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Kenyan at Big Brother rejoins race for Sh16m
FILE | NATION. Sheila Kwamboka, Kenya's representative at the Big Brother Africa reality show with the show's host IK
What you need to know:
- There are seven Housemates remaining on the show: Sheila, Kaone, Lerato, Tatiana, Mwisho, Munya and Uti
- 91 is the number of days the eventual winner will have spent on the show.
- Sh16 million is the amount of money that the eventual winner will take home.
- October 17 - the day the winner will be announced and the show ends.
Sheila is back in the House. Sheila, Kenya’s representative in the Big Brother Africa, was overwhelmingly voted back by Africa to rejoin House from the Barn on Sunday night.
Sheila’s return means that she is now firmly in the race for the Sh16 million for winning Africa’s biggest reality TV show with only two weeks to go. Also back in the house are Angola’s Tatiana and South Africa’s Lerato. The other Barnmates; Paloma, Code, Jen and Merryl were all sent packing in the emotional two-hour eviction show screened live across the continent on MNET from South Africa on Sunday night.
Sheila, after spending a full month in the Barn, had her mouth wide open in surprise when she heard show host IK call her name as the first Barnmate to return to the House. Before heading for the doors hugged and embraced the Barnmates. Closely following Sheila was Tatiana who also spent two in the house. But Lerato’s return was more dramatic.
As they were discussing what may happen next, Barnmates received T-Shirts that had barcodes on them. Each had to randomly pick one. They decided to distribute each one by size. Once the Barnmates had worn their T-Shirts, Housemates had a decision to make that would bring one Housemate back into the House. IK had five stars on stage and each had a barcode that matched those on the T-Shirts worn by the remaining Barnmates.
The Housemates did not have much trouble deciding on Star number four. They did, however, argue on who they may like to see come back to the All Stars House. Munya was repeatedly heard saying "I want Lerato to come back in the House". "Shut up, I want my wife back", Mwisho told him, clearly referring to Meryl whom she had a lavish engagement party. Lady luck smiled at Lerato when her barcode was called out as a Barnmate to be returned into back in to the House.
She looked shell-shocked with her mouth gaping when she heard her name.
Interestingly, Sheila and Tatiana still have their men in the game. Sheila was urged by Lerato to go get her man, Uti from Nigeria while Tatiana was going for Munya from Zimbabwe whom she kept a picture of by her bedside all through her time in the Barn.
Meryl wasn’t as lucky as she had to leave the show and will have to wait a bit longer to be united with her fiancé Mwisho. Almost teary, she asked Tatiana to give Mwisho a kiss for her.
Moments after returning back to the house, social network Facebook was awash with congratulatory messages for the former actress and karaoke host. Many argued that her intervention in the fight between Hannington and Lerato raised Sheila’s profile as she was seen to stand-up for violence against women.
