After ten weeks of intense drama, methods, and video games, Kingsley ‘Kellyrae’ Sule has been topped the winner of the ninth season of Huge Brother Naija.
Kelly received in opposition to Wanni Danbaki, who got here shut second with 3.47% vote distinction and Onyeka rising because the second runner up on the BBNaija season 9 finale on Sunday, October 6, 2024.
The skilled singer who hails from Delta State will likely be going house with N100M value of prizes consisting of N60 million money prize and a model new SUV. He received the season after amassing 35.95% of the entire votes. His strategic strategy earned him this win. In a season that had the housemates are available in as pairs, Kellyrae selected his newlywed spouse, Kassia, as the opposite half of his duo.
This marked the primary time we noticed a married couple as contestants on the present. Though we had seen a married particular person, Mike Edwards, got here near claiming the crown, that is the primary time a married contestant has taken the final word prize. Married barely seven months earlier than the present began, many Nigerians quickly projected that their keep within the BBNaija home would smash what many termed a wedding in its early phases though the couple have been collectively for eleven years.
In case you had run a ballot in the beginning of the present to foretell how far the DoubleKay duo would go this season, most individuals would have guess that the duo, because of their marital standing, would have been one of many first duos to be evicted.
In a matter of weeks, a standing that normally compromises contestants’ possibilities on the present served as their promoting level as Kellyrae and Kassia’s technique to cover their marriage in the home led to one of many largest plot twists on the present this season.
In a transfer devised by the couple, they hid that they had been married from the housemates, bonding with different housemates with out essentially clinging onto one another to cease them from making connections, whether or not it was with girls or males. Earlier than his eviction, Toby Forge, an ex-housemate, even professed like to Kassia, who amusedly entertained his advances however set boundaries. Though housemates suspected their involvement, there was nothing to show their suspicions, and the duo made certain of it.
When BBNaija host Ebuka Obi-Uchendu prompted Kellyrae to disclose why he and his spouse determined to cover their marital standing, he talked about that he needed everybody to be free with them and never goal them as a result of they had been a pair.
From the primary stay eviction reveals to the final eviction present, as a duo, Kassia and Kellyrae by no means noticed the underside of the voting polls. Even when the sport modified to a race for people, they had been equally supported by their fanbase till the penultimate episode, the place the DoubleKay administration had chosen to not marketing campaign for Kassia so votes wouldn’t be shared within the finals and Kellyrae may safe the win for the couple. In a matter of weeks, their sacrifice has paid off.
From lovey-dovey moments that had each the viewers and suspecting housemates falling in love with them as people and as a pair to their fights, their particular person abilities, total interplay, and free-spiritedness, all these components secured them a spot within the hearts of many.
Nevertheless, in contrast to earlier seasons the place the winner was clear, this season was the toughest to foretell, and the voting polls present explanation why. Regardless, on Sunday, October 6, 2024, he was topped winner and obtained to take house the N60 million money prize. In a matter of weeks, Kellyrae has joined the BBNaija Winners’ Corridor of Fame.