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Big Brother<\/em><\/a> season 25 ended on a high note on Thursday with <\/span>a surprising, historic and remarkably supportive finale<\/a> that saw history being made for a third season in a row.<\/span><\/p>\n After 100 days in the <\/span>Big Brother<\/span><\/em> house, 25-year-old Jag Bains was voted the new champion, taking home a $750,000 grand prize and going down in history as the first-ever Sikh-American to win the show.<\/span><\/p>\n After the confetti settled, Bains sat down with ET correspondent, and<\/span> <\/span>Big Brother<\/a><\/em> Season 24 winner<\/a>, Taylor Hale, and reflected on his accomplishment.<\/span><\/p>\n “Being a Sikh on the show, like, just being a houseguest on the show, was so important,” Bains shared. “Having this platform to be able to present myself and my community meant the world to me.”<\/span><\/p>\n “To be able to stay loyal to whoever I was loyal too and play the game how I wanted to play, and be victorious at the end, it is everything,” he added.<\/span><\/p>\n “When I played this game, a lot of times there were tough decisions I had to make, and ultimately what it came down to every time, I want to make a decision that I would be proud of,” he explained. “That I will look back and I’d be able to hold my head up high. And I feel like I played that game.”<\/span><\/p>\n Bains also became the first ever houseguest to be unanimously evicted, which occurred in Week 4. However, due to a special twist in the game’s rules, Bains’ ally, Matt Klotz, had been given the Power of Invincibility, which could nullify any eviction in either weeks 4 or 5. In a bold and risky move, Klotz used the power on Bains, and kept him in the game.<\/span><\/p>\n Bains went on to stay loyal to Klotz — the show’s first-ever deaf contestant — all the way to the end, despite many people predicting that keeping Klotz in the game to be the other half of his final two was a mistake that could have cost him the game.<\/span><\/p>\n “Part of me did think I was making that mistake, and that’s why I say there’s really hard decisions that we have to make in the game. Like, how do I stay loyal to the person who saved me in this game? He is the reason I’m in this game,” Bains shared. “I was on the block, I prayed. And Matt answered those prayers. He saved me, and I made a vow that day that I was gonna go to the very end with him.”<\/span><\/p>\n “It’s a reality that he could have won the whole thing, and for me I really thought he had a strong shot against me,” he continued. “But ultimately, I knew that if I decided to evict him, I don’t know if I could live with that decision. For me, it came down to morals, and what I would be proud to do, and proud to look at later, and proud to tell my family about, and to stand by that decision.”<\/span><\/p>\n “So I knew that it was a risk, I knew that it was a $750,000 mistake, but to me it wasn’t a mistake,” Bains said.<\/span><\/p>\n On Thursday, after Bains had won the final Head of Household competition — notably making him the player with most comp wins in <\/span>Big Brother<\/span><\/em> history as well — the whole season came down to him and Klotz, who each got a chance to deliver a speech to the jury arguing for why they should get the votes needed to win.<\/span><\/p>\n Klotz was up first, and he calmly detailed his different decisions, and how he overcame being deaf in a game that is so heavily based on whispered secrets. It was a nuanced and compelling examination of his calculating and understated gameplay.<\/span><\/p>\n In a bold, brash move that will like be remembered for more being one of the more daring gambits in recent <\/span>Big Brother<\/span><\/em> memory, Bains decided to go in with a bit more fervor,\u00a0telling the jurors, “I am standing where I am standing and you are sitting where you are sitting because I have willed it to be that way!”<\/span><\/p>\n “It is not by luck, it is not by mistake, it is because I signed your eviction notice!” Bains continued, with an unexpected level of fire and passion. “My hands are covered in your blood! I am the most dominant, masterful, and strategic player in this house. I don’t only deserve to win, I have earned this victory!”<\/span><\/p>\n Reflecting on that speech after managing to pull off his victory with a final vote of 5-2, Bains admitted that it might have been a bit more intense than he meant for it to be, but he doesn’t regret it.<\/span><\/p>\n “I’ve always said to everyone that you need to advocate for yourself, and I felt so passionate about making it. I truly felt like I deserved to win,” Bains told ET. “And so, in that moment, I was just really passionate, and I was saying everything that I felt was real.”<\/span><\/p>\n “Did I lie in my speech? Absolutely not. Did I go super hard? Yeah. I could have toned it down a bit,” Bains said. “But my tactic was like, look, I can either shy away from the game I’ve played or own up to it fully…. and\u00a0ultimately I wasn’t going to shy away from how I played the game and I gave the speech I gave.”<\/span><\/p>\n Congrats to the newest <\/span>Big Brother<\/span><\/em> champion!<\/span><\/p>\n RELATED CONTENT:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n