Salina EsTitties Made Big Brother History — Then a Castmate's Anti-Drag Remarks Went Viral

Salina EsTitties — RuPaul's Drag Race alum and, as Attitude UK reports, the first drag performer ever to enter the US Big Brother house as a full houseguest — hasn't even been in the game a fortnight, and already the season is producing exactly the kind of uncomfortable television fans feared.

Here's what happened: housemate Drew Campbell was spotted wearing a pair of unicorn pajamas belonging to fellow contestant Mallory Aurichio. MMA fighter Kamuela "Kamu" Kirk, watching this unfold, was not amused. During a live-feed conversation with housemate Rick Devens, Kirk explained that he'd been offered a matching pair and turned them down flat. Devens referenced Salina's HOH reign — she's currently Head of Household — and Kirk kept going, adding that he'd told the others, "Miss me with the drag stuff. Miss me with the women's clothes. I'm still an MMA guy, and I have an image to uphold."

That's a lot of self-image to defend over some pajamas.

The internet noticed immediately

Frankie Grande — singer, Broadway guy, and Ariana's brother — caught the live feed and did not hold back on X. "Um. What the fuck is this horseshit?! Get these homophobic bigots out of the fucking house IMMEDIATELY," he wrote, calling the exchange disgusting and threatening to flip a table if it wasn't the biggest story by morning.

Grande later walked back any heat toward Devens, clarifying he didn't hold him responsible for the conversation — but stood firm on the larger point: to him, men femme-shaming other men is plainly homophobic.

This isn't Kirk's first flag

Before he even walked through the Big Brother doors on July 9th, sharp-eyed fans had already combed through his social media likes. The list included a post from right-wing activist Matt Walsh describing White House Pride Month support as "grotesque," and a like on a religious account's post that used the phrase "pray the gay away." Kirk came into this house with a paper trail.

That context makes his pajama-gate speech feel less like an awkward off-the-cuff moment and more like a pattern — which is exactly why the clip spread so fast.

The bigger picture

Salina EsTitties is making genuine history here, and that deserves its own sentence: a drag queen competing for a half-million dollars on network television, winning HOH in her first weeks, while America watches. That's the story. The fact that a castmate is making it harder, and potentially less safe, to simply be in that house is the shadow running alongside it.

Fans have already raised concerns that the casting combination — a drag queen and a houseguest with documented anti-LGBTQ+ social media activity — creates an environment that's uncomfortable at best, and actively hostile at worst. Those concerns look increasingly well-founded.

Salina EsTitties got herself into power. The question now is whether the house — and the show — will actually reckon with what Kirk brought into it.