactly seem worried about dialing it back, either. Whether they’re curled up together, making out in the hammock, or speaking exclusively in the language of people who’ve somehow known each other for 96 hours but act like it’s been 96 years, subtlety isn’t exactly part of the equation. Producers even hilariously summoned Rome to the Diary Room in the middle of one of their make-out sessions, creating one of the feeds’ most meme-worthy moments of the week.
Meanwhile, over on the less nauseating side of the house, there’s Dee and Barrett.
Calling it a showmance might be premature. Calling it a flirtmance? Absolutely fair game. Don’t forget, Barrett even mentioned Dee in his diary room confessional. “I’m not afraid to say that Dee is absolutely my Survivor crush,” he said. “I mean, Dee is like, stunning. So stunning that I can’t even function. Not only that, she is a hardcore player so I feel like I’m in a trap.”
But he’s not the only one who has confessed some sort of admiration. Last night on the Live Feeds Dee talked to the cameras about Barrett. “Guys, Barrett is the sweetest, funniest … people underestimate him,” she said. They think he’s a nerd … and yeah, maybe he is a nerd, but he is my nerd. So, I really like Barrett.”
The Survivor winner and the lifelong Big Brother superfan have settled into that stage where every conversation is loaded with just enough chemistry to keep feed watchers squinting. They were spotted holding hands, and Barrett delivered perhaps the most gloriously awkward line of the season when he coyly joked about whether they should “touch kneecaps, “the kind of painfully dorky attempt at flirting that somehow worked because everyone involved knew it was ridiculous.
Unlike Rome and Lyric, Dee and Barrett aren’t monopolizing a bed or treating the house like Love Island. Their dynamic feels more like two people testing the waters while trying to remember they’re playing Big Brother for a lot of grand-prize money.
Of course, fans know how this story usually ends. Every season begins with declarations of “this is different,” followed shortly by jealousy, strategic blind spots, and at least one houseguest wondering why they hitched their game to someone they met before the memory wall was even fully memorized.
So congratulations, Big Brother 28. We made it less than a week before the showmances arrived. Right on schedule.
