THE Big Brother Brazil 17 It started differently, with a big novelty: two identical twin brothers — Antônio and Manoel Rafaski, aged 23 at the time — and two identical twin sisters — Mayla and Emilly Araújo, aged 20 — entered the house and competed for two places to be on BBB . The four participated in a special Paredão and only two remained in the house, Emily and Manoel.
The Gaucho Emily Araújo was the grand champion of this edition of the Globo reality show and received 58% of more than 140 million votes. Vivian Amorim and Ieda Wobeto — who was 70 years old at the time — also competed in the final and received 41% and 1%, respectively. The twin took home the prize of R$1.5 million.
The season also had some important moments that were marked in the program’s history. The house was divided by a wall, as had happened in BBB 9, in the sixth week of confinement. The brothers needed to vote among themselves to divide the entire group into two.
Emily was even “eliminated” in a False Wall and social media was flooded with messages that the reality show had been manipulated, given that the gaucho had low popularity during the program.
Another important moment of the season were the conflicts between Emily and Marcos Harter, her then boyfriend on the program. In the early hours of April 8 to 9, 2017, the couple had an argument that left the pay-per-view audience scared. The participant even said that he was hurting her during the fight. The images were shown on Sunday’s program and presenter Tiago Leifert told viewers that the production spoke to the two separately at Confessionário.
The matter had even more repercussions on social media and the BBB 17 audience asked for a stricter attitude from the broadcaster to protect the participant’s mental and physical health. The attacks were recorded by a police station in Rio de Janeiro and the police went to Estúdios Globo to hear both sides, together with an expert to carry out examinations. BBB production decided to expel Marcos, who was called to the Confessionary and did not return.
Where is Emily?
Emilly Araújo has over 4.5 million followers on Instagram alone and is now 28 years old. She continues to work as a digital influencer and does some advertising on the same social network.
At the beginning of 2024, the winner of BBB 17 reported that she lost her own home in the floods that devastated Rio Grande do Sul. She published some videos of the tragedy and even had the strength to ask her followers for help on behalf of those who lost everything.
BBB 25
Less than a month left until the premiere of BBB25 . The production of the reality show confirmed that the participation will be in doubles a new format for the program. BBB 25 is scheduled to premiere on January 13, 2025 and the edition must remain for 100 days, ending on April 22.
This content was originally published in Who won BBB 17? on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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