{"id":301042,"date":"2026-02-16T15:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301042\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:17:09","slug":"i-was-once-gifted-a-car-by-an-admirer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301042\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I was once gifted a car by an admirer&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"article-123\">Veteran actress Omotola Jalade Ekeinde has stirred social media after revealing that she was once gifted a car while married.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Naija FM, she said, \u201cWomen have admirers,\u201d she explained. \u201cMe, who is married, I know how many people have gifted me things, women and men. They\u2019ll just see me and say, \u2018Omotola, I\u2019m sending you this.\u2019 They\u2019ve gifted me a car before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked if she returned the car because she was married, Omotola responded bluntly: \u201cNo, why would I return the car?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She credited her husband\u2019s confidence for the smooth handling of such situations, describing him as the most secure human being you can ever meet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThink about it, how would you marry an Omosexy if you\u2019re not secure?\u201d she quipped.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the screen icon dismissed claims that women don\u2019t dominate Nollywood, insisting that women are the true backbone of the industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen are the ones who hold Nollywood,\u201d she said, stressing that many female actors are not just performers but also business owners, influencers, producers, and entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, most actresses she knows run multiple businesses alongside their acting careers, with some even maintaining full-time professions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran actress Omotola Jalade Ekeinde has stirred social media after revealing that she was once gifted a car&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-301042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}