After 14 days of living the high life in the Upville house, the Big Brother StarGame VIP housemates got a dose of reality on Monday (21 May) as they had their first nomination session of the show.

When the dust had settled, Mampi, DKB and former Downville housemate Maneta found themselves up for eviction this week – but DKB used his power as Head of House to save himself and put Lady May up for eviction in his place. That means viewers must vote to keep one of Mampi (Zambia), Maneta (Zimbabwe) and Lady May (Namibia) in the house this week.

When Big Brother revealed the results of the nomination process on Monday night (20:00 CAT on DStv Channel 198), the housemates sat in stunned silence for a moment as reality set in. Big Brother had to call DKB to the Diary Room a number of times to make his ‘Save and Replace’ decision. After pondering his choice, DKB revealed that he would be saving himself and putting Lady May up for eviction in his place.

Earlier in the day, Mampi had received the most nominations from her Upville housemates, picking up six – everyone else except Maneta, nominated her. Maneta and DKB picked up three nominations each, putting them in the eviction firing line.

Mampi nominated Goldie and DKB – the former because “I believe she’s too plastic, she’s a pretender. She doesn’t like me anyway” and DKB because “he’s been stepping on my toes over and over again and he doesn’t look like he wants to stop anytime soon. And now that he’s Head of House it feels like he has an even bigger head – he thinks he can do whatever he wants”.

Goldie’s nominations went to Maneta and Mampi, because of the Zambian’s “side talks”. Maneta nominated DKB and Goldie, while DKB nominated Lady May and Mampi. Hesaid that Lady May had been taking things too personally, while Mampi had been “breeding mistrust” amongst the men in the house. Lady May nominated Maneta and Mampi, while Barbz chose Prezzo and Mampi.

Prezzo nominated DKB because “he’s not real with himself, on the other hand he tries too hard to fit in” and Mampi, saying “some people speak because they have something to say and other people speak because they just feel like talking. She’s been trying to open a can of worms that passed during our first week in the house”.

Roki nominated Mampi and Maneta – the former because he wanted to protect her “because things are gonna get crazy in here” and the latter because “she came here in combination with her sister and now that she’s here, she’s joined another combination with Mampi.” “She’s fading slowly into Mampi”, he told Big Brother.

The nominations were as follows: Mampi (6); DKB (3); Maneta (3); Goldie (2); Lady May (1); Prezzo (1) while Barbz and Roki didn’t pick up any nominations.

It’s all up to the viewers now! You need to vote to keep your favourite contestant in the Big Brother Upville house. Voting opened immediately after Monday night’s nomination show at 20:30 CAT and closes at 06:00 CAT on Sunday morning.

There are three ways to vote to keep your favourite housemate in Big Brother StarGame – via web, SMS or WAP – and you can win amazing prizes in the process, like DStv PVR’s, DStv Walkas and Big Boy scooters.

To vote via web or WAP, go to www.africamagic.tv/bigbrother, log in, click ‘Vote’ and then click the appropriate button for the housemate you’d like to keep in the house. You may vote once per hour.

To vote via SMS, send the word VOTE followed by the housemate’s name to the number for your country below. SMS’s are charged per specified network tariffs in the various countries. VAS rates apply. Free minutes do not apply. Please note that you can vote 100 times by SMS per telephone number during each voting period.

South Africa

Vodacom                 33729              R 1,50

MTN                            33729              R 1,50

CellC                          33729              R 1,50

Big Brother StarGame fans can catch all the latest news, video – and all-important voting information – at www.africamagic.tv/bigbrother. Tweet Big Brother @BigBroAfrica, send SMS messages to the on-screen strap and visit the Big Brother StarGame Facebook page to get the low-down on the continent’s favourite reality show. By simply pressing the OK button on their DStv remote (on Channel 198) viewers can get updated news and information from the Big Brother StarGame house. Viewers now also have the choice of two Big Brother StarGame channels on their TV’s – DStv Channel 197 & 198 which are available 24/7!