Kingsley “Kellyrae” Sule has emerged victorious from Massive Brother Naija’s ninth season following ten weeks of intense drama, ways, and video games
On the Sunday, October 6, 2024, BBNaija season 9 finale, Kellyrae defeated Wanni Danbaki, who completed in tight second place with a 3.47% vote distinction, and Onyeka, who emerged because the second runner-up.
The skilled singer from Delta State will obtain N100M in rewards, which features a brand-new SUV and an N60 million money prize. Having gathered 35.95% of the vote, he was declared the season’s winner. This victory was gained by his calculated technique. Throughout a season the place the housemates have been launched in pairs, Kellyrae chosen his not too long ago married spouse Kassia to be the opposite member of his pair.
This was the primary time a married couple appeared on the present as contestants. That is additionally the primary time a married competitor has received the grand prize, though we had witnessed a married particular person, Mike Edwards, come fairly near doing so. Regardless that the pair has been collectively for eleven years, many Nigerians believed that their time within the BBNaija home would wreck what they known as a younger marriage, provided that they’d solely been married for seven months earlier than to the present’s premiere.
The vast majority of viewers would have wagered that the DoubleKay couple would have been among the many first {couples} to be evicted due to their marital standing if a ballot had been carried out earlier than the present started to see how far they might go this season.
Kellyrae and Kassia’s plan to maintain their marriage a secret in the home produced one of many greatest plot twists this season of the present, and in a few weeks, a standing that usually jeopardizes contributors’ possibilities on the present served as their promoting level.
In a calculated transfer, the couple hid their marriage from different housemates, forming bonds with them with out feeling the necessity to cling to 1 one other with a purpose to forestall them from forming relationships with males or girls. Toby Forge, an ex-housemate, even declared his love for Kassia earlier than he was despatched out; she politely declined his advances however established limits. Regardless that different roommates suspected them of being concerned, the 2 made certain that there was no proof to help their accusations.
Kellyrae stated that he wished individuals to be free with them and never goal them as a result of they have been a pair when BBNaija host Ebuka Obi-Uchendu urged him to clarify why he and his spouse selected to hide their marital standing.
As a pair, Kassia and Kellyrae by no means completed final within the voting polls, not even throughout the first stay eviction exhibits or the final one. Their fan base continued to help them even after the sport shifted to a person race till the penultimate episode, when DoubleKay administration determined to not run for Kassia with a purpose to forestall votes from being shared within the finals and permit Kellyrae to win for the pair
. Their weeks-long dedication has yielded outcomes.Their disputes, particular person expertise, common interplay, and free-spiritedness, together with their romantic moments that made the viewers and different housemates fall in love with them as a pair and as people, all contributed to their changing into well liked by many.
This season was essentially the most troublesome to foretell, although, and the polls point out why—not like previous seasons when the victor was apparent. That being stated, he was declared the winner on Sunday, October 6, 2024, and obtained the N60 million money reward. Kellyrae grew to become a member of the BBNaija Winners’ Corridor of Fame in just some weeks.
