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To rest curiosities about Yvonne Nelson; the beautiful Ghanaian
movies Star. Here is separating the facts & the Rumors.
 Yvone Nelson, the Sexy everybody's favorite has had her
share of rumors as of course is common with Celebs but in an interview she has set a clear demarcation between whats fact or runors
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She was once a model?
“I wasn’t modeling. It just happened
by chance. I actually took part in Miss Ghana beauty pageant in 2005. It has
been fun and I love what I’m doing. I have a degree in Human Resources
Management but I choose to concentrate on my acting career”.
“It’s something I love and people
are appreciating what I’m doing presently. I’m making all my fans all over the
world proud. I’m making my nation proud. I’m a very patriotic person and it is
all about putting my country and Africa at large on top of the chart”.
She accidentally became an actress?
“When I was growing up, I was rather
interested in music. I remember when I was in secondary school; I used to
perform on stage. I was always into entertainment. I wouldn’t say acting was
just by the way. It was meant to be and it happened. One thing is that they are
all about entertainment”.
“I never attended any audition. One
Ghanaian producer , Abdusalam Umuni, owner of Versus Films brought me into the
industry. He saw me and developed interest in giving me a role in his new movie
then. Even when I told him I was not an actress and I wouldn’t want to be one,
he convinced me to pick up the role. That was how it all started. I never
attended any audition, the roles came my way. It was meant to be”.
She is an ex-beauty Queen?
“I didn’t win the contest. But I won
two other awards out of five awards I entered for. I was among the last five
contestants during the contest. I’m sure if I had won the beauty contest, I
wouldn’t have become an actress. So, it’s good that I didn’t win Miss Ghana
Beauty pageant, and it’s because I didn’t win that I’m into acting today.
Everything happens in life for a reason”.
She was banned from the Ghollywood?
“I was not aware of any ban. If
something is made official or if somebody is officially banned, there should be
a letter notifying that person of such ban. But nobody gave me any letter. I
think this whole thing started as a rumor and later, it became bigger by the
day.I was very busy during that period. In fact, that was the busiest moment of
my life”.
She was rude to one of her Producers?
“Rude! I shot two movies for the
producer in question, “Back to Back”. If I was rude to him , I wouldn’t have
been on his set. Yes, a misunderstanding is bound to happen while on set. When
a producer wants to take advantage of someone and people are not privileged to
listen to my own side of the story, they will begin to draw conclusions that
one is rude or arrogant. It’s sad”.
“…..I’m only ensuring that nobody
takes advantage of me while on set. Ghanian artistes hardly voice out their
feelings. Sometimes, they find it difficult to complain because they are afraid
that the producers might get annoyed and decide not to give them roles again”
“…..For me, if you do something that
is wrong, I will not hesitate to tell you so. While on set, artistes usually
complain just as producers also complain. I know that as the faces in front of
the camera, the producers are duty-bound to care for us and respect our rights.
We should be their number one priority”.
She was Pregnant for a footballer?
“….All I know is that in the movie I
shot at that time, I played a role of a pregnant woman. Later, I twitted the
photography on Twitter, saying ‘I’m playing the role of a pregnant woman in my
new movie…that was all”
“…..Sometimes, you sit back and you
are quiet. At other times, you read these stories and you would want to laugh.
In fact, some of the stories are shocking and damaging. But no matter what
anybody would say, at the end of the day, this is a job that puts food on my
table. They will continue to talk about me”.
She dated Jim Iyke?
“..Jim Iyke and I shot a movie in
Ghana titled “Back to Back.” A Nigerian artiste came to Ghana to work. I can’t
watch him struggle to go to the car park to board a taxi, or ride in a
producer’s car. What we do as artistes is that we try to help ourselves”.
“….He was constantly sitting in my
car, as I was picking him up as well as taking him back to his hotel after the
day’s production. And before I knew what was happening, rumors started flying
that Jim Iyke and I were dating. I guess all these things are happening to me
because I’m the only single lady among my colleagues. Jackie Appiah is married
just as Majid is married. There is no other single lady to attack apart from
myself”.
She is a Party Girl?
“I never had a party in my life. I
don’t smoke and I don’t drink either. If I’m not shooting, I’m always at home.
I live a very simple life, I know how to play my roles very well. That’s what I
can say”.
“….Does it mean that if one plays
the role of a mad woman, there is the tendency that the person possesses some
traits of madness in him or her? I know a couple of actors who play the role of
pastors and yet they smoke and drink a lot. People should learn how to
differentiate what we do on set and our real lives”.
She was in a soft porn movie?
“….Really!...... But that was one of
my best films so far. I never exposed any part of my body. Why do you get it
twisted? It was Jackie Appiah and Majid who exposed themselves. I only kissed.
Jackie exposed her áss’ and nobody said anything as well as Majid did.
“I remember kissing with Majid and
John Dumelo. The only thing I did which I know people would raise eyebrow was
the poster where I exposed part of my body, not in the movie. My pose in the
poster was new to the Ghanaian and Nigerian markets”.
She loves Nigerian Men?
