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House of Villains
Promotional poster for Season 1
GenreReality competition
Presented byJoel McHale
Narrated by
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes14
Production
Executive producers
  • John Irwin
  • Dave Kuba
  • Eli Frankel (season 1)
  • Matt Odgers
  • Joel McHale
  • Lisa Fletcher (season 2)
  • David Mills (season 2)
  • Jessica O'Byrne (season 2)
Producers
  • Pat Metcalfe
  • Jeff Sims
  • John "JP" Paul
Camera setupMultiple
Running time43–64 minutes
Production companyIrwin Entertainment
Original release
NetworkE!
ReleaseOctober 12, 2023 (2023-10-12) –
present (present)

House of Villains is an American reality competition series that premiered on E! on October 12, 2023. The series, hosted by Joel McHale, features 10 of reality television's most memorable and notorious villains competing for a $200,000 cash prize and the title of America's Ultimate Supervillain. Each week, contestants compete in a metaphorical Battle Royale challenge and are eliminated one by one until the winner is crowned. The series features stars from several popular reality shows including 90 Day Fiancé, The Real World, Love Is Blind, Survivor, Love & Hip Hop, The Real Housewives, Big Brother, The Apprentice, The Bachelor, Flavor of Love, Vanderpump Rules, Bad Girls Club and RuPaul's Drag Race. In January 2024, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on October 9, 2024.

Overview

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House of Villains features 10 of reality television's most infamous villains living together and competing to be the last villain standing to win a cash prize of $200,000 and the title of America's Ultimate Supervillain. Each week, contestants compete in a Battle Royale challenge to test the players physically, mentally, and emotionally. The winner of the Battle Royale challenge is named Supervillain of the Week and wins immunity for the week, a luxury reward for themselves and two other villains, and the power to nominate three of their fellow players for banishment by putting them on the Hit List. The three nominees then compete in the Redemption Challenge, with the winner saving themselves from the Hit List. At the Banishment Ceremony, the house votes to banish one of the two remaining Hit List nominees. The villains build alliances, scheme, manipulate, and backstab as they are eliminated one by one until only one remains and is crowned America's Ultimate Supervillain.

Season 1

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Contestants

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Cast member Original series Finish
Tanisha Thomas Bad Girls Club 2 Winner
Johnny Bananas The Real World: Key West Runner-up
Anfisa Arkhipchenko 90 Day Fiance 4 3rd place
Jonny Fairplay Survivor: Pearl Islands 4th place
Abhishek "Shake" Chatterjee Love Is Blind 2 5th place
Omarosa Manigault Newman The Apprentice 1 6th place
Bobby Lytes Love & Hip Hop: Miami 7th place
Corinne Olympios The Bachelor 21 8th place
Tiffany "New York" Pollard Flavor of Love 1 9th place
Jax Taylor Vanderpump Rules 10th place

Carole Baskin, Abby Lee Miller, Spencer Pratt, Ben Robinson, and Danielle Staub made guest appearances during the first season.[1]

Voting history

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Color key:

