These 3 Pretty Ladies Join Housemates

Three new housemates have been unveiled and they are beautiful indeed. Say hello to Sabina from Kenya, Samantha from South Africa and Sheilla from Botswana.

Read their profiles below:

Sabina- Kenya

Sabina is a TV and media personality from Mombasa. She has a degree in Finance and is working on a post-graduate diploma in Humanitarian Studies and Diplomacy. She says she eats everything and “loves mixing stuff up and making food concoctions,”. She’s also a big fan of oxtail, avocado and fish. Her favourite books include Joyce Meyer’s The Confident Woman.

He favourite TV shows include Upishi Xtra, Gavana, Orange Is The New Black, Smurfs. She entered Big Brother Hotshots to win the money, change her life and the lives of others. “It’s something I’ve envisioned for a long time and it’ll give me a chance to show Africa that I’m a star,” she says. “I can entertain, but I’m also a human with problems, just like anybody else.”

If she wins the money she’ll leave it alone for a month before buying a house. She will spoil her family with a holiday, build her Grandmother a house, save towards her daughter’s education, support her adopted charities and invest in her business.

Samantha –South Africa

Self-employed former law student Samantha is from Potchefstroom in South Africa’s North West Province. She loves sushi and Indian food and her favourite TV shows include 2 Broke Girls and Person of Interest. She likes the music of Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Davido and Drake.

Her favourite films include Ica Age, Madagascar and This Is Forty, with Angelina Jolie her favourite actor because “she’s strong yet feminine and an amazing actress” Samantha says. Her favourite place in South Africa is Johannesburg, and she says the best thing about Africa is ‘the diversity of the people and the cultures’. Her favourite city outside the continent is Jerusalem.

Samantha says her sister is her role model, because “she’s inspired me to be so much more and has played a huge role in my life” Samantha was inspired to enter Big Brother Hotshots, something she’s wanted to do for “a very long time” she says, because she finds cultures fascinating “and the thought of spending time with so many people from so many backgrounds is awesome.” If she wins the grand prize, Samantha will help the orphanages she volunteers at and take her sisters on holiday, before investing the rest. She describes herself as “adventurous, witty and honest” – the final trait being her favourite. It’s also something she values in others, despising dishonesty and rude people.

Sheilla- Botswana

Sheilla is a student from Gaborone in Botswana, currently studying an AAT Diploma. She entered Big Brother Hotshots because she believes that “it’s a platform for people like me who were born for the spotlight. It puts us out there to succeed in our careers – in my case, my music career” she says.

She’s excited that the whole continent will be watching her. She says “it's like interacting in the house with someone invisible, or a ghost, and the thought of what they think just gives you an adrenaline rush.” She says her best quality is that she “analyses things before overreacting in certain situations.”| She likes people who are communicative because it helps her see what they think of her and how she should behave around them.

She dislikes bossy people and “people with similar strands of personality to me” she says. She likes to eat prawns and rice, as well as pap and beef. Her top TV shows include Big Brother Africa, Keeping Up With The Kardashians and How Do I Look? She enjoys the music of Beyonce, K.O., AKA and Tamela Mann. Her favourite actors are Cameron Diaz and Dwayne Johnson.

Her favourite films also include The Hunger Games, Wrong Turn, The Break of Dawn and Mean Girls. Sheilla’s favourite part of Botswana is the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans and says that the best thing about Africa is “the diverse but highly-principled cultures which Africans tend not to leave behind”. She says that Las Vegas is her favourite place outside of Africa, because “it is a crazy, forever jolly holiday destination.”