Financial Gazette (Harare)
Zivisai Chagaka
23 June 2011
Zimbabwe’s two representatives in M-Net’s reality TV show Big Brother Africa – Vimbai and Wendall – are up for eviction and your vote will be vital to keep them in the running for a US$200 000 winner’s prize.
The two, including Zeus, Hanni, Lomwe, Millicent, Felicia or Sharon O, are up for eviction this week though only one of them will leave the house come Sunday.
This is the first time that Wendall is up for eviction following Monday’s nominations. Vimbai has, however, survived two evictions, helped mainly by the Zimbabwe vote.
This week’s head of house “save and replace” appeared to be one of the easiest in Big Brother history, as when the nominations were announced, only Felicia was not in danger.
Big Brother called first-time head of house, Vina, into the chat room to make her decision and she couldn’t help, but save herself and put Felicia up for eviction in her place.
There are two Big Brother houses this year – the Heads and the Tails – in the sixth edition of the reality show dubbed Amplified. Evictions take turns between the two and this week it was the Heads.
While the rest of the housemates referred to her potential decision as “obvious”, Vina seemed to wrestle with the way Felicia would react to the swap – but ultimately the fact that she has been up for eviction in every Heads house nomination week, swayed her decision and she decided to take herself out of the firing line.
So far, nine housemates in the Big Brother house have been sent home. The show, which kicked off on May 1, shuts on July 31 and two housemates will each take home a cash prize of US$200 000.
The nominations for this week stood as follows:
Vimbai, noting that Millicent needs to stop using alcohol to help her express herself, nominated the Kenyan.
Vina tagged Zeus for being rude during the “worm pizza” task last week and then Wendall, for hiding her things.
Zeus nominated Vina for her constant negativity and lack of commitment to the “team”. He also nominated Hanni, calling the duo the “Siesta Sisters” for constantly taking afternoon naps when everyone else was contributing to keeping the house in running order.
Lomwe’s nominations were also based on laziness – he named Sharon and Hanni as his choices. Wendall said that he was nominating Sharon O because he saw through her plan of flirting with the boys in a bid to avoid nomination.
In summary, Felicia nominated Hanni and Wendall, Wendall nominated Sharon and Vina, Sharon nominated Zeus and Vimbai, Zeus nominated Vina and Hanni, Millicent nominated Vimbai and Lomwe, Hanni nominated Zeus and Millicent, Vina nominated Zeus and Wendall, Vimbai nominated Millicent and Lomwe, while Lomwe Nominated Hanni and Sharon.
Zimbabweans need to therefore vote to keep the two in the house – the more votes they get the better their chance of staying in the house. Please note that only a nominated housemate is voted to stay in the house.
You can vote to keep a nominated housemate in the house in three different ways: By using MXit; via the website, or the WAPsite on your mobile phone or by sending an SMS
To vote using MXit: open the browser on your WAP-enabled mobile phone, and type in m.mxit.com to download MXit for free. Then locate MXit on your phone in the applications or games section and register.
Once in MXit, go to Tradepost -> Entertainment -> Mnet. You will find the Big Brother contact in the M-Net bot. Add the Big Brother contact. Please note that voting on MXit is free and you can vote up to 10 times on MXit per voting period
To vote online, register on DStv Connect, or use your existing DStv Connect profile details to log in. (www.mnetafrica.com/bigbrother). Please note that voting on the website or WAPsite is free and you are allowed to vote once per hour during the voting period.
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