there’ll be no one to talk to.
I know it’s only a game. But if we’ve lost, can’t we go home now?
I never really wanted to be a TV star anyway, I want to be a hero.
Those aces who are off in Egypt, they’re the heroes.
I wish I was there, instead of this big dumb house.
Confessional: Michelle Pond aka the Amazing Bubbles
Look, I’m not going to talk about my personal life. Yes, I am involved with someone now. And no, it’s none of your or anyone else’s business.
I guess the reason you want me to do a confessional is because of Tiffani getting voted off. Yeah, there was this big drama when she got to the house. And frankly, everyone acted like [bleep]s.
I don’t know where some of them get off anyway. It isn’t as if they’ve covered themselves in glory. Stuntman accused Rustbelt of being a racist. And I’m pretty sure he made that up. You know, there was a reason Joe Twitch got voted off Diamonds first. And no, it isn’t just because he stripped Tiff. He was a massive jerk.
And then there’s the Maharajah, who’s been drinking like a fish since I got here—and since he got to the Discard Pile according to everyone else. It’s Week Ten and he’s still wallowing.
I know. She screwed me over. But honestly, it was actually better for me. I realized what was important to me because of it. I got to have a chance to think about the whole hero thing. And I got into a real relationship.
No! I told you I’m not talking about that.
But it’s funny. There’s been all this carping about how she didn’t have a great power. But, you know, she outlasted plenty of people with better powers. And she was right about one thing. She is good TV.
I went back and watched all the episodes, and even though I wanted to die when I saw how she played me, I couldn’t stop watching. And let’s face it. She got it better than anyone that the point of the show wasn’t heroism. It was ratings.
That it took most of us so long to understand kinda makes us chumps from the get-go. And she wasn’t the only one manipulating and working things. If you ask me, Curveball certainly didn’t mind being the center of attention, and she definitely used that to her advantage.
[sighs]
Look, I told you I am not talking about my private life. You guys are vultures.
And anyway, Tiff isn’t completely soulless. During the big drunken Discard Party, I did find her crying in the bathroom. I could barely hear her through the door. I knocked and told her it was me.
She opened the door and told me that she understood if I wanted to gloat. She just stood there. Her nose was red and she looked half dead. And, you know, I just didn’t have it in me.
Yeah, what she’d done to me was pretty [bleep]. But honestly, it ended up better for me. Even though my agency dropped me, I’ve been getting tons of calls for endorsements. I could probably make more money now for one endorsement than I made working my ass off modeling when I was a kid.
I asked her why she was crying, and she told me that it wasn’t that everyone in Discards seemed to hate her. It was that she didn’t know how she was going to take care of her family now that she’d lost. “I’m the most hated woman in America, I guess,” she said.
And that did bug me. I mean, there’s this book, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, and the main character, this guy called Jean Valjean, commits a crime because he’s trying to save this girl named Cosette. I mean, Tiff’s not in the exact same situation, but you know, everything she did, she did for someone else.
It doesn’t make it right. But it does explain it.
Anyway, I told Tiff I wasn’t mad anymore. And when I said it, I realized I meant it. She started crying harder, and I made her go back into the bathroom. Yeah, I know I didn’t let the camera guys in. Too damn bad.
We talked for a while, and I made a call to a friend of mine who’s an independent agent. She said she’d be willing to help Tiff out. ’Cause I knew, even if Tiff didn’t, that it wasn’t going to matter that some people didn’t like her. There were plenty of people who would pay good money