{"id":555,"date":"2011-08-01T10:09:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T10:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/karen-and-wendall-win-big-brother-africa\/"},"modified":"2011-08-01T10:06:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T10:06:04","slug":"karen-and-wendall-win-big-brother-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/karen-and-wendall-win-big-brother-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen and Wendall win Big Brother Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: Andrew Kareba<\/p>\n<p>{{<br \/>\nAfter 91 days that got Africa talking, Big Brother Amplified sixth season has come to an end with amazing winners- Nigeria\u2019s Karen Igho and Zimbabwe\u2019s Wendall Parson taking home US$200 000 each.}}<\/p>\n<p>After Rwanda\u2019s Primus Guma Guma Super Star(PGGSS)that left people in speculations, BBA also left people in speculations, according to blogger Oluwaseyi Ogunbameru who  said: \u201cFrom the onset, Wendall has been very laid back and only had time for his cigarettes and beer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was never a fun to watch and could sit all day on a spot. He never exhibited any kind of emotions; rather he devoted his attention to his cigarette sticks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe hardly entertained, so he was definitely an unlikely winner.\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWendall had a positive side, very hardworking. Voluntarily he cleans, unlike the other housemates who all make a fuss about household chores, and also made it clear he doesn\u2019t like being touched.\u201d Said Ogunbameru.<\/p>\n<p>In interviews before announcing the final results, the simply-dressed Wendall said, he had no strategy in the house because: \u201cthings changed every day\u201d and he was there to \u201cenjoy himself\u201d,<\/p>\n<p> And after winning, Wendall flung himself into his mother\u2019s arms after she ran onto the stage.<\/p>\n<p>Miss Karen did not expect much from the game, she was a bit different from Wendall and had a strong character, lovable, selfless and entirely original.<\/p>\n<p>Karen revealed emotions and even shed tears during the show and suggested that the winning prize should be shared among all housemates.<\/p>\n<p>Before Big Brother, Karen was jobless and now has turned wealth and model  where she won six country votes of the participant 14 countries and a 15th, which comes from all the other countries not represented on the show. <\/p>\n<p>According to New Vision, the Ugandan Sharon Salmon Nalukenge, who made 4th, placing Uganda\u2019s best performance in the reality show\u2019s six seasons, got only the Ugandan vote, with Kenya and Tanzania not showing any love for their East African Community member. <\/p>\n<p>Her father Joe Salmon, a travel agent and mother, Bank of Uganda\u2019s Rebecca Sebuyira, were there to console their girl who, by making it to the finale, got sh26m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Andrew Kareba {{ After 91 days that got Africa talking, Big Brother Amplified sixth season has come to an end with amazing winners- Nigeria\u2019s Karen Igho and Zimbabwe\u2019s Wendall Parson taking home US$200 000 each.}} After Rwanda\u2019s Primus Guma Guma Super Star(PGGSS)that left people in speculations, BBA also left people in speculations, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"byline":[158],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","byline-b_igi_adm1n"],"bylines":[{"id":158,"name":"b_igi_adm1n","slug":"b_igi_adm1n","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":1}],"contributors":[{"id":158,"name":"b_igi_adm1n","slug":"b_igi_adm1n","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":1}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}