With the BBNaija madness all but gone, everyone has contributed in some way to the show’s popularity whether during its duration or after, for positive and often negative reasons.
Latest to add to the growing comments on the impacts of the recently ended reality tv show is the former spokesman of the immediate past president and veteran journalist, Reuben Abati.
In the article ‘Big Brother Naija – Television As Madness‘, Abati pens his thoughts about the reality show. “Big Brother Naija reality television show promoted the ideas of choice and people power at the heart of democracy,” he writes.
His opinion piece was divided into lessons and hard knocks revolved around the resounding talking points of the show. However, he seemed centered on Tboss as he writes about her behavior in the house when compared to her rival Bisola and eventual winner Efe.
Lesson three: humility pays. At the end of the day, in the last week of the program, the decision by the viewing public was a moral, sentimental one. The biggest star of the program was, I don’t know what you think, Tboss (real name: Tokunbo Idowu), half Nigerian, half-Romanian. She dominated the space with her Jezebelic antics, even got some of the male participants ousted by entrapping and outsmarting them with her wiles.
She projected herself as a s*x object, the ultimate manipulator, the champion Delilah of the Big Brother Africa series. She even made a joke of the entire Big Brother concept by saying she didn’t need the money and if she won, she would spend it in two weeks to pay off debts, and in any case, she had men hitting on her, offering to take her on a ride in their private jets.
She played the role of a female barracuda. Given her looks and talents, she would have been a perfect winner. She would have looked good on the billboards. But she lost because of her arrogance. Attitude is everything: this is the lesson of Tboss’ disgrace and humiliation. When she was sent out of the House as the second runner-up, the viewing center in Ikeja, Lagos, including Kemen whose nemesis she was, danced in joy. “They are taunting me?” she asked Ebuka, the anchor. No, sweetheart, they were making a far more serious statement about you.
He also, like most conservative Nigerian writers frowned upon the over-exposure of moral decadence that the show exhibited and specifically took hits to Tboss, body-shaming her because of her breast which she bared on live tv.
Tboss and the other girls kissed and got groped by the boys on live television putting their upbringing to shame. Tboss, who claimed she didn’t need the money even exposed her breasts on live television more than once.
I have seen better breasts Tboss. I am not too sure those private jet owners will be excited by your fluffy, South-looking, slightly bigger than mangoes breasts. If the same men see bigger assets, I mean, those interesting Ojiakor-like ones that look like papayas, pineapples and watermelons, they will not send private jets, they will deploy submarines and fighter jets!
