Big Brother marks one week in style
Aug 31, 2008
EVER wonder what makes Big Brother tick? I think it’s the fact that the Nsaba Buturos of this world can’t switch it off – not that they haven’t tried. <br>
By Nigel Nassar
EVER wonder what makes Big Brother tick? I think it’s the fact that the Nsaba Buturos of this world can’t switch it off – not that they haven’t tried.
I mean every one of the 12 African countries taking part in the M-Net reality show has some attention-seeking minister of some sort trying to breathe so closely – only to realize the show is ‘cool’ after all.
And since its vehicle is a switch-off-able medium with a parental control facility to add, we surely can’t complain – not me (and of course not my colleagues in Namanve).
For us we don’t complain.
That’s why I find myself sitting back and taking it all in. And Saturday night surely gave it all to me – in full shots.
Biggie knew exactly what the housemates needed to fully come out of their shells.
They had had a tiresome week painting mushrooms for a Thursday night presentation about their countries, got a tiresome wood work task to assemble cubes, and done pictorial autobiographies, which had drained them by Saturday night.
So to commemorate their one week in the lavish house and thank them for weekly tasks well-done, Biggie threw them a two-hour party from 9:00 pm – a complete one with revealing queen dancers and O-Boma’s DJ Waxxy spinning the discs.
He rocked them so hard he would have made Akon’s DJ Benny D jealous. They were paired up – Morris with Malawi’s Hazel, Nigeria’s Uti with Tanzania’s Latoya, Munya (Zimbabwe) with Botswana’s Tawana, Kenya’s Sheila with South Africa’s Thami. Angola’s Ricco had two – Mimi (Ghana) and Lucille (Namibia), because Zambia’s TK doesn’t dance – or so he claimed.
They danced themselves crazy, with each couple struggling to dance dirtiest. Morris got so up-close with Hazel that you thought something cozy might creep. But it didn’t – at least not yet.
By the end of the party, all of them were excited – and with ideas too. Mimi and quiet Lucille confessed they liked Ricco (damn, I had favoured that beautiful Namibian thing for Morris).
Well, not that Latoya would have made it any easier for Lucille to take Morris. Even when we thought they had split up on Friday after Latoya kissed Ricco, the Tanzanian again took advantage of the party to make up with Morris.
Turns out Morris is only her day-time lover. I was wrong to ever think she would shift to our dude’s bed after the reconciliation. Can you imagine the blonde went back to Ricco’s bed and they kissed throughout the night? If only Morris could get smarter!
Well, while Morris is being played, Munya is losing it all. He and Sheila initially had a good thing brewing. But being the dreamer that he is, he extinguished the fire and cast his nets to bait Lucille.
Turns out Lucille has it for only two guys – Ricco and TK, at least going by her confession. And on going back to Sheila, the tomboy assures him she has the hots for a dude (of course not Munya) and a babe (Latoya). Is she Bisexual? Well, the dude happens to be chubby TK.
Somebody tell Munya where broken hearts go. I mean, can’t he see that Tawana isn’t yet taken? And she’s head of house following her winning the cube-assembling task. Who knows?
She just might give him immunity from nomination as possible evictee because as head of house, she has the powers.
EVER wonder what makes Big Brother tick? I think it’s the fact that the Nsaba Buturos of this world can’t switch it off – not that they haven’t tried.
I mean every one of the 12 African countries taking part in the M-Net reality show has some attention-seeking minister of some sort trying to breathe so closely – only to realize the show is ‘cool’ after all.
And since its vehicle is a switch-off-able medium with a parental control facility to add, we surely can’t complain – not me (and of course not my colleagues in Namanve).
For us we don’t complain.
That’s why I find myself sitting back and taking it all in. And Saturday night surely gave it all to me – in full shots.
Biggie knew exactly what the housemates needed to fully come out of their shells.
They had had a tiresome week painting mushrooms for a Thursday night presentation about their countries, got a tiresome wood work task to assemble cubes, and done pictorial autobiographies, which had drained them by Saturday night.
So to commemorate their one week in the lavish house and thank them for weekly tasks well-done, Biggie threw them a two-hour party from 9:00 pm – a complete one with revealing queen dancers and O-Boma’s DJ Waxxy spinning the discs.
He rocked them so hard he would have made Akon’s DJ Benny D jealous. They were paired up – Morris with Malawi’s Hazel, Nigeria’s Uti with Tanzania’s Latoya, Munya (Zimbabwe) with Botswana’s Tawana, Kenya’s Sheila with South Africa’s Thami. Angola’s Ricco had two – Mimi (Ghana) and Lucille (Namibia), because Zambia’s TK doesn’t dance – or so he claimed.
They danced themselves crazy, with each couple struggling to dance dirtiest. Morris got so up-close with Hazel that you thought something cozy might creep. But it didn’t – at least not yet.
By the end of the party, all of them were excited – and with ideas too. Mimi and quiet Lucille confessed they liked Ricco (damn, I had favoured that beautiful Namibian thing for Morris).
Well, not that Latoya would have made it any easier for Lucille to take Morris. Even when we thought they had split up on Friday after Latoya kissed Ricco, the Tanzanian again took advantage of the party to make up with Morris.
Turns out Morris is only her day-time lover. I was wrong to ever think she would shift to our dude’s bed after the reconciliation. Can you imagine the blonde went back to Ricco’s bed and they kissed throughout the night? If only Morris could get smarter!
Well, while Morris is being played, Munya is losing it all. He and Sheila initially had a good thing brewing. But being the dreamer that he is, he extinguished the fire and cast his nets to bait Lucille.
Turns out Lucille has it for only two guys – Ricco and TK, at least going by her confession. And on going back to Sheila, the tomboy assures him she has the hots for a dude (of course not Munya) and a babe (Latoya). Is she Bisexual? Well, the dude happens to be chubby TK.
Somebody tell Munya where broken hearts go. I mean, can’t he see that Tawana isn’t yet taken? And she’s head of house following her winning the cube-assembling task. Who knows?
She just might give him immunity from nomination as possible evictee because as head of house, she has the powers.