If there’s one thing Britney Haynes was known for on her two seasons of Big Brother, it’s for being the unofficial Diary Room Queen. Phillip Solomon, the fifth-place finisher on Deal or No Deal Island season 2, considers himself to be much of the same.
Phillip, 37, saw his path to the final case end on Tuesday night, March 11, just two episodes short of the finale. While the competitive reality newcomer had to learn the ropes on the fly alongside three veterans of the genre, he felt like he could be trusted to tell it how it is in his confessionals.
He compared himself to Britney, his favorite Big Brother player of all-time.
“I just think she understands confessionals,” he told Us Weekly exclusively. “I love a good narrator that you’re like, ‘listen, I need to listen to them because whether they are right or wrong, or whether they believe in it or not, they’re gonna tell you exactly what’s happening.’”
Britney became known on Big Brother 12 and 14 for using the diary room to share her real thoughts on her castmates, particularly Rachel Reilly, and for her hilarious one-liners (“I lost my dignity on a slippery wiener”).
Phillip did the same in his confessionals — and he did it in front of his castmates as well, sometimes with adverse results. He notoriously confronted Survivor legend Parvati Shallow, his ally, after he felt she used his past trauma to manipulate him in the game.
Alexis Lete, Courtney ‘CK’ Kim, Parvati Shallow, David Genat, and Phillip Solomon on ‘Deal or No Deal Island.’ Monty Brinton/NBC
Thankfully, he said, the two have patched things up.
“I think that Parvati the player and Parvati the person are two very different people,” he said. “When you saw us bump heads, we weren’t really bumping heads as competitors. The issue is we were then bumping heads as friends in a competition, and that’s what made it get so personal and dirty and gross.”
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He added that the same night as their confrontation, the two had a long conversation and have since moved on. They now speak several times a week and sometimes multiple times per day.
The same can’t be said for Phillip and Courtney “CK” Kim. The two clashed at the banker’s temple, leading to a memorable rant from Phillip.
“Don’t pretend like if you go low I’m gonna go higher just based on who I am as a person because I promise you if you go low, I will go underground,” he told her at the time. “So underground Harriet Tubman will have to call you in the middle of the night to tell you to run.”
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Nearly a year after filming, not much has changed.
“I think that there were some messy, reckless decisions that were made on the island that I couldn’t get past because I believe that there is a difference between a bad player and a bad person, and I think she’s still learning the difference between the two,” he said.
Deal or No Deal Island airs Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. ET on NBC.
