{"id":4658,"date":"2011-08-14T09:19:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T09:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=4658"},"modified":"2011-08-14T09:19:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T09:19:37","slug":"lomwe-felicia-receive-k1m-consolation-for-big-brother-nyasa-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/14\/lomwe-felicia-receive-k1m-consolation-for-big-brother-nyasa-times\/","title":{"rendered":"(Fixed) Lomwe, Felicia receive K1m \u2018consolation\u2019 for Big Brother | Nyasa Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4659\" style=\"width: 303px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/lomwe_flag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4659\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4659\" title=\"lomwe_flag\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/lomwe_flag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malawi contestants in Big Brother: Receive token of appreciation | Nyasa Times<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Green Muheya, Nyasa Times<\/p>\n<p>Malawi\u2019s representatives to this year\u2019s Big Brother Africa reality show, Lomwe has received a total of K707, 000 while Felicia pocketed K467, 000 cash pooled together by patrons and business companies at a cocktail party in Blantyre organised by Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Culture.<\/p>\n<p>Lomwe (Tendai Namate) reached the finals, while fellow participant Felicia Ngoma who was ho was evicted after staying in the house for 70 days. The ultimate prize of $200,000 was won by Zimbabwean Wendall Parson, 23, along with Nigerian model Karen Igho.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud with Lomwe for representing us well in the house and we therefore organised a small token of appreciation of K100, 000,\u201d said Tourism Minister Dr Ken Lipenga.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi contestants in Big Brother: Receive token of appreciation<br \/>\n\u201cWe are sad that he didn\u2019t win,\u201d said Lipenga, adding \u201cbut we are proud that he carried himself with such dignity even when he realised that the prize had eluded him. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Lipenga said of Lomwe: \u201cHe spoke very well and marketed our country especially about Malawi\u2019s tourist attractions and the cultural diversity of our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also contributing were the National Lotteries Board which pledged another K100, 000 for Lomwe and K50, 000 for Felicia.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Mlombwa\u2019s Countrywide Car Hire gave Lomwe K100, 000 and K50, 000 to Felicia.<\/p>\n<p>Varibo dished out K100,000 to Felicia while Lomwe got K150, 000.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi Gaming Board had K30, 000 for Felicia and K70, 000 for Lomwe as Chez Ntemba pledged K100, 000 to Lomwe.<\/p>\n<p>South African Airways handed out two tickets for the two to fly to any African country of their choice. While flamboyant MBC\u2019s Director General Bright Malopa pledged a goat for each.<\/p>\n<p>Lomwe, the 28-year-old DJ at private FM 101 radio, made headlines for flirting with different girls, mostly Ethiopia\u2019s Hanni, Zambia\u2019s Kim and Nigeria\u2019s Vina, said he was grateful for the money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very grateful. I am proud to be Malawian,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s reality show, dubbed Big Brother Amplified, drew 26 housemates\u201416 female, 10 males\u2014from 14 countries across Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Big Brother, which sees contestants put into a house together and filmed around the clock, burst onto the scene more than a decade ago on Dutch television and has since been filmed and broadcast in more than 60 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Green Muheya, Nyasa Times Malawi\u2019s representatives to this year\u2019s Big Brother Africa reality show, Lomwe has received a total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[395,770,810,1073],"class_list":["post-4658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-brother-africa","tag-big-brother","tag-felicia","tag-lomwe","tag-malawi-celebrities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}