Jimmy Heagerty

To start, tell us a little bit about yourself

Give us your name, where you're from, and what you do. Hi, I'm Jimmy

I'm from Washington, D.C., and I'm a strategy consultant. What's your reaction to getting to play Big Brother

This feels incredible, all right? I've been on edge on my seat for like the last few months at this point

Well, I guess month and a half. But it's incredible. I mean, like, if you had told me a year ago today when I was celebrating the 4th of July

in Idaho that I'd be now sitting in the Big Brother diary room talking to you, I would

be, I would tell you, there's no way that was the case

And right. And especially like younger me, Jimmy, who was watching BB 16, 10 years ago, shortly

after, after coming out and shortly after having my, my parents lose our house

Like if you had told me flash forward 10 years, the 25th anniversary of the show, I'd be sitting

right here. I wouldn't have believed you. And I am so excited to be here

It's insane. and I'm ready for this summer of twists and turns. I can't wait to see what's ahead in store for us

Why will you win Big Brother? I'm gonna win Big Brother because I have a strategy background

professionally and personally. I come from a world where manipulation and understanding who you wanna get something from

and when you wanna get it is key. And I come into the house

with a strong amount of self-awareness. I know what I need to say

I know who I need to say it to and I know exactly what I need to do to win. I'm ready to put my chips

on the board. I'm ready to show my cards and I'm just ready to play and ready to play to win

I'm not here for the experience, okay? Some people come into the Big Brother house for the experience

but I am here to win because that $750,000 check is going to have my name on it

I know I'm going to win Big Brother. First, I've been manifesting it for weeks now, all right? I've

been seeing myself walk out of that onto that stage, seeing Julie Chen for some reason

the confetti is purple to me. So I've been seeing that. I'm excited for everybody else to see it too

but I have the smarts. I have the social game and I know what it takes to win competitions and when

you need to win competitions. I know how to play people and I know how to manipulate them. But at

the end of the day, I also know how to build relationships with and create friends. I know

how to work a house and a group of people in a way that strategically matches the goal that I'm

trying to achieve, which in this case is winning big brother. So I'm going to lean into that social

game. I'm going to play with my competition and strategy smarts. And I'm also going to make

friends along the way and walk out of that house collecting a check of All right Tell us a little bit about your life in the outside world and how that has prepared you for Big Brother Outside of the game I Jimmy

I work, I play tennis, I hang out with my animals and my long-term boyfriend, Sean

and I have a lot of really close and tight-knit friends. I've moved around a little bit

I went from Florida to a college where I knew nobody and built a whole network from there

And then after college, I did it all again in a whole new city, built a whole new network

and a whole new group of friends. And through that process, you find a lot of confidence in yourself

You really understand who you are, what you want to put out into the world, and then what

you want to get from the world too. And I think that breeds a level of insight and maturity that somebody at 25 actually

has that I think is really cool. And so into the house, I bring my smarts

I bring my life experiences and I bring this unabashed confidence and understanding of who

I am and what I want to put out into the world and what I want to receive from it

Why will you be the player to watch this season? Listen, I'm going to be the one to watch this summer because I'm going to give y'all strategy

I'm going to give y'all gameplay. I'm going to give y'all personality if you couldn't tell

I'm going to give y'all interesting television, all right? Because that's what we're here for

We're here to play a game. We're here to make friends and we're here to make good TV

What are your biggest strengths? Yeah, I mean, going into the game, I have a strong strategic background, again, both

personally and professionally, and I'm really ready to see that exercised in the house and

in the game. I'm also really resilient. I think that's really important in the game as well, whether it's a competition where

you're behind and have to catch up a little bit, or maybe you're thrown up on the block

and back in a blind side, and you really have to lean in and use last minute time to talk

people into letting you stay or getting them to vote maybe a way that they didn't expect to

And I think not giving up, fighting for every point, something that I'm really used to doing, is going to serve me really well in the Big Brother house

And I'm also a triplet. So I know how to stick out amongst a crowd and I know how to play that to my advantage

Know when I have to lean in and know when I have to lean out in the key moments. And I really think that's going to work to my advantage in the house

What are your biggest weaknesses? Gosh, I think I'm really trusting. I think that's going to be a weakness of mine

once I really latch onto people and feel like I have a good connection, I feel like I'd be

vulnerable to a blind side. So I definitely think that's a weakness I'm looking forward to, or maybe

not so much. And I also think a weakness I have is maybe I won't think I need to win a competition

because I don't want to show how strong or how smart I am, but maybe it was the right time to

win that competition So those are the two things I kind of weary about is that I over and maybe in a way that leads to me not winning a competition that that I might need to win because I don feel like I have to win it at the time Do you plan on keeping any secrets about yourself from the other house guests

