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“Anywhere my ex-husband saw me he would beat me.
“He beat me so much, I became an alcoholic - but I couldn’t leave because of the shame that people will say I couldn’t keep a man.”
For the first time on TV, veteran actor Ayo Adesanya - who was so big she was already lead star on Most Wanted, where Genevieve had her first minor role - finally speaks in detail about her abusive relationship that made her leave the industry for a very long time - and how she found the courage and the will to return to the industry and rebuild her career.
We also discuss:
- How she stayed in this relationship for 10 years
- How Bimbo Akintola and her other colleagues got angry because she couldn’t leave this man
- How her ex threatened to pluck out her eyes with a knife
- How he sent her son away to Ibadan at just 1 years old because he was jealous of the attention she was giving her son
- Why her next relationship didn’t work out
- Her long, hard journey back to Nollywood
All pain, the shame, the destruction and the recovery.
For the first time on TV, #WithChude.
Let me know what you think in the comment section. ❤
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This was an incredible honour.
To have the legendary newscaster and TV host, Cyril Stober sit down to interview me for my celebration of 25 years in the media, and my 40th birthday.
I have worked in the media since I was 15 - from my first job on the NTA - and in this conversation we go deep into a career across print, radio, online, film and television; working from the NTA to MBI to Channels TV, and from TEMPO Magazine to Thisday to NEXT.
He grilled me o!
- Why did I start so young - what was driving me?
- How writing my first book at 13 kicked off my career?
- Why did I leave my law degree to practice journalism?
- Was I afraid being on TV as a presenter at 16 the first time?
What was it like working with icons like Levi Ajuonuma, Funmi Iyanda, Comfort Okoronkwo, Agatha Amata and others?
- When did I have time to do ‘young things’?
- How did I meet my first girlfriend - on the job?
- What led to a nervous breakdown in my 20s?
- Why did I choose the lowest paying job out of 5 job offer after NYSC?
- Why did I join NEXT newspaper’s even when they were already owing 3 months salaries?
- Why I am not fazed by being ‘rave of the moment’ because of all the icons that I have seen go before me
- What’s my vision for my work and the next 25 years?
From a starry/eyed young couch potato to the host of the most watched talk show on the continent, I stand on the shoulders of giants like Stober and other greats who have shone the path for me.
This conversation truly helped me unravel a life of so many highs and so many dreams come true. ❤
#ChudeIsCelebrating
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After his contract with Naira Marley’s label expired in 2022, Fabian Blu disappeared from the public space after releasing four singles under Marlian Records.
He is speaking for the first time to the media about his time at the label and royalties over the past five years that he says he is owed. He says he has not been paid a penny and when he threatened to sue them to court, Naira Marley laughed in his face.
He tells me about the suffering and punishments he said endured during his time under the label—how he was called a lazy artist and sidelined because he wasn’t Yoruba or Muslim. How he was maltreated in the accommodation provided, marched out of the studio and ignored when he asked for help for his mother.
He says he was introduced to drugs after signing with Marlian Music and to a dangerous lifestyle that he has to escape from.
Then I ask him: Why did he reach out to me to speak out just now, when Naira Marley is making a comeback with his music?
Hear him tell his story exclusively on withChude.com right away and on @WithChude YouTube at 5pm today.
Let me know what you think in the comment section.
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For the very first time, Mohbad’s wife Omowunmi Aloba is granting an interview.
She says the bullying her husband suffered, her son Liam is now suffering it.
From Naira Marley to her father-in-law. She speaks of death threats and attempted poison.
She also fully explains why the DNA test has not been done to verify the father of her child.
Today. 5pm. YouTube.
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After the release of the monster hit ‘Caro’ with Wizkid, L.A.X (Damilola Afolabi) became a huge star. And he was only 18.
He tells me the story of how he got that big break, how Wizkid changed his life… and why everything slowed down because his parents insisted he finish school and does his NYSC.
Whatever that may have done to his momentum, he says he has no regrets. Returning to Nigeria, growing up with his grandmother taught him wisdom.
