House of Villains
House of Villains | |
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Genre | Reality competition |
Presented by | Joel McHale |
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Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 16 |
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Executive producers |
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Producers |
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Camera setup | Multiple |
Running time | 43–64 minutes |
Production company | Irwin Entertainment |
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Network | E! |
Release | October 12, 2023 present | –
House of Villains is an American reality competition series that premiered on E! on October 12, 2023. The series, hosted by Joel McHale, features 10 of reality television's most memorable and notorious villains competing for a $200,000 cash prize and the title of America's Ultimate Supervillain. Each week, contestants compete in a metaphorical Battle Royale challenge and are eliminated one by one until the winner is crowned. The series features stars from several popular reality shows including 90 Day Fiancé, The Real World, Love Is Blind, Survivor, Love & Hip Hop, The Real Housewives, Big Brother, The Apprentice, The Bachelor, Flavor of Love, Vanderpump Rules, Bad Girls Club and RuPaul's Drag Race. In January 2024, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on October 9, 2024.
Overview
[edit]House of Villains features 10 of reality television's most infamous villains living together and competing to be the last villain standing to win a cash prize of $200,000 and the title of America's Ultimate Supervillain. Each week, contestants compete in a Battle Royale challenge to test the players physically, mentally, and emotionally. The winner of the Battle Royale challenge is named Supervillain of the Week and wins immunity for the week, a luxury reward for themselves and two other villains, and the power to nominate three of their fellow players for banishment by putting them on the Hit List. The three nominees then compete in the Redemption Challenge, with the winner saving themselves from the Hit List. At the Banishment Ceremony, the house votes to banish one of the two remaining Hit List nominees. The villains build alliances, scheme, manipulate, and backstab as they are eliminated one by one until only one remains and is crowned America's Ultimate Supervillain.
Season 1
[edit]Contestants
[edit]Cast member | Original series | Finish |
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Tanisha Thomas | Bad Girls Club 2 | Winner |
Johnny Bananas | The Real World: Key West | Runner-up |
Anfisa Arkhipchenko | 90 Day Fiance 4 | 3rd place |
Jonny Fairplay | Survivor: Pearl Islands | 4th place |
Abhishek "Shake" Chatterjee | Love Is Blind 2 | 5th place |
Omarosa Manigault Newman | The Apprentice 1 | 6th place |
Bobby Lytes | Love & Hip Hop: Miami | 7th place |
Corinne Olympios | The Bachelor 21 | 8th place |
Tiffany "New York" Pollard | Flavor of Love 1 | 9th place |
Jax Taylor | Vanderpump Rules | 10th place |
Carole Baskin, Abby Lee Miller, Spencer Pratt, Ben Robinson, and Danielle Staub made guest appearances during the first season.[1]
Voting history
[edit]Color key:
Episode | |||||||||
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1/2/3 | 3/4 | 5/6 | 7/8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
Supervillain of the Week |
Omarosa | Bananas | Omarosa | Bobby | Bananas | Bananas | — | ||
Hit List Nominees |
Corinne Jax Shake |
Anfisa Bobby Tiffany |
Corinne Shake Tanisha |
Bananas Bobby[a] Shake |
Fairplay Omarosa |
Anfisa Fairplay Shake |
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Redemption Winner |
Shake | Bobby | Shake | Bananas | — | Anfisa | — | ||
Tanisha | Jax | Tiffany | Hit List | Bobby | Omarosa | No Vote[b] | Winner (Episode 10) | ||
Bananas | Jax | Supervillain of the Week |
Corinne | Bobby | Supervillain of the Week |
Supervillain of the Week |
Runner-up (Episode 10) | ||
Anfisa | Jax | Hit List | Corinne | Shake | Fairplay | No Vote[b] | Third place (Episode 10) |
Tanisha[c] | |
Fairplay | Jax | Tiffany | Corinne | Bobby | Hit List | Banished (Episode 10) |
Bananas | ||
Shake | Jax | Anfisa | Corinne | Hit List | Omarosa | Banished (Episode 10) |
Bananas | ||
Omarosa | Supervillain of the Week |
Tiffany | Supervillain of the Week |
Shake | Hit List | Banished (Episode 9) |
Tanisha | ||
Bobby | Jax | Anfisa | Corinne | of the Week |
Banished (Episode 8)[d] | ||||
