Nollywood actor Jim Iyke recently covered the front page of magazine Glam Africa.
In his interview he mentioned his beef with fellow Nollywood actors Charles Novia and Segun Arinze which begun when both of them rebuked his ‘deliverance’ at T.B Joshua’s church in September 2013. He also called out celebrity blogger Linda Ikeji.
Read what Jim Iyke had to say about Charles Novia:
“I will deem it completely reprehensible if I say what happened was orchestrated like people suggested. Segun Arinze and Charles Novia, men that I respected a lot, came out to say something completely derogatory of what happened that day”
“I am not really cool with Novia, we have always been at odds with each other, and nobody asked his opinion on what happened to another actor. If you want to be relevant; direct movies and project your creativity, so people will respect you more. Do not involve yourself in people’s private issues, I don’t talk about your wife, I do not say she is overweight, nor do I talk about the fact that you need therapy. I do not talk about your personal issues though looking at you, I am sure you have enormous personal issues.”
About Segun Arinze:
“I do not talk about Segun, I know one or two things about him like he knows about me. We are not that close so he has no authority to talk about what happened in my life. He used to be like a big brother, one that I respect, but he lost all that because of the way he went about this issue”.
Jim Iyke didn’t stop at calling out actors, he also turned to Nigerian bloggers, most especially Linda Ikeji.
“Oh Yes! They are bloggers that cannot feed themselves, and then all of a sudden someone informs them that with a few hits, money would be transferred into your account and it becomes an obsession.. There are some good blogs out there, do not get me wrong. I am not a great fan of BellaNaija, but she is smart, she is articulate, and she knows what she is doing. Even when she attacks me or writes about me, you will know that there is the chance of a researched truth. Linda Ikeji is one of the lamest of them all”
Jim Iyke has never hidden the fact that he is not a fan of Linda Ikeji, as he has dissed her a number of times, even went as far as calling her “a haemaphrodite witch and an anorexic chimp”
