She was in a bad place and I just kind of wanted to be there as a friend for her. It really does. Yes. No matter how much I can't stand it. DANIELLE MURPHREE: I'm not believing it. I can't promise that, I'm sorry.". They had strobe lights and disco ball type things, and all these dancing lights. Could I have done it without it? RICH MEEHAN: I remember myself watching Dan saying, "Wow, this is like the best game playing I've ever seen." I don't think that there is a fair or right way to play Big Brother. That's putting a ton of faith into people. It was not. I have a fairly good record with POV wins so I'm thinking it's a great chance obviously now that she and I are both picked. So I had that, water, and cake to eat. Dan attended Michigan State University and earned a Master's Degree in Kinesiology. DANIELLE MURPHREE: Now he's acting like a mute, like he went through something so traumatic. He was blame shifting and he was so angry at me. And I looked at Britney and I remember hearing her say, "Oh, it doesn't smell very good in there, and you don't look very good." The BB22kitchen mural honors the "Dan's Funeral" moment. Other highlights of his game include controlling the second half of the game, outlasting the other coaches, not having any eviction votes against him, and reaching the final 2 a second time. I remember staring at the picture and, it was on the tip of my tongue. And that fury manifested itself once Danielle had to allow her fellow contestants to throw paint at her two minutes as her punishment: DANIELLE MURPHREE: I got "Spots" right, and Dan was so pissed off at me. RICH MEEHAN: He went into that solitary room and figured it all out. As with his first season, he didn't shy away from taking big risks. He once worked as a college football coach and claims he was the youngest person to do so. They were just hell bent on him not getting it twice. So with him, I just tried to find a common ground, something that we both could agree on and enjoyed talking about with each other. For more information, please see our It's all part of life. DAN GHEESLING: I remember seeing Jenn's vote and being like, "All right, I got no shot now." He looked paler than usual. He just acted like he dumped Danielle in front of everybody, so he wants to come up here and be like, "Look, Frank, you're in the house by yourself. I'm just scooping up my handfuls of popcorn on the couch watching this girl melt into a pool of tears. JENN ARROYO: He looked like he had been through it. She understood relationships in the house logically and strategically. It's like, this indirect shot at Ian actually feels pretty good. I see oatmeal, I'm ready to burn it like my clothes. I'm not scared of making a deal with the devil." DANIELLE MURPHREE: I remember sitting there feeling so sad, because I don't ever want somebody to be sad or to be heartbroken, and I cared for Dan so much. I was like, "Because you're not smart enough. He really did well, and there was something so likable and pure about him. When someone's going down, you don't rub it in their face. That's absolutely what it was. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Considering the mixture of strategy and spectacle, is Dan's funeral the greatest moment ever over 24 seasons of Big Brother to air in the United States? Because that was his closest ally, and he was upset because then he felt exposed. That's the words that were used in that deliberation room. There's an argument back and forth, he's like, "What?" ", DAN GHEESLING: Is it the greatest Big Brother moment ever? That gave me some confidence that there was a shot, but I didn't know. The funeral was the mist at the most powerful point. What are you going to do?" JENN ARROYO: Holy s, it was great! Danielle won HOH and nominated Dan and Ian for eviction. And I was all about hurting Ian, because that was the guy who could really win it. RICH MEEHAN: Any kind of disciplinable thing we call the network and say, "Hey, this just happened, here's the call and it's crystal clear." Janelle Pierzina, Dan Gheesling, Paul Abrahamian, On the season 14 live feeds, Dan confirmed that he and Memphis were set to compete on. You know when you're playing Charades and you know what the answer is and it's really hard for you to keep your mouth shut? In any season with returning players, there's always at least a little bit of a bias against the returning players if the jury is mostly newbies. IAN TERRY: I'm thinking that here's some sort of last-ditch attempt to get something going. Teacher You just have to throw it. Because that's another dude who could totally win it, and let's get his ass out. But the Quack Pack was shocked when Dan who was supposed to be throwing it for Britney and Shane buzzed in and got question number two correct with "Hunger. Everything I was telling him about what already happened was 100 percent true, but anything that wasn't in the past isn't, but I'm not going to tell him that. It's time to look somber. And there was a lot of bitterness