  Winner
  Runner-up
  Third place
  Supervillain of the Week
  Hit List Nominee
  Redemption Winner
  Eliminated
Episode
1/2/3 3/4 5/6 7/8 9 10
Supervillain
of the Week 		Omarosa Bananas Omarosa Bobby Bananas Bananas —
Hit List
Nominees 		Corinne
Jax
Shake 		Anfisa
Bobby
Tiffany 		Corinne
Shake
Tanisha 		Bananas
Bobby[a]
Shake 		Fairplay
Omarosa 		Anfisa
Fairplay
Shake 		—
Redemption
Winner 		Shake Bobby Shake Bananas — Anfisa —
Tanisha Jax Tiffany Hit List Bobby Omarosa No Vote[b] Winner
(Episode 10)
Bananas Jax Supervillain
of the Week 		Corinne Bobby Supervillain
of the Week 		Supervillain
of the Week 		Runner-up
(Episode 10)
Anfisa Jax Hit List Corinne Shake Fairplay No Vote[b] Third place
(Episode 10) 		Tanisha[c]
Fairplay Jax Tiffany Corinne Bobby Hit List Banished
(Episode 10) 		Bananas
Shake Jax Anfisa Corinne Hit List Omarosa Banished
(Episode 10) 		Bananas
Omarosa Supervillain
of the Week 		Tiffany Supervillain
of the Week 		Shake Hit List Banished
(Episode 9) 		Tanisha
Bobby Jax Anfisa Corinne Supervillain
of the Week 		Banished
(Episode 8)[d]
Hit List[a]
Corinne Hit List Tiffany Hit List Banished
(Episode 6) 		Bananas
Tiffany Jax Hit List Banished
(Episode 4) 		Tanisha
Jax Hit List Banished
(Episode 3) 		Tanisha
Banished Jax
7 of 7 votes
to Banish 		Tiffany
4 of 6 votes
to Banish 		Corinne
5 of 5 votes
to Banish 		Bobby
3 of 5 votes
to Banish 		Omarosa
2 of 3 votes
to Banish 		Fairplay
Lost the
Redemption Challenge 		Anfisa
0 of 6 votes
to Win 		Bananas
3 of 7 votes
to Win
Shake
Lost the
Redemption Challenge 		Tanisha
4 of 7 votes
to Win

Episodes

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No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleOriginal air dateU.S. viewers
(millions)
11"Welcome to the House of Villains"October 12, 2023 (2023-10-12)0.57[e]

  • Battle Royale Challenge (Balls Out): Each contestant has a giant ball with their face on it in an arena. They must attempt to push their opponent's balls out of the arena while preventing their own ball from being pushed out. The last contestant to have their ball remain in the arena wins.
22"The Lesser of Three Evils"October 19, 2023 (2023-10-19)0.20[3]

  • Redemption Challenge (Blind Trust): Contestants must drive a golf cart through a course while blindfolded, being directed by another contestant of their choice. The contestant with the fastest time wins.
33"Secret Identities"October 26, 2023 (2023-10-26)0.16[4]

  • Battle Royale Challenge (Two Faced): Wearing a mask and costume, and fitted with voice changers, contestants attend a masquerade party along with several masked extras. During the party, contestants attempt to identify other contestants while attempting to conceal their own identity. The contestant who correctly identifies most of their fellow contestants wins.
44"Dance with the Devil"November 2, 2023 (2023-11-02)0.18[5]

  • Redemption Challenge (Hidden Agenda): During their confessionals, the three nominated contestants are given the details of the challenge in secret. They must complete as many listed tasks as possible without being noticed by the rest of the house. There is a four-hour time limit which expires when guest Abby Lee Miller arrives at the house to announce the results. The contestant with the most tasks completed wins.
55"Shake Showdown"November 9, 2023 (2023-11-09)0.19[6]

  • Battle Royale Challenge (Cold and Calculated): Each contestant starts with a chest latched with three locks. Throughout the challenge, they must break through ice cubes to obtain either a lock or key frozen inside each cube. If they find a key, they can unlock one of their locks. If they find a lock, they can add it to an opponent's chest to slow them down. The first contestant to unlock all of their locks and open their chest wins.
66"The Gospel Truth"November 16, 2023 (2023-11-16)0.20[7]

  • Redemption Challenge (Darkest Hour): Contestants enter a dark room and must stick their hands in enclosures of live animals including snakes, rats and scorpions to search for tokens. After finding each token, they can assign it to an opponent; contestants are eliminated from the challenge once they are assigned five tokens. The last contestant standing wins.
77"Pride Cometh Before the Fall"November 30, 2023 (2023-11-30)0.25[8]

  • Battle Royale Challenge (Power Trip): One contestant is randomly chosen to be handcuffed to a briefcase, and must choose another contestant to be handcuffed to the briefcase in their place, with this selection process continuing until only one contestant has not been selected. The last contestant to remain unselected wins the contents of the case, which was revealed as the power to elect another contestant to become the Supervillain of the Week.
88"Three Villains Walk into a Bar...Ouch"December 7, 2023 (2023-12-07)0.18[9]

