The series is produced by Fly on the Wall Entertainment in association with Endemol Shine North America.

The first season officially concluded on February 25, 2018, when Marissa Jaret Winokur beat Ross Mathews by a final jury vote of 6 to 3.

[8] Due to the success of the first celebrity edition, a second season was ordered and shown exclusively on Channel 4 in November 2002.

[12] It was rumored that CBS was looking to air a celebrity edition in the fall after Big Brother 3 with radio personality Howard Stern speculated as a possible houseguest.

[12] Barr would later take part in another celebrity spin-off of Big Brother called Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack in the United Kingdom in 2008, where she watched over a group of non-celebrity housemates for a day, set tasks and talked to them in the Diary Room.

CBS later confirmed via a press release that Julie Chen would return to host the new season, and Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan will be executive producers.

The season will be produced by Fly on the Wall Entertainment in association with Endemol Shine North America.

[15] On September 13, 2017, it was revealed by Chen that her husband, CBS chief executive Leslie Moonves, forced her to take a pay cut for the celebrity edition to happen.

Competitions for Head of Household and Power of Veto had been confirmed to returned for this edition along with live evictions.

[16][18] Unlike the parent series Jury members were not sequestered separately and were allowed to return to the outside world as well as watch the show.

[26][27] For the first time since the beginning of the American series, five players were featured in the season's finale night versus the usual three.

CBS decided to schedule the spin-off during the February 2018 sweeps period to counterprogram NBC's coverage of the 2018 Winter Olympics.

[29] The live Internet feeds returned for the American version of Celebrity Big Brother as part of CBS All Access.

[15][30] Global announced on December 20, 2017, that the broadcaster had acquired the rights to air Celebrity Big Brother in Canada.

[32] Nine Network confirmed they would air the season in Australia under the name Celebrity Big Brother U.S..[33] Nine created a special logo for the show resembling the eye logo of the ninth through eleventh seasons of Australian adaptation that previously aired on the network.

[35] Endemol Shine also screened the season on their YouTube channel Big Brother Universe outside the United States.

Marissa Jaret Winokur, Omarosa, Ross Mathews, Metta World Peace, and Mark McGrath all appeared in the second celebrity season; Omarosa hosted a Head of Household competition while Ross and Metta participated in a Power of Veto competition.

[citation needed] During the competition several past Big Brother HouseGuests perform a Broadway-style musical number where Marissa is the first to fall off her trophy.

Julie instructs the HouseGuests to grab a "celebrity gift bag" before going back inside the House and not to open them.

She also informs them that one bag contains a special power allowing the holder to "recast" the role of Head of Household with someone else.

The next day HouseGuests were informed of her hospitalization and it was announced that she would be returning to the house prior to the nomination ceremony.

On Day 13 by a unanimous vote of 7–0 Keshia was evicted from the Big Brother house and became the second jury member.