Jimmy Heagerty Fires Back After Mickey and Morgan’s “Below the Belt” Jabs on Big Brother 27
Jordan Collins here. I guess I can simplify this for you: Jimmy Heagerty isn’t letting his Big Brother allies off the hook that easily.
Jimmy Heagerty, the recent Big Brother 27 evictee and strategy consultant, tells The Post he feels “more betrayed” after hearing former allies Mickey Lee and Morgan Pope discuss him inside the house. Heagerty acknowledged he played a messy, shady social game, but he says the comments he heard over the last two weeks were “shocking” and “below the belt,” moving beyond gameplay and into personal territory. That stings, and he doesn’t hide it.
Let’s get the facts straight: Heagerty was part of the Triple Threat trio with Lee, 35, and Pope, 33. The alliance collapsed when Lee and Pope accused him of playing both sides and used that rationale to vote him out during Thursday’s eviction. Heagerty admits he was “gossiping” and “stirring the pot” — openly confessing to antics like opening a box of condoms and discarding one to provoke drama — but insists he never intended the personal barbs that were lobbed at him.
“I understood the game move at the moment and understood how their perception could allow them to assume my intention,” Heagerty told The Post. Yet seeing what was said during his Head of Household stint and afterward left him taken aback. “A lot of it went below the belt, and a lot of it was more personal than game related,” he explained, saying he gained little pleasure from the spectacle. He was candid about his gameplay; yes, he played dirty, but he draws a line where nastiness stops being strategy and starts being mean.
Despite feeling betrayed, Heagerty offered a surprising olive branch: he plans to speak to Mickey and Morgan after the show. “Unlike them, I’m actually going to give them the benefit of the doubt and would like to talk to them on the outside,” he said, adding a typically pointed quip about how their in-game behavior predicts a post-show conversation will happen “very soon.” Translation: he’s hurt, but not above confrontation — or cashing in on closure and perhaps future content.
Beyond the backstabbing, Heagerty opened up about his close bond with past contestant Rachel Reilly, the Season 13 winner. He says leaving Rachel was the hardest part of his eviction and admits she’s the only person he cried over after the show. They reportedly spent almost every day together while in the house, bonding over similar personalities (both Libras, he notes), and Heagerty even joked that Rachel will be in his wedding — a public demonstration of how tightly they connected.
Let’s be clear: Jimmy owned his messy moves and even bragged about them in that charmingly chaotic way reality stars do. But he also insists there are lines you don’t cross, and according to him, Mickey and Morgan did. He’s ready to address it in person, which means the drama is far from finished. Expect post-eviction interviews, heated conversations, and the usual social media salt to follow.
Big Brother 27 airs Sundays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and streams on Paramount+ — and if you care about reconciliations or reality TV score-settling, keep your eyes peeled.
Well, now you finally understand.
Sources: Celebrity Storm and New York Post, CBS/Big Brother
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