Dee Valladares Would Have Cut Rick Devens at Final Three — and That’s Exactly Why He’s So Dangerous
The “Survivor 50” allies turned “Big Brother 28” power duo had loyalty, leverage and one enormous problem: neither could afford to sit next to the other at the end.
Dee Valladares has left the “Big Brother” house, but she managed to deliver one last little knife twist on her way out: if she had made it to the final three, she would have voted out Rick Devens.
Not because their alliance was fake. Not because she suddenly decided he was unbearable. Quite the opposite. Valladares told Page Six that Devens was exactly the kind of player she could not risk bringing to the final two, even after the pair had dominated much of the season together.
“If I won the final HOH, I would have cut Devens because as much as my heart wants to stay loyal to Devens, he could absolutely beat me,” the 29-year-old said after her eviction.
That is the entire “Big Brother” experience in one sentence: I love you, you are my person, you are also absolutely ruining my chances of winning $750,000.
The alliance was real. So was the exit plan.
Valladares and Devens arrived with something unusually potent: shared history. Both had appeared on “Survivor 50” earlier this year, and their familiarity carried into the “Big Brother 28” house. Alongside Angela Murray and Drew Campbell, they became part of the season’s central power structure.
But “Big Brother” rewards loyalty only until loyalty becomes bad math. Valladares understood that Devens had the kind of résumé that could swallow a finale whole. He is a “Survivor” icon, a proven strategist and, according to Valladares, someone who would likely collect more jury votes than she would in a head-to-head finale.
“I also feel like he would have done that, because we need each other for jury votes,” she said. “So I would have stayed loyal to him up until the final two, because I need his vote, just like he needs my vote.”
It is a wonderfully ruthless arrangement: protect each other through the dangerous middle, then quietly prepare to destroy the partnership at the exact moment the game requires it. Their bond could be genuine and still come with an expiration date printed in invisible ink.
Final four turned the friendship into a math problem
The decision never reached Valladares’ hands. At the final four, Taylor Brown won Head of Household and Drew Campbell won the Power of Veto, which guaranteed that one of the two “Survivor” players would be leaving.
Valladares made her preference clear during her eviction speech. She told Devens it was “an honor of a lifetime to play this game with a legend,” then turned to Campbell with a blunt question: did he want to play for second place, or did he want to play to win?
Her argument was simple and brutal: sitting next to Devens at the end would be a losing proposition. Valladares warned Campbell, “You will lose sitting next to Devens.”
Campbell did not take the bait. He evicted Valladares and kept Devens in the game, even while admitting that the decision hurt because both “Survivor” players deserved to win. The 22-year-old surgical dental assistant called them “‘Survivor’ legends who have become ‘Big Brother’ icons” before sending Valladares out with a reference to Jeff Probst: “The tribe has spoken.”
That is the sort of line reality television editors dream about. A “Survivor” slogan, deployed in a “Big Brother” eviction, against two players whose entire game was built on carrying one franchise’s mythology into another. The crossover is doing a lot of work here, and Campbell knew it.
Dee’s loyalty had a very specific limit
During her interview with Julie Chen Moonves, Valladares confirmed that she would have evicted Campbell at the final four because, in her words, her “heart couldn’t allow me to evict Devens.” That sounds sentimental until you remember the rest of the plan: keep Devens at four, cut him at three.
Her loyalty was not the soft-focus kind. It was strategic loyalty, the kind that keeps a powerful ally close because his vote matters, his protection matters and his presence helps you advance. It was also loyalty with a trapdoor underneath it.
Valladares said she believed Devens probably would have voted her out at the final three too. That mutual suspicion is what makes their partnership more interesting than a basic showmance-style “power duo” narrative. There was no suggestion in the interview that the two were romantically involved; their connection was built on shared gameplay, mutual respect and the very practical knowledge that each could help the other reach the end.
They were not promising forever. They were promising to get each other close enough to the finish line that betrayal would become unavoidable.
And now Devens has to survive without his shield
With Valladares gone, Devens has made the final three alongside Campbell and Taylor Brown. The person who understood his threat level best is no longer there to explain it to the room — or to use it against him.
