Taylor Hale, the first Black woman to ever win Big Brother, didn’t have an easy path to victory. Week after week, she was torn down by other houseguests and it was her inherent resilience and propensity for forgiveness that started to change people’s opinions.But someone who had her back from the beginning was fellow player Joseph Adbin with whom she formed a close friendship.The former pageant queen, 27, and attorney, 25, exclusively sat down with Us Weekly to talk about the game and their relationship – and what the future may hold for the two, who clearly had a connection from the start.“There was just something really warm and inviting about Joseph,” the Michigan native exclusively tells Us Weekly. “It was really hard that first few weeks of the house.
I could not walk to a room without people just stopping a conversation, changing a conversation. I felt like my fate was sealed every single day and my best friend was my bed.
And I’m an introvert on top of all of that. But Joseph, no matter whether I was forced or needed to be in a corner, you would always just check on me and be like, ‘Hey, what’s going on?’ And for someone to even care or feign like they could care, even a pinky amount about how I was doing, it was very, very difficult in that house.
And Joseph was willing to be a friend to someone that everyone was painting out to be the most disgusting villain.”Joseph tells Us, “I was trying to let her know in some aspect, just please stay hopeful.
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