Makosi paid to sing about vice girl shame

Makosi paid to sing about vice girl shame

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By Showbiz Reporter

ZIMBABWEAN Big Brother star Makosi Musambasi has told friends that weekend revelations that she was a prostitute were a publicity stunt gone terribly wrong.

Shocked friends rang the 25-year-old former cardiac nurse Sunday after a British newspaper revealed that she was £55 000 in debt and had turned to prostitution to pay her bills.

But New Zimbabwe.com can reveal that BEFORE the story appeared in The People Sunday, Makosi made a round of calls to close friends telling them: "It's not what it appears to be."

A friend said: "She said it was all cooked up and The People was paying her for the story, although they were not aware that Makosi was up to her games again.

"She is, however, regretting the whole episode because few will believe her."

The tabloid wrote a sympathetic story, describing Makosi's High Wycombe flat as "shabbily furnished" and in a "rough council estate".

The paper said Makosi had paid close to £30 000 to fly her mother to Britain for an operation and had lost a further £32 000 in legal bills during her battle to stay in Britain after her work permit was cancelled.

The sympathetic tone of the story would suggest that some PR men would have intervened, possibly after the tabloid got information about Makosi's sex-for-payments shame.

The tabloid would have confronted the star and given her an option to either sing about her vice girl exploits, to which she would be treated sympathetically and get a five-figure payment, or get hammered without a chance to add her own spin to the story.

Makosi who has featured in a few TV shows after Big Brother, and is linked to a new African TV Channel with former Zimbabwean radio host Eric Knight, shocked the world with her antics on the Channel 4 reality show last summer.

She had sex in the pool with housemate and eventual Big Brother winner, Anthony, before engaging in a lesbian kissing orgy with another housemate, Orlaith.

After leaving Big Brother, Makosi posed topless for another Sunday tabloid newspaper.

With another season of Big Brother fast approaching, Makosi knows she will soon be forgotten as the tabloids chase the new stars of the show.
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