Popular comic actors Mark Angel and Emmanuella have said that a company once offered to buy their Facebook page for a whopping sum of $400,000.
According to Mark Angel, the money was worth over N100 million as at the time they got the offer. However, a recent conversion showed that the money is worth N144,000,000.
Mark Angel stated that he refused the offer because it’s not all about money, adding that “money cannot buy what we do”.
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He said “Recently, a company wanted to buy out our Facebook page. I thought it as a scam but this company is well known and they offered us $400,000 when I converted it to Naira, it was more than N100million (N144m). My first thought was ‘guys lets sell it.’
“But we can’t sell it because it’s not all about money. Money cannot buy what we do. If you think about it, you can sell it and start again but there are people who can only get a laugh through that channel and by selling it, you will deny them that chance,”
Mark angel further disclosed that their skit had prevented an African president from taking a hasty decision that would have affected his country.
He said, “There was an African president who told us we saved him from taking a rash decision that would have affected his country. We were invited for dinner and we did not know why we were invited until he shared his testimony with us”.
When asked of the reason for shooting their videos in Port Harcourt instead of lagos, he said, “To work in Lagos is very hard. If you want to start shooting, agbero’s will come and start demanding outrageous sums of money from you. There was a time we were asked to pay N170, 000 settling these touts before we were allowed to shoot. That’s why we shoot in PH and market our skits in Lagos”.
However, seven-year-old Emmanuella who became famous for her hilarious roles in the Mark Angel series revealed she wants to be a make-up artiste and dancer.
She said, “I want to be a makeup artiste in future. Because I want to beautify people’s face. I also want to be a dancer”.