Vince Panaro

Parade

7/8/2025

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00:00To start, tell us a little bit about yourself.

00:06Give us your name, where you're from, and what you do.

00:10My name is Vince. I'm 34 years old.

00:12I was born and raised in Los Angeles, and I'm currently unemployed.

00:17What's your reaction to getting to play Big Brother?

00:22I am so excited. It hasn't hit me. It doesn't feel real yet.

00:26I am a massive fan of Big Brother.

00:29I've been watching since season 16, and I started watching the live feeds in season 18,

00:34and this all just doesn't feel real yet.

00:37I'm trying to keep my feet on planet Earth.

00:40I'm trying to keep my head out of the clouds, and I'm trying to take it in

00:44and just absorb all of this as much as I can until it hits me that it's real.

00:52It feels surreal being a houseguess on Big Brother this season.

00:57Again, it hasn't really hit me yet.

01:00I know that no matter what strategy you have coming into this,

01:04it could go out the window immediately, so it just is excitement, anxiousness.

01:11I've just sweat through my deodorant thinking about it.

01:15I am just ready to go. I'm eager.

01:18I've been waiting a very long time for this opportunity.

01:20I think my strategy coming into the Big Brother house is to compartmentalize this game

01:30down into weekly mini-games of Big Brother.

01:34I want to view every single individual week as its own mini-game of Big Brother,

01:39and all I need to do for those weeks is survive it one at a time

01:44and slowly take one step at a time.

01:47You can't say you're going to win the World Series

01:48without winning enough games to get to the playoffs,

01:51so I have to win the individual days, individual conversations, weeks,

01:55whatever that may be, take it one week at a time,

01:58and adapt, and wing it, and then adapt, wing it, adapt.

02:03It's the wah-wah technique.

02:04You just wing, adapt, wing, adapt.

02:06That's what I've got to do.

02:08Why will you win Big Brother?

02:11I will be the one to win Big Brother

02:13because I think I naturally have the perfect formula of what it takes.

02:19I like to call myself a master of none.

02:22I'm not really the best at anything,

02:24but I'm pretty dang good at almost everything,

02:27so I don't think I'll be...

02:28I mean, I clearly won't be a physical threat.

02:31I think I'll be social enough to be able to make the genuine connections.

02:35That is the foundation of strategizing.

02:39And I think I'm athletic enough to compete with the best of them when I need to.

02:43And I think if you can do all of those cohesively,

02:45you'll be in good shape.

02:48What are your biggest strengths?

02:50I would say my strengths are having empathy,

02:55which is important in the Big Brother house.

02:58My communication skills.

03:00I think my self-awareness.

03:02I like to think I'm self-aware,

03:03which is a surprising amount of people...

03:07Something that a surprising amount of people don't have

03:09as much as they should, I'll say.

03:11And again, also in the Big Brother house,

03:14self-awareness is huge

03:15because you don't want to be too obviously obnoxious

03:18or rubbing people the wrong way,

03:20especially early on.

03:21The first impressions are huge.

03:23So yeah, I think empathetic.

03:26I'm very competitive.

03:28I'm very, very much a one-track mind person.

03:31If I set my mind to something,

03:32I'm going to go at it 120%.

03:35And yeah, hopefully all of those

03:38make for a pretty successful season.

03:42We'll see.

03:43What are your biggest weaknesses?

03:46I know I said one of my strengths was my self-awareness.

03:48So I'm going to do my best,

03:49but a weakness could be if I get too excited,

03:52if I get too riled up,

03:53maybe I might say the wrong thing.

03:55I'm going to try not to.

03:56I'm going to try to be mindful of that self-awareness.

03:59And my competitiveness.

04:00I don't want to, I'm not a poor sport,

04:02but I don't want to get too riled up

04:04if I'm not doing as well as I expect myself to do.

04:09Do you plan on keeping any secrets about yourself

04:12from the other house guests?

04:14I don't know if there's any secrets

04:16because here's the thing.

04:17I don't want to have any lie

04:22where I have to hold onto it

04:24for an entire three-month period

04:27because I don't know if I'm going to forget.

04:29Like, I don't want to lie about my age.

