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JOE BARBER ''[Housemate] Zach is just odd. Seriously, I can't wait till they do the live action movie of Shrek, because he's a shoo-in for the role.''

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He's manipulative, he's catty, and when he searches his name on YouTube (which you know he'll do), he'll find over a thousand clips with titles like ''Joe's Gonorrhea Monologue'' and ''Joe has low penis standards.'' In other words, we knew the 23-year-old receptionist from Chicago, who was evicted from the Big Brother house Thursday night by a vote of 9 to 1, would be a great interview. He did not disappoint. Especially when we asked him for his parting thoughts on each of the remaining houseguests.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You knew immediately that your ex-boyfriend Dustin would be one of the ''enemies'' coming into the house. How?
JOE BARBER II:
I pretty much knew it in my gut. [Producers] had a good idea that he was in my life through the [audition] process.

Did he ever want to be on the show?
No, he absolutely hated the show. He had no interest in the show whatsoever. It was actually something, from time to time, that we would actually bicker strongly about. So him being on the show was one of those really frustrating things because here I am so passionate about it and here he is being somebody who hates it. He's still there playing the game and I'm not, so it's extremely frustrating in that regard.

Do you think your arguments about the show will actually help him now? Like he could've picked up some strategy tips from you through those conversations?
If he was actually listening when we would talk about the show, then he most definitely would have picked something up to help him along the way. The biggest Big Brother fight we ever had was that we had to rush home from something that we were doing in order to catch the show and he didn't want to leave yet, but I was his ride. And I said, ''Get a ride with someone else,'' and he's like, ''No, I want to go with you, but you want to go see that stupid show. And blah-blah-blah-blah-blah.'' Nothing extremely detrimental to our relationship, but it was something that always cropped up.

Did you ever think that telling your new housemates, ''I destroyed his entire life. I went through and annihilated all of his friendships. I've done f---ing horrible things to this guy'' could be a bad idea?
I was just so enraged and so much emotion was flowing through me that I didn't have time to think whether or not what I was gonna say was eventually gonna be used against me. In retrospect, as I look at it, I probably shouldn't have torn him apart so much due to the fact that people realized that I was very strategic, that I had a way with people as well. I was able to turn all of [Dustin's] friends and even his best friend against him. Well, that means I've got a pretty strong sway on people's opinions, and that was something that people could use against me later in the game.

Any regrets about bringing up gonorrhea on national television?
I have no regrets whatsoever. The intention of doing so is to make open discussions. One in four people have an STI, and the fact of the matter is, it's one of those things that people don't really discuss openly. And if people move forward and realize that you can be a great, confident, outgoing, smart, intelligent, beautiful person such as myself — ha ha, just kidding — hopefully more people will be open about it and discuss it and instead of STIs running rampant throughout our society.

Do you fully believe that Dustin was the one who gave it to you?
I know for a fact, 100 percent. Other than an immaculate conception from Jesus himself, I got gonorrhea from Dustin. End of story. Period. [Dustin, who is still in competition and thus not available to EW.com for comment, has vehemently denied this allegation on the show.]

Do you know that when you told the house that, Dustin screamed his test was negative?
He was. But that was three weeks later. Dustin is very smart at timing things and whatnot. The thing about that whole situation is, if someone that you're sleeping with and been with a long time tells you that they've contracted something, you don't wait three weeks to go get tested. You kinda run out and do it. Even his close friends were like, ''Yeah, that is really random that he had waited so long to do so.''

Do you know that CBS had a taped interview with Nate [Dustin's best friend, whom Joe slept with] last night?
No, I did not know.

He said that you could have gotten it from ''anyone.'' How do you respond to that?
Nate and mine's relationship is strained as is.... If each person wants to get in on this, by all means, enjoy the ride.

NEXT PAGE: ''I still feel strongly that Nick's a good person. He's playing the game, and I wouldn't hold anything that he's done in the game personally against him.''


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