‘Big Brother 24’: Houseguests Evict Kyle Capener During Emotional Episode About Race
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT: This story contains details from Thursday’s live eviction.Big Brother 24 player Kyle Capener, who earned the nickname “KKKyle” on social media this summer for language that was deemed racist by viewers, was evicted Thursday from the CBS reality show.Capener, an unemployed 29-year-old from Bountiful, Utah, drew ire by making fun of a fellow player’s Brazilian accent, and telling another houseguest that his hat looked like it belonged to a Filipino rice farmer.But his biggest breach was expressing concern that an alliance was forming among the house’s BIPOC players that was similar to last year’s Cookout, the all-Black alliance that led to an historic win by Xavier Prather.
Though Capener never directly said that he and his fellow allies should form a “white” alliance, he was shown in Wednesday’s episode telling fellow white players on Day 39 that “I’m sorry but after the Cookout, uniting under one common cause which was race … that has to play into my thought process moving forward in the game.”He then suggests forming a group with the remaining players … who are white.
Two of those players — Michael Bruner and Brittany Hoopes — then reported his comments to Black houseguests Monte Taylor and Taylor Hale.
Word got back to Capener, who was seen bawling in the diary room at the end of Wednesday’s episode.Capener tried to do damage control on Thursday’s live episode by apologizing to Taylor and Terrence Higgins, another Black houseguest.
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