Adrian Rocha’sBig Brotherjourney wasn’t what he expected, andin conversation with Screen Rant, he revealed the disappointing nature of his alliesin the game. While Adrian spent the majority of his time onBig Brother27trying to find somewhere to fit in, he felt like he’d finally hit his stride ahead of his week 3 eviction from the game.
Adrian, who spoke openly about how much he valued honesty in the game, was quick to find others at fault when they didn’t hold the same philosophies. Struggling to move through the game with allies who weren’t as inherently honest as he was,Adrian became more of a threat after beating theBBBlockbuster during week 2, but his fate wasn’t sealed.
Ultimately, Adrian was nominated asa replacement after his ally, Keanu Soto, took himself off the nomination block. While it was possible for Adrian to save himself again, he had a tough time rallying others to keep him in the game. On the block after losing the Blockbuster to Kelley Jorgensen, Adrian found himself evicted. Speaking to Screen Rant,Adrian unpacked hisBBexperience.
Screen Rant: It was great to watch you this season, unfortunately cut very short. You really said you wanted to play an honest game coming intoBig Brother. Being such a fan and knowing the show, why was honesty your strategy?
Adrian: Honestly, that wasn’t part of the plan. Absolutely not. [laughs] In real life. I’m such I hate liars. I really believe in honesty and you just kind of came natural. I didn’t really want to lie to anybody. Um, if I went back, would I play an honest game? Most likely I absolutely would. When I say I wouldn’t lie, I would probably change a little bit, but I don’t really know. Um, I didn’t like liars. And I, and when I was in the game at that point, week one, it was a little bit too late for me, not for a little too late for me to lie simply because, uh, everyone’s house perception was that I could not lie like Adrian. He’s so kind. We all love them. And he just, he literally cannot lie no matter how brutal and honest it was.
The majority house wanted to work with me. But the problem was I was just associated with Kelley [Jorgensen] and Keanu [Soto], which were huge targets, not only for competition wise, but they weren’t really too well liked socially in the house. And that was one of the reasons that caused my downfall is my association to those players as much as I love them.
Adrian’s Alliance With Kelley Was An Odd Piece Of The Puzzle
She’s Known To Instigate Drama In The Game
Screen Rant: I want to get into Kelley, actually. You spent a lot of time with Kelley who notoriously had been lying and stirring the pot purposefully. What did you really think of her strategy of instigation?
Adrian: I first week one, I was like, I’m good with Vince [Panaro]. Vince is good with me. Kelley is putting a huge word with Vince that, that how much she loves me. Um, and when it came to like the strategy, I was like, okay, you do you, if you want to put a target on your back, if you want to stir apart, that’s good. Uh, but I didn’t really plan for how the house would associate her with me because I wasn’t trying to be in a room longer with long with anyone. I didn’t want to be associated with too many papers because that’s how alliances are like, like perceptions of alliances are formed.
If you see the same five people hanging out, same three people, you’re like, they’re working together. It’s so obvious. Um, but Kelley, that first week, she was just, she just kept coming up to me. She kept talking to me and she was instigating a lot of things. And surprisingly, she was instigating about me a week one. And Amy [Bingham] revealed that to me. She said she, Amy came up to me and told me that Kelley said that I said something bad about Amy, which wasn’t true. And the fact that I was like, yo, Kelley, I thought we’re working together. We were in a, in a, like a three person alliance with Vince, me and Kelley.
I’m like, well, why are you throwing my name out there? I was supposed to trust you. So it made me wary of how much I could trust her with what information. But then towards the end of week three, when I was about to get evicted, uh, it’s funny because Kelley asked me like, why don’t you trust me? Um, I was like, it’s not my loyalty that I don’t trust. It’s your gameplay. It’s like, I don’t want you saying something you shouldn’t have. But towards week three, she, she realized the bad thing about instigating. I had to tell her, Hey, you got to cut out this instigating, especially if it’s a bunch of lies, the house is picking up on it.
