Kevin wins Big Brother Revolution!!!

MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writers | Tuesday December 8, 2009 00:00

In a tense final moment, Nigeria's Kevin was declared the winner and scooped the mouthwatering US $ 200, 000 at stake.

 One of the four finalists on the day, Emma of Angola, was asked to leave the House first, while IK welcomed Emma, Kevin had the chance to take it all in. Coming out of the House a winner, after 91 days, his name was officially written on the US$200, 000 cheque, according to the competition's website, Mnet.co.za.

The competition ran for 91 days and had housemates from across the continent, including Botswana, which was represented by Kaone.  But on Sunday night all the fame belonged to the young Nigerian as the crowd chanted Kevin, Kevin, Kevin as IK prepared to announce the winner's name.

The eventual winner collapsed into a heap of tears as his name was announced and fellow finalist Emma kept screaming, 'I told you, I told you.' Kevin and Emma shared a huge hug before she walked onto the stage to be welcomed as the BBR runner-up. Kevin was still in the House on the floor with his head buried in his arms in sheer disbelief until IK called him up onto the live show stage.

The tears would not stop flowing from his eyes! Especially when he realised his emotional family who where up on the live stage with him.

Before the big moment, Kevin sent a heartfelt thank you to his fans and everybody who voted for him around the continent. Kevin's parents put a Support Kevin t-shirt over his head while he jumped up and down for the crowd.

IK finally asked Kevin to pull the plug on the Big Brother Revolution. They each literally took hold of the plug, pulled, the screen turned misty, went blank and - with that - it was officially all over.

The competition started with 25 housemates, including the twins Erustus and Edwards from Namibia, who kept other housemates guessing for several weeks. When the competition started, the public was also left guessing whether there would be women in the house this time, as only the male folks appeared. The women were to pitch in the house two weeks later, but they did not mix with their male counterparts until few weeks later. For the first time some countries were represented by as many as three housemates,  but  there has also been controversy  that the rules of the game were bent  to appease Africa's most populous nation, Nigeria, which also happened to have three housemates.