Big Brother's Makosi wins right to stay in UK

She's gorgeous. But this is the most ridiculous defence for asylum I've ever heard. I wonder if the judge was swayed by the weight of her arguments or the weight of her...I was going to say suffering.

Martin Wainwright
Friday November 18, 2005
The Guardian

The ebullient Big Brother contestant Makosi Musambasi yesterday won her asylum appeal on the grounds that her TV antics have made it unsafe for her to return to Zimbabwe.

The central London asylum and immigration tribunal ruled that the 25-year-old was "in a different position" since the programme because of her notoriety.

Ms Musambasi forfeited her permission to work in Britain when she resigned as a cardiac nurse to spend weeks in the Big Brother house. The hearing was told that her sexually charged behaviour on screen could rouse hate mobs in Zimbabwe.