Kim is not a porn star. She had sex with her
boyfriend of four years and unfortunately for her it was filmed, that doesn't
make her a porn star. But I'm really annoyed that she collected so much money
to come to Nigeria and only made a 20 second appearance on stage... Here's one article
from Wale Odunsi:
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.
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.
Click to read more after the cut...
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.
Well, I think there was without question no need for
Kim Kardashian at the concert.
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