Keanu Soto was met with an unfair destiny on Huge Brother 27. Not solely was he put up on his “regarded as ally” Vince Panaro’s HOH, however he was sacrificed to the Mastermind and needed to depart abruptly after his fellow houseguests stabbed his voodoo doll and evicted him. Keanu opened up about feeling damage by being nominated by Vince’s HOH once more, if he would have taken Rachel Reilly to the ultimate two, and if his kindness was his downfall.
From the very starting, Keanu was the goal this season. He was put up week after week and saved himself, both with the Energy of Veto or Blockbuster. The weeks he wasn’t on the block, his allies had been HOH, or there have been larger houseguests to go after.
After Rachel’s premature elimination within the White Locust competitors, Keanu latched on to his outdated ally, Vince. However Vince had wronged him and his pals too many occasions by placing them on the block and evicting them. But, Keanu nonetheless trusted him to take him to the ultimate two. Vince didn’t activate his quantity ally, Morgan Pope, and determined to take Keanu out on the closing 5 as a result of he knew he couldn’t win over him.
Keanu acquired into a number of fights with different houseguests, together with Ava Pearl throughout a veto competitors and Ashley Hollis throughout a veto assembly, however he at all times stored his cool.
Discover out what he needed to say about his time in the home and assembly Season 20 contestants Kaycee Clark and Tyler Crispen.
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You always gave individuals who wronged you second possibilities, like Vince. Do you suppose your kindness damage you on this recreation?
Coming into this recreation, I wished to make it some extent that profitable will at all times be extra enjoyable than enjoyable is enjoyable, in my view. However, if I wound up profitable the $750,000 and I needed to develop into somebody I wasn’t to do it, that was one thing that I wasn’t keen to barter on. So, whereas my kindness might have been my demise on this explicit recreation, general, it’s not a weak spot, and I select not to have a look at it like one.
It’s unlucky that I acquired taken benefit of a few occasions there, however I wouldn’t change it.
You and Rachel had an up-and-down relationship. Would you have got taken her to the tip regardless of her already being a winner?
Sure, I completely would have. I romanticized this imaginative and prescient that I had, the place “to develop into a legend your self, you must beat a legend.” I most undoubtedly would have finished that, only for that alone. The best way I checked out it was “There is no such thing as a dropping in that situation as a result of I’m part of historical past both manner.” Had I overwhelmed a legend and presumably develop into one within the course of, nice. If she turned the primary two-timer winner, and we completed one thing that was going to be very tough to do, as a result of outdoors of one another, we had been each working with the opposite sides of the home. That may have been tough to get a closing two.
Simply to get to be part of a two-time winner or beat her within the course of would have been good. Identical to Ian [Terry] in Season 14 beating Dan [Gheesling].
Had been you damage that you simply went dwelling on Vince’s HOH? And do you suppose he made a mistake taking you out?
*chuckles* I wasn’t damage that I went dwelling on his HOH. I used to be damage that I used to be up on his block once more. I forgave him a bunch of occasions. At this level, Rachel wasn’t within the recreation anymore, so consider it or not, I nonetheless would have taken him to the ultimate two had I not copped out and had the choice to.
I don’t suppose he made a mistake taking me out. Completely not. I don’t suppose it’s ever a mistake if you take somebody out who’s going to beat you in the long run. I feel he understood that. Do I feel it was proper to take me out at that second? Plenty of us believed that Morgan was the larger goal. From that time, I consider he made a mistake, however I feel I used to be a lock to win over him, so finally, that was not a mistake on his finish.
Whenever you instructed Ava, “I consider you have got a immediate,” throughout your Veto win, why do you suppose she took it personally? Had been you damage that nobody congratulated you?
I feel she, at that time within the recreation, was thought-about mild-mannered, so me being the demonstrative persona that I’m, and saying one thing so abrupt like that as a private assault in opposition to her. It most undoubtedly was not.
I used to be simply annoyed, not as a result of no person congratulated me or something like that, however as a result of, once I gained, you needed to be there; the stress within the room was loopy. The truth that I did it in such a relaxed, collected method. There was little doubt in my thoughts that I used to be going to win. You might really feel the vitality in there as a result of no person wished me to win. Once I took that final step and knew I used to be going to win, I took a glance again on the bench, and never a single individual on that bench made eye contact with me.
Once I gained, it was very quiet. No one was comfortable. I took that specific block from Mickey [Lee]’s HOH very personally as a result of her reasoning for placing Rylie [Jeffries] and Kelley [Jorgenson] up subsequent to me was as a result of they had been my pals, and that basically bothered me.
Whenever you noticed veto queen Kaycee Clark come into the home as your thriller veto competitor, did you suppose at that time you’d have a better probability of being taken off the block?
Oh, man! Watching Kaycee are available in was a deal with. Coming in, I used to be a recruit, so I wasn’t very conversant in the present coming in, however I did binge a whole lot of it in preparation. Season 20 was, by far, one among my favourite seasons. Watching Kayce and Tyler play. I used to be lucky sufficient to satisfy each of them. That was nice. That was additionally the season I instructed my mother to look at, so she was ready. So, I’m positive she geeked out over that as effectively.
As quickly as I noticed Kaycee, I knew I used to be a lock to win it. Once I gave her a high-five, I felt like she rubbed her veto powers on me, as a result of I used to be capable of get a three-peat. That was a really cool second and one of many highlights for me this season.
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