Big Brother runner-up Taylor Brown picked up a vibe from some jury members while she was pleading her case to win the game.
“I don’t know if you guys know — I’m very big on body language and just reading the room as to what was going on,” Taylor, 28, exclusively told Us following the season 28 finale on Thursday, October 1. “Between Angela [Murray], Dee [Valladares] and Melody [Morris] alone, I knew that their body language was [off].”
Taylor was referring to the moment when she responded to multiple questions from members of the jury which consisted of Angela, Dee, Melody, LaTrice “Lala” Verrett, Barrett Pfeiffer, Yash Patel and Drew Campbell.
While Taylor was speaking, she noticed there was a difference in Angela’s facial reactions when she spoke compared to Rick Devens. One moment fans noticed instantly online was when Angela, 52, shook her head at Melody, 24, after Taylor tried to take credit for Lyric Medeiros’ eviction (Devens, 42, later clarified that his alliance orchestrated the blindside.)
“Every time I would speak, her face would frown up,” she said. “Maybe I’m over reading [or] wrong, or whatever the case may be.”
While Taylor isn’t sure what was really going on in Angela, Melody or Dee’s mind, she already had a feeling that she wouldn’t have their votes to win the game.
“But I kind of already knew, and just being in the house, I lived with these people. The things that they would say about me, or the way in which they perceived me, I kind of already knew how the vote was going to go,” she said. “Dee and Angela working so closely with Devens throughout the season.”
Taylor also told Us that she did not feel intimidated by the jury’s reaction to her response while pleading her case to win.
“Oh no, never that. I don’t operate off fear at all,” she added.
While Taylor’s observant strategy impressed fans and even host Julie Chen Moonves, it wasn’t enough to sway the jury as they awarded Devens the $750,000 prize. Taylor earned one vote from her ally Lala and $75,000 for second place.
Taylor’s biggest move of the season was actually convincing Devens to take her to the final two over his ally Drew Campbell.
“I was convinced that [Devens] was going to take Drew, and he kind of did this intimidation tactic with me several days before, where he was like, ‘You need to take me to final two because I’m not going to vote for you. I’m gonna tell other people not to vote for you’. So I sat on it and I said, you know what? I’m gonna pull a reverse Uno card,” she told Us. “And that’s exactly what I did, and it worked out. I waited until the last minute to do it because I didn’t want to give him too much time to think about it or to ask Drew about it.”
While Taylor told Devens that he wouldn’t get her vote if she was sent to the jury, she confessed that was actually a lie.
“I would have voted for Devens,” she admitted.
However, if Taylor had won that final HoH, there was no way she would have taken Devens to the end.
“Did you see the way he just articulated his game? We all know he was cutthroat,” she quipped. “He was the best overall player, and that’s why he won and got America’s favorite.”
