The 'Big Brother' house at all times will get very messy all over each and every season... so who cleans it? Here's what we learn about the dirtiest job if truth be told TV.
If you're a Big Brother fan, don't act like you were not cringing after the houseguests tore aside the house in the latest Power of Veto pageant this season. During the Wednesday, Sept. Four episode, Jackson, Jess, Cliff, Christie, Tommy, and Nicole actually destroyed the truth display's well-known abode, so now enthusiasts are wondering: Who cleans the Big Brother house? Scroll down for everything we all know!
Who cleans the Big Brother house?
To no shock, the Big Brother house doesn't clean itself. In reality, the houseguests are responsible to do so!
“It’s up to the houseguests to do their own cleaning, and a few casts are real slobs and some are truly neat,” Executive Producer of Big Brother, Allison Grodner, advised New York Post in 2017. “Inevitably there’s a neatnik in the cast. You start to pay attention, ‘I’m the only one scrubbing and cleansing.’”
And it's no wonder that after only a few weeks into these BB seasons, the house looks some distance from best. “I’d say by way of Week 2 the house starts becoming very ‘lived-in,’" the show's other Executive Producer, Rich Meehan, revealed.
“[The houseguests] get very comfortable very quickly and their clothes are piled on the floor, on their beds, on their dressers. There are times when we’ve walked into the house and quickly leave. It’s pretty dirty and doesn’t smell the best.”
Funny enough, it seems living in the Big Brother house could be similar to feeling like you're in college again. “It smells like feet,” Grodner added.
“We have a discussion ahead of time about ‘production issues’ or ‘roommate issues’ and cleanliness is definitely a roommate issue, like if someone decides to be a complete slob and pile things up in the sink. We’ve had plenty of stories from people watching the show online about contestants coming out of the toilet and not washing their hands."
As a Big Brother fan, it's also vital to take into account that those strangers reside together for three months with no get admission to to the outdoor global. That said, if any individual is sloppy in the house, it could evidently make the houseguests need to send them home.
"They’re playing a game and no one wants that [complaining] to be the reason they end up being nominated [for eviction] or being evicted,” Meehan added. “Last year, someone tried putting up rules about cleaning — and that person got evicted first.”
The LA-based house, which is located on a set, by the way, also features some insanely cool competitions throughout the seasons, typically in the backyard. However, we don't think the houseguests are responsible for cleaning those up by the looks of the live feeds. We imagine the CBS staff and crew come in and out of the yard when it comes to competition setups and takedowns.
The one thing to note about the house is that every season a new crew comes in. And with a fresh set of houseguests means a new (and clean!) look for them. That said, the Season 22 cast will be lucky considering the messes we've season on Season 21 thus far (who could ever forget Jess, Cliff, and Nicole repeatedly throwing pies in people's faces for a week even though they always made it to the floor instead).
"It’s a suite, so it gets demolished, then rebuilt,” Grodner shared. “Prior to the [new] houseguests getting into, we move in with an commercial cleaning workforce and ensure the filth from the past season is gone. It’s like a development website online — it has to be vacuumed out and hosed down.” Phew!
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