I have to say, this was one of those interviews that I was relieved went well, considering how I had been uncertain about doing it… I enjoyed the time spent with our beloved Namlish widow whom was willing to share her experience and her opinions about life in the wimp brada house… Here’s how it went…
Segs: How are you today?
Junia: (
smiles) I am fine. Uuhhhh… I am overwhelmed, I am excited… it’s ok… (
giggles)
Segs: How was the evening? (
raised eyebrow)
Junia: well, the evening was actually fine… with… you know, actually watching tv, seeing a tv and it’s actually playing (giggles) and me having a remote, I could actually change it. (laughs)
Segs: Ok, did you spend time with Malonza? (
raised eyebrow)
Junia: uh, yah… (
laughs)
Segs: Did you guys talk about things like where to from here…
Junia: (
laughing) well, we were spending… well, obviously you know, we do know each other and we spent a lot of time in the house together, so it would just be weird if he was in his room and I would be in mine (
giggles) so, yah… it was quiet exciting and it was fun. (
smiles)
In matching colour outfits?
Segs: Your relationship with Malonza, yesterday you were also kind of dodgy on the stage answering this question, Are you just friends, or friends with benefits?
Junia: (
laughs) well, you know,me and Malonza… aahhh goodness…. It’s like.. we have this thing, we understand each other on a whole different level… uuhhmm…so we are friends, we do like each other a lot… and aahhmmm… you just never know. Things might…(
giggles)
Segs: So you are still not gonna answer that question?
Junia: (
laughs) No… (
laughs)
Segs: Are you in a relationship or not? You can’t say maybe, yes or no…
Junia: (
laughs) we are not in a relationship, right now (
laughs) we are not. (
laughs)
Segs: Are you wearing secret slimmers? (
smiles)
Junia: (
laughs) Oh my gaad! No… (
laughs) my mom also spoke to me on the phone last night and she was like “
Jun, you are sssoooo fat” (
laughs)
Segs: Where is fifi? What happened to Fifi?
Junia: (
laughs) eish! The thing about Fifi is sometimes she is there, and sometimes she is not there. But I have Faith to thank, and I really have to see her and give her a hug because the way she.. she was like “
Hai wena, what is this now?” (
giggles)
Segs: Tell us about your accent, the why, when, the how
(Question from WhiteSockGirl)
Junia: well, oh… wow! Well, the guys have been teasing me about my voice and I really don’t see any problem with it. (
smiles) well, I guess.. uhhmm…it’s because I went to a… to a school that … a private school…I started off going to a private school in Mariental, which is called Danie Joubert, which I am so proud of because I think I wouldn’t have had that or this.. if it wasn’t for them, and it was a lot of white people all together and a few black kids so I think that maybe… being with so many white people around, you know.. I think, yah.. (
giggles)
Segs: So it’s from your school background?
Junia: yah, yah (
giggles)
Segs: Why did you go on the show? What appealed to you about the big brother show?
Junia: I tried out last year and did not make it so I just wanted to see, can I actually make it. So for me it was about trying again and seeing if this time it would actually happen. And it did… (
giggles)
Segs: what did you like about the show that made you keep coming back?
Junia: well, I would say that … uuhmmm, I have always loved being on TV. You know when you are in kindergarten and teacher asks
“who do you wanna be?” and I always wanted to be an actress, always wanted to be somewhere where people can actually see me. So TV, was the most important thing, for me.. Just thinking about big brother, you think of TV… So yah, I wanted to be on TV.
Segs: Not the money?
Junia: well, you know what, obviously the money, like me and Jaz would be like – in the first stages of auditions, I would always forget to mention the money and say it’s about the experience and she would be like “
and the money, and money” … so, of course and the money
Segs: Did you watch previous shows?
Junia: well, not really really follow it, but my sister-in-law is addicted to it. So if I visit them, I obviously had to watch and she would tell me certain things about the show. So yah, I’ve watched some of it…
Segs: What shocked you during the first week?
