BBA The Chase: Did Huddah Deserve All The Hate?

By Tony Mochama and Pius Cheruiyot

The Blankets and Wine social event had just ended and the huge crowd of fans as well as celebrities had now moved into the Carnivore Simba Saloon restaurant for the after party.

As the clock ticked 9pm, an awkward silence mastered one section of the busy spot. And then, eyes got glued on the TV screens.

Away in South Africa, one of the two Kenyan Big Brother Africa — The Chase representative Hudda Monroe, was facing the hacker’s chipping board. In another minute, she was given the matching orders to exit the BBA house. Africa had rejected her.

Ironically, the crowd at Simba Saloon rented a wild celebration cheer and even toasted to Hudda’s exit. It was a weird sense of patriotic relief. The social media went on overdrive as Kenyans seemingly celebrated Hudda’s exit.

She complained of ‘hyenas’ in the house and remorsefully made her exit as the curtains came down on her. 

 Some people are national treasures; others are continental embarrassments.

Last year, rapper Prezzo won the whole country over — and was welcomed home like a hero. But then Prezzo is a suave operator, with a talent for making rhymes flow, who is used to the glow of continental spotlights.

Hudda had only ‘naked talent’ going into the Big Brother House, less than a fortnight ago. Many disagreed she is only 21 as she stated.

She gained her fame by, literally, exposing herself on Facebook, and getting into simple ‘tweefs’ with all sorts of fellow twits on Twitter. She graduated — if that is the word — into a groupie, and then a so-called socialite (tweeting all sorts of stories about her majestic lifestyle, all the while), before ‘Big Brother’ gave her a real break at fame and fortune — by choosing her for the ‘BBA’ house in South Africa.

Alas! The lass blew it! She is back home sort of a disgraced fellow.

The Kenyan beauty who boasts of holding a diploma in Programming was by large her own biggest enemy.

However, addressing the media after arriving from South Africa yesterday, Hudda said as much as she felt like she had disgraced the country after her fans invested a lot of trust in her, life goes on and she has little to regret about.

“The thing is that I did not have to kiss a** and please anyone. Africa never gave me time to show the good side of me. I am sorry to my fans,” she remarked.

“I am not a drama queen and I just feel that controversy follows me everywhere I go. It was crazy people comparing my (small) boobs with those of Ann Mbaru and making fun of that. She has big boobs and I have an a**,” she joked as DStv representatives warned that they would take legal action on local blogs, which publicised her shower hour nude photos.

Telling off critics who thought she had been using CMB Prezzo’s name to gain mileage, Hudda said she was largly misunderstood as ‘Prezzo and I are very special friend’.

“He is one of the first people I think about in the morning and our relationship is special,” she noted.

Huddah Monroe — she came, she saw, she chased – that’s the last word on her. Soon on the streets, it will be “Who dat?” Answer?...