The farmers go home and Cedric Hodges I learned that the hard way. The former Marine volunteered on the block at Quinn‘s deepfake HOH on “Big Brother 26,” which didn’t seem like a bad idea at the time, since they are part of an eight-member alliance, the Collective, and a sub-alliance, the Pentagon, and Cedric had two opportunities to gain security. But he lost them both, while Kimo And T´Korwhen they realized that they were at the bottom of the collective after Quinn told them about the Pentagon, she staged a vote reversal if Cedric stayed on the block with Rubin to the AI Arena. After a narrow victory by MakensyThey were the last two nominees and Cedric was eliminated by a vote of 6-3, which stunned the rest of the collective. The 21-year-old feels betrayed by T’Kor and Kimo, but bears no grudges.
“I feel betrayed just because I protected them and told them I would protect them,” Cedric tells Gold Derby (see above). “I feel betrayed, but I also understand her personal relationship (with Rubina). And after I heard that Kimo knew about the Pentagon, it kind of made sense to me.”
Cedric has no idea why Quinn would spill the beans about the Pentagon, but he’s not entirely shocked, considering Quinn is somehow allied with practically everyone in the house. And the Pentagon would do something about it in due time.
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“I think the Have Not alliance with Quinn and Kimo – they both feel like the underdogs of the very first alliance in the House and so they had a Final Two. And in turn, Quinn told Kimo, Kimo told T’Kor and that’s how it’s going to go. It’s crazy! There are so many, so many, so many variables,” he says. “If I was in Quinn’s position, I wouldn’t have told anyone, I would have rocked with the Pentagon until the final five and gone from there. I would also have, if I was in Quinn’s position, told the Pentagon about the power, but that, again, made us realize we couldn’t trust him. I’ll give you some tea. The Pentagon wanted to kick Quinn out in the first double eviction. It was going to go from a pentagon to a rectangle.”
While the rest of the collective was shocked by Cedric’s expulsion, they already knew it was a possibility – and not just because of T’Kor and Kimo’s close relationship with Rubina.
“Yesterday, in the lead-up to the live show, I found out that T’Kor and Kimo were trying to turn the house around to get Rubina instead of keeping me. So I had to campaign to people I didn’t think I would have to campaign to,” he says. “I had to really focus on getting a decisive vote because ultimately, if Joseph would have voted for me and I could have kept Leahthat’s five and I’m staying in the house. I tried to sit on it, but Leah was too scared to be back on the track after what happened week 1 with Frosted.”
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