Absolutely. You think I'm going to walk in this house and tell everybody I have a professional strategy background or that I'm from Washington DC, especially right now. No, I am a tennis coach

and I am from Bradenton, Florida. All right. I don't need people worrying about my professional background. I don't need people worrying about where I'm from. I want them to focus on this

personality and I want them to focus on how fun I am. I want them to focus on the fact that I'm a

triplet, but I 100% will not be telling anybody what I do for work or where I work

Will you be more of a hero or a villain in the house

I'm definitely more of a villain, but see, when I say that, most people actually tell me I'm more

of a hero. So I think it could go either way. In my mind, I'm more of a villain. When it comes to

snap too. I really do. And I also think I, I tell it how it is and I'm kind of a, sorry

I don't know if I can say, but I kind of am. So I also read it down very consistently. So I think

I'll definitely lean more towards the villain side. But again, a lot of people tell me I'm

good natured and a lot nicer than I think I am. So who knows? Maybe I could be a hero

maybe a villain who's a hero. Does that work? How will you crush your enemies

I'm gonna crush my enemies by being their friend. I think there's something so interesting

about being a frenemy with somebody and then turning around and putting them on the block

You know what I mean? And then sitting there in front of the entire house telling them exactly what I think of them

So I think that is a really good way to shut somebody up. Also, like a few reads here and there definitely

definitely help, but I'm always ready to put somebody in their place. I'm the youngest of three

and I've always had to fight for my own and I'm ready to do that in the Big Brother house. What are you bringing to the show that nobody has seen before

Well, you guys have never had a triplet on, so that's new. I also think I'm going to bring like a unique and interesting energy

I don't really give a shit what people think about me. And I think that's going to bode well for me in the house and with America

I'm also not afraid to run right up to an edge and just jump right off and see where it goes

And I think that's a unique twist that especially maybe the more modern seasons

some people have been I've been afraid of. But again, I bring a level of strategic knowledge, ingenuity, and also a level of happiness and energy kind of all wrapped up into a cute little gift basket, if I do say so myself

What's your fan level with Big Brother? Yeah, I would say I'm a solid fan

I've seen most Big Brother seasons, not all of them. I started watching with my mom primarily around like earlier Big Brother seasons around BB10

And then I've just watched since then. So I seen a lot of the show I wouldn consider myself a super fan but I definitely a big fan of the show and definitely understand how the ins and outs of the show work the unique characters that exist and really how to play a solid game that you really want to do to win right

Not showing all your cards at once, but moving strategically through the game. What's your strategy going into the game

Yeah, so going into the house, I want to be a part of a bigger alliance right away, right

I don't want to form the alliance. I want to be in situations where the alliance comes to me

because the last thing you want to do is everybody finds out you're trying to form some bigger alliance, right

Then within that bigger alliance, that's usually around six to eight people

I want to form a couple different threesomes. I want to find one, two, maybe even three different groups of three

I said group of eight, maybe a group of nine. All right. So I want to find those threesomes within the larger group

And within that, I want to find a ride or die and what I call a good D. D.Va's too long

D.Va's just right. And through that, I want to make a few final twos and a few final threes

That way you have an alliance within an alliance. The bigger alliances, they always break up

They always implode a few weeks into the competition. So you need to have those smaller alliances together so that when the bigger alliance

breaks up, you have something to latch on to. Then from there, you figure out who your competition is

You figure out who's running the other side of the house, who the masterminds are, and

you eliminate them. You get them out right away. You don't want to be like Cody in BB-16 when he had the opportunity to send Derek home

and didn't, all right? I'm going to be the one who's going to send my competition home when given the opportunity

and when I have all the power, all right? So my strategy going in is to build that bigger alliance, build smaller alliances within that

alliance, and have a few final threes and final twos that I can really lean into when the time is

right. And at the end, you want to take somebody to final two that you know you can beat. You don't

want to pull a Chelsea and Mackenzie all over again. When Mackenzie should have taken Cam with

her, come on, she would have beaten him, all right? I'm not taking a Chelsea with me to the final. I'm taking somebody I can beat, and that's how I'm going to win BB27

happen. What makes Big Brother such a successful show after 25 years? Big Brother has been such a

success because every season there's something a little different. There's a new twist, there's a

new turn, and the houseguests always have a willingness to adapt to what's coming. And the

houseguests are always different every season. There's always a different crop of people with interesting personalities. And I think that brings America coming back to see what's in store

right but there is a framework right it's literally like a box of chocolates you open the box and you

know there's chocolate in it but you don't know if there's a macadamia nut inside you don't know

if there's peanut butter inside right and it's always a welcome surprise so i think big brother

has been successful for so long because there's a formula and a lot of variables within that formula

that keeps the show interesting and keeps people coming back and hell this season they get to see

me on the screen all right so that's that's even better for them to come back 25 more years after this