Warning! The following contains spoilers from the Big Brother live feeds as of Monday, July 27th. Stream the feeds with a Paramount+ subscription and on Pluto TV, and read at your own risk!
Tensions flared yet again in the Big Brother house after Week 3 HOH Kamu Kirk thought he could "call out" Jason De Puy during a backyard tea party. After the results of the latest veto competition, he could've left well enough alone. However, Kamu decided to start an argument I feel relatively certain he lost.
This all went down for those watching Big Brother online, as the latest episode aired amid the 2026 TV schedule. Kamu had prepared most of the day to use a tea party planned by Mallory Aurichio to call out Jason for making contradictory promises to people in the house and laughed as he expected the drag queen to be speechless or stomp off. Unfortunately for him, Jason stood on business, and I think Kamu came out of the other side a potential target for the house.
Jason Was Ready For Kamu's Surprise Attack, And The Latter Was Unprepared
From the time Kamu hatched this scheme, I thought he was in over his head. Just the week prior, Jason went toe-to-toe with Angela Murray and held his own against the Houseguest famous for her wild speeches in her first season. Despite that, Kamu thought he'd be able to call out Jason and leave him stunned as well as emotionally isolated from the rest of the house before he was officially put up as the replacement nominee.
Things got off to a rocky start, as Kamu unsuccessfully tried to broach the planned attack a couple times and was interrupted. He did finally get going, though, and talked about how he'd heard Jason was targeting him and making contradictory promises to others about what he'd do had he won the veto. Once he was finished, Jason unloaded:
3 minutes and 17 seconds of jason reading kamu for filth enjoy #bb28 pic.twitter.com/e45zocSJZeJuly 27, 2026
Jason made plenty of valid points, including that he was being raked over the coals by Kamu for "playing Big Brother." He also correctly clocked the majority alliance in the house and, while Kamu and others tried to brush it off, I'd be curious to hear if those outside the alliance also saw how tense that moment made people. Kamu tried to take control of the situation but, every time he opened his mouth again, Jason kept going back after him.
Not only that, but the entire showdown kept being frequently interrupted by Lala Verrett, who was brought up as a minor part of Kamu's speech. This derailed the conversation completely and led her to make many valid points in defense of Jason, and being confused at what Kamu was getting at.
The only other contributor in this fight was Angela Murray, who was a big advocate of this showdown ahead of time, and viewers surely know Murray isn't afraid of drama. Everyone else looked wildly uncomfortable, which led to Kamu telling Jason that this was why it happened. Jason reminded Kamu that it was he who started all of this in a clearly premeditated way, and that's more or less where this matter ended.
Kamu Had Little To Gain, And Ended Up Making Himself A Target
Kamu had nothing to gain in this attempt to publicly humiliate Jason, and it seems he'll have plenty to lose in the coming days. While I would expect more honest thoughts about the tea party incident to come once his work as HOH is officially done, the entire incident was met with a mixed response.
Rick Devens and Dee Valladares, allegedly two of Kamu's biggest allies, planned to use the moment to bring in Mallory and use it as ammunition for her to target Kamu. Rather than target the vets, wouldn't a prospective HOH by her be better served by going after the MMA fighter who ruined her tea party?
Not only that, but Jason still has a chance to save himself with the BB Blockbuster. Now that he has advance notice that Kamu planned to put him up as the replacement nominee, he can spend the next few days going after the outgoing HOH's character and making him enemy number one of the house.
Again, I'm not sure what Kamu's goal was here. The only real congratulations he got from Houseguests were from people who already knew he was going to do it from the start, and the people who were blindsided weren't really shocked by anything they heard. Objectively speaking, I don't think this was a good game move for Kamu, though I don't expect him to own up to or admit that.
Big Brother continues with new episodes on Wednesday and Thursday at 8:00 p.m. ET. As someone rooting for an entertaining season, I'm hoping Jason can win the Blockbuster, or at least find a way to save himself from eviction this coming week.
