‘Big Brother 26’s’ Angela: ‘You better bet I would’ve put my girl Chelsie up’
Angela Murray was the gift that kept on giving and the houseguest that kept on surviving on “Big Brother 26.” She survived the block six times, but her nine lives ran out during Thursday’s double eviction when Chelsie targeted her and she soon followed her No. 1 ally Leah out the door by a 3-0 vote. Angela was thisclose to winning HOH, getting to a tiebreaker question — how many minutes was Jankie alive? — but she was undone by the “Price Is Right” rule as her guess was higher than the answer despite being closer.
“If I had won HOH, you better bet I would’ve put my girl Chelsie up. And I guess Rubina because of promises made to others,” Angela tells Gold Derby (watch above). “I think I wasn’t kept and used as a number because promises were probably made that the remaining houseguests would bond together and make a move together to kind of solidify some sort of kind of final five relationship and I didn’t fit into that equation. I was not in an alliance with any of the remaining houseguests — even though I was really close with Kimo and sort of with Rubina and sort of with Makensy — I didn’t really align with what they already had going on. So they already had their safety in numbers, and honestly, I just didn’t fall into that category.”
The 51-year-old, who infused the season with her one-of-a-kind chaos and drama right in the first week with her “Crazy Eyes” rant at Matt, made “Big Brother” history when she had the Veto used on her a record three times by someone else. Tucker, Leah and Makensy all saved her from the block, but the Leah save takes the cake for her.
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“Leah using that Veto on me was probably the most surprising. And the reason why is because I knew that she had an alliance with both Quinn and Joseph, and if she had stayed with that, it might’ve been more promising for her than to save me,” Angela explains. “But she, like me, followed her heart and went with what she thought was best for her in that moment and I will forever be grateful and always shocked that she did that.”
Now Angela heads off to the jury house, where she can (probably) have all the charcuterie boards she wants. But how would she build her perfect charcuterie board? “It’s going to be an array of delicious cheese — sharp cheeses, mild cheeses, savory cheeses, nutty cheeses — and it’s going to have a big hunk of real honeycomb,” she says. “And it’s gonna have jalapeño raspberry jam and it’s gonna have pistachios and — what else do I love on there? It’s gonna have an array of crackers and some crostini breads, some salami and some different other meats. Just an array of delicious savory things I like to pair together and I cannot forget cashews. So that’s what would be on my ideal charcuterie board.”