BBA: Eviction Sscare Unsettles Contestants

Barely 24 hours into this year’s edition of the popular Big Brother Africa reality, sign of the dreaded whip started to show, as housemates were asked to nominate themselves for possible eviction.

The show, tagged ‘Chase’ kicked off last Sunday with two Housemates from each of the countries making it into the BBA ‘confinement’ in Johannesburg, South Africa. The following day, five contestants including: Selly (Ghana) and Natasha (Malawi) of the Ruby House and Denzel (Uganda), Betty (Ethiopia) and Huddah (Kenya) belonging to Diamonds House were already put up for possible eviction, this weekend.

After a testing day which saw the housemates having to make nomination decisions on the fly, the lounges in both houses were in sombre mood as Big Brother delivered the nomination verdict.

Early on Day 1, the housemates in both houses got the chance to claim the honour of the fiercely contested Head of House role. Instead of battling it out in a task, Big Brother made the selection random, making the Housemates select a ball from a box in the garden without peeking, the one who chose the winning ball would be Head of House for week 1. Feza picked the right ball in the Diamond house, while Beverly was victorious in the Ruby house.

The Diamonds’ nominations saw Huddah, Denzel and Elikem lead the pack with seven, six and four nominations, respectively. Betty, Annabel, Fatima, Bolt and Neyll picked up two nominations apiece, with Dellish picking up one. Diamond Head of House Feza stuck to her original nomination decision and saved Elikem, replacing him with Betty, who she had nominated during the day.

Once the Rubies had spoken, Selly and Bassey had six nominations each, with Natasha and Hakeem picking up three each. Cleo and Biguesas were each nominated twice, while Sulu, Maria, Beverley, ONeal, Koketso and Pokello were each nominated once. Beverley, in her role as Ruby Head of House, chose to save Bassey and put Natasha up for eviction in his place.

The fate of those on the eviction list rests with the viewers who are to decide on who stays or leaves.