Kind Celebrities who contributed to Olajumoke’s fame

olajumoke cnnThe 27-year-old ‘former’ random bread seller in Lagos and a mother of 2 photo-bombed a shoot involving celebrated Nigerian photographer TY Bello and British singer, Tinie Tempah, and left majority wondering how well she blended into the shoot like a professional model.

She has since gone on to catwalk and photography jobs, as well as having her Cinderella-like story being profiled on international and local media.

According to her mother, they didn’t get any prophecy that she would be famous, but a recent research by Nigerian company, BHM show us that celebrities played a major role in Olajumoke’s rise to fame.
Here’s how it all started and few of the celebrities that contributed to the success

#1 TY BELLO

All thanks to TY Bello’s 179k followers on both Instagram and Twitter for a jump, the reach of the debut picture of ‘Jummy’ increased significantly with every new person who saw the image and retweeted or re-grammed it.

According to the popular photographer:  ‘…Questions and comments started to fly: Was she a model? How did we convince the model to balance all that bread on her head? The buzz about her multiplied when I clarified that she indeed wasn’t a model at all but simply stumbled on our set. I immediately began my search for her. If so many felt she was beautiful enough to be a model, then maybe she was meant to be one.’

This sets off a modern day Cinderella-like search that everyone wanted to be a part of. As the posts about the hunt for Olajumoke got shared several times, it got the attention of celebrities – many with wide influence on Social Media. This created a great anticipation for a successful end to the search…with many stalking TY Bello’s timelines on social media for the tiniest updates on the search very hour (I may or may not be one of them).

Then she was found!

#2 Tinie Tempah

‘I’m so happy for her’ – UK rapper, Tinie Tempah

Our dear Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu, declared Olajumoke as his ‘Woman Crush Wednesday’ in February. He wrote on IG with her picture, to his massive fan base worldwide: ‘#WCW #Olajumoke This woman went from Photobombing my photoshoot in Lagos for @thisdaystyle to landing her own Modelling contract! She went from selling that bread to getting that bread real quick lol! So happy for her, she is most definitely blessed and this goes to show that ANYTHING can happen you just have to be at the right place at the right time.

Hopefully this beginning of great things for her’.

#3 ) OTHER CELEBRITIES

See what Don Jazzy tweeted:


Other celebrities that reacted to the news include, Nollywood actresses, Chioma Chukwuka and Adesua Etomi, popular Nigerian OAPs, Toke Makinwa, Dotun CoolFM, Osi Suave, Kaylah Oniwo, DJ Caise, Wunmi Obe in 140 characters on Twitter.

The likes of Ali Baba, Ayo Shonaiya, Reuben Abati, Ebiye, Charles Novia and more wrote quite interesting articles, expressing their personal opinion about the trend.

Later in the month of February, Ciara and Kcee also tried to make another ‘Olajumoke’, but it meet as much positive as hers. Was it forced and not as spontaneous as Olajumoke?

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