Big Brother is back with a bang! The seventh
season of the continent’s biggest reality show - Big Brother StarGame - blasted
off on Sunday night (6 May at 21:00 EAT on DStv Channel 198) with more star
power, housemates, glamour and cash up for grabs than ever before! The biggest
bombshell of all? Two of the housemate pairs are already up for eviction during
next Sunday’s live show!
Enthusiastic viewers across the continent
tuned in to meet the seven celebrity ’Upville’ housemates and 14 pairs of
‘Downville’ housemates who will compete over 91 days for USD 300 000 in cash –
with all the money going to the last housemate standing. Two new countries also
join the show this year - Sierra Leone and Liberia, with the entire show
refreshed by Coca Cola, of course!
Ever-dashing presenter IK was joined by a
dazzling new addition to pump up the glamour of the opening show: co-host
Flavia from Channel O and Uganda’s Capital FM. Together, they set the wheels in
motion for a packed show which saw two stellar performances from US rapper and
Grammy Award nominee J. Cole, who put his star stamp on the show early on with
his hit “Work Out”.
As IK gave viewers a sneak peak inside the VIP
Upville house, the @BigBroAfrica Twitter account raced well beyond the 100 000
follower mark – before the continent had even met a single housemate! With top
South African DJ Miss Cosmo spinning the beats, IK welcomed the seven VIP
housemates on stage - comedian DKB (Ghana), musicians and singers Prezzo
(Kenya), Lady May (Namibia), Goldie (Nigeria), Mampi (Zambia) & Roki
(Zimbabwe) and model Barbz (South Africa). Big personalities, one and all, the
VIP housemates promised viewers loads of fun and tons of entertainment as IK
introduced each of them to the continent. Once they’d all been introduced to
Africa, they made their way into the Upville house and immediately set about
exploring every inch of their luxurious new digs.
As they settled in, IK gave viewers a preview
of the Downville house, which will be the 14 other housemate pairs’ home for
the next 91 days. Stylish and fun, the ‘Downville Diner’ is going to be an
awesome playground for the housemates! Then it was time for the big reveal -
and IK introduced the 14 pairs, one by one: fun-loving Esperanza & Seydou
(Angola), daring sisters Edith & Eve (Botswana), ‘complicated couple’
Mildred & Keitta (Ghana), dynamic brothers Alex & Malonza (Kenya),
hard-partying friends Yadel & Luke (Liberia), players and cousins Nafe
& Wati (Malawi), bubbly friends Jesica & Junia (Namibia), joker buddies
Ola & Chris (Nigeria), cool gal pals Dalphin & Zainab (Sierra Leone),
longtime friends Lee & Keagan (South Africa), ultra-competitive lifelong
friends Hilda & Julio (Tanzania), fun-loving buddies Janette & Kyle
(Uganda), playful sisters Tamara & Talia (Zambia) and self-confessed drama
queen siblings Maneta & Teclar (Zimbabwe) before sending them into the
house.
Rap superstar J.Cole departed on a high with a
dazzling rendition of “Nobody’s Perfect”, promising Africa that he’d be back to
visit again soon.
Viewers and housemates alike always know to
expect the unexpected from Big Brother – and StarGame promises to be no
different, as IK revealed a new random nomination system – and told a stunned
Downville house that nominations would begin immediately, with an eviction
already looming on next Sunday’s live show.
This year, Downville housemates won’t be
nominating each other. At the end of every Sunday’s live show, a disco ball
filled with identical smaller balls will be summoned from the ceiling of the
studio by pressing a big red button. Balls featuring the names of all the
participating countries will drop into a transparent cube, which will mix them
by spinning around. One random ball will be released and the housemate pair
from the country whose name appears on that ball will be nominated for
eviction. The process will always play out live on the show so that the
continent can see which ball falls from the cube – with the process also
audited by Sizwe Ntsaluba Gobodo, Southern Africa’s largest black accounting
firm.
With the Downville housemates watching in
stunned silence, the first nomination began right away – with the ball randomly
dropping from the cube bearing the country name ‘Tanzania’. Hilda and Julio
could only giggle nervously as they tried to take in what had just happened,
when IK received a message from Big Brother that another random nomination
should take place. The process was repeated – and verified again by the Sizwe
Ntsaluba Gobodo auditor – with Zimbabwe’s ball dropping from the cube – meaning
that siblings Maneta & Teclar are also in the eviction firing line.
The Downville house was filled with nervous
laughter as IK and Flavia closed out the show by reminding Africa that they had
the power to keep their favourite housemate in the house by voting, with lines
open immediately and closing at 19:00 EAT next Sunday.
There are three ways to vote to keep your
favourite housemate in Big Brother StarGame - via web, SMS or WAP.
To vote via web or WAP, go to
www.africamagic.tv/bigbrother, log in, click ‘Vote’ and then click the
appropriate button for the housemate you’d like to keep in the house. You may
vote once per hour.
To vote via SMS, send the word VOTE followed
by the housemate's name to the number for your country below. SMS’s are charged
per specified network tariffs in the various countries. VAS rates apply. Free
minutes do not apply. Please note that you can vote 100 times by SMS per
telephone number during each voting period.
Tanzania
Vodacom 15726 Tsh 600
Tigo 15726 Tsh 600
Zantel 15726 Tsh 600
The winner of Big Brother StarGame will be
named after 91 days of head-to-head competition – and the power to award to USD
300 000 prize rests completely in the hands of the viewers.
Big Brother StarGame fans can catch all the
latest news, video – and all-important voting information – at
www.africamagic.tv/bigbrother. Tweet Big Brother @BigBroAfrica, send SMS
messages to the on-screen strap and visit the Big Brother StarGame Facebook
Group to get the low-down on the continent’s favourite reality show. By simply
pressing the OK button on their DStv remote (on Channel 198) viewers can get
updated news and information from the Big Brother StarGame house.
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