Hit List[a] | |||||||||
Corinne | Hit List | Tiffany | Hit List | Banished (Episode 6) |
Bananas | ||||
Tiffany | Jax | Hit List | Banished (Episode 4) |
Tanisha | |||||
Jax | Hit List | Banished (Episode 3) |
Tanisha | ||||||
Banished | Jax 7 of 7 votes to Banish |
Tiffany 4 of 6 votes to Banish |
Corinne 5 of 5 votes to Banish |
Bobby 3 of 5 votes to Banish |
Omarosa 2 of 3 votes to Banish |
Fairplay Lost the Redemption Challenge |
Anfisa 0 of 6 votes to Win |
Bananas 3 of 7 votes to Win | |
Shake Lost the Redemption Challenge |
Tanisha 4 of 7 votes to Win |
Episodes
[edit]No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) | |
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1 | 1 | "Welcome to the House of Villains" | October 12, 2023 | 0.57[e] | |
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2 | 2 | "The Lesser of Three Evils" | October 19, 2023 | 0.20[3] | |
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3 | 3 | "Secret Identities" | October 26, 2023 | 0.16[4] | |
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4 | 4 | "Dance with the Devil" | November 2, 2023 | 0.18[5] | |
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5 | 5 | "Shake Showdown" | November 9, 2023 | 0.19[6] | |
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6 | 6 | "The Gospel Truth" | November 16, 2023 | 0.20[7] | |
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7 | 7 | "Pride Cometh Before the Fall" | November 30, 2023 | 0.25[8] | |
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8 | 8 | "Three Villains Walk into a Bar...Ouch" | December 7, 2023 | 0.18[9] | |
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9 | 9 | "One Less Rat in This House to Deal With" | December 14, 2023 | 0.15[10] | |
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10 | 10 | "Heavy Is the Head That Wears the Crown" | December 21, 2023 | 0.19[11] | |
At the start of the episode, eliminated contestants (with the exception of Bobby) returned to the house and it was revealed that the winner of the season would be determined by a jury vote. The winner of the Battle Royale Challenge would automatically make it to the finale, joined by the contestant they did not nominate on the Hit List. The three contestants on the Hit List would then compete in the Redemption Challenge for the final spot in the finale, with the two losing contestants eliminated.
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Season 2
[edit]Contestants
[edit]Cast member | Original series | Finish |
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Wes Bergmann | The Real World: Austin | |
Teresa Giudice | The Real Housewives of New Jersey | |
Jessie Godderz | Big Brother 10 | |
Victoria Larson | The Bachelor 25 | |
Kandy Muse | RuPaul's Drag Race 13 | |
Larsa Pippen[f] | The Real Housewives of Miami | |
Tiffany "New York" Pollard | Flavor of Love 1[g] | |
Safaree Samuels | Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta | |
Camilla Poindexter | Bad Girls Club: Las Vegas | 9th Place |
Richard Hatch | Survivor: Borneo | 10th place |
Larissa Lima | 90 Day Fiance 6 | 11th place |
Janice Dickinson and Tori Spelling, along with former contestants Bobby Lytes and Jax Taylor, made guest appearances during the second season.[12]
Voting history
[edit]Color key:
Episode | ||||||
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1/2 | 3/4 | 5/6 | 7 | |||
Supervillain of the Week |
Safaree | Camilla | Larsa | |||
Hit List Nominees |
Kandy Larissa Victoria |
Jessie[h] Richard Safaree |
Camilla Teresa Victoria |
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Redemption Winner |
Kandy | Jessie | Victoria | |||
Jessie | Larissa | Richard | Camilla | |||
Kandy | Victoria | Richard | Teresa | |||
Larsa | Not in House |
Richard | Supervillain of the Week |
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Safaree | Supervillain of the Week |
Hit List | Camilla | |||
Teresa | Larissa | Richard | Hit List | |||
Tiffany | Larissa[i] | Richard | Teresa[j] | |||
Victoria | Hit List | Richard[h] | Camilla | |||
Wes | Larissa | Richard[h] | Camilla | |||
Camilla | Larissa | Supervillain of the Week |
Hit List | Banished (Episode 6) | ||
Richard | Victoria | Hit List | Banished (Episode 4) | |||
Larissa | Hit List | Banished (Episode 2) | ||||
Banished | Larissa 5 of 7 votes to Banish |
Richard 7 of 7 votes to Banish |
Camilla 4 of 6 votes to Banish |
TBA TBA of 5 votes to Banish |
Episodes
[edit]No. overall | No. in season | Title [13] | Original air date [14] | U.S. viewers (millions) | |
