Nigerian reality star, Roseline Omokhoa Afije, popularly known as Liquorose, who finished as the runner-up of the 2021 edition, has come out to state that she could have participated in the 2020 Big Brother Naija Lockdown edition but missed out due to the Coronavirus.
She shared that she came close to participating in the show in 2020 and was already waiting backstage to be introduced during the launch, but the organisers still snubbed her at that point.
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Liquorose stated that the incident made her depressed, and she almost gave up on her dream of participating in the show.
“In 2020, I was backstage at the BBNaija opening show. I was dressed up and my makeup done, but I was not called. That really hurt me,” she said in a recent podcast interview with VJ Adams.
Liquorose and another potential housemate, Jaypaul, were barred from posting in the 2020 edition of the reality show after testing positive for COVID-19.
However, the duo made it to the show after auditioning the following year.
Liquorose revealed that she almost refused to audition the next year, but was convinced by a friend to audition again.
“That experience was messing with me. So, the following year, I didn’t even want to audition, but my friend convinced me to try. I just auditioned and forgot about it. I just went to check my spam one day, and I discovered that I had been selected. It was crazy,” she recalled.
Liquorose emerged as the runner-up of Big Brother Naija Season 5 in 2021 after losing the grand prize to Whitemoney.
