Zach Guerrero

Pinoy Big Brother: Kumunity Season 10, also known as Pinoy Big Brother Season 10, is the tenth main and sixteenth overall season of the Philippine reality television series, Pinoy Big Brother.

The season, which premiered on October 16, 2021, was the second to partner with the social-media app Kumu; "Kumunity" is a portmanteau of "Kumu" and "community".

The season revolves around three groups (known as "batches") of housemates, representing three Kumunities: celebrities, adults and teens.

The top two in each batch were eligible to be the season's "Big Winner", along with four wildcard housemates chosen in a series of challenges.

Bianca Gonzalez-Intal and Robi Domingo again hosted the season, and Kim Chiu, Melai Cantiveros and Enchong Dee were co-hosts.

Toni Gonzaga also reprised her role as the show's main host but later stepped down from the role.

Gonzalez assumed Gonzaga's duties as the show's main host.

The season ended on May 29, 2022.

After 226 days, celebrity housemate Anji Salvacion was the season's "Ultimate Big Winner".

Salvacion won the ₱2 million grand prize, and adult housemate Isabel Laohoo was the runner-up.

Samantha Bernardo, Robert Blackburn, and Brenda Mage placed third to fifth, respectively.

She was the second celebrity winner in a combined season, and the fourth celebrity winner overall, since Daniel Matsunaga of All In in 2014.

It's Showtime announced the season's auditions on August 27, 2021, during its noontime program.

Due to the restrictions implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic at that time, the auditions (like the previous season) were conducted on Kumu.

Each batch had different audition dates.

The adult (ages 20–40) auditions began on September 1 and initially ended on September 30; the teen auditions (ages 15 to 19), scheduled to begin on December 1, were moved to November 6 during the first eviction episode as an early Christmas treat for the show's teenage viewers and ended on December 31, 2021.

During the Teen Edition auditions, the ten participants with the "best audition clips" won ₱10,000 each.

The show received 33,319 audition videos for the Adult Edition when auditions began, and producers extended the deadline for audition videos from October 16 to October 31.

During the run-up to the Celebrity Edition premiere, Kumu selected two celebrity housemates.

The Online Bahay ni Kuya ("Online Big Brother House") campaign consisted of online voting and challenges to its participants.

Jordan Andrews and Benedix Ramos were announced as the winners on October 15, and became housemates.

A second Online Bahay ni Kuya campaign was held for the Adult Edition to determine the three final adult housemates, one each for the male, female, and the LGBTQIA+ Kumunity.

Andrei King, Kathleen Agir-Zarandin, and Roque Coting topped their respective Kumunities, becoming the three final housemates for the Adult Edition.

They entered the house on Day 99 with Glenda Victorio, the season's second houseguest.

The last Online Bahay ni Kuya campaign was held for the Teen Edition.

Unlike the previous adult Kumunity auditions, only one of the top 100 teen streamers (Paolo Alcantara) became a teen housemate.

Like the previous season, the show's housemates, hosts, crew and staff underwent RT-PCR testing.

The housemates had also been quarantined before their entry into the house, and health and safety protocols were implemented.

No live audience was present, and the crews worked in a locked-in production.

On January 14, the show went on a five-day hiatus due to a surge in COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron variant.

During the break, never-before-seen recaps of the show in the adult batch aired in place of regular episodes.

The show replaced Everybody, Sing! on weekends, and aired in the Primetime Bida timeslot on weeknights.

After the season finale, six post-season special episodes were aired on three weekends from June 4 to 19, 2022, before the show was replaced by the second season of Idol Philippines.

The logo for Pinoy Big Brother: Kumunity Season 10 was somewhat different.

The eye had motifs inspired by, and colors from, the Philippine flag and differed from the eye in the previous two seasons.

The text colors also changed, spanning shades of blue and red, and the season text was bright yellow and orange.

The façade of the Big Brother house was repainted with the colors of the Philippine flag.

Since the season began during the Filipino countdown to Christmas, the façade was decorated with lights and parol lanterns.

The interior of the house was renovated, with the color scheme in the confession room varying by edition: yellow for Celebrity, red for Adult, blue for Teen, and all three colors for Biga-10.

No major changes were made, and it still follows the original layout used in Otso.