‘Big Brother 26’s’ Quinn: ‘I don’t think I would change anything and that’s probably dumb to say’
Quinn Martin is a “Big Brother” superfan, but he didn’t play the game as strategically as you might expect from someone well versed. The nurse recruiter burned bridges with his multiple alliances left and right, proudly lied to everyone, and nominated two of his allies and watched them both go home after vote-flips. But he still wouldn’t change a thing after becoming the first juror of “Big Brother 26” on Thursday.
“I had zero interest in being an honest player. My thought was, how boring to go into this game that is so fun to watch when people are lying, that is so fun to celebrate when blindsides are being pulled off and you’re witnessing manipulation take stage,” Quinn tells Gold Derby (watch above). “I don’t think I would change anything and that’s probably dumb to say. But I believe in the phrase ‘burn bright, die young.’ You might as well fall out and hope that you can pick up something and go on the run versus the alternative of being boring. I wanted to play to be remembered because I didn’t want to risk being forgotten. I didn’t want to play a game that was lame. Honestly, that stuff is so lame! So I wouldn’t change a thing.”
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Quinn wasn’t even HOH Chelsie‘s original target this week, but a paranoid Angela planted the seeds for his backdoor. He campaigned his butt off but was ultimately evicted 4-2 over Kimo during Thursday’s episode, which was up 12 percent in total viewers to 3.31 million and up 14 percent in streaming from its season-to-date averages. (The episode also featured Jerry O’Connell, star of Quinn’s third favorite movie, “Kangaroo Jack,” filling in as host for COVID-stricken Julie Chen Moonves.)
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Chelsie nominated Quinn after Makensy used the Veto on Angela, which set a new record for the most times — three — someone was saved by another person’s Veto in the same season.
“I think Angela keeps getting saved because she’s sick nasty at this game. GOAT talk for sure. Three Vetos? Are you joking? She is sick nasty, dude,” Quinn says. “She is a great person. When she is relaxed and sharing her true authentic self, she is so endearing and she could be a dangerous player, but it’s just the fact that her social game had been tanked by her own doing. And that’s why she’s gonna keep staying in the game.”
And while Quinn wouldn’t change a thing, he does regret some moves more than others. “I definitely regret nominating Joseph way more than Cedric just because it was at a more crucial point in the game. Seeing Joseph go home pre-jury was dumb. I don’t know why I did that. I keep telling myself that it was this longevity move where it’s like, ‘I’m gonna show Chelsie that I can be a consistent person with power, I can be trusted. My word means something in this game even though I’ve been selling you out since Day 1 with the Pentagon and the Collective,'” he says. “He didn’t volunteer for the block, I put him up, and it’s the fact that Leah did use the Veto and we had that power three together that could’ve done damage in the game. It just felt like a perfect storm of bad reasons for someone to go home and it was, like, me heading the ship and I think that’s so wack. And I’m sorry, Joseph! I’m sorry!”
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