Popular Nigerian on-air personality and comedian Chinedu Ani Emmanuel’s subtle shadow cast on Big Brother Naija’s female housemates has continued to unsettle the entertainment industry.
Nedu had claimed during an interview with BBNaija’s ‘Level Up’ roommate Doyinsola David on his podcast ‘The Honest Bunch’ that most of the ladies who come onto the BBNaija reality TV show do so simply to attract customers (in terms of sex), insisting on having nothing to offer but her body.
Nedu further substantiated his point, claiming that the reality show has a way of throwing someone into the spotlight, but without substance to sustain it.
“A lot of them only offer sex. They go there on purpose just to get customers,” he said.
In response, Doyin claimed that it was just normal human nature to seek greener pastures and that a “client” could become a husband.
Doyin focused on the lighter side of the OAP remark, arguing that there was absolutely nothing wrong with ladies going on the show just for that purpose.
The accusation comes a week after the start of another BBnaija series, which is a combination of Nigerian and South African housemates with the keyword “BBTitans”, and the winner will receive $100,000 (over N50,000 million).
That statement didn’t sit well with most of the show’s stars. Many Big Brother Naija celebrities have come out to defend their female peers against the verbal attacks.
In response, former BBNaija season 6 star Angel Agnes Smith tweeted that men were jealous of hard-working women on the show.
She claimed that “men are very jealous of women because I don’t understand why you get upset about a grown woman’s vagina.”
Former BBNaija roommate Abiri Oluwabusayo, aka Khloe, slammed Nedu for his comment, saying his actions show why his ex-wife allegedly cheated on him.
She kept urging him to get help and heal his trauma.”
BBNaija star Joe Abdallah, who called Nedu’s comment trite, said: “I see no reason for such a comment.”
Reality TV star Cross Okonkwo wrote in a series of tweets on his Twitter handle: “Please leave our big brother girls alone. They are human too. Big Brother Girls are amazing, talented, enterprising, beautiful and so on. And if someone sleeps with a man to get ahead, why don’t we call out the man too, please let’s give them their flowers and stop bringing them down.”
BBNaija star Deji Morafa also trolled Nedu, saying the reason he keeps attacking BBNaija girls is because he applied for the show multiple times but was turned down.
Popular Nigerian film producer Samuel Olatunji, popularly known as Bigsam, also criticized the OAP as misogynistic. When addressing Nedu, he asked what the male reality star’s purpose is for going to the show as well.
“When the ladies from Big Brother Naija went there for ‘customers’. What did the men go there for?” he asked.
Samuel opined that the on-air personality was trying to tear the industry’s credibility to pieces. And project female celebrities as whores.
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