Big Brother has crowned a new winner!
The iconic CBS reality competition series saw Ashley Hollis, a 25-year-old New York-based attorney, be named as the Season 27 winner after winning a jury vote of 6-1 over Vince Panaro.
It capped off a soon-to-be iconic season that nearly went off the rails after a twist that was universally bashed by the fandom that saw the exit of returning winner, Rachel Reilly.
Ashley Hollis’ ‘Big Brother’ finale performance
Though Hollis only won one competition leading into the final Head of Household competition, she made it far in the season due to a great social game, and when it came down to the wire, won both the second and third parts of the final HOH comp, taking out Morgan Pope, the presumed winner who ultimately landed in third place. She also excelled in her speech to the jury, delivering which will probably be one of the most notable jury speeches in the show’s history.
What Ashley Hollis said about her finale speech
On her speech, she told Entertainment Weekly, “I worked on that speech for days — trying to come up with combativeness too, if I was sitting next to Morgan or if I was sitting next to Vinny. And for me, I really just knew that Vinny’s social game wasn’t that strong. He made some really bad moves in the game. He led a lot of people on and gave them hope even though he knew he was going to go another way. So I knew I wanted to emphasize that.”
She continued, “And being an attorney, you have to predict what the other person’s arguments are going to be and already have a strategy and a counter-argument to whatever their argument is going be. And so I knew he was going to try to say he had a strong social game and he only lied when he had to, but I’m like, ‘You turned a lot of allies into enemies.’ And I feel like in my game, I did the exact opposite.”
Per its official description, the Big Brother “follows a group of people living together in a house outfitted with more than 100 cameras and 100 microphones, recording their every move 24 hours a day. Each week, someone will be voted out of the house, with the last remaining Houseguest receiving the grand prize of $750,000.”