After a summer of cookie dough-eating, dragonfly-dodging, banana suit-wearing and microphone-destroying fun, America's biggest guilty pleasure reality show has crowned a new winner.The person is Jordan Lloyd who was served the $500,000 grand prize on "Big Brother 11."
The goofy 22-year-old Jordan Lloyd waitress from Matthews, N.C., bested Natalie Martinez, the scheming 24-year-old recent college graduate from Gilbert, Ariz., on the season finale of the voyeuristic CBS reality show.
Jordan Lloyd received the most votes from the show's seven-member jury, which included viewer votes as the possibly tie-breaking seventh pick for the first time.
In this image released by CBS, the cast of the CBS summer show "Big Brother 11" is shown. (AP Photo/CBS, Sonja Flemming)
In the season finale of Big Brother 11, southern belle underdog Jordan Lloyd defeated Kevin to win the final head of household competition to ensure a spot in the finals. Jordan Lloyd then evicted Kevin, leaving only herself and Natalie to face the jury of evicted houseguests. (Viewers also got to vote as the would-be seventh juror, Chima, was expelled from the game earlier in the season for breaking production rules.)
After deliberating, the jury chose Jordan Lloyd as the winner by a vote of 5-2. She said she planned to use the $500,000 grand prize to put a down payment on a house for her mother and brother, give money to her cousins for their college fund and buy herself a new car. Runner-up Natalie won $50,000.
