Mike's Bloggity Blog interview with Tom

Original Link: http://mikesbloggityblog.com/big-brother-canada-exit-interview-i-feel-like-i-got-dumped-by-twelve-people-at-once/

How are you feeling this morning?

I didn’t really sleep well last night. When I opened my eyes, I didn’t really know where I was and I felt like a bag of crap. I feel like I got dumped by twelve people at once.

Are you surprised by how personally you ended up taking the game?

Yeah, I really am. I told myself that I wasn’t going to take the game personally because I know it’s a game. But I played the game true to myself. Everything felt personal. When I was asking people for their word, I really meant it, I really was asking for their word and I did not get it in return.

In the last week, whose actions surprised you the most?

It really started with Emmett and his whole problem with Liza and I’s relationship. You know what, if he had just sucked it up like a man, we could have had a really strong alliance, but he had this huge hate on for Liza for some reason.  Also Alec and Peter, I could just feel something wasn’t right with them, I didn’t trust the other half of the Quatro Alliance, but I was going to stay loyal to it.

When did you first get a sense that something was off?

It really happened with Peter. When I was trying to tell him to save Liza, I felt like I was talking to a brick wall. I think with Alec as well, I just didn’t get good vibes from him. The only people I could trust in the game was Liza and Emmett, and they were on two different teams.

When you’re in the house, do you forget that the cameras are there?

I probably personally exposed myself more than anybody in the house. I forgot the cameras were there probably 40% or 50% of the time. I’d walk out of the shower naked or walk around the bedroom, I just forgot what was going on. I had to remind myself that I was in front of a camera.

So does that make you nervous about how you may have been perceived on the show?

I don’t really know. I don’t how people view me right now. I haven’t seen any of the episodes, so I don’t know how my character has been built. I kept my honesty and integrity and I talked about that in the diary room, so hopefully that message was going home. I was being the real me, whether they hate me or they love me, they know me.

Since you were evicted, have you learned something about inside that house that you didn’t already know?

There’s a couple of things. Kat and Aneal said they knew each other which was false. The secret shield alliance between Peter and Alec, it looks ilke something out of a comic book. They have this special alliance with each other and they got the two most physical players to join their alliance. It was a very smart move.

Whose diary room interviews are you most excited about watching?

Probably Liza’s.

Why’s that?

I think it’d be good to hear the truth and her reactions throughout the game. A lot of people in that game talk but no one really listens. So when you’re able to have a conversation with someone, you are really able to become close with them.

Who are you rooting for now?

I’m still sticking with my boy Emmett. 100% all the way. I hope he takes it and I hope squashes Peter along the way.

CTV Article on Tom with Quotes

Original Link: http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/big-brother-canada-villain-felt-betrayed-by-alliances-1.1207269

Personal Note: Tom's quote in this article "A villain to me is someone that lies, cheats and steals. I never did any of those things. I was a strong character, I was honest and I was a threat," is EXACTLY how I feel about the whole villain bullshit.

Ousted "Big Brother Canada" star Tom Plant says he was bewildered to learn he's been seen as the villain on the first-ever Canuck version of the reality TV smash.

Still smarting from being voted out in the latest episode, the 25-year-old Edmonton firefighter says he stayed honest throughout the game -- unlike other people.

Plant is the fourth contestant evicted from the Slice series, in which contestants live together in a camera-rigged house completely cut off from the outside world.

They compete in weekly mental, physical and social challenges to avoid elimination. The winner gets $100,000, a $25,000 gift card to The Brick and a Chevrolet Trax.

The latest episode featured a double eviction, with Plant's "showmance" partner Liza Stinton also getting the boot after appearing to pit her rivals against each other.

The Toronto tanning salon owner says she's happy to leave the show at the same time as Plant, noting that she would have been very vulnerable without him.

Plant, however, said he was still reeling from the 8-1 vote.

"I'm feeling pretty brutal about it -- I did not want to leave the game this early, I wanted to win the game," Plant said Friday morning.

"I'm pretty hurt, I feel really betrayed right now. But it's a new day and I'm happy to be out in the world again."

Plant emerged as a domineering contender from Day 1, when he was nominated for elimination alongside pal Emmett Blois. He avoided that early exit by winning a contest that revealed his competitive edge and earned him powerful alliances, as well as wary enemies.

His inner circle included a tentative romance with the 29-year-old Stinton, who established herself as a savvy social player who bonded to varying degrees with most of the other houseguests.

Stinton credited the game's intensity and great casting with forging no less than three "legit, totally into-each-other showmances."

"The 'Big Brother' gods are a bunch of matchmaking geniuses," Stinton laughed Friday, listing the couples that formed within days.