That could be a gift. It could also be a neon sign.
Valladares’ warning to Campbell framed Devens as the obvious finalist to beat, but evicting the person most likely to win is not always the same as evicting the person most dangerous to your own game. Campbell chose to keep the bigger legend, perhaps believing that Devens’ résumé would make him easier to target later, or simply deciding that the immediate move did not outweigh the value of keeping him around. The source does not spell out Campbell’s private calculation, but his choice has created the exact endgame Valladares said he should avoid.
For Valladares, the exit is a classic “you will miss me when I’m gone” moment — except she was also the person most prepared to cut her closest ally the second the numbers demanded it. She can respect Campbell’s decision while still believing he may have passed up the grand prize. As she put it, “I think he lost the grand prize. But that doesn’t mean I don’t respect it.”
That is a very “Survivor” answer to a very “Big Brother” betrayal: hurt feelings, clean logic and a smile sharp enough to open the next blindside.
The “Big Brother 28” finale airs Thursday at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and streams on Paramount+.
Rob Lowe Just Named His Best On-Screen Kiss — and Andy Cohen’s Other Options Didn’t Stand a Chance
The actor didn’t need a lifeline on “Plead the Fifth” to pick Nastassja Kinski, recalling that he was “very, very scared” to kiss the woman he considered the most beautiful he’d ever seen.
Rob Lowe has kissed enough movie stars on camera to make the average actor’s résumé look aggressively under-romanced. Demi Moore. Kim Cattrall. Rashida Jones. Calista Flockhart. Meg Tilly. The man has spent four decades making cinematic chemistry look like a job requirement.
And yet, when Andy Cohen asked him to name his best on-screen kiss, Lowe did not pause, hedge or perform the elaborate diplomacy of a person trying to keep six famous women happy. He said Nastassja Kinski.
“Have a look at her,” Lowe replied on Sunday’s episode of Watch What Happens Live, after Cohen ran through his list of notable screen partners. It was less an answer than a closing argument. No notes. No ranking spreadsheet. Just a very famous man pointing toward the obvious fact that Nastassja Kinski has always had the kind of beauty that makes adjectives feel underqualified.
Then Lowe made the story more interesting by admitting that the kiss did not exactly leave him cool, calm and Hollywood-trained.
“At that moment in time, she was probably the most beautiful woman I’d certainly ever seen,” he said. “I was, like, very, very scared.”
The 1984 movie that started the legend
Lowe and Kinski appeared together in The Hotel New Hampshire, the 1984 comedy-drama directed by Tony Richardson and adapted from John Irving’s novel. The film also featured Jodie Foster, which means its cast list alone feels like a time capsule from the era when a single movie could casually assemble several future cultural institutions.
Kinski, now 65, was already an international star when she made the film. Lowe was in the early, glossy stretch of his own ascent: the Outsiders heartthrob, a member of Hollywood’s young elite and the sort of actor whose face seemed designed for both a movie poster and a teenage bedroom wall.
That context gives Lowe’s answer a little more sparkle than a standard celebrity “best kiss” anecdote. He was not describing a random day at work or a forgettable scene from a crowded filmography. He was talking about being young, famous and suddenly expected to kiss the person he found most beautiful in the room — while a camera watched.
For all the practiced ease of movie romance, the confession is charmingly unpolished. Lowe did not frame himself as a master of seduction. He framed himself as intimidated. In the world of celebrity storytelling, where everyone is usually effortlessly magnetic and every encounter is supposedly destiny, “I was scared” is refreshingly human.
Andy Cohen brought the chaos; Lowe brought the memory
The question arrived during “Plead the Fifth,” the Watch What Happens Live game that exists to make celebrities choose between oversharing and strategic evasiveness. Cohen did his part by reminding Lowe that the competition was serious. The actor has shared screen kisses with an unusually starry parade of women, including Moore and Cattrall, two names that could make even a seasoned guest suddenly discover an urgent interest in passing on the question.