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11 | 1 | "Crimes Against Reality (Television)" | October 9, 2024 | 0.24[k] | |
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12 | 2 | "The Hollywood Walk of Shame" | October 10, 2024 | 0.18[16] | |
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13 | 3 | "Don't Disrupt the Pecking Order" | October 17, 2024 | 0.10[17] | |
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14 | 4 | "High Voltage Villains" | October 24, 2024 | 0.13[18] | |
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15 | 5 | "Housewife v. Housewife" | October 31, 2024 | 0.10[19] | |
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16 | 6 | "Welcome to NY, New Jersey!" | November 7, 2024 | 0.16[20] | |
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17 | 7 | "Blood Bath" | November 14, 2024 | TBD | |
18 | 8 | "Un-Funny Business" | November 21, 2024 | TBD |
Production and release
[edit]Filming for the series began in early February 2023 at The Valley Villa in Los Angeles.[21][22] House of Villains was officially announced by NBCUniversal, E!'s parent company, on May 9, 2023. Joel McHale was revealed to be the host of the series on the same day.[23][24] The series is produced by Irwin Entertainment with John Irwin, Dave Kuba, Eli Frankel, and Matt Odgers serving as executive producers.[25] In August 2023, E! revealed the first season's cast and announced the series would premiere on October 12, 2023. The series premiere aired simultaneously on E!'s sister channels Bravo, Syfy, and USA Network.[26] On September 7, 2023, an official trailer was released.[27] The first season of the series became available to stream on Peacock on February 19, 2024.[28]
On January 18, 2024, E! renewed the series for a second season and announced that production for the second season would begin in February 2024.[28] On March 27, 2024, the cast of the second season was revealed.[29] In August 2024, an official trailer for the second season was released and it was announced that the second season would have a two-night premiere on October 9 and October 10, 2024.[12] Like the first season, the second season premiere aired simultaneously on E!'s sister channels Bravo, Syfy, and USA Network. The first two episodes of the second season became available to stream on Peacock on October 16 and October 17, 2024, with subsequent episodes being released one week after their original air date.[30]
Ratings
[edit]The series premiere of House of Villains was watched by 1.2 million viewers across all platforms over the course of one week, with 500,000 of those viewers being in the adults 18–49 key demographic, making it E!'s most successful series launch since The Bradshaw Bunch in 2020.[31] Overall, episodes in the first season averaged 861,000 total viewers and 384,000 viewers in the 18–49 key demographic after 35 days of multiplatform viewing.[12]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Bobby originally won Supervillain of the Week but decided to nominate himself on the Hit List.
- ^ a b For this round there was no banishment vote. Instead, whichever two villains remained on The Hit List after losing the Redemption Challenge were automatically banished.
- ^ As Anfisa received no votes to win, she broke the jury's tie to determine the winner.
- ^ Bobby was not present with the jury for the finale and therefore did not cast a jury vote for one of the final three.
- ^ Combined total viewers from simultaneous airings of the series premiere on E!, Bravo, Syfy, and USA Network.[2]
- ^ Larsa entered the game on episode 3.
- ^ Pollard is returning to the series, having previously competed on House of Villains 1.
- ^ a b c Victoria found a hidden "Knock Blocker" power, allowing her to remove one of the Supervillain's nominees and replace them with one of her choosing. She removed Wes, and replaced him with Jessie.
- ^ Tiffany earned immunity for the week, after pulling the lever in the Crimes Against Reality challenge.
- ^ In the episode 5 Battle Royale Challenge, Tiffany opened a box with the option to either become a candidate to be voted as Supervillain of the Week, or to receive immunity from the Hit List and select a different candidate. She chose the latter.
- ^ Combined total viewers from simultaneous airings of the second season premiere on E! and Bravo.[15] Viewers from simultaneous airings of the second season premiere on Syfy and USA Network are not included.
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