built up in my heart. SHANE MEANEY: At this point, I'm like, "Okay, that's weird. He is currently seeing a woman named Britney he dated previously before going on Big Brother, and is very dedicated to his local Mission City Church. Think again.) Let me gas up everyone else.". DAN GHEESLING: I knew the number one thing I had to do was let her know that I was still looking out for her. DAN GHEESLING: For me, at that moment it's not time to celebrate. It's just that I want so bad for this to be over and Dan not to get it. I didn't see that as a possibility. BRITNEY HAYNES: Dan was supposed to throw the competition. SHANE MEANEY is still flipping houses in Bennington, Vermont and developed his own business, Quality Homes Inc. I had a huge oversight on the damage that I did in managing the jury. No stranger to mentoring, this teacher and high school football coach is back to lead his team to victory. When you do something like that, the producers set it up so you can kind of have fun with it or take it easy on her. DAN GHEESLING: I wanted people to be at least remotely concerned with my health because I didn't want to talk to anyone until the speech because I felt like anything prior to that would diminish it and maybe I would tip my hand. At that point, I can say, "Yeah, sure," but he knows there's no way I could convince them that that was going to be the case. It's so sad how dumb I was though. He was followed by, Dan's game in season 10 was regarded by many as similar to. It was a culmination of all of Dan's hard work and the power of his mist. His ideal romantic partner will be caring, hot, have dark hair and skin and be exotic looking. I essentially thought I was safe. RICH MEEHAN: There are a lot of incredible moments that have happened, but this is always the one that comes up first in our minds. So I was furious and I didn't understand, but I took that feeling and really just pushed it more to "Now you've really got to run the table here. It was awesome. I'm not proud to say that, but that's how I was able to deliver that to her. I wasn't angry. I really struggled with it. I always wanted to leave my mark on the show, and whether it's the greatest move of all time, I think you can debate that because ultimately it didn't lead to a victory, but I'd like to believe it's one of the most memorable. I knew that I was going to have to lie to her. I really didn't suspect that he was going to go up there and try to get off the block, I really didn't. This has got to be a setup.". By the way, that was really the selling point for me to bring Dan to the final two. DAN GHEESLING: Internally, I felt if I could get to the end, as cocky as it sounds, how could you not vote for me to win? What's my best strategy at this point? The Renegades This whole Veto caused problems. SHANE MEANEY: My mouth dropped. News can exclusively reveal that Big Brother star Dan Gheesling and his wife Chelsea Gheesling are expecting their third child together. I saw that look, and I'm not reveling in it by any means, but it made me feel like I made the right decision. Other Prizes IAN TERRY: I wasn't happy about it, to be honest, and the reason is that I already had the Veto in hand, and we didn't really know how the Veto ceremony was going to work. Madeline Lylo has been a contributor for ScreenRant since the summer of 2020. Frank then nominated his biggest adversary, Dan, for eviction along with Dan's biggest ally, Danielle, setting the stage for the remarkable chain of events to come. He was the wielder of the ultimate shovel 'Chet Lemon' until it was lost due to Dan falling in lava. Some family members said they saw me talking to myself and walking around talking under my breath looking like I was giving a speech, so I'm sure I practiced it a little bit, but I know in my head I ran through it hundreds of times. All the latest gaming news, game reviews and trailers. Dan's Dadcraft Lore. I think she was almost tasting it. I thought Jenn was a lock for me and I was counting on maybe an Ashley, a Jenn, and a Joe. DANIELLE MURPHREE: Oh, yeah. He came out, he's pacing, he goes to the bathroom, does something else, and he's like, "Hey, I want to talk to everybody. I did something early on. So I just felt like I was misled and it really broke my trust a lot. They're like, "Yes, you did.". Just devastated. Because this was actually the second time I had done something like this to her. Oh, Danielle, no water in the cup." To hate somebody takes a lot of energy, and it was taking a lot of unnecessary energy that I didn't want to have. Frank was able to really sell that argument in the jury house. DANIELLE MURPHREE: I still would've done the same thing. I didn't initially realize how ticked off Dan was. FRANK EUDY: I'm happy with my vote. A clear rule violation." We're up on the block. You're just accepting that that's a vote Dan never gets now. JOE ARVIN: No disrespect to Ian because I absolutely love him, but if I had to do it over again, it would be Dan by far. I have no