- Roy, who has been back home since the beginning of August when he was voted off the show after six weeks, said it's been strange to go from the anonymity of working overnight at the Stop & Shop in Fall River to being recognized locally wherever he goes after his stint on the show.
After being evicted from the “Big Brother” TV show house, life has hardly gone back to normal for Swansea resident Jason Roy.
The requests for interviews keep coming from near and far, especially from “Big Brother” fan podcasters, said Roy. There’s even been requests from the “Big Brother” Canada fan sites.
Roy, who has been back home since the beginning of August when he was voted off the show after six weeks, said it’s been strange to go from the anonymity of working overnight at the Stop & Shop in Fall River to being recognized locally wherever he goes after his stint on the show.
Going out locally has been strange, but it might be even odder for his group of female friends, “the girls,” as he calls them, who aren’t used to Roy’s fame as a “Big Brother” season 17 cast member.
The self-described “Big Brother” super fan, has now garnered plenty of his own fans who are following him on Twitter @TheJayRoy as he Tweets about episodes now from home. Of his team on the show, only two cast members remain: James Huling and Meg Maley. He’s rooting for one of them to win the season, but admits the odds are against it with so many members on the opposite team.
Roy, who has watched every season of “Big Brother,” which started when he was about 10 years old, said living day-to-day in the house was pretty boring. They couldn’t watch TV, read books, surf the web, or do anything that one would want to do hanging around the house. In a sense, it was like a vacation, albeit one with no access to the outside world and with cameras everywhere, even in the bathroom stalls. They also had to wear a microphone for the entire time.
“You just have to put it all out there,” said Roy. “You had to pull the covers up over you when you got dressed.”
And when it came to his New England accent, Roy “put it all out there” too, and in the process coined some of the season’s most memorable catch phrases: “Oh Mylanta” and “I’m Mortified,” both of which have become popular videos and memes circulating the internet.
Since returning home, Roy said he’s watched all of the season’s episodes and he’s surprised at how the expressions that he’s used with his friends for ages caught on. Another surprise, of course, was what made it into the television show from the constant filming.
“It was weird to see what made the cut,” he said. Though some of the funniest moments and most memorable for him, were those that didn’t get on the television show.
After spending hour upon hour talking to each other, it didn’t take long before the cast members got bored after arriving at the house in Los Angeles.
“It was pretty much like being locked in a parking lot with prison walls — that’s why it becomes so mentally draining. After only 10 days, everyone had told their stories and they were already bored with each other,” said Roy.
As a popular cast member, Roy could still potentially win the fan-favorite prize of $25,000, but he said he doesn’t think he will. “In a way, I’d rather see someone who’s still there win it — they’ve put in more time than I have,” he said.
The season will wrap up on Sept. 23, and Roy will be returning to Los Angeles for the week leading up to the season finale show. Though he went on the show as a super fan, and not with the idea of making a career in the entertainment field, Roy said he enjoyed it and would welcome other opportunities such as being selected for CBS’s reality show “The Amazing Race,” which has had other “Big Brother” cast members.
“I’m going to take whatever comes along — open to anything,” said Roy.
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