We talk about:
● Why he left Wizkid, and why his leaving made Wizkid worried
● Why he continues to call Wizkid his Big Brother and why he thinks Wizkid has been on the attack in the past one year
● Why people think his energy and his career have slowed down, even though he is cleaning out concerts across Europe
● The heartbreaking story of how he found out his ex-girlfriend was cheating on him - and why he still begged her to stay
● How he paid her back for the cruelty he suffered - and what he learnt from that entire experience
● Why he sued the anonymous lady who accused him of sexual abuse and then recanted
● Why he takes life easy, no matter what other people are doing in the industry or on social media
L.A.X. says he is a huge fan of the show and that’s a big compliment, because he is without any doubt from one of the coolest guests I have ever interviewed on this show.
Watch the full 1-hour episode now on withChude.com.
And let me know what you think in the comments section below. ❤
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I watched Teniola in Unbroken and immediately I knew she was a star, from then she’s gone on to feature in some of my favorite movies.
But in December, she finally had a global star vehicle befitting of her massive talent with ‘Christmas in Lagos’.
In this interview she talked about the journey from being behind the camera, wanting desperately to be in front where she knew she belonged but having little opportunity - especially because very few people believed in her talent.
How she got here is a powerful story of fighting - to be seen, to be heard, to be believed.
We also talk about
Losing her ex-boyfriend, and why this made her tear up on the show
How her ex-boyfriend completely changed her life and her relationship with God
What his death taught her
The story of her AMVCA Trailblazer Award and what that moment meant to her
How she managed to survive the intense pressure of social media, seeing others succeed while her career stalled
Why acting matters so much to her
You’ve never seen Teniola like this before.
Watch the full 1-hour episode now on withChude.com.
Let me know your thoughts below. ❤
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"I would like to judge my father (Sir Shina Peters) for how he treated my mother (Clarion Chukwurah Abiola), but I’m not in the position to.”
“The newer generation of Afrobeats artistes saw me as the old guard and was just like ‘we are tired of you’.”
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With these two statements, you already see how deep we got in this conversation.
For the very first time ever, the greatest music video director of my generation - who avoids interviews like the plague - opens up like he has never done ever before.
He says #WithChude was the only show where he would go this deep or speak this openly.
Just after he premiered his revolutionary series ‘Inside Life’ on Netflix, he sat with me and spoke with incredible depth and an open heart. It was well worth the 5-year wait.
We also discuss:
● How he really feels about how his father treated his mother as the tabloids hit her hard
● Why he learnt to stop judging and forgive his father when he became an adult and had his own relationships
● How his mother resisted the intense pressure to abort him
● Why the pressure of being child to two superstars led to impostor syndrome
● The helplessness and fear he experienced as he moved from doing 3 music videos-a-week to the industry ‘rejecting him’
● Why he didn’t make his Netflix film ‘Inside Life’ for the world.
This was a masterclass - on life, on growth and on how to re-invent yourself after you feel like everything has fallen apart.
Please watch or listen to the full 1-hour episode on withChude.com.
Let me know your thoughts below. ❤
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What makes people think of suicide? What makes even a successful, famous person consider committing suicide?
How do you avoid getting to this point? How do you recover if you get to this point?
And how can you help people you love or know who have arrived at this terrible point?
My guests over the years have shared deeply and honestly about this - and we have a special YouTube episode with some of the most powerful stories.
It's now up on @WithChude on YouTube and on withChude.com.
Let me know your thoughts below.
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“They were contemplating cutting off my legs in the hospital emergency room.”
Victony (Anthony Ebuka Victor) says as a child, his parents were away all the time, they left him on his own, and he was very lonely. That, he says, has completely reshaped his life.
He has had to rely on himself to take care of himself emotionally and mentally, but it has also helped him build the resilience to face life - including the infamous accident that landed him in a wheelchair.
In this conversation, he shares:
— The real possibility in the emergency room that his leg was going to be cut off and how he survived that ordeal.
— Why he had to answer those who said he was using his wheelchair for sympathy - and how he grew out of the deep frustration of that incident.
— Why he feels his heart cannot be broken because of how he has trained himself to be, based on the loneliness of his childhood.
Pensive, reflective and wise - Victony’s clarity will soothe your spirit.
