Cedric Hodges learned the hard way that backstabs happen on “Big Brother.”
Despite being in the majority alliance, the 21-year-old ex-Marine became the fourth person to be voted out on Season 26 last week.
Kimo Apaka and T’kor Clottey turned on Hodges after they learned from Quinn Martin that the two, along with Chelsie Baham, Brooklyn Rivera and Cam Sullivan-Brown, were in the secret “Pentagon” alliance within the 8-person “Collective” alliance.
In an exclusive interview with The Post, Hodges said he thinks Apaka, 35, and Clottey, 23, made “a really bad move for their game” by voting him out.
“I think it was bad because they made Tucker [Des Lauriers] more powerful by sending me out of the house,” Hodges said. “They took a seat away from the nomination block. They made allies in Tucker and Rubina [Bernabe]. But truth be told they’re at the bottom of that alliance as well.”
“So they didn’t move up in the eviction rankings — they just shifted from the Collective and the Pentagon to Tucker and Rubina.”
Hodges added, “I’m interested to see how they navigate getting Tucker out in order to win the game.”
As for Martin, Hodges said he “always knew” that the 25-year-old nurse recruiter was “snaking around,” but he wasn’t aware of Martin’s loyalties to Apaka and Clottey.
“I feel really betrayed by Quinn,” he said. “I also feel really betrayed by Kimo in campaigning for me to go out of the house, because I know T’Kor wasn’t really with it at first, and he took the lead on that.”
“But I understand those game moves,” Hodges added. “So from a game perspective, I get why they felt they had to do what they did.”
Hodges noted that “the whole game blew up” after his boot, which has put Des Lauriers — who actively targeted Hodges for eviction — in the power position.
“I am surprised that people are gonna allow him to stay in the game with the resume he has already,” said Hodges about the 30-year-old sales exec, who has dominated the competitions this season.
“If he’s in the final two on finale night, Tucker is winning the game no questions,” Hodges went on. “That’s not someone you want to have next to you.”
Hodges also sees that the rest of the Pentagon alliance (Martin, Baham, Rivera and Sullivan-Brown) are all on the outs in the house now.
“I think they realize how in trouble they are, for sure,” he said. “There was a quote where it was like, ‘It’s us four versus the house.’ It was the Pentagon, minus me, versus the entire house.”
“I’m interested to see how they navigate it,” he added. “I have faith that at least two of them can make it to the final five.”
“Big Brother 26” airs Sundays, Wednesdays and Thursdays on CBS.
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