{"id":674671,"date":"2026-07-05T07:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674671\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T07:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:33:18","slug":"adebayo-salami-reflects-on-early-acting-career-with-throwback-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674671\/","title":{"rendered":"Adebayo Salami reflects on early acting career with throwback picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/adebayo.salami\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Adebayo Salami<\/a>, popularly known as Oga Bello, has reflected on his early days in theatre, saying that passion for the arts was their main motivation.<\/p>\n<p>The actor shared a throwback photo of himself and colleague Baba Wande on Instagram while reminiscing about their beginnings.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, when they started out in theatre, their focus was not on fame or money but on love for the craft.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that any other good things that came afterwards were simply divine blessings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we started theatre, our minds and hearts were more about passion for the arts. Every other goodness that came from it was just a divine bonus for us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran actor Adebayo Salami, popularly known as Oga Bello, has reflected on his early days in theatre, saying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[225583,6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-674671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-adebayo-salami","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}