LAGOS – One of the nation’s renowned filmmaker, Fidelis Duker, on Thursday blamed the collapse of celebrity marriages, on the neglect of both parties to carry out a background check on each other.
Duker, who has been married for 17 years,, said marriage was not about the money spent on the ceremony or the number of people that attended the event or how well the media covered the event.
“It is about both parties asking important questions about themselves,’’ he said.
“We keep hearing of marriages that were done in a ‘hush-hush’ manner. Why would you marry a man or a woman who has a mysterious past?
“If your friends or colleagues know that the person you are about to wed has a partner already, why should you still go on with such wedding?
“Why not do thorough backgrounds check on your partner?
“But because of desperation, most marriages end up having problems both in the music and movie industry.
“It is because they are all desperate to get married, that is why there are so many marriage failures.
“I tell people that it is not everybody that will be rich and it is not everyone that will get married.
“People must understand that because Ms. A had her marriage in Dubai, does not mean that yours has to be there,”he said.
On whether money could be a key factor to a good marriage, the producer stated that it was in the past that some people believed money was everything before marriage.
He also noted that at the time he got married, he was already at the peak of his career.
He stated that as a young man then, he was making as much as N3 million from a film, but he kept the development to himself while still living with his parents.
The producer advised lovers to have the mindset of helping each other’s weakness before deciding to go into marriage.
He added that marriages crash these days due to trivial issues, which could have been avoided. (NAN)
