Angela Murray is looking back on what she should have done differently to save herself from her recent eviction from the Big Brother house.
“I think if I had to say anything that I could do differently, it would be in the final two to three days, and of my time in the house, and that would have been to read the room,” Angela, 52, exclusively told Us on Friday, September 11. “[I] knew something was going on.”
While Angela was aligned with Survivor alums Rick Devens and Dee Valladares throughout the game, she could tell their demeanours were different after they were all put on the block by Barrett Pfeiffer.
“Devens was acting way too cool, and I felt something was off with Dee. If I could have read the room,” she reflected about the shift in energy. “I even told her ‘[Devens] wants to keep you over me.’ I knew that. I knew that she was his number one.”
Angela admitted that she should have taken the time to pitch her case to Yash Patel and Taylor Brown — who ended up being the deciding votes.
“I wish that I had gone to Taylor and Yash and told them that I’m due for an HoH. I wish I had said, ‘I’ll help you.’ I did say that, but I wish I had said things like Devens and Dee are not going to take out the boys. They’re not. They’re only putting on this big elaborate show. They’re fooling you. They actually want you guys out,” she said. “If I had said that, I could have maybe stayed, and I thought about that all night last night as I was leaving the house.”
Angela wishes she would “have been a little sneaky” and “set a different tone in motion.” However, it might have been a hard sell compared to how Dee, 29, pitched herself to stay.
“It’s very clear why the house kept Dee over me because she was acting like a killer,” she told Us. “Like she said in her speech — and she had been saying it all week long, ‘I’m gonna help you get out those boys,’ meaning Drew [Campbell] and Barrett.”
Angela knows all too well that Dee “has a history of winning and being very good” at games so the Survivor 45 winner’s argument was something she would “be able to deliver on that promise.”
While Angela knows she would have had to convince Yash, 24, and Taylor, 27, to flip their votes, she couldn’t see herself being loyal to them.
“I didn’t have that energy in me. I didn’t give that. I played very undertone because if I were to stay, I would have wanted Barrett and Drew to not be [targeted]. I didn’t want to be a threat to them,” she admitted. “I could either go with Yash and Taylor or I could go with Barrett and Drew. That was kind of my strategy of staying a little bit more even keel with that.”
Angela was no stranger to the Big Brother house as she was a fan favorite during her first time playing in season 26. However, viewers got to see the evolution of Angela this year.
“Playing Big Brother this season compared to my first, I think there are a lot of changes,” she told Us. “There’s some familiar things because you know I’m Angela. I’m who I am, and I’m gonna play the way I want to play. And I play with my heart. I play with my gut. I always felt like I did have good reads in both seasons.”
The real estate agent continued, “I think the thing that’s different the most is that I strategized. I had multiple alliances, and I paid attention. And when I saw that there was going to be a divide starting in the house, and I was watching some of the heavy hitters puff out their chest, and I pointed out to them that there was this divide starting, and I was also kind of guiding that kind of divide and planting seeds. I created Big Brother from the get-go, and I think that is the difference.”
Big Brother airs on CBS Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at 8 p.m. ET.
