TJ

**TJ** (tjdawgiestyle) placed 4th in Big Brother Season 2.

Starting the premiere middling, TJ would state that he was biding his time attempting an UTR game before swinging big later in the game. He is remembered for lying randomly that he was 40 years old at premiere night without reason. In Week 2, Tara would win HOH and set her sights firmly on TJ as her target. Nominated for eviction, TJ would feel fairly safe despite being the probable evictee of the two nominees. When Ness won the veto, TJ’s game was saved as Tara would ultimately renominate Cam in his place. Cam would have been evicted this week anyway, but instead quit the game and in turn saved TJ from the block. In Week 3, TJ was paired with Anthony in the Team Twist. In Week 4, TJ would become the replacement nominee after Motha Vanity voted himself, but was intended to be the pawn. He would be nominated due to being seen as the weakest and most expendable of the actually active players, a sentiment he seemed to clock upon nomination. In Week 5, TJ would be immune by proxy when his partner Ness won Head of Household. In Week 7, he would be a part of the Backyard group during the detour. He was immediately dejected at who he was paired with, feeling as though he was an obvious boot and calling himself 10th place from the moment the twist started. He would be named the renominee this week, but survive despite an impassioned plea from Denim that TJ did not even want to be in the game. In Week 8, TJ would seem to play with renewed vigor, sensing a path to a victory against some of the weaker players in the game as well as sensing the potential for a bitter jury win at the F2. He would exhibit noticeably good reads this week, notably anticipating and lightly warning Kyle that nominating Anthony is extremely short sighted if Denim is his target, given how many people just had a blowout fight with him. Despite this, he would still vote to evict Denim this week, hoping that Anthony would stay and that Kyle’s immense faith in his allies would not be betrayed. He was not surprised at all when Anthony would be evicted, having warned Chris and Kyle that this was a very likely scenario. TJ would secure safety in Week 9 for his transparency with Denim despite voting to evict him. His sort of erratic gameplay leaving many “annoying” voice messages to players would rub some the wrong way, but for HOH Denim it secured him potential allegiance due to Denim finding his flip flopping nature an asset to his own future in the game. TJ, along with the others, would seem to clock Austin as the prime target to prevent from making the end game this week onward. In Week 10, TJ would win his first competition of the season with the HOH endurance, scoring double the next highest time. His target for the week would be Austin, with backup targets consisting of Dee and Motha Vanity due to accurately sniffing out their Final 3 alliance. This would be a successful HOH for him, as he would send his target home. In Week 12, TJ would make a F2 deal with Denim to “stay off the block” despite knowing full well Denim did not have that power, and likely betraying him should he win HOH at the F3 anyway. His worry about this would come to fruition, when Dee won the veto. Dee would reportedly not talk much at all to either nominee, leaving TJ feeling anything but secure with his position and pitches. In the end, for whatever reason, Dee chose to evict TJ from the house, making him the second to last juror. He is remembered for his game suddenly picking up steam toward the end after being considered a goat to many.