Watch the full one-hour version on withChude.com.
Let me know what you think in the comment section ❤.
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For years people have been asking me: What’s your own story?
This year, I am finally saying yes and sharing a part of my story. The part I think the world needs to hear today.
When my show hit its stride, I stopped saying yes to interviews because I wanted to focus on listening, on hearing, on being a channel for others. I wanted to have something significant to say to the world before speaking again.
I believe that time has come.
My book ‘How Depression Saved My Life’ will be out in April 2025 and it is a memoir of my life from 2014-2024 - a journey that led me through depression, heartbreak, thoughts of suicide, quitting my job as CEO and landing here as host and creator of #WithChude. It tells a story I believe the world urgently needs to hear today.
To help me prepare for the release of the book, I have some heavy hitters starring as guest-hosts on this show - with me as guest. I am honoured by all the people who either offered or said yes.
The first special is with my sister and friend, the chart-bursting actor, producer and director — Omoni Oboli.
She reached out to me last year to say ‘you need to tell your story and I want to interview you’ and it’s because of her that we came up with this special series.
This is one of the deepest, truest, most heart-felt conversations I ever did. We cried, both of us, as I told never-before-heard stories about my life, my emotions, my mother, my career, and the moments when I thought it was all over and I wanted to end it all.
This interview will move and bless you deeply. ❤
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I don’t have guests twice on my show - unless there is a deeply compelling reason. Pastor Bolaji Idowu is only the second guest I have gotten back on the show.
Because, I attended the Next Level Prayer Conference in London last year and I was blown away. He has been a brother for over a decade, but to actually see him on stage minister to tens of thousands of souls who had come for freedom and healing was to see a man transformed.
Today, on the eve of the NLP Conference in Lagos, I sat with him to talk about how much the ministry has grown in the two years since our last interview.
We talk about:
Why he is called a celebrity pastor - and why celebrities flock to his church.
The shocking stories of emotional healing he has heard - including that of a married woman who was impregnated four times by her own father.
The dramatic stories of healings from cancer, near death experiences and what he says to people who disbelieve these miracles.
His answer to critics who think he is “doing too much” on the internet.
How his focus on emotional healing comes from his own childhood - where he didn’t feel the love of his father and grew up being taken advantage of by others.
The level of truth and vulnerability in this interview will blow you away.
This one is a MUST WATCH.
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After leaving Nigeria in 2017 to make a better life for himself in America, Tolu Michael suddenly collapsed from a heart condition. The doctor said if he had been just 5 minutes late, he would have died.
That literally life-changing situation made him realise how short and fleeting life is.
Because of it, he has written 8 books in the past four years, and he has developed a business that transforms the lives of people like who immigrate to America and don’t know the first thing to do.
This is a man in a hurry to make his life count - and in this interview, he tells you exactly how you can do the same in your own life.
The full interview is now up on withChude.com.
I’d love to hear your comments below ❤.
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The enfant terrible of the food industry is my guest today!
The fear of Opeyemi Famakin is the beginning of wisdom for chefs, restaurants, food bloggers and content creators everywhere.
But how he got here is incredibly inspiring.
He tells me that he heard the voice of God literally and clearly telling him this is his path, and so he quit his job as a senior editor in his twenties to do this thing that no one else had ever done on this scale before.
After saying no to one high-paying job, he went home and cried. Because he was so afraid he was making a mistake.
We also talk about:
● Why he regrets criticising Don Jazzy’s burger brand and what he would do differently now.
● The fight with his mom that has led them to not speak for several years.
● Why he feels hurt when people who know him personally in the food industry attack him on social media.
● Why he is sad only his negative content gets the most virality when he lifts up countless brands - and how he eventually learnt to stop caring about that.
● How he has handled being laughed at, belittled, criticised and cancelled - including how his Instagram page was “permanently disabled” because of his criticism of Igbo ‘oha soup’ and how he survived that scary period and got his page back.
It’s Opeyemi Famakin like you’ve never heard him never before.
Let me know your thoughts below ❤
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“I give you one year and you will fail in this industry.”
That’s what the man who trained Lateef Adedimeji in the Yoruba movie industry told him after his training.
