The season 26 evictee also addresses Quinn’s power-up and Tucker’s bold veto move.
Nobody said being in theBig Brotherhouse is easy but nobody told Kenney Kelley it would be so hard.
“I had more downs than ups,” Kenney tellsEntertainment Weekly.
Kenney Kelley and Julie Chen Moonves on ‘Big Brother’.Sonja Flemming/CBS
“So I think they knew that they were doing what was best for me.”
First cameAngela Murray’s “Crazy Eyes” attack on Matt Hardeman.
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: I don’t know whether to say “Congratulations!”
Kenney battles it out in the A.I. Arena on ‘Big Brother’.Sonja Flemming/CBS
or “I’m sorry.”
How are you feeling?
KENNEY KELLEY:I feel good.
Makensy, Kenney, Cedric, Angela, Tucker and Leah on ‘Big Brother’.CBS
In that moment, were you hoping to stay?
I had mixed emotions.
Obviously, I’d be lying if I didn’t say I wanted to go home.
Angela, Tucker, and Kenney on ‘Big Brother’.CBS
But I also was prepared to stay.
They knew that I missed my family, which was evident.
[Laughs] I’d be honest with them and let them know.
But I really wasn’t too sure what was going to happen, to be honest with you.
Quinn is a wealth of knowledge.
[The houseguests] knew he was a super fan.
They knew he knew everything about the game.
I really didn’t know what was going to happen.
I wasn’t surprised.
Quinn had a great social game.
He had a lot of good alliances in the house.
He actually made it perfectly clear that he never intended on using it.
And he said that he had a plan.
I never really had an opportunity to talk to Quinn about game.
I was asking Quinn, “How come me and Tucker can’t get a group together?”
And I was like, “Why wouldn’t you work with me and Tucker?”
And Quinn got me hook, line and sinker.
He played it off really good.
He was like, “That’d be a great idea.
Let’s do this!
Talk to Tucker.”
Well, Quinn kind of played it wrong because he already had an alliance with Tucker.
When I actually approached Tucker with it, I think that put Tucker into a spiral.
I thought it was a week too early, to be honest with you.
At that point of the game, I was in it.
So I had mixed emotions.
When Cedric put Makensy up instead, what was your reaction in that moment?
I knew Cedric wasn’t going to [put Quinn up].
Even that morning, I tried to talk Tucker out of it.
I said, “Tucker, do you think this is a good move?
I don’t know.”
And Cedric was like, “We don’t have the votes to get Quinn out.”
And I could just see in Tucker’s eyes that we weren’t changing his mind no matter what.
He wanted to shake things up like our name, and he wanted to get the game going.
At times he was very bored in the house.
He thought the game was starting off too slow.
That’s why we were trying to make ours the stronger alliance in the house.
You were evicted by a vote of 10 to one.
Did any votes surprise you?
No, not at all.
I had more downs than ups.
So I think they knew that they were doing what was best for me.
She knew that I was on to them.
I knew that she was trying to execute the house, and I would’ve blew that up.
Speaking of Angela… what do you make of her behavior?
Her initial behavior was terrible.
I didn’t agree with it at all.
I’m not a person who likes confrontation, which is why I decided to go into theBig Brotherhouse.
I went off by myself and I would become quiet.
She wasn’t able to do that.
She had to express it in a different way.
She kind of went after Quinn a little bit.
She went after Lisa a little bit.
She actually made Cedric super upset in the kitchen one day, and I couldn’t get past that.
But in the long term of the game, Angela is an absolute sweetheart.
She was probably my biggest advocate to stay in the game.
But I think generally she cared about me and she wanted me to not regretnotbeing in the house.
Some viewers believe she’s performing, and that this isn’t who she really is.
What would you say to that?
I will say I agree with them.
I’m like, “She’s a plant in the house.
So I thought it was part of the game, to be honest with you.
I didn’t think that there needed to be that much drama in the house.
But I don’t think she’s playing.
She regretted that, and she apologized for that numerous times.
But I think that’s her.
I think after week three, the real people come out.
The first week, it’s possible for you to fake it and then the real people come out.
