'Big Brother' Notoriety Doesn't Bug Jun Jun Song needed only four votes from her fellow "Big Brother 4" housemates to walk away with $500,00. While the 28-year-old New York investment manager got six, trouncing her fellow finalist Alison Irwin's lone supporter, Nathan, she is far from satisfied by her margin of victory."I wanted the vote to be unanimous," Jun says, the morning after her triumph. "I had a feeling, though, that Nathan might not give me his vote, so it wasn't a huge surprise."As the millions of viewers who watched "Big Brother 4" this summer know, Jun was never shy about sharing her true feelings about her fellow contestants. Now, just hours removed from exiting the "Big Brother" house forever, Jun is hardly more reserved."He's immature and he could not let go of hurt feelings," Jun says of the single vote against her. "I don't know what it is exactly that I did to Nathan during the game, but he obviously felt that someone who manipulated him that badly still deserved his vote, so it's too bad for him. He looked like the fool."Jun had a tough final week in the house, even having what she describes as a "mild breakdown" in the middle. Trapped in the claustrophobic house alone with Alison, Jun found ways to hide, often resorting to prolonged naps. While Alison was a gracious loser, smiling and suggesting that she'd like to continue her friendship with Jun outside of the house, the winner can only offer a snort of derision."That means I'm not going to keep in contact with her," she says. "I think that Alison was under the impression that because we had some sort of bonding experience as the final two that I might want to keep in contact with her, but that's not happening."While Alison may have been the controlling force on the fourth installment of CBS' semi-popular reality series, she also made too many enemies. Jun certainly indulged in her share of backstabbing and name-calling, but she always managed to be just slightly less gregarious, just slightly less offensive and just slightly less alienating than Alison. In the end, the "Big Brother" jury was forced to agree that the enemy of their enemy was their friend."It's because during my confrontations I did not let my emotions run away," Jun says of her relative popularity. "I remained calm during all of them and remained business-like instead of Ali -- you know, my voice cracking, screaming, tears here and there. I really maintained a lot of control."Interestingly, Jun's initial strategy was very different from the path that led her to the big prize. This year's "Big Brother" introduced a new wrinkle by placing several people in the house with a former flame. Jun found herself fatefully reunited with her ex-boyfriend Jee Choe, destroying her original plans."I came into the house thinking I would be more of an 'Alison' as far as being a little more charming and using my seductive skills," Jun admits. "That just went out the window when Jee walked in, because my libido, sex-anything, went down the tubes as soon as I saw him, so I just scooted over to the kitchen and made myself home."It was in the kitchen that Jun made herself indispensable, taking the dirty chores that nobody wanted and working her way into the housemates' hearts through their stomachs. Jun calls herself a "master in the kitchen," but confesses that she didn't entirely abandon her first course of action."The mesh top was supposed to be part of my strategy," Jun says of the much-maligned ubiquitous article of clothing which covered many a skimpy bikini. "The mesh top was supposed to sexy, damnit. Apparently it did not win favor from most of the males, so it was burnt."Jun knows that the way she played the game may have a backlash when she returns to the real world. While she has plans to use part of the money to buy an apartment in New York, she isn't convinced that she will still have the job that she left three months ago on a "personal leave of absence." She's also a little nervous about how people on the street will respond."I'm sure people will still think I'm just an evil, evil person," she sighs. "But they don't know that I have a big mushy soft side to me."Strangers who see the self-confessed exhibitionist out and about may only have a limited window before her appreciation of her own celebrity runs dry."I'm an attention junkie," Jun says. "Why wouldn't I love having people shout my name? I don't know if I want to live the rest of my life that way, but for a couple months, I'll take it and I'll take it graciously."
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