BBAmplified: End near as struggle increases with plague of multiple evictions

BBAmplified nears end as struggle increases with plague of multiple evictions

By Adedayo Odulaja

The past 10 weeks has undoubtedly seen most of Africa’s youths hooked on the ongoing Big Brother series which is furiously winding down this month. The show, however, has finally reached the half way mark if one goes by the number of Housemates that were brought into the house at the beginning of the show and now, half that number remains in the house. A total of twelve housemates have been evicted while one was summarily disqualified for violating a core code which leaves another thirteen remaining on the show out of the twenty six that started out.
Most of the countries that are still represented left in the House all have housemates each now but some countries like Zambia, Zimbabwe and trust, Nigeria, are maintaining their strong footing in the house with their two Housemates still chasing the claim to fame and fortune on offer.
Others with one representative are South Africa (which still has Luclay), Namibia (with Bernadina in still), Ethiopia (which still has Hanni), Malawi (with Lomwe). Also, Millicent is still trying to bring Kenya honour while Sharon O and Zeus are still making attempts to do same for Uganda and Botswana respectively.
As July 31, the terminal date of the exhilarating show and judgment day for the housemates draws closer, tensions are expectedly running high and friendships are being questioned as a frantic chase begins for the ultimate prize.
With last Sunday, July 10 looming, the housemates especially those up for eviction were knew they were in for a torrid time but it got even worse that day. It turned out to be the day of triple eviction with the trio of Angola’s Weza, Bostwana’s Peo popularly known as Miss P, Alex who was the only one left flying Ghana’s flag after Confidence was evicted weeks ago, all had to say goodbye to BBAmplified, leaving the thirteen housemates to continue.
Sharon O, whose survival of last week is being viewed as a shocking one due to the fact that she was up against those considered as very strong housemates, managed to soar above all the others except Karen in terms number of votes got. She got three votes while the popular Nigerian housemate, Karen, who etched her name on the minds of many with her daring decision to put herself up for eviction instead of replacing someone with herself as head of house, had the most votes of the night, eight in total.

There were five housemates up for eviction last week and in the end, Miss P and Alex got 1 vote each while Weza got 2 votes to put them in a disadvantage compared to the support the two others received from the continent of Africa.
That edition of the eviction show kicked off with Nigeria’s fast rising music star, Ice Prince delivering a fine performance of his ‘Superstar’ track. Next, the head of house was called out to reveal to the other housemates what her decision was and that was when it turned out that she had left the nominations as they were minus in a bid to save her self. All the housemates were expectedly shocked by that selfish move.
Zambia’s Kim was simply overwhelmed with emotions when she learnt that Karen as head of house had sacrificed herself. Luclay soon joined in the act as he got up, hugged Karen as Sharon told of how she had a dream about Karen sacrificing herself.
Miss P was the first one to be called out of the Big Brother house and Kim could not do much but cry even more. While on stage, Kim said “It was awesome for having left the house” in an ironic fate as Weza(who was evicted same day), Sharon, Mumba and Luclay were the housemates who nominated her.
IK swung into action as he called out Alex and Sharon O, telling them to stand on their feet. “Sharon, you are safe,” IK roared as she made the cross sign and thanked Africa once again for ensuring her stay in the house continues while at the same time breaking down in tears of joy.
As Ghana’s Alex made his way to the stage, oblivious of what fate had in store for him that day of course, Ice Prince came back with his monster hit track, ‘Oleku’.
Alex, who was nominated by Sharon O who said that she was aware Alex had not been up and wanted to see how Africa feels about him and it is clear now that Alex did not have the support of Africa and that became evident on Sunday. Other people who nominated him were Hanni, Millicent and Vimbai.
IK again switched to the house as he called Karen and Weza out and without much ado, he immediately delivered fired the sad shot at Weza and saved Karen. The issue of the three housemates evicted on Sunday has led the remaining hosemates into calculation considering the fact that there are only two eviction sessions before the terminal date. With thirteen housemates left, only the much feared big brother knows how it is going to go down and how many will be left as the days roll by.
The import of this is not lost on the housemates themselves and with so much that strategy and popularity cannot achieve, it is time to start calling on God or gods as it were to intervene on their behalf. Already, Zeus and Sharon O have been spotted of late going down on their knees in the last few days and while there is nothing wrong with praying or interceding, that it is coming at this time is sure not lost on anyone. Zeus was spotted kneeling on his bedside and appealing to the power(s) above for intervention a few days ago and who would blame especially with him being the last hope for his country, Botswana.
It was Wendall’s birthday recently and the girls, led by Vimbai, had a great plan to prank him at midnight to usher in his birthday but he duly outsmarted them all by hiding in the closet.
When Luclay, who was part of the plan, was ready to get him out of bed as planned, Wendall could not be found and no matter how hard they tried, it was all futile and all the girls were left with no choice and had to leave their designated spots and go in form of a search party. The initial plan was for Luclay to get him to come outside where he would be sprayed with water with flour on his face to go with it.
However, the plan didn’t work out and they ended up trying to wet him in the bedroom after Vina spotted him in the closet where he was hiding.
Wendall, the birthday boy, equally shocked like other housemates about the three evicted on Sunday, said he has become certain that Biggie would be following tonight’s trend in the next two Eviction shows and would not evict less than three Housemates per show so there can be a decent number of finalists for the final week.
But part of the grand plan of the ladies in the house is their objective that a girl has to win this time around and moving forward concerning this, they held a high profile discussion about maintaining their alliance against the guys,. The girls made a pact to nominate the guys as they insisted that the guys were playing them anyway.
However, coming to this week, there is no dull moment as we await the eviction show tomorrow. Big Brother Amplified current head of house, Zimbabwe’s Vimbai on Monday displayed much patriotic zeal as she saved her fellow country man, Wendall in order to keep the chances of her country brighter and replaced him with Zambia’s Mumba. At the end of the day, five housemates are up for eviction tomorrow and it remains to be seen if she has not incurred the wrath of Africa the next time any of the two is put on the chopping block.
Vimbai’s choice of Mumba was a bit surprising as it was Karen who had nominated her for elimination from the contest in the first place. The two contestants haven’t been the best of buddies on the show and that is as clear to anyone as the sky. Since Big Brother dissolved the Heads and Tails houses two weeks ago and reunited the housemates in one house, Vimbai has consistently nominated Karen but for some reason still unknown to all, she felt it was Mumba’s turn on Monday. This might not be unconnected with Karen’s perceived strength as she seems to be one person that usually has an easy ride with the eviction session.
So Zambia’s Mumba, Bostwana’s Zeus, Namibia’s Bernadina, Malawi’s Lomwe and of course, Nigeria’s Vina are the five on the list of those who could be evicted this week. Lomwe leads the pack in the category of the housemate to be evicted this week with 26.6 percent, followed by Vina with 21.5 % and Mumba with 19.9, Bernadina with 19.1% and Zeus with 12.9% follow respectively out of the 11,698 votes cast yet as at the time of writing this.
The ray of hope for Vina shines brighter on the side of the divide as to which housemate to save with 40.5 %, Zeus follows with 21.2 %, Lomwe has 18. 2%, Mumba has 12.2% and Bernadina has 7.9 % out of 14, 375 total votes. So Africa’s decision is yet unclear and hope Nigerians will not weep for Vina tomorrow with at least three housemates to yield the stage for the others.