During the live Big Brother Season 23 premiere, there wasn't an audience present, which wasn't a change from Season 22, which was also filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic. And when Us Weekly asked Julie Chen Moonves if there's a chance a live audience could pop up by the live season finale, she wasn't super hopeful.
"I was disappointed that there wasn't going to be a live audience at all this summer," she admitted. "And I think once we start that way, we have to probably end that way. Hopefully there is a next season and then all bets are off."
No pun intended, of course.
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