Greta Romano

## Season History

**Greta Romano** is the runner-up of *Big Brother 2*.

For a majority of the game, Greta aligned with Bob Pancakes and soon formed The Parent Squad alliance. She is also remembered for her rampant emotions and her strong competitive gameplay in the second half. Considered one of the stronger players, Greta and her partner played an "under-the-radar" game in the beginning and let her relationships with the Backyard Crew and their affiliates to keep her safe. As the game progressed, Greta played the middle and the fact that she was not seen as a threat kept her from being targeted by her fellow houseguests. Starting on Week 8, she took on an aggressive style of gameplay; winning 3 HoH and 1 PoV competitions. She is running the game along with Bob for several weeks and also flipped and backstabbed on the Backyard Crew alliance by evicting primary targets Ashleigh Lyons and Bradley Hernandez.

However, Bob's erratic behavior soon questioned Greta's loyalty towards the latter. She ended up casting an eviction vote against him during the first half of the second Double Eviction. Following this, Greta caused major conflicts against Bob after he found out about the rogue vote by Jun Kim, causing their duo alliance disintegrated. She narrowly escaped two consecutive evictions after Heidi Conrad cast the sole votes to evict both Both and Jun separately on Week 12. After she won the final HOH, she chose to infamously evict Heidi and take Vivian Pinhosa with her to the Final Two, only to lose in a final unanimous Jury vote of 9–0.

Her decision to evict Heidi has been considered one of the worst moves ever by the viewers because they believe she could have easily won against Heidi. Most of the jurors have even admitted that Greta would have beaten Heidi.

## Biography

**Hometown:** Aviano, Pordenone, ITL
**Current city:** Boston, MA
**Occupation:** Stay-At-Home Mom
**Three adjectives that describe you:** Humble, loyal and emotional.
**Favorite activities:** I love taking my kids to do anything: zoo, museums, swimming, soccer lessons, etc. Because I’m an only child and my parents are older than the parents of my friends, I always wanted to have a family so I would not feel alone. Activities without my kids include running, knitting and reading.
**What do you think will be the most difficult part about living inside the Big Brother house?**
Being away from my family. While I love my husband dearly, I have never been away from my kids longer than one week.
**Do you have a strategy for winning the game?**
My strategy is to throw HOH in the beginning and have the strongest players vote each other out. However, I would try to win POV. It is always good to gain favors from people. As the strong players start to vote each other off, I would then do my best to win the HOHs.
**My life's motto is...**
You can live without it. It seems all good things and lost loves, you never really give them up, you just learn to live without it/them.
**What would you take into the house and why?**
My iPad – it has pictures and videos of my kids, my kindle for reading and knitting yarn & needles.
**Fun facts about yourself:**
* Leaving my family and moving to Boston was a huge accomplishment for me. I am from the East Coast of the United States, and living in Italy is very different. I felt guilty leaving my parents since I was an only child. I remember the day I drove away; my father started crying (the first time I ever saw him cry). I left all my family, friends and job for my husband. It was scary, but I am so glad I did it. I am so happy.

## Trivia

* Greta currently holds the record for the most weeks spent as a Have-Not in a single season with six (6).
* Greta is the second houseguest, following Sonny McCoy from *Big Brother 1*, to win 3 HOHs and make the Final 2.
* Greta is the first runner-up to receive no jury votes to win the game.