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"Going off the strength of several competition wins and his membership in the Brigade alliance, Hayden easily secured his spot in Big Brother 12&amp;#039;s Top 3. After winning the final Head of Household competition, the 24-year-old earned the right to choose which contestant to take with him to the live finale and received enough votes to emerge victorious. We caught up with Hayden to discuss his experience.  How did it feel to hear your name called as the winner? &amp;quot;Amazing. Unbelievable. First of all, coming into the house I thought there was no chance that I was going to win. And then to have my name pulled and being told that I won, I didn&amp;#039;t stop to think. I jumped up, did a fist pump. I had no clue I was doing it, I just had this reaction. I was unbelievably excited.&amp;quot; After you won the final HoH competition, did you feel fairly certain that you could win the whole show? &amp;quot;You know what, I did think I was going to win. When I won the last HoH competition, my gut told me I was going to win but only because I thought that the jury, especially Brendon and Rachel, was going to base their judges on the competition. So I thought I had their vote, and I knew I had Kathy&amp;#039;s. I only needed one more, so I thought I was going to win. Obviously Brendon and Rachel changed their minds, but I still got lucky.&amp;quot; What made you choose Lane over Enzo to take into the final two? &amp;quot;Enzo and Lane are both awesome guys. I have nothing bad to say about either one of them. Lane and I have a little more in common and I thought Enzo was going to beat me if I took him to the final two. I thought I had a better chance against Lane. Enzo and Lane had both won only one competition but Enzo&amp;#039;s social game was a lot stronger. He&amp;#039;s hilarious. I thought the jury was going to base their votes on emotion and Enzo would have won hands down. Ragan and Britney both told me that if Enzo made the final two, they would vote for him.&amp;quot; The Brigade managed to stay largely intact throughout the competition. Do you think you could have made it as far without them? &amp;quot;I definitely wouldn&amp;#039;t have made it to the final three without the Brigade. Having three other people in the house that have your back was awesome. I loved being part of the team. Lane and Enzo being in the house made my summer. They&amp;#039;re great guys and are absolutely hilarious and having them there helped with the game and outside the game too.&amp;quot; How would you have played the game differently if the alliance didn&amp;#039;t exist, or if it had been broken up early in the series? &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know. I would have tried to play the same type of game. I would have tried to play everyone in the house, to make sure everyone liked me and stayed on good terms with them. I probably would have had to start winning competitions earlier than I did, but it&amp;#039;s hard to say what I would do differently when you&amp;#039;re in the house, you just do what you think is the right thing at the time. It&amp;#039;s tough to plan. But I was lucky enough that it worked out.&amp;quot; You won several HoH competitions as well as several PoVs. Do you feel that was blind luck, or did you have an approach that guaranteed your success? &amp;quot;I feel like I&amp;#039;m a pretty well-rounded person. I&amp;#039;m not as dumb as I look, believe it or not! I know we look like a bunch of dodos in there and we did play the dodo card. I know that in terms of the game, I could hang with anyone. A lot of the competitions played to my favor, like the Christmas one, which I did well on. So it was a bit of both. A bit of blind luck and a lot of me being myself.&amp;quot; Was your strategy going into the house to form an alliance as quickly as possible that you felt could take you to the end? &amp;quot;Yeah, which is weird. I went into the house and my exact strategy was to go in and get with a couple of strong guys and have them on my side but I also wanted to form an alliance with a girl. So I had Kristen and I had the Brigade and it worked out just like I wanted it to. It was perfect.&amp;quot; Kristen seemed happy to see you during the live final. Is that a relationship that you feel interested in pursuing or was it strictly a showmance? &amp;quot;You know, I don&amp;#039;t know right now. I talked to her a bit last night. It was pretty crazy, I have to say. I didn&amp;#039;t get to spend much time with her, but I talked to her a little bit. I don&amp;#039;t know what&amp;#039;s going to happen, but we&amp;#039;ll see. I&amp;#039;ll be in touch with her, we&amp;#039;ll say that.&amp;quot; What did you think about Rachel and Brendon&amp;#039;s showmance? &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s no doubt in my mind that both of them would have made it further in the game if they weren&amp;#039;t in a showmance. They&amp;#039;re both smart people. I don&amp;#039;t know if they have a lot of common sense, but they were smart. They were great in competitions. But I saw that they were going to be together and that&amp;#039;s why I put them up in the first week. Turns out that they were the gruesome twosome but I&amp;#039;m glad I made them the target. It took the target off my back and the Brigade&amp;#039;s. It was just dumb on their part to go in and have a showmance and be open about it.&amp;quot; What was your favorite thing about the experience? &amp;quot;Just hanging out with the guys. Lane and Enzo are incredible. This summer, I was trying to find a job before I got here. I&amp;#039;m a college kid, I had to find a summer job and make a little bit of money. But then Big Brother happened. I had a great time in there, and the competitions were a blast.&amp;quot; What do you plan on doing with the money now that you&amp;#039;ve won? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m trying to figure out if this is a dream and what&amp;#039;s going on! I don&amp;#039;t know what&amp;#039;s going to happen next, I have no clue. I&amp;#039;m willing to do anything, really. I don&amp;#039;t know what&amp;#039;s going to come next for me. I&amp;#039;m just going to step back, take a deep breath and then dive head first into the opportunities that come my way.&amp;quot; Big Brother airs on CBS &amp;gt; Click here for our interview with Lane &amp;gt; Click here for our interview with Enzo "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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