Big Brother 22: All-Stars contestant Ian Terry has an important legacy on the show that includes beating Dan Gheesling on Big Brother 14. When Ian was cast on BB14, he was a 21-year-old college student. Despite being from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was living in New Orleans, Louisiana at the time. Ian was attending Tulane University and majoring in chemical engineering. He was also working for the university as a resident advisor and as a research assistant. From the jump, Ian described himself as a Big Brother superfan. Under the influence of his parents, Ian started watching the show when he was ten years old. His biggest idol was Dr. Will, who won Big Brother 2 and came back to compete on the series' first-ever All-Stars season a few years later.
Ian Terry was by far the youngest houseguest in the Big Brother 14 cast. Most of the players on that season were in their mid-to-late twenties, and the season also featured quite a few contestants who were in their thirties and forties. That year, for the first time in the history of the show, four veteran houseguests were brought on as "coaches." The premise consisted of assigning three pupils to each coach. If all three of them were eliminated, then the coach would consequently be evicted as well. On the other hand, if one of their pupils won the $500,000 grand prize, the coach would take a side check for $100,000. The four coaches cast on BB14 were Dan Gheesling (BB10 winner), Mike Boogie (BB2 contestant and BB7 winner), Janelle Pierzina (third place on both BB6 and BB7), and Britney Haynes (fourth place on BB12).
At the beginning of BB14, Ian was chosen to be on Mike Boogie's team, which also included Frank and Jenn. Each week, the four coaches had a competition of their own, and Boogie won the first one of those coach competitions. Winning that comp gave Boogie the power to guarantee the safety of one of his pupils, and he chose Ian. In a way, this was the start of the somewhat close relationship that Ian maintained with Boogie and Frank. Moreover, the concept that Ian had to be saved established the assumption that he was a weak player that could've been evicted at the start of the season...which was exactly what Ian wanted to happen.
During those first few weeks on Big Brother 14, Ian kept being the pleasant, funny, and geeky guy that was liked by everyone. He purposely took on the punishment of wearing a dog costume and living in a dog kennel for 24 hours. Ian also expressed to have a crush on Ashley, a 26-year-old mobile spray tan company owner that only saw him as a friend. Still, Ian managed to rally the entire house to help him get a "slop date" with Ashley. Basically the entire house helped him pull off the date, which once again placed him in a position of being a quirky, fun-loving guy who wasn't in any way a threat to the game. As someone who was a friend to everyone, however, Ian placed himself in a position of having access to all of the information going around the house. When power players started to take note of that, they actively pulled him into their alliances.
Ian went on to join two BB14 alliances: the Quack Pack and Chilltown 2.0. Both of these alliances were formally assembled after week 3, when the game was "reset" and the coaches became regular players competing for the full $500,000 grand prize. The Quack Pack consisted of Dan, Britney, Danielle, and Shane. In turn, Chilltown 2.0 was an agreement between Boogie and Frank. It is of note that Ian was always on the outskirts of Chilltown 2.0. Essentially, he served more as an associate than as an actual alliance member. However, he still managed to gain Boogie and Frank's trust, get protected by them, and have access to their strategies. Through his Quack Pack alliance, Ian pulled off a blindside that led to Mike Boogie's eviction. Then, Ian revealed how he pulled that off in his post-eviction message to Mike Boogie. In turn, Boogie was visibly shocked and impressed that a 21-year-old college student outplayed a former Big Brother winner.
Following Boogie's eviction, Frank took notice that Ian was playing them all along and was a much stronger BB player he previously thought. From there on out, Ian stopped throwing competitions, realizing that he was now absolutely a target to some people in the house. He won his first-ever Head of Household competition on week 6 and put up Frank for eviction. However, Frank won the subsequent Power of Veto competition and got himself out of the nomination block. In the following weeks, Ian became the first and only player in BB history to open Pandora's Box two times. Between weeks 6 and 10, Ian won four HOH comps, two POV comps, and survived two nominations. Through all of those wins, Ian was safe during six of the seven elimination rounds that took place on the show.
As Head of Household, Ian was directly responsible for the eviction of four players. First, he evicted Ashley, Frank, and Jenn over the course of many weeks. Then, Ian got to the Final 3 with Dan and Danielle, who had a very tight alliance throughout the entire season. But it was Ian who won the final HOH competition, thus being the deciding vote on who would go to the finale with him. At that point, Ian pulled off the last blindside of the season: the revelation that he had a Final 2 agreement with Dan, and the surprising decision to actually go through with it. Dan had won Big Brother 10 and was again one of the best players on BB14. Danielle, in turn, would logically be a much easier person to beat in the finale. And yet, Ian chose the more challenging option and still came out victorious at the end.
At the Big Brother 14 finale, Ian Terry beat Dan Gheesling in a 6-1 jury vote. Surprisingly, Danielle cast the sole vote for Dan, despite having been blindsided by him. In any case, the vote was nearly unanimous, which proved that a 21-year-old college student could outplay one of the best players in the history of the show.
Big Brother 22 airs Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays at 8pm EST on CBS.
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