Turning up the heat. With contestants isolated from the outside world and filmed 24/7, the Big Brother house is a recipe for explosive behavior.
Fans of the CBS reality series have witnessed several brawls over the years, from the infamous house fight on Keesha Smith‘s birthday during season 10 to memorable one-on-one spats like Rachel Reilly and Ragan Fox‘s war of words during season 12.
Scroll through to see the most shocking Big Brother fights over the years:
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Turning up the heat. With contestants isolated from the outside world and filmed 24/7, the Big Brother house is a recipe for explosive behavior. Fans of the CBS reality series have witnessed several brawls over the years, from the infamous house fight on Keesha Smith's birthday during season 10 to memorable one-on-one spats like Rachel Reilly and Ragan Fox's war of words during season 12. Scroll through to see the most shocking Big Brother fights over the years:
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Turning up the heat. With contestants isolated from the outside world and filmed 24/7, the Big Brother house is a recipe for explosive behavior. Fans of the CBS reality series have witnessed several brawls over the years, from the infamous house fight on Keesha Smith's birthday during season 10 to memorable one-on-one spats like Rachel Reilly and Ragan Fox's war of words during season 12. Scroll through to see the most shocking Big Brother fights over the years:
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Fed up with Dick Donato’s smoking, Jen Johnson hid his cigarettes. ‘Evel Dick’ caught on quickly, and began to follow Jen around, calling her a ‘stupid b—ch’ and asking for his property back.
After Jen refused to own up to the theft, Dick retaliated by blowing smoke into her face. Jen attempted to grab the lit cigarette out of his hand, burning herself in the process.
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One of the most infamous fights in the history of the show, known as “Keesha’s birthday,” began when Jessie Godderz overheard Libra Thompson and Keesha trash-talking April Lewis while pretending to take a nap.
Jessie then raced to tell April, which led to a screaming match that nearly the whole house jumped in on. The drama ended with the houseguests singing a very awkward and lackluster rendition of “Happy Birthday” for Keesha’s big day.
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Known for his combative personality, Russell Kairouz decided to stir up drama one day by criticizing Jeff Shroeder’s gameplay. It wasn’t long before the two men began threatening each other with physical violence.
“If you don’t f—king win this game, you better hope to god you don’t come in that f—king jury house, because I will mop your face all up and down that ground and I mean it,” Russell said. Jordan Lloyd, who was in a showmance with Jeff, soon joined the fray, causing Russell to tell Jeff to fight his own battles.
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Ragan and Rachel did not get along during their time on the CBS reality series. When Rachel returned to the house after her eviction due to the Pandora’s Box twist, the tension between her and Ragan came to a head.
“Why don’t you get us a drink, Ratress?” the California native said, making fun of the North Carolina native's cocktail waitress profession. Later in the day, Rachel asked her Big Brother nemesis if he had “to be the biggest b—ch because you’re gay.” Ragan responded by calling her “an absolute monster.”
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Paulie Calafiore and Da’Vonne Rogers weren’t fans of each other in the Big Brother house, but their blowup fight happened in the jury house.
It began when Paulie called out Da’Vonne and Bayleigh Dayton for supposedly being passive-aggressive to Zakiyah Everette. 'Momma Day' didn’t put up with the New Jersey native calling her “classless.”
“You are an arrogant a—hole. And I do know that you only talk down to women, I ain’t heard you buck up to a man yet,” she said.
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Josh Martinez and Mark Jansen were lectured by producers after a fight broke out between them following a nomination ceremony. Josh criticized Mark’s gameplay, calling him a “follower” and angrily banging pots and pans together in his face.
Mark then rushed him, grabbing the cookware out of his hands. Kevin Schlehuber had to break the pair up.
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In a blowup on Taco Tuesday night, Christie Murphy called her former alliance member Nick Maccarone out in front of the entire house for playing a “sick” and “really manipulative” game.
After Christie accused him of lying and throwing HOH competitions, the New Jersey native got angry, screaming “Oh, my f—king god!”
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The Big Brother 24 houseguests were concerned after Nicole left the diary room crying, knowing that her mom was battling with stage III cancer. Not knowing that the chef was just stressed about the game, Taylor attempted to comfort her, telling her that she understood if she needed to stop fighting and focus on her personal life.
Nicole took Taylor's concern to be an attempt to get her to quit, and told her closest ally in the game, Daniel. The Vegas performer then exploded at Taylor, accusing her of playing “mind games” and ordering her not to talk to him again until the season finale.
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Despite working together closely for the first month of their season, Cory Wurtenberger and Jared Fields’ relationship hit a snag in September 2023. After hearing from multiple sources that Jared had lied to him on several occasions, Cory confronted Jared — and things got heated.
“You tell me one thing and then I have seven people telling me the other thing,” Cory said during the lengthy fight. “And then you come in here to [give] the f—king show to everybody and say, ‘Look, guys, Cory’s lying. I’m telling the truth because I’m talking in a loud f—king volume and I’m not letting him say a f—king word.’”
Cory then brought up their For Real For Real alliance — which consisted of him, Jared, America Lopez, Cirie Fields, Felicia Cannon and Izzy Gleicher — in front of Matt Klotz and Bowie Jane. Jared insisted the alliance was fake, saying, “You can be a part of the three stooges for all I give a f—k!”
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Angela Murray and Matt Hardeman got off to a rocky start. After winning the first Head of Household competition of the 2024 season, Angela made a joke that Matt was sure to have a showmance. Matt took the comment as proof that Angela was trying to paint a target on his back and started telling other houseguests that Angela would no doubt nominate him for eviction.
Angela attempted to clear the air and told Matt that she had no intention of targeting him, but he still chose to tell the reigning HoH that nominating him would be a mistake as he would win the veto or the BB AI arena comp, take himself off the block and go after her the following week.
An admittedly “sleep-deprived” Angela went on to call out Matt in front of half the house, accusing him of “aggressively” threatening her and repeatedly calling him “Crazy Eyes.” She stood on the staircase looking down at the group gathered in the kitchen as she delivered a speech that she’d previously practiced in the HoH room.
“Crazy eyes! You have fricking crazy eyes,” she said, pointing at Matt. “I would love for the houseguests to know how Crazy Eyes, how he very aggressively — aggressively, Matt — threatened me verbally in my room in our one-on-one [conversation].”
Angela also called Matt a “cocky, crazy-eyed boy” and said she’d had a “traumatic experience” with him.
“You’re calling me Crazy Eyes?” Matt said in response. He suggested that he and Angela hash it out and get “clarity,” but she told him she didn’t want to talk to him.
“Your words are s—t, so you should just put it back in your ass,” Angela said.
