[Jason.]

9. Clay Honeycutt



(what does this even mean?)

Clay is probably the biggest surprise of the season for me actually. Like everybody knows I'm not a fan of the straight white male archetype when it comes to Big Brother (most all of whom are cast solely because of their looks without a sliver of personality/entertainment to offer whatsoever). But I felt Clay actually played a role in why the pre-jury of this season was amazing and for an alpha male character, he was quite harmless really and he's one of the better males this season especially when compared to likes of John, Jace, Austin and Jeff.

Clay's major storyline in the house pretty much consisted of being one half of power couple Clelli but unlike your usual showmances which are either excruciatingly dull or highly obnoxious - Clelli were neither. I actually grew to like Clelli in the end, despite them picking off two of my early favourites. I admired the fact that Clay fell on the sword for Shelli when they were up against each other and in doing so meant that Shelli made it to jury because he was bascially Shelli's beta and Shelli was by far the superior half of the duo and if you think about it, she basically carried him in the game anyway with her two HoH reigns so the least he could do was give up his place for her when they were both pitted against each other and he did so I thank for him that. <33

Another thing I liked about Clay was his frenemy relationship with Audrey, which was mostly concealed from the main show (I really don't know why) until I stumbled across a 15-minute clip of their funny moments on YT which put a lot of things into perspective but it was also really sweet and endearing at the same time. Their feud during the week Audrey was evicted had me in stitches and we even got this as a result:

Audrey: -lying to Clay's face about asking him if Shelli was going to backdoor her- "Those weren't my words"
Clay: " THOSE WEREN'T YOUR WORDS?!"

*flashback clip of Audrey asking Clay to swear that Shelli isn't going to put her up as a replacement*

Audrey: "I know how it happened. I remember everything. I can't do anything if you perceived it a different way"
Clay: ... For you to say I never said that, that makes me even more pissed off because I know what you said word-for-word
Audrey: I swear on my life...
Clay:

However, Clay does have his flaws hence why he's widely disliked on here (ofc he is it's TiBB lmao) but I can see why people would dislike him tbf. He's pretty much responsible for orchestrating the demise of Da'Vonne when she clocked and shut him down into a stuttering mess. Anyway outside of the whole Da'Vonne feud (which was really entertaining and he played a part in it even if it was for all the wrong reasons but I still low-key appreciate that) he was generally self-entitled and quite smug for someone who didn't even win HoH once (ik comps aren't everything but when you're trying to dictate who Shelli should target during her two HoH reigns - if anything, Shelli should be the one telling him what to do). He was also a dick towards James after he got nominated. I've also heard that he apparently made some racist comments in the house or something? but tbh if I was going to judge all BBUS HGs as human beings then I'd pretty much hate almost all of them so there's no point in getting worked up over some problematic comments on a show like BBUS (unless it's BB15 ofc).

But overall, he was a major contributing factor as to why the pre-jury weeks of this season were so fun whether you like him or not and he wasn't all that unlikable for someone of his archetype and he had a pretty satisfying story-arc I thought. Plus that montage of him mumbling never fails to amuse me.