It is the housemates’ final Saturday in the Show Ya Sef house, and the countdown to tomorrow’s finale is officially on.
While some finalists are taking things slowly and soaking in their final moments, others are packing, cleaning and already thinking about what life outside the house will look like. But one conversation refuses to go away: Aikou and Flora’s Gambit reveal, which still has Sheba and Temi Nkem trying to make sense of Biggie’s twist.
8:00 am: Final Saturday starts with packing and cleaning
Music fills the house as the finalists ease into their last Saturday morning.
Ricky irons his clothes while Sheba packs her belongings into her luggage. With some of the housemates still asleep, Sheba finishes packing and heads to the kitchen, where she tidies up, arranges the pots and pans and dances while getting the work done.
9:00 am: Sheba keeps the house in order
The morning remains quiet, with several finalists still in bed.
Sheba, however, is already fully active and continues cleaning around the house.
10:00 am: Finalists take the morning slowly
It is still a calm morning in the house as Sheba continues cleaning and Barry gets ready for the day.
After freshening up, Barry heads to the garden to pick up litter.
Upstairs, Aikou gets in some exercise while Tram sits quietly in the garden with his hand on his jaw, taking in the moment.
11:00 am: Temi Nkem says she feels deceived by the Gambit twist
Barry eats breakfast alone while Ricky gets dressed upstairs.
Tram heads to the Loft to wake his “nuclear family”, Flora and Oyin, but both are too sleepy and quickly drift back to sleep, so he lets them be.
Later, Tram tells Barry he had gone outside to clear his head, spend some time alone and soak everything in as the season comes to an end.
The Gambit reveal soon becomes the topic of conversation between Temi Nkem and Tram.
Temi Nkem admits she feels deceived because she never suspected Aikou was one of the Gambit. She also wonders what viewers outside the house think of her.
Tram says he is equally curious about how he is perceived, adding that this is the longest he has gone without his phone.
They also talk about tomorrow’s finale and how busy the day is likely to be. Tram admits he is still unsure about what he will wear and reminds Biggie that he is still waiting on a finale outfit.
12:00 pm: Sheba and Temi Nkem are still shocked by Aikou’s Gambit reveal
The Gambit conversation continues downstairs as Sheba and Temi Nkem revisit what they learned at the finalists’ dinner.
Aikou tells them he was a Gambit for three weeks. Sheba jokes that his peace disappeared the moment he found out about the assignment.
Temi Nkem asks how he felt when Biggie revealed his role, and Aikou says he expected something like it.
Sheba says she might have been fine remaining a Gambit until around Week 8, but by then she would probably have started thinking she could have survived the game on her own.
Temi Nkem admits the reveal hit differently because she wants to win the grand prize and had previously seen a Gambit as one less person to worry about. Now that Aikou became a full housemate, that calculation changed.
Sheba says she was genuinely shocked when she watched the clip of Aikou being told he was a Gambit. Temi Nkem jokes that Biggie deceived her and tells Sheba they need to go and “fight” him, while Sheba plays along and says they have to show Biggie who is boss.
Sheba also admits she expected the Gambit reveal to happen on stage rather than before the finale.
In the garden, Aikou tells Tram that he is not exactly returning to nothing after the show. He says he has not collected profit from his business in three months, meaning some money is waiting for him. He talks about spending it on perfumes, massages and spoiling himself.
Back inside, Sheba and Temi Nkem talk about their remaining BB Bucks and whether they will get a chance to spend them.
The conversation later shifts to Ebuka. Temi Nkem says he asked her about Barry and whether anything was happening between them. She insists she respects Barry but says there is nothing romantic going on, although they did try talking during the first week.
As they discuss tomorrow’s finale, Temi Nkem jokes that if life ever goes badly, she will simply marry a billionaire.
1:00 pm: Life after Biggie’s house takes over the conversation
Some of the finalists gather in the garden as conversations turn towards life after the show.
Temi Nkem talks investments with Bluethopia and Sheba, while Tram continues discussing competition with Aikou and what it means to stand out among his peers.
Temi Nkem says she wants to travel and build herself as a content creator.
Bluethopia also talks about travel, food, fashion and some of the influencers she follows.
The conversation ends on a playful note as Bluethopia and Temi Nkem make one more request to Biggie: Asake concert tickets.
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