24 hours after she arrived Nigeria, BBA The Chase finalist Beverly Osu was rushed to Faith City Hospital, Oju Olobun Close, off Bishop Oluwole Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
The BBA star was admitted for treatment due to a sprain ankle she suffered in the BBA house, a day to the finale.
For 91 days, the video vixen entertained Africa with so many tales of her life experiences and of course, the widely condemned sexual encounter that resulted from an in-house love affair between her and another housemate, Angelo Collins
The one question everybody wanted to
know was why she succumbed to her sexual urges and having sex with the
South African while the entire continent watched.
‘I did not have sex in the house, I never had sex in the house.
I had a relationship with Angelo Collins but we didn’t have sex.
Nothing happened between me and Angelo. Though there were awkward
moments, we never had sex. I know what happened then between us but we
never got down to have sex’, she insists.
Rumour has it that Angelo has a girlfriend, but Beverly doesn’t seem to care. ‘I don’t want to talk about his so called girlfriend because I don’t know anything about her’.
Does she see a future in the relationship, she says, ‘We talk every day. He loves me and I still love him. I would get married to him if I had the chance.’
Of course on the issue of nudity she says, ‘all
of us take our baths naked. So I shouldn’t be different because I went
for a reality show. I shouldn’t be different from every other person,
because I didn’t bring out my videos, Big Brother did so I should not be
judged, and I represented Nigeria well’.
Particularly known for her fabulous
stories: from abortion to rape to sleeping with men for money and dating
musicians, she seems not to regret her actions at all. ‘I’m a very
open person. Melvin knows, he stayed with me for 91 days. I say what’s
on my mind, and for me to reveal myself to the world, it didn’t look
like I was revealing myself to the world’, she said, ‘I was talking too
much, maybe, but I’m on a reality show. I don’t regret saying the things
that I said about me and my family, because if I have to be on this
platform, people have to know the real me and what I’ve been through.’
As much as she discussed her mom’s ugly past on terrestrial television, her mom’s love was never lost from her side. ‘I
can never go out of my way to disgrace and disappoint my mom
intentionally. She has lectured me properly. And even if the whole world
rejects me, my mom can’t reject me. I love my mom so much. I am her
only daughter and last born. I’ve always been there for her and she’ll
always be there for me.’
Her conduct in the house has been termed an embarrassment to Nigeria as a country, and Beverly apologises, ‘I
don’t feel happy about it since this will be the first time I will be
representing Nigeria… I’m sorry for embarrassing my country. I didn’t do
it intentionally. My participation in the show was not to embarrass my
country‘.
Was 2shotz the rapper boyfriend Beverly claimed was constantly abusing her? ‘No. I wasn’t referring to him. For me, 2shots is history. Thank you for reminding me about him.’
She may have lost out on the $300,000
prize money, but she made history by becoming the first BBA contestant
that was never nominated for eviction since the inception of the African
franchise of the television series in 2003 and for that she says, ‘I broke a record… I made Nigeria proud’.
Beverly has come out of the show a
celebrity, whether for the right reasons or the wrong, but she is hoping
to roll on with the little fame she has achieved. ‘Before I left, I
had a show called ‘Beverly Says’ and I’m back to push it. If you guys
watched Big Brother, you would be very sure that I can act, so I’d go
into movies, but then, I have to finish school because I’m in my 200
level.’
She may have acted inappropriately in
the house and gave many embarrassing testimonies of her mom on TV,
Beverly no less gets her mother’s support and love.
One of her closest friends, Charity Owoh had earlier explained how proud her mom is of her conduct in the house.
‘She (Beverly’s mom) has seen everything. There’s the good and bad, of
course she’s a mother so she would feel the way mothers would feel but
she’s very proud of her daughter and says she’s a queen’, Owoh told Encomium Weekly.
The 21-year-old told stories of how her
mom was deported from a foreign country and how she took take care of
her siblings because her mom was hardly ever there.
On her arrival at the Murtala Mohammed
International Airport, Ikeja, both mom and daughter were over-whelmed
with joy as they both shed a few tears and hugged and kissed. ‘She just wanted her daughter to come back home safe, every other thing didn’t matter’, a family friend told NET correspondent.
What’s next for Beverly?
Like she has rightly said, ‘I’d go into movies, but then, I have to finish school’.
It is not as if her modeling and video vixen job was any great, and now
she is considering movies. The funny thing with the Nigerian society is
that, you may be celebrated one day, but if you slip up the next day,
you are totally shoved aside.
One now wonders: Will her BBA image help
her career in anyway or is it going to deter her from getting the much
needed commercial endorsements and corporate patronage that could
potentially lead her to financial independence?
Controversy, you may say sells, but will
that phrase apply in Beverly’s case? She’s been condemned by many
Nigerians, called so many unprintable names and branded an attention
seeker and a confused kid. No doubt, she wants the fame and all its
trappings, that much she’s made clear by her actions, but will her
antecedents make room for her dreams to manifest given the hypocrisy of
the Nigerian society.
Pasy Chikero, an author and media consultant feels that Beverly was not the best representation of the Nigerian woman. ‘In
my opinion, she succeeded in battering the image of the Nigerian girl!
When she stepped into the house, we thought she went in to represent us,
but it turned out she went in to represent her pocket at the expense of
the green, white, green flag she wrapped around her body’, Chikero said.
Will she settle for Afrocandy’s offer to start her acting career with a porn flick, Beverly says, ‘Thanks for the offer but no.‘
Where are the ex-contestants?
In the history of the reality show, it seems Nigerians always have a domineering role. The odd thing is that except for Uti Nwachukwu and Karen Igho, they always seem to go into oblivion after leaving the show.
For instance, Nigeria’s first contestant in the show back in 2003, Bayo Okoh, has not been seen or heard from since his participation in the show. The same goes for 2007 first runner-up, Ofunneka Moloku-Anyanwu, 2009 winner, Kelvin Pam and 2012′s contestants, Ola and Chris.
Somehow, Uti has remained relevant for doing a few modeling, acting and show hosting jobs here and there.
On the secret to remaining relevant, Uti
say, ‘I have learnt not to depend on what I have or who I am because
all of that can go in one day. I work hard everyday so as not to lose
it. I do not relax and think, Oh I have arrived. I work like I don’t
have anything at all, so that when I’m old I can relax’
Condemnation for the show
A few years ago, Nigeria’s Nobel Laurette, Professor Wole Soyinka‘s described the BBA show as ‘pervasive and debasing‘. This comment he made faulting the relevance of the show and its impact on the lives of the African youth.
Film maker, Charles Novia also condemned the show saying that it is totally contradictory to the cultures and traditions of Africa. ‘Beverly
represents a whoring Nigeria which seem to get nothing right but just
allows itself to be screwed both by internal and external interests‘, Novia said.
Some have argued that the whole premise of BBA is to have adults be their worst selves for our entertainment. ‘The show itself is for adults and not for children, and don’t expect adults not to behave like adults’, said an observer.
Uti who had come to Beverly’s defence stated, ‘That
game is not easy at all. If you are a sexually active person and you
like sex, three months is a long time to be celibate. Let’s not be
hypocrites. If there were cameras in our homes, most of us won’t be able
to show our faces in public.’
As much as many will condemn the show,
the winners will however disagree and confirm the positive impact that
the show has had on their lives. ‘Big Brother has contributed to what I am today, and I am an evidence of what they show can do for you’, 2011 winner, Karen Igho told NET.
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