Throw back…exhausting the acting Spinsters list
By Shaibu Husseini
The
emails have not stopping popping up. Enquiries, mostly from lustful fans on how
they can reach some of the acting celebrities in the singles club that were
profiled on this page last week. ‘’I want her for an everlasting relationship
and I assure you that she will enjoy me’’ a fan declared. A fan who wrote in
from Kano specifically asked for an actress that was not profiled last week but
who sits comfortably on the singles ladder. ‘’I can do anything to have her
answer my name as husband’’ he stated. So here is the last part of this diet of
this series on their excellencies- a take on those considered to be sitting
pretty well on the singles list.
Cossy
Orjiakor
Known more for her near nude poses
than her acting skills, the alumnus of the University of Nigeria and University
of Lagos respectively has since she joined Nollywood, always been in the news,
but mostly for the wrong reasons. Her very obvious attempt to force observers
(with her penchant for baring it all) to declare her one of the sexiest
actresses of Nollywood has earned her a lot of attention from the gossip press
and the public. Although she has not been clearly linked with anyone in recent
time apart from the tale that she has found warmth in the arms of a popular
comedian from the middle belt, not even those who claim to be close to the
accountancy graduate, can tell where she stands as regards changing her status.
The Enugu born actress and model is reportedly engrossed in pushing her debut
album out into public space. She stated that much in a recent interview. She
also disclosed there too that though she has received a number of proposals
from men who are not disturbed by her bubbly personality, marriage will come
when it come. Put differently, Cossy is not in a hurry to quit the singles
club.
Lilian
Bach
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| Lilian Bach |
Beautiful, tall and rich,
Lillian Bach is still very single. Though a single mother, it doesn’t look as
if the Nollywood mullato is up for grabs. Much of what was inked about the
actress of dual nationality in recent time had nothing to do with her acting
abilities. They bordered largely on her estranged relationships. Recent report
about the actress indicates that she has reconciled with her long standing
friend, a notable voice over. To many, Lilian’s decision to return to her voice
over artiste lover may mean that ‘she prefers the taste of old wine to freshly
brewed wine’. But will the old wine fill her enough for her to want to be
pulled out of the singles club? Only time will tell.
Bimbo
Akintola
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| Bimbo Akintola |
This REEL, THEMA and Zuma Film
Festival award winning actress and graduate of theatre arts of the University
of Ibadan is by far one of the most revered actresses in the Nigerian home
video culture dubbed Nollywood. Bimbo is deep as an actress and she possesses a
great charisma that is felt on screen. But while her fans can vouch for her
acting abilities, they say they cannot tell whether her status has changed. But
the star of Out of Bounds, that
Richard Mofe Damijo movie that gave her, her first major acting crest is still
very much single. She inferred in a recent interview that she was still single
and not searching and would not be pressured into ‘settling down for the fun of
it’. A good mixer and very personable, the acting bomb as a critic has always
chosen to describe her, has had her own fair share of linkages with all manner
of people. There was a time when all that was written about Bimbo outside her
acting runs was her alleged relationship with a Lagos socialite. Later, she was
linked with an Afro beat crooner and much later a popular stage actor who made
money as the face of one of the products of a leading telecommunication
company. Friendly and down to earth, a source disclosed that Bimbo who is born
to parents who are devout Muslims may be on her way out of the club of singles
if pressures from her parents who is to be considered.
Rita Dominic
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| Rita Dominic |
Star
actress Rita Dominic has nothing against the marriage institution at least she
has said that countlessly but it doesn’t look as though marriage is on the
ready wish list the acting princess. The Imo state born actress doesn’t appear
as one who will be ready to reduce by one this year, the names on the list of
the single ladies in Nollywood. But there have been countless insinuations
about her status. It was rumoured some time past that she had quietly settled
down with a fellow who works for a Lagos based oil company. But Rita has always
maintained that even though she respects marriage as an institution, it was not
something she wants to hurry into. ‘When the time comes, everyone will hear
about it. It’s just not time yet’ she once told this reporter.
Ebube Nwagbo
Ebube
is a prominent member of the singles club. But for a misunderstanding between
her and her footballer fiancée, which she blamed on undue interference by the
yellow press, delectable Ebube would have longed bade farewell to her
counterparts in the singles club. She had for a long time made up her mind to
settle down but that dream crashed when the ex- Nigerian International who is a
younger brother to another Ex-Nigerian international called the relationship
off. She was later rumoured to have dated a singer who recently got married.
Since these two relationships packed up, Ebube has not told anyone that she has
found a replacement and she has refused to even disclose whether or not she is
in any ‘serious relationship’. Although she has severally been linked with a
number of celebrities including a popular singer, nothing in the text of the
interviews she has granted in recent time have suggested that she will walk
down the aisles anytime soon. This leaves her for now, as a frontline member of
the singles club.
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| Empress Njamah |
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| Tonto Dike |
The Other frontline members include: Empress Njamah, Tonto
Dike, Alex Lopez, and Susan Peters
