Mike - Big Brother 2

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Results: Evicted Age: 30 Status: Single Job: Bar Owner Home Town: Los Angelese, CA

Voting History

Big Brother 2 Parting Interview

You said that you went into the house to party and have a good time, is that how you feel you spent you time?

I think it started out like that - I think the first couple of weeks were like that - then some of the fun people got either evicted, or expelled from the show - ie; Justin and Sherrie. It turned more about fighting, strategy and survival - and unfortunately a lot of the fun got sucked out of the show as you can probably see from some of my behavior and arguments and disagreements and so fourth ….. Overall I had a good time but the fun for me was the first week of June.

Were there many significant events in the house that triggered you anger?

You know, I just feel there were two defining incidents, or moments, and the first one was with Autumn, the lies, and the way she was spinning the perception of me in the house hold. Then also with Kent who double crossed me and subsequently put me up for nomination and actual eviction.

I think that I portrayed that a lot and more so at the beginning of the show because I was sort of the leader and catalyst for a lot of the fun games and jumping in the Jacuzzie and going crazy and doing a lot of the fun things. And definitely when ever we did group activities I was definitely a leader that people looked to too make it fun and lighten up the atmosphere in the house hold - but the way that it turned with Kent later on in the show I felt that people didn't really look to me that much. And the people who chose to, Chris, Will, Shannon - I felt though people enjoyed my personality but I think others looked at it as a threat.

How do you think you will be remembered inside the house?
I think I'll be remembered as the rapping party boy - the guy who tried to make it fun. And you know other things but I think I was who I was and I definitely did less of putting up a fake image as others did. But I would definitely say the rapping party boy who tried to make it fun.

Would you say that you were aware of the entertainment value of the show or were you caught up in the game?
To be honest for me it was both. You are cut off from the outside world so you don't know the viewership and you don't how it's being received. But I did feel that we had a really interesting group - and we had some fun contests and I came up with some stuff on my own. I knew the personalities were there for it to be a hit and I knew I could be a leader amongst that group of people - but standing out doesn't necessarily leave you in that game and that's why I'm standing out here right now and people like Monica and Bunky and people like that are still in the house.

What is it like to be nominated?
It's hard for the nominees because you're walking around and one of you is going to stay, and that's a threat to the head of household - so you have a weird vibe there, and then one of you is going to go, and you're going leave these people that you've have gone through so much with - its 33 days on paper but it's a lifetime and when you're living it you form intense emotional bonds with these people be it good or bad and to have to say goodbye to that and go back to your real life which is very different than your life in the big brother house - its a daunting thing, it's a scary, very scary, proposition.

When you said, "you are all going to turn on each other in the end", were you hoping that would rattle some reality into the others?
I really wanted something profound to say to them when I was evicted …. but all I could come up with was - it was a very nice way of saying - one person isn't going to feel like this - one - and you all think it's going be you - so think about that. And it also was sort of my own sense of closure for me and that everyone acted as if they were better than the next person and they weren't engaging in activities in order to promote themselves. In reality that's what everyone was there doing and I wanted to let everyone know I knew what was up - and to wish them luck. Because in the end we were 12 people who went into this together and we wanted to care about each other and all that - it's just the way its set up - it can't work out like that.

You had a rap prepared for everyone's departure except your own, why?
Big Brother told me one time that there's a time to rap and sometime there's not - and it wasn't the right time. I thought for sure that's how I'd go out - but getting close to Krista the last week was too tough on me emotionally and I felt that I wanted to just have a proper good bye with her and Will - the two people that meant the most to me in the house and the two people who did to me right in the house. I had a few words for the group but I wanted to leave the same way I came in - with the same smile and Krista on piggyback and Will by my side and I was very happy. I could have done a fun rap but I think it would have enlighten the gravity of the moment and I wanted to just take it in and not take anything away from my goodbye to Krista because that was the most important to me.

Did you learn any life lessons?
I learned a couple things … I learned we are winners for being there. There are millions of people watching the show and thousands that submitted tapes and it got narrowed down … and we had to go through so much just to be there that it would have been nice to enjoy it as the dirty dozen for a little longer and be the group and just celebrated what we accomplished. I think I maybe learned to not have such high expectations of myself and not to judge people too quickly. Krista is someone that I wouldn't meet in my everyday life and I would have maybe judged her a little too quickly- but we were both able to be a part of this and I got to be close with someone that maybe otherwise I wouldn't have.

What is the hardest part of the game?
The hardest part of the game is the unknown - you just don't know. You have people you're interacting with and you have people you think you can trust and u feel you can confide and you're getting close to but everyone has their own agenda and its tough to remember that because you're looking to people to lean on and get through the tough times emotionally.

Tell us about "Too Hype."
It started off as a joke - Will and I were looking for something to fill the time. So we started to come up with some fun lyrics and we putting out a roller-skating rap to Krista's daughter and Hardy saw us rehearsing the dance moves and he got really jealous and just couldn't stay away so he begged us to be apart of 'Too Hype' so we let Hardy come in and we did a big brother 2 making of the video for 'Too Hype' and we cast everyone as dances in the background for the video.

Give us your final words/rap.
Four three two one it's done - Big Brother 2 Mike Boogie boo up the spot the summer two thousand and one - peace!