Comedian and TV host, Olateju Oyelakin, popularly
known as Tejubabyface will wed top model and
former beauty queen, Tobi Banjoko on Saturday 1st
of September 2012 at the Chapel of Light
Interdenominational, Lagos State Secretariat in
Alausa, Ikeja. Reception is at The Muson Centre in
Onikan.
Their traditional wedding will hold on Thursday, 30 August
2012, at 10 Degrees Event Centre, Billings Way, Oregun,
Ikeja, Lagos.
In an interview with Azuh Arinze of YES! Magazine,
Tejubabyface opens up on how he met his bride to be and
why he decided to settle down with her.
Well, I kept coming home and my house kept feeling empty.
I kept leaving events and finding there was someone I
would like to tell the story, but there was no one. I just kept
feeling lonely. There was a space in my heart that was
crying out for friendship. But may be more importantly was
the fact that I started making mistakes. I started making
mistakes that I had made before and I thought it was over.
People I shouldn't have been fraternizing with, women. I
started making all those kinds of mistakes and I wasn't
getting better. There was a point in my life when I was so
disciplined that for almost two years, I wasn't with any
woman.
And that was when the *Teju Baby Face Show* was born.
And I found that thereafter, I could not seem to replicate the
same discipline, no matter how I tried. So, it occurred to me
that some thing had to change. So, when you put the
loneliness together as well as my inability to be disciplined
any more, it was instructive.
I met Tobi for the first in 2008. We were holding an audition
for ushers. I wanted to have a show, my 2008 show that
was called *Comedy Meets Class*. So, we wanted classy
ushers. And at the time she was on her last ushering leg. I
can remember I walked into a room filled with about 40 hot
women. And she just hooked my eyes immediately. That
was the first time I met her. With each of the 39 other girls in
the room that day, our eyes would meet at some point. But
this one studiously ignored me. It was as if she made a
declaration
that our eyes weren't going to meet. And when I actually
interviewed her for the ushering job, she didn't seem to
care. She said the money was too small and she left. So,
when I saw her a month later at another job, and I
went to chat her up. I can never forget, she told me, 'Excuse
me, please I'm working'. What she meant was you are
disturbing me, and I got the message (Laughs). And so, I
started to find out more about her, and I found she was
what you can call a 'good girl'. But you see, that's not
enough. What you asked me was what made me decide? A
pastor asked me that question recently. Let me use this
word. When I told my father, when my father asked me, this
girl you are serious about, what does she do? I said dad,
she is a
model. He said explain yourself. I said well, she was in the
recent *Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria*. Now, when you tell
parents that, they don't think that the girl is bad. On the
other hand, they form a certain world
view in that sense of the word. I had always said that the
woman I would marry would be one who would be very
beautiful. In 2010, we were trying to date first of all and we
hung out after about three months, so we didn't date again
until 2011. We tried to date in 2010, but it didn't happen. My
fault oh! In each of the time we tried to date, there was never
any point in time where I had to do any convincing. In fact,
on our first date, she came to my house and we needed to
go and buy groceries so that we could cook together. And I
remember we were walking across the street when I saw a
Mercedes Benz, G-Class. And I pointed and said that's my
dream car. And this girl said, on our first date o! 'Don't
worry, we will have it (Laughs). And I looked at her, then she
blushed. And said no, no, no. That's not what I meant. She
has always been like that!
Before she came along, I was panicking; panicked as to
how I would marry. Because you see, I was getting older,
and there was nobody out there I wanted to marry. I really
panicked. If I look at the list of everybody that I have met in
the past years, they didn't seem to be anybody that I wanted
to marry. And I thought to myself that if I lived for thirty
something years and I haven't found a woman, what are the
chances of me finding her next year, or in the next two or
three years. And she just came along, and solved that
problem. I am not marrying her because she's beautiful or
because she makes me feel somehow. I am just
comfortable with her. We are supposed to be married. It's
just like that.
SOURCE...www.naij.com

Good for the couples. Abeg the story is too long joor