Show Notes
Seventeen years after Big Brother 11, Dr. Michele Noonan Ross joins the Memory Wall to look back on the season she won more competitions in than anyone else, and to "set the record straight on what I actually did after the house." The neuroscientist and drug-policy researcher walks through the casting call that found her — a Craigslist ad looking for "a nerdy girl for reality TV," answered from a postdoc job she had already quit — the job lie production outed on day one, and why a house that watched her take four competitions still decided she was, in Ronnie's words, "the worst human being he had ever met." Michele also revisits the Coup d'etat vote that sent Jesse home, the jury vote she would cast differently today, the sparkly devil horns she packed in her suitcase for her eviction speech, and her career since the show. Plus: why she "didn't throw a single comp," what seventeen years of rewatching changed about how she sees Natalie's game, and whether she would ever play again.
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