At the beginning of tonight's FNL, BB promised HMs $20,000 cash to the winner. The hosts did not mention any of the usual prizes during the show-- a choice of the 3 boxes, a weekend in a rewards room with another HM, the right to discuss nominations, the right to allocate chores, or a nominations twist.
When Nobbi finally won, BB presented him with a cheque for 20,000 Zimbawe Dollars, worth less than AU$1. The hosts showed clips of Nobbi breaking BB's rules during the day and suggested this is the reason the prize was reduced to non-existence. However they must have planned this "twist" for whoever was the eventual winner of the games to have the prize ready. Yet the hosts did not let on about this.
So Nobbi gets a buck and a trophy. If this really is the whole prize, I don't see the use of FNL at all anymore. HMs should be competing to make their stay in the house either longer or more comfortable, or at least to enhance their bank accounts when they leave. The only hope FNL has now is if they increase the value of the prize each week. $1 in week one, and maybe extra privileges or prizes next week, and so on. But after this week's diappointing reward, they are going to have to advertise the weekly prize twists heavily each week.
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Seen as Nobbi had broken the rules mid afternoon it is possible that BB put in place a contigency plan in case he won. There could well have been 2 cheques.
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