Big Brother’s house is open once more! Every week, Parade’s Mike Bloom will be bringing you interviews with this season’s houseguests as they get evicted from the game.“Being humble, being vigilant, being respectful have been the words and actions that I have wanted to instill and show while I was here. And with that, I did. Call me the Cinderella of the season, because I prevailed through it all! My game was always here. I wasn’t silent; I was just settled. Actively working behind the scenes all the time. Just because I was in my pod doesn’t mean I wasn’t praying, processing, plotting, and prepping my next move to keep me here in this game. So yes, I’m still here!”We couldn’t have said it better ourselves, Taylor Brown.Educator Taylor walked into the house with an entire syllabus of how to play, down to a patented “tethers” alliance structure. But that all got promptly thrown away within the first few days, when Dee Valladares put her on the block for not talking game. Realizing she had to mobilize sooner rather than later, Taylor began to make relationships, helping protect her through the first of what would ultimately be six times on the block. Shortly after surviving eviction, she outlined her M.O. to LaTrice “Lala” Verrett: Lay low, and let the big players take each other out.
?SIGN UP for Parade’s Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox ? While Taylor was successful in keeping a low profile, being out of the locus of power for the first month of the game did have its drawbacks. Due to their personality clash, Haley Thogmartin put Taylor up on her HoH, making her the week’s initial target. But just as quickly as she went up, Taylor was able to clog Thog’s plans, winning a veto through her deduction skills. When Lala won HoH the next week, she was finally able to gain some power in the game, and used it to help officially break up the remnants of the “Red Corner” majority alliance. Coming out of that week, Taylor was excited, hoping a movement was building to take down the icons. But that burned up as quickly as a vampire in the sun. When Dee once again nominated Taylor, this time next to Lala and Drew Campbell, the latter called them out at the nomination ceremony, outing their anti-icon meeting. During one tense argument, the truth had been spelled out to Taylor. The icons were still in charge, and she was the underdog.The role became even more underlined as the jury phase went along. Taylor immediately lost Lala, bringing her closer to Yash Patel. The next week, despite how much they had been targeting the icons, the two of them were offered an alliance with Dee and Rick Devens to take down the remaining trio in the house. In one of the most controversial moves of the season, they accepted the deal, fully shifting into “keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer.” Unfortunately, nearly everyone would soon become Taylor’s enemy. Yash went out in the double eviction after Drew stuck with the icons to evict him. With Melody going out next, Taylor felt it was her against the world. And she was able deliver against the three D’s, taking home a much-needed HoH win at the Final Four. That’s the good news. The bad news: Drew chose to keep Devens in lieu of Dee, leaving Taylor feeling that she was against one of the tightest duos in the Final Three. While she was able to prevail in the most physical part of the last HoH competition, she failed to capture that last bit of power, losing to Devens. But leave it to the sleeper of the season to make the final eleventh-hour flip happen. The night before the finale, Taylor made her last pitch to Devens, saying that she and Lala wouldn’t vote for him over Drew in the Final Two, which, with Barrett and Melody, would lock in four votes for the 22-year-old. It was enough of a sway to cause the former newscaster to change headlines, taking out Drew in the most brutal betrayal of the season. Taylor had gone from hitting the block Week 1 to facing the jury on finale night. Unfortunately, while she talked up the purpose of playing behind-the-scenes, the showman won out, as the jury near-unanimously gave victory to Devens.Hours after the Big Brother 28 finale, Taylor talks with Parade about how she convinced Devens to take her to the Final Two, her relationships with Lala, Yash, and Drew, and how her sense of isolation shaped her play this season.Related: Meet the Full Cast of Big Brother 28
Let’s start with where things ended. As you were doing the jury Q&A and they were casting their votes, what was your perspective on how you would do in the end?So, my perspective of what everyone had of me was that I wasn’t playing hard enough. So, hey, let me see what I can say and pull a Rick Devens on Rick Devens, and at least get to those Final Two chairs. And with that, I am more than honored to take second to the Rick Devens. I am honored more than anything. I would much rather take second place to Mr. Rick Devens than to Drew. [Laughs.] So I’m I’m happy I’m here. This experience alone has been so much growth, so much opportunity, so much learning. And that’s all I could have ever asked for from it.Did any jury votes surprise you one way or the other?None of them surprised me one way or the other. Once again, if I was in jury and I was sitting there, I would have voted for Devens as well. I’m gonna be honest. He played a cutthroat game. He played a great social, strategic, and he was a great competitor. For Devens to win this is all that should have happened.The big reason why you got to the Final Two was this eleventh-hour pitch you made to Devens, saying if he took you out, you and Lala wouldn’t have voted for him, which would have cost him the win. How were you able to convince him to take you?Well, the first thing was I was kind of being stubborn at first. I was gonna let it go. I was gonna let it be. But I decided to use what he did to me, and throw it right back at him. And I decided to do it the night before. So it will be a rash decision, an emotional decision, a decision that he made because he was so frantic at being so close and not winning. Because, “Hey, I’m not voting for you. I’m telling Lala not to vote for you. I’m telling Yash not to vote for you. And if you’re sitting next to Drew, Melody and Barrett aren’t voting for you.”You told Devens after he voted to evict Drew that, if you won the final HoH, you would have honored the deal and taken him to the end. Is that true?No, I was lying! [laughs.] I was still lying. I don’t know why I was still lying. Just lying. You be in the house so long, you start to lie. You don’t even know why you lie. Just lying.