Big Brother 8

The eighth season of Big Brother, dubbed as "Love and Hate" premiered on June 3, 2015 and concluded on July 10, 2015. Jade Volker was crowned the winner of the season by a vote to 6-3 against runner-up Morgan Wall. This is the first season in the Big Brother history where all HouseGuests of one gender were able to advance to the jury phase of the game, with 3 HouseGuests of the other gender present as well (with 8 women and 3 men). It is also the first season to feature a final 4 composing entirely of one gender (with 4 women).

Following their appearence on this season, numerous HouseGuests have went on to appear in various other editions of the series. HouseGuests Morgan Wall and Will Waxman returned in Big Brother 10 as candidates to return to the house by a viewer vote to enter, but neither of them received enough votes to enter. Wall and Waxman eventually returned as HouseGuests for Big Brother 13 alongside Camilla Emmanuel and Danny Rosales, where they placed 15th, 18th, 23rd, and 20th respectively.

Format
See Season 1 format

The main twist of the season is a modified version of the twists from seasons 6, 8 and 13 of the American version, where each HouseGuest will be playing the game with a loved one and a rival. The main difference from season 13 is that two HouseGuests from different pairs can be nominated, and one HouseGuest winning the power of veto does not protect his/her partner from eviction. When a Head of Household is crowned, his/her partner cannot be evicted for that week, his/her rival will be automatically nominated for the week, and the partner's rival will become a have-not, or receive an equivalent punishment for the weeks when there are no have-nots. After each eviction, the evictee's rival will receive an advantage in the next Head of Household competition, while the evictee's partner will receive a Golden Key to the top 12. Should a rival be nominated and be saved with the power of veto, either the rival's partner, the HoH's partner's rival, or the HoH's partner's rival's partner will be the replacement nominee automatically. Should none of the three be eligible to be nominated (i.e. already nominated, won the power of veto, or already evicted), there will be no replacement nominee. As implied, there will be three nominees each week.

At two points in the season, an evicted HouseGuest will return to the game, with the first being right before jury, and the second being in the top 7 with 3 weeks left.

HouseGuests
Advertisements have revealed that 16 HouseGuests will move in to the Big Brother house, although it was revealed that not all of them are complete strangers; each HouseGuest will have a loved one and a rival in the house.

Voting
Colors correspond to loved-one pairs, while letters A-H correspond to rival pairs.