Cam Sullivan-Brown doesn’t think he gets the credit he deserves
Cam Sullivan-Brown doesn’t think he gets the credit he deserves
Lady Luck wasn’t just not on his side. She was on vacation the entire time Cam Sullivan-Brown was in the Big Brother house. He only managed to win one competition but as he maintains he had a lot more to do with manipulating his and Chelsie’s allies and rivals than he is given credit for.
John Powell: How you feeling after everything?
Cam Sullivan-Brown: I am feeling great. I am feeling blessed. Obviously I am mad that I didn’t win but I’m happy I made it to top three so I’m living life!
John Powell: When it came to comps you didn’t do very well. I think the biggest thing is that because of your background, I mean talked about playing for the CFL, people thought your would have done better. What happened out there?
Cam Sullivan-Brown: I wish I could tell you. I truly do. I’ve gotten second or third place in so many of these competitions but when it came down to the end I think I just got in my head a lot. I just never finished and that was probably one of the biggest regrets that I’ve had. It was just finishing these competitions. It wasn’t about me flat-out just losing them a lot. I came in second place in a bunch of them. It was just about finishing.
John Powell: Tell us a little about your time with the CFL?
Cam Sullivan-Brown: So coming out of college I ended up assigning with the Edmonton Elks and I was playing with them until I injured my back. Then, I got cut so then I inevitably had to come back home and revert to physical therapy. My time with the Elks was short but I did love my time in the CFL. The game is so much different than back here in America and me playing the position of wide receiver. It is tailored to my game. So, I love the CFL. It sucks that I got injured and I got cut but I think I would have had a very prosperous year and career there.
John Powell: Do you wish you would have campaigned a little bit more to Makensy or do you think you said everything you had to say?
Cam Sullivan-Brown: I think I campaigned very hard the week before to get Makensy to see the benefits of keeping me and the the negatives of picking Chelsie for the final two. As the week went on in the house, when we were the final three, I just knew their relationship was too close. Makensy felt way too comfortable in the house and at that point I knew that there was really nothing that I could say to sway Mackensy. She was always going to try to use the loyalty pitch to her advantage and not backing down from a threat. I knew that was going to be a big part of her speech and taking Chelsie would have been the bigger threat to take So inevitably it was the wrong decision for her but there was nothing that I could say at that point.
John Powell: Were you surprised Makensy made the decision she did?
Cam Sullivan-Brown: I wasn’t surprised because I knew that her relationship with Chelsie was closer than closer to her than it was with mine. I was hoping that she made the ‘brain money decision’ and choose me to go to the final two but she didn’t. I wasn’t really shocked but I definitely wanted her to bring g me to the final two for sure.
John Powell: If you got to the final two what would your argument have been?
Cam Sullivan-Brown: My argument would have been manipulating Makensy’s HoH and bringing her into our three person alliance. We talked to her when she was down on that nomination block. We were a part of that big move. People forget that I won the veto to get Tucker. The move that Chelsie loves to claim. My pitch would have been manipulating Makensy’s HOHs, taking the comp beast out in Tucker and getting Makensy to put her main allies up and voting them out.
John Powell: Watching the live feeds you did play a major part in scheming with Chelsie and Makensy. Do you think you don’t get enough credit for your strategic and social games?
Cam Sullivan-Brown: I absolutely do not think so and that is why it sucks that I wasn’t able to talk to the jury and give my plea for the final two because I do not think my social game gets enough credit. I literally played the perception of me being an athlete to my advantage and I was working alongside with Chelsie in a lot of her decisions and influenced Chelsie to make a lot of the big decisions that she claimed in her jury speech. I do not think that my social game got a lot of credit and it sucks that I can only talk about it now, but inevitably, people that watch the live feeds know.
John Powell: Explain your relationship with Chelsie? There were times you were arguing like siblings or a married couple.
Cam Sullivan-Brown: My relationship with Chelsie is very complicated. We were a brother and sister but elevated. I love her so much and she she wanted me to do so well. From her perspective, she was getting mad at the decisions that I was making but I had to play my own game. I didn’t want my whole social game and my whole Big Brother game to be tied to her so I had to make certain decisions for myself. I think after a couple of conversations she started to see that and that was towards the end but there was a lot of ups and downs. She got on me for a lot of stuff but she was a rock for me in that house. We looked out for each other. We protected each other. So, I love her so much for everything that she did for me in the game. Our relationship outside of the house is super good.
John Powell: After Zingbot’s comments to Chelsie though you did pivot your game did you not?
Cam Sullivan-Brown: In order to protect myself and to protect Chelsie I did. I still did want to work with her but Zingbot was literally blowing up our whole spot. Goodness gracious! I did have to pivot and I did have to separate a little bit. You can see I didn’t spend as much time with her one-on-one. The conversations were very much different than they were in the beginning. I just wanted to do it to protect both of our games because I did want to take her to the end.
John Powell: Your story could very much turn into a redemption arc in the future. Would you come back and play again?
Cam Sullivan-Brown: I would play again. Big Brother is such a unique experience and me being able to have a second go at it I think I would do so well. The thing that I would do different, oh, it’s no secret. I would want to win some competitions. That’s basically it. I can have some power and have some moves that I can stand on and say that it was me being at HoH and me doing this and getting this person specifically out. I would love to play Big Brother again. I love this game. This game is so cool. This game is so unique and it tests you in so many different ways. I would love to come back.