3 Big Brother US Houseguests who have played the perfect game

A perfect game in baseball is when a pitcher or pitchers on a team face just 27 batters over a game and no batter reaches base and there have been just 24 perfect games in MLB history. On Big Brother, achieving a perfect game is when a Houseguest navigates the entire season and wins by a unanimous jury vote without receiving a single vote to be evicted.

This has only happened three times in the 26 seasons of American Big Brother.

The Perfect Game in Big Brother has been actually accomplished six times in total, with three players from Canada also walking over the red-hot human coals in the North American Reality TV competition shows and not getting their feet burned.

On Big Brother Canada 5, Kevin Martin became the first Canadian player to accomplish this feat and the second overall when he won by a 9-0 vote from the jury after being nominated for eviction three times but never receiving a vote against him. Kevin won $100,000, a 2017 Toyota 86, and a $20,000 home makeover from furniture store The Brick.

Two seasons later on Big Brother Canada 7, Dane Rupert also won by a unanimous 7-0 vote after being nominated twice and facing eviction once. And on Celebrity Big Brother Quebec 1, Jean Thomas-Jobin registered a perfect game when he got a 12-0 jury vote after being nominated two times and also being up for eviction two times.

Here are the three Houseguests who have ended up with perfect games in the American version of Big Brother which airs on CBS every summer.

Dan Gheesling, Big Brother 10

Dan Gheelsing first came into our living rooms in 2008, when the then 24-year-old Catholic school teacher and assistant football coach from Dearborn, Michigan teamed up with Memphis Garrett, a 25-year-old bartender from Los Angeles, to form The Renegades alliance.

The two ruffled as few feathers as possible during the 71-day season and managed to make it to the Final 2 together where Dan defeated Memphis by a unanimous 7-0 jury vote. Dan was nominated twice (Week 2, Week 8), had two Veto wins (Week 6, Day 52), and ended up winning the coveted $500,000 grand prize.

Dan would return for Big Brother 14: All-Stars where he teamed up with season winner Ian Terry in The Quack Pack, with both making the Final 2 and Ian winning by a 6-1 vote with Danielle Murphree casting the lone vote for Dan. Dan, who entered the game as one of the four coaches that season, was nominated three times (Week 7, Day 68, Week 10) and had one Head of Household (HoH) reign (Day 62).

Dan gave his legendary funeral speech on BB14 and became the first player to earn the distinction of making it to the Final 2 in two seasons of Big Brother. He won $50,000 for being runner-up and is one of only two Houseguests, along with Big Brother 9 winner Dick Donato, to have played the game twice and not be evicted from the house.

In 2024, Dan was a contestant on The Traitors season 2 where he was chosen to be one of the original Traitors along with Phaedra Parks (Real Housewives of Atlanta, Married to Medicine), but he was banished in Episode 6.

Cody Calafiore, Big Brother 22

Cody Calafiore followed in Dan’s footsteps by becoming the second Big Brother Houseguest to finish in the Final 2 in both seasons when on the show. Cody finished as the runner-up in Big Brother 16 when fellow Bomb Squad alliance member and Final 2 duo The Hitmen Derrick Leveasseur teammate won by a 7-2 vote.

But Cody would return for Big Brother 22: All-Stars where he won the season and racked up the second perfect game when he won by a unanimous 9-0 jury vote after never being nominated or facing eviction for the house in Studio City, California.

After winning $50,000 for being runner-up on BB16, Cody captured the big $500,000 check on BB22 and his track record on All-Stars was pretty amazing, with three HoHs and three PoVs on his final resume.

Cody’s brother, Paulie Calafiore also competed on the CBS Reality TV competition show, when he finished in eighth place on Big Brother 18 in 2016. Cody, now 33, was a Traitor, like Dan, on TheTraitors season 1 (US) where he finished in eleventh place after being banished by a 7-0 vote on Episode 7.

So if BB alum Reyes or Britney Haynes are selected by host Alan Cumming to be one of those first two Traitors on The Traitors season 3 this coming season, don’t expect them to last very long as the contestants in Ardross Castle in Scotland will be on to this trend.

Chelsie Banham, Big Brother 26

On finale night, we saw Chelsie Banham become the third American Big Brother player to register a perfect game and the first woman ever to do so after the 27-year-old nonprofit director from Rancho Cucamonga, California beat ally and runner-up Makensy Manbeck by a unanimous 7-0 vote in front of the live studio audience on Day 90.

Earlier on in the show, Makensy won the final HoH and elected to take Chelsie to the Final 2 over Cam Sullivan-Brown. This move resulted in the sixth time that we have seen an all-women Final 2 on Big Brother.

Chelsie also became the first female to ever win the show by a unanimous vote and the third Black Houseguest to win Big Brother in the last four seasons (Xavier Prather, BB23, Taylor Hale, BB24).

In Season 26, Chelsie was nominated twice, faced eviction once (Finale night), won an impressive four HoHs (Week 2, Week 8, Day 73, Week 12) but never won a PoV (Makensy won five).

It was her masterful social game, persuasive skills, and allegiance to allies Makensy and Cam that helped Chelise get to the Final 2 and ultimately win the show and the now $750,000 grand prize money. Houston native Makensy took home $75,000 as runner-up.

Will we see Chelsie on The Challenge (MTV), The Traitors (Peacock), or a future All-Stars season of Big Brother? Time will tell, but history will remember her gameplay on BB26 as one of the most masterful in the show’s storied 26 seasons airing on CBS.