"Alec (Beall) and Topaz (Brady), I think were Night 1. Tom and I were sleeping in bed together Night 2.... And the only reason that Jillian (MacLaughlin) and Emmett didn't appear sooner is because he was on the (elimination) block that week."

She said she didn't expect there to be a double eviction this week but noted that houseguests are generally aware that producers will throw in some kind of twist.

"We're always thinking something's going to happen," she said.

Plant said he had no regrets about the way he played the game, including a shower prank in which he exposed a naked Beall to the cameras.

"The jokes I played with Alec or the other houseguests, that was me, that's who I am and I feel bad and I apologized that I hurt someone's feelings but that's who I am," he said.

"I don't regret anything in the house."

He said he didn't deserve to be seen as a villain, suspecting he's perceived as the bad guy simply because he was the strongest player.

"A villain to me is someone that lies, cheats and steals. I never did any of those things. I was a strong character, I was honest and I was a threat," he said.

"People had to lie to my face to get me out the door. People told me not to even pack my things because I was so safe. I think people literally had no option but to lie to my face to make me leave."

Calgary Herald Interview With Tom

Original Link: http://blogs.calgaryherald.com/2013/03/22/ruth-myles-tom-plant-talks-about-his-emotional-game-on-big-brother-canada/

Personal Note: Excellent Interview, best I've seen so far.

It’s only 8 a.m. Calgary time, the morning after the night Tom Plant was evicted from the Big Brother Canada house, and the firefighter/bartender is already caught up on what’s being said about him.

“Yeah, I heard that,” Plant says when asked about his not always positive depiction on the Slice reality series that documents a group of Canadians competing in total lockdown with no contact with the outside world. He’s making the rounds from Toronto, giving a whirlwind of interviews to media outlets across the country.

He lasted 29 days in the purpose-built BBC house that is blanketed with video cameras and microphones. but was at a disadvantage from the start. The first day in the house, Suzette nominated him for eviction, along with his best bud, Emmett. They escaped the block, but not even being the founding member of Quatro, the dominant force in the house (made up of Tom, Emmett, Alec and Peter), could save Tom in the end. He was evicted from the house on Thursday night, in an 8-1 vote, with Emmett casting the sole vote to keep Tom.

The Albertan’s “no-mance showmance” with Liza played a large part in his ousting, as his boys didn’t trust the Torontonian, who played a smart game, perhaps too smart for her own good, as she was also evicted on Thursday’s episode. I had a quick chat with the Calgary-born, Edmonton-based 25-year-old, who wanted to make sure to give a big shout out to Calgary. “It’s where my heart is,” he says with much of his family living here.

Question: It’s your first day out of the house. How’s it been?

Answer: Today has been so positive. Leaving the house, I just felt so upset. Today has been truly amazing. It is just so exciting that people know who I am and that they are proud of who I am.

Q: I talked to Danielle about her concern about how she portrayed on the show. Did that factor into what went done in the house?

A: Definitely. In the house, you think about what you look like to the real world. I thought about it, about how people would view me. But I told myself it didn’t matter if I was being real, if I was being who I really am, inside the house, it didn’t matter what people thought. Because jealousy is love at the same time, so when people think these things about you, it doesn’t really matter. It doesn’t have an effect on me.

Q: It seems that you played a much more emotionally driven game than you were intending on:

A: I would definitely agree with that. My game was very emotionally driven. I wanted to play with my integrity. I definitely have to be real. Right when I walked in the house, I got put up on the block. Originally, I didn’t want to be such a stronger competitor. I just wanted to feel everyone out. But I had to say to myself, the first night I went into the house, I figured ‘You know what? I’m going to be competitive. And if I leave this house as a fighter, that’s the way I want to leave.

Q: Quatro, on the surface, seemed like a good move.

A: From the outside looking in, and from the inside myself, I thought the Quatro alliance was bulletproof. It literally imploded from the inside due to Peter and Alec’s own personal insecurities.

Q: Did you know about their secret alliance?

A: No, I did not know about their own personal, secret alliance between the two of them.

Q: How did your relationship with Liza factor into it?

A: Honestly, she was my calming agent throughout the game. She was the person who got me the most, who understands me for who I am in the game. I never talked at her, it was always with her. It was good conversation always. It was just very easy to take time away from the game. It was like an escape . . . It felt like we were out on a patio somewhere. She definitely played a big part in keeping me from blowin’ a gasket on certain people in the house.

Q: We’re on the outside watching it and we can leave. How much pressure is there being in the house?

A: When you’re in the house for 24 hours a day, people only see three hours a week. And you’re in there 24 hours a day, seven days a week. There is pressure. You are seeing these people all day, and the littlest thing of someone burping or farting or someone just being disgusting or not cleaning up after a mess or not brushing their teeth in the morning or the way they leave the bathroom or their hair everywhere. Just the littlest thing can really get on your nerves in the house. And you really have to sit back and chill. ‘I’m on Big Brother Canada and it’s a wonderful experience, so I just have to go with it.’

