Olympian Mirai Nagasu Explains Why She Couldn’t Work With Chris Kirkpatrick on ‘Celebrity Big Brother’: ‘We Just Didn’t Have the Same Vibe’

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She learned a lot. Mirai Nagasu has been out of the Celebrity Big Brother house for a few days, and looking back on her short time in the game, she’s proud to have represented her community as the first Asian American houseguest on this version of the long-running series.The Olympic figurer skater, 28, spoke to Us Weekly after her Monday, February 7, eviction to reflect on her game, including an apparent disconnect she had with Head of Household Chris Kirkpatrick that went unexplained as it happened before the live feeds turned on.“Although we were both in Miesha [Tate]’s alliance and that was something I counted on too much – I just didn’t trust him fully,” Mirai exclusively tells Us. “We just didn’t have the same vibe.”She goes on to say that she “respected his play” but thought getting Shanna Moakler to use the Veto and getting out a bigger target – like Todrick Hall – would have been “a great Backdoor moment.”Had the bronze medalist still been in the house, her plan was to “[stay] in the middle of the pack and [lay] low, and made it a little bit further, which I would’ve wanted.”Ultimately, Mirai was evicted in a unanimous vote against her close ally, comedian Chris Kattan.“I had a feeling,” she says of the 7-0 vote. “At the beginning of the game, I was really strong with my alliances, but you can tell when you’re in the house when your game has been blown up, and I just got that vibe from people and I knew that I needed to lay low.”She added, “Next to Chris Kattan, I knew that my chances were slim.”The former Saturday Night Live star actually asked to be voted out in his eviction speech, but it wasn’t enough to convince the rest of the houseguests to keep Mirai.“Chris Kattan and I really bonded.