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Big Brother Canada Exit Interview: Mitch Moffit

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Mitch Moffit, the 27-year-old YouTuber from Guelph, was the latest houseguest to be evicted from Big Brother Canada. 

We we able to catch up with Mitch following his eviction from Thursday (April 7) night’s episode to discuss Loveita confiding in Kelsey about their alliance, Kelsey’s return to the game and if he’ll influence other jury members.

So sad to see you go. You definitely gave viewers a good show on your way out. How much of a shock was your eviction to you? Did you think you had convinced everyone to vote out Joel?

It wasn’t a huge shock. I knew that I was fighting an uphill battle and Joel kind of had the upper hand going into that round. Right down to the last minute, I knew he had that upper hand. But there was always hope. I knew that Cassandra and Tim could maybe flip. I had never really given up until the last minute. I knew I had that last speech in me and I knew that when Maddy was up on the block, her speech influenced Tim’s final decision. I thought maybe even with Raul, there could have been some factors where he would have decided to keep me at the end of the day. It wasn’t the ultimate shock for me, I was prepared for all outcomes… Which is the way I played the game. You try to prepare for multiple scenarios, so my brain was ready to stay and if I was staying, I was going to play hard. If I was going, that was the game and I was ready to go.

Do you understand at all what Loveita’s strategy was?! Do you blame her for ruining your chances?

I can’t say that I understand it just yet. I’m sure we’ll have a chance to chat and I’ll watch some of the feeds of what happened. I don’t have full context on it. I’m sure she did feel hurt that I had turned on her when it was her hour and only Joel stuck by her side. That might be something that burned me in the end. I won’t hold it against her. It’s a game. If I had felt that way, I might have done the same thing with whatever information I had. I don’t blame them for sharing information. It obviously was the perfect storm against my game that they were in that small sequester room. Twists are a part of this game and I love the game for that. I love the Canadian version of Big Brother for that. I can’t be bitter about it.

Why did the house vote Kelsey back?

I think that after talking about it, the initial gut reaction for Kelsey coming back was strong. A lot of people thought that Loveita was very intense in the game and she didn’t try very hard to make social connections. So Kelsey on a “living” level will make the house more at ease. I think that people would predict where Kelsey would go. She would go back to Jared and Raul. A lot of the people thought they would have a better relationship with that group. If Loveita came back, we didn’t know how she would play the game or where she’d go. Even myself, I had doubts about if she ever truly trusted me and now that I voted her out, could she ever trust me again? So, the house quickly decided that Kelsey would come back. I couldn’t be one of the only voices trying to keep her when my whole charade was trying to convince Jared and Raul that I was on their side, which I was, but I also had a hand in Kelsey leaving. It was a hard position to be in because I would have been in the minority, vouching for Loveita may have hurt my game just as badly.

Your role this season isn’t over. Do you have any idea how you will influence others in the jury house?

I’m sure we’ll have conversations but I’m not in the mind to have or to force someone in another way. We all have different voting criteria. Mine will be by who played the best game and why they made the moves they did. How did they actually influence the game? Versus did the game just actually fall into their lap? I’m sure I’ll have those conversations with other people as well. I have no emotional attachment to who will win this game, so I hope that I can share that unbiased opinion with everyone else in the jury house and give some perspective like “Sure, that person might have screwed you over but was that a good move? And if it was, then you should respect it. If it really wasn’t and that it was a truly dumb move, then we can hold it against them!”

You’ve told the house that if either Raul, Kelsey and Jared make it to the end, you’re voting for them. How true is that statement?

It is true but it’s not absolute. I want to make the point that they are playing a good game and if they are up somebody that I don’t think played a good game as them, I’m more than happy to give one of them my vote. At the end of the day, it was also a jab where people should get their butt in gear. I wanted them to go “Look, we just lost Mitch’s vote. We can’t bring them to the end now.” I want them to know that I’ll vote for the best player and if they are smart, they’ll get them out.

Do you think there’s any chance that the current houseguests can take the power away from these three or do you think it’s pretty much game over.

