‘Big Brother Canada 2’: Assorted quotes from Arlie Shaban on strategy, Neda regret
Now that the “Big Brother Canada” houseguests are in the jury, our coverage is going to shift a little bit when it comes to interviews. Slice and the producers are understandably concerned with how much exposure they give the contestants to the outside world, so there are internal Q&As being handed out right now via press release following each eviction.
Hopefully, we’ll have a chance to chat again with everyone after the season, but there’s still a ton of value in these releases. Take for instance Arlie Shaban. We’ve compiled some of his most interesting quotes from the release below, as he talks about slop strategy, wishing he had worked more with Neda, and some of the problems that contributed to his downfall.
On when was the turning point for him – “It definitely shifted gears when I exposed myself from sabotaging the First Five, when I had my coming out party and let everyone know that’s what I was doing, that’s when the heat really came on for me. If I hadn’t done that, there wouldn’t have been as much heat on me but that’s when I changed gears in the game. My whole game plan was exposed by that because I went in to the house like an unintelligent pushover. That was my strategy for the first half of the game and then as soon as I exposed myself and everyone could see that I wasn’t an unintelligent pushover, I had to step it in to the next gear. I had to change everything about my game, which I expected going in, that I would have to do that, I just never got a shot to start winning my way to the end. That was a strategy. You go in, do something crazy, expose yourself for not being what you said you were going to be and then you win your way to the end and I got blindsided out of the game.”
On who he regrets not working with – “In all honesty, I would have just aligned myself with Neda. I didn’t realize her game plan until a couple week in to the house and there was already so much separation between us, she already had Jon so close so I knew it was almost impossible to get in with her. I always knew that I was going to get her out before she had the chance to get me out and the fact that she got me out and the way she did it, hats off to her. I would have aligned myself with her if I could have.”
On how he would change handling slop – “I would change how I reacted to slop the second time around. I was still looking at it as a joke and I was letting it affect my body physically because I didn’t think I was in trouble in the game. I would have just consumed more slop so I could have competed better in the Veto that took me out of the game.”
On his worst moment in the game – “The worst moment was definitely when Jon back-doored me. That POV ceremony hit me like a ton of brick, I felt it in the air. That was just the worst moment ever, I didn’t think Jon would do it in a million years because I didn’t think it would help his game.”
We’ll have another one of these articles featuring Allison White soon, so be sure to check back for that. For now, click here to read some other “Big Brother Canada” updates, or here to get some further updates via our CarterMatt Newsletter.
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