Junia: In the house? The exercising (
scrunches her face and whispers) … the exercising, whaaaat? I hated it. I hated it because, you know, I don’t exercise back home. I would go with friends once in a while to see how she is doing her gymming and whatever but not really me, get on and do it myself…
nnnooooo (
scrunches up face) so the whole… noooo noooo… and actually realizing that I am with, my goodness, so many people and I have to know each and every one of them. You know? Just this weird Downville style, wow… and the walls, you can’t go out, you don’t have your phone, it’s crazy…
Segs: The first 5 week, uhdikts did not see you…
Junia: Really? (
surprised)
Segs: You and Jesica were sleeping the whole 5 weeks… I also asked her why you guys were so horizontal during that time until you got nominated…
Junia: (
giggles) Really? We were tired… Yah, I know… but, I don’t think we were sleeping to make… but we did wake up.. I don’t know… we did wake up to do tasks and stuff…For us, in the house, it didn’t feel any different. There is not much to do, other than the task and stuff.
Segs: What don’t we know about you – something you hid from the viewers?
Junia: hhhmmmm… wow… I’d say… uhhh.. you know, I actually told biggie in the diary session that I could be very shy, and people would think that I am all out there but I am actually…
Segs: (
shakes head smiling) you are not shy…
Junia: (
laughs) probably, in a way, (
giggles)to some extent, yah… I think I potrayed the whole Junia, I could not really hide me.. I could not really try to hide some stuff about me…I just had to go all out because that’s just the person that I am…
Segs: What did you learn about yourself?
Junia: goodness… well, I have never cried so much in my entire life.. and I thinks the emotional part of me has just blown me away… I never thought I would be so emotional and that I am such a softie… like heaven’s… I cried…
Segs: Yah, girl, you cried… you cried, you became a widow 3 times in 63 days!!
Junia: (
laughs)
Segs: You lost Ola, then you left Malonza and then he left you last night at eviction… you cried… but you did not cry that much for Jesica, if at all..
Junia: (
laughs) I guess that Jaz, I felt she was so strong… stronger than me… and that having her in the house and having her giving me that “
it’s gonna be okay, Jun”, you know, it was so much comfort, it meant so much to me and I am so grateful. (
smiles) Well, I was married to Ola. It was obviously a joke but …
Segs: You’ve been married twice, in that house… to Ola and Keagen… (
laughs) but tell us about your first marriage…
Junia: (laughs) well, uuuhhm… Ola was just such a good person, such a huge guy with the most beautiful heart and you see him (
eyes grow bigger), people are like “
oh, I’d rather not”...when you get to know him, and see him everyday, he is such a beautiful person, he really is… it’s just written all over his face, growing so fond of him, having that connection … him just standing there and saying that he’s not healthy enough to stay in the house, a lot of things came to my mind… "
oh my goodness, his health is at risk, we’ve been fighting so much, all of this tension has gotten to him"…
so it hit me so hard, and it really hurt, I was not faking my tears.. because he really does mean something to me, his friendship, on the basis of how we connected. We connected through this whole joking
“my husband, my wife” thing…
Segs: Who did you like the most, at first impression – Ola. Lee or Keagan? (
Question from nightschoolteacher)
Junia: (
cringes at Keagan’s name and smiles) Ola, because I thought Lee was the biggest nerd. I actually told him (
giggles)
Segs: No interest in Lee, at all.
Junia: Not at all. No, I just think that the friendship I have with Lee is the kind of friendship I would have with my brother. Because me and my brother, are note really huggy and all that stuff. The fact that he came to me and we talked so much, and there was so much about him that he shared with me. It actually really meant a lot and made us closer.
Segs: …And Keagan?
Junia: (
cringes) Keagan is an a*$ehole!!! (
giggles) I mean I told him that a thousand times. He just got on my nerves.
Segs: What is your beef with Jannette? (
Question from nightschoolteacher)
Junia: I don’t have any beef with Jannette and I kept on saying that. I really don’t have anything against Jannette.
Segs: Do you think you over-reacted when she threw the bag at you?
Junia: (
shocked) No, I don’t think so
Segs: Do you think it was intentional?
Junia: Maybe not, maybe to some extent, maybe, I don’t know and I guess I will never know because with Jannette, you just never know because she has a way of hiding things. She can hide them really really really really really … she can make them be… gone! She is just good at that. So I think like that if you are wasted, and you think that you are so drunk, you would not be looking at the cameras to see where they are, first of all.
Because I was looking at her from the time she actually came inside the room, and I feel like that when you know you are in a house, not just by yourself, and you are with a lot of people, you are just not gonna start breaking things and throwing bottles around because you know that you might hurt somebody . I actually can’t believe that I sat back and calmly thought about what she did because Junia just reacts, I was actually surprised at myself for taking time asking Malonza “
Did you see what she just did?” and then reacting…
Segs: Who were you going to nominate apart from Keagan or Jannette, if you had stayed?