They’re comparing notes. Um, I’m like, this is not good because you’re growing a bigger target on your back, which puts a bigger target on my back. And it’s one of the reasons why the following weeks I told her that we have to separate. We can’t be seen together. We can’t hang out too much because the target’s there and we can’t make it any bigger, like looking like we’re a duo. But unfortunately it’s something that we just couldn’t shake because at an early game, people will use any reason to put it, to put you up.
That was one of the huge reasons that got me evicted, unfortunately. Uh, but the house did really want to work with, or the majority did like miss Mickey [Lee], Ashley [Hollis], um, not Rachel [Reilly], uh, did not want to work with me for sure. Um, but yeah, there’s, there’s a lot behind the scenes that people don’t know unless you’re watching the live feeds, um, why, what led up to my eviction.
Adrian’s Campaigning Sometimes Felt Like Interrogation
He Was Looking For Votes, But Fishing For Information
Screen Rant: In terms of theBBlive feeds, you spent a lot of the time during the last week that you were in the house questioning their fellow house guests rather than campaigning to them. It did seem like you were going like looking for help and looking for people to, you know, help you out and get your votes, but the strategy there was a little bit confusing to watch. I’m curious about what you were looking to do when you were going through the house to campaign for votes.
Adrian: So when it came to campaigning, there was a few people that I knew I would not get their vote pretty much no matter what. So I knew, I knew the six votes I had to guarantee possibly seven, the last seven was Ava [Pearl], but I knew Ava would never vote for me ever. If it was against Will [Williamson], uh, for two reasons, she’s closer to Will than I am like their bond is just closer, uh, than me and hers.
And she is scared of competitors that she literally told me that when it was like, Zae [Friedrich], she just believed that she couldn’t beat him in the competition. Same thing with me, especially with my track record. So I knew I wasn’t going to get that vote. So at most I could get six. Um, and that, and that would go down the Lauren [Domingue]. And, uh, one of the things I was trying to do was trying to figure out who’s throwing my name out there because that was more of a point I, because I already did my campaigning.
Um, I believe Katherine [Woodman] and Reilly [Jeffries] would have gave me my vote because I was, I felt like I was growing on Katherine and that she really wanted to see me as an ally. Um, Kelley was going to give me her vote, trusted Zach and Vince to give me their vote. Um, and then Keanu was the only one I was questioning a little bit. The strategy or behind, like, just trying to figure out who was throwing my name out because I want to know who is lying to me. Like, because I really did want to work with Mickey. I really did. The only thing is we just, I just kept getting put up against Will and she, she, she told me that I wouldn’t get her vote if it was against Will. And I’m like, there wasn’t much I could do there. And so I really wanted to work with Mickey, but I want to know if she was throwing my name out there and how much I could really trust her.
And that kind of also led up to one of the reasons why, when she told me about the Morgan [Pope], Zach [Cornell] and Vince being in the final three, and she told me that information, that’s kind of the reasons why I kind of let Zach know. And Vince know is because I didn’t know if she really did have my back or she’s just trying to use me for a number, or she’s just telling me one thing and telling me the other, because she did lie about me and her power. And I, that makes sense. I understand why you don’t want to tell me that power, because you didn’t know if you could trust me. But that was one of the reasons why I wanted to ask people like the questions, because I want to see how much trust these people have. And I believe one of the reasons Mickey told me is because she really did trust me and wanted to work with me.
And she was questioning Morgan’s loyalty to her because she just was because Morgan was just so clinged on to Zach and Vince that the whole house kind of saw them as like a trio. And she was worried that Vince and Zach were going to like if they had one power that they would take out Mickey before they took out Morgan. So Mickey was trying to pull me in an alliance with Ashley, Ava and Will and I. And we’re trying to look for the additional member, which would have been Lauren. But that week didn’t go so well. And we didn’t talk much after that.
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