Nigerian international music star Patrick Chukwuemeka
Okogwu, who goes by the stage name Tinie Tempah, yesterday caused a stir when
he high-fived the future king of England at the 2014 British Academy of Film
and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards in London.
People in the audience as well as millions who followed
the programme on TV, watched with mouths agape as England-based Emeka, who
opened the show with a breath-taking performance, went straight to Prince
William, who sat in the front row and extended his hand for a massive shake.
The Prince obliged, sparking a controversy which may not die down in a hurry.
The 25-year-old hitmaker later told BBC: “It was great, I
just saw him there and thought, ‘Do you know what? Why not?’, and it felt
great.”
The red-hot rapper admits his fans went crazy on Twitter
after watching the pal-like relationship between him and the future King, 31,
on television.
He explained: “I’ve seen my Twitter, it’s going crazy at
the minute but it was fun. Seriously, like, it was such a memorable
performance.”
However, Tinie, according to Daily Mirror, has met
the Prince – who has seven-month-old son Prince George with his wife Duchess
Catherine – on a number of occasions in the past and insists it wasn’t awkward
between them, and he felt it was acceptable to do that gesture.
Mirror quoted
him as saying: “We’ve met a couple of times now, so I felt safe. I felt like
something bad isn’t going to happen. And it was all right and I was happy.”
In a way, this year’s BAFTA was a Nigerian show, as
another British-Nigerian, globally acclaimed actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, carted
home the best actor award. Indeed, as Nigerians like to put it: “Naija no dey carry last!”
Source: Daily Mirror
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