  • Redemption Challenge (Cap It Off): Played across seven rounds. Each round, contestants are shown a photo of a moment during the season and attempt to come up with a humorous caption for the photo. The captions are then presented anonymously to the four non-competing contestants, who vote on the most humorous caption, with most-voted caption winning the round. The contestant who wins the most rounds wins.
99"One Less Rat in This House to Deal With"December 14, 2023 (2023-12-14)0.15[10]

  • Battle Royale Challenge (Blow by Blow): Contestants use a leaf blower to blow balls of their assigned color into holes worth varying points around the backyard. Inside the house is also a "Frozen Up" (FU) hole; if a contestant has one of their balls blown into this hole, they cannot participate for the remainder of the challenge. The contestant with the most points at the end of 15 minutes wins.
1010"Heavy Is the Head That Wears the Crown"December 21, 2023 (2023-12-21)0.19[11]

At the start of the episode, eliminated contestants (with the exception of Bobby) returned to the house and it was revealed that the winner of the season would be determined by a jury vote. The winner of the Battle Royale Challenge would automatically make it to the finale, joined by the contestant they did not nominate on the Hit List. The three contestants on the Hit List would then compete in the Redemption Challenge for the final spot in the finale, with the two losing contestants eliminated.

  • Battle Royale Challenge (The Last Supper): Contestants are presented with five dishes worth different dollar amounts: boiled egg ($10), spicy chicken wing ($20), red snapper eyeball ($30), bull testicles ($40) and lamb brain pie ($50). They must order $200 worth of food, to be prepared and served by Below Deck chef Ben Robinson, and fully consume their order in addition to one chocolate donut. The first contestant to consume their order wins.
  • Redemption Challenge (Who Said It?): Contestants are presented with seven quotes said by other contestants during the season and attempt to guess which contestants said them to earn points. The first four quotes are worth one point while the final three quotes are worth two points. The contestant with the most points wins and claims the final spot in the finale.

Season 2

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Contestants

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Cast member Original series Finish
Wes Bergmann The Real World: Austin
Teresa Giudice The Real Housewives of New Jersey
Jessie Godderz Big Brother 10
Victoria Larson The Bachelor 25
Kandy Muse RuPaul's Drag Race 13
Larsa Pippen[f] The Real Housewives of Miami
Camilla Poindexter Bad Girls Club: Las Vegas
Tiffany "New York" Pollard Flavor of Love 1[g]
Safaree Samuels Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta
Richard Hatch Survivor: Borneo 10th place
Larissa Lima 90 Day Fiance 6 11th place

Janice Dickinson and Tori Spelling, along with former contestants Bobby Lytes and Jax Taylor, will make guest appearances during the second season.[12]

Voting history

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Color key:

  Winner
  Runner-Up
  3rd Place
  Supervillain of the Week
  Hit List Nominee
  Redemption Winner
  Immune
  Eliminated
Episode
1/2 3/4 5
Supervillain
of the Week 		Safaree Camilla
Hit List
Nominees 		Kandy
Larissa
Victoria 		Jessie[h]
Richard
Safaree
Wes
Redemption
Winner 		Kandy Jessie
Camilla Larissa Supervillain
of the Week
Jessie Larissa Richard
Kandy Victoria Richard
Larsa Not in
House 		Richard
Safaree Supervillain
of the Week 		Hit List
Teresa Larissa Richard
Tiffany Larissa[i] Richard
Victoria Hit List Richard[h]
Wes Larissa Richard[h]
Richard Victoria Hit List Banished
(Episode 4)
Larissa Hit List Banished
(Episode 2)
Banished Larissa
5 of 7 votes
to Banish 		Richard
7 of 7 votes
to Banish

Episodes

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No.
overall		No. in
season		Title [13]Original air date [14]U.S. viewers
(millions)
111"Crimes Against Reality (Television)"October 9, 2024 (2024-10-09)0.24[j]

  • Battle Royale Challenge (Crimes Against Reality): Played in two teams of five, each team member begins in one of five adjacent cells of their team's cell block. The team member in the first cell must complete a task to break into the second team member's cell. These two team members then break into the third team member's cell, with this process continuing until all five players break out of the fifth cell. Additionally, in each cell is a "FU lever." If any contestant pulls the lever, they receive immunity for the week, but their team is penalized for one minute. The first team to break out of all five cells wins the ability to elect the Supervillain of the Week from their team.
122"The Hollywood Walk of Shame"October 10, 2024 (2024-10-10)0.18[16]

