Big Brother winner Taylor Hale has revealed whether there is relationship potential with Joseph Abdin, who had feelings for the former beauty pageant queen, now that the game is over.
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Taylor, a 27-year-old personal stylist from West Bloomfield, MI, and Joseph, a 24-year-old lawyer from Lake Worth, FL, had a flirtatious dynamic in the Big Brother house on Season 24, and Taylor once called him her "crush."
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Once Joseph got evicted on Day 51 of the game, he told Big Brother host Julie Chen, in a smiling and blushful manner, that he hoped Taylor would "reach out" to him after the game.
Taylor set her eyes on the $750,000 prize, but then she and Monte Taylor, a 27-year-old personal trainer from Bear, DE, had a brief showmance towards the end of the game.
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Monte won the Final Head of Household competition and took Taylor to the Final 2, and then Taylor won Big Brother in a landslide 8-1 vote. She was also crowned "America's Favorite Houseguest."
However, Taylor subsequently made it clear she and Monte would not be revisiting their showmance outside the Big Brother game.
"You want honesty? Monte is good at what he does, but I think we'll be leaving that in the Big Brother house," Taylor revealed during a Monday appearance on The Talk when asked about the possibility of having a post-show romance with Monte.
During a separate appearance on "The Winners Circle" podcast co-hosted by Big Brother alums Derrick Levasseur and Cody Calafiore, Taylor once again shot down the idea of dating Monte in the real world.
"Monte and I had really great connecting moments, [but] I don't know if that's going to be a long-lasting thing for us. I think we connect and match in some ways, and not so much in other ways," Taylor said.
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Taylor actually suggested she was more interested in revisiting the possibility of a relationship with Joseph instead.
"[Ameerah Jones], classic Ameerah, she outed the hell out of me and Monte [on finale night]. I was like, 'Damn girl, come on now!'" Taylor recalled with a laugh.
"And it was tough because I saw Joseph's face in that moment, and that was devastating for me because I have such a soft spot for Joseph."
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Although Joseph was already evicted and out of the Big Brother house when Taylor and Monte hooked up and kissed, he still ended up learning about it when Alyssa Snider told everyone else on the jury about it shortly after she arrived at the jury house following her own eviction.
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Big Brother's jury house footage had showed Joseph visibly crushed and disappointed by Alyssa's news of Taylor and Monte's showmance.
However, after her Big Brother win Taylor made it clear she still considered Joseph "loverboy" material.
"Joseph, he's the loverboy that I've wanted and been looking for, and so [there's potential]," Taylor shared on "The Winners Circle."
Derrick and Cody also pointed out how Joseph -- who had led all the Season 24 houseguests to believe he's a personal trainer -- is a lawyer, and Taylor sounded excited about that.
"He's a loverboy lawyer, how can I be mad at that?! I'm a single girl!" Taylor exclaimed.
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Taylor also posted a video Monday night on Instagram Stories of herself enjoying dinner at a restaurant with a beaming Joseph at her side.
While there were other Big Brother alums at the pair's table, including former "The Cookout" alliance member Hannah Chaddha from Season 23, Taylor focused her camera on Joseph as they bantered back and forth about Joseph's healthy eating habits.
Taylor appeared to give up on Joseph as a romantic partner after she was falsely told he had betrayed "The Leftovers" alliance and sealed his own elimination fate by blurting out secrets.
However, Kyle Capener had thrown Joseph under the bus to save himself, and Taylor eventually realized -- after the finale -- that Joseph never stopped trying to protect her in the game.
"I am just very, very happy that Joseph did not actually turn on me," Taylor told Us Weekly in an interview. "I'm really happy that I can just explore what's going on there now without any fear."
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Taylor essentially friend-zoned Monte on Big Brother's finale when she told America that he's "a great friend."
"Things are still a little early," Taylor shared when asked if she and Monte could see themselves being a couple outside of the house.
Monte, for his part, said, "I plead the fifth."
In a post-finale interview with Entertainment Tonight, Monte admitted the idea of a love triangle existing between Taylor, Joseph and himself was "news" to him.
"That's news to me! I didn't know it was a triangle," Monte said.
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"I thought it was just a two-way street," he admitted with a laugh. "Hey, look... I mean, that's disgusting in my opinion. Look, I did not know that there was some sort of third leg to this circle, or this triangle here, so I've got to have a conversation with my boy."
Taylor walked away from Big Brother with a total of $800,000, and Monte won $75,000 for finishing in second place on the two-hour finale.
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Taylor made Big Brother history by becoming the first Black female winner of a regular season and by winning Big Brother as well as the "America's Favorite Houseguest" honor in a single season.