She may be the first housemate to be evicted from the Big Brother Africa 3 house, but Latoya Lyakurwa's spirit is far from being dented.

While the Tanzanian representative in the house got the shock of her life when it was announced that she was going to be the first evictee, the shock was short-lived as she quickly accepted her fate and resumed her bubbly character. As everyone awaited the announcement, one could see that Latoya was more than confident that she was not the one who was going to leave, as she kept on comforting Botswana's Tawana Lebani, who happened to be also up for eviction. She seemed to believe that she was the one going back inside the house, and not Tawana.

The time arrived and Latoya proudly walked out of the house, without shedding a tear. After the announcement, while relieved that she was not the one leaving, Tawana shed a tear for Latoya, but she (Latoya) continued to comfort Tawana telling her "hey calm down I am the one leaving the house". Talk about being strong, outside she did her interview with the show's presenter ,Kabelo "KB" Ngakane, and answered his questions with a giggle.

In a brief interview with Showbiz on Monday afternoon, Latoya said she had mixed feelings about leaving the house, adding that she is happy to rejoin the outside world, but at the same time sad about her short stay in the BBA 3 house.

Asked if she thinks 'flirting' with two men (Uganda's Morris Mugisha and Angola's Ricardo Venancio) might have contributed to her premature departure, she said it definitely had everything to do with her early exit, but quickly pointed out that she was simply having fun.

"I was just having fun and enjoying myself," she said.

Latoya, while inside the house, would brag about one guy being her day-time boyfriend and the other one being her night-time boyfriend, and jokingly told Big Brother that it would be nice to have more men in the house chasing her.

Asked whether that was part of her strategy of playing the game, she simply said it was not, explaining that she walked into the house without a strategy and she was just "seizing and enjoying every moment" of it. She said it was a game anyway and that they had been told "you go in there and be yourself" - and that it was exactly what she was doing: just being herself and having a little fun in the process. She also said while in the beginning she might not have considered that she might end up hurting someone between the two young men, she was kind of 'romantically involved with', in the end she realised that she might have actually hurt someone, but of course not intentionally. On whether she was acting inside the house, the young woman from Tanzania said she would not say she was acting.

"Let me tell you something, being put in a group of 12 different people from 12 different countries - whom you don't know - you have to shape up in order to blend," she explained.

She said that was exactly what she did, shaped herself to blend in with the rest of the housemates. She cheerfully told Showbiz that all the dancing and singing inside the house was just simply the real deal; it was simply herself. Would she play the game differently if given yet another chance to go back inside the house? She said she would play it exactly the same way because she was being herself and having fun at the same time. Asked if she had established any genuine relationships inside the house, she said it is not easy to trust any individual inside that house, as everyone is in the game, adding that everyone is in that house for a reason, and friendships that form are bound to be doubtful or rather friendships of convenience. Latoya at the time of the interview had checked the website and asked if seeing some of the negative comments on the website did not hurt her, she simply replied, "not at all", explaining that anyone who called her a slut was off because she was doing that for a purpose. When asked if she thinks she and Angola's Ricco would have continued with their 'relationship', Latoya quickly responded: "Yeah we would have been tight to the end; he is a fine boy." Although Botswana was one of the countries, which voted against her, she thanked all her supporters in Botswana and across Africa.

This season's M-Net reality show was launched August 24, and this time around the three housemates who stay longest in the house will spend precisely 91 days. According to the rules of the game, Big Brother Africa housemates nominate two of their fellow housemates for eviction.

Viewers then take over and in the process, vote for the housemates they want evicted until only one emerges as the winner of the whopping USD100 000 (roughly P670, 000) grand prize.