#BBATHECHASE: Dillish celebrates birthday with her parents and gets car gift from Stephen.

Dillish who clocked 23 on Monday, September 16th celebrated her 23rd birthday with her parents, friends and family. Dillish's dad, Mr Abdi Guyo who promised to attend his daughter's birthday actually fulfilled his promise. This is indeed a dream come through for Dillish. Happy birthday girl.
She also got a car gift from her boo, Stephen. Better boyfriend things.

#BBATHECHASE: Elikem talks about Feza, Pokello and Nando.

Elikem had a press conference in Ghana, i listened to it and decided to transcribe the interesting parts of it.

ABOUT POKELLO.
He said when he got there he met Feza and thought she was a good girl but he was wrong. Initially she gave excuses of culture and when he got out he found out she liked him and wanted him to push harder. Then he went to Ruby and saw Pokello and things turned out good. He said he's Pokello's type of man, tall dark, masculine and she's his kind of woman " hard to get" "fresh to death"and he's taking it one step at a time and he believes they will work.

ABOUT SEX TAPE
The first or second day he got to Ruby, she told him about it and how everything leaked. He  said he has seen it and he doesn't want to say " I like it, it is niceeee".

#BBATHECHASE: Rumours, Rumours, Rumours.

Big Brother The Chase may be over but increasingly it is becoming the most controversial season of Big Brother Africa yet! There are rumours that Zimbabwean housemate Hakeem and Kenya’s  Huddah might have had sex before the show’s finale last Sunday night. Hakeem, who was in a heated relationship with Zambian Cleo before his eviction from the show is alleged to have betrayed his love for the Zambian rapper after he had openly proposed to her while in the house.

Cleo, who survived in the reality show to the final day, Sunday, had also professed and maintained her love for the well built Zimbabwean model and the emergence of a love fling between him and Huddah has stunned followers of show. Reports indicate that all evicted housemates – including Hakeem and Huddah – reported to the Hilton Hotel in Sandton in Johannesburg ahead of the finale, Sunday. Sources at the hotel say that the two got very touchy and intimate during a ‘party’ at the hotel. A picture of the two kissing passionately has added currency to rumours that the two got sexually intimate after the party. Reports have it that Huddah might have leaked the photo.

#BBATHECHASE: The Grand Finale.

The season 8 of Big Brother Africa tagged The Chase comes to an end this night. The Grand Finale which kicks off 6pm Nigerian time(7pm CAT) will be a two hour show that will include performances from Uganda's Keko, South Africa's DJ Ganayani, Nigeria's Ice Prince and Ghana's R2Bees. DJ Xclusive from Nigeria will be behind the wheels and steels while the charismatic IK will be hosting the show.

The show which kicked off with 28 housemates now has just 5 housemates vying for the grand prize of $300,000. It has been an interesting, entertaining, psychological and mentally draining journey for the housemates. It is said that being in the Big Brother house is not an easy task and the housemates have times without number confirmed that.

#BBATHECHASE: Weekly round up.

On tuesday the housemates wagered a 100 percent for the last wager of the season. And they were asked to compose a song for Airtel. Biggie also gave them a T shirt task where they get to design their shirts.

Dillish tells Elikem she feels he swapped her. They also put finishing touches to their airtel song.
Cleo and Dillish gave Elikem their clothes to fix for them because they've added extra pounds in the big brother house.

#BBATHECHASE: They made it.

On Friday, Elikem who won the HOH emerged the first finalist for the season. After the save and replace decision by Elikem last night which left Dillish, Bimp and Angelo up for possible elimination on sunday, Nigeria's duo Beverly and Melvin, Zambia's rapper Cleo also joined Elikem in the finale.

#BBATHECHASE: Day 78 round up.

It was a rather slow morning in the house. Afterwards the housemates got into the diary room to nominate themselves.

Beverly discussed her love triangle with Koketso and LK4 with Elikem, Melvin and Dillish. She told them how LK4 was coming to her strongly at the same time dating Koketso and how he told her he was coming to meet her in diamonds.

#BBATHCHASE: Feza's chase ends.

The Tanzanian songstress, Feza Kessy became the 20th housemate to be evicted from the Big Brother House. Feza who had earlier survived eviction last week was once again put up for possible eviction by her co-housemates and ran out of luck this time around as her chase for the grand prize of $300,000 came to an end just two weeks to the finale.