Q: If you could go back to Day One when you walked into the house, what would you do differently?

A: I would have picked up that phone when it rang instead of Suzette, and I would have been HoH and I would have put Gary and Suzette up on the block in the very beginning. It would have been a totally different game.

Q: Who has the best shot of taking it?

A: Not the person I would want to win the game. Honestly, I would say that Peter has the best shot of winning the game.

Q: And who do you want to win the game? (We already know this one, but have to ask, right?)

A: I 100 percent want my boy Emmett to win the game. He deserves it way more than Peter. Emmett is one heck of a guy. I definitely want him to come out to Calgary with me. Take him for night out, maybe a Flames game.

Q: Oh, the Flames aren’t going to be playing much longer.

A: I heard! I am so disappointed. What are we going to do?

Q: What do you want to people to know about you, because honestly, you did not get the most positive portrayal on the show.

A: It’s not the first time I’m hearing that, believe me. Positively? I just want people to realize that I was really the only person in that game that did not lie, that played with full integrity and I kept my morals. People need to understand that it is very hard in that situation to stay true to yourself and I kept faith and was strong and I stayed true to who I am. For people who may have a negative view on me, they don’t know me and they don’t need to know me. For my family and friends in Alberta . . . I just hope they appreciate me for being an Alberta boy who stayed true to his word and did not cheat and who is coming home proud.

Q: What did you learn about yourself from this experience?

A: No matter how perfect you think things are going, anything can change at any given second. You can hit rock bottom tomorrow. That is truly how I felt in the house. I felt super high, then really down low in the matter of a week. You really just have to stay true to yourself because you never know what’s going to happen.

Metro Canada Article on Tom with Quotes

Original Link: http://metronews.ca/news/calgary/606397/evicted-big-brother-canada-houseguest-tom-plant-shocked-and-betrayed/

Personal Note: I want a job as an editor at Metro Canada, because they have the most spelling mistakes I've ever seen in a major newspaper. They called Quattro "Quartro" and Liza "Lisa" I fixed what I saw...

Albertan Tom Plant was assured he would not be walking out the doors on Thursday night, but in true Big Brother Canada fashion, he learned anything can happen.

The Calgary-born, Edmonton-based Plant was the fourth houseguest evicted from the house, and only minutes later, his “showmance” Liza Stinton walked out the door as well in the live double-eviction episode.

“Right when I found out that I was going home, I felt completely shocked and betrayed. My heart sunk in disappointment that no one could keep their word to me,” he told Metro Friday from Toronto.

Plant had been in a four-person alliance called the “Quatto” with fellow houseguests Emmett Blois, Peter Brown and Alec Beall — or so he thought.

After leaving the house, Plant learned that Beall and Brown have since formed a two-person team and helped mastermind the plan to evict him.

“It was definitely hard. It was a very real feeling.”

Despite being deceived, Plant said he has no regrets about his emotional game play.

Now back in the real-world, he said he’s hopeful his relationship with Stintion, a Torontonian, can continue.

“The world needs us more than the house does, so I really believe we’re out of the house for a reason,” he said. “The house is going to get super poisonous and toxic now, maybe it’s good we can take our relationship into the real world.”

The proud Alberta boy said he plans to return home to spend the summer and see what opportunities arise from this experience.

Big Brother Canada airs Sundays and Wednesdays at 7 p.m. MST, and Thursdays at 8 p.m. MST.

MSN Interview with Tom

Original Link : http://entertainment.ca.msn.com/tv/big-brother-canada-exit-interviews#image=1

Were you surprised at all by how the votes went? Emmett was the only one who voted for you to stay.

Yeah. Honestly, I was totally shocked how the votes went. Eight to one, when all I needed was five votes to stay. It was already difficult going into it against Liza and I felt super safe with the Quattro alliance. I even felt safe with A.J., who gave me his word and Talla, who is from my hometown. It was very difficult to leave with that big of a backhand.

Did opening up the shower door on Alec make up his mind to evict you or did you think that he and Peter were already going to vote you out?

I personally believe that the whole situation with Alec had nothing to do with me leaving. They had a secret alliance which I’m now finding out about called The Shield and they’re going to get the big and strong competitors out of the game because of the fear that they have that they cannot compete on the same level as myself and Emmett. It was easy for them to send me packing so that they don’t have to deal with me in the future.

The thing with Alec, was that a harmless prank or retaliation for him not using the veto to get you off the block?

It was 100% in the moment. I was just joking around. It could have been anybody in there…any guy. Of course not a female. I would never do that to a girl. I’m a hockey boy and a firefighter. I’m confident with myself. The way that Alec presents himself in the house, I thought that he was very comfortable with himself. It was a simple joke, the door was opened for half a second and then it was closed. Liza was right there and saw nothing. I think that the only person who blew it out of proportion was Alec himself went he went crying about it. It was not premeditated whatsoever.

