The Darey Concert: Paying Millions For The Presence Of A Porn Star - By Wale Odunsi
Okay, I hardly comment on entertainment and showbiz news. I prefer to stay on the national issues/political terrain which are my jurisdiction. However, I could not hold back the temptation to do a piece on Darey’s ‘Love Like A Movie’ concert.
See the rest after the cut...No doubt, the LLAM held in Lagos was superb; star-studded, proper management, lights, sounds et al. In fact not a few have adjudged the show the best of its type in recent years. The ovation and positive review was not unexpected considering the artiste involved. Dude is good-looking, knows his onions, greatly talented and business oriented.
About a week to the D-day,
news went viral that renowned Reality TV girl, Kim Kardashian, will be in the country
as a co-host of the event. At 8:20pm of Saturday, February 16, 2013, she flew
in.
Trust Nigerian blogs, before
her arrival, no other news existed. Even major news tabloids caught the bug. At
least for three straight days, it was Kim this, Kim that.
I have no beef about
that. I am certain the organizers splashed plenty six or seven figures that
sorta hype. And for the publicists, heavens once again beamed a wide grin at
them; they must have smiled to the banks, perhaps their closets, depending on
where they keep their monies.
After every every, Kanye
West's heartrob and baby-mama to be, left the shores of Naija just when the
concert was about to start. Initially I thought she developed flu and had to quickly
jet out. Soon after, I learnt she was actually invited to do what I like to tag
‘Cameo’ (a short appearance by a popular figure in a music video).
At the Eko Hotels venue,
the Kim simply posed for pictures with some of our local and a few international
champions who clearly were star-struck; you could see it in their eyes and on
their foreheads. I even spotted the wife of former Cross River governor, Onari
Duke with her.
LLAM number one guest was
kind enough to open the show, spending a total forty seconds on stage. That was
it…Chikena! In all, she was there for three-quarter of sixty minutes. By 10:20pm
Sunday night, she was aboard a plane back home.
The major (if not only)
flaw of that outing was the presence of Kim. If it is true that she was paid hundreds
of thousands of Benjamins (aka US Dollars), it would indeed be appalling. We are talking about someone who shot her way
to the limelight via the now infamous sex-tape which anyone can still download
on the internet for free! So for the sake of money, we’ve sent our morals,
decency and integrity on vacation.
Just few weeks ago, Miss
Kardashian-West was paid $200,000 for a trip to Ivory Coast. She then proceeded
to donate a meager $2,000 to a local orphanage, an amount less than one percent
of her total financial terms (including flight, hotel and security charge).
Obviously Darey and his
team wanted a name that would pull the crowd out of their homes. Question: Was that
the best they could come up with? Whatever happened to female celebs known for their
and hard work and larger than life persona: Alicia Keys, India Arie, Adele among many
others.
As
a humanitarian, it is sheer stupidity to think that a clique forming big boys would
dole out all that money for below-an-hour attendance of an actress whose only
movie to her credit is a pornographic motion picture. It would have made more
sense if she stayed throughout the event, to at least justify the huge amount
spend on her appearance.
Charles
Novia rightly noted and I wish to re-echo his statement: There was absolutely no
need for Kim Kardashian at Darey’s concert.
206 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 206 of 206I dnt get y people are insulting Kim K, she was offered an amazing deal and she took it. It shld be d dumb twats that paid her half a million dollars getting the insults. When person need money for kidney transplant now, dey wont drop 10% of wat is required oooooo. Hmmm naija, una dey suffer una carry N100k go see Kim K. Looooooooooollllllllll. Abeg ooo, make una free Miss West oooo.
Ogah Peters!!! You are a COW! You and this stupid boy called Odunsi do not have details, yet you choose to attack individuals...
Poor You! Idiot.
You are asking where was Darey when Kogi flood happened? You are a BITCH! Wasnt it Darey and other artists such as MoEazy, Jaywon and Benjamin of Project Fame that went to donate materials to victims?
Google it right now.
You are a fool once again since you decided to open your filthy mouth!
If you need money, better go and meet YOUR FADA!!!
Shez a porn star jor
What is wrong with u all dick head that's critizising kim. If u dnt like someone y read anytin concerning her. If u idiote followed d story u would have notice that d porn issue was taken to court until they decided to settle out of court. Instead of u to go think of how to make money, u are here bcos u have free acess to LIB
We NIGERIANS ARE HYPOCRITES and thaat is the very reason y we will nevr move forward...
Listens to yourselves 'pornstar /btch/bla bla bla ' 'why would they pay such when there a poor ppl in the country'
How mny of u have made any aTtempt to better the liives of any poor person
'She went and gave only 2000$'
WHAT HAVE U GIVEN
'She is a pornstar' ehen! What do u do behind ur own closed doors is it because we don't see it..
HYPOCRITES
When it was announced that she was coming no body made any complains
HYPOCRITES
When idris Elba and co came to nigeria
Do we knw what they were paid...
HYPOCRITES
And you all watched the sextape of her
Y? Was it to knw if she was rlly the one
I'm sure shee was
HYPOCRITES
We have Nigerians buying houses worth 20million
30mill, 2 billion naira went missing at the minting factory last dec...where were ur mouths
HYPOCRITES....we r all hypocrites
See how much thevice president is spending just to build a house for himself 'OUR MONEY,OUR OIL MONEY' and no one is complaining like we r.
Abeg give me a break
We r just a bunch of hypocrites in this country and that's y we can't move forward
This is a senseless piece. This girl is by no means a porn star. Her silly boyfriend deemed it fit to publicize an intimate moment. Only a truly hard worker and focused individual will turn negativity into positivity. So for you to sit there and criticise someone for making a sucess of herself is shameful. She uses her natural fiven talents to her advantage and you judge her??? Please find someting else to cry about
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