“I Got Thrown a Couple Curveballs I Didn’t Expect” – An Interview with Big Brother 8’s Kail

Kail went through a roller coaster of emotions in the house – from being the first HOH with a solid alliance to being nominated three times in a row and having essentially nobody. What was her strategy? What did she think of Dick and Daniele? What did she learn about homosexuals? And what question did RealityNewsOnline answer for her that she didn’t know about? Read on for this and much more!


Kail definitely had an up-and-down game. As you’ll see when you read this interview, she didn’t know she was going, but she’s not really upset about it either. Kail’s sense of humor is still definitely intact, as is her overall sense of herself.

RealityNewsOnline: What was your strategy coming into the game and how did it change once you got to the house?
Kail: My strategy was I was going to try to align with all the girls. I looked around and they were all so young, I was like, “That’s not going to work.” Then I was open minded to whatever happened.
I got thrown a couple curveballs I didn’t expect, like I didn’t expect anybody to approach me with and alliance. And Zach just came up to me wanting an alliance, hounding me. When I realized he was relentless, I went to Mike so it wouldn’t be a two-person alliance, it would be three-person. Zach added Nick, so it ended up four.

RNO: Creating the Mrs. Robinson alliance seemed like a good idea – at least as we were watching – did you have a backup plan in case the alliance fell apart (as it did)?
Kail: No, I did not think I would need a backup plan. I’m the type of person who is pretty much loyal to the end. So I didn’t think I needed one. Nick was the first to stray. I started to get suspicious of that quite soon. I kept telling Mike and Mike wouldn’t make a move. I had no way to communicate with Nick. The darned girlfriend got in the way!

RNO: Very early in the game, it looked like you were a power player in a good position. What happened to turn things upside down such that your alliance broke down and you ended up a target for both game purposes and Dick’s relentless personal attacks?
Kail: That was Dick – he was relentless. Why he chose me from the very beginning, I’ll never know. But he picked me from the beginning and he just took positive attributes from my personality and dragged them through the mud. I kind of didn’t get over that hurdle ever. He did so much damage in the very beginning days.

RNO: What is your opinion of Dick and the way he has acted?
Kail: He’s trying to say this is all strategy, and I just go back to: This is the real Dick. You cannot live with someone for five weeks, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and be a fake. You might get away with that for a little while. That’s really him. He can try to play it off as strategy, but I didn’t think so. I think that answers a lot of questions about why there was a rift between him and his daughter.

RNO: Speaking of which, what do you think of the relationship between Dick and Daniele?
Kail: I don’t know why I have such a soft spot in my heart for Daniele, but I do. It saddens me tremendously to see things in her life – she’s a survivor and I don’t even think she knows it.
She’s very strong from all she’s been through. She’s beautiful, she makes me laugh, she has high morals. She’s just a wonderful girl. It saddens me, that whole relationship. Dick is trying to say it’s not that bad. But I’ve talked to Daniele. There’s reasons for [them not talking]; that doesn’t just happen.

RNO: Why did you accept Daniele’s deal and let her have immunity, especially given that the HOH can’t really promise somebody won’t be evicted once they’re nominated, as you just found out?
Kail: Basically, I don’t know if anyone could tell, but I had nothing left. It was either a lose-lose situation – lose the competition and no deals – or lose the competition and try to win some kind of deal. I just took what I could get. I was going to drop anyway. I was done, I was wiped out.

RNO: Why hasn’t anybody apparently stood up to Dick and given back to him as good as he gives out?
Kail: Because in the very beginning, no one was at the end of his wrath but Jen and K. So they were like hey, let him go after them, he’s not going after us. Once he started to bother them, they got upset. Now they’re starting to care.

RNO: But why hasn’t anyone stood up to him?
Kail: I think because they say they have the backbone to do it, but we’ll see if Jessica really does. She may now because she has the whole house backing her up. Prior to this, why [bother] when Jen and Kail are the barrier? You might as well let them play out the game and sit back and watch. Dick and us finally caught on to that in week five, but it was too little too late to catch on to them sitting back and coasting.

RNO: Did you know you were going home this time, or were you as surprised as Dick, Daniele, and Jen?
Kail: I was surprised, but I did have a gut feeling. This is so weird, I told my mom [before coming on the show] if I was to go, I want to go home on week five if I can’t go to the end because I didn’t want to go in the sequester house. Call it an answer to prayer. I don’t know – that was one of my prayers, if I can’t make it to the final four or two, I wanted to go home this week. Wednesday I thought I was staying and things turned on me. Of course I’m very disappointed. But on the other hand, it’s very positive too. Can you imagine being in the sequester house with Dick and Amber?! (laughs) That would be a nightmare!

RNO: Do you have any idea how Eric turned the vote around?
Kail: I do not! I don’t know who it was. I though I was guaranteed my four votes. There’s one person who I don’t know. I can’t wait to find out. I think I’ll find out after all my interviews.

RNO: (After checking with CBS to make sure it’s okay to tell Kail.) You received votes from Dick, Zach, and Jen.
Kail: So it was Dustin! He’s going to be in huge trouble with Amber unless he told her to. He will be in huge trouble with Amber unless she’s on board with that. I don’t think she would be.
He lied to me. Dustin told me all the time he was my fourth vote, clear up to the live show. That will not go over well with Amber. So if she wasn’t on board for that, he’s going to lose her as a friend. Don’t get me wrong, not because Amber has any good feelings toward me – it’s because he lied. Unless she was for that. There could be trouble brewing there.

RNO: What do you think about the America’s player twist?
Kail: I love it! That is so creative and I’m so happy for the viewers to be able to participate. Oh my gosh – no one has an idea. He is doing such a good job. I was floored!

RNO: In his goodbye video, Dustin hoped you’d learned something about homosexuals. Viewers have seen a number of your comments on that topic – what do you feel you’ve learned?
Kail: If you’re asking if I’ve changed my opinion, no. I thought I only made one comment.

RNO: You talked about how you wouldn’t be happy if your children made that choice. After seeing Dustin’s pictures, you said it was obvious that his parents were okay with his choice. And you talked about how you wouldn’t know a gay person unless he was wearing full makeup.
Kail: I don’t know. Did it ever come across how close Dustin and I really were? I cried on his shoulder more than one time. We hugged each other every day. He made my coffee for me every morning. I was the only person who voted for Joe to stay in the house. I want to look at people’s hearts and not their actions. Dustin has a great heart and that’s what I look at.

RNO: Is there anything else you want to tell us about your time in the Big Brother house?
Kail: I auditioned since Season 5 and never took a week in the house for granted. I felt very blessed for as many weeks as I had. I didn’t realize how homesick I was going to be, and I was mad at myself for being so homesick because it was something I’d wanted for years. I wasn’t expecting that.

RNO: Thanks, Kail!

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