[Raph]

Matt's HOH message explains his relationship with Ragan:

"The side-alliances are a good segue into talking about my personal side-alliance, Ragan. Ragan is definitely one-of-a-kind. Stacy loves gay men, and before I left for the show she told me to be sure to make friends with “the gay guy” in the house. I told her I didn’t want to because they typically just hang out with all girls so that is horrible strategy to get involved with. Well, it turns out that (much to the delight of my wife, I’m guessing) “the gay guy” has inadvertently become my absolute closest friend in the house. He’s really the only person that I feel any guilt about in regards to the lie about Stacy or even the lies that involve The Brigade. I know that he thinks we’d have each other’s backs through to the Final Two, so it’s unfortunate that I have to play him the way that I am. I hope that he can watch the show and understand that I’m just being a great game player and that it’s nothing personal. But any connection you see between Ragan and myself is entirely genuine, and I can’t really say that about anyone else at this point in the game. I’m going to keep him here as long as I can without outing The Brigade because he’s a friend that I want to make sure that I have outside of this house for a very long time. We’ll see what happens!"

Matt and Ragan for Final 2!