By Andy Sloan

 

After 43 Days in the Big Brother house, supermarket cashier and superfan Jason Roy cashed out as the 5th houseguest to get the boot. We talk strategy, who's currently playing the best game and of course, his girls! Plus Jason reveals the most difficult person to live with and it might not be who you suspect.

 

In your interviews before you went into the house, you said you wanted to be cold, calculated and it was all about the money. However, we saw a more loyal, genuine side of you in the house. What changed that mentality?

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Well I'm still all about the money honey! But in the outside world I haven't cried in years, so I definitely thought I'd be able to play a more colder game than I did. But my girls back at home know that I'm loyal to a fault. If I love someone as a person, I'm going to roll with them, even if they're on a sinking ship.

 

Speaking of sinking ships, do you think your relationship with Da'Vonne is a reason I'm talking to you right now?

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Oh for sure! I think me and Da'Vonne's relationship was going to be a target. If she had saved herself that week, then I probably would've gone. Anyone was going to do anything they could to break us up.

 

What brought you so close together?

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I fell in love with her at first sight. She was someone that I felt like I could relate to better than the other people. I feel like our walks of life were a bit more similar and there were other people in that house that never struggled a day in there life.

 

You and Da'Vonne talked a lot about the Twin Twist at the beginning of the game. Any regrets on how you handled the information?

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We definitely should've kept it to ourselves, which seems to be one of the main things that I did wrong. I should've used that for leverage in the future, but you're just so damn bored in there that is more entertainment, guessing which one was going to pop out of the diary room.

 

After you were put on the block as a replacement nominee, #SaveJason became a very popular hashtag on twitter. What are your thoughts on all this support?

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Holla! I expected to be absolutely loathed, so to know that even four people like me is outstanding. To know there was something trending on twitter makes me feel great! I just wished twitter could've sent me a damn telephone booth or something! It's so nice though, so I'm glad to hear that!

 

Clay and Shelli have been running the house and last night we heard you drop some strong words in your interview with Julie. Being out of the house, has anything changed?

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Even last night I thought they were probably running the game more than I assumed they actually are. It seems like Vanessa is actually the main one. I had instilled some amount of trust in them, made deals and assumed they'd be good to some of them. They did save me the week before, so I thought I was gaining a working relationship with them. However, the whole time I knew that Shelli was one of the main masterminds. She's hid behind those big white teeth and big blue eyes, plotting everyone's demise. I hadn't really been a target of hers for weeks now, so I thought I was able to turn it around and turn her into an ally. However, it was clear that it was never going to happen.

 

Was there ever a point earlier on that you think would've been an ideal time to team up with Shelli?

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Earlier on in the game, I didn't trust her for anything. I wanted to put her up Week 1, but I let everyone else change my mind. Since then, she knew she was always that option for me, so that's probably why I was such a threat for her. The early weeks in this game I spent cultivating relationships with people I'd actually want to have in the house, and have real relationships on the outside, instead of game relationships. It was only within the last week or so where I was onto the game relationships and the people I had met that I wouldn't have liked on the outside. That's more where Shelli comes in.

 

If you could go back to Day 1 and give yourself only 1 piece of advice, what would it be?

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Definitely try to like these people that I wouldn't like in normal life. Try to cultivate relationships that I wouldn't cultivate relationships for game reasons. I definitely acted as if I was in the real world. If I didn't like you, than I wasn't really going to talk to you or pretend to be your friend. I'm very cut or dry. You know if I like you or if I don't.

 

Well there were definitely a lot of personalities in the house, so that's really understandable. Who was the most difficult person to live with?

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Steve. Living with Steve is like living with a 10-year-old that asks really silly questions and doesn't know how to use lotion.

 

Did you ever think you could strategically align with Steve, or was that out of the question?

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I mean it probably would've been smart for me to try to do so, but the personal part of me would've had to paste teeth to myself everyday to even act like he was not annoying me. In the long run, me and Steve wouldn't have gone very far together, but in the short term game, I probably should've tried to gain more of a relationship with him. BUT, he's such a rat that anything you tell him, he was going to run around or not say anything and just tell someone else. I was always very cautious about talking game with him because you never knew who he was transferring into.

 

Okay, fun question! This is takeover season, yet we've seen pretty much no takeovers. If you were to go back into the house as a takeover, what would you do? Don't hold back, these people just voted you out.

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Oh my gosh! I love me some foreign Big Brother as well, so I'd like to take all their clothes, put everyone on slop and torture... oh god, that sounds terrible. BUT, I'd love to torture the people that got me out because I was really a good person, even to the people that I hated. I never kicked anyone when I was down, but I would've loved to torture the twins and Austin for sure.

 

Why the twins and Austin specifically?

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They're people that I thought I'd connect with, but even this week they felt the need to kick me when I'm down. Even yesterday Liz was like, "Your luggage is in there storage room," very passive aggressively. We just didn't get along.

 

Taking personal feelings out of it, if you were to place a bet on who you think will win this game, who would you pick?

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Personally, outside of it, I think Vanessa is going to win. I'd love to see Johnny Mac up there, but I think Vanessa is so flawlessly going about it that I wouldn't be surprised if she gets to the end. She definitely makes a lot of these moves and is always the most innocent after it's all said and done.

 

But I'd love to see my girls. James or Jackie or Meg. But it's going to be very hard for them to do so.

 

You've talked about this with Julie, but not that you've had a little bit more time to think about it, how do you think James, Jackie and Meg will fare in the coming weeks, especially with James winning HOH?

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Well this is a good thing, we were due for a win and hopefully James uses it to get these three a little bit further. But they're still definitely outnumbered and they'll have to keep the winning streak going if they want to really dismantle the other side.

 

Out of your three main people, who do you think is the strongest player?

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It depends on what your opinion of strong is. The strongest strategically would be Meg. She's very underestimated and her social game is very strong. The strongest in a competition, or being able to defend themselves, would have to be Jackie. Jackie has a mouth like me and if you come for her, she's going to come for you.

 

You left out James. What are your thoughts on him?

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He's good at the comps, but he's someone if you ever talk to him last, than you're the person he believes most. So he's easily manipulated by some of these people, but I'm hoping that this week a lot of people have shown their cards, so him being used by the other side is over.

 

One of the things that I love about you is how much of a superfan of the show you are. Overall, how was the experience?

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It was so crazy to even be there. There were so many times where I'd catch myself talking to the live feeders, or looking around the backyard and be like, "I am really here!" I never thought this would ever be possible for me. It was always like a deep, wild fantasy that was never going to be accomplished. To even make it in the house, I had already won at that. It was just wild being there, the days were so long and you just make so many memories. So I'm actually excited to see what memories I may have forgotten that made it to TV. But my main memories would have to be the ones I made with my girls. Meg and Da'Vonne and the relationships that I've had with them.

 

What was the best moment in the house?

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Winning that first HOH and showing these people that, although I'm 4 lbs and 4 feet tall, I can play with the big boys.

 

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