Bassey was evicted from the
Big Brother Naija house (BBN) on March 25th, 2017. While speaking with
Celebrity Mic in an exclusive interview on phone he explained his relationship
with Debbie Rise and Uriel, why he didn't inform Bisola that Thin Tall Tony was
married and more.
When asked about his opinion on Bisola, especially since he knew Thin Tall Tony was married, Bassey said:
When asked about his opinion on Bisola, especially since he knew Thin Tall Tony was married, Bassey said:
"Thin Tall Tony and I
have known each other for quite a couple of months and I knew (His marital
status) but I would like to base my response on the premise that I was not in
Big Brother House from the first week. They both were. So I came in ehm in the
second week and I already assumed that Introductions were in order. They had
already said everything they had to say. Plus I heard from them that the first
week they had this open session, were everybody just said things about
themselves. So you would assume that everybody knows everybody at that point, I
was never put in that spotlight where Bisola or anybody would ask me;
"Bassey do you know this, do yo not know this? I didn't know if they spoke
about it. They are friends and their friendship is really strong. It wasn't in
my place. We spoke a lot, we played a lot but nothing was suggestive of that
fact. But like I said, Big Brother is only a game and we cannot judge people
based on that."
On whether he found out at
any point that Bisola didn't know that Thin Tall Tony was married, Bassey said:
"No I respect everybody's privacy, so even if I
know a million things about you, if there's no need to say, then why should I
bother?"
On his relationship with
Debbie-Rise:
"First off, we got
into the house together. We so much connected at very different levels of
basically; creativity. There were a couple of tasks I was handling and she
would just come and give me bright ideas and then I pick on to that, or when
she's handling her own task and I would be like, Ok why don't you do it like
this and she sees it. At the cerebral level, we connected and I really liked it
that there is someone who I could share Ideas with and who has something
positive to input into it. So we became friends and maybe one or two times,
emotions may have come up but that was just that episodic moment. Debbie-Rise
and I spoke about this many times and we decided that we have what to do
outside the house. Go here, make some money together, shoot some videos
together and other stuff, But it was nothing romantic, nothing erotic. Just
pure friendship."
On whether he considered
having something more than friendship with Debbie-Rise outside the house:
"Of course, My human consciousness
would suggest that to me. I thought about it and carefully considered every
option. I settled for friendship because it is the hardest currency. Primarily
because I have a girlfriend and secondly because I enjoy friendship. Trust me,
I like Debbie Rise, she likes me but we are going to keep it that way. She also
settled for friendship. Debbie Rise knew I had a girlfriend. Everybody knew
from day one"
On whether he knew
Debbie-Rise fell in love with him:
"I would like to
correct that impression. Debbie Rise did not fall in love with me. She just
likes me as a person and I like her too. We share that bond. She just got
comfortable with me as I was with her. Love is out of it. Friend zone is not a
bad zone but a healthy place."
About his relationship with
evicted contestant, Uriel:
"When I stepped into
the house, I liked Uriel but eventually we became friends and well, close
enough. But that was just it. There was nothing. No physicality involved in our
relationship. Although there was a time we genuinely kissed, but that was it.
It was just a kiss but I actually looked forward to it. The kiss was at
the spur of the moment and that was....
#Celebrity Mic.
