Thin Tall Tony has opened up on his marriage after leaving the Big
Brother House.According to him, he respected orders from his wife not to
reveal his marital status. Read excerpts from his interview with The Nation
Do you think that you could have earned more favour from fans if you had told the truth about your marriage?
I respected myself and respected the orders from my wife not to disclose
my marital status; to keep my family out of it. Also, while in the
house, there’s no lie that I do like Bisola a lot and I could have taken
it a step further but remembering what took me into the house in the
first place; I could have led her on, could have also gotten to the part
where maybe sex would have been involved. Also I tried as much as I can
to protect her because I knew where I was coming from and that’s what I
did. Let’s not forget that it is a game and we were all playing a game.
Are you having problems with your marriage in any ways?
No, I’m not. (Laughs) My marriage is safe. The only thing that I’m
looking forward to is kissing my wife and holding my kids.Since I left
the house – to be honest – I have not spoken to anyone apart from my
wife and she hasn’t said anything embarrassing yet.
One of the comments that I read was that they felt that I played the
game the way I should have, and sticking to the whole thing of keeping
my marriage private and not allowing anyone know.
How do you feel now, knowing that your strategy of philandering with Bisola and TBoss didn’t work for you?
To correct that, I didn’t play with anyone’s emotion. I tried as much as
I can to know who these ladies were. For me, I was more into Bisola
based on what I would be able to learn from her as an artiste like
myself. I and Tboss had no connection whatsoever because even after the
house, we won’t be able to work together; she is on a different level
and Bisola is also on a different level that is also my own line. So, I
connected only with Bisola.
Bisola did give you a ‘head’ in the house, were you really going to
lay her when you brought out those condoms on the night before your
eviction?
(Laughs)I hear that the rumour is flying; maybe it would take me a long
time to try and clear that. Bisola did not give me a head in the house.
We were talking under the sheets; we always talk under the sheets.
That’s the only time we have our moments together to just talk outside
the cameras. That’s also where we talked about laying things straight
because even when she had an opportunity to come out openly; if there
was anything we would have told Ebuka, we didn’t.
But mostly, a lot of people did hear when she said Tony is a gentleman
and Tony did not do things that you probably thought he did. I would
wait for her to come out and if she has a different opinion which I do
not believe that she will; I know what happened and I can only tell you.
You are allowed to believe what you want to believe but nothing did
happen.
How has your wife reacted since you left?
My wife has been very supportive and she just wants me to come home but
right now, we are doing the interviews and the rest. I should be able to
spend that much family quality time with her. We need to sit down and
strategize on how to move forward with everything and also try to clear
the air. I also don’t want it to look like I’m putting her on the spot
but funny enough that’s what comes with new environment that we find
ourselves, but she has been very supportive and I am very humble and
thankful to have someone as supportive as my wife.