Season 9 of Big Brother Africa is slated to begin on October 5 and 3
more housemates have been unveiled bringing the current number to 12
Three more Big Brother Africa “Hotshots” housemates have been unveiled and one of them is a Nigerian.
Lilian from Nigeria is a 22-year-old model, actor, presenter, and tax collector. The other two are Ma'm Bea from Ghana and Luis from Namibia.
The show is scheduled to start in South Africa on Sunday, October 5, 12 days from now.
Read the housemates’ profiles below:
Nigeria - Lilian - Age: 22
Known
as ‘SexyLeeLee’ to her friends, Lillian is a model, actor, presenter,
and tax collector! She entered Big Brother Hotshots for ‘the platform it
provides and the publicity that comes with it,and the money’. She’s
not willing to sell herself short to win the grand prize. If she does
win, she’ll invest in her talk show, which is about ‘helping upcoming
talents’ and get herself a house.
Lilian’s favourite foods are
rice and plantain and she likes watching Baggage on TV and listing to
2Face Idibia. She doesn’t have a favourite book, but likes movies like
Think Like A Man, Blended, Friends With Benefits, Bridesmaids and Twelve
Years A Slave. Her favourite actor is Angelina Jolie, because ‘she’s
creative and can switch between roles’.
Her favourite place in
Nigeria is Lagos, and she says the best thing about Africa is its
cultural diversity. Outside her home country, she’d like to visit
California for the opportunities she believes it would provide her to
improve her career.
Lilian’s role model is Oprah Winfrey, because
of her strength, and the person who has most influenced her life is her
mother, ‘because she has always believed in me and encouraged me to
follow my dreams’.
She describes herself as ‘spontaneous,
easy-going, focused and confident’ and says her best assets are that
she’s ambitious, a good listener, flexible, persuasive, competitive,
independent and original.
Ghana - M’am Bea - Age: 25
Ghanaian
M’am Bea lists her occupation as ‘Acting Trainee Manager/Fashion
Designer’, and has a diploma in Management Finance. Her favourite foods
are yam and nkontomere stew, fufu, palm nut soup and jolof rice. M’am
Bea likes music by Sarkodie, Mafikizolo, John Legend, Wizkid and D’Banj.
Her
favourite place in Ghana is Aburi Garden and she says the best thing
about Africa is that ‘it expresses diversity through colours and we are
not ashamed to exhibit that’. Outside of her home country, her favourite
place in the world is South Africa: ‘it offers so many opportunities
and it offers young people the opportunity to study and become great
people in the world’.
M’am Bea’s role model is her mom, because ‘she is strong, humble, God-fearing and puts her family first’.
Inspired
to enter Big Brother Hotshots by her talent and ‘the unity of all
African countries coming together as one to learn and share’, M’am Bea
also lists making it onto the show as her proudest achievement so far.
‘It will give me room to showcase my personality and influence young,
gifted youth out there,’ she says.
Describing herself as a
‘driven, humble and respectful self-starter’, M’am Bea says that viewers
can expect her ‘true self’, her ‘fashion sense, sense of humour,
cooking skills, intelligence and wise words’ to shine through on screen.
She says she’s ‘humbled and overwhelmed’, knowing that the continent’s
eyes will be on her.
Namibia-Luis - Age: 23
Associate
Producer Luis has a B. Tech in Financial Information. He loves anything
made with or from potatoes, his favourite book is The Alchemist and he
enjoys the music of Kanye West. His favourite TV shows are Game of
Thrones, The Fixer and The Good Wife, and his all-time favourite film is
Ali.
Luis says his favourite place in Namibia is the river beds
in his home town of Rundu, ‘where the mighty Okavango Delta flows into
the ocean’. He says that the best thing about Africa is ‘the diverse
cultures – however different, every single one is somehow relatable by
being connected to the next one’. He calls Los Angeles ‘the city of
dreams where anybody can make it, given the right amount of perseverance
and correct hustle’.
His role models are his parents because they
had the biggest influence on his life. ‘They took care of not only my
siblings and I, but also my cousins, grandmother and their own
siblings,’ he says. ‘They taught me spiritual values from infancy –
those values have brought me this far in life’. He’s most proud of the
achievement of graduating from university while being Namibia’s top male
international model.
Luis entered Big Brother Hotshots because
Namibia has never been represented by anyone from the Okavango region
before. ‘I’d be grateful to tell my story to Africa – hopefully it
inspires many others with a similar past,’ he says. He’s excited to have
the whole continent watching him andIf he wins the grand prize, Luis
will build a film and television studio in Namibia.
Photos: MNet
