Lagos – A group of middle-aged Nigerian fathers have become the first men to issue an official complaint over the current season of fly-on-the-wall show, Big Brother Amplified.
The men, members of the VGC Neighbourhood Association, Lagos, described producers of the show as unprofessional, biased, reckless, and most of all, insensitive to the needs of their clientele.
Speaking to reporters at the MNet head office in Lagos where they had gone to deliver their tersely worded letter of complaint, spokesman for the association, Architect Townsend Tomori, said:
“Semi naked women, breasts all over the place, sexually suggestive group tasks, and to make matters worse, they show it 24 hours a day. How on Earth do they expect me to watch through all the fluff till I get to the part where things really start to kick off?”
Buttressing his point, Chief Alfonso, secretary of the association, said:
“These people must be mad or something. So they expect us to be watching and watching and watching and waiting for something good to happen? Don’t they know we all go to work?”
Prince Omo Onile, a newly admitted member of the association, was equally irked by what he’s members describe as a callous disregard for the needs of paying customers.
“We all work like 8 to 8. And even after that, with Lagos traffic and with the pressures of a social life, you can’t expect any respectable Lagos man to be home before midnight. By then the kids are asleep, the wife is asleep, even the house helps are asleep. So tell me, why, during this time of relative peace and quiet, would MNet require me to sit in front of my PVR decoder, rewinding and rewinding until I get to the juicy parts? Can’t they just edit the day’s events and show all the juicy parts in a brief one hour episode?
“For instance, the scene where Vina removes Vimbay’s bra with her teeth, I only learnt of that when I stopped by Ikoyi Club on my way home from work. And even then I couldn’t find it on my PVR decoder. My kids must have recorded over it or something. I had to turn to the internet at 1am to try and find it on Youtube. What am I paying my monthly subscription for?”
Mr Adeleye Babatunde, an ordinary member of the association, only had one grievance with the show’s executives.
“I just want to know one thing,” he said, “Why would they not have a shower hour? Why?”
- Malam Sule, reporting for wazobiareport.com