Grapevine

I’ve never had N1m in my account — BBN winner, Kellyrae

There was no point that I thought I was going to win the competition. I was just praying that God should keep us (he and his wife and partner, Kassia) till the second week. I figured that if we were evicted after the first week, we would be leaving nothing behind, and wouldn’t have made appreciable impact. I always had it at the back of my mind that we had to leave the show with something, and also leave something behind. Even if we leave with the money, it is what we leave behind that people will talk about. Those are the things that will open more doors for us. However, we lasted beyond the first, second and third week. From that point, I felt that anything could happen, and put everything in God’s Hands.

As a matter of fact, if I had been told to predict a likely winner, I would not have mentioned my name.

Even till now, my brain is still processing the realisation that I won the show. It’s almost like I don’t know what I’m doing here, being interviewed. I am just answering questions. Last night (Sunday), I could not sleep; I just kept rolling in bed. You can imagine how it feels like for someone that came from nothing to become something.

Who else do you think could have won the show?

Going by what I had heard about BBN, as regards the kind of content people are said to love, I thought people like Wanni, Handi, Onyeka, or the Mbadiwe twins could have won. Those people (I mentioned) were prominent in the house. I was just doing my thing and hoping for the best.