This Sunday will finally be Day 97 and the last day of Season 5 of Finland's Big Brother. :)

Esa, my boyfriend, is one of the 4 contestants left and could win the 50,000 euro prize. Currently Esa is a favourite to win the whole thing at many polls, but truly, it will be a tight battle between Esa and the sole female finalist, Kätlin.

I'm going to see the final show live at the studio, which is located right next to the Big Brother house. It will be one nerve-breaking and exacting night! :)

Two of my colleagues from the magazine will be there as well, one as Esa's fan and the other is there to interview the former BB-contestants.

I really don't care if Esa wins it or not. It warms my heart that he has lots of fans and plenty of people believe that he'll win. Esa will come home as a winner in my eyes, no matter what the outcome will be. That's when our lives together can continue and that is more important to me than anything else. :)

Keep your thumbs up!!! :)

Sanna

Thumbs up from me Sanna!!
lots of love
Helen

Thank you, Helen! :)

I just hope that
a) I won't get hit during the an hour and half long show
b) the won't ask me any questions, I told "no" in advance!

Sanna

I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for you honeybun, I wish we'd thought of it earlier. I'd have told you to get some frovatriptan - damn!

Think positive thoughts!

love, me xxx

Now thats really cool! I watch Big Brother over here so I know it is a big deal. I sure hope he wins the money and if he does, you will probably be on TV as well.

Wishing Esa good luck!!!!!

All the very best to Esa!  To have made it that far is doing OK in my book.

Jerry

It's way cool Esa has come this far in the whole thing.  Good luck to you both.I'm sure it will be great to have him all to yourself again, unless he becomes a total celeb after winning, and then...well....we can all say we knew Sanna back "when"... :)

Esa has gone this far so he has a very good chance of walking away with the win and the money!
I pray the beast does not show up, especially on Sunday. Be yourself Sanna and all will be good ;)
All the positive vibes from Canada!!!!!!

Thank you, guys! :)

I'll let you know sometime on Monday how the show turned out. The finale ends at 10.30pm and after that I'm hoping to catch a word or two with Esa before the has some after the show responsibilities as all the finalists will be attending the Grand Finale party at restaurant Amarillo at Helsinki city centre.

I'm invited to attend, too, but I'll probably skip it, as I assume that the place will be packed and I can talk to Esa much better in private later in the week. :)

Mom and I did have lunch today at the very same restaurant. It was big restaurant and cosy. I can just about imagine just how much crowd there will be tomorrow! Mom had Big Brother burger, a speciality, which fly off the menu after the BB season ends. Yup, we had to try that one. ;D

Esa has no idea that he is actually very popular. It will be a nice surprise to him to know that. :)
He is a BB celebrity now, but that is small-scale. I don't think he's after the fame thing, but no matter what will happen tomorrow night, he will be interviewed during the week and if he wins, his face will appear in public for a while. And I, on my share, will do my best to remain in the great unknown. ;)

Lots of hugs & PF wishes to all,

Sanna

Wow, that's amazing Sanna.  Congrats to Esa, no matter what happens!

Hope everything goes well when you see him again. :)

love,
mel

Thank you, Mel. :)

Today is the day and I'm already nervous! The show begins at 9pm my time, 7 hours from now. I'll meet up with Esa's friends 5 hours from now and we'll drive to the studio together. Esa's brother will be there, too. There should be a whole bunch of us welcoming and cheering Esa! :)

It's going to be a great and exiting night. :) My head has been behaving nicely, just small amount of mild shadowing, but that's it so far. I'm glad about that! Let's just see what will happen later on when the final show begins and they begin to send the contestants home...

Anyway, I did say that I will leave voting to others, but that didn't happen. I've sent one + vote to Esa via text and called 4 more + votes, two from me and two from my mother. My two aunts promised to vote + for Esa as well. Who knows, it can be a tight vote in the end and every vote counts! :)

But I'm so happy that Day 97 is finally here! :)
I can't wait to see Esa in person again! :) He is a winner to my me, no matter what the result shows. :)

PF days to you all & thank you so much for your support! :)

Sanna :)

How exciting, Sanna!!

Good luck to Esa and pf wishes to you!

Beth

It won't be long now Sanna! :)

Big Brother is finally over and I've got my boyfriend back from the house! :)

This year it was a tough call in the end, the 3 original housemates Esa, Kätlin and Aso were all in the lead during the an hour and half long final show. In the end, Aso won it and Esa was third.

And I couldn't be happier for Esa, because his third place meant that he got back to normal life already on Monday evening. If he had been the winner or runner up, he'd still have media responsibilities to tend to. :)

But now we've seen each other twice and talked over the phone three times. :) It's so wonderful to have him here! I know that his time at the BB house has left a mark on him, but what kind, time will tell. People already recognise him, fans call and email him and he has already signed autographs. Now he can see for himself what it is like to a BB housemate out of the house. And I'm here to keep him grounded. Apparently I'm allowed to kick him on the butt if this little bit of BB fame gets the best of him. ;)

My presense at the final show also meant that the media came to get me. I had written a small piece for the magazine I work for, which I hoped to be all. But, nope. Other magazines quoted it and one network wanted my comments for their entertainment news. I declined. And I turned down two interviews at the final show as well - only to be photographed on the spot.

One website published the kiss I gave to Esa in pictures and on video (!) and this morning I found out that our notorious entertainment weekly had not only published a picture of our post-final show talk, but taken pictures of me talking to a female BB housemate, who had kissed Esa on the cheek at the diary room. That magazine was clearly dissapointed because our meeting didn't turn into "a catfight" and wasn't "icy", but was "happy and friendly" (all quotes from the so called story). And yeah, that talk is on caught on video, too... I am glad that my own magazine did not demand that we'd agree for a couples' picture. All published photos of us were taken without permission.

So I've got my share of "fame" and I still feel the same way I did before Esa went to Big Brother: I don't wish fame to my part, it's enough that I interview famous people every day at work. Well, and date one. ;D

Well, let's give this a few months time and things should settle down. In the meantime, I'm mentally prepared to the fact that anyone with a camera phone can take a pic and send it to a certain magazine...

Sanna