Ellah in Trouble One Week to the Finale

It was probably the biggest week of the Big Brother Africa Hotshots, having included past seasons' housemates Sulu, Luclay, Natasha, Denzel, Vimbai, Elikem, Miss P, Feza and Uti.

From the moment they got into the house, they wreaked havoc. Uti (Nigeria) got on his countryman Tayo's nerves since he is an African star and yet Biggie was saying Nigeria had to choose between the two of them. Tanzanian Idris who has only one talent Africa can remember him for - playing the girls - was pitched against the beautiful Feza. The Tanzanian and Zimbabwean Vimbai successfully penetrated the Ellah (Uganda), Goitse (Botswana) and Idris love triangle.

Friendships were ruined and alliances were switched in the game twist, to the point that when it came to nominations on Sunday night, Sipe (Malawi) nominated former best friend Goitse for possible eviction. If Big Brother's intention was to raise the tension and entertain Africa, he nailed it - we can't forget that Tayo rant where he called Big Brother greedy for bringing back Uti and company. Or that profanity-laced outburst from South African model Luclay, which became too much for even him, that he burst into tears later.
Denzel (Uganda) was the first to spill Big Brother's secret prank, but as time went on, Feza did the same for Idris. Not that the suspicion by some that it was a prank lessened the paranoia any bit. Feza seems to have come with a mentality to help her country win; Idris' game plan seems to have changed, which is in turn throwing Ellah off course.

But it's not just Ellah; Goitse too has had to rethink her strategy. The poor girl had alienated her hotshot friends to form alliances with Feza and Vimbai. She even had the hots for Luclay, but on realizing she was pranked, her world came crushing down and she spent most of Sunday night in tears.
After the ex-housemates left during the live eviction show, she was all sobs, probably going back to the drawing board in her head. Idris ditched Ellah to console Goitse, thus pushing our girl to the over-available JJ - we saw that kiss. From the developments surrounding Ellah in that house, one thing is clear now: there is no way she could be a virgin as reported.

At the moment, the Ugandan is trending, but for the wrong reasons; she has been called a slut, whore, flirt and cheap. Well, in this game, all publicity is good publicity. Ellah, who head-of-house Macky2 decided to add to the nominees' list on Monday, joins Tayo, Trezegah (Mozambique), Sheila (Botswana), Goitse, Sipe, Idris and JJ (Zimbabwe) to fight for a place in the final.

The show ends on December 7 and the winner takes home $300,000. Vote free for Ellah on the DStv website, WeChat or MobileSite. You can also vote by SMSing the word Vote plus Ellah's name to 8884 on MTN, Airtel, Warid, Orange and utl.