M-Net’s Big Brother All Stars housemates received their second task on Tuesday – and after losing their 100% wager last week, they’re not that confident of success this time around either after wagering 50%!
This week’s task – “Horror Island” - is set to test the housemates’ courage as they attempt to recover from last week’s devastating task loss.
The first task element saw them each having to fish their ‘treasure’ out of a bowl of snapping cockroaches. The ladies didn’t cope too well with the cockroaches as they tried to retrieve their golden coins, but the boys taught the ‘roaches who was boss. All the ladies succeeded – but not without a fair amount of drama! Sammi, Code, Munya, Kaone and Hannington each took no more than 5 seconds to retrieve their coins from the seething mass of cockroaches, while Jennifer and Tatiana had to be encouraged by their housemates before eventually facing their fears and driving their hands into the bowl.
The next element – the “Crazy Cocktail” saw the housemates each having to drink a cocktail of raw egg, orange juice, fish stock, masala paste, pickled fish, wasabi and Tabasco to retrieve another coin at the bottom of the glass. A few almost didn’t manage, but in the end, all the housemates managed to keep their cocktails down and claim their second coin.
There was a bonus task on offer as well – if the housemates could tell Big Brother the name of the special tree on the edge of the island, they could win a bonus prize. The housemates all had a go at guessing, but eventually Mwisho guessed right, with Big Brother telling him that he will receive his bonus prize on Wednesday.
Tuesday’s final task element was the Badge of Bravery, which saw the housemates ‘tattooing’ each other with a template and hot candle wax! There was a lot of wailing and giggling – but in the end, nobody chickened out and all the housemates wore their waxy skull & crossbones badges with pride.
After their first set of Horror Island tasks had been completed, Big Brother asked each housemate what they thought of the task so far. Code thought that the “Crazy Cocktail” was disgusting, but said that everyone had pushed through to try and win the task, with their wager sitting at 50%.
Jennifer said that the task was “crazy” – the cockroach task had scared everyone and that the “milkshake” was disgusting! Kaone told Big Brother that he was not happy with the wager and thought the housemates should have gone for 100% again. He thought that the smaller wager showed that they didn’t have confidence in themselves – but then he also thought that the cockroach task was easy!
Mwisho found the tasks fun, saying that even for those without phobias about creepy-crawlies, it was scary. He didn’t mind the reduced wager for this task and was happy for the remaining task elements to remain secret so the “surprise” wasn’t spoiled. Uti claimed that the task reminded him of “Fear Factor”. Big Brother asked him if he preferred to compete as an individual or a team player, to which Uti admitted that he felt that he was more of a leader, though his strategy was to be laid back and easy-going. Big Brother had a surprise for Sammi during his diary session – asking him “Can you keep a secret?” When Sammi agreed, Big Brother outlined the plan. Sammi must pretend that he is having a nightmare in his sleep and his task is to get another housemate come to his side and comfort him. If succeeds, his reward will be 3 packs of cigarettes as well as the chilli he has been asking Big Brother for in all his diary sessions. He is not allowed to reveal anything about the task to the other housemates, whether he is successful or not.
Yacob and Uti almost got into a fight after an argument boiled over. Yacob told Uti that he had no life outside the Big Brother house, after Uti “insulted his culture and ethnicity.” Yacob continued his verbal attack, saying that if Uti had a life, he would not be in the house – to his mind, the reason all the housemates are participating in Big Brother All Stars is because they have nothing to lose.
Uti took it personally and told Yacob that he understood why Big Brother Revolution winner Kevin had not invited him to Nigeria. Yacob, offended, made it clear that the reason Uti was up for eviction this week was because of his attitude. He then took Uti to task for the way he dressed and the way he conducted himself in the house. They traded further insults, before the other housemates were eventually able to calm them both down, with Uti telling the others that Yacob was “a girl” and that he had simply been teasing the Ethiopian.
Late in the evening, Hannington gave Sheila a promise ring during a quiet moment on the lawn. The Kenyan told him she didn’t want it, but Hannington insisted. All this, after telling Uti that he was “dropping the whole Sheila thing”.
She told him that she couldn’t accept the ring. Sensing Sheila’s reluctance, Hannington told her she could do what she wanted with the ring – even throw it away. Sheila then told Hannington that she was seeing someone outside the house and couldn’t be with him. Clearly devastated, Hannington told her that she had “killed everything” even though she told him that she liked him a lot and wanted to keep him in the game, which is why she could not do anything with him. Hannington demanded his promise ring back but Sheila didn’t want to give it back - asking him if that was really what he wanted to do.
Hannington had earlier confessed that when he loved somebody, he put himself “out there” whereas Sheila had admitted that even though she found him attractive, she “just could not get it on with him.” Sheila kept trying to walk away but Hannington was not prepared to let her loose until she explained her feelings to him. Eventually she told him that it just wasn’t going to work out, at which point he turned and walked away, despite her begging him to come back.
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