Award winning Media personality, entertainer and Channel
O presenter Denrele Edun has finally opened up on
allegations of his sexuality. In an interview with Tribune,
the 31-year-old star talks about marriage, relationship,
controversial picture with Charly Boy, among others…
Q: haven’t you found the right person yet?
Ans : I think when that time comes, I will marry. I have been
into many relationships. I have dated girls who would want
to do anything I tell them. I want a woman who can hold
her own. I don’t want a woman who cannot make dialogue
with me. I don’t want a woman who will want to change me
because she should already know who Denrele is. I don’t
want to hear, “my father said you cannot dress like that” I
will be like, “Oya, come and carry your witch and go. And
return me my bride price before you go”. I want a woman
who is not pretentious, hypocritical or a fame seeker. I
want someone who is original. I want somebody I can go
to the salon together (with) to make our hair; who wouldn’t
mind if people are talking. I love a woman that can wear
heels. It may sound flimsy. I love girls on heels. This is
why I have always had a thing for models. If my wife
cannot wear heels...
Q: Here you are talking about marriage, while people have
described you as gay. What do you have to say?
Ans: I’m aware of it. In fact, a lot of people have come with
different terminologies for my sexual preference. They have
labelled me homosexual, heterosexual. Some have said I
am bi-sexual, asexual. I think I am a sexual outlaw; that is
the best way to describe it. Am I gay? I am a sexual
outlaw. Gbam!
Q: What does that mean?
Ans: I don’t know. I don’t even know what my sexual
preference is. The media have blown my sexuality out of
proportion. Maybe it is because I am feminine in nature, or
because I look like my mother or because of the way I
dress. My clothes are the reflection of my personality, but
people use it to judge my sexual preference. And if people
want to continually judge me because of my dressing, they
should go ahead.
Q: Does it mean you are not gay?
Ans: People can say what they like. You know, this can be
a mystery. If people keep pondering on it, it will remain a
mystery. If I give the answer now, una no go dey wonder
about anything. Make una dey ponder dey go.
Q: What is the worst thing that has happened to you for
being who you are?
Ans: I think it is the scandals. And I can handle scandals
well but people have fabricated so much about me. They
say I have a child somewhere that I have abandoned. They
say I am bleaching my skin – that is even the one they are
using to chase me up and down. If only people can see me
when I wake up in the morning, then they will know whether
I am bleaching on not.
Q: Would you like to clear the air on that?
Ans: Of recent, I discovered my love for powder. I normally
like to wear the one that is lighter than me, so anytime I
use this powder and my face becomes fairer, people will
begin to say I am bleaching. Someone recently said to me
on Twitter: ‘Denrele has bleached his destiny away’.
Another said, ‘Denrele is looking like Michael Jackson in
his time of death’. Somebody said, ‘Denrele looks like the
remains of a ghastly car crash’. This is the one that will trip
you. The person said, ‘Denrele looks like the spirit behind
this recent fuel scarcity’. I thought that was a classic one. I
have received a lot from people, especially during the
period I went through the Charly Boy/Denrele saga. They
said I kissed Charly Boy and I was trying to cause problems
in his matrimonial home. Nigerians took it upon themselves
to judge the freaking daylight out of me. They tried to pull
me down at any opportunity they could get. But for where?
Nothing can put me down.
Q: Even when you were asked to respond, you did not
come out straight. You were still trying to keep the
suspense.
Ans: You know when you are caught up in the middle of a
situation, you sometimes give up. I felt that any explanation
I will ever give will fall on deaf ears. Because the moment
that picture hit public domain, everybody came to one
conclusion: these two are dating. And whether or not it was
a photoshop feat, a publicity stunt, a controversial agenda
or the real deal, everyone decided to believe what they
wanted to believe. How many people do I want to
convince? I just said to myself that I do not owe anybody
any explanations. So, let them say whatever they want to
say. You know this is a free world. Everybody has poetic
licence. But I know in my heart of heart what happened. I
just decided to retain some suspense and intrigues around
it.
Q: Tell me the truth. What happened between you and
Charly Boy?
Ans: The truth is it was not real. If it was real, there should
have been something behind it. But Charly Boy is
somebody I respect in the industry for his relevance and
consistency. To answer your question, there is nothing
going on between me and Charly Boy. He is my area father.
But then the media blew it out of proportion. I think it was a
phase I had to go through.
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