Junia: Prezzo, because I feel that the fact that he has been in the music industry and he being in the limelight, he is actually strong and I would have definitely tried to get rid of him, if I could. (
giggles)
Segs: Esperanca and Seydou Exit, you chose sides and you did not seem sympathetic to Esperanca’s… what did you think about the whole voluntary exit situation? (
Question from nightschoolteacher)
Junia: Well, for me, it was hard to try to get close because she already built a wall.. she already built a wall with the people that she felt were close to her and I felt like connecting with Talia wasn’t like we chose sides, me and Jaz, because if we did, we could have gone upstairs.. we actually already knew what was happening like the time we had the prayer, and she was like “
guys, you have no idea what I left behind” and her telling us about what happened back home and her not knowing how to deal with and what she is gonna find back home .
So, I think, if me and Jaz chose sides, when we got upstairs and Talia was crying and was like “why is she doing this?” as it felt personal to her, we could have said a lot of things to make things worse like “
why did she not deal with this before coming into the house” but we didn’t. But I personally, asked them to go talk and find out her reasons, but maybe her reasons were personal and she could only share it with people she was close to.
Segs: Do you they were selfish with their own needs without trying to understand the other’s standpoint?
Junia: If I put myself and Jaz in that situation, so if that was Jaz, I would have wanted and expected her to come to me because you came into this house with me, deal with this with me, let me be the first person to understand you about this issue before you choose someone else to vent to or whatever. I felt that Esperanca had to go to Seydou and at least say what she felt, even if she was not ready to give her reason but just say
“I am sorry that I can’t do this and I wish you can understand me and hope you forgive me” or something…
Segs: Do you think Seydou gave her a chance to express herself and her feelings?
Junia: I actually saw him, because we were always lying on our beds, so I saw him twice coming into our room and trying to talk to Esperanca. I just did not the response to talk coming from her side.
Segs: Maneta and Roki disqualification, what is your take?
Junia: Well, it is… that! I don’t know… because when I came into the house, everything was cool, but the girls told me that the two were always on each other’s case and stuff… I mean, you know, Keagan was always on my case but would be reactive to that but I never actually thought it would come to that. When he came out the Diary room, he had two bottles of water and said “
Where is maneta, is she upstairs?” so I said yes and went outside to try to get Prezzo to follow him and see what he was gonna do.
I was actually outside when she threw bleach on him and Barbz came out running as I heard Roki screaming “
my eye, my eye”… the only thing that I thought was “
he is blind!”… I always think the worst and extreme when things are happening. So I was in the corner and I was being comforted by Keitta that it will be ok.
Segs: Do you think the housemates could have prevented the fight going that far between those two?
Junia: of course, you can always control yourself… everybody tried to talk to them, Prezzo and Keitta were not even talking to maneta at that time, they spoke to her and tried to get her calm telling her “
you are better than this. Don’t do this.” I think they really tried, and obviously you have your own mind and decisions to make.
Segs: Who are you happy to never see or talk to again?
Junia: wow. .. my goodness… That’s just so hard to tell, because I don’t think there is anyone that I never wanna talk to or see again…
Segs: So you are gonna be spending some time with Keagan?
Junia: Ok, that might be the last person that I wanna pick up the phone to call (
giggles) Well.. I can’t say that I will never speak to some people but I think that there are some people that you would never care if they call you or you wanna call them… (
giggles)
Segs: And these people are?
Junia: (
giggles) well, Keagan is probably one of them (
giggles)
Segs: and Jannette?
Junia: Oh no… I would really like to be in touch with Jannette…there’s a lot of people that I really did not get close to, but I will keep in touch with Jannette.
Segs: Where to from here? What are future plans for Junia?
Junia: I am looking forward to an acting career, of course… and now that I am thinking of it and looking at myself in the mirror, and I am seeing fifi and everything… and you know, I am being so comfortable with my body, maybe even modeling…
I am looking forward to enjoying life and have a career that is actually gonna go somewhere … and gonna take me somewhere where I wanna be… and feel like “
what?” (
taps table) “
if it wasn’t for big brother, I wouldn’t have been here”… something like that, you know.. (
giggles)
********* Interview ends********
We wish Junia all the best and look forward to seeing her dreams come true...