BBB 24: Brás traders unite in support of Beatriz and guarantee: ‘She’s just like that’

An important shopping center in São Paulo, Brás has a representative on Big Brother Brasil 24 (Globo) who, with her expansive and clumsy manner, has become one of the most popular participants on the program. Beatriz Reis works as an advertiser in the region and became popular with the public as soon as her name was announced in the reality show’s cast.

Videos of the 23-year-old advertising for some stores went viral on social media, and her expansive and cheerful manner has left Internet users with the impression that they are dealing with a legitimate representative of the “people”. Her popularity, in fact, goes beyond word of mouth and is already translated into cold numbers: The participant was the first Pipoca to reach one million followers on Instagram — before joining the reality show, she had approximately 4 thousand.

Even at home, the brothers are surprised by Beatriz’s enthusiasm. At the first party in confinement, Yasmin Brunet asked her colleague if she had drunk a lot. She responds that she spent the night drinking mineral water and guarana. “Are you so sober just out of happiness? Without any alcohol? You are very wonderful!”

Those who lived closely with the trader guarantee that this is her way and deny that she is exaggerating or pushing herself to stand out on the program. Alessandra Vieira, 43, worked with Beatriz at Brás, and says that she is, indeed, charismatic, extroverted, and a great salesperson.

“She did it like this: she would come to the store, put on some clothes and go around the mall showing the look. When she came back, she would bring several customers”, she says, in conversation with the F5. Alessandra’s last conversation with her was on December 27, when her sister wished her a merry Christmas: “I love you, all the best to us.”

The saleswoman celebrated a lot when she found out what Beatriz had “done” this time. “I screamed and got really excited when my daughter said that my friend had joined BBB.”

“She is very humble and a warrior. She would come here on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and arrive at 1 am. And there’s never bad weather, she talks to your face. Once a client came by and complained about her voice. She didn’t even call and I said I was going to keep talking the same way”, he laughs.

According to Alessandra, Beatriz bought several pieces in the store and, on the 28th, went to pick them up. Now, almost every day she recognizes some Made in Brás clothing on Beatriz’s body. “She really likes short clothes, nothing with a lot of fabric. But she has very eclectic taste.”

She remembers the time Rodriguinho complained about Beatriz’s panties left in the bathroom. “I’ve seen her naked here several times, changing her clothes. It’s like that, she leaves things spread out, but she always folds everything”, she says with a smile on her face.

Mariana Tenório, 27, another saleswoman, says that it was common for the young woman to carry speakers around Shopping Canindé, in Brás, and go out making advertisements, without any shame. “The last time we saw each other was at the end of the month and she asked me if I was going to travel and she just told me that she was going to take a vacation”, he remembers, and then added: “Woe to her if, after leaving, she doesn’t come here to give a smell on us”, he jokes.

The two say that the shopkeepers worked together to vote overwhelmingly for Beatriz to stay in the house. Leonardo Correa, 19, another seller, claims that he spent the night voting for his friend and that he ordered personalized t-shirts with her photo. During the conversation, he has pay per view connected to his cell phone, keeping an eye on BBB.

Deise Santos, 33, did not work with the participant because the store she works in is in the evangelical segment, but says she is known to everyone in the area. “Now she has a wonderful reading of the game, before she was very emotional and innocent”, she says.