Damilola Adegbite

Character: Telema Duke

The beautiful Damilola is an accomplished television  and stage actress. Her first role was in theatre on the famous vagina monologues. Soon after, she did a movie titled Six Hours to Christmas. And now she's firmly set in the Nigerian Entertainment industry, she even won a Best Actress in a TV show Award in 2011, to confirm her arrival.

Damilola has a BSc in Business Administration and she'd love to one day act alongside some of Hollywood's A-Lister's. She loves driving, walking and listening to music!

Telema
Telema is the beauty Queen who fell in love with a waiter. Her whirlwind relationship with Soji suffered major tests when Kwame came into the picture. She's now fully aware of how manipulative Kwame is, and the burning question is -how much longer is she going to ignore the truth?

Iretiola Doyle

Character: Sheila Ade-Williams

An accomplished writer, actor, producer and presenter; Iretiola Doyle was born on the 3rd of May 1967, in Lagos Nigeria and in the course of her life has lived in New York, Boston, Jos and Lagos. She has a Diploma in Mass Communication and a B.A. in Theatre Arts both from the University of Jos.

In a career that has spanned sixteen years in the Nigerian entertainment industry, her credits cut across stage, television and film and print. She also produced and presented her own fashion and lifestyle how titled “Oge with Iretiola' for ten years and at different times anchored several A-list television shows, like “Morning ride” and “Today on STV”. She is also considered one of the country’s best public speakers and is often called upon to MC high profile public and private events.

She is a renowned writer and has several screen plays to her credit. She is also an avid social commentator who at different times penned the popular columns, “Shooting Breeze” in City People, and “In The Chatroom” in the Glitterati pull-out of this This Day Newspaper. She currently pens a weekly column titled Tiola’s Take every Saturday in the Vanguard.

Iretiola Doyle is married with children.

She has been nominated once in the Best Actress category at the Reel Awards in 1998 for her role in the movie “All about Ere” and twice in the Best Actress in a Supporting Role category at the AMAA Awards in 2007 and 2009 for her roles in “Sitanda” and “Across the Niger” respectively.

Iretiola enjoys reading, travelling and listening to music. Her favourite sounds include contemporary Naija music, Jazz, and R n B.  Her dream role is one that is complex, multi-dimensional, unpredictable and unforgettable.

Renowned for delivering pitch perfect performances and described as an ‘actor’s actor’ by her peers; her future aspirations include more international acting roles, an Oscar, the revival of her shoe ‘Oge’ and generally bringing a certain distinction to whatever capacity she finds herself operating in.

Funmi Holder

Character: Amaka Okoh

This University of Ibadan graduate has about twenty movies to her credit. Although Funmi graduated with a BSc degree from the University of Ibadan, she says she's always known she wanted to act.

Born and bred in Lagos, Funmi likes to read, listen to music and watch TV when she's not acting.

Her biggest role model is Oprah Winfrey and she'd love to star alongside Angelina Jolie in a movie. And Funmi is so content with playing the role of Amaka on Tinsel she says she'd love to be part of the drama 'til the very last episode.

Amaka:
Amaka is Fred's god daughter, her parents passed away when she was very young. She's recently divorced and became a new mom, a life -long dream. Her joy is tainted by the fact that she knows her son's father was a murderer and a sociopath. That's why she had him killed. Will this former lawyer get away with murder?

Gideon Okeke

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Character: Philip Ade-Williams

Gideon is a Biochemistry graduate who loved the Arts so much that he enrolled for a  Film and Theatre course in New York. Gideon’s television work started  on Big Brother Nigeria as a contestant. He went on to host a show called The Scoop. From then on, movie offers started pouring in. He secured a lead role on Relentless and a supporting role on Ma’ George before auditioning for Tinsel.

Although his future plans include 'conquering' Hollywood and being the ‘go-to' actor in Africa , Gideon says getting a role on Tinsel is one of his career highlights.

Phillip
Philip Ade-Williams is Fred’s only son. His dream is to strengthen the family business. He desires more control of the studio's workings so he can have his way and make less conservative films. Phillip enjoys taking risks and is a ladies man.

Victor Olaotan

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Character: Fred Ade-Williams

Victor has had a fruitful career in broadcasting which has taken him to places like Newark, New York City, Atlanta and New Orleans. He's performed on Broadway and even did a Hollywood movie, Lovestruck.

It's no wonder that Victor had a lead role on Tinsel,  he studied under Nigerian Theatre legends such as Wole Sonyika, Zulu Sofola and Ola Rotimi

In his spare time, Victor swims, plays tennis and football or dance to 80s Disco music. And luckily for all his fans, Victor is here to stay as he's planning to build a mega film studio in Nigeria.

Fred
Fred Ade-Williams is 52 year old well-spoken and well informed widower who had to fend for himself and his younger brother Dan from a young age after the loss of their parents.

The death of his wife is spoken about very softly due to the controversial circumstances under which it happened. They had two children, Philip and Monica.