regrets about it. I couldn't take the guy seriously, but I was enjoying it. It's good. DANIELLE MURPHREE: I just remember looking at him and crying and being like, "You broke my heart." Sprinkles, flowers, rainbows, unicorns, you name it. With Frank and Danielle now reeled in, it was up to the Head of Household to see if Jenn would use the Veto on Dan. DANIELLE MURPHREE: Literally, my heart broke in half. Be a gentlemen. ", FRANK EUDY: It was desperation. He was able to persuade a lot of people in the jury that Dan had played unfairly. But I was also thinking, "Oh my gosh, they've been in this bubble so long they can't see through his phoniness." FRANK EUDY: From my perspective, any time anyone's ever brought the funeral up, I've kind of scoffed at it because I never felt like the funeral did anything to change the game. He did. In "Big Brother 14," he orchestrated one of the most famous game moves in history. DanGheesling It was his HOH. However, that wasn't the case. But it if she wanted to win the Veto which would also be her first competition win of the summer she had to agree to the punishment of eating slop for the rest of the summer. Because this is real emotion. Daniel Robert Gheesling (born September 1, 1983) is an American reality television personality, YouTube personality and Twitch streamer who is best known for his appearances on the American TV series Big Brother. He was acting like a man who was sick. I've heard that he's the best, and i've heard he's the worst. I think she saw through it. She's covered everywhere. Yeah. My thing about Big Brother is I'll play hard, but I don't want to make people feel bad, and I feel like that's one time where I made her genuinely feel bad. Entertainment Weekly is a registered trademark of Meredith Corporation All Rights Reserved. I look over, and then she said it and then there's a long pause. However, some other stuff was not subject to that swearing. JENN ARROYO: That was fed up. The family currently lives in Michigan, where Dan was born and raised. I let you guys down, the producers. The jury overwhelmingly chose Ian as the champion of Big Brother 14 by a margin of 6-1, with a distraught Danielle awarding Dan his only vote. Dan sealed the pact by swearing on his Bible, his wedding ring, and his dead grandfather's cross necklace. But I was also like, "Well, it doesn't matter, it's not going to work.". Days I'm like, "You know I need these points, so why are you doing this?" I know moving forward with the Quack Pack we're good. And then for him to be laughing and he was smiling and acting so jovial and that it was so hysterical to him also really pissed me off. And she was like, "Well, I wanted to be a woman of my word." Why do you guys think there is no widely accepted opinion on Dan except for the fact that he's one of the greatest players ever? It's embarrassing getting sent home and knowing that it was all because of a 21-year-old kid and the Quack Pack that they let him name so he'd feel a part of the team. Pretty much the only two people who would be willing to vote for Dan were myself and Jenn City. It was incredible. That's a pretty intense thing, joking or not joking, to say to somebody. ALLISON GRODNER: That's news to me as well. ", DAN GHEESLING and his wife Chelsea have two sons Desmond (3) and Miles (1). But Ian did play a good game. I'm on the verge of tears and there's a random producer in the DR. If anything, it makes me almost want to second guess him. Shane was very Captain America. BRITNEY HAYNES: I 100 percent think I would have gotten it had Frank not whispered it. BeforeBig Brother 22: All-Stars began, some viewers were speculating that Dan Gheesling would finally return to compete on the show. So we roll back tape on it and re-watched it multiple times, just so that we're 1,000 percent sure. Dan was my one person. Due to all this, he became widely regarded as one of the best players of all time along with Will Kirby. 3 (Week 7, Day 68, & Week 10) When you had my best interests at heart, you're going to vote for him?" 84.4K followers. We were friends and we talked a lot in the house. JOE ARVIN lives in Northwest Indiana and is a global corporate executive chef for a company called Antunes. He doesn't think that America would have been ready for a female president and if Hillary Clinton had won the presidency, he would have moved out of the country. And I was thinking, "How could I cook slop?". JULIE CHEN: At the time, I thought the jury didn't make the right call because I remember at the time I thought, "Wow, they probably voted emotionally, and it was their egos because they didn't like getting played." What transpired around that I knew I had really little control over, but I knew Danielle would be upset by what I would say, and to me at least that could cause some diversion to the chaos. But then at the same time, I couldn't blame him because there's no world where you could expect that Dan would actually throw a competition, especially when he's on the block.