{"id":363404,"date":"2025-12-21T23:35:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/363404\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:35:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:35:31","slug":"big-brothers-abiola-finally-reveals-why-she-was-always-sleeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/363404\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Brother\u2019s Abiola Finally Reveals Why She Was Always Sleeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you only tuned into one episode of Big Brother Australia this season, chances are you caught Abiola Oreyomi napping. The 24-year-old musician regularly opted out of spending time with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pedestrian.tv\/entertainment\/big-brother-australia-2025-housemate-feuds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">her housemates<\/a> to snooze in the communal bedroom.\n<\/p>\n<p>Her sleep schedule was so extreme that it was often the reason she copped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pedestrian.tv\/entertainment\/big-brother-australia-2025-evictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">nomination points<\/a> from her co-stars. Viewers also expressed concern on social media, questioning whether she had narcolepsy or sleep apnea.<\/p>\n<p>One fan was even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@whatshesaidau\/video\/7576869076342017287\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">caught on the livestream<\/a> yelling \u201cAbiola, wake up!\u201d from the Dreamworld ride overlooking the Big Brother house.<\/p>\n<p>Why was Abiola sleeping so much on Big Brother?<\/p>\n<p>Now that the show\u2019s done and dusted \u2014 with Abiola <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pedestrian.tv\/entertainment\/abiola-oreyomi-big-brother-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">leaving the house<\/a> $15K richer \u2014 the sleepy gal has posted a video on TikTok explaining why she was constantly having a nap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlright, it\u2019s finally time to talk about why I was sleeping so much,\u201d she began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo basically, I\u2019m on a medication that helps me for like nightmares and stuff, \u2018cos I have really bad nightmares since my mum passed away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBasically, it makes you really drowsy and if it\u2019s taken late at night \u2014 like any kind of sleeping medication \u2014 if you wake up early, you wake up still very drowsy and very tired and I haven\u2019t been on it for a long period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abiola explained that her body is still getting used to the medication and being in the house only made things more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt made it quite hard not knowing what time it was and what time to take it and not knowing how long I was sleeping as well, so I was waking up very drowsy and not feeling rested because I was still getting used to the medication,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>How does Abiola feel about being Big Brother\u2019s sleepiest housemate?<\/p>\n<p>Abiola previously spoke with PEDESTRIAN.TV about being the sleepiest housemate on this year\u2019s season of Big Brother and admitted that the title didn\u2019t bother her at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so chill because I love sleeping. I\u2019m cool with the sleepy housemate status. I was sleeping the most,\u201d she joked. \u201cIf anything, it makes me laugh. Though it might be worth getting a sleep study, who knows?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also said she completely understood why her housemates nominated her for eviction so many times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d rather people nominated me for sleeping than being a bad person or things I can\u2019t change about myself,\u201d she pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>Look, she\u2019s got a point.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you only tuned into one episode of Big Brother Australia this season, chances are you caught Abiola&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,37507,124788,134,16761,11252,427],"class_list":["post-363404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-big-brother","tag-big-brother-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-network-10","tag-reality-tv","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}