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27. Bayleigh Dayton (Big Brother 20, 11th Place)

I fully admit that Bayleigh has some definite problems as a character. She was loud and aggressive and made some major fuck-ups that she never really had the good grace to acknowledge. And as much as I hate JC, I fully admit that her reaction to him using the N-word didnt paint her in a very good light (and allowed Level 6 fans to shit on her and call her a bigot while ignoring JCs blatantly awful tendencies.) I also find her relationship with Swaggy to be exceptionally disturbing. Apparently he DID get her pregnant, but she had a miscarriageand then he proposed to her after they knew each other for less than a month, and she accepted on live television. Yeaaaaaaahno.

All that being said, the season NEEDED someone like Bayleigh. Like, Angela sucked because she was cast to be this hot, bitchy girl and she was mainly just a high school mean girl, talking shit behind peoples backs. Bayleigh was the villainous character Angela SHOULD have been. She started out the season bitching out Tyler for playing strategically in the opening HoH competition (and trying to browbeat him into doing what she wanted that first week.) She also got in good with Swaggy, who treated her like his plus one, despite not actually including her in his alliance. But then when he got booted in week two, Bayleigh needed to regroup and assess the situation, which she didright up until she earned the third power app.

Now, Bayleigh played DECENTLY for the few weeks after Swaggy left. It was a lot like Jessica in the immediate aftermath of Codys eviction. But then she won a crapshoot HoH competition, and she got perhaps the biggest case of HoHitis of the season. She wanted Brett gone, she hated Brett, and she held court in her HoH room, browbeating FOUTTE into obeying her every whim. She put up a pawn that she actually wanted to work with, because she wanted to work with Kaycee/Angela MORE, and spilled a ton of information to Rachel unnecessarily, which got around to the rest of Level 6 (keep in mind, even FOUTTE didnt know the information Bayleigh was spilling.)

So we get to week 6, and Angela wins HoH. Bayleigh, so desperate to be accepted into the cool kids alliance, vows not to hurt Angelas week in any way, so she doesnt use her power app (when she really needed to, and perhaps MIGHT have, if not for the Hacker comp being stupidly added into the season.) The plan is in place to backdoor Bayleigh, and it goes off without a hitch after everyone blames her for the Hacker nomination. Bayleigh breaks down of course (and I should also point out that this is the week where she acused Rockstar of betraying the alliance to save Brettwhich is fucking hilarious to me and needed to be said), and again, she guilts Haleigh into coming clean about her Hacker win.

This leads to one of the ONLY real fights and dramatic moments of the season, where Bayleigh gets so incensed by Tyler lying (and while I dont think he wasthe way he worded his pitch definitely made it seem like he was) that she starts shrieking and getting higher and higher pitched until she bleeds from the mouth. It was awesome and hilarious, and the sliding door slam just added to the comedy. From that point on though, Bayleighs in the jury house, where she was able to stew and marinate in her bitterness, and it led to her casting one of the deciding votes against Tyler, which I love. After bitching about FOUTTE all season long, it brings me so much joy to see the fans golden boy taken out by that same, bitter, emotional alliance. Bayleigh as the jury foreman did that, and it was great.
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