Big Brother’s Taylor and Janelle Discuss Tactic People Are Scared Of

Big Brother legends Taylor Hale and Janelle Pierzina are weighing in on a method they assume houseguests ought to use extra usually.

While discussing how the worry of being attacked on-line has modified the sport, Hale, 28, completely gave Us Weekly her recommendation for gamers who wish to be villainous with out getting lambasted on social media.

“I think people play with social media in mind, but they forget that you can talk to the cameras,” mentioned Hale, who turned the primary Black girl to win the truth competitors throughout season 24 in 2022. “I think we have lost the idea that … you can still say bad things and manipulate people. But I think if you just went to the camera and said, ‘I know what I’m doing. I’m doing this intentionally and I’m owning this bad behavior. This is not who I actually am.’ It might not be fun to watch, but I think it would at least be respected. I just think we need to get away from tiptoeing.”

Unlike different actuality competitors contestants, Big Brother houseguests have the posh of straight addressing viewers through the 24/7 stay feeds. Pierzina, 43 — who competed on seasons 6, 7, 14 and 22 of the CBS sequence — famous that she hasn’t seen houseguests using the tactic in current seasons. “I don’t think anyone’s done that recently because everyone’s so fearful,” she mentioned.

Pierzina, who first appeared on Big Brother in 2005, additionally identified that the prospect of being “canceled or fired from your job” for one thing you mentioned on the present was much less of a menace again within the day.

“When I first did the show, the only thing that was around was Myspace, so we didn’t have any of that to worry about,” mentioned the actual property agent, earlier than including that she did have an expertise the place followers used the social media platform in opposition to her. “The fans went after my top eight [Myspace friends] and they contacted my boyfriend at the time and they were like, ’She’s a horrible human being. How could you date her?’ He didn’t care,” Pierzina mentioned with fun.

Hale and Pierzina had a chance to share extra of their Big Brother scorching takes whereas collaborating in Entertainment Tonight‘s television special celebrating the show’s twenty fifth anniversary, which airs Wednesday, July 26, at 9 p.m ET. The particular comes only one week earlier than the Big Brother 25 premiere — and Hale and Pierzina talked to Us about what they’re hoping to see this season.

“I would love to see a split house. I feel like when there’s two large alliances fighting for power, it makes the game really interesting,” Pierzina mentioned. “The live shows are that much more intense for me because I’m rooting for who I’m rooting for. And if they lose, I’m devastated.”

Hale chimed in that it “gets a little boring” when there’s just one “dominant alliance” that begins to “steamroll” the opposite houseguests. “I wanna see people playing their own game first above anybody else. And that’s where we’ll have some really interesting conflict, some interesting connections,” she mentioned. “I’m just very excited to see us get back to a little bit more of an old school Big Brother type of gameplay.”

Hale made headlines throughout season 24 for the detrimental remedy she obtained from a number of of her fellow houseguests. Season 23 winner Xavier Prather spoke out in opposition to the habits in July 2022, tweeting that “Members of the Black community (especially Black women) and other people of color stand no chance in the Big Brother house due to perpetuation of micro-aggressions and unconscious biases which plague our society.”

Despite being focused from the primary week of the sport, Hale managed to win the $750,000 grand prize in addition to the America’s Favorite Player award. She advised Us what recommendation she would give to future houseguests who discover themselves on the outs with their solid.

“Don’t let people gaslight you into believing that you’re a bad person,” Hale mentioned. “It’s really easy — if you’re coming from a good place and you just want to play the game, which is where I was — it’s very easy to just wanna hear people if they’re telling you that you hurt them and say, ‘OK, well how can we reach a resolution?’ If people are not giving the puzzle pieces to get to a resolution, they’re gaslighting you.”

During the season 24 finale in September 2022, Hale emphasised in her closing statements to the jury that she is “not a victim, I am a victor.” She believes that mindset is vital to enjoying Big Brother effectively.

“Something I really don’t like is when things don’t go someone’s way and they say, ‘OK, well I’m just gonna sit back,’ or, ‘I’m not gonna keep playing the game anymore,’” Hale advised Us. “I don’t have a lot of respect for that, [barring] larger circumstances like mental health or family problems. … Because there are people whose lifelong dream it is to play Big Brother. … Giving up and quitting because something didn’t go your way is the most disrespectful thing that you can do in that game. So, fight until the very end because it’s never over until you are out that door.”

ET’s Big Brother twenty fifth anniversary particular airs Wednesday, July 26, at 9 p.m. ET

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Big Brother 25 premieres on CBS Wednesday, August 2, at 8 p.m. ET