‘I think it’s ugly who keeps offering themselves for Globo’, says ex-BBB Maria Melilo

Maria Melilo is part of the history of Big Brother Brasil. Champion of the 11th edition, the actress became the third woman to win the program (before her were Cida, on BBB 4, and Mara, on BBB 6). She won the millionaire prize and took advantage of all the media exposure that comes with winning the reality show.

However, his name is rarely among the former participants most remembered by the program’s management. Maria did not participate in the BBB 25th anniversary vignette, and can count on her fingers the invitations she received from other attractions on the network to talk about the program, for example. It minimizes “forgetting.” “I’m not the least bit upset because there have been so many participants over all these years. It happens.”

Maria followed the controversy involving ex-brothers who went online to question the criteria in the choices of those who participated in the silver wedding vignette and in the reality documentary. Some were outraged.

“It wasn’t nice. I’m a person who expects to be called for anything, to be invited. In fact, I think it’s ugly who keeps offering themselves to Globo”, she says, who has a participation in the fourth episode of the documentary series. “I’m sorry longing. I don’t regret participating in the reality show. On the contrary. I would go back in and do it all over again.

In the same year that she won the reality show, the actress faced liver cancer. At the time, she stepped away from the spotlight to undergo treatment and underwent surgery to remove 70% of the organ. In 2014, the actress wrote the book “Awaken the Powerful Woman in You”, recounting her experience with the disease.