[Laughs.] So I want to get into one of your answers during the jury questioning. You’re asked about your most influential move of the season, and you bring up the vote flip to keep Melody and get rid of Lyric. The jury, particularly Melody and Angela, had a notable reaction to that, disagreeing with the answer. Talk to me about your response, and your reaction to them.From my perspective of the game, Devens came to me and said he wanted to keep Drew over Lyric. He said nothing about keeping Melody. That’s it. That was the end of the conversation. So I don’t know what conversations he had with them, what conversations he thought he did. But if you ask Drew or anybody else, I went to Barrett. I went to Lala. I even tried to go to Yash, and he said he was sticking to the plan. I went back to Devens and said, “I’m with you, with Drew, but we got to do the same thing for Melody as well. “And I even told him to go to Dee and do the same thing. So, from my perspective of the game, they was only willing to keep Drew over Lyric, not Melody over Lyric.Let’s talk about some of the key relationships you made during the game. You mentioned how you and Lala had an “instant soul tie” connection, and you worked together tightly throughout the game. But there were certainly points where you were frustrated with her gameplay, and you even got emotional in the Diary Room at one point about how you’re essentially telling her to not be herself. Talk to me about your dynamic.This is just the definition of being a ride or die. Even when you don’t want to go forward with maybe the way your friend is acting or the way your friend is doing something, you have to stand there and still be a ride or die. And that’s exactly what it was. It was extremely frustrating that time because there were certain times when Lala didn’t really know what was going on, or how to maneuver, or how to speak, or how to talk, or how to play. But I had to make sure that I didn’t leave her because I knew my inner self could not leave Lala. Because I wanted Lala to sit in those final two chairs with me, and that was the only thing keeping me from being like, “You know what, Lala, I can’t anymore.”What about Yash? The two of you also worked closely, especially after Lala had left. What was your relationship like?That is my homie, man! I love Yash. He has brought me through some hard times because we are like uber opposites. I’m kind of more like, “It ain’t that serious.” I get a little bit more emotional and I cry. And he’s like, “Man, you need to win! You suck. Do better. Stop crying. No hugs. Dap up.” And I’m just like, “Come on, man!” But it was an amazing friendship. I think because of him, I continued to make it as far as I did. And also, I fought hard for him not to go out during that double. But hey, it just had to happen. So I appreciate Yash and I appreciate our friendship.You and Yash decided to keep Dee over Angela when they were both facing eviction. Talk to me about what went into that decision, and how do you feel about it now?I still think it was a great decision. Dee is a very loyal player, very loyal to her people. And we knew that; we could see that. So we just needed to make a move that gave her to us, and that’s exactly what it did. She was very firm on saying, because she was upset, because she was betrayed by Barrett, that she was going after those three. And we just had to trust that she could win, and she would work with us, because we knew she was no longer going to work with those three.Let’s talk about Drew. The two of you certainly bristled throughout the season, to make a hairbrush reference. You got into arguments, especially during that one nomination ceremony, you hid his brush. You even called him a “f—king menace” in the Diary Room. What are your thoughts on him?Hey, there’s a thin line between love and hate. And as much as I loved Drew as a person, as my baby boy, I absolutely could not stand him in the game. He was exactly what I said. He was a menace. He was here to be a villain. But hey, he was active and he played hard. And I give it to him. But along the way, for some reason, he just wanted to be a puppet to the icons and play both sides of the house, tell lies, and just be chaotic and messy. And I just don’t roll like that, so I didn’t appreciate it. And even when I tried to be in his corner, he still found a way to not make me happy. So once again, there’s a thin line between love and hate. And just as much as I disliked Drew, I loved him so so much.I want to finish by bringing up a comment you made during one conversation with Angela when you were nominated. You said, “I can’t talk nothing with Lala, ‘cause Lala blows everything up. Anything else I’ve ever had has not gone through. We tried to do something with Haley; that blew up. I tried to do something with Devens and Kamu. That blew up. So everything I’ve ever had has blown up in my face. So of course I’m gonna be reserved. Everything I try to do in this house blows up. Of course I feel like I can’t trust nobody. Every time I try to align with someone, people spit in my face. I feel like if I say anything, people just take it and run with it. I can’t say anything. I can’t do anything.” Talk to me about that feeling of isolation, and how did that affect the way you played this season?So I came in the house, and I feel like I just was extremely overwhelmed by different personalities and everyone talking over each other. And then I get hit with being a Have-Not and then I get hit with just being on the block. So I think I just immediately came in and shrunk, got in my shell. And when you’re in your shell long enough, you start to, instead of speaking out and being more expressive, you start to be more vigilant. You start to hear more, and that’s exactly what I was doing.And because I was able to see so much and hear so much, it was hard for me to trust people. It was hard for me to open up. Because I hear what you’re saying about your friend. I see what you plan on doing about whatever the case may be. So I think I just played my own game. I trusted myself more than anybody, of course. And all I could do was what I can do. And if that meant I went home because I was just afraid of what happens in Big Brother was going to happen in Big Brother, I guess it got me this far!
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