04:31Even though I look maybe a little younger than I am,

04:33I don't want to say I'm younger

04:34because then maybe we're talking about

04:36my high school graduation year

04:37and I say, oh, nine.

04:39And people are like, that doesn't make sense.

04:40That's pointless.

04:41I've thought about, should I not say I'm unemployed?

04:43Because they'll say, that's weird.

04:44Why would a 34-year-old not be employed?

04:46Maybe he's a trust fund kid

04:48or maybe he's a, I don't know,

04:51already successful or something

04:53or he's lying about, I don't know.

04:54I've overthought anything.

04:56There's not going to be any secrets that I'm going to keep.

04:58How will you crush your enemies?

05:01I will crush my enemies before they crush me

05:05by having the self-awareness of reading people.

05:09I really think I am good at reading people.

05:11And I know a lot of people probably say that

05:13coming into the Big Brother house.

05:14But I really think I have a hyper-awareness

05:18of how people are portraying themselves

05:23or how people are acting towards me.

05:26I think I'm hyper-vigilant on those verbal

05:30and non-verbal cues of how their demeanor is.

05:34So I think I'm going to be able to figure out

05:37who might not be on my side.

05:39And then I will rally the troops to get rid of them

05:43before they get rid of me.

05:44And that is how I will crush my enemies.

05:47What are you bringing to the show

05:49that nobody has seen before?

05:52You'll never see anybody more genuine than Vince.

05:55That's who I am.

05:56That's something that I think I bring to the table.

05:59I am a genuine human being.

06:01And I can't fake that.

06:04I think I have what it takes to win Big Brother

06:06because I just have the perfect formula.

06:08Again, it's who I am.

06:10It's just in my core.

06:11I have the social skills and the physical athleticism

06:14to compete with the best of them

06:18without ever actually looking like a massive threat.

06:22What makes Big Brother such a successful show

06:25after 25 years?

06:27So this is a huge season

06:29because Big Brother is celebrating their 25th anniversary.

06:33And I think what makes Big Brother so unique

06:35and have such a loyal following

06:38is the uniqueness of it.

06:40It's one of the longest reality competition shows,

06:44meaning it's three months

06:46rather than just a couple weeks.

06:48There's live feeds.

06:49It's on 24-7.

06:51So there's going to be something happening at all times

06:54where, you know,

06:55the fans of the show can watch and enjoy.

06:57Um, there's a lot of unique elements to it

07:00that just...

07:01Changing the themes each season,

07:04you know,

07:04keeping the beloved competitions

07:07but adding in new competitions.

07:09It's always fresh.

07:11It's always new.

07:12But it also keeps true to who it is at its core.

07:17And that is Big Brother.

07:20What's your strategy going into the game?

07:23My strategy for the Big Brother house,

07:25I don't even know what I'm doing on planet Earth,

07:26let alone know what I'm going to do

07:28in the Big Brother house.

07:29So that's where I have to wing it

07:30and I have to adapt.

07:32That's all I can do.

07:32Just got to do my best.

07:34Tell us a little bit about your life

07:36in the outside world

07:37and how that has prepared you for Big Brother.

07:41I don't want to sound too lost in life

07:42because I should have...

07:43I know I should have things figured out by my 30s,

07:46but I don't really have a set long-term career path

07:51that I've been like...

07:52that I found that I've been so passionate about.

07:55So I've had a lot of different jobs

07:57throughout my adult life.

07:59So I don't even like associate myself with like,

08:02I am a this

08:04or I formerly work long-term or regularly as this.

08:08I'm trying to figure out what the next thing is.

08:10I do have a...

08:11One of my hobbies is photography

08:13and I would love to one day have a career

08:16in maybe like sports photography

08:18or something along those lines.

08:20I think that would be a lot of fun.

08:22My main goal is I just want to have...

08:24I want to enjoy what I do.

08:25That's my biggest thing.

08:26I know what I don't want to do.

08:29I've had enough jobs to know what I don't want to do,

08:31but I'm just trying to narrow it down

08:33and land what I do want to do.

08:36So all in due time.

08:38I'm not comparing myself to others.

08:40I'm not going to stress myself out too hard.

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