She’s America’s alternative! Big Brother season 24 contestant Taylor Hale gained America’s Favorite Player in the course of the Sunday, September 25, finale.
After the season 24 jury — comprised of Alyssa Snider, Brittany Hoopes, Indy Santos, Jasmine Davis, Kyle Capener, Joseph Abdin, Michael Bruner, Terrance Higgins and Matthew Turner — selected the non-public stylist, 27, as their winner, Julie Chen Moonves introduced that she had additionally gained over America’s hearts.
Along together with her good-looking $750,000, prize because the champion of the home, Taylor additionally walked away with a $50,000 verify. Taylor’s win was historic on two fronts: She is the primary Black girl to win Big Brother in 24 seasons and the primary grand-prize winner to additionally rating America’s Favorite Player.
“It’s like winning Ms. Congeniality all over again,” Taylor informed Chen Moonves on Sunday. “But it’s a cash prize this time.”
Earlier within the episode, viewers watched Taylor compete in opposition to her fellow finalists Monte Taylor and Turner for a coveted seat within the Final 2 chairs. Ultimately, it was Monte and Taylor left standing after the dwell portion of the ultimate HOH competitors.
Both opponents made their circumstances to the jury, however Taylor gained over her former housemates with an empowering speech. “I am not a victim, I am a victor,” she stated, referring to the non-public challenges she’d confronted all through the season on prime of the bodily and psychological competitions. “And if there is one word that is going to describe the season it is resiliency. And if you were to ask yourself who was the most resilient person of the season, it was me.”
As Big Brother season 4 whittled down its numbers earlier this month, CBS introduced that fan voting was open to pick their AFP alternative. Taylor, a fan-favorite houseguest all season, shortly turned a trending social media subject.
“PLEASE GO VOTE FOR TAYLOR FOR AMERICA’S FAVORITE PLAYER,” Selling Sunset star Chrishell Stause tweeted on Thursday, September 22, alongside a praying palms emoji.
While America was rooting for the Michigan native inside the home, a number of of her fellow houseguests had unfairly focused her after seemingly racist microaggressions.
“I have to admit that there was definitely some things that I said, as well as other people in the house, that probably shouldn’t have been said,” Ameerah Jones solely informed Us Weekly in July after her eviction, noting that Taylor “did not deserve” such hate. “As far as like dog-piling on her, it was in the beginning. It was because she said a lot of snarky things to people, [that] is how we perceived them. A lot of things were, like, said under her breath and honestly, they weren’t that bad at all to deserve that.”
Ameerah, 31, added that the present’s “mob mentality” allowed the “small” perceptions to maintain “snowballing” week after week.
Taylor, for her half, refused to let the haters trouble her as she continued her quest for the ultimate prize. She even joined forces with Monte, Turner, Kyle, Brittany, Michael and Joseph to type the “Leftovers” alliance. (The group finally disbanded after Kyle uncovered their secret dynamics in the course of the “Split House” twist to save lots of his showmance with Alyssa.)
Before Big Brother season 24 premiered on July 6, the previous pageant queen previewed her sport technique solely for Us.
“[Season 23 and their landmark Cookout alliance were] actually what got me into Big Brother,” Taylor stated on the time, nothing she hoped to mannequin her sport technique after present alums Danielle Reyes and Janelle Pierzina. “I’m really obsessed with women in this game who are just bold, brazen and just unafraid to go after what they want. … I like that they never sacrificed who they actually are and still played a fabulous game.”
Source: www.usmagazine.com