Vince Panaro

To start, tell us a little bit about yourself

Give us your name, where you're from, and what you do. My name is Vince. I'm 34 years old

I was born and raised in Los Angeles, and I'm currently unemployed

What's your reaction to getting to play Big Brother? I am so excited. It hasn't hit me. It doesn't feel real yet

I am a massive fan of Big Brother. I've been watching since season 16

and I started watching the live feeds in season 18, and this all just doesn't feel real yet

I'm trying to keep my feet on planet Earth. I'm trying to keep my head out of the clouds

and I'm trying to take it in and just absorb all of this as much as I can

until it hits me that it's real. It feels surreal being a house guest on Big Brother this season

I, again, it hasn't really hit me yet. I know that no matter what strategy you have coming into this

it could go out the window immediately. So it just is excitement, anxiousness

I've just sweat through my deodorant thinking about it. I am just ready to go

I'm eager. I've been waiting a very long time for this opportunity. What's your strategy going into the game

I think my strategy coming into the Big Brother house is to compartmentalize this game

down into weekly mini games of Big Brother. I want to view every single individual week

as its own mini game of Big Brother. And all I need to do for those weeks

is survive it one at a time and slowly take one step at a time

You can't say you're going to win the World Series without winning enough games to get to the playoffs

So I have to win the individual days, individual conversations, weeks, whatever that may be

Take it one week at a time and adapt and wing it and then adapt, wing it, adapt

It's the wah-wah technique. You just wing, adapt, wing, adapt. That what I got to do Why will you win Big Brother I will be the one to win Big Brother because I think I naturally have the perfect formula of what it takes

I like to call myself a master of none. I'm not really the best at anything

but I'm pretty dang good at almost everything. So I don't think I'll be..

I mean, I clearly won't be a physical threat. I think I'll be social enough to be able to make the genuine connections

that is the foundation of strategizing. And I think I'm athletic enough

to compete with the best of them when I need to. And I think if you can do all of those cohesively

you'll be in good shape. What are your biggest strengths? I would say my strengths are having empathy

which is important in the Big Brother house. My communication skills. I think my self-awareness

I like to think I'm self-aware, which is a surprising amount of people, something that a surprising amount of people don't have

as much as they should, I'll say. And again, also in the Big Brother house, self-awareness is huge because you don't want

to be too obviously obnoxious or rubbing people the wrong way, especially early on

The first impressions are huge. So yeah, I think empathetic. I'm very competitive

I'm very, very much a one track mind person. If I set my mind to something, I'm going to go at it 120%

And yeah, hopefully all of those make for a pretty successful season

We'll see. What are your biggest weaknesses? I know I said one of my strengths was my self-awareness

So I'm going to do my best, but a weakness could be if I get too excited, if I get too riled up, maybe I might say the wrong thing

I'm going to try not to. I'm going to try to be mindful of that self-awareness and my competitiveness

I don't want to I'm not a poor sport, but I don't want to get too riled up if I'm if I'm not doing as well as I expect myself to do

Do you plan on keeping any secrets about yourself from the other house guests

I don't know if there's any secrets, because here's the thing. I don want to have any lie where I have to hold on to it for an entire three month period

Because I don't know if I'm going to forget. Like, I don't want to lie about my age, even though I look maybe a little younger than I am

I don't want to say I'm younger because then maybe we're talking about my high school graduation year and I say, oh, nine

And people are like, that doesn't make sense. That's pointless. I've thought about, should I not say I'm unemployed

Because they'll say, that's weird. Why would a 34 year old not be employed? Maybe he's a trust fund kid or maybe he's a, I don't know, already successful or something or he's lying about

I don't know. I've overthought anything. There's not going to be any secrets that I'm going to keep

How will you crush your enemies? I will crush my enemies before they crush me by having the self-awareness of reading people

I really think I am good at reading people. And I know a lot of people probably say that coming into the Big Brother house

But I really think I have a hyper awareness of how people are portraying themselves or how people are acting towards me

I think I'm hyper vigilant on those verbal and nonverbal cues of how their demeanor is

So I think I'm going to be able to figure out who might not be on my side

and then I will rally the troops to get rid of them before they get rid of me

And that is how I will crush my enemies. What are you bringing to the show that nobody has seen before

You'll never see anybody more genuine than Vince. That's who I am

That's something that I think I bring to the table. I am a genuine human being and I can't fake that

I think I have what it takes to win Big Brother because I just have the perfect formula

Again, it's who I am. It's just in my core. I have the social skills and the physical athleticism to compete with the best of them without ever actually looking like a massive threat

What makes Big Brother such a successful show after 25 years? So this is a huge season because Big Brother is celebrating their 25th anniversary And I think what makes Big Brother so unique and have such a loyal following is the uniqueness of it It one of

the longest reality competition shows, meaning it's three months rather than just a couple weeks

There's live feeds. It's on 24-7. So there's going to be something happening at all times where

you know, the fans of the show can watch and enjoy. There's a lot of unique elements to it

that just changing the themes each season, you know, keeping the beloved competitions

but adding in new competitions. It's always fresh. It's always new, but it also keeps true to who it

is at its core. And that is Big Brother. What's your strategy going into the game

My strategy for the Big Brother house, I don't even know what I'm doing on planet Earth

let alone know what I'm going to do in the Big Brother house. So that's where I have to wing it and I have to adapt

That's all I could do. Just got to do my best. Tell us a little bit about your life in the outside world and how that has prepared you

for Big Brother. I don't want to sound too lost in life because I should have I know I should have things figured

out by my 30s, but I don't really have a set long term career path that I've been

been like that I found that I've been so passionate about. So I've had a lot of different jobs

throughout my adult life. So I don't even like associate myself with like, I am a this or I

formerly works work long term or regularly as this. I'm trying to figure out what the next thing is

I do have a one of my hobbies is photography. And I would love to one day have a career in

maybe like sports photography or something along those lines. I think that would be a lot of fun

My main goal is I just want to have, I want to enjoy what I do

That's my biggest thing. I know what I don't want to do

I've had enough jobs to know what I don't want to do, but I'm just trying to narrow it down and land what I do want to do

So all in due time, I'm not comparing myself to others. I'm not going to stress myself out too hard