Following their sex tryst in the toilet early on Tuesday morning between Oluwabamike Olawumi (BamBam) and Tope Adenibuyan (Teddy A) in the latest third season of Big Brother Naija, there's been the usual outrage from viewers and calls for the reality show broadcast across Africa on DStv to be banned.
The two housemates got passionate at around 03:00 on Tuesday morning in the reality show that is rated R18 with MultiChoice that is broadcasting Big Brother Naija on channel 198 on DStv across Africa. The third season of Big Brother Naija is produced in South Africa by Red Pepper Productions for M-Net.
The two housemates have been criticised after video and images of their sexual encounter surfaced across social media the past few days, with thousands of downloads of a file entitled "Teddy A and Bam Bam BBNaija Sex Video" on a file-sharing site.
Reno Omokri, a former aide to Nigeria's former president Goodluck Jonathan was quick to weigh in and slam the show, the contestants and Nigerians who adopt bad things from Western culture, tweeting that "When I was a child, only animals had intercourse in the open for all to see. Now I am an adult, Nigerians call people who publicly have intercourse in a toilet, stars! If they are stars, it must be very dark over Nigeria! We have a culture. Not everything from the West is good!"
The Nollywood actress, Moyo Lawal, also wanted to insert herself into the conversation, slamming BamBam for making as if she's a "good girl" but saying nothing about Teddy A who was the other half of the sex-duo, saying on her Instagram account that "So I just observed that all dem "good" girls have sex on TV while the bad girls "the ones that open body" hold themselves…Yet …Never mind !!".
Some viewers defended Big Brother Naija,like @barinyang that wrote: "Sex, Nudity, Language and Violence are why some television shows are rated 18. That doesn’t also mean that every person, 18 and above, must watch those shows."
Meanwhile the family of BamBam are denying untrue tabloid reports that they're angry with her over sex with Teddy A and that they now want her off the show.
Nigeria's Daily Post reports that in a statement BamBam's family that called it the "work of unscrupulous elements" says that "there's been false news circulating on social media about BamBam’s parents requesting for her to leave the Big Brother house to return home, this news is very false as the supposed person is not family, friend or even a supporter of BamBam. This is completely false and as such should be disregarded."
