Massive Brother 28’s Rome Seymour in the end understands why his showmance, Lyric Medeiros, needed to vote him out.
“I completely get it as a result of the one factor I confused to her, I am going, ‘Lyric, there’ll all the time be a goal on my again, all the time. I need you to do no matter is greatest to your recreation at any cut-off date,’” the pickleball coach, 28, completely tells Us Weekly after his eviction from the CBS actuality sequence on Thursday, July 23. “At first, the preliminary shock of that vote not coming by way of for me, it stung a little bit bit.”
Nonetheless, Rome understands that Lyric’s choice to betray him “makes essentially the most sense” particularly if the legal professional, 25, nonetheless needs an opportunity on the $750,000 prize.
“She wants to indicate some allegiance, some loyalty to the opposite aspect,” he explains. “And for her to have the ability to vote out the man that she’s in love with, that exhibits the opposite aspect like, ‘Hey, possibly she actually is coming to play this recreation.’ So I completely respect it, private and recreation apart.”
Rome provides that he has “no onerous emotions” towards Lyric.
“All water underneath the bridge,” he tells Us. “No love misplaced.”
Rome and Lyric immediately related once they entered the Massive Brother home earlier this month. On the second day of the sport, Rome and Lyric coupled up and have become season 28’s first official showmance. In the middle of two weeks, their emotions intensified as they exchanged “I like yous” and even mentioned the opportunity of marriage.
Whereas Rome was skeptical of getting right into a showmance earlier than the sport started, all the pieces modified the second he laid eyes on Lyric.
“I walked into that home considering, like, there’s no approach individuals fall in love. There’s no approach individuals cry. There’s no approach individuals get these robust connections in any respect. You’re right here for 3 months most, proper?” he remembers. “However in these two weeks that I received to spend with Lyric, I simply realized how superb she was as an individual, how stunning she was. Like, in and out, she’s so selfless, and it’s all of the qualities I’ve ever needed in my important different. So, for me, these emotions are extraordinarily actual.”
Now that Rome is out of the home and Lyric stays within the recreation, he’s hopeful they will reconnect and determine the “logistics” of their relationship as soon as they reunite. (Lyric is from Hawaii whereas Rome resides in Florida.)
“I’ll inform you what: It doesn’t matter what occurs, I’m prepared to make one thing work together with her,” he says. “Not less than attempt it as a result of she’s not the kind of individual you let go with out combating for.”
Massive Brother airs on CBS Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at 8 p.m. ET.



