After linking up with Matt and Jag to form the Mafia on “Big Brother 25,” Bowie Jane Ball established a final two with the latter in the last few weeks. But after Jag won the final HOH on Thursday’s finale, he cut the DJ Bowie Jane in third place, opting to stay loyal to his OG final two Matt. Bowie was far from surprised and figured out she was going to be the last jury member on Tuesday.
“I think probably two nights before I got a sense of it. I asked him and he kept his eyes closed when he answered. I was like, ‘Dude.’ If that was me, I would totally be reassuring me, so I knew something was up then. But also I thought maybe he wasn’t allowed to tell me because there are some rules in ‘Big Brother.’ I was hoping maybe that was the case,” Bowie tells Gold Derby. “The next night, I thought I better do a proper pitch. I did that without being too aggressive, just making a few points that maybe he hadn’t thought of. And that’s all I could do really.
There were no hard feelings as Bowie voted for Jag, giving him one of the five he received for the win. The Aussie, who was the only person to avoid the block all season, pitched to both Jag and Matt that they should take her to the final two because she’d get zero votes. But she believes she would’ve been able to pull a few.
“I would have to speak to Cameron and find out, but I thought Cameron because we got along. I also thought there was a small chance [of] maybe Cory. If I got Cory, potentially America, these are people obviously maybe who are mad at me for kicking them out, but I thought there’s a small chance because they do appreciate gameplay and they appreciate people who are winning, not just waiting other people to win for them I thought there was a small chance I could get votes from them. And there would be only one other vote I needed to get. Could’ve been Felicia, but I doubt it. But you never know. Although they didn’t really like Jag either, so that’s where maybe I was in a better position.”
Bowie prepped a final speech to explain her game and make a case for herself for the win, but she obviously didn’t get to give that. Her top point? She wasn’t coasting.
“The fact that people thought I was playing the middle was exactly what I wanted them to think, and it was a group decision that I appear to be playing the middle so that our group would not be found out,” she shares. “That was around the Week 6 mark going forward. I was never playing the middle. I was always aligned and I was loyal to my alliances, so I made sure that that was kept hidden. I then didn’t start winning comps on purpose until I was sure I had a solid group around me that could also win because the moment you win, you can’t play the next week and you’re up on the block. So I made sure I covered all those options. And also whenever I heard anything about me being put up as a pawn, I strongly opposed it and I know some people’s tactics on other seasons have been to allow themselves to go up as pawns, but once you do that, you’re potentially up every single week. So I made sure that didn’t happen and was putting out fires all over the place. And the other point is I dissociated myself a little bit from Cameron because he was such a huge target in the house and I was going to be the pawn.”
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