UPDATE: How Tonto Dikeh’s Ex, Churchill Stopped Son From Featuring in Tonto’s Reality TV Show
Olakunle Churchill, the estranged husband to Nigerian actress, Tonto Dikeh, has stopped his son from featuring in the King Tonto Reality TV Show, produced by Linda Ikeji Media.
Churchill said he filed the suit on behalf of his son, King Andrea Omodayo Igo Churchill, to save him from any form of embarrassment in future, Vanguard reports.
It was also reported that the court banned Tonto from airing, showing, disseminating or broadcasting, either through television, blogs or the Internet the person, name, face, image, likeness or picture of King Andre pending the hearing of the originating motion in the suit before a family court of the Lagos State Magistrate.
Churchill described the verdict as a legal victory for the applicant (son).
The Magistrate, P. A. Adekomaiya, had on Wednesday, issued an injunction restraining Dikeh and Linda Ikeji Media from featuring their son in a reality show.
Magistrate Adekomaiya ordered the issuance of the verdict to the parties involved.
Recall that Churchill, the father of the boy had filed the suit against his ex-wife on January 16, to protect their son from undue indecent exposure at a period when he cannot make a decision for himself and exploitation by the mother for personal gain and fame (read here).
Churchill pointed out that the production is entirely an adult content, saying “Thus, the Reality Show called ‘King Tonto’ being produced by Linda Ikeji Media Limited and featuring King Andre cannot be released or aired.
It was earlier reported that Tonto had decided to lay bare her life for all to see on a new reality show titled, “King Tonto”.
Here is a copy of the letter below…
Hmmmmmmmmm.
Who the heck is gonna watch that?