TV3`s Beauty and the Beast
Loading ...Ghana’s Most Beautiful, the full-of-surprises and innovative pageant from arguably Ghana’s most enterprising television station, TV3, now belongs to history as far as the Season Two contest is concerned. ‘Poor’ girl Adoley’s win has kindled many hearts, especially her fans from Osu, her base in Accra.
Finalists Eyram, Fanny and Ruweida were all splendid on the final day and together helped realise the theme of the pageant – Redefining beauty to promote national unity. Wasn’t it beautiful seeing the choreographed dances of the Ga/Fante combination and then the Ewe/Dagomba common practices? Ghana can do with more of such noble and humbling lessons.
But Adoley’s win also stirred the dust; kicking up the usual beastly scandal-tales that have attended every pageant. There is careless whispering about town that Adoley did not deserve to win, and that the actual result was overturned on the final day by an overzealous staff somewhere between TV3 Newsroom, its Computer Room (if indeed such a facility exist) and consultants Kwame Asante and Co., the group that processed and authenticated the result.
The ‘whispers’ have even concluded that the particular staff responsible for twisting the arm of fate has been sacked. Beauties and beastly scandals!
Of course it would have been odd, indeed surprising for a wholesale acceptance of Adoley’s glorifying end. This was a competition open to be won by any of the final four contestants who were ‘Most Beautiful’ in their own right and deserved to win. There were bound to be some ‘giggling’.
Fanny for instance believes that the next time, public voting alone should not decide the fate of the ultimate winner of the educative pageant. But out of the Residence at ‘Adesa We’ where the four ladies and others eliminated earlier from the 13-week programme had been camped, she has heard too many wild rumours about the show that should not be encouraged at all.
“I have heard that I was not made the winner because I have children and can’t fit into the organisers’ schedule. Some say I have three children, others say four. I have one son, Eugene Michael Mitchel who is 12 years and of whom I am so proud. I entered the competition as a married woman and that did not stop me from giving of my best. My husband was so supportive and if these didn’t stop me, why would they stop me if I had won?.”
If TV3 has any regrets in organising the Most Beautiful pageant, it would only be the disadvantage participants from the northern parts of the country are placed in relation to the role of public voting through sms texting. TV3’s transmission does not reach those areas and people who might have been moved to vote for their ‘compatriots’ and ‘kinsgirls’ from northern Ghana do not even get to view the programme.
TV3’s General Manager, Kofi Nyantakyi is even aware of the Newsroom’s refusal, and professionally so, to cover a float organised by the people of Osu to canvass for votes for Adoley. There were other initiatives on Adoley’s behalf in Ga communities in Accra who saw her as one of their own and therefore elected to fight Adoley’s fight for her.
Plus, Adoley’s background as a ‘poor’ somebody with handicapped parents to support, thrown into the public domain right from the beginning of the contest, showed her as someone with an inner fortitude and beauty. That may also have won her some sympathy votes. Indeed her natural aptitude and outlook on life touched a couple in the TV3 compound who came across her many times. She was always the odd one out, fetching water, washing and what have you. You didn’t need to be told where she came from. It was obvious.
So who could have swung the votes in Adoley’s favour?
“That is impossible!” Kofi Nyantakyi maintained. “The texting worked through Ghana Telecom’s systems and no one in the Newsroom could have accessed the votes let along attempt switching them in anybody’s favour.”
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How can someone as greasy as Adoley win? Her European imitated hair is dripping with Vegetable oil. She looks like a character from Planet of the Apes. When are we going to take pride in our Africaness and rightly vote for naturally beautiful women