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I Won’t Rush Into Marriage To Please Public – Rita Dominic
Beautiful Nollywood actress, Rita Dominic, has vowed that she would not rush into marriage to please the public. The Mbaise, Imo State born screen diva, made this declaration while featuring in this week’s episode of Berelate.
She shared her thoughts on marriage and children, the reason behind going public with her relationship and how she has been able to stay relevant for over 23 years now.
Speaking on the issue of relationship and marriage, the actress said, “I respect the institution of marriage as my parents were married until death literally parted them and they had a successful relationship. The problem is at some point it begins to annoy you because of how much importance people have placed on it.
“I do want to marry, but I want to get it right once and for all. You know we make such a big deal of it, we force people and put pressure on them to go in, when they eventually rush into this union, they make mistake because they were only trying to please people.
For Rita Dominic, when it comes to handling pressure from the public as regards her marital status and romantic relationships, the strategy is simply to ignore their comments.
“Over the years, it has stopped irritating me because people will always speculate they do this because they don’t have any thing tangible, so they create stories and rumours. I am at a place where I just laugh at their rumours.
“Being popular, you have to come to terms with the fact that people will create untrue stories, some people will argue and say there is no smoke without fire, and to those ones I say darling there are smoke machines”, she said.
Rita made her debut in Nollywood in 1998 after she starred in the movie ‘A Time To Kill’, she has since starred in 200 flicks and still counting.
R&B star, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, has recounted the early-career challenges she faced, revealing that she was once booed out of the stage while performing at a school event.
Speaking in an interview with Newsmen, the Crazy Tings crooner shared that she wasn’t only booed but was also harassed with plastic bottles.
“I remember one time I was going to perform at my school as an up-and-coming singer and I thought I was going to receiving a standing ovation.
“But I got booed. They even threw plastic bottles at me,” she recalled.
Tems explained that despite the embarrassing incident and other such rejections, she remained determined to pursue a career in music.
The Tide Entertainment reports that Tems admitted that some of the initial rejections she faced could be due to her conviction to stick to her originality instead of doing covers or familiar sounds like most of her peers.
The Grammy-winning singer said looking back now, she is glad that she didn’t compromise her style despite the initial pressures.
A close associate of late singer Mohbad, Primeboy, has appealed for the artiste’s burial nearly three years after his death.
According to him, Mohbad’s body remains in the mortuary since September 12, 2023, pending burial arrangements.
The Tide Entertainment reports that in a statement Primeboy urged the family, public, and government to permit the burial, stating, “It’s been almost three years since Mohbad left us. His body is still in the mortuary. I’m begging the family, I’m begging the public, I’m begging the government, please let’s bury our brother. He deserves a befitting burial.”
It would be recalled that Mohbad’s death sparked public outrage, protests, and investigations. Ongoing autopsy examinations, police inquiries, and legal proceedings have delayed burial arrangements amid family disagreements and public scrutiny.
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