Forget Bush: Big Brother Glues Ugandans to TV Sets

[Khephra]

Forget Bush: Big Brother Glues Ugandans to TV Sets

Fri July 11, 2003 04:25 AM ET
By Matthew Green

ENTEBBE, Uganda (Reuters) - There's a man whose certain to be the talk of the town in Ugandan bars this Friday -- and he isn't George W. Bush.

The U.S. president is due to leave the country hours before the day's highlight -- a glimpse of the Ugandan "housemate" in the reality television series Big Brother Africa.

Law student Gaetano Kagwa has ascended to God-like celebrity status since participating in the new television show that confines contestants from 12 African countries in a house in South Africa where cameras film them 24 hours a day.

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"Bush is here for four hours, Gaetano is here for 106 days," said Mark Kwikiriza, 25, a radio presenter drinking in Kampala's Wagadugu cafe, where the latest Big Brother played across three television screens. "Who should we listen to?"


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http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=televisionNews&storyID=3073230

[donsu]

1. Wish I could see Big Brother Africa

sounds interesting.