{"id":2017416,"date":"2025-09-12T19:57:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T19:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2017416"},"modified":"2025-09-12T19:57:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T19:57:57","slug":"cliffton-will-williams-talks-being-the-oldest-in-the-house-not-winning-any-competitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/cliffton-will-williams-talks-being-the-oldest-in-the-house-not-winning-any-competitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Cliffton \u2018Will\u2019 Williams Talks Being the Oldest in the House &#038; Not Winning Any Competitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cliffton \u201cWill\u201d Williams was the \u201cmost likable\u201d person on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/big-brother\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Big Brother;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><em>Big Brother<\/em><\/a> this season. That\u2019s what he said in his exit interview with host <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/julie-chen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Julie Chen Moonves;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Julie Chen Moonves<\/a>. If that\u2019s true, though, why was he <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/tv\/articles\/big-brother-week-9-hoh-145205631.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:voted out;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">voted out<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the beginning of the season, Will was put up on the block many times as a pawn. This guaranteed that whoever was sitting next to him would go home. But now that the house was down to eight people, his fellow houseguests decided that they couldn\u2019t win against him in the end, so he was voted out in a 3-to-2 vote. Although he didn\u2019t win any competitions, he played an amazing social game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tears were shed in what was probably the most emotional eviction of Season 27. Will became the second member of the Jury and will return on the finale night to crown the winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Will talked with TV Insider about being the oldest houseguest this season, his London trip, his wife, whom he calls his chocolate drop, and more.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Cliffton &#8220;Will&#8221; Williams and Ashley Hollis hugging on &#8220;Big Brother&#8221; Season 27 episode 31 <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>As one of the older houseguests this season, was it hard to form bonds with the younger ones? Or did you feel more like their dad\/mentor?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Cliffton \u201cWill\u201d Williams:<\/strong> It was hard, at first, to form relationships with some of them. Some of that is my fault, some of it is their fault. I say some of it is my fault because I just didn\u2019t feel that I could at times. At times, it just wasn\u2019t working, and that was in my mental aspect of the game. Some of it was their fault because they were having the time of their life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">So, if you\u2019re outside sunbathing, having a party, you\u2019re not really thinking about the old people who are watching. That\u2019s growth on their part that they\u2019ll learn over time. I think some of them learned that over time in the house. They learned to be more inclusive of everybody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">I had several people in the house tell me I was like a dad figure to them, some of whom said it on the way out the door, some said it in the house. I appreciate that. I\u2019m thankful some of them felt that way. That\u2019s just being around each other for so long, and learning, sharing, and listening. I will keep that with me for a long time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>What was your reaction when Zach gave you the London trip in the prize swap veto? And are you excited to go with your chocolate drop?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Oh my God! It was an unbelievable feeling. I\u2019ve been watching the game for a long time, and the prizes\/punishments is one of my favorite comps. I know someone\u2019s going to get screwed over, win a trip, or win cash. I had been manifesting that situation for a while, and I was like, \u201cOK, this is my chance.\u201d And then, with the shuffleboard, when I go on a cruise, I\u2019m going to play a lot of shuffleboard, because we played it so many times in this game, and I didn\u2019t do well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fate was what it was, and Zach [Cornell] ended up getting the London trip and gave it to me. He\u2019s just a great kid, a great guy. Some of these things are game play, but I think, generally and truthfully, I think Zach just wanted to be really, really nice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">I was thinking that once that happened, I had tears coming out of my eyes. I\u2019m an emotional-type dude. When it was shown on TV, I kept thinking about my wife\u2019s reaction. We haven\u2019t been to London. We were supposed to go to Barcelona for my birthday, but <em>Big Brother<\/em> happened. That\u2019s going to be so much fun. The seven days in London make the 66 days in this house well worth it. I thank Zach for that. He was raised right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>You\u2019ve been on the block before as a pawn because you\u2019re so well-liked. Why do you think they evicted you now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">I think the game has changed because they knew I wasn\u2019t going to go home against <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1204744\/big-brother-interview-amy-bingham-aligning-rachel-reilly\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Amy [Bingham;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Amy [Bingham<\/a>] and I wasn\u2019t going to go home against <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/articles\/big-brother-adrian-rocha-devastated-162918301.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Adrian [Rocha;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Adrian [Rocha<\/a>], but I did not foresee going home against Ashley [Hollis]. With Ashley and me being close in the game, and I think now in real life as well, it sucked, but I understood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It\u2019s just weird to go home at that given time, in that given time and space, and the reasons for being well-liked, and being a threat because of that. I was joking before, \u201cI need to get in a fight with someone. Maybe I\u2019ll stay a little longer.\u201d But that\u2019s not my nature. I\u2019m not going to go manufacture some hate like that just for me to stay longer in the house. I play the way I played, and if being that person prevents me from being in the final two chairs, it is what it is. I can\u2019t change that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It\u2019s not gameplay. It\u2019s just me being who I am. Hopefully, America liked me. I wanted to represent my age, race, and being a soldier well. But it sucks, I\u2019m not going to lie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Being that you were in the military, did you expect the competitions to be as hard as they were?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">I had that conversation with some people. If I were 15 years younger, I would have been killing these competitions, but I\u2019m not. Some of those competitions would have been warmups. I\u2019m an old soldier with bad knees and a bad back. I just wish, like Keanu [Soto] is 33 years old, I wish I were 33 in this game. At 33 years old, I was leading troops in combat in Iraq. I\u2019m 50 now. It\u2019s hard to compete against people I\u2019m 30 years older than, and it showed. I felt it. I still do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If I were 15 years younger, it would have been a different situation. I\u2019m getting angry just thinking about it. I\u2019d still be on the wall right now. [<em>Shakes head.<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong><em>Big Brother<\/em>, Season 27, Wednesdays, Thursdays &amp; Sundays, 8\/7c, CBS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the latest entertainment news on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TV Insider;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">TV Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cliffton \u201cWill\u201d Williams was the \u201cmost likable\u201d person on Big Brother this season. That\u2019s what he said in his exit interview with host Julie Chen Moonves. If that\u2019s true, though, why was he voted out? At the beginning of the season, Will was put up on the block many times as a pawn. This guaranteed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2017417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[370200,370198,345846,25741,370199,352925],"class_list":["post-2017416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-chocolate-drop","tag-cliffton","tag-julie-chen-moonves","tag-london","tag-willquot-williams","tag-williams"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cliffton-\u2018Will-Williams-Talks-Being-the-Oldest-in-the-House.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2017417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}