BBA: Housemates lose wager again

Housemates in the ongoing Big Brother Africa Hotshots have again lost their wager, for failing to impress Biggie, the voyeur master of the game, who had saddled the two groups with the task of producing silent movies.

Caught completely unawares, housemates simply could not believe nor trust the outcome, even as Nigerian housemate, Tayo insisted over and over again that it just could not be.

They think that Biggie’s inappropriate little sister or perhaps alter ego, was clearly large and in charge and she might just have been too hard to please.

After all their practising with the pianist, the costumes, set, props and their effort it seemed Biggie had left them in the care – or lack of care – of his harsh counterpart. Feeling robbed, fooled and abandoned housemates each skirted around their emotions trying hard to avoid reaching their boiling points.

The silent movies performed by each team were entertaining and housemates did their best to live up to the brief, rehearsing night and day, taking direction from the pianist and finally looking the part.

From what we could tell, team A’s storyline centred around a little boy who was being bullied at school and got into trouble for trying to fit in. Sheillah and Trezagah threw themselves in their roles as the bullies while Ellah was his poor mother, caught in the middle in a bid to protect her son.

Team B’s movie was a love story with Tayo at the centre of what seemed like a love triangle. After courting Goitse she fell head over heels for him. Along the way he met a girl named Samantha and it was like love at first sight – ironically enough. One thing led to the next and Tayo was forced to make a decision and pick one. He picked Samantha and for Goitse this spelled the end, how could she live, if living was without him? Their movie ends tragically with her tying a noose around her neck to kill herself.

Like they did in the old days of silent movies, housemates were to promote Style Up, a proudly Africa hair brand.

But things were different with Biggie’s inappropriate sister, to her all the “over-acting, prancing around and bad singing” amounted to zilch because it simply failed to impress her. In her assessment over the week housemates left a lot to be desired when it came to team work, and there was a lot of snoozing in the background. With their attention focused on squabbling and pushing one another’s buttons, they didn’t give 100 percent effort this week.