boomed over the past couple of years, and
that has been thanks to a large surge in
social media interactions between
celebrities and fans. It's the one way a lot of
fans can stay very connected to their
favorite celebrities, and be in touch with
them in some cases almost a daily basis.
Instagram, twitter, blogs, facebook and the
likes have brought celebrities closer to us.
With that comes a lot of interaction and
many a times an out pouring of love to the
celebrity and in many cases, blinding hate.
But we wont focus on the hate part today. As
a "loving" website, we'll focus on the
positives… for now, and maybe… just maybe
we'll jump the fence and give you the flip-
side of this. Lest we get carried away, let's
get into our most loved celebrities.
We did a mini survey and research (as
always) and these are the celebrities who we
can say get the most amount of love from
fans, media and the likes and also the least
amount of hate. No celebrity is immune to
hate, but if the love far outweighs the hate,
you have to go with them being loved. Let's
get to it.
Genevieve Nnaji
First things first, one of the numerous
reasons a lot of people love her is because
she's beautiful and her beauty almost seems
age defying, but that's not even a quarter of
why her fans are so in love with her. Afterall
she's not the only pretty actress. Somehow
there's a certain lovable trait about her.
For the most part she's not involved in a lot
of scandal, she's almost always positive
when it comes to interacting with fans, and
you rarely hear of her going of on a rant on
facebook or twitter or the likes, or in any of
that attention mess that 'certain' actresses
do. Finally, she's a good actress and great
ambassador for Nollywood and Nigerian
entertainment in general. Someone you can
be proud to represent the face of
entertainment in Nigeria. No one is perfect,
but you'll be hard pressed to hear much
negative press about her.
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Don Jazzy
Don Baba J. His production and music
creativity alone is enough to make you want
to dash him your sister to marry. Simply put,
Don Jazzy could very well be the best
producer we have right now.
However one of the main reasons, Mr Collins
is so loved is because of his interaction with
fans and his great, GREAT generosity. For
one, he's one of the few celebrities in
Nigeria that actually follows a lot of fans
back on twitter and actually interacts with
fans as opposed to being snobby and turning
the nose up. Secondly he's extremely
generous. Forget about the phone recharge
credits, iPads etc he gives out on twitter, he
donates to a lot of causes, and helps a lot of
people in need (both announced and
unannounced). Doing that will definitely get
a lot of fans on your side, and even after the
messy split from Dbanj, he's still very much
loved by a lot of fans.
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MI Abaga
As a fan, it's hard to meet MI Abaga without
feeling like this is the best guy ever. Forget
the rap persona, MI is a very humble
individual and anytime he meets a fan he
makes that person feel like they've been
friends for a long time. It's his personality
that takes up almost half of why people love
him.
But you definitely can't ignore his talent.
His skills on the mic are arguably the best in
Nigeria, and a lot of his lyrics reach out to a
lot of people that can relate to them on a
personal level. It's very real and honest, and
it almost seems, in some of his more personal
songs, that he opens up himself and lets the
average fan in to understand him.
MI receives his fair share of hate, but even a
blind person can see that the love he gets
far outshines any hate that comes in from
random people.
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2face Idibia
On paper you wouldn't necessarily picture
2face being one of the most loved celebrities
in Nigeria given his interesting past
personal life and his career struggles, but
somehow someway, 2face has managed to
stay extremely loved by fans. So much so
that if you were to say something negative
on any social media network about 2face
you're bound to get attacked by one of his
voltrons. Yes!! All of us are voltrons for
2baba.
So why exactly is 2face loved so much?
Something about him is just real, honest
and humble. He might not interract a lot on
social media with fans etc, but anyone that
has met him will rarely have much negative
to say about him. His music is timeless, and
in many ways has given us some of the best
memories of our youth, and even though
he's had his share of scandals, he's somehow
managed to come out as a winner in the end.
Maybe that's the more reason we love him.
You add the fact that he had the celebrity
wedding of the year last year, it's hard not
to like 2face for more reasons than 1.
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Olamide
Olamide represents the streets, and that is
why he is loved by many. His fans are as
loyal as they come, and seeing how loyal his
fans are, it's not hard to hop on board and
get on that 'Badoo' train.
His music is real, honest, consistent, and
most of all very enjoyable to the ear. In
many ways, he reminds us of what Da Grin
was to the streets. That energy, that
passion, that hardwork and that feeling that
he doesn't forget where he comes from.
Anyway you look at it, you can't help but
admire that, and that's why Olamide has
seen his followership grow exponentially
over the past 18 months.
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P-Square
They are 2 but 1. The closest thing to
Michael Jackson stardom we've seen in
Africa as a whole. The Okoye brothers are
mega stars and that's really putting it
lightly. Don't believe me? Google fans
reactions to P-Square in concert, and you
see how much love these twins get. They
haven't necessarily stayed clear of scandal
but they've always bounced back well
anytime some negativity comes their way.
But the one thing that keeps fans loving P-
Square is their music and consistency. I
mean a set of twins making consistently
great music for the past 8-9 years? Common.
You aint got no choice but to love these cats,
even if they are not known to be people
persons per say.
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Flavour
Between the demographic of women who
love his body and dance moves (and think
he's the sexiest thing walking), and boys in
the east who drink palm-wine and chop
isiewu with Flavour's music blasting in the
background, it's easy to see how Flavour
just can't lose when it comes to a 'who get
love pass' contest. Everyone else just has to
admire from outside or jump on.
One good thing about Flavour is that he's
also managed to stay scandal free for the
most part. You rarely here of random gist of
him doing this, or him ranting or fighting
with another celeb or sending subliminal
messages via social media or songs. He
makes happy music and makes people
happy. Finito! His music comes on, and it
lifts the spirits, and makes you either want
to whine your waist of grab a bottle of 33.
Where's the harm in that?
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Omotola Jalade Ekeinde
You wont get much better than the one and
only Omosexy! This bootylicious beauty (and
booty) is one Nigeria's most prized
possessions for more reasons than just the
looks. Recently listed as one of the world's
most influential celebrities, Omotola is not
only highly loved in Nigeria, but all over
Africa as well.
No matter how popular Omotola is though,
she always seems to be popular with the
fans, and even if there is one scandal or
another with her name on it, her fans are
extremely loyal, and come out swinging if
you ever have anything less than nice to say
about her. Plus her acting and longevity in
Nollywood has made her a household name,
and a favorite of many African Magic
mothers.
Well that's all folks. I know, I'm going to
catch heat for not putting 'xyz' celebrity or
what was I smoking or whatever. It's ok.
We'll love to hear your opinion
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