He called himself the puppeteer.

He said he “should be an accountant because I’m absolutely crushing these numbers.”

He told us “My gut is never wrong.”

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Brent Champagne on ‘Big Brother’.CBS

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So when did that confidence start to wane?

BRENT CHAMPAGNE: I’m many things, but an idiot isn’t one of them.

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Brent Champagne and Britini D’Angelo on ‘Big Brother’.CBS

So it’s more or less a hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

And after a while, when you say it enough, people actually will start to believe it.

But it was just the way everyone was acting is what kind of gave it away.

Britini was a little too happy.

She was walking around all bubbly, smiling, laughing.

In a perfect world.

Cause it just all made sense to me.

11 to 0.Which vote against you surprised you the most?

And they’re on the same team.

And so that would have been my main target as well.

And we were able to get all three of them to stay safe and Travis to go home.

We didn’t have to do that.

We’re now a part of it.

And I was like, okay, well, this is just messy.

That’s why we were targets in the beginning.

As we’re talking, you’ve only been in the house for 12 hours.

What do you make of them not just turning on you, but taking such glee from it?

I’m a very strong personality.

I think a lot of us are in theBig Brotherhouse.

And the team aspect of the game was very interesting because we were forced to be with these people.

And I wouldn’t have worked with Hannah and I wouldn’t have worked with Whitney.

She would storm off and go talk to someone else that wasn’t part of the team.

So I’m not surprised.

Hannah, I knew there was way more to her that she was allowing everyone to believe.

She was very reserved and calm and cool collected all the time.

There has to be so much more than I’m missing."

And I’ve called her out a few times about it.

So that goodbye message, I was actually like, my gut was right!

I’ll be honest.

I think Hannah would win.

And she’s always doing her little dances and teaching people how to dance and stuff.

I don’t hold it against anyone.

She’s definitely crushing it.

And I believe if she does not win it, she’ll make top two.

Why do you think that is?

Why do you think the whole house seems to be voting as a giant block?

I just think it’s the herd method.

It’s very common for people like Derek X.

What makes you think we’re going to take you back?"

So you’re up and you gotta go."

Whom did you feel closest to in the house?

Whom did you think was your biggest ally?

My only final two was Alyssa.

And Alyssa needed to do what she needed to do.

And I never said that I had wrapped around my finger.

I can’t just go around telling people that we’re best friends.

But, for the most part, the connection and the friendship were genuine.

I’m going to go out and visit her for Halloween and everything like that.

She even said that in her goodbye message.

It’s more or less, whatever’s good for our game at the time.

And I would have evicted me as well.

So, it’s a no-brainer.

I was just trying to see if I could make it another week.

So seeing those votes obviously tells you a lot more than taking yourself down from the veto.

I wanted to win the veto.

I didn’t mind if I didn’t, but I also got sick.

So there was nothing I could really do.

I won the first round and then I got called out by Xavier.

And then obviously him calling me out after he put me up to help with a veto.

I got sick and was shoulders deep in a bucket and there’s nothing I can really do.

So it is what it is.

And then that I was no longer his target.

That was really the most frustrating part for me was that my game was messed up.

after you grab that target on your back, it doesn’t go away.

And just like, Britini keeps being put up as a pawn.

That would have been happening to me if I was able to get by.

So if it wasn’t this week, I was going to be gotten rid of next week.

But if I could do it all over again, I would talk a lot less.

I’ll leave that to, uh, to the experience.

So if you do see me on a flight, that will keep you guessing.

But yeah, most likely.

Just don’t tell United.