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| Emmanuella |
The Mark Angel Comedy group has grown with Little Emmanuella doing
exploits with her Uncle Mark.
In a recent interview with NAIJ, Mark Angel reveals her
parents’ reaction to her new found fame, how she gets paid and how comedy and
travelling is affecting her schooling. Read excerpts below:
On her Parents’ reactions to
her acting, he said:
They were happy. We didn’t even
know that this was going to go big like this when we started. We liked what we
were doing and we were doing it for the fun of it. After shooting the comic
skits all we do then was to share it with our friends on Whatsapp and they will
tell that was funny and that will be the end of it. But later I started to
build social media handles to see how more people can view what we are doing.
We found out that when people see Emmanuella their moods just change. We want her
to affect more people.
On her Parents’ reaction now
that she’s a superstar
Just the same way I feel. They
are like wow this has gone big. It came as a surprise that we are going this
big, when we noticed we told ourselves we have to be serious about it so that
we will not disappoint our viewers and followers. That is how we turned our
hubby into something serious.
On how Emmanuella gets paid
It’s no longer family-family
thing but now business. Emmanuella’s family and I realized that she is a minor
now though a celebrity but she is going to grow up. So we need to save for her
future. Together with her parents we have put things in place for her.
On how Comedy and travelling is
affecting Emmanuella’s education
It’s affecting her. Before now
she was attending a public school and when the stardom started setting in we
have to move her to a private school. Even at the school because she is
Emmanuella they gave her preferences such that if she said she is not ready to
learn they will take it from her. When I learnt about this development I went
mad. One day, I took it out on the principal for allowing her to have her ways.
Despite the warning they still kept doing that so I changed her school. Despite
telling them why I moved her to the school some teachers still give her special
attention, it’s a battle. And when we travel outside the country we always look
for a teacher even before our landing in that country. And since their
curriculum is quite different from our own we go extra length to break it down
to her. We always tell her foreign teachers to try to synchronise Nigerian
school curriculum with theirs so we can get a balance. And the good thing is
that she has learnt some things her classmate has not learnt before.
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