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Being the talk of the town by leading a public life and pursuing a career that puts him in the limelight are the last things Big Brother Mzansi winner Mc Junior (Siphelele Zondi) wants for himself in the "outside world".
After months of squabbles, sexual assault allegations, gossip and mjolo cocktails, the final Big Brother Mzansi curtain fell on Sunday 31 March. The show ended with Mc Junior becoming Mzansi’s brand-new millionaire.
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After three months of self-inflicted lockdown at the Big Brother Mzansi house, Mc Junior and this season’s runner-up Makhekhe (Tshepo Tau) are back in the real world. The journey to his R2 million victory has been an authentic one for Mc Junior, who says he didn’t have a particular strategy in place and mostly just "went with the flow".
Mc Junior says:
He breaks down the surreality of the fatigue that comes with the expectation to produce results every day for three months, affirming that being back in the real world is something that all the housemates have been looking forward to.
Ready to hit the ground running, Mc Junior said that the first thing he did upon leaving the house was call his partner. He explains that the affairs and mjolo that go on in the house are a trap he is happy to have escaped.
He adds:
Mc Junior wants to pursue a business venture that he has had his eye on for some time. He is not yet in a position to let the cat out of the bag about precisely what the business venture is but the young man has a good head on his shoulders. He says that whatever is left of his winnings after injecting some into his business, will go straight into investments.
The Big Brother brand has been marred by so much controversy over the years that the show was taken off the small screen for six years. This year was no different and Makhekhe who was in the thick of one of this season’s scandals, says he has grown since the experience with Bravo B who was disqualified from the show.
Makhekhe says:
Austin Powers film franchise actor Verne Troyer, who was in the 2009 American version of Big Brother, took his own life in 2019. Big Brother UK 2009 contestant Sree Dasari was rushed to hospital for slitting his wrists after becoming upset while viewing the episode of his own eviction.
This has prompted Mzansi to give the finalists psychometric tests in preparation for outside world readiness.
Makhekhe explains:
Unlike Mc Junior, Makhekhe is open to a career in the public eye and as someone who previously identified as a Mahlalela, he is hoping that the platform opens up a door or three for him.
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He says he has learnt a lot about teamwork, which shows in how he congratulates Mc Junior whom he says is deserving because of his genuine personality. For Makhekhe, the experience has been worth it despite losing out on the R2 million.
