Monte Taylor

Monte Taylor
Houseguest Profile
Born	May 20, 1995 (1995-05-20)
Hometown	Bear, DE
Occupation	Personal trainer
Season History
Big Brother 24 (US)
Status	Runner-Up
Place	2nd
Votes Against	0
Votes To Win	1
Alliances	The Leftovers The Pound Po’s Pack Oasis
Loyalties	Joseph Abdin Matt Turner Taylor Hale
Festie Bestie(s)	1st - Joseph Abdin 2nd - Joseph Abdin & Terrance Higgins
HoH Wins	3 (Weeks 4, 10, & 12)
Times Nominated	2 (Weeks 5 & 7)
Veto Wins	2 (Day 65 & Week 11)
Days	82
Social Media
Instagram	taylord_fit_

Monte Taylor is the runner-up of Big Brother 24 (US).

Monte started the game quietly and wasn't targeted much. He was able to solidify relationships among many of his housemates during the early game, including Joseph Abdin, Matt Turner and Pooch Pucciarelli. After joining the new dominant alliance The Leftovers, Monte was able to have a better position in that alliance as they were able to evict many outsiders throughout the game. After winning the Final Six Power of Veto competition, he was able to convince Head of Household and ally Turner to place very strong player Michael Bruner on the block so they could finally evict him, in which they were successful in doing so.

Monte was then able to have a string of both HoH and PoV competition wins until Finale Night when he as the Final HoH decided to take Taylor Hale to the Final Two over Turner, thinking that Turner's competition wins and evicting him was a greater look on his resume. This was his undoing as he misread Taylor's social relationships, persistence and underdog status, which the jury viewed as impressive. After Taylor gave a powerful speech encapsulating her journey throughout the season, the jury awarded her the win by a vote 8-1, with only Turner voting for Monte to win.

Biography

Monte Taylor Biography

Retrieved from Parade.com Age: 27 Hometown/Current City: Bear, Del. Occupation: Personal trainer What’s the best advice you received before coming out to play? Just to be myself. The biggest thing around going into this atmosphere where you're meeting a bunch of different people is just to stay true to myself. So I plan on doing that throughout this whole summer, not altering or changing who I am. Because that's going to be the best version of me. What do you think people will perceive you as? I'm 6'4", 235 pounds, in decent shape. I think, just based off of my looks and my energy, people are probably going to think all I do is go out and work out all day. They'll think I'm not too much of a person of high intellect. But little do they know about my mechanical engineering degree and all of the books that I've read and things of that nature. They'll just think of me as a tall hunk of muscle. (Laughs.) What types of players would you least want in your alliance? People that are very chatty, who like to talk a lot about the things that you've said in private to others. To me, in an alliance, the biggest thing is trust and loyalty. So if what's talked about within the alliance stays within the alliance, then that'll make sure that we can advance our game even further. What’s something the other houseguests may dislike about you? I think other house guests may dislike the fact that I'm very positive. I tend not to get into any drama or entertain a lot of that stuff. I also keep my cards pretty close to my chest, so I don't share too much. And I don't plan on sharing too much about how I maybe feel about certain situations just to stay out of the mix on a lot of things. So that may be something that they don't like about me, the fact that they may not be able to read me all that well. On eviction night, would you rather flip the votes against the house to help your individual game, or go with the house to help your overall alliance? I'd rather go with the house to help my overall alliance. The reason for that is because I don't think that it would behoove the situation to flip the house if my alliance has a lot of trust and a lot of loyalty already built in. So to make sure that that trust and loyalty continue throughout the entire summer, I want to make sure that I'm going with the alliance to make sure that we continue to advance our game.

