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103. Paloma Aguilar (Big Brother 24, 16th place) [13/16]
I definitely debated what to do with this one. On one hand, she brought some legitimate entertainment to the show during her brief stay, and could have been a truly great villain had she stuck around for the long-haul, but on the other hand, her actions resulted in a gigantic stain on the season that lasted long after she left, so ultimately her presence was a net negative. For the first week, Paloma was the dramatic and strategic driving force of the game. She frantically ran around the house making alliances and selecting targets in the most panicky fashion possible and it was actually kind of fun to watch. She even selected her best friend/closest ally, Alyssa, solely because, I shit you not, We both forget to take our make-up off before bed sometimes. She had me guessing whether she was going to be a secretly brilliant BB player or a delightful trainwreck. Then she decided to target Taylor because she noticed Taylor spending a lot of time with the men and that, combined with Taylors beauty pageant history, made Paloma assume that Taylor was intentionally playing the flirty, femme fatale game. In actuality, Taylor was a sweetheart who hung out with the men because she just genuinely got along better with men than women and wanted to spend her first week making friends. Instead, Paloma went around vilifying her and turning almost the entire house against her. And yes, plenty of this lies on other houseguests too and theres one person in particular that Im not going to let get away with their late-game attempts to mend the fence, but Paloma was literally running around the house telling everyone who will listen just how awful Taylor is and trying to turn her into the easy first boot.

Then after all this, Paloma suddenly started to feel bad about the way she treated Taylor and it started to affect her mental illnesses and look, Im not going to shame mental illnesses here. Ive got four that Im clinically diagnosed with and probably more that arent diagnosed. I believe that Paloma took a good self-assessment of her mental health and decided that not being in the game anymore was what was best for her and I dont put her in the just gave up quitters bin. But the damage she had done was done, and she left the house in an incredibly toxic state in her wake that it never completely recovered from, and I just couldnt shake the feeling that she kind of didnt have to deal with the consequences. Even after leaving the house, she said on social media that we didnt see the things Taylor said about her (others said the same thing, that we as an audience missed a lot of awful things from Taylor, but I find it incredibly hard to believe that someone who was otherwise mostly very nice said a lot of mean things that all happened to be while the feeds were down AND they didnt make the television edit) so it seemed like she still wanted to present Taylor as the instigator of all of this.

102. Inadvertently played a major role in orchestrating their own boot