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URBANA — All eyes Tuesday night were on Urbana’s Drew Daniel.

And now the world will be able to see where the winner of “Big Brother 5” was instilled with the values that convinced a jury to award him $500,000 in the reality show’s finale.

Gary Scott of Columbus spent a good chunk of his Tuesday snapping pictures of the Champaign County city for an Internet group devoted to the voyeuristic CBS series.

“I drove like a tourist around Urbana, taking pictures so they all can see. I’m supposed to find anything,” Scott explained. “There’s a girl in South America who loves Drew. Dies for him.”

Scott, who works for a college textbook publisher, admittedly felt a tad weird shooting photos of Daniel’s alma mater, Graham High, for, say, a U.K. housewife to download.

“I feel like a total stalker,” he confessed.

Scott ended his night with a stop at Urbana’s Vintage Cafe, where a handful of locals have gathered three times a week since July to rally around the hometown reality star.

“He’s honest. That’s what I like about him,” said Jason Howell, a fellow Graham alum. “There’s no pushing, shoving or conning about him.”

Throughout the show’s fifth season, James Atkins of St. Paris has only wanted respect where respect is due.

“Do you know he’s from Graham? He’s not Urbana. That’s St. Paris, baby. Put it on the map,” he declared.

As the live, hour-long season finale wore on Tuesday, there was plenty of time to talk strategy.

In “Big Brother,” 14 strangers live in a house

outfitted with cameras and mics. Each week, one is evicted.

A jury of seven evicted houseguests had to choose between Daniel, 22, and the down-home dude called Cowboy — security officer Michael Ellis, who returns to Oklahoma with $50,000.

The winner was decided by one, tie-breaking vote.

Scott didn’t think Daniel, a recent Miami University business grad, would make it as far as he did.

“He’s so good looking and such a golden boy, I didn’t think he’d have a chance. One episode showed him plucking his eyebrows,” Scott said.

Chiseled, not to mention well-groomed, good looks — and with an identical twin to boot?

No wonder girls in South America are eager to see all they can about him.

Or, now, maybe it’s just about the money.

With that in mind, Howell swung around from the bar with a mock confession: “I’m his long-lost cousin.”

Reach Andrew McGinn atamcginn@coxohio.com