'Big Brother Canada' Season 12: Janine Holmes calls out shadiest houseguest, most likely to win
"I thought we could make history as being the first all-female alliance," Holmes said
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For Toronto hair and make-up artist, and mom of two, 44-year-old Janine Holmes, being on Big Brother Canada Season 12 was a short experience, but a "dream come true."
"I am so grateful," Janine told Yahoo Canada. "As much as I was the target from a very early stage, and it was really difficult to have been isolated and to feel alone, ... I have moments where I'm like, I'm in the Big Brother house. I'm fulfilling a dream."
Big Brother Canada Season 12 schedule: New episodes air weekly on Sundays at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT, Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT and Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT on Global TV
How to stream Big Brother Canada: Stream Season 12 live and on demand by adding the STACKTV channel to Prime Video, or watch on the Global TV website and app
Where to watch Big Brother Canada Digital Dailies: Keep up with the houseguests with Digital Dailies on the Big Brother Canada website
Watch Big Brother Canada Season 12 live and on demand by adding the STACKTV channel to a Prime Video subscription, 14 days free then $12.99/month
As we saw on this week's episodes, Anthony Douglas targeted Janine, and it was game over at that point.
"Anthony took his target, ... it's going to be you, I'm going to make sure you're out, and he succeeded," she said. "It was very great gameplay, in retrospect, ... but it was just so frustrating because nobody wanted to talk game, I could see the shift in the house."
"Everybody just looked up to Anthony and they were tiptoeing around him, because they didn't want to be the target. ... No one's going to go against Anthony and try and shake things up. People are trying to protect their own games at that point."
'I thought we could make history as being the first all-female alliance'
Season 12 of Big Brother Canada started out with alliance between all the women in the house. Looking at where things stood when she left, Janine would still love to see that alliance make it to the end.
"I would love to see it happen," she said. "I thought we could finally do it, ... I thought we could make history as being the first all-female alliance, kicking out all the guys and making it all the way to the end."
"I'm still hoping for that, I'd love to see a woman take the win, because there's only been three female winners in the 10 full seasons of Big Brother Canada."
While that alliance is seemingly already in jeopardy with the Hot Chocolate alliance emerging, Anthony, Avery Martin, Kayla Clennon, Lexus Jackson and Victoria "Spicy Vee," only time will tell if the women will really stick together.
Shadiest houseguest, most likely to win
As Janine identified in Wednesday night's episode, she believes that Donna Marshall, the 26-year-old from Hubbards, N.S., is a contender for this season's winner.
"She's got the little flirty flirt with all the guys, and the guys, I just see little hearts forming in their eyes," Janine said. "So she's got that gameplay."
"But when you actually sit down and talk game with Donna, she knows this game a lot, and probably my best strategy game talks were with her. She really calmed me down in times when the game was getting to me, and I think if she keeps going through the game like that, she can take it all the way to the end and win. And I really want her to."
In terms of the Big Brother Canada houseguest that was particularly shady, Janine thinks it was 34-year-old Bayleigh Pelham from Halifax.
"At the very beginning we got each other, we were at a point where we'd in the same room, and we could just look at each other and we knew exactly what the other one was thinking," Janine said. "But then again, as soon as I became a target, I started seeing behaviours that I'm like, she's not with me anymore."
"And one in particular was when I was doing [the Down the Rabbit Hole challenge], I was doing one of my checks for them to check my board, and they were taking a little bit longer to tell me whether I was right or wrong. And I looked out the corner of my eye and I could see Bayleigh, and she had her head down and she was like, 'Oh no,' like 'oh no I think Janine's won.' And in that moment I was like, oh she is so not with me at all. So there's a little bit of some two-faced situation going on there."
