Morgan Pope played an amazing game on Big Brother 27 with seven straight rounds of safety won by her own hand, but she needed that eighth and came up short, costing her $750,000 on finale night. We knew Ashley planned to cut Morgan if she won Round 3 and sure enough, that’s just what happened. But Morgan left with her head held high and demonstrated incredible poise and sportsmanship in the moment.
Third place on Big Brother is always tough to see happen to come that close and leave without even a cut of the prize money, but Morgan is a player who has surely earned herself another opportunity down the road, right? For now though, let’s look at her BB27 and what she has to say about her game and the season. Of course her relationship with Vince is going to be a BIG topic of discussion.
Sharon Tharp’s ‘The Exclusive’ interview with Morgan:
Mike Bloom’s Parade interview with Morgan – read the full interview here:
Mike: How are you doing right now, Morgan? Obviously, it’s been a heck of a day, to say the least.
Morgan: Yeah, so, I mean, it’s obviously no secret that I’m bummed, to be real. It’s bittersweet. I knew that in order for me to win this game, I was going to have to win it out. And when I lost that final HoH, I just knew. Because if I was her, I would have taken me out, because Vinny was the easier person to beat between the two of us. So it is hard because all day today, I was practicing my final speech. I was deciding who I was going to take to the end. And it turned out that I just came up short.
Mike: Let’s talk your jury vote. Were you always going to vote for Vince? Or did something happen during the jury deliberation to lead you that way?
Morgan: No. To be honest with you, I knew that either Vince and I was going to be leaving that house tonight, depending on who won. If I won, Vince was leaving. If Ashley won, I was leaving, and I knew that Vince would have given me a vote, so I therefore returned the favor. I knew his story. I knew that he’d been applying for 10 years and this show meant so much to him. But I said this before, Ashley cooked him like a well-done steak, and she was going to win regardless. So as a friend and as an ally, it was a way of me telling him, “Thank you for playing this game with me, and I’m proud that we got so far. And congrats on second place.”
Dalton Ross’s EW interview with Morgan – read the full interview here:
Dalton Ross: We saw you were planning to ask Vince a question from the jury, then thought about asking Ashley one instead, and then ended up teeing Vince up to talk about the strongest parts of his game, clearly seeming to try to help him articulate his game to the jury. Explain to me what was going there with your back and forth.
Morgan: So I knew I wanted to ask Vince the question first. I was also very curious about why Ashley thought that taking me out was going to be one of the moves for her game. Because I wanted her to be able to say why me over Vince, you know? Because the last week or so, she knew I was taking her, and I was under the impression that she was taking me because she said that if she was to lose to anyone, she would want lose to someone who was deserving of the money. Once she won HOH, I knew that she was going to make the decision to take me out. I just had a feeling because if I was her, like I said, I would’ve done the same thing.
Ross: What happened on that final stage of the final HOH competition? Did you overthink it?
Morgan: Yeah. In the past, there have been times I had the right answer and switched at the last minute and got it wrong. And it was no secret that the same thing happened today. And I knew as soon as Julie said answers were locked, I knew the right answer and I knew I was holding the wrong one. And it was just things where you just kind of accept that you didn’t win.
Like I said all season, I can take it to the chin, I can handle a loss. And I’m proud of her. It was the first thing I told her. I told her I was so proud of her, because I know all season long she won one [competition] week one and all she kept saying was she wished she could wish one more competition, and that mattered.
A highlight from Sharon’s interview with Morgan, she explained that her vote was a pity-vote for Vince. Morgan told Sharon she could see how this was going and that does seem to sync up because from Morgan’s question I thought she was going to vote against him. But geez, once Vince had even lost Lauren’s vote… yikes!
Morgan played a fantastic game on so many levels and Vorgan kept us entertained on a level most showmances never get near, so thank you to Morgan for being an amazing Houseguest on Big Brother 27!
Fonte: Leia a matéria original
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