Big Brother Hotshots’ winner heats up

Sheillah, Trezagah, Ellah & Goitse are out just a week short of a shot at the USD 300 000 prize on Big Brother Hotshots as they

were sent home in a heartstopping quadruple eviction on Sunday night.

Their departure means that eight housemates are left in the game – and one of them must be named as the winner next Sunday! Viewers must now choose between Tayo (Nigeria), Butterphly (Zimbabwe); Idris (Tanzania); JJ (Zimbabwe); M’am Bea (Ghana); Macky2 (Zambia); Nhlanhla (South Africa) and Sipe (Malawi)!

Next week’s two-hour live show will start an hour earlier, at 19:00 CAT so as to pack all the drama of season 9 into one sizzling episode. Macky2 revealed his Head of House ‘add’ decision to the already nominated housemates, with Ellah declaring “I knew it” as he had explained that he based his decision on whom he felt was a strong competitor.

The Ugandan was spared – in the first round of evictions, at least – as IK revealed that Sheillah and Trezagah had been evicted. Joining him on stage, the Botswanese said that she’d known ‘something was up’ when she wasn’t nervous for the first time this week. She declared her ‘thing’ with Nhlanhla as “very complicated” and that it wasn’t “a relationship”.

Trezagah said he felt “so bad” at falling so close to the finale and explained that he’d moved during the ‘freeze task’ – the only reason he was up for eviction in the first place – because he thought the task was over, and that he was being pranked again. IK went back into the house and revealed that someone else was going to be evicted. He read out two more names – Ellah and Goitse – taking the number of evictees to four.

The Ugandan could consider herself particularly unlucky to be sitting on the stage with IK, rather than sipping celebratory champagne inside the house with the finalists, as she never received a single nomination on Monday and was only up for eviction because Macky2 had added her to the list. Five housemates were tied on 1 country vote after Africa voted this week, so the tiebreaker rule came into effect, sending the four contestants with the lowest percentage vote for all countries, home.

Since JJ picked up a higher percentage vote, he was spared and sent into the final. Conversely, Tayo picked up the most country votes (4), followed by Idris (3) and Sipe (2). Big Brother celebrated the work done by the Friends of the Global Fund Africa this week, naming them as winners of the USD 100 000 ONE Africa Award – in keeping with the housemates’ theme for the past week.