Big Brother 24’s Taylor Hale and Joseph Abdin’s Relationship Timeline
13.10.2022 - 01:37
/ usmagazine.com
Closer than ever! Taylor Hale and Joseph Abdin sparked showmance rumors as contestants on season 24 of Big Brother and their bond has only grown outside of the game.
“There was just something really warm and inviting about Joseph,” Taylor, the first Black woman to win a non-celebrity season of the CBS reality show, exclusively told Us Weekly in September 2022. “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.”
She continued: “But Joseph, no matter whether I was forced or needed to be in a corner … 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.”
Before the Michigan native was crowned the season 24 winner in September 2022, she received negative treatment from several of her fellow houseguests throughout the season. Joseph, however, knew right away that he wanted to get to know the former pageant queen better.
“I kind of saw Taylor a little bit right before we walked in. So, she always stayed on my radar in that aspect. I was like, ‘God damn.’ So even on premiere night, when I walked in, the first thing – which I just, like, hours ago find out I’m coming on the show – I’m like, ‘Where’d that girl go?’” he told Us.
The pair were separated when Joseph was evicted during the Dyre Fest twist, becoming the second member of the jury.