Big Brother’s Rachel Reilly Shockingly Booted in Season 27 White Locust Twist, Setting Fans on Fire.
Big Brother’s Rachel Reilly Shockingly Booted in Season 27 White Locust Twist, Setting Fans on Fire
The former champ ended up the “sacrifice” in the latest “White Locust” twist, and just like that, she’s the very first member of the Season 27 jury. Floaters, time to grab your life vests and pitchforks.
Reality-TV fanbases exploded over the weekend when Rachel Reilly was axed in a jaw-dropping eviction that first dropped on the Tuesday, Sept. 9 episode. Her “sacrifice” moment came during a surprise twist that turned everything upside down, and Twitter basically melted.
While loyal live-feed watchers caught the action as it happened, Tuesday’s episode zoomed out to color the rest of the picture. We kicked things off with the season’s Big Bad, the Mastermind, who’s played by some unknown face behind a mask, pulling strings like a pro puppet-master.
The Mastermind warned the nine remaining Houseguests that within a few hours, the season’s first jury member would be sent packing. The twist? He teased that victory would hinge either on “competition skills” or “social finesse.”
With a cheeky nod to HBO’s trends, he called this twist “Check-Out Night at The White Locust—where everyone’s checked in, but one unlucky guest is checked out for good.”
The episode staged a two-part contest that forced strategy and skill to tango. In leg one, players had to slide small wooden totems toward targets on a long table. Houseguest Ava Pearl burned through the round the fastest and crowned herself decision-maker, choosing the unlucky Houseguest sent into the deciding maze.
The maze challenge had the Houseguests rotating a huge wheel to guide a tiny ball through a twisting path. To leave the maze, they needed to do it against a ticking clock that got shorter with every player that stepped up.
Tyler Crispen, the season 20 runner-up and surprise host, laid the rules out. The first player got a clean 6 ½ minutes. Nail it, and they choose the next contestant who loses a minute. Repeat until someone stumbles—not making it means automatic eviction.
Ava went first and sailed through, handing the next turn to Vince Panaro. He finished in a perfect 6 ½, so he picked the next: Lauren Domingue hurtled through in 5 ½. After that, it was Morgan Pope’s turn and finally Rachel’s. She struggled with 3 ½ minutes, couldn’t crack the path, and was sent out in a flash. The ceremony Austin called “sacrifice to the White Locust” made it official, and Rachel became the latest torch snuffed from the game.
The season has rolled on without giving the three-time Big Brother vet the typical save, even with this summer’s extra twist schedule: Head of Household, Power of Veto, and now the new BB Block Buster—all on the same week—yet Rachel still walked that stage without the light.
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The other Houseguests stared, wooden-eyed. She and Tyler, the house alpha, shared the kind of laugh-cries that leave a mark, then she turned to the pack.
“Don’t expect an easy jury, guys. I’m still throwing the dagger.” Rachel’s voice stayed steady. “Every last one of you better get blood on those hands. I’m not letting you guys coast to those last two stools.”
She kept that glare leveled: “You want a trophy, you want the crown legend to sit beside you on that stage, then you better prove it on July heat and before the messiness of my goodbye.”
Her parting left ripples, not waves, and former Houseguests of every season, from her first to last, took to Twitter to back her one last time.
Ragan Fox, who used to have it out with her every day on season 12, posted something surprising on Instagram. He used to joke about her being “a red-headed parrot from hell,” but this time he just said he wished she could “properly finish her game.”
He pointed out that even her fiercest rivals have cheered her on this time because she “brings so much joy and energy.” He flat-out said, “It chills me that nobody put a former winner on the block in eight weeks.” Apparently, that’s a record and proof that she’s leveled up her social game.
Janelle Pierzina woke up at 3 a.m. and tweeted her heartbreak in all caps. “Cancel the whole f—ing show! Rachel is BIG BROTHER,” she screamed. “What in the actual f— #bb27.” Fans retweeted those words like wildfire. You didn’t just hear the hashtag, you felt it shaking the walls of every Big Brother fan living room.
Brendon Villegas, Rachel’s husband and Big Brother vet himself, weighed in with a multi-paragraph finish. He said the producers “fumbled this one harder than if a coach invited the other team on a pizza run at halftime.” He said that every single member of the current cast is “hard to root for. Can’t find one.” Fans reading the farewell speeches are swiping elevators to “skip to finale, for f—‘s sake.”
For real, one fan nailed it when they said, “Without Rachel, this season would have been a dud, no cap!” And honestly, they’re probably right.
Another fan, Villegas, tweeted that “the heart of your season” is gone, so he expects the ratings to tank any day now. But he isn’t hating; he’s actually cheering Rachel on, saying he “could not be prouder” of how she’s handling it.
