10th April, 2017
One of the housemates evicted long before the grand finale on Sunday, Soma said he had gotten an ambassadorial contract with Payporte, an online store and sponsor of the 2017 Big Brother Naija ‘See Goobe.’
The singer and son of a pastor said this in a short video clip shown during the finale of the reality TV show on Sunday.
Other evicted housemates also said they were busy with some projects they got involved in after leaving the house.
While Miyonse said he was still considering offers from different quarters, CocoIce said she had done a movie and currently in a location for another movie.
TTT said he had gotten two offers so far but he was still hoping to get more.
While some said they got a lot of offers, others said they were working on various projects ranging from movies to music videos.
From the Ikeja Viewing Park, where all the evicted housemates and other fans converged for live coverage of the finale, Uriel said, she was not happy to have left the house when she was evicted
A popular TV personality, Danrele Odum said “the Big Brother Naija show shut down social media, it was always trending.”
At the grand finale, Efe, an economics graduate who got 57.61 per cent of votes was crowned winner of the 2017 edition of the show.
READ: Efe Wins BBNaija Finale
Bisola won the ONE Campaign Prize and would join the organisation at the United Nations Assembly to speak on girl-child education later this year.
Tboss on the other hand won the Payporte Arena Prize challenge of N500,000.
The 11 week reality show show started on Jan. 22 with the unveiling of the 14 housemates.
The housemates were CocoIce, Efe, Marvis, Bisola, Marvis, Uriel and Tboss
Others were Soma, Miyonse, Gifty, Bally, TinTallTony, Bassey and Debie-Rise.
However, two fake housemates that were sent into the house to spice up the show. They were Jon Ogah and Ese Eriata.
By the tenth week, nine of the real and the two fake housemates were already evicted from the house, leaving the top five for the grand finale.
The top five were Efe, Bisola, Marvis, Tboss and Debie-Rise.
Among the top five, three, Marvis, Debie-Rise and Tboss were evicted early from the house on Sunday, leaving Bisola and Efe to contend for the grand prize.
Efe was ultimately crowned, with Bisola the first runner up.
The last time Big Brother Naija was organised was in 2006 when Katung emerged winner.