Overview
- Glyn Wise, the 2006 Big Brother runner-up, is confirmed as a contestant on Squid Game: The Challenge, streaming Nov. 4 on Netflix.
- The competition features 456 participants vying for a $4.56 million prize in a non-lethal reality take on the Korean drama.
- Viewers noted Wise’s striking transformation, with a shaved head and beard after nearly two decades away from mainstream reality TV.
- Wise originally finished second in Big Brother’s seventh series, which ran for 93 days.
- Coverage revisits controversies from his Big Brother season, including a housemate’s on-air suicide threat and an initial rebuke for Wise speaking Welsh that was later reversed.