Munya, 24, defied odds last week when he won a public vote to stay another seven days in Mnet’s Big Brother All Stars at the expense of big-chested South African, Lerato.

Asked which housemate they want to save, 65 percent of the 17,240 people polled on the Big Brother Africa website had voted for Munya on Friday night. And more good news arrives by way of another poll on the same website: When asked which of the 11 remaining housemates they would like to evict, nominated or not nominated, Tatiana is ahead with a staggering 40 percent of the vote. Munya slots in third with 11 percent.

Munya’s second week of misfortune came after Sheila, who was head of the house on Monday, was nominated by other housemates for eviction. But being head of the house comes with the privilege of nominating someone else in her place – and she picked Munya.

Code had nominated Yacob, because, he said, “I can’t trust him and I can’t place him yet”. His second nomination went to Sheila.

Meryl nominated Kaone because he “gets on my last nerve” and also because she feels he is judgmental. She also nominated Tatiana because she considers her to be strong competition but pointed out that “it has nothing to do with Lerato, I just don’t want her around for too long”.

Munya kept his nominations going along the same lines he has stuck to every week – “strictly business”. He nominated Uti and Yacob, explaining: “I’m starting from the top of Africa and moving down.”

Paloma nominated Sheila because she could save herself and Uti because she felt his jokes had gone overboard and he is hurting people. “This is getting out of hand”.

Mwisho nominated Tatiana because he thought everyone would be thinking along the same lines after both her Head of House decisions had seen the people she replaced herself with evicted from the house. He also named Kaone because “the game has shifted” – he feels he needs to pick a side and take a gamble and Kaone is not on the side he has picked.

Sheila nominated Kaone because she felt that they don’t really understand each other and then Tatiana because “I don’t want her making an example of me as she did with Lerato”.

Tatiana nominated Uti because she feels he is pushing people too hard and being hurtful and Sheila because she knows what the pressure feels like to have to save and replace as Head of House.

Uti nominated Tatiana because he feels she sounded pretty confident talking about being in the finals during Sunday night’s eviction show and he wants to see what Africa thinks. He then picked Kaone because he thinks he has “tried in so many ways to portray me as a bad Nigerian”.

Yacob said that he didn’t plan to be a part of any alliances this season after the complications of being part of the Smokers’ Alliance last season. He nominated Sheila because he plans to always nominate the head of house, and Uti because he’s decided he will nominate a different person each week.

The three housemates already evicted, who have been consigned to a barn with live animals, also had their say. Hannington nominated Tatiana as revenge, because “she took me out, and she took Lerato out”. He then nominated Sheila because she could save herself. “I just hope she makes a good decision,” he said.

Lerato nominated Tatiana hoping that “she will get a taste of what she is giving out” and Sheila, emphasising that this was a purely strategic decision because she can save herself and “execute a mind-blowing plan”.

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