‘Big Brother 26’s’ Makensy on Chelsie’s jury answers: ‘I should’ve thought about my game a lot more and how to drag her’
Did Makensy Manbeck make a $750,000 mistake on the “Big Brother 26” finale? The 22-year-old and Season 26 comp beast won the final HOH and chose to take Chelsie, who had masterfully manipulated Makensy to make moves on her behalf, to the final two over Cam, who had a paltry resume, on Sunday. Chelsie crushed the jury Q&A and her final speech and won with a unanimous 7-0 vote, but Makensy still has no regrets.
“None. None whatsoever,” she tells Gold Derby (watch above). “I played the game I wanted to play and taking her, to me, was a testament to that. And I’m OK taking second to an amazing player.”
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Despite entertaining Cam’s pitches and being the easier person to beat, Makensy never seriously considered taking him. “Did I know the weight of what taking Cam would be considered comparative to Chelsie? Yes,” she says. “I knew that maybe I could outtalk his game a little bit more, but she was another reason I was able to stay in the house as long as I was. Whether that be it to beat me in the final two or not, it’s a testament to her game that I was easily manipulated, it doesn’t matter because in my heart, I know that she also would not have been there without me.”
SEE ‘Big Brother 26’ winner Chelsie reveals when she realized she could manipulate Makensy
Makensy knew things were getting away from her during the jury Q&A when Chelsie did not hold back in her answers. After Makensy said taking Leah out was her biggest solo move, Chelsie said she persuaded Makensy to do that and she also revealed to Angela that Makensy did not like her and wanted to get her out.
“During that whole portion, I was like, ‘Dang, I should’ve thought about my game a lot more and how to drag her,'” Makensy recalls. “Because I didn’t think about that at all. Maybe that’s, again, just too much to myself — I am not one to drag another person, I am not one to try and manipulate people to think a certain way or to see my game for what it is. Because my game was winning and it spoke for itself in a lot of ways and I didn’t need to talk about others or say things that I didn’t want to say to try and win. And maybe that lost me first place, but, again, I wanted to go out of this house admiring and respecting myself and how I held myself. And props to her for being able to do that and being able to convey her game in a way that made me look bad as a player. But that’s what you’re supposed to do and that’s some people’s way of winning, and that is a testament to how she played and the player she was.”
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