One
of the prominent big players in the UK movie and entertainment
business is sure in the center of a serious controversy that's
capable of denting his image should he refuses to retrace his steps.
Although, we gathered reliably that he's been able to get a soft
landing on this, movie makers in the UK have promised to be tougher
the next time he's found wanting of such a demeaning situation.
According
to the information gathered by National Enquirer, the man in the eyes
of the storm is one of the popular movie directors whose works have
won many awards in the UK. The name George Kelly Toghanro is not a
push over in the London entertainment industry, even though he's
Sierra Leonean, George Kelly is more comfortable in the midst of
Nigerians simply because of their population and expertise in the
entertainment industry.
The
CEO of Black Films Academy/Studios is said to be a dynamic
businessman who also have interest in music promotions and he has
been part of one of the concerts of Nigeria's hip hop rave, Dapo
Oyebanji also known as Dbanj. And as for the crush of the matter,
tongues have been wagging over George Kelly's alleged clandestinely
unethical conducts that border on extortion and other professional
vice.
Informed
sources told National Enquirer that, the producer of The
Lower Cut
, a docu-drama on female genital mutilation who has also directed
award winning films such as Broken
Bride, Ikpaya and
so on was said to have allegedly requested the sum of £2,000 each
(Two Thousand Pounds) from two upcoming actresses, Ene and Prisca
Richards a.k.a Vee Posh before they can be part of a movie
production.
The
innocent upcoming actresses, we gathered were dumbfounded when
nothing happened even after they've been made to part with their hard
earned £2,000 each; this was what informed the whisperings until the
issue became a public interest.
This
office gathered reliably that, an ad-hoc panel was set up by the
Actors Guild United Kingdom Nollywood-AGUKN to look into the matter
and they eventually summoned George Kelly who later promised to pour
oil on troubled water by returning their money.
The
estranged George paid up though, we were told he allegedly claimed
the upcoming actresses were always eating Kentucky Fried Chicken on
him every time they visited during the course of the offer, so they
were only able to get between £1,600-£1,800 or thereabout instead
of the £2,000 he extorted from them.
In
our facts finding mission, we tried to hear from the award winning
actor by meeting up with him somewhere in Hendon Central, North
London when we got an information that, he might probably be at a
movie audition venue but unfortunately he was not there and when we
eventualy got his number, he refused to pick calls; he however
engaged us on whatsapp chat later and here are the messages: ''Hello
bro, did you try to call me'', he asked, Yes, been ringing you for
the past one week, we responded. Okay sorry but I couldn't recognise
the caller from that photograph, that's why am calling you. He later
sent another one, ''please make it easy for me by reminding me who
you are. (smiles smiles emoticon) and we replied, am a journalist.
''Great, he said what media outfit do you work for and how did you
get my number. I am from Enquirer and we had to come looking for you
somewhere in Hendon because we learnt you might possibly be at an
audition. Okay thanks a lot. I'm trying to put finishing touches to
one or two things. I'll contact you once am through, thanks again,
have a nice day. Our chats on whatsapp, we did wait for him to get
back to us as promised but he never did till we hit the press.
We
went a step further by sounding out one of the top AGUKN members but
the response we got is, ''my brother, you know this is a private
matter, am not sure I know much about what you're talking about but I
think its been sorted and everybody is happy''.
We
await George Kelly's side of the story and we shall tell let you have
it unedited as soon as he got back to us.
Jite
Usman
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