Ghanaian Celebrities Were Not Recognised At Cannes Film Festival & Therefore No Red Carpet For Them, It Was All Lies…

Somewhere last week, I had a long separate chit chats via phone with Actress Juliet Ibrahim and Mr Fred Numah (Founder/CEO of Ghana Movie Awards) when they were in France for the Cannes Film Festival.

During our conversation, Juliet Ibrahim who could not believe a false story that was published on our celebrities having been on a red carpet at Cannes expressed her dissatisfaction and shock about the entire Ghanaian- Cannes visit arrangement.

From what I gathered from my convo with Juliet Ibrahim as to what was really going on at Cannes as far as our celebrities were concerned , it seemed our stars namely Nadia Buari, Juliet Ibrahim, Yvonne Nelson, Yvonne Okoro,  Majid Michel, John Dumelo and others who were sponsored by the Ghana Movie Awards to the film festival had nothing scheduled for them out there.

They cheaply jumped on planes and went there to walk about as tourists or persons who had come to see the Hollywood stars… Even tourists have aims for visiting places, our celebrities were purely aimless.

It was therefore a big shock to Juliet Ibrahim to have read that, some Ghanaian celebrities out there in Cannes had graced the red carpet. Apart from the issue of red carpet, Juliet Ibrahim also pointed out that, she was not pleased with the way things were arranged for them.  There was no hotel rooms reserved for them and they did not have any planned means of transport.  Our stars jumped in and out of trains and taxis as if they were ‘I and I’…

The treatment accorded to these stars together with the fact that they were out there doing nothing and wasting their little money on hotels, food and transport pushed some of them to quickly make their way back to Ghana. After all, kenkey and fish is cheap back home.

After my over 1 hour conversation with Juliet Ibrahim who was sharing a little single hotel room with Ghanaian Actress-Nikki Samonas and her little sister (paid by themselves), I got in touch with the man (Mr Fred Nuamah) who was in charge with transporting our highly rated Ghanaian stars to France to be ‘allegedly’ treated like Mr no bodies.  They are my Ghanaian celebrities and I spend my entire life blogging about them so I got to stick up for them even though some of them do not like me that much… 🙂

Though Fred Nuamah accepted that there had been lapses in their arrangements out there, he said a lot to me which he latter repeated on Peacefm… So why should I type all he said to me when you can easily listen to the audio ?

Charley, I have Commercial Law exams on Friday so I have to go and do some chew and pour. Listen to the audio attachments below for the rest of the gist… 🙂

Fame will kill some people in this world…Oh Ghana Celebrities!

 

[audio:http://media.peacefmonline.com/newsaudio/201105/23-05-2011 Juliet Ibrahim On EntRev.mp3|titles=Juliet Ibrahim Speaking] [audio:http://media.peacefmonline.com/newsaudio/201105/23-05-2011 Fred Nuamah On EntRev.mp3|titles=Fred Nuamah Speaking]