It’s definitely not game over, even if the odds are against them. We know this game goes week to week. It depends on who’s HOH. I am scared that if someone wins HOH and doesn’t put up that threesome. I’ll be severely disappointed because that threesome is so strong. It is a showmance that is three people! I know there is a showmance within it but Raul is just as tight with those two as they are with each other. I don’t think that they’ll turn on each other but that is yet to be seen. The game has a lot of time left for that to happen. I would be really disappointed if people didn’t take the opportunity to clear out at least one of that threesome rather than go out against their personal vendettas which the threesome have tried to set up. They’ve tried to set up the rest of the house against each other in order for people to trust the threesome. It’s the illusion that everyone is living, that they are on the side with the threesome. Everybody thinks that.

How much of a wildcard is Tim? Did you trust him? 

Tim was a massive wildcard coming into the game. I think that he’s one of the smarter players even if he is goofy. At first I was honestly scared of Tim being a really good player and knowing me before everyone else in the game. I was scared that he could see in me what I was maybe capable of while I was hiding my game from others. I had that fear that he knew what I was doing. So, in the early stages, I knew that he would have easily been a target for me but in the last couple of weeks, we had the chance to connect and bonded. It was in those moments where I learned more about him as a person and that brought me to a new level of understanding about and his game. He opened up to me about his fears and what he went through in his previous experience as well as what he’s hoping to get out of this experience. I truly believe that he’s on the fence of if he really wants to try hard to win or if he wants to give it up to someone else and help them win. In that sense, I still think that he’s a wildcard. I don’t think Tim knows what he wants or what he wants to do. That’s why even in my eviction, I didn’t know what Tim would do until the last minute because he is someone who goes off of instinct and does whatever he feels like. I think we have yet to see what Tim is capable of. We won’t ever be able to predict Tim. And that was hard for me, to not be able to predict someone. My whole game was predicated on being able to predict things and understand things based on logic. He followed none of those rules! He’s behaviour is difficult to pin down. That’s why he was always a scary threat to me.

Who did you trust the most? The least?

Prior to Kelsey coming back in, I definitely trust Raul the most. I think that trust was well placed. I think he equally had his trust placed in me. Had Kelsey not come back with that information or even if she had come back with that information, I think that he and I had created a bond that would have persisted and helped us through this game.

As for trust the least… That’s a hard one. Everyone knows that the brothers (Phil and Nick) are just telling people what they wanted to hear. They are always straddling the middle line until they had to make a decision. It’s not necessarily a lack of trust we had, it was just a lack of information on them that made it difficult to trust them.

Cassandra would also be someone who I didn’t trust because she was a little devious. I knew that she had gone against the house before.

As a Big Brother fan, what has been your most memorable experience in the game? (Or do you think it will happen in jury?)

I think that my week on the block was my most memorable experience. I had a lot of fun. It gave me the opportunity to change my game up. I knew going in that once I had fallen into this middle ground and was playing a couple of sides and was behind the scenes, I knew that it would eventually collapse on me. Anyone who is really well positioned in the house, at some point or another, someone is going to realize “How come that person doesn’t have any enemies? How come they are so well-positioned?” I had anticipated that, but not quite as soon as it did. My game changed a lot. It was exciting. When Loveita gave that information to Kelsey, I was able to make that switch and play the game in a way that I always wanted to, but just didn’t know when the right time would be.

So for me, it was a fun time. It’s a TV show and I wanted to have fun with it. I wanted a memorable experience and I would have kicked myself if I tried to play the game while being under the radar, as much as It was a part of my strategy in the initial days… I knew I wanted to switch it up. I wanted people to know that I can play on multiple different levels: under the radar game, over the radar game, working with everyone game and working with no one game. For me, it was about being adaptable and I’m glad I got the chance to showcase to myself that I was able to change it up.

Big Brother Canada airs Wednesdays at 9pm ET/PT, Thursdays at 8pm ET/PT and Sundays at 7pm ET/PT on Global. The Big Brother Canada Side Show airs Fridays at 10pm ET on Slice (and repeats Saturdays at 8pm ET/PT on Global). Big Brother Canada After Dark airs nightly from 3am to 6am ET on Slice. Episodes as well as the live feeds are available at BigBrotherCanada.ca

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