“…Yes, I love Nigerian men. Nigerian
men are nice people. There are no two ways about it. I appreciate them and they
are like brothers to us. When Nigerian men like you, they will walk up to you
to tell you so. Sometimes, when I’m in Nigeria, I hardly remember that I’m not
in Ghana except when there is power failure. That’s when it dawns me that I’m
in Nigeria. The country is like home to me. The men appreciate what I’m doing
presently on screen.Yes, I love them and they love me too”.
What her Fans don’t Know?
“….I’m a very funny and
down-to-earth person. But at the same time, I’m a shy person too. People judge
me from a distance because of the job I do. They should get close to understand
who I am”.
She has a foundation?
“….I set up a Foundation called
Yvonne Nelson Glaucoma Foundation, which was launched October 2010. Glaucoma
has to do with the eyes and it’s a silent killer disease. My grandmother died
of the disease. I decided to set up the Foundation to help create awareness about
the deadly disease. I’m working with a team of experts in Ghana. That’s the
only way I can give back to the society”.
She has bleached her complexion?
“……….. can’t
blame anyone, ignorance sets in because people don’t get to see us one on one,
so they rely on what we put out for them to see. An instance is any time I post
a picture online, I edit it and it tends to make me look lighter,"
"…….on my Instagram account; there are pictures
where I am quite dark; they are for magazine covers and I don’t do anything to
them, but anytime I am posting a picture, I always use the filter on Instagram,
and they make me look lighter."
"In my new movie, I look very dark and that is
my real complexion. I have come to realize that people love stories like that.
I guess I am the cause of the rumors, but I would still keep editing my
pictures before putting them online,” he noted.
She dated Iyanya?
“……….yes! Iyanya was very special and we
had a thing but I guessed it was all a joke he had it all planned out. He knew
what he was looking for and I guess he got it.”
Meet the Ghollywood
Beauty
Yvonne Nelson (born November 12, 1985) is a Ghanaian actress, model, film
producer and entrepreneur. Yvonne, a former Miss Ghana contestant, shot to fame
after a big-screen role in Princess Tyra and Playboy. She quickly
became a household name on the African continent. Yvonne is an award-winning
actress and has proved her versatility as an actress by starring in a number of
Ghanaian and Nigerian movies, including ‘Prince’s Bride’, ‘Girls Connection’,
‘Playboy’, and ‘Golden Adventure’.
Yvonne was born in Accra-Ghana, to Miss Margaret Gaddy and Mr. O. Nelson in
Accra. She hails from Cape Coast in the Central Region but spent most of her
early years in Accra. She had her basic and junior high education at St. Martin
De Porres in Dansoman, Accra. She got so much into music and yearned to be a
pop star in junior high. She went to Aggrey Memorial Senior High School. Driven
by the passion to be in the lime light, she won her first beauty pageant, Miss
Aggrey, in Aggrey Memorial Senior High School, performing a song by
Lauryn
Hill. She then went to the Central University College, where she did a
degree course Human Resource Management.
In Miss Ghana 2005 Beauty Pageant, she won the Best Talent award by
performing an original rap song and Miss Photogenic along with two other
awards. With the exposure accrued from the beauty pageant, she won a two-year
contract as face of Maxim Cosmetics after and landed a role in the TV series,
Fortune Island, where her acting career began. Her first lead was princess
tyra, she shot about five more movies and then went to Nigeria to shoot her
first collaboration with Genevieve Nnaji in 2007 that launched her career in
Nollywood. Since then, she has shot close to a hundred movies in Nigeria,
Ghana,Ivory Coast etc. She founded the YVONNE NELSON GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION in
2010 to help create awareness about the disease, she recorded an all-star
charity single and shot a video to help educate people. She produced her first
movie THE PRICE in 2011,followed by SINGLE AND MARRIED which has won two awards
(best picture -GMA and best Ghanaian movie in Nigeria -city people awards
2013.) She followed up with another interesting production HOUSE OF GOLD.
In 2009, she was named Joy FM Nite with the Stars Best
Actress. In 2010, she was adjudged Ghana’s Favorite Actress at the prestigious
Ghana Movie Awards and the Face of Ghana’s Best Actress 2011/2012 in the United
States of America. She was also nominated twice at the African Movie Academy
Awards (AMAAs) and adjudged Africa’s Best Actress at the 2012 Africa
entertainment Award in Malaysia. She picked Ghana’s Best Actress Award at the
August 2011 City People Awards. Prior to that, her song about glaucoma picked
up a prize at Ghana music Awards, GMA favorite actress award 2010, PAMSAA Best
International Actress 2012,Hottest Ghanaian actress in Nollywood (city people
awards 2013),Best picture for Single and married (GMA 2012),Best Ghanaian movie
for single and married(city people awards 2013)
Yvonne launched
YN Hairline which introduced lace wigs and human hair
collections into Ghana’s market. At the time, the wigs were very new in Ghana.
Yvonne appeared in a music clip “Adea peh na” of her favorite Ghanaian
Musician, Kojo Antwi.
She produced the current record breaking African movie, ‘Single &
Married’ and also has a number of businesses in Accra including a fashion shop
called YN's closet. The shop has latest designer wears from around the world.
Yvonne owns YN Productions with movie credits.
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