Big Brother's upcoming 25th anniversary season is going to have a Survivor connection!
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And Cory and Jared are both relatives of former Survivor castaways, according to Us Weekly.
After the Big Brother cast was announced earlier this week, fans quickly discovered that Jared is related to Cirie Fields and Cory is related to Zach Wurtenberger.
Jared is Cirie's beloved son, and Cory is Zach's younger brother.
Cirie has competed on four Survivor seasons. She was a castaway on Survivor: Panama in 2006, Survivor: Micronesia in 2008, Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains in 2010, and Survivor: Game Changers in 2017.
Cirie finished Survivor: Panama in fourth place and Survivor: Micronesia in third place.
Cirie was quickly targeted and voted out of Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains early in the game, placing seventeenth overall, but she moved up the ranks and finished in sixth place on her final Survivor stint in 2017.
Many Survivor fans have dubbed Cirie one of the best Survivor player to never win the game.
Jared also briefly appeared on Survivor: Game Changers during the season's memorable loved ones' visit.
Cirie, however, finally had a victory on a different reality series, The Traitors' first season on Peacock.
Following her big win, she told Us Weekly back in January how she would "love" to go on Big Brother someday.
RELATED LINK: 'BIG BROTHER' SHOWMANCES NOW"I think if I would've done Big Brother first -- when I say that to the Survivor people, they say, 'No, you're supposed to come on Survivor,'" Cirie shared with the magazine. "I feel like if I'd have went on Big Brother first, hands down I would've won."
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As for Zach, he competed on Survivor's 42nd season and was the first castaway voted out of the game. (But Survivor 42 castaway Jackson Fox was taken out of the game before him in a medical evacuation).
Zach was a self-declared Super Fan of Survivor, and he told Us following his elimination that he looks back on his short-lived Survivor stint fondly and "so positively."
"It may be that the three days in the game -- at the very least the final day in the game -- wasn't particularly the most fun day of my life," Zach said in March 2022.
"When I think about getting to be at Ponderosa afterwards with people and, like, all the pre-game stuff, and getting to live my dream and have all these firsts of getting to go to challenges and Tribal and all of that, every single step I just felt so grateful that I had this opportunity."
Once news of Cory's Big Brother casting made headlines, Zach expressed his support on Twitter.
"When we were little, Survivor was always my dream. Cory's was Big Brother," Zach tweeted on Monday, July 31.
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Zach also noted that while Cory watched Survivor: Game Changers, it's unlikely he'll remember Jared, who was almost cast on Survivor: David vs. Goliath.
"Cory has watched Game Changers more than once, and he knows the Jared David vs. Goliath story," Zach tweeted. "My gut says he doesn't recognize him, but it is totally possible."
The 2023 edition of Big Brother, once again hosted by Julie Chen Moonves, will premiere with a special live 90-minute broadcast in which the houseguests will be shown moving into the Big Brother house on Wednesday, August 2 at 8PM ET/PT on CBS.
Big Brother's 25th season will air on CBS three times a week following its premiere -- Sundays at 8PM ET/PT, Wednesdays at 8PM ET/PT and Thursdays at 9PM ET/PT, with the Thursday broadcasts featuring each week's live evictions.
Big Brother viewers are still waiting for the big twist of Season 25 to be revealed during the 90-minute premiere broadcast.
Viewers, however, have already received a hint about what the twist will entail.
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According to CBS, iconic Big Brother players Frankie Grande, Britney Haynes, and Danielle Reyes -- who lost their respective Big Brother seasons -- recently "broke in" to the Big Brother house and rolled a "Time Laser" in attempt to change the outcome of their past games.
"It is time to rewrite history and take back the victories we so deserve," Danielle, the runner-up of Big Brother's third season, said in the clip released by CBS.
Meanwhile, Survivor's 45th season is expected to premiere in September on CBS.
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