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Real Reason I Auditioned For BBNaija – Whitemoney Discloses

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Olivia House

Published Jan 10, 2026

Former Big Brother Naija reality display winner and singer, Hazel Oyeze Onou, popularly known as Whitemoney, has revealed his real motive for auditioning for the fact show. He claimed it become because of his monetary status.

The truth TV star revealed that poverty driven him to audition 4 instances in a row and he gained the fourth time.

Sharing his existence experience in an interview with Chude Jidenowo, Whitemoney revealed that he did not attend a tertiary group. In his phrases:

“The maximum educational qualification I actually have is O’ level, National Examination Council (NECO), that’s all I wrote. I didn’t write WAEC, JAMB, nor have any diploma.”

He also explained that overseas movies stepped forward his vocabulary without sound English. He stated:

“I hate analyzing, however I like to listen, so I watch a number of movies and emulate how they talk, and it impacted me. If I am to act inside the role of a person with an American accent, I ought to watch 5 Black American movies.

“By the time I’m done with them, it routinely packages in my head against the shoot day after today. It helps me first-rate-track my English, and the way to examine contracts and sign them. I stopped at NECO due to the fact that was in which the money stopped.”

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The young entrepreneur insisted that school surely offers theoretical components of factors however experience from existence has a excellent effect In shaping how some distance a person will subsequently become. Whitemoney delivered:

“The largest teacher any guy will have is experience. The second teacher anybody will have is life, and the 0.33 is people, now not even your dad and mom.

“You need lifestyles, people, and experience to come to be a higher character in life. School received’t give you that experience you need.”