CBS’s fashionable summer season actuality/sport present Large Brother is known for the phrase, “anticipate the sudden.” However season 28’s shock didn’t come within the type of a stunning rule change or last-minute twist. As an alternative, it occurred off-air through the present’s 24/7-hour stay feeds when contestant Kamuela “Kamu” Kirk, an MMA fighter, dared to proclaim he doesn’t need to gown in girls’s clothes, main some to name him “homophobic” and demand he be faraway from the present. An “insider” claims CBS is “monitoring” him “intently.”
The 32-year-old Phoenix man was chatting (off-camera) with fellow BB houseguest and former Survivor contestant Rick Devens (on-camera) about one other male contestant, Drew Campbell, carrying unicorn-themed pajamas that belonged to a feminine participant.
It’s price noting Jason De Puy, a two-time former contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race (as Selina EsTitties), can be on the present season, although the opposite gamers aren’t conscious he was on the drag present. After Devens identified Campbell carrying feminine pajamas, Kirk mentioned they tried to get him to put on them earlier. “Miss me with the drag stuff,” Kirk acknowledged. “I’m nonetheless an MMA man, and I’ve a picture to uphold.”
That was it. No slurs. No assaults on the precise drag queen in the home. No hate. Only a grown man saying what he personally prefers. Though the video was titled, “Homophobic,” a number of feedback, together with these from LGBTQ individuals, defended Kirk.
Former Large Brother contestant, far-left homosexual activist, and brother of singer Ariana Grande Franke Grande, nevertheless, took to X to slam Kirk and demand he be faraway from the present “IMMEDIATELY.”
Um. What the fuck is that this horseshit?! Get these homophobic bigots out of the fucking home IMMEDIATELY. Each of them. Ew this dialog makes me sick to my abdomen. I’m disgusted. This higher be the most important factor ever after I get up tomorrow or I’m flipping a desk… fuck. Ew.… https://t.co/qnYNLIxXd9
— Frankie James Grande (@FrankieJGrande) July 18, 2026
Grande apparently had a change of coronary heart later… about Devens. He nonetheless had zero grace for Kirk.
Okay. I concede there’s not sufficient information within the clip to know Deven’s motivations. Hopefully he was simply taping into Kamu’s power for sport causes. Regardless, males behaving in a repulsed or shocked approach when a person attire female or in girls’s clothes is homophobic. Interval.
— Frankie James Grande (@FrankieJGrande) July 18, 2026
Imagined victimhood at its best. In the true world, most straight males, and even many homosexual ones, have zero curiosity in donning sequins, heels, or unicorn pajamas. That’s choice, not prejudice. Drag is efficiency, not a compulsory loyalty check. Treating atypical masculine boundaries as bigotry is precise intolerance on show.
The “love wins” mob determined to dig into Kirk’s social media to search out proof he hates homosexual individuals. What they discovered was proof he’s probably a conservative Christian which suggests he most likely doesn’t agree with homosexuality however doesn’t essentially hate or look down on anybody. After all, to these decided to hate him, it was surefire proof he’s a hateful bigot.
In accordance to an insider who spoke to The U.S. Solar, CBS mentioned they’re “not pleased” in regards to the social media exercise or the stay feed feedback however are simply “monitoring Kamu extra intently” for now. In a ballot within the article, 61.6% of readers voted Kirk ought to keep, 25.6% need him evicted, and 12.8% are undecided, proving probably the most outspoken are within the vocal minority.
Apparently, in episode 11, the houseguests had been pressured to put on tutus as a part of a contest, which Grande raved about and others known as “karma” for Kirk:
Obsessive about Large Brother for this! 😂👏🏳️🌈🙏🩰 https://t.co/8MC5XawKug
— Frankie James Grande (@FrankieJGrande) July 25, 2026
No phrase on whether or not or not CBS had the gamers gown up in tutus due to the drag controversy, however the present has an extended historical past of forcing gamers to put on ridiculous costumes so, it was probably preplanned. (One different contestant was pressured to put on a big, cumbersome egg costume as a punishment this season.)
Regardless, being a great sport and following the principles of a sport, even when it contains carrying a tutu, could be very completely different from voluntarily dressing in feminine clothes in somebody’s free time. An MMA fighter prefering to not put on a girl’s unicorn pajamas is not “hate.” It’s the type of atypical masculine boundary most males have held for hundreds of years with out apology.
Grande’s instant demand for Kirk’s eviction, the frantic digging into Kirk’s social media historical past, and the manufactured victimhood that adopted solely show how determined the outrage machine is to invent enemies. Right here’s hoping Kirk wins your complete season to make up for this mistreatment.
