As a kid I and my friends flipped through the pages of entertainment
magazines left behind by our elders, admiring the guys there especially
when the magazine is rating their fame and wealth.
We always wished to be like them, just like almost everyone would
wish to be the entertainer putting up a splendid performance in front of
about 20000 spectators, not minding the pains he had gone through at
the backstage earlier.
People who often wish to be entertainers forget to read the terms and
conditions attached to the celebrity form they are filling. They just
want to get to limelight, forgetting that the same light that will show
their talent to the world will still be there to show the world their
weakness and bad sides.
The dreams and desires that dwelled in our hearts as we grew was that
someday, we will be the faces people always want to read about, the
faces that will always entertain on stages and televisions, the voice
that will be thrilling people on the radio, and the guys posing on the
cover of celebrity magazines with the best designers clothes.
When we grew up, we realized that there were so many things we never
knew about the people that mentored us while we were growing up.
We forgot that there was another adult magazine that was hidden from
us where nude pictures stolen from the cameras and phones of these
entertainers were published, and probably there were scandals we never
read about because we were not the ones buying the magazines.
When I came of age to use the internet and was able to buy celebrity
magazines myself, I realized that being an entertainer is like a
two-edged sword with one side sharpened for his good stories, while the
other does not hesitate to cut his bad sides.
I started changing my mind when I realized that the media has dubbed
most male entertainers as womanizers, while it is all clear that the
females, especially most of them repel husbands. Be it true or false,
this is what the media made me to understand and they constitute the
initial fear of every parent when they learn that their child want to
join the entertainment industry.
Entertainers often get angry when they see their names attached to a
story, that is probably a bad one, while some others like popular
Nollywood actress turned musician Tonto Dike has nothing to do with good
news or bad news, all are just news to her as long as ‘Poko’ can come
as her response.
Some entertainers think the media are their younger siblings whom
they can always tell what to write, they want the media to be their
praise singers even when they are not as good as that, hence the term
‘hyping’. They don’t want to be involved in any bad news, but they want
to do bad things.
How can your fans know you if they have not seen your
strengths and weaknesses, how can they call you a perfect entertainer if
they have not seen you walk on the path of any scandal? Even when the
entertainer is not involved, he must have been in the picture of
something like it before after all; people take group pictures once in a
while.
Tuface in the song ‘implication’ said “Just because say I dey there, I
follow enter the yawa”, and this will be a lesson to all entertainers
who come out to accuse the media of invading their privacy.
Every entertainer should simply know this, there is nothing like
privacy for you, you are able to achieve privacy on the things you can
conceal from the entire world, as long as you are there with someone
else, just have in mind that it could one day get to the public.
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