{"id":13072,"date":"2024-01-21T11:01:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T11:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/i-never-wanted-to-be-famous-actor-deyemi-okanlawon\/"},"modified":"2024-01-21T11:01:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T11:01:43","slug":"i-never-wanted-to-be-famous-actor-deyemi-okanlawon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/i-never-wanted-to-be-famous-actor-deyemi-okanlawon\/","title":{"rendered":"I never wanted to be famous \u2013 Actor, Deyemi Okanlawon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Nollywood actor and producer, Deyemi Okanlawon has said he didn\u2019t join the entertainment industry because of fame.<\/p>\n<p>The thespian, who switched from engineering to the entertainment industry, explained that he came into the industry to \u201cdo the work,\u201d stressing that \u201cfame was the collateral upside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in the latest episode of Celebrity Quickies, Deyemi said: \u201cTo be honest, I didn\u2019t know this side of fame. I didn\u2019t come into the industry to be famous. I came to do the work and the collateral upside of doing the work was fame. So, I quickly adapted with the understanding that it is just part of the job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, I try to remove that from my head to help me stay grounded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said his biggest regret is not starting his acting career earlier.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Hollywood actresses he would like to go on dates with are Viola Davies and Meryl Streep.<\/p>\n<p>I never wanted to be famous \u2013 Actor, Deyemi Okanlawon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nollywood actor and producer, Deyemi Okanlawon has said he didn\u2019t join the entertainment industry because of fame. The thespian, who&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5894,4,15],"tags":[5896,171,180,5895],"class_list":["post-13072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deyemi-okanlawon","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-deyemi","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-okanlawon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}