On Sunday night 23-year old Kenyan student Sheila Kwamboka was unbelievably whacked from the Big Brother House by 11 countries to 2 (I'm convinced people are voting the wrong way round!)
Up against Hazel, Ricco and Tawana, Sheila suffered from hooking up with TK - who's continued using her now that she's gone by writing her
the most eyestabbingly BAD love poems in the history of the world.
Here's what Sheila had to sheesa when I caught up with her to
demand questions to our answers:
Tashi: Why do think you were voted out?
Sheila: I think I have a lot of haters out there - no problem. I'm very vocal, I say what I think - you know what happens with people who say what they think. I think generally I just make people feel inferior.
Tashi: You could be described as a smoking, drinking, tatoo'd know-it-all who refuses to cook and clean - do you think the vote was sexist?
Sheila: You know what, I think it was biased - people were trying to say I'm not African, the way I drink and smoke, I don't cook, I don't clean which generally just goes to show how people are biased because in the real world, there are so many woman - including myself when I was working - I would hardly have time to do housework and there are so many women who drink and smoke, I mean God, why do they have to pick on me? Tawana drinks and smokes, I didn't see anyone talking about her - I think generally people just didn't like me, for being - I dunno, uh myself.
Tashi: Are you lazy?
Sheila: No I'm not , I'm very hardworking - my priorities are just different from what people expect me to have. I definitely knew that people would not accept most of the things that were ideal to me and I'd set my mind on that and I knew. I didn't fool myself that Africa would embrace me with open arms.
Tashi: When TK kissed you, you were almost cringing - no reaching out to touch, no movement at all. Why did you do that to yourself?
Sheila: *laughs* Well, first things first - TK was a friend to me. I really saw him as a friend and then he started getting emotionally attached and I didn't know how to push him away without hurting him.
Then, to make matters worse, he goes and becomes Head Of House, so that was the worst time to push him away and then if I'd pushed him away it would have looked like I was using him so it was a loss for me.
Tashi: Where you using him because he was HoH?
Sheila: I wouldn't say I was using him but I was protecting myself especially at the time when I noticed he had feelings for me and I wanted to show him it wasn't the same for me but then being smart, I realised if I'd done that I'd have put myself in a precarious situation.
Tashi: You said you had no strategy but no feelings for TK - what was it all about then?
Sheila: Honestly I didn’t have a strategy but if Africa wants to call what I did a strategy so be it. I went in there not knowing what was expected of me because I’d never watched Big Brother before and I’d hear all these stories from Mimi “This is what happened in the former Big Brother” and I kept thinking “Where do I fit in in this equation?” so I was just myself.
Tashi: Do you blame TK for your demise?
Sheila: No, I blame myself for not dealing with the TK issue earlier. From what I’m gathering now, most of Africa wanted TK out and since he was saved by Morris, they took their anger out on me. Yes, I partly blame TK but I also blame me for not dealing with the issue.
Tashi: Are you a lesbo?
Sheila: No I’m not a lesbo.
Tashi: But you said you liked girls too. So what does that mean?
Sheila: It means exactly that - I like guys and I like girls.
Tashi: So you weren’t saying that to be interesting and different?
Sheila: Why would I want to be interesting and different by saying things I know half of Africa can’t stand?
Tashi: Where you attracted to Tawana?
Sheila: Physically yes, but it blew me off that she was a bitch, that she was .. um - how do you say? Her character blew me off so I stayed away from her.
Tashi: She told TK that you got hot and steamy with her under the blankets. Did you?
Sheila: No comment.
Tashi: What are your real thoughts on Thami?
Sheila: I think he’s a cool guy - I have nothing against him but I’m very, very upset with him for doing some of the things he did in the house like throwing the cigarettes over the fence, the meat and for trying to pick fights.
In the first week he kept trying to pick fights with me that I really didn’t understand - he was so self-righteous - we’d have conversations and he’d flip them to make someone else look bad, which I really didn’t like.
Tashi: Real thoughts on Hazel?
Sheila: Personally I think she’s fake. I think she’s definitely hiding her true self - hiding behind this person who’s caring and cleaning and cooking, which is all good - I have a housemate who likes cooking and cleaning and I love her for it - but Hazel's strategy, it’s excellent but when you’re living with someone like that it goes to show you that you’re living with a fake.
Tashi: And Mimi?
Sheila: She’s a gossip but I really liked Mimi, I did.
Tashi: You rated the guys from worst to best kisser at one stage - is Thami the worst?
Sheila: Munya because he just doesn’t know how to kiss. His lips are ... he just doesn’t know what to do with his mouth.
