Reality TV alum slams costars for ‘making fun' of him: ‘Just felt nasty'
'Listen, all's fair in love and game. I expect the gameplay. … [But] knowing for weeks that they had been making fun of my mannerisms … it just felt nasty,' Jimmy told NJ.com after he was eliminated from the CBS reality series. 'Respectfully, they're two 30-year-old women, and you'd think they'd be a little more mature than that. I was pretty shocked, as a 25-year-old, to be watching that back and to feel like I had a little bit more maturity than they did.'
One live feeds clip of Mickey and Morgan imitating Jimmy's use of slang has made the rounds on social media. Some viewers claimed that the conversation came off as homophobic.
'Oh, my God, the tea is scalding hot. And why is it hot, Mickey?' Morgan asks in the clip.
'Because [our alliance with Jimmy], Triple Threat, has been exed. … Gay-asp,' Mickey replies.
Jimmy feels that Mickey and Morgan's final two alliance name, The Tea Party, could also be interpreted as a dig at him.
'Their final two [alliance name] was almost a play on what I say in the house all the time. I don't know, I thought it was interesting,' Jimmy told NJ.com. 'I'm not making any snap judgments or anything like that. Unlike them, I'm gonna give them the benefit of the doubt and would prefer to talk to them about their intention and things like that. But the perception definitely wasn't good.'
Jimmy was evicted by a vote of 9-2 on Thursday, August 7, after Mickey named him as a replacement nominee during her Head of Household reign. Mickey and Morgan stopped trusting Jimmy after learning that he'd been trying to make a deal with their rival Keanu Soto.
While Mickey and Morgan felt that Jimmy's conversations with Keanu were a betrayal, Jimmy doesn't see it that way.
'With Mickey and Morgan, I had put my trust in them 100 percent. Everything I did was always thinking about Triple Threat above all else. Turns out, that was a mistake,' he said. 'I was making an effort to build a bridge with Keanu, because I knew he was looking at Mickey and Morgan as targets. And the last thing we wanted was to end up on the block together.'
Jimmy said he wanted to lay the groundwork to protect himself and at least one of his Triple Threat allies in the event that Keanu became HoH.
'So [then] hopefully he'd only put up somebody like Morgan, and that would allow Mickey and I not just to whip votes, but to fight for Morgan potentially in [the] Veto [competition],' Jimmy explained. 'Mickey and Morgan never gave me a chance to defend myself. … My intention cannot be defined by their perception. … I was neutralizing [Keanu] as a threat to Triple Threat, not throwing them under the bus for the sake of my own game.'
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Jimmy's elimination continued a pattern of season 27 Heads of Household nominating their own allies for eviction. Vince Panaro put Kelley Jorgensen on the block week one despite having a final two deal with her, and Lauren Domingue sent home Adrian Rocha even though they were loosely aligned and he wasn't coming after her.
Jimmy told NJ.com that he 'absolutely' thinks the BB Blockbuster twist — which forces HoHs to nominate three people for eviction instead of two — is contributing to the bewildering trend.
'I think people are trying to lean on playing safe rather than making game moves, because they're too worried about damage control,' he said. 'This game can mess with a lot of people's heads. You can allow people to distract you from what you know to be true.'
Jimmy noted that he respects current Head of Household Ava Pearl for nominating Vince Panaro and Zach Cornell even though it's made waves in the house.
'I think a lot of HoHs this season haven't stood on business. And I think Ava's standing on business,' he said.
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