Lowe did not pass. He also did not try to turn the answer into a lecture about chemistry, professionalism or the magic of collaboration. He simply went back to Kinski — and to the face that, in his memory, made the whole situation feel slightly terrifying.
There is a reason this kind of old-Hollywood memory travels. It is specific enough to feel personal, glamorous enough to feel like gossip and harmless enough to be enjoyed without needing a scandal attached. The internet does not always need a breakup, a feud or a suspiciously timed vacation photo. Sometimes it needs a handsome 62-year-old actor to reveal that his most intimidating romantic scene involved a woman who looked, to him, completely unreal.
Page Six’s story had been shared 45,785 times at publication, suggesting that this particular bit of cinematic nostalgia landed with more force than a routine talk-show anecdote. The appeal is obvious: Lowe’s answer instantly sends viewers back to The Hotel New Hampshire, then to every other famous screen pairing Cohen mentioned, inviting the kind of highly unserious debate friends conduct in group chats with the confidence of professional casting directors.
The real-life plot twist is Sheryl Berkoff
Lowe’s on-screen romantic history may be extensive, but his off-screen story has a much steadier ending. He married makeup artist and jewelry designer Sheryl Berkoff in July 1991, and the couple share two sons, Matthew and John Owen.
The timing matters. Lowe met Berkoff on the set of the 1990 erotic thriller Bad Influence, after their earlier meeting on the film Class. In a 2022 interview with People, he described falling for her as the moment he understood that a lasting relationship might actually be possible for him. He also said he went to rehab and got sober in order to build a future with her.
“I had the feeling that if I was ever going to be able to make it work with anybody, it was Sheryl,” he said at the time.
That history gives the Kinski story its best contrast. Lowe can still identify the screen kiss that left him frightened by beauty, but the relationship he built his life around began somewhere less cinematic: on a set, with a woman he came to recognize as the person who made permanence feel possible. One is a perfect talk-show answer. The other is the actual plot.
And yes, he also revisited the Oscar disaster
Lowe’s Kinski confession was not his only recent detour into Hollywood memory. On Andy Cohen Live, he also joked that he was “the only person happy” when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars.
The reason was brutally self-interested: Lowe hoped the incident would finally knock his own infamous 1989 Academy Awards opening number out of the conversation. He called that performance “the worst opening ever,” then admitted the relief did not last.
“It turns out I still am dragged, dragged every year,” he said.
That may be Lowe’s real talk-show gift: he knows exactly which pieces of his past remain permanently available for public teasing, and he is willing to bring them up before someone else does. The bad Oscar opening, the famous exes, the long marriage, the terrifyingly beautiful co-star — he has enough lore to fill several rounds of “Plead the Fifth.”
But on this night, the headline belonged to Kinski. Decades after The Hotel New Hampshire, Lowe still remembered the kiss, still remembered being scared and still had no interest in pretending anyone else came close.
Barbara Palvin and Dylan Sprouse Welcome a Baby Girl — and Give Her the Cutest Labor Day Announcement
The model and former Disney star are officially girl parents after a whirlwind year that went from Cannes bump debut to Dodgers-jersey family portrait.
Barbara Palvin and Dylan Sprouse have entered their girl-dad, girl-mom era — and naturally, they announced it with a little holiday wordplay and a very Los Angeles family portrait.
Palvin revealed Monday that she and Sprouse welcomed their first child, a baby girl, on Sept. 7. The model shared a photo of the new family of three wearing Los Angeles Dodgers jerseys, with the newborn tucked between her parents. “We took Labor Day literally this year,” Palvin captioned the post.
It is a neat little announcement for a couple whose entire pregnancy rollout has been unusually polished without feeling overproduced: a Cannes red-carpet reveal, a soft-focus podcast gender announcement, a princess nickname and, finally, baseball jerseys. No elaborate celebrity birth spectacle. No name reveal. Just one extremely on-brand joke and a tiny Dodgers fan making her public debut before she can even hold a baseball.
