List of Big Brother 9 HouseGuests (U.S.)

There were 16 HouseGuest in total in the ninth edition of American reality television series Big Brother where the HouseGuests were observed by television viewers 24 hours a day and each week, one or more HouseGuests were voted to be evicted by the remaining HouseGuest until the winner is left.

Sixteen HouseGuests entered on Day 1 and two previously evicted HouseGuests returned to the House, the most in any American season. For the first time in the American version of Big Brother a HouseGuest voluntarily left the House. Neil left the House on Day 7 due to "urgent personal matters", Sharon re-entered the House hours later as Neil's replacement. James returned to the House less than 20 minutes after being evicted on Day 35 after the HouseGuests voted for him to return over the "mystery HouseGuest". The public chose Alex to be the "mystery HouseGuest" but ultimately wasn't voted back into the House by the other HouseGuests. The major twist this season was that each HouseGuest was paired with a soulmate and the pairs shared Head of Household and Power of Veto wins and was evicted together until the end of Week 3.

According to Zap2it, this was "the show's youngest and least ethnically diverse cast yet".

Adam Jasinski (born April 30, 1978), 38, was a public relations manager from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Adam has a master's degree in fashion design/marketing and has attended Camden County College in New Jersey, Parson's School of Design in New York and Fashion Art Italy in Italy. He became the center of controversy when he made a comment referring to autistic people as retards which ultimately got him fired. His soulmate in the game was Sheila. He was commonly referred to as "A-Baller" in the game, and had good relationships with numerous people in the house. His closest ally in the game was Ryan, and he had a close friendship and alliance with Natalie for the majority of the game. He and Sheila were nominated against Ryan & Allison in the third week, but the two survived the ultimately fake eviction against Allison & Ryan. Adam was the sixth Head of Household of the season, and nominated Chelsia and James, with hopes of evicting the former; Chelsia was evicted. He then won the eighth Head of Household, his second Head of Household win. He nominated Sheila and James, ultimately leading to James's eviction. He was nominated by Sheila the following week, but won his first Power of Veto competition and saved himself. He went on to win the second part of the Final Head of Household competition against Sheila, but lost to Ryan in the last part. Ryan ultimately evicted Sheila from the house, taking Adam to the Final Two with him. On Day 81, Adam was crowned the Winner of Big Brother 9 in a six to one jury vote. As of October 20, 2009, Adam has been charged with possession of and intent to distribute oxycodone after trying to sell 2,000 pills of the painkiller to an undercover government witness, according to The Associated Press. He was arrested after he flew to Boston and showed the witness a sock that contained two plastic bags filled with oxycodone. Agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration then arrested the reality star after a slight struggle. According to an affidavit, the reality show champ admitted to using the $500,000 he won on Big Brother to fund his drug purchases. He said he'd been selling the drugs along the East Coast for the past several months, according to the AP. Jasinski faces a maximum of 20 years behind bars as well as a possible $1 million in fines.

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