BBA Final Showdown: All Eyes on Melvin, Beverly #BBATHECHASE

As this year's Big Brother Africa (BBA)television reality show comes to anend. The anticipations about who willtake home the princely $300,000 (about N48million) grand prize on Sunday, 25 August, areas high as never before.With last week's exit of dreadlocked SouthAfrica's Angelo Collins, who was one of thefavourites for the grand prize, and Ethiopia'sBimp, the top 5 for the final looks like this: thetwo Nigerians - Beverly Osu and Melvin Oduah,Ghana's Elikem, Namibia's Dillish, and Zambia'sCleo.The five have survived 88 days in the House andnow need every vote possible to get their handson the much sought after grand cash prize.On 26 May, 28 housemates from 14 countriesentered the Big Brother House in
Johannesburg,South Africa for a 91-day of fun andentertainment in a secluded environment. Butas the end of The Chase is just days away, socialmedia, especially Facebook and Twitter, havebeen abuzz with fans getting creative with theirsupport for their favourite housemates.Whoever wins on Sunday would hug instantfame and fortune, joining the likes of Nigeria'sKevin Pam Chuwang (2009), Uti Nwachukwu(2010), Karen Igho (2011) and South Africa'sKeagan Petersen, who was last year's winner ofthe show.The two Nigerian representatives have beenenjoying massive votes from Nigerians andother Africans. Melvin seems to be the favourite,but Beverly is also attracting attention from fansand laying a huge claim to the grand prize inspite of the opprobrium she attracted from somequarters over her controversial intimateencounters with Angelo in the house.Angelo, who approached five ladies while in thehouse, told IK Osakioduwa, the show host,during the live eviction show last Sunday thatBeverly wanted more sex after their scandalousromp under the duvet and in the bathtub."I like Beverly because she is a strong womanand she would go for whatever she wants.Beverly told me it has been over one week sincewe last did it (referring to the sex in the bathtub) but I said NO. I promised my mother Iwould not do such, so I can't do it again," Angelosaid of Nigeria's video vixen.On top of the $300,000 grand prize that each ofthe top five Housemates are in line to win, lastnight, each of the Chase housemates were givenan opportunity to win a piece of jewellery worth$1000."In the House is a box from down memory laneand on the middle box is a picture of eachremaining Housemate. On the picture is a spacefor a hand. On the sound of the buzzer, eachHousemate will have to put their right hand onthe picture of their face where the hand mark isplaced. This will be an endurance Task," readBiggie's Brief to the Top 5.Except for Melvin, who claimed to havejewellery worth $3000, four other housematesfaced off in an Endurance Task where each ofthem had to place their hand on a box with theirpicture on it and whoever manages to hold onthe longest and outlast the others would becrowned the winner and walk away with the$1000 jewellery prize.After a long and excruciating battle, that saw herfight through fatigue, hunger and crampedhands, Dillish bagged herself a beautiful prizethat consists of a piece of jewellery of her choiceworth $1000.Meanwhile, Nigeria's DJ Xclusive will make areturn to the Big Brother House to shut downthe final Channel O Party tomorrow.The hip WizKid's official DJ and Lagos urbanradio station Cool 96.9 FM's DJ in a messagepromised to make it a party to remember as itwill be the housemates' last party.