Alec called you a “bully” for doing this. You confided in Liza that if people knew what you’ve had to overcome, they would never see you as a bully. 

Honestly, the word “bullying” is a horrible word. I was actually bullied in high school quite a bit. I’m a very strong person because of what I had to go through in my life. I grew up really poor and in a tough neighbourhood. I went through a lot of struggles. I didn’t have a male role model in my life growing up, so I had to teach myself everything – like shaving. I had to become the man of the house. I had to be the strong man. So people might take my sternness as bullying or in a negative way, but it’s just being strong and proud.

A lot of the other house guests have said that power went to your head, is this something you would agree with? 

A lot of the house guests say that the power went to my head but a lot of those house guests never won an HoH or a Power of Veto competition. So once they are in a position of power, they’ll feel pretty amazing too! I felt great. You’ve got to win to be in that position and none of those people have won anything yet. In his goodbye message, Andrew said that I worked out so much that the only thing that got bigger was my ego. That upset me because I was helping Andrew out with his workouts and taking care of his knees, which were really bad. And when Peter said “Don’t worry about Liza. I’m going to keep her warm,” that struck with me too, because Peter’s got no balls. He’s so quiet in the house and doesn’t say anything. The only chance he ever had the guts to say it was when he couldn’t say it to my face. I’m a strong individual…but Peter and I are going to have a little chat. It’ll be interesting!

If you had to choose between Emmett and Liza, who would you have taken to the final two?

I would have went with Emmett. It has nothing against Liza, but from Day 1, Emmett was my boy and I gave him my word. I keep my word.

What’s next for yourself and Liza?

Honestly, we joked that it was a “no-mance.” She and I kept it classy. I’m in her city right now (Toronto) but I’m an Alberta boy, so that will be difficult.

With yourself and Liza out of the house, how do you see the next week playing out? Who do you think will be the next big targets?

With the way that the groups are aligning, I’m going to say that they’ll take out A.J. and Talla. You’ve got the boys, Alec, Peter and Emmett while Alec has Topaz, Emmett has Jillian. Then you’ve got Gary and who is he going to align with? Is he going to align with Topaz, Suzette or Talla? There’s going to be some people who’ll stick out and they’ll be on the block. But, I’ll tell you this: Talla is kerosene, she needs one little spark for her to blow up!

 

Tom's Twitter Chat

Here are the Q&A's from Tom's Twitter chat today. Unfortunately they didn't ask mine. LOL.

TOM: Thanks for all the love! Come say hi!

Q: Stephen Irvine ‏@sjrirvine: Who are you rooting for now?
A: The 'milkman' - Emmett!

Q: Shawn Murphy ‏@number1milosfan : What do you wish you got to do before you left?
A: I wanted to win one more HOH. I wanted to get another letter from home.

Q: Simi Litt ‏@simbaaa1D : Do you think AJ and Talla will make it very far in the game?
A: No, i think they are going next.

Q: Daniel Falconer ‏@Danarazzi : Tom do you feel the power shift ruined your entire game?
A: Absolutely Yes.

Q: ʝεѕѕ ✌ ‏@Jess_BBLove : To Tom + Liza, now that you've had a chance to relax and think about the game, what would you have done differently?
A: I would have sat Liza, Emmett and Jillian down and made stronger alliance.

Q: Haley Voll ‏@HaleyVoll : did you truly like Liza or was it all for the show ?
A: I was 100% real throughout the whole show.In every aspect.


Q: Donna @DonnaCathryn : #ASKBBCAN Will you continue to watch the show now that you r out? Will u be watching with Liza???
A: Big Brother is my favourite show - so YES. and MAYBE watching with Liza!

Tom and Liza on The Morning Show

This is what all you fuckin haters out there have been waiting for like the salivating dogs that you are. (Classic Krusty the Clown reference)

Tom suffering.

It's clear since he's been evicted he's discovered how the brainless masses out there think of him. I hope you enjoy it because quite frankly you haters make me sick...

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I also love how the host just couldn't resist telling Tom everyone hates him. (Which isn't true, I'm not the only Tom fan out there, we may be in the minority but we're there.) Oh bitch, you couldn't tell from the look on his face he already had a clue about that? Better to be sure to crush him on national TV again though just to be sure... Who cares right, he's only a TV show character!

I hope at some point Tom finds this site and sees that not everyone hates him. As much as I personally would like to see him go on Twitter like the other evicted houseguests I dunno if that would be good for him, given the hatred of the pea brains out there. But if he does you can rest assured I'll be letting him know that he was appreciated by some.