{"id":716,"date":"2014-08-23T08:46:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T08:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=716"},"modified":"2014-08-23T08:46:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T08:46:20","slug":"anita-joseph-afro-candy-deny-charging-for-audition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"Anita Joseph, Afro Candy deny charging for audition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Anita-Joseph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-717\" alt=\"Anita-Joseph\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Anita-Joseph.jpg\" width=\"169\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the Actors Guild of Nigeria frowns at movie makers collecting screening fees from <em>wannabe<\/em> actors during auditions, Saturday Beats gathered that actress Anita Joseph and Afro Candy charged some young people N7, 000 to be auditioned in their up and coming movie.<\/p>\n<p>But when Saturday Beats contacted Anita, she quickly distanced herself from the incident claiming that the project was for Afro Candy and she only helped with casting. She told Saturday Beats that she got to the venue late and even saw some people leaving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was not the one that called for auditioning. It is not my business, it is Afro Candy\u2019s job and I do not know if any money was collected. I just helped in with the casting. I do not know anything about that and I do not know why they would mention my name. When I got there, people were already leaving so I don\u2019t know why they would mention my name. Why would people be talking such rubbish? When I came, people were already leaving so what is my business with that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>However, when Saturday Beats contacted Afro candy who is based in the US on the phone, she rudely said the N7, 000 she collected was \u2018membership fee\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have to be a part of my company before they can feature in my movie. Other people in the industry do it and they even charge as high as N10, 000 or more. Most times, they don\u2019t even bother to feature these people. People knew what I was coming for because I advertised it on the poster. You should go and do your f**king research before calling me,\u201d she rudely fired back before cutting off the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the Actors Guild of Nigeria frowns at movie makers collecting screening fees from wannabe actors during auditions, Saturday Beats gathered that actress Anita Joseph and Afro Candy charged some young people N7, 000 to be auditioned in their up and coming movie. But when Saturday Beats contacted Anita, she quickly distanced herself from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Anita-Joseph.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-by","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}