Meet The Mombasa Hottie Who Snubbed BBA After Making It To The Finals Ali Said Mandhry Ali Said Mandhry Ali Said Mandhry is a Mombasa based Professional chef who turned down a call to represent Kenya in Big Brother Africa (BBA) season 8 ; a reality TV show which was launched yesterday in South Africa. This is according to an article on ‘Monday Blues’ by Stevens Muendo who revealed that the hottie is a career chef and flamboyant socialite who is also an upcoming musician. He was among the two representatives picked by Endemol South Africa-two weeks ago to be Kenya’s representatives in the reality show only for him to snub the offer on religious grounds especially because part of the show will fall on the Muslim Holy Month of Ramadhan.The production and casting agency instead settled on Kenyan Model and socialite, Huddah Monroe and Student and Fashion designer Annabel Mbaru who were unveiled yesterday and will be flying the Kenyan flag in the show.The show that has been dramatically dubbed the Chase is sponsored by Airtel and brings together 28 housemates from different African countries to live in two houses; Ruby and Diamond for a period of 91 days as they battle it out to bag the Cash Prize of USD 300,000. They will also be required to use their charm to prevent them from being evicted and this might result to Romance hence the dramatic name ‘The Chase’.
