{"id":282671,"date":"2025-01-25T07:06:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T07:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/01\/25\/why-i-dumped-acting-in-us-bukky-wright\/"},"modified":"2025-01-25T07:06:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T07:06:59","slug":"why-i-dumped-acting-in-us-bukky-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/01\/25\/why-i-dumped-acting-in-us-bukky-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I dumped acting in US \u2014 Bukky Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\tVeteran actress, Oluwabukola Ajoke, aka Bukky Wright has opened up about her time away from Nigeria and how she changed careers during her stay in the United States of America.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tSpeaking in an interview with <em>Saturday Beats<\/em>, she said, \u201cI will be practising it (tech) simultaneously with entertainment. The fact that I had to deviate totally from entertainment to tech was something many people thought I would not be able to do. I would tell all my mentees that if I can do it, they can do it too.\u201d\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tOn what she missed the most about Nigeria while away, Wright said, \u201cWhat I would love to eat again would be proper Naija amala. What I would like to do again would be to act with Nollywood actors.\u201d\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tAs for her highly anticipated return to Nollywood, the actress promised fans plenty of exciting projects ahead. She added, \u201cI have a lot for fans, including my project\u2014 \u2018The Return of Omotara Johnson\u2019, which is coming and a whole lot of other things. I am back to stay.\u201d\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tSharing the secret to her timeless beauty, she quipped, \u201cI don\u2019t joke with my beauty sleep.\u201d\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran actress, Oluwabukola Ajoke, aka Bukky Wright has opened up about her time away from Nigeria and how she changed careers during her stay in the United States of America. Speaking in an interview with Saturday Beats, she said, \u201cI will be practising it (tech) simultaneously with entertainment. 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