Makosi loses contracts over vice girl shame

Makosi loses contracts over vice girl shame

• Makosi faces fresh deportation threat

• Makosi paid to sing about vice girl shame

• Makosi a £1 500-a-night hooker

• Makosi asylum decision has no legal legs

• New Zimbabwe.com Says: Makosi decision stinks to high heavens

• Makosi wins right to stay in UK as refugee

• Move over Makosi, enter Chenai

• Makosi fears Mugabe security forces

• Chiyangwa blasts 'sad liar' Makosi

• Makosi deportation decision on October 20

• Makosi in big bother with bailiffs

• Taffy Nyawanza: Makosi and the real Big Brother

• Makosi: I'm scared to go home

• Makosi given 10 days to leave UK

• Makosi nicked by UK cops over visa breach

• Makosi HIV story: the truth

• Makosi booted out of Big Brother

• Sun blows Makosi's mask

• Chenjerai Hove: Of mice, horse meat, dogs and cats

• Mduduzi Mathuthu: Why we back Makosi to win Big Brother

• Makosi's dog-eating claims stun Zimbabweans

• Mduduzi Mathuthu: The PR disaster that sparked Makosi hate

• Chiyangwa tells all about Makosi to UK paper

• Makosi 'pregnancy' can't be real - Chiyangwa

• Big Brother housemates round on Makosi

• Makosi in Big Brother racism row

• Makosi on secret mission to beat eviction

• Makosi in steamy lesbian snog on Big Brother

• Sexy Big Brother minx Makosi a lesbian

• Mum desperate for Makosi to get hitched

• Your Shouts II: Shamed by Makosi's bare act?

• New Zimbabwe.com Says: This filth has no place in our society

• Makosi lost virginity to Chiyangwa aged 16

• Makosi dated polygamous Mugabe cousin

• Your Shouts I: Big Brother: Makosi defended

• Mduduzi Mathuthu: Every Zimbabwean should be ashamed

By Mduduzi Mathuthu

ZIMBABWEAN TV tart Makosi Musambasi faced a backlash last night following weekend revelations that she was working as a £1 500-a-night vice girl.

The Big Brother star lost a £3 000 contract to host July's African Achievers Awards ceremony, and faced the chop from ITV's summer reality TV show, Fantasy Island.

Channel 4 bosses were also preparing to cane Makosi's fitness video, while glossy magazine -- Black Hair & Beauty -- was considering taking her off the cover of its next issue.

A spokeswoman for the Fusion Voice newspaper which is organising the African Achievers Awards said last night: "The revelations about Makosi working as a prostitute have been most unhelpful and our sponsors have issued us a clear ultimatum to strike her off, or they take their resources elsewhere."

She added: "It's obviously disappointing but we don't want to send the wrong signals on a night of celebrating excellence and professionalism."

The paper could be forced to trash close to 10 000 flyers advertising the event which have Makosi's picture.

Masithokoze Maphenduka Moyo, the Fusion Voice's editor, confirmed the developments last night. She said the paper's readers had telephoned and e-mailed to express their "disgust" at the weekend revelations.

"We are now looking for another presenter, and Makosi's management company has been notified," she said.

Writing on the Fusion Voice's website, a reader blasted: "Your awards are a very good idea. But personally, I don't think that appointing Makosi as your host speaks very positively about your awards. While I accept that she may have gone through hard times in search of fame and fortune, so many of us have endured difficulties in this country but we have not resorted to the sex trade. And even if we had, would we have crowed about it?"

The awards ceremony is set to be held at Leeds' Queens Hotel on July 1.

Makosi lost her £24 000-a-year nursing job after going on Big Brother last summer.

Furious hospital bosses banished her from nursing, and her visa was cancelled -- forcing her to claim asylum in order to remain in Britain.

The Home Office is appealing against the decision allowing her to stay, and if the appeal is upheld, Makosi is likely to be deported back to Zimbabwe where she claims she would be harmed over her lesbian kissing and sex-in-the-pool orgies on Big Brother.

Sources at Makosi's management company You 1st Media told New Zimbabwe.com Tuesday that ITV were having a rethink on Makosi's participation in Fantasy Island. Channel 4 was also ready to pull the plug on her fitness DVD which should have started showing soon.

A source revealed: "Let's put it this way, this whole thing has been a disaster. No amount of spin can rescue the situation."

Makosi was forced to admit to degrading three-in-bed sex romps with an unnamed TV presenter in exchange for money. On two occasions, the 25-year-old Zimbabwean was paid £1 500 after having kinky sex with the presenter and another girl.

She claims she has debts of up of £55 000. She claims she paid £32 000 in legal costs in her battle to stay in Britain, and a further £30 000 for her mum's operation.

She admitted: "My life is disgusting. I feel so filthy. I can't imagine a person in a worst state than me right now. I just keep trying to work out where it all went wrong and how I got into this state.

"No-one realises how low I have gone to have to take money for sex. I am so broke I have to sleep with men for money."

To nominate someone for the Fusion Voice African Achievers Award please visit their website: www.thefusionvoice.com or call 08707506303
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