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Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Collab Edition 2.0 is the fourth celebrity and the nineteenth overall season of the Philippine reality television series Pinoy Big Brother. The season premiered on October 25, 2025, on GMA Network. The cast features teen celebrities from the talent agencies Star Magic and Sparkle GMA Artist Center.

As part of a collaboration between ABS-CBN Studios, the franchise holder, and GMA Network, the season continues the format of the preceding celebrity season, which sees housemates from both networks compete in pairs throughout the show’s run. The season is presented by a roster of hosts led by Bianca Gonzalez, with Luis Manzano returning as a presenter.

The season is the second run of the Celebrity Collab Edition, which features celebrities signed to the talent agencies Sparkle GMA Artist Center (locally known as Kapuso) and Star Magic (locally known as Kapamilya), with one housemate from each agency being named a winner at the end of the season.^[1]

On Day 8 (November 2), Big Brother revealed the “2.0” format.^[2] For the season, the housemates compete in groups of four with two Kapuso and Kapamilya housemates each.^[2] Before the nominations, the groups compete against one another for immunity in Ligtask challenges.^[2] Afterward, the nominations take place, where each group nominates another group for eviction.^[2] All four members of the group with the most nomination points face the public vote conducted through the Philippine e-wallet Maya, with the Kapuso housemate and the Kapamilya housemate with the least votes being evicted from the house.^[3] Like the previous season, the process will repeat until one Kapuso and one Kapamilya housemate are voted to be the Big Winners at the end of the season.^[2]

On Day 1 (October 25), all 20 celebrity teen housemates entered the house, tying the previous season for the largest cast for a celebrity edition of Pinoy Big Brother.^[4] Leading up to the series kickoff, two housemates were introduced daily from October 21 to 24, 2025, through 24 Oras. Each revealed housemate was also featured in an exclusive individual interview.^[5][6][7]

Within the framework of Pinoy Big Brother, the term “houseguest” designates an individual invited to enter the Big Brother house. Some of these houseguests are introduced with the explicit purpose of residing for an extended duration and deliberately chosen to influence the dynamics among the official housemates—thereby affecting relationships or altering the competition’s trajectory. Conversely, other houseguests serve primarily as visitors; their stay within the house is typically brief, often entailing specific tasks assigned by Big Brother, or their presence fulfills a particular purpose. This can include, for instance, introducing a new game twist, presenting a unique challenge to the housemates, providing gifts to the housemates, or engaging them in conversation.

For this season, the following individuals entered as houseguests:

Throughout the season, the housemates were periodically paired into groups through tasks and other challenges.

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The nomination process for this season has been significantly revised from the previous one, shifting from duos to group nominations. Under this new structure, housemates nominate groups rather than duos, and the group receiving the most nominations is then subjected to the public vote. To potentially avoid this fate, groups are afforded the opportunity to compete in Ligtask challenges prior to nominations, with success in these tasks granting the winning group immunity. Ultimately, once a group faces the public, the final eviction is determined by the lowest number of public votes, resulting in the elimination of one Kapuso and one Kapamilya housemate from that group.

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During the finale of Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Collab Edition on July 5, 2025, Bianca Gonzalez confirmed that the collaboration between ABS-CBN and GMA Network, together with the program’s “duo format”, would continue for a second season.^[34][35] In late September 2025, teasers for a forthcoming season began appearing on the reality show’s official Facebook page, featuring the subtitle “2.0”.^{[citation needed]} On September 29, the new installment was formally confirmed on the news program 24 Oras, with the premiere date set for October 25.^[36]

Like the preceding season, the season features artists from Star Magic and Sparkle GMA Artist Center. However, for this season, the cast would be composed of teen stars and “Gen Z” artists.^[37][38] The season used a new rendition of “Kabataang Pinoy” (transl. Filipino Youth), the show’s theme song used for teen editions as its main theme, sang by P-pop boy groups BGYO and Cloud7.^[39]

On October 20, GMA Network confirmed that all hosts from the previous season—Bianca Gonzalez, Robi Domingo, Kim Chiu, Melai Cantiveros, Enchong Dee, Alexa Ilacad, Gabbi Garcia, and Mavy Legaspi—would return for the season, being joined by an undisclosed “original host” who would be making an “exclusive comeback” on the show.^[40][41][42] On premiere night, Luis Manzano was confirmed to be the returning addition, marking his return to the show since his last stint in Teen Edition Plus in 2008.^[43][44]

Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Collab Edition 2.0. premiered on GMA Network on October 25, 2025, with a new episode being aired daily thereafter. Two companion shows support the show: Updates and OnlineVerse, both carrying over from the previous season.^[45][46] The season also airs on the digital streaming services of ABS-CBN and GMA, including Kapamilya Online Live, iWant, The Filipino Channel, Kapuso Stream, and GMA Pinoy TV.^[45][46]

According to AGB Nielsen Philippines‘ Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the pilot episode of Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Collab Edition 2.0 earned an 8.0% rating,^[47] 0.6% lower than its predecessor’s rating in its pilot episode.