'Prominent Entertainer Tried To Make Me His Gay Partner' - Actor, Kunle Remi

Nollywood actor, Kunle Remi has disclosed that a top figure in the Nigerian entertainment industry tried to make him his gay partner but he refused.

Remi made the disclosure as a guest on OAP Nedu’s ‘Honest Bunch’ podcast, on Tuesday, January 17, 2023.

The Anikulapo actor said that the entertainer, who he did not name, promised to make him popular and wealthy.

According to him, the incident occurred in 2009 after he failed to make the shortlist for the Gulder Ultimate Search.

Remi said that the top entertainer bragged about his “connections” and said “I was not selected for the reality show because I’ve not paid my dues”.

“I won’t lie to you. I got approached by fruity. Not once not twice. Not thrice.

“Before I got into the industry, the first time I went to the Ultimate Search. I got denied. The second time, my friend at the University of Ibadan (then I was in UI) said there is this one of his friends, he’s an entertainer he’ll guide you.

“And then I travelled a distance to somewhere around Iyana-Ipaja. Never been there. I was from Ibadan. I had a friend on this side. I got to his place. The guy looks at me. He sizes me up and says come in. I didn’t feel anything about him.

“This is in the spirit of networking and meeting people. When I got there, the nigga starts to call out names and starts to talk that why do I think they didn’t select me for Ultimate Search. That it’s because I’ve not paid my dues. This nigga sells the whole ‘fruitish’ thing to me in a big way that I was ‘awe’.

“I don’t know what this fruitish thing is about. He went up and later came downstairs with a candle and a jar of oil and tells me to put the candle in the oil as a lubricant and make it through that after he would now come, check it and from there he will now connect me… my first month I will drive a Benz.”