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Big Brother: Reindeer Games is coming!

In Reindeer Games, the first holiday series from CBS‘ hit series Big Brother, Santa invites nine iconic former Big Brother players, including someone from the most recent season, to his magical world where the “Reindeer Games” will take place across six action-packed holiday themed episodes.

Santa’s Elves – Derek Xiao, Tiffany Mitchell and Jordan Lloyd – will guide the Legends through the holiday competition.

In each episode, we’ll see three competitions that culminate in “Santa’s Showdown,” determining who goes home at the end of the episode. Four BB Legends will make it to the finale and one will receive a $100,000 prize!

And now, we finally know who is playing!

Big Brother Reindeer Games will have a two-hour premiere on December 11 at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.

Find out who is playing, and see the full schedule…

Some fans were surprised that Big Brother 19 winner Josh Martinez is not competing on the current season of All Stars. We now know why.

Earlier this week, Josh himself revealed that he would not be competing and to not listen to any rumors about him.

Josh was invited to quarantine with other contestants to possibly compete this season, but TMZ is now reporting that one of his numerous COVID-19 tests during the two week isolation period came back positive. It’s being speculated that it was actually a false positive, as every single other test he took after was negative.

A source told TMZ “the one positive was enough to scare producers who felt it was too risky to put him in the BB House with the other contestants.” He does not have the virus and has been seen out in Los Angeles with friends.

Be sure to check out all of the contestants competing this season.