Turner shares lessons learned in 'Big Brother' house

Casey Turner says he's taking home some lessons from his short stint on "Big Brother" - such as knowing now that he's not as young at heart at he thought he was.

"I thought it would be like going back to college and living in a dorm," he said in a telephone interview today from Los Angeles. "But I won't be looking to live like that again."

On Thursday night, Turner, 41, a St. Petersburg fifth grade schoolteacher, became the third person voted out of the CBS reality series.

"I thought I would make it at least seven or eight weeks," he says. "I guess I've learned that I'm more naïve than I thought I was and I'm too trusting."

As the oldest contestant this season, he says he struggled through some tedious and insipid conversations with the other younger players. "I did my best to fit in but I think my age was a disadvantage," he notes.

He says he had trouble adjusting to the downtime and the almost non-stop conspiring that goes in the "Big Brother" house.

"I couldn't sleep because paranoia set in," he says. "It was like the movie "War Games' where Matthew Broderick is trying to stay one step ahead of a computer. I knew there would be lying and back-stabbing. You really can't trust anyone."

"It's amazing that I was the normal one," adds Turner who moonlights as a disc jockey and bikini contest host at a Treasure Island bar.

He and contestant Jordan Lloyd, a 22-year-old waitress from North Carolina, had been nominated by the house as candidates for dismissal.

Turner lost. The vote was 7-1. He was voted out thanks to a move to oust him spearheaded by bodybuilder Jessie Godderz who broke a pact with Turner and turned on him.

"Jesse thinks he is smart but I am convinced that he couldn't survive in the outside without reflective surfaces," Turner says.

On Thursday' show, he hugged the other houseguests but snapped at Jessie and his pals for not keeping their word.

"Casey, you went out guns blazing," host Julie Chen told him.

"You can only take so much," Turner said. "I'm a grown man, and it's hard to take some of that stuff for weeks at a time."

Five minutes after he left, Chen announced a "big surprise." The high school themed cliques to which the cast had been assigned were being disbanded.

Turner, who may have been doomed by being in the "freaks" group, says he might have survived longer if they had not been set up in cliques.

Among the more humiliating moments for Turner in his short time in the "Big Brother" house: having to hang from a toilet seat while holding onto very large underwear; wearing a skintight pink pig suit while searching in a mud pond for truffles; and wearing a silly banana suit for a week.

He says that while he was a fan of "Big Brother" it's not a reality show geek and only applied to be a contestant just for fun.

He says his wife has joined him in Los Angeles and they are heading to San Francisco this weekend for a family members' wedding.