Today, on our show, Lateef has a message for that man, who is still alive and still in the industry.
He face; that same lack of faith for his viral Lisabi movie. Lateef says all the people whopromised to support him, the ones he actually expected to support him, all abandoned him.
“There was nobody.”
But his wife Mobimpe stood by him like a rock.
We also talk about:
— How he and his wife have responded to the people who call her barren.
— Why he spent months denying a relationship with his wife and the shocking way he finally proposed to her.
— How his father went from locking him out of the house for being an actor to investing in his very first film (which then failed woefully!).
— How he often has no confidence in himself, and how his wife stands in to remind him of who he is and what he can do. Without her, he doesn’t know what would have happened to him.
Today, as the epic sequel, Lisabi: A Legend is Born is released on Netflix, Lateef is here to share his testimony.
Watch the 30 minutes interview version this evening at 5pm on YouTube and the full 1-hour version on withChude.com.
Let me know your thoughts below after watching ❤.
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“People say we are barren because we’ve been dating for 10 years and don’t have a child” — Kassia and KellyRae #BBNaija
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#BBNaija’s Kassia broke up with the winner winner Kelly Rae because he wasn’t being responsible about money. Then later he tried to break up with her because he thought she deserved better and he couldn’t provide for her.
Little did he know that in 2024, both of them would enter the Big Brother house and become millionaires in a matter of months.
They talk about -
Going through thick and thin together - death, cancer, a gambling addiction, a cheating incident, being thrown out of his friend’s house, accusations that he was being frisky in the house, and having to hide the fact that they were married in the house.
Her desperately wanting to be married to him for years and he didn’t propose, and then when she decided she no longer cared about marriage fulfilling her - he proposed, just weeks before the house.
How they respond to people who attack them for being barren today because they have no children after 10 years together.
They smiled when people said their marriage wouldn’t survive the house.
They are still smiling today. Because underneath all of the drama and the face and the money is a great, great love story.
Let me know your thoughts below after watching.
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Frank Edoho is regarded by many as the greatest TV host alive - but this interview was not about ‘Who Wants To Be A Billionaire?’
It’s about the Frank Edoho you’ve never heard about - and the exclusive stories he has never told anyone anywhere.
Like the details of how the sponsors of ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’ called him to a meeting in Ikoyi, Lagos to fire him because his wife had accused him of being a wife-better. Frank says that never happened, he was in fact the victim, and till today he hasn’t said a complimentary word to his ex-wife because he can’t understand why she did that.
He tells me about:
- the depression and loneliness he has dealt with since his childhood - and that he continues to deal with today.
- his parents’ divorce and how it shattered his sense of sense - and why he fought against it when they tried to get back together. The trauma was too hard to relive.
- how he has learnt not to depend on anyone emotionally apart from his children - because people break your heart and people leave. One must know how to stand alone.
- why he began to buy shoes and why he began to play football - and how his hard comebacks to errant people on Twitter are actually quite therapeutic for him.
And so much more.
The Essential Frank Edoho - like you’ve never seen or heard him before.
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How do you escape a toxic relationship or marriage?
How do you even identify it in the first place? What are the signs?
What do you do when you are in it?
And how do you rebuild your life when you come out of it?
My guests over the years have shared deeply and honestly about this - and we have a special YouTube episode with some of the most powerful stories.
It’s now up on @WithChude on YouTube and on withChude.com.
Let me know your thoughts below.
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I stumbled upon a Steve Hills (Stephen Ogbonna Orijinta) live worship session on YouTube a few months ago after watching a video of EbukaSongz - and I caught the fire!
Immersing myself in viral hit ‘Fire and Light (The Supernatural Anthem)’ was like jumping two-feet first into Heaven on Earth.
I am Fire! I am Light! I am Glory, oh! The Supernatural!
I immediately changed all my plans for our annual The Music Playlist episode - I wanted to experience this fire live; and to experience this special anointing that I am certain will take over the world next year.
The full worship session is up on @WithChude YouTube and the session plus interview are exclusively on withChude.com!
This is my Christmas gift to myself - and to you ❤.
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