Tashi: Why, if you get so emotional about people making fun of your autistic brother, did you join Uti in calling other housemates retards?
Sheila: I think the whole retard issue was taken out of proportion. Let me give an example: we use the word “nigga” all the time - we don’t use the word “nigger”, we say “nigga”, it’s a hip hop word. “Retard” is also a word you use for people who are - it’s not retarded, it’s also slang for saying: “What you did was silly".
I think Lucille took the whole retard thing to a new level - maybe it was her strategy to make Uti look bad, which I didn’t agree with and I told her “What you did was wrong man.” Everyone was using it anyway - I’m not defending myself in anyway but I’m saying I wasn’t using it in that way.
Tashi: You told KB you think Ricco will win or that you want him to win?
Sheila: That I think he will - I’ll vote for him.
Tashi: At the time you didn’t know that him and Mimi spend every free moment conspiring and backstabbing - now that you know do you still want him to win?
Sheila: If you watch the game, my eyes were always open and I’d notice small things here and there. I tried to hint to Ricco that if he kept playing the game the way he was in the past few weeks he would be out, that Africa wouldn’t stand for what he was doing.
If he’s smart enough he’ll take my advice but if he’s not I won’t vote for him because I don’t think it’s what the game’s about.
Tashi: You were most surpised by Munya’s nomination of you but you two hardly had any sort of friendship or bond going on - when he came back after being nominated you didn’t even welcome him back.
Sheila: It wasn’t that I wasn’t happy he was back, I was just upset that Uti didn’t come back. That’s why I didn’t share my thoughts and feelings about Uti leaving with all the housemates because I didn’t want the other housemates to think I was upset about other housemates coming back. I didn’t want the three to leave - there are others I thought should leave.
Tashi: If you were still there, who would you have nominated this week?
Sheila: I’d nominate Morris, I’d nominate Tawana, I’d nominate Hazel because I don’t think the game’s about cooking and cleaning, it’s about entertaining.
Look at Thami - he entertains in his own little way. If you look at the SMS messages they’re talking about people who are entertaining not those who are talking about brushing their hair.
Tashi: What about Morris shaking things up by changing his vote - that was entertaining.
Sheila: From a viewers point of it was but from a housemates point it was definitely - I knew he’d saved TK from the first day, he sort of indicated to TK who let me know but I think it was the worst thing he could have done - he put himself in a spot.
Tashi: Who do you definitely NOT want to win?
Sheila: I think one person who definitely doesn’t deserve it is Munya, and Morris - those are the guys. And I’d also say TK because if I think about it objectively, there’s nothing he offers the viewers.
However much I dislike Tawana, I think she’s been able to stir up controversy in the house and I don’t feel bad ... okay I feel bad that I had to go over her - but viewers obviously felt she was more entertaining than me and I honour their decision that I had to go instead - but Hazel - what has she done? All she’s done is cook, hell-O.
Tashi: Why not Munya?
Sheila: He isn’t real, he’s not. He’s a good actor, he’s definitely a good actor so if I’m speaking from a point of loyalty, he shouldn’t win.
Tashi: We were convinced some of your stories and experiences that you told were crap - you obviously made a lot of them up?
Sheila: You know, there’s fact and there’s fiction so I’ll let Africa decide which was which.
Tashi: Percentage wise: 20% fact - 80% fiction?
Sheila: Let me put it like this, anything you felt was fiction, you’re well and good - you’re allowed your opinion.
Tashi: What’s your tattoo of?
Sheila: A guitar, I have a guitar and play it - it’s red. It’s just the beginning of many other tattoo’s that I’ll get of things that I love.
Tashi: Will you be watching the show now?
Sheila: Maybe, maybe not - when I have time, yes I’ll watch, when I don’t I’ll be keeping busy.
Tashi: What do you want to do now?
Sheila: With the exposure I’ve gotten I definitely want to go into entertainment, acting, singing -
Tashi: With your guitar?
Sheila: With my guitar.
Tashi: I just have to say thank you for not taking the guitar into the house.
Sheila: There were people who were telling me I should.
Tashi: It was a VERY
good idea not to. Who will you stay in touch with?
Sheila: I’ll definitely get in touch with Uti, Mimi, Lucille, funnily enough Morris because we have a lot to talk about, we have common interests in film and Ricco. Let me just say the people I don’t to want to ever meet again - I don’t want to meet Hazel ... and Tawana.
Tashi: If you were to do it again and you realised Uti liked you - would you have hooked up with him?
Sheila: I don’t think so, I respect our friendship and I wouldn’t want to spoil it.
Tashi: If you were to do it again, would you lose the jersey?
Sheila: Yes I would definitely.
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