Player History - Big Brother 24 (US)

Competition History

Week 1	HOH Part 1	Win
	HOH Part 2	Loss
	POV	Not Picked
Week 2	HOH Part 1	Win
	HOH Part 2	Loss
	POV	Not Picked
Week 3	HOH	Loss
	Co-POV	Not Picked
Week 4	HOH Part 1	Win
	HOH Part 2	Win
	Co-POV	Loss
Week 5	HOH	Previous HOH
	Co-POV	Loss
Week 6	HOH	Loss
	POV	Not Picked
Week 7	HOH	Loss
	POV	Loss
	POV	Ineligible
Week 8	HOH	Loss
	POV	Loss
Week 9	HOH	Loss
	POV	Loss
	HOH	Loss
	POV	Win
Week 10	HOH	Win
	POV	Sat Out*
Week 11	HOH	Previous HOH
	POV	Win
Week 12	HOH Part 1	Loss
	HOH Part 2	Win
	HOH Part 3	Win

• Note: Monte was disqualified from competing in the Week 10 POV competition due to failing to report to the backyard in time.

Have/Have-Not History

Week 1	Have-Not
Week 2	Have
Week 3	Have
Week 4	Have
Week 5	Have/Have-Not Phase Over
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12

Voting History

Week	Position	Voted for	With Majority?
1	–	Nominations Void
2	–	Pooch Pucciarelli	Yes
3	–	Ameerah Jones	Yes
4	HOH	–	–
5	Vetoed	Daniel Durston	Yes
6	–	Indy Santos	Yes
7	Nominated	–	–
8	–	Kyle Capener	Yes
9	–	Terrance Higgins	Yes
	POV Holder	Michael Bruner	Yes
10	HOH	Alyssa Snider	Yes (Tiebreaker)
11	POV Holder	Brittany Hoopes	Sole Vote
12	HOH	Matt Turner	Sole Vote
Finale	Runner-Up	–	–

HOH History

	Original Nominees		Post-Veto Nominees		Intended Target
Week 4	Alyssa	Indy	Evicted Nicole	Taylor	Nicole	THEN	Alyssa	THEN	Nicole
Week 10	Alyssa	Brittany	Evicted Alyssa	Taylor	Brittany	THEN	Alyssa
Week 12	Taylor	Evicted Turner	N/A		Turner

Post Big Brother

The Challenge

Monte's Cast Photo for The Challenge: USA 2

• Monte competed on The Challenge: USA 2 representing Big Brother as a rookie alongside Tyler Crispen and fellow BB24 houseguests Alyssa S and Ameerah, as well as Alyssa Lopez and Tiffany Mitchell returning from The Challenge: USA 1, and Paulie Calafiore, Josh Martinez and Faysal Shafaat representing the flagship MTV series. He was placed on the Green Team. After the teams were disbanded at the end of Episode 7, Monte ended up getting eliminated in Episode 8.

Trivia

• Monte is the first houseguest from Delaware.
• Monte always voted with the majority while in the house.
• Every time Monte was Head of Household, Taylor Hale was nominated as a pawn.
• Monte is the second houseguest to to cast a tiebreaker vote at the Final Five, then cast the sole vote to evict at the Final Four, and then win the final Head of Household competition and cast the sole vote to evict at the Final Three, following Ivette Corredero.
• Including Big Brother Canada and Celebrity Big Brother (US), Monte is one of thirteen final HOHs who did not end up winning the game. Others include Nicole Nilson Schaffrich, Alison Irwin, Ivette Corredero, Ryan Quicksall, Cody Calafiore, Paul Abrahamian, Ricky Williams, Gary Levy, Godfrey Mangwiza, Kelsey Faith, Josh Nash, and Claudia Campbell.
• Monte is the first American houseguest to go four or more weeks with an uninterrupted competition winning streak to reach the Final Two. He won a competition and was immune for every round from the Final Six onwards. Including Big Brother Canada, he is the second, following Kevin Martin in Big Brother Canada 5.
• Monte is the third African-American to win 3 HoH's in one season, Following Kyland Young and Xavier Prather.
  • He is also the third to win five or more competitions, following both Kyland Young and Xavier Prather from Big Brother 23 respectively.
• Monte's last name, Taylor, is also the first name of the eventual winner of the season he played on, that being Taylor Hale.
• Monte is the highest-placing man in Big Brother 24 (US).

References

Big Brother 24 (US) Houseguests
Taylor Monte Turner Brittany Alyssa Michael Terrance Kyle Joseph Jasmine Indy Daniel Nicole Ameerah Pooch Paloma Winner Runner-Up Jury Evicted Walked