Big Brother 26 winner Cheslie Baham He puppeteered masterfully throughout the season, but didn't fully admit it to the jury with good reason.
“I downplayed it 100 percent for two reasons,” Chelsie, 27, said exclusively. Us weekly on Monday, October 14, after the Big Brother 26 closing. “No. 1, I didn't want to brag too much with my friend Makensy [Manbeck]. I didn't want to do that. “She took me to the last two.”
Chelsie explained that she chose to give the jury some “general notes” of her game to give them “the essence” of her strategy.
“I didn't want to seem too stuck up because that might also influence them to vote a certain way,” she said. “So I stated the facts. “I felt like I did it in a gentle way and didn't apply as much force to the painting as I could have.”
Before addressing the judges, fans heard Chelsie and Makensy, 22, talk about what they were going to say to their former guests. Makensy, who chose to evict Cam Sullivan-Brown about Chelsie after winning the final competition, she confessed that she didn't know what she was going to say. Chelsie stated on camera that she also had no closing comments prepared. However, Cheslie confessed Us that was one of his “last strategic moves” of the season.
“This girl knew that I was very good with my words and was afraid that if I told her that I was too prepared for this, she would hesitate to take me to the two finalists,” she confessed. “So I wanted to play it like, 'This is no big deal.' I don't know [what] I'm going to say. “I knew exactly what he was going to say.”
Chelsie Baham
Sonja Flemming/CBSChelsie believed that her decision to tone down her explanation “ended up benefiting her” in the long run. The director of the nonprofit organization was unanimously chosen as the winner.
“I think some jurors came in with preconceived notions about how they thought we played the game,” he said of how he planned to address the jury. “But when I actually laid out the stats in my strategy and knew what I was talking about, I think that was just the nail in the coffin for them to say, 'Hey, I may have been moving in either direction, but Chelsie has shown up.'” . something that is difficult to overcome.'”
Although Big Brother follows a basic formula year after year, fans know to expect the unexpected when it comes to twists in the production. While some twists have jeopardized players' games (see Season 8's “America's Participant,” Eric Stein), other houseguests have used unforeseen circumstances to their advantage. Jun Tune, for example, pretended to hate […]
While many fans saw Cheslie as the clear favorite, she confessed that she was “very surprised” to win over all the jury members, including Angela Murray and Lea Peters.
“It took me completely by surprise. I thought because of Angela and Leah, not just the question Angela asked me at the jury, but also the fact that Leah came out through Makensy's HOH, I thought those two would surely vote for Makensy,” Chelsie shared . “So when I saw they took out the keys with my name on them, I said, 'If I keep the two of them, I keep the rest of the house.'”
With report Sara Donnellan
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