After flipping the vote on Izzy Gleicher and evicting Jared Fields in the double eviction on “Big Brother 25,” Cory Wurtenberger became a top target in the house. He came close to hitting the block the past two weeks and appeared to be safe this week with Jag, who almost couldn’t wait to tell him he was the invisible HOH. But things quickly unraveled after America told Blue that Jag and Matt were gunning for her, and Blue spilled that to Jag before winning the second Veto. Jag, who won the first Veto, decided to blindside America and Cory, ensuring that the showmance is severed. Cory couldn’t use his debate skills to talk his way out of this one and was evicted 5-0 Thursday to become the second juror joining Cameron Hardin.
“I have no idea how this all was portrayed, but I was horribly paranoid every day about this week. The reality is I’ve been called out in at least two ceremonies in the past couple weeks,” Cory said an exlusive exit interview with GoldDerby. “Once I heard America had these conversations with Blue, I was really nervous these were getting back to Matt and Jag. … The day it was happening, I was probably 70-30 thinking it was going to happen.”
Early on in the game, the 22-year-old was mostly under the radar, not just because his showmance with America was in its nascent stages. That all changed when he engineered the vote-flip on Izzy, turning on one of his Crossroads alliance members. While the alliance, which also included Jared and Cirie, kept him safe, Cory felt he had no agency because “Jared and Izzy were the domineering voices who were making all the decisions.” After the flip, he and America started working with Matt and Jag. “The problem with this new group I was working with was Matt and Jag were just crushing these competitions, mostly Jag,” he notes. “So by the time I needed to take a shot at Matt and Jag, I really couldn’t because I just couldn’t beat those dudes in competitions.”
Despite it ultimately leading to his downfall, the Izzy flip is “a move I’ll never regret,” Cory told the source, and he is the most proud of that move as a superfan. “The Izzy vote was obviously the turning point in the game, not just me but for just about everyone. Izzy was the dominant player in power along with Jared, along with Cirie, for the first five weeks of the game … and then the entire power dynamic of the house flipped,” he says. “And that required me spreading so much information and swinging over Matt and Jag and Meme and Bowie. Obviously America was already on board. So that was the moment where I really felt like I was playing ‘Big Brother’ to its fullest, like I was pulling people into rooms, campaigning, the votes flipping, having a big argument in the Humil-verse. That was incredible, super fun.”
Cory Wurtenberger on why he regrets flipping the vote to boot Mecole over Felicia…
The move he does regret though? Flipping the vote to boot Meme over Felicia. “The truth is I felt uncomfortable with either of them being HOH, but Meme probably would’ve been someone I could’ve actually used as an ally and she would’ve been more of a threat for Matt and Jag to try to take out, whereas they can just beat Felicia in the house as long as they want before they get rid of her. I think that could be a mistake, but who knows exactly how it plays out if Meme’s still here.”
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Source: Goldderby
