Five Big Brother winners, three America’s Favorite Players, two runners-up and a partridge in a pear tree will compete on this month’s Reindeer Games spinoff.
CBS on Thursday announced the full lineup of nine BB alumni who will return for the upcoming holiday-themed offshoot, premiering Monday, Dec. 11, at 9/8c and spanning six episodes over two weeks. Here’s who will battle it out for the $100,000 grand prize:
* Cody Calafiore, Season 22 winner and Season 16 runner-up
* Nicole Franzel, Season 18 winner and Season 16/Season 22 houseguest
* Frankie Grande, Season 16 houseguest
* Taylor Hale, Season 24 winner and America’s Favorite Player
* Cameron Hardin, Season 25 America’s Favorite Player
* Britney Haynes, Season 12 America’s Favorite Player and Season 14 houseguest
* Josh Martinez, Season 19 winner
* Xavier Prather, Season 23 winner
* Danielle Reyes, Season 3 runner-up and Season 7 houseguest
Those nine vets join Season 23’s Tiffany Mitchell and Derek Xiao and Season 11 winner Jordan Lloyd, who will play the roles of Magical Elves during the two-week contest. In each episode, players will face off in three competitions, culminating in Santa’s Showdown that will determine which player goes home at the end of that episode.
As previously reported, Big Brother Reindeer Games will be very unlike its mothership series: Players won’t live in a house together, will not vote each other out, and there won’t be any live feeds or live broadcasts. Plus, the three elves will take the place of usual host Julie Chen Moonves.
How are you feeling about this cast list, Big Brother fans? Who’s your early pick to win?