The Live Eviction Show started with Zimbabwean rapper Ten-Diamond rocking the Big Brother stage. Soon after did the show host IK came on stage in his charismatic self to welcome the audience and said just one housemate will be evicted. A video highlight of the week's task and ONE Campaign ambassador Ice Prince was shown before the show went on commercial break.

#BBATHECHASE: Read Oneal's post eviction interview.

You and Feza have been under scrutiny since your relationship started, why do you think you’ve been the most talked about couple in this season?

I think it’s because of my strong personality, our union made it very easy for her to conform to who I am. In a sense she was sort of swallowed up by my personality which I stand by all the time, I’ll admit I’m a bit of a tough person to deal with so at the end of the day viewers saw a relationship that consisted of two submissive and controlling individuals and I guess that made for good television which ultimately made our relationship the most talked about in comparison to the others. I came across as someone who has control issues and I will not necessarily disagree with the public, I’m a person who controls their space and Feza came into my space and when you are in my space chances are - I will control you

It’s interesting that you speak about control, because a couple of weeks ago we asked Bassey to predict the next evictees. He actually said that you and Feza were next. He claims you were not only conspirers but that your relationship was an absolute pretense and that you were very much controlling of everyone, what’s your comment on that?

First of all Bassey is 22 years old, so it’s very difficult for me to draw anything out of any statements he makes and no disrespect to him and his country. but I think he’s too immature to analyze or rationalize any situation that involves me. I’m a very complex person that deserves a lot more than a measly comment from Bassey.

What was your best tactic for surviving the Big Brother House?

I’ll revert back to my strong personality comment because when we first entered the house I was very reserved, I analyzed people and the strategic ways they played the game, so that really worked for me because people couldn’t figure me out. However, I will admit that my strategy worked up until I met Feza where a lot of dynamics started to change, I put my guard down and had to accommodate somebody else. Within that process I started opening up to not only her but to other people in the house too and in terms of errors in my strategy. That’s where things began to fall apart for me as a player in the game but at the same time I don’t want this to be misconstrued as me saying that I regret getting into a relationship with Feza. If anything, I sacrificed and I was willing to sacrifice my strategy because I had met someone special and in a way I let go of my controlling characteristics and submitted to my feelings.

Speaking about opening up, and just letting you guard down. Whilst on the show we saw you have very deep & meaningful conversations with Bimp who was also Bassey’s least favorite housemate, would you say that you’ve gained yet another brother in Bimp?

Too a large extent and that’s thanks to Feza, because at first I didn’t know Bimp that well but Feza insisted that I actually meet up with him because she believed that Bimp is so much like me mature wise especially. So I agreed to meet up with Bimp and when we met I felt a very intriguing depth about him and from there on I found it very easy to relate and talk to him on an intellectual level. I found that he is a very mature person although I saw a bit of weakness in him when it came to how he played the game. I will go back to the age comment because despite how wise he is at the end of the day he is still a 23 year old who is likely to make mistakes and yes I have gained a brother in him.

You’re also a radio personality back home and considering that you have a following that likes and dislikes you, are you a bit weary of how your followers back home will react to you when going back on air?

Not necessarily, the one thing I know about my country is that it doesn’t matter where I am in the world, I always know that I’m their son, their child and that’s how they’ll always treat you. You go out there in the world and make mistakes, and they see those mistakes but they’re very forgiving because it’s just something that’s within us as people from Botswana. I know that many will crucify me for the things I’ve done and said in the house but I know my country, only a very few will hold onto the mistakes I’ve done. The rest will appreciate my work on Big Brother, Botswana has my back all the way.

You once mentioned that the reason you entered Big Brother was because you believed the house lacked you, seeing that you’ve gained this experience would you audition for the competition again?

Quite frankly I wouldn’t audition for the competition again and with me mentioning that Big Brother needed an O’Neal I meant that, I say this without even flinching, Big Brother needed O’Neal so bad and I’m just glad I put it the way it is, because I left my mark and I know I have changed as an individual because of the game. The fact is I’ve created dialogue, and the dialogue I’ve created across Africa isn’t necessarily a soppy one where people pretend to love each other. I opened up a platform for people to really say what they feel about other countries, and how one could express themselves about the overbearing nature of some West Africans. I feel that we dance around certain regions of Africa simply because they are more popular than others and I felt that it just makes us inferior. Somebody had to just stand up against that and I was that person.

Culled from BBAForum.

#BBATHECHASE: What is happening? Day 60.

The day started with morning exercises with just about 5 housemates participating in it while others continue to sleep. After that, it was the time for Angelo to get a professional massage from Eveva who had given Sulu and Elikem morning massage previously