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Photographer and graphic designer, Idris Sultan from Tanzania on Sunday emerged winner of the Big Brother Africa reality show season nine.

Idris beat Nigeria’s Tayo to the $300,000 prize money for the winner of the controversial show.

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.

•Nigeria’s Tayo voted sexiest housemate

With the eviction of Alusa, the only Kenyan housemate left in the Big Brother house during last Sunday’s live show, the road is closed for the east African country in the show. Sabina, his country woman had been evicted previously from the show.

The race is now for left for 12 African countries with some, including Nigeria, having just one housemate left in the competition. Lillian, the Nigerian female housemate was shown the door last week, leaving Tayo, the Oyo State-born model to continue the race.

Evicted alongside Alusa last Sunday was Tanzanian saxophonist, Laveda, who became the sixth female to leave the house.

Laveda made her way to the live stage where she serenaded Africa with her rendition of ‘Africa, thank you’. She felt that people didn’t understand her and spoke about her relationship with Permithias.

Although it was the first time Alusa was being put up for nomination, he became the first male housemate to leave the house.

Show host, IK, kicked off the show by showing viewers how Samantha (South Africa) and M’am Bea (Ghana) had picked up their first ‘strikes’ for contravening Big Brother’s conspiracy rule. They had spoken about their nomination choices earlier in the week, and Big Brother called all the housemates together to remind them of the rules. That sobering moment capped a tough week for the housemates, after they had also lost their 100percent wager – their first failure so far.

Once auditors SizweNtsalubaGobodo had delivered the verified votes to IK, he told viewers that the tie-breaker rule was once again going to have to come into play, as there was a tie in the country votes. Heading into the house, he first asked Head of House Nhlanhla to reveal his ‘add’ decision before revealing the results. The South African told IK that he had based his decision on the housemates’ performance in the Head of House Qualifier task. He felt that Macky2 had put in the least effort because he was confident in himself and his status in the game, so he’d named the Zambian as his ‘add’ choice.

As Alusa made his way to the live stage, he said to IK: “Honestly, I don’t know, I am still in a dream.” As IK showed him the video of his activities in the house, he was most surprised to know that Goitse had nominated him for eviction.

It appears that chances for Nigeria is still bright in the competition, as Tayo, won the sexiest housemate contest, an indication he still has a growing legion of fans, despite being perceived arrogant and loud.

Last week’s question for the Star Meter was, ‘Which housemate is the sexiest?’ for which Tayo got an overwhelming 80 percent vote.

Also, the Nigerian housemate is also free from next week’s eviction, as his group, the Forest Fantasy team, won the last task, with immunity covering all members.

Members of the winning team show their joy by singing the song from their pantomime. The other team did not look quite as happy, but the storeroom was soon opened and the housemates settled in for foods and drinks.

It was end of the show on Sunday for three more female contestants in the ongoing Big Brother Africa reality show tagged ‘Hotshots Edition’, as the dreams of Nigerian model, Lilian, alongside Uganda’s Esther and Kenya’s Sabina were dashed irredeemably .

The three, who were among the nine put up for eviction penultimate week, were said to have scored the lowest votes from participating countries.

The Sunday’s live show brings to five the number of contestants evicted so far from the show, as Zambia’s Resa and Mozambique’s Mira had been previously evicted.

However, it was an exciting moment for Tayo, the Nigerian male contestant, as he escaped eviction from the show. While Tayo got votes from three countries, JJ (Zimbabwe) received votes from five countries and Permithias got votes from two countries. Also, four housemates received one country vote each and two housemates received no country votes.  Consequently, the tie-breaker rule was evoked in order to separate the four housemates who received one country vote each.

IK, who went into the house for the first time, teased Permithias and Idris about their closeness to some ladies in the house, before asking the Head of House, Samantha, to stand and reveal her ‘add’ decision. Samantha revealed that she had based her decision on the strongest member of the winning Extravaganza group, with Ellah as her choice. Then, IK announced that Lilian and Esther, who were the closest to Tayo, would be heading home. It was obvious that Tayo was greatly shocked by Lilian’s eviction, as he rushed to hug her, saying: “I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”

IK also revealed the StarMeter results for the week, a measure of the popularity of the housemates based on social media buzz. Tayo topped the viewers’ poll this week.  But hardly had the remaining housemates heaved a sigh of relief than IK took viewers back into the house, saying there would be another eviction. He then revealed Sabina, the comedian from Kenya, as the third housemate to be evicted on the night.

With composure, Samantha said she had connected with Permithias because of his music and his background. She told IK that she was still living in hope that there was a second house for evicted Hotshots, but he confirmed that this eviction was the end of the road for her.

 IK later revealed that Team B( where Tayo belongs), had won this week’s Extravaganza task with their traditional Bollywood performance, suggesting that they are immune from nomination this week.

The show featured Kenyan Urban Afro-Pop group Elani, who performed Jana Usiku & Koo Koo before returning later with Zuzu.