Bruce

**Bruce** is a houseguest on *Big Brother 2* and *Big Brother 22: Second Chances*.

In *BB2*, for the majority of the season he intentionally laid low and let the bigger personalities go after each other. This strategy proved fruitful for him as he remained unnominated until the Final Five. Alongside playing under-the-radar, he built moderate relationships in the house in order to be perceived as trustworthy and agreeable. By the time the jury stage began in Week 6, his closest ally was Tina, and he planned to take her to the end. In Week 8, he joined an uprising alliance with Ariel, Nina, and Patricia to oppose Tina's original alliance with Andy, Erika, Martha, and Solomon, and later used his only HOH in Week 9 to target social threat Andy. Following the near decimation of Tina's alliance, Bruce was eventually targeted by Nina and Solomon once they realized he stood a strong chance of winning due to his stellar gameplay. He survived the block in Week 11 under Tina's third HOH reign, but was nominated for the first time in Week 12 by Patricia. Solomon pushed for Nina and Patricia to evict Bruce over Tina, but the duo were more threatened by her and knew that the men would target each other going into the Final Four. Bruce was nominated a second time in Week 13 by Nina, but this time was the target to leave. He lost the crucial final POV to Nina, and was eventually evicted by Solomon's vote, becoming the eight member of the jury.

In *Second Chances*, by Cycle 7, the house was fully split in two. The two warring alliances were led by *BB17* alums and rivals Brielle and Finnegan, and they each had a significant number of support. Brielle aligned herself with Kimberely, Lacey, Simon, and Thomas while Finnegan rounded up Bryant, Garrison, and Joanna into his prior alliance with Amadeus and Bruce. Meanwhile, Blaineley, Choco, and Derek were purposely playing the middle. At the HOH competition, Kimberely won her first competition of the season. Since she was firmly on Brielle’s side in the saga of her vs. Finnegan, she planned to finally get rid of Finnegan; Kimberely didn’t trust him at all, and thought he was smarmy. She convened with her alliance, and they agreed to backdoor Finnegan. Bryant later came to Kimberely about his suspicion of Finnegan, and revealed how he we wanted him gone as well; this allowed him to join forces with Kimberely’s alliance despite aligning with Finnegan’s alliance in the last cycle. Floaters Blaineley, Choco, and Derek were also told of Kimberely’s backdoor plot, and they were content with it…to her face. They all preferred to keep Finnegan around as a bigger target in front of them. At the nomination ceremony, Kimberely nominated Finnegan’s loyal allies Amadeus and Bruce as pawns. Finnegan was surprised that he wasn't initially nominated, and vowed to keep his initial alliance intact with a hopeful POV win. At the following POV competition, Lacey won her first competition of the season. Despite Amadeus nominating her last cycle during his HOH reign, Lacey chose to save him from the block because she liked him more than Bruce. With that, the backdoor plan was set in motion as Finnegan was nominated in his place; Finnegan was far from surprised, and expected it. Going into the eviction, Kimberely and her alliance were still very gung-ho about getting rid of Finnegan. Finnegan’s allies meanwhile remained loyal to him, so that left Blaineley, Choco, and Derek as the swing votes. Both sides campaigned for the trio to join them, and in the end, they evicted Bruce in order to keep Finnegan around longer for their own benefit. Bruce was thus evicted in a close 6-5 vote, to the complete shock of those who kept him.

## Player History - *Big Brother 2*

### HOH History

 **Evicted**