Julie Chen Moonves addresses her long-term future as 'Big Brother' host and says she is playing a game of chicken with Jeff Probst and Phil Keoghan.

The new season of the hit reality competition series "Big Brother" includes new elements including the introduction of a mysterious masked visitor with a secret accomplice and an unknown houseguest to be revealed sometime during the season.

Big Brother viewers up North in Canada can watch Big Brother Season 27 simultaneous with their US cousins on Thursday, July 10 at 8pm ET/PT via the Global TV channel. Episodes will air weekly every Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday.

Contestants include an aura painter, a dungeon master and a professional bull rider — plus a mystery player whose identity has not yet been revealed

"Honestly, in my head, I am the greatest 'Big Brother' player this world has yet to see. I'm ready to prove it."

A model and gamer from Los Angeles, one of the 16 contestants on this season of Big Brother, Morgan Pope, described herself as “bubbly” and funny in a video package shared with NJ.com. Pope is a former division one track athlete and plans on hiding her gamer side from fellow houseguests by presenting herself solely as a model.