Tashi: Once you won did you find that long-lost family and friends started to creep out of the woodwork?
Keagan: I’ve had a couple of people on Facebook who’ve said that they’re my cousin. When I ask my mom “Do you know this person?” and she’s like “
No.”
Nobody that I know changed on me though. Everything was exactly the same when I got home - it was just the first couple of weeks when I walked in malls and stuff.
I remember the first week afterwards I went to Canal Walk and within five minutes I told my mother “I’m going to sit in the car - you do the shopping," because people pull you here, they pull you there, they want to take photos with you. I don’t say I don’t like it, it’s just
weird.
Right now it’s cool because people can see that I didn’t let it go to my head so to speak. When I interact with people, it’s not like a big issue “Oh, I won Big Brother last year.”
Tashi: What about making money out of the show afterwards?
Keagan: Lee and I were confused about what we wanted to do. There was a time when we thought “Let’s make money from the show,” but then we got bored of that.
Tashi: Appearances and stuff? What do you do?
Keagan: You go to the club or go to like somewhere and you take photos or just go and sit or party. It’s
so weird.
Thoughts: The overall impression I got is that it's much easier for housemates to find suited spin-offs from Big Brother if they're actors or presenters or musicians e.g. Uti and Weza.
What I thought you'd also find juicy is that Lerato Sengadi has a reputation for having made the most cash out of the show afterwards, particularly out of appearances in other countries. Keagan said it was what he'd heard so it's obviously a prominent perspective among former Big Brother housemates.
Between me and you ... I had a kwaaaaa while I was listening to our interview afterwards. I recorded Keagan and I on my dictaphone as we chatted and forgot to turn it off when I went the loo.
While I was gone Keagan had this conversation about the Chocolate Sundae with the waiter ...
Keagan: Is this R45?
Waiter: Ja
Keagan: Dis moerse duur. (It's massively expensive.)
Clearly having 2.5 million doesn't make it any cheaper!