If I Catch You: Funke Akindele Threatens to Deal With Artist Who Drew Funny Photo of Her, Fans React

If I Catch You: Funke Akindele Threatens to Deal With Artist Who Drew Funny Photo of Her, Fans React

  • Popular Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele, was recently an artist’s muse and his drawing of her has made the rounds
  • The movie star was not pleased with how the artist recreated one of her viral photos and joked about dealing with him
  • Numerous online fans who sighted the photos were very amused and agreed that the artist should be arrested

Top Nigerian actress, Funke Akindele’s image was drawn by an artist identified on Instagram as @bodataye_oniyakuya, however, he did not do justice to it.

The artist who appears to make a name by recreating popular people’s photos in funny ways finally used the movie star as his muse.

Oniyakuya’s recreation of Funke's photo was eventually sighted by the actress who then reposted it as she called him out.

Funke Akindele, Boda Taye Oniyakuya
An artist drew a funny photo of Funke Akindele, sparking reactions. Photos: @funkejenifaakindele, @bodataye_oniyakuya
Source: Instagram

In Oniyakuya’s drawing, he greatly exaggerated the film star’s nose, eyes, hairstyle and more, leaving her unrecognizable.

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In reaction to the drawing, the actress noted that if she happens to call for the artist’s arrest, people would say she was using her power as a celebrity.

Funke however told the artist that if she is able to lay her hands on him, he will sweat in winter.

In her words:

“ When I call for the arrest of this guy @bodataiye_oniyakuya Ya'll will start saying I'm using celebrity power. Hmmmmm so you think this is right? @bodataiye_oniyakuya if I catch you, you go sweat inside winter.”

See her post below:

Boda Taye Oniyakuya speaks

In an exclusive chat with Legit.ng's Owolawi Taiwo, the content creator spoke on his chosen path to draw popular people in funny ways.

The artist explained that not all the celebrities he draws find his work amusing. According to him, he has gotten a negative reaction from a female celebrity that he refused to disclose.

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He said:

“I don't want to disclose the name of the celebrity. When I drew the person, she just reacted negatively on the post and she blocked me immediately.”

When asked if he was also skilled in professional drawings and not just funny ones, Boda Taye Oniyakuya replied in the negative. According to him, he wanted to be different.

In his words:

“I just feel that we all cannot be doing the same thing so I just had to change the content because most people do normal portrait drawings, the beautiful ones. I just thought to do my own the other way round to make it fun so people can see it and laugh”.

Oniyakuya also added that he had not been seeing his type of content so he tried to do better.

Internet users react

The recreation of Funke’s photo by the artist left a lot of her fans in stitches and many of them agreed that he should be arrested.

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Read some of their comments below:

Omonioboli:

“We won’t arrest him sis. No need to use law enforcement. I know him house. Make we gather go beat am ‍♀️.”

Folagade_banks:

“How dare you do this to my Lafunky!! Iffa catch you.”

Funmiawelewa:

“Haaa This isn’t my Woman No be my own Jenifa be this God forbid.”

Bellokreb:

“@funkejenifaakindele put bounty on his head I’ll find him for you ma.”

Tolamii:

“Warris going on we will sue you @bodataiye_oniyakuya for this defamation abi what is this ke.”

Itz_tamayor_:

“Nah my mama u draw like dismummy we need to deal with this guy mercilessly.”

Iammayordona:

“The guy needs to be arrested. U do my mama like this ❤️.”

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Source: Legit.ng

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Taiwo Owolawi (Entertainment Editor) Taiwo Owolawi is an entertainment and lifestyle journalist with four years of work experience at Legit.ng. She graduated from Osun State University with a degree in English and International Studies in 2016. She has also moved on to pursue courses in Public Relations and Copywriting. Taiwo emerged as Legit.ng's Best Entertainment Editor in 2022. Contact: taiwo.owolawi@corp.legit.ng.