  • Redemption Challenge (Hollywood Walk of No Shame): Contestants have one hour to collect as many signatures for a petition as possible from passersby along the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The contestant who collects the most signatures wins
133"Don't Disrupt the Pecking Order"October 17, 2024 (2024-10-17)0.10[17]

  • Battle Royale Challenge (Party Crashers): Contestants attend a party where each time the music stops playing, they must form groups of the size announced by host Joel McHale. Any contestants leftover after each group has been formed are eliminated from the challenge. The last contestant standing wins.
144"High Voltage Villains"October 24, 2024 (2024-10-24)0.13[18]

  • Redemption Challenge (Body Snatchers): Being directed by another contestant of their choice, contestants must make their way to the center of an electric maze while blindfolded, collect an inflatable doll, then proceed to the exit. The contestant with the fastest time wins.
155"Housewife v. Housewife"October 31, 2024 (2024-10-31)TBD
166"Welcome to NY, New Jersey!"November 7, 2024 (2024-11-07)TBD
177"Blood Bath"November 14, 2024 (2024-11-14)TBD
188"Un-Funny Business"November 21, 2024 (2024-11-21)TBD

Production and release

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Filming for the series began in early February 2023 at The Valley Villa in Los Angeles.[19][20] House of Villains was officially announced by NBCUniversal, E!'s parent company, on May 9, 2023. Joel McHale was revealed to be the host of the series on the same day.[21][22] The series is produced by Irwin Entertainment with John Irwin, Dave Kuba, Eli Frankel, and Matt Odgers serving as executive producers.[23] In August 2023, E! revealed the first season's cast and announced the series would premiere on October 12, 2023. The series premiere aired simultaneously on E!'s sister channels Bravo, Syfy, and USA Network.[24] On September 7, 2023, an official trailer was released.[25] The first season of the series became available to stream on Peacock on February 19, 2024.[26]

On January 18, 2024, E! renewed the series for a second season and announced that production for the second season would begin in February 2024.[26] On March 27, 2024, the cast of the second season was revealed.[27] In August 2024, an official trailer for the second season was released and it was announced that the second season would have a two-night premiere on October 9 and October 10, 2024.[12] Like the first season, the second season premiere aired simultaneously on E!'s sister channels Bravo, Syfy, and USA Network. The first two episodes of the second season became available to stream on Peacock on October 16 and October 17, 2024, with subsequent episodes being released one week after their original air date.[28]

Ratings

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The series premiere of House of Villains was watched by 1.2 million viewers across all platforms over the course of one week, with 500,000 of those viewers being in the adults 18–49 key demographic, making it E!'s most successful series launch since The Bradshaw Bunch in 2020.[29] Overall, episodes in the first season averaged 861,000 total viewers and 384,000 viewers in the 18–49 key demographic after 35 days of multiplatform viewing.[12]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b Bobby originally won Supervillain of the Week but decided to nominate himself on the Hit List.
  2. ^ a b For this round there was no banishment vote. Instead, whichever two villains remained on The Hit List after losing the Redemption Challenge were automatically banished.
  3. ^ As Anfisa received no votes to win, she broke the jury's tie to determine the winner.
  4. ^ Bobby was not present with the jury for the finale and therefore did not cast a jury vote for one of the final three.
  5. ^ Combined total viewers from simultaneous airings of the series premiere on E!, Bravo, Syfy, and USA Network.[2]
  6. ^ Larsa entered the game on episode 3.
  7. ^ Pollard is returning to the series, having previously competed on House of Villains 1.
  8. ^ a b c Victoria found a hidden "Knock Blocker" power, allowing her to remove one of the Supervillain's nominees and replace them with one of her choosing. She removed Wes, and replaced him with Jessie.
  9. ^ Tiffany earned immunity for the week, after pulling the lever in the Crimes Against Reality challenge.
  10. ^ Combined total viewers from simultaneous airings of the second season premiere on E! and Bravo.[15] Viewers from simultaneous airings of the second season premiere on Syfy and USA Network are not included.

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