From Cannes glamour to full-on family portrait
The couple announced they were starting a family in May, when Palvin debuted her bump on the Cannes Film Festival red carpet. It was the kind of reveal that makes the red carpet do double duty: one part fashion moment, one part “wait, is that a baby bump?” confirmation.
By July, Sprouse and Palvin had shared that they were expecting a girl during the first episode of Sprouse’s “Wildmen” podcast, which he co-hosts with Brendan Columbus. Sprouse said he was excited to become a “girl dad” and, in a particularly charming detail, added that he unironically loved the idea of tea parties. Palvin predicted that having a daughter would mellow out her husband, while suggesting that parenting would give him an entirely new category of things to stress about.
The baby had already acquired a temporary nickname before arriving. Palvin said the couple had been calling her “principessa,” Italian for princess, while going back and forth on names. Whether that nickname survives outside the delivery room is anyone’s guess, but it is hard to imagine a more Palvin-coded placeholder: romantic, slightly international and ready for a tiny silk robe.
Now the pregnancy arc has reached its final, extremely photogenic chapter: the Victoria’s Secret model and the former Disney Channel star in matching team gear, introducing their daughter to the world on a day built for barbecue, fireworks and aggressively casual family photos.
The couple’s long runway to parenthood
Palvin and Sprouse have been together since 2018, after meeting at a party the year before. Their relationship has occupied a sweet spot in celebrity culture: recognizable enough to generate headlines, private enough that every public appearance feels like an occasion.
Sprouse proposed in September 2022, though the couple waited until the following summer to share the news publicly. They married in July 2023 in Palvin’s native Hungary, giving the relationship a wedding chapter that felt intimate by celebrity standards and distinctly rooted in her family history.
That history has remained part of the couple’s public image. They have moved between fashion-world glamour, Hollywood nostalgia and the kind of domestic normalcy Palvin has described as important to their life together. In a May interview with L’Beauté, she praised Sprouse’s calm and sense of humor, saying they understood each other’s worlds while keeping things “super normal” at home. She also described him as supportive and grounding, adding that they balance each other out.
That is a particularly useful description now that their relationship has crossed into parenthood. Sprouse is still permanently associated with his childhood role on “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody” and its spinoff, while Palvin’s career has made her a fixture of global fashion and beauty coverage. Together, they have the rare celebrity-couple contrast that practically writes its own captions: former Disney kid meets international runway star, now united by a newborn in a Dodgers jersey.
Palvin’s pregnancy was personal, polished and very online
Throughout the pregnancy, Palvin documented the experience in glimpses rather than a daily diary, sharing car selfies and Fourth of July party photos while keeping the bigger family details for carefully chosen moments. The result was less “pregnancy influencer” and more “supermodel occasionally allows the internet one beautiful clue.”
She has also spoken publicly about her endometriosis struggles, including in the same May L’Beauté cover story. Palvin said the experience made her more aware and patient with herself, and taught her not to ignore what her body was telling her. She emphasized prioritizing her health more seriously — a note of candor in an otherwise glossy season of red carpets and announcement photos.
That context gives the birth announcement a little more weight than a standard celebrity lifestyle update. Palvin’s public pregnancy story was not only about clothes fitting differently or a famous partner becoming a father. It also sat alongside her effort to talk about listening to her body and taking her health seriously, without turning the conversation into a performance of perfect motherhood.
Of course, the internet will want the usual next installments: the baby’s name, a close-up of the nursery, a first family vacation, possibly a tiny pair of designer sunglasses that cost more than most adults’ rent. For now, the couple has offered only the headline details: a daughter, a Labor Day arrival and a family photo with enough Dodgers blue to make the announcement feel like a team expansion.
Palvin and Sprouse have spent years carefully calibrating the line between public romance and private life. Their engagement arrived late, their wedding was shared on their own timeline, and the pregnancy unfolded through a handful of major moments rather than constant access. The birth announcement follows that same rhythm — celebratory, funny and just revealing enough.
So welcome to the world, little “principessa.” Your first public appearance says your parents are glamorous, sentimental, baseball-friendly and already very committed to the bit. Honestly, that is a pretty strong celebrity family origin story.