What Olu Jacobs Says about His Marriage Will Amaze You
The veteran actor, Olu Jacobs, and his ever-beautiful wife are unarguably the most adorable celebrity couples in the Nigerian movie industry.
With a marriage of more than three decades, one would commend the couples for their tenaciousness and discipline so far in an industry heavily characterized by scandals, divorce and negative rumours of infidelity!
The couple was said to have met in a movie set (Jero Metamorphosis by Wole Soyinka) and from friends moved on to marry exactly on November 16, 1985.
Although Mrs Joke never knew this little beginning of theirs was going to lead to marriage at the initial stage, but as God will have the couples settled down and tied the knot and since then have grown stronger and stronger in the marriage.
Oludotun Jacobs, popularly known as Olu Jacobs, was born on the 11th of July 1942 in Abeokuta, Ogun State. He attended Holy Trinity School, Kano, Nigeria. He was a member of the debating and drama society.
Olu Jacobs’s passion for acting was triggered after attending one of Hubert Ogunde’s annual concert party at Colonial Hotel in Kano. Mr Jacobs travelled to England in 1964 to pursue his acting career. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. He starred in various British Television shows and series before returning to Nigeria in the early 80s.
The Nigerian veteran actor has starred in more than 120 Nollywood movies. He won the African Movie Academy Award for Best actor in a leading role in 2007. In 2013, Olu Jacobs was honoured with the Industry Merit Award for outstanding achievements in acting at the Africa Magic Viewer’s Choice Awards.
Miss Joke Silva, on the other hand, is a household name in Nollywood. She is an actress, director, and a businesswoman. She is a graduate of Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts, London and University of Lagos, Nigeria. Miss Joke Silva is an award-winning actress with so many accolades. She won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Actress in a supporting role in 2006 and 2008 respectively. She was honoured as a Member of the Order of the Federal Republic in 2014. Miss Joke Silva is also a brand ambassador for AIICO Pension Managers Limited (APML). She is a member of the faculty and principal of the popular reality show, MTN Project Fame Academy.
When asked how they have kept to themselves over the years, she had this to say in her own words ‘’Apart from being lovers, we are very good friends. We’ve learnt over the years to respect each other, and the respect keeps growing.”
Although it has been noticed that Mrs Joke has always preferred her maiden name as against that of the husband, with this generating controversy about how true the marriage is in terms of unity and respect, Olu Jacobs in a recent interview had this to say on why his wife still maintains her maiden name: “She is her own individual. When I met her, she was an actress known as Joke Silva so why should marrying me now deny her and her audience her name. She is Miss Joke Silva who is Mrs Joke Jacobs.
It is as simple as that. People can begin to say what they like. They have even written that we are separated and all sort of stuff. When she is working, she is Joke Silva but she is Mrs Joke Jacobs at home’’
Olu Jacob and his wife are blessed with two sons Olusoji and Olugbenga According to the reports, Olu Jacobs’s sons studied in the United Kingdom. In 2016, Joke Jacobs shared a photo of their son Olugbenga Jacobs at the backstage of the MTN Project Fame season 9 nomination show. Their first child Olusoji Jacobs is the General Manager of Lufodo Production. Lufodo is a part of Lufodo Group, a company owned by the Jacobs family.
When asked how she managed to marry and cope with someone already in the limelight being a celebrity herself, she had this to say ‘’It didn’t even occur to me that this was the kind of stress we would experience, until we started experiencing it. We managed it by God’s grace, I’m really lucky to have married a wonderful man like him.
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