{"id":1967138,"date":"2025-08-18T18:29:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1967138"},"modified":"2025-08-18T18:29:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:29:46","slug":"big-brother-27-star-zach-cornell-on-being-smacked-by-julie-chen-moonves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/big-brother-27-star-zach-cornell-on-being-smacked-by-julie-chen-moonves\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Big Brother 27&#8217; star Zach Cornell on being smacked by Julie Chen Moonves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F08%2F109773822.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Marcellas would be proud. <\/p>\n<p>After Zach Cornell was voted off <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/11\/entertainment\/big-brother-27-star-jimmy-heagerty-responds-to-mickey-morgan-comments\/\">\u201cBig Brother 27\u201d <\/a>with an unused secret power, he was greeted by Julie Chen Moonves \u2014\u00a0who smacked him upside the head with her notecards. The host did the same to Marcellas Reynolds after he didn\u2019t use the Power of Veto on \u201cBig Brother 3\u201d in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s iconic, right?\u201d Cornell exclusively told The Post about his exchange with Chen Moonves, 55.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Zach Cornell on \u201cBig Brother 27.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">CBS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Julie Chen Moonves smacks Zach Cornell after his eviction. <span class=\"credit\">CBS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Zach Cornell and Julie Chen Moonves on \u201cBig Brother 27.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">CBS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI can be the first \u2018Big Brother\u2019 player to ever say that I saved Julie on day one, but then also got smacked upside the head by her in my final day leaving,\u201d the marketing manager continued. \u201cI love Julie. My family loves Julie. She\u2019s a fantastic person. I did a podcast with her and I really respected her because we prayed into the podcast and we left with prayer as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know her faith is something that means so much to her, and I really think that\u2019s an incredible thing because I really try and do the same,\u201d Cornell shared. \u201cSo I love her as a person.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Zach Cornell during his interview with The Post. <span class=\"credit\">NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cornell had a secret power where he could take himself off the block by giving the $10K he won to the current Head of Household. But fearing his ally Morgan Pope would be the replacement nominee, Cornell didn\u2019t use his power and was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/04\/entertainment\/big-brother-27-star-adrian-rocha-on-who-hes-most-betrayed-by-after-eviction\/\">subsequently evicted.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, everything happens for a reason, right?\u201d he told The Post. \u201cIf I had a little bit of a different perspective when I was in the house, I would have used the power. But in that moment, in that time, I really did believe that I was in a decent spot. I felt really good in my position.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Zach Cornell and Vince Panaro on \u201cBig Brother 27.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">CBS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt was a waste to use that power since all three of us, Vince, Morgan and myself, were so close because I was really trying to move as a unit with those other two,\u201d Cornell explained. \u201cSo, I would have rolled the dice to basically get us all to the following week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The baseball player also pointed out that he could\u2019ve used the power this week since Rachel Reilly won HOH and likely would\u2019ve nominated him.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Zach Cornell evicted on \u201cBig Brother 27.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">CBS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a perfect reason to use the power. Take myself off and then we\u2019re still fighting, right?\u201d he said. \u201cSo it is what it is. Hindsight\u2019s always 20\/20.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cornell also opened up about his relationship with Pope, 33, and said she had his back \u201cin every single step of the house.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Zach Cornell in his interview with The Post. <span class=\"credit\">NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cShe was fighting tooth and nail for me that final week. I give her her flowers for that,\u201d he said. \u201cShe was one of the first people to actually have deep conversations with me. So I do respect her as a person. I think she is trying to fight for her life in there to stay in the game. But she really did have my back in there and I respect her for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBig Brother 27\u201d airs Sundays, Wednesdays and Thursdays on CBS and streams on Paramount+.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcellas would be proud. After Zach Cornell was voted off \u201cBig Brother 27\u201d with an unused secret power, he was greeted by Julie Chen Moonves \u2014\u00a0who smacked him upside the head with her notecards. The host did the same to Marcellas Reynolds after he didn\u2019t use the Power of Veto on \u201cBig Brother 3\u201d in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1967139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[306423,21741,25404,340868,28097,24758,24122,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-1967138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-big-brother","tag-entertainment","tag-exclusive","tag-julie-chen","tag-reality-show","tag-reality-stars","tag-reality-tv","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Big-Brother-27-star-Zach-Cornell-on-being-smacked-by.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1967139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}