BBA rep Lugudde returns today

By Caroline Ariba

Isaac Lugudde, the recently evicted Ugandan representative in the continent’s reality TV show, Big Brother Africa, arrives in the country today evening aboard South African Airways.

His departure from the House marked the end of Uganda’s hopes of winning the $300,000 jackpot for this year’s edition dubbed The Chase.

No Ugandan representation has come back home with the ultimate cash prize since the show’s inception on the continent 10 years ago.

First week it was Denzel Charles Mwiyeretsi to leave the house. Second week, his fellow countryman followed suit.

Expected to be welcomed by family and friends, the basketballer, who called himself LK4 in the game, is expected to talk to the press about his time in the TV show.

Hardly 24 hours after LK4’s departure from the Big Brother, five of the remaining 24 housemates have been put up for possible eviction set for this Sunday.

In what passed for an interesting nomination session, Malawi’s Natasha, Zimbabwe’s Pokello, Kenya’s Annabel, Angola’s Biguesas and again Angola’s Neyll stand chances of leaving the house this weekend.

The departure of two pairs of housemates already has sliced the number down to 24, which translates into more thrill, suspense and game strategy.

Filled with emotion, Diamond’s head of house Melvin from Nigeria, in a swap, put up the big Biguesas from Angola for eviction in place of Sierra Leone’s Bolt.

In the Ruby house, where the now tainted Selly from Ghana is head of house – two weeks in a row – Botswana’s Oneal was saved and Angola’s Neyll put on the chopping block.

Looking exceptionally calm, Ghana’s Selly surprised many viewers when she did not save her friends, Pokello and Natasha, but instead opted to save the quiet Oneal.

Unlike the ferocious Selly, Nigeria’s Melvin, in his capacity as head of Diamond house, only saved Sierra Leone’s Bolt and replaced Kenya’s Annabel after a lengthy thought process.

Meanwhile, Malawi’s Natasha has been walking around the house with confidence that many can only interpret as feeling of safety from Sunday’s eviction.

The show’s viewers took to social media to celebrate Natasha’s nomination, with some even suggesting that the recently evicted lovebirds LK4 and South African might be laughing hard.

Also, the Big Brother Africa website and social media pages are abuzz with discussions of Sunday’s eviction and about how the evicted couple didn’t go ‘empty-handed’.  Whatever that meant, it had to do with the two evicted housemates’ intimate connection back in the house.

Many have interpreted the fact that Koketso didn’t say goodbye to fellow housemates upon eviction as a gesture of hurrying to meet her man LK4, who had been ordered out of the house earlier.