Angela Murray didn’t just live in the Big Brother house this summer, she lived on the block. That would be the nomination block. Angela was up for eviction an incredible seven times, but in an even more incredible twist, kept surviving. And sometimes in inexplicable ways, like when three different people used the Veto to save her.
But Angela’s time was finally up during Thursday’s double eviction episode. The woman who made waves early in the season by belittling Lisa Weintraub and dubbing Matt Hardeman “Crazy Eyes” was finally shown the door, being unanimously voted out by the house. Not surprisingly, she was emotional about it.
We caught up with season 26’s breakout personality after her exit to go over the highs and lows of her stay, and find out what reality competition show she would like to do next.
Why do you think you kept being put on the block, and why do you think until this week that everybody then kept taking you off the block or not voting you out?
ANGELA MURRAY: I think that I kept being put on the block because I made a move early in the game that kind of put a target on my back. And although I kept trying to recover and recover and recover, and I think I did, it was just so easy for anybody who was HOH just to throw me up. I became the habitual pawn and literally was told “Just deal with it. It’s your game and it’s getting you this far.”
I didn’t agree with that, didn’t like it, but it was what it was, and I had to kind of play it out. However the cards fell, I did my best to recover. I think I did a great job being as that I got this far, so I just don’t know. I think it’s just people didn’t want to get a lot of blood on their hands and so it was just easy to put up as one of the noms. We had to put up three people! So that’s not that easy. And I understand that I did shoot myself in my own foot, and so it was just an easy move for HOHs. I gave them an easy job. I gave them a target, every time.
You did a lot of crying this season, and even talked to yourself about all the crying you were doing. Are you usually this emotional in your everyday life?
Well, I definitely did a lot of crying this season. Am I this emotional in my everyday life? No. People are not out to evict me from my home, and there isn’t $750,000 on the line, and there isn’t the pressing issue of being liked in a home of 15 other individuals who you have to live with. And I have never lived with roommates before, so this was difficult. It’s already difficult enough to live at home with my own f amily, let alone 15 strangers and try to appease everybody and get along.
And I cried a lot because I was literally going on no sleep, and it’s a pressure cooker in there. To say the least, I am not emotional like that at home. I am a softie. I do wear my heart on my sleeve, but the crying thing, that is something I’m pretty new to. It doesn’t take a lot to get me to be emotional or cry, but in my everyday life, I do not sob the way that I sobbed in the Big Brother house. Those kids got to me! They just got to me.
What was your lowest moment in the house this season?
My lowest moment in the house this season? What do I choose from? There are so many. I guess I’ll have to go back to the beginning. It was literally going on sleep deprivation. The paranoia set in with the whole Matt deal, and feeling as though the whole house had turned against me so early on. And I lost it. If it hadn’t been for Tucker and feeling kind of coveted and loved by him in those really dark moments, I don’t know how I could have gotten through it.
And there’s probably a lot that everybody at home didn’t get to see, but honestly, Tucker is a standup — at least when he needed to be on a personal level — he is just a class act when it comes to that. I appreciate him in those moments because I really needed a friend, and he was there for me. And he is honestly a very caring, very loving person and I’m very thankful for that in those moments. That was probably my darkest moment in the house. It was very emotional for me.
You had major issues with both Matt and Lisa earlier in the season. Do you regret any of your interactions with them in the house?
Soooo, yes, I had some pretty major issues with Matt and Lisa in the house. Do I regret any of that? To be quite honest with you, no. I feel like I stood up for myself, and I could have handled it maybe a little differently and had I had enough sleep and was not under the pressure that I was under and the somewhat duress, I would’ve maybe handled it a little differently. But standing up to both of them, do I regret? No, I do not.
Now that you have played Big Brother, what reality competition show would you like to do next?
Now that I’ve played Big Brother, what reality competition would I want to do? I have always been a big fan of CBS shows, so I’d have to go with Survivor. Survivor is right there at the tippy top as well as Big Brother, and I think that after Big Brother that I would do things so differently and not be as paranoid. So Survivor would be a dream also for me to compete in, and such a fascinating social experiment, and out in the elements where I can hug trees and be in a nature. I am a nature girl and so Survivor. And let’s just face it, Jeff’s a hottie! He’s cutie pie. So I would go on Survivor.