TEN THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT TONTO DIKEH

1- A native of Ikwere, Port
Harcourt, Rivers State, Dikeh was born on June 9, 1985 and is a Petro-Chemical
Engineering graduate of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology,
Port Harcourt, Rivers-State.

2- Having lost her mother when she was just three years old she was raised by
her step-mother and has seven siblings.

3- Dikeh began smoking at age of 13 and in May announced that she had quit
smoking on Twitter claiming that the prayer of Pastor T.B Joshua through his
Christian TV station, Emmanuel TV, healed her.

4- Her breakthrough role came in 2006 when she starred in the movie, Holy
Cross. Although her second movie, it ensured that she became the sought-after
actress at that time.

5- Her role in the 2010 soft bad movie, Dirty Secret, remains her most
controversial till date as it contained a lot of uncensored unclad and sex
scenes. She later starred in similar flicks like Dirty Deeds and Strippers in
love.

6- In September 2011, Dikeh bought a jeep for her father, Chief Sunny Dikeh.
According to her, her dad, who once campaigned to be the Governor in Rivers
State under the All Nigerian
Peoples Party was initially not in support of her acting career.

7- In October, 2011, the sassy actress got her 57th tattoo during a visit to
the US.

8- In August, Tonto Dike and fellow actress, Rukky Sanda, made a joint donation
of N1m to a cancer patient, Fummi Lawal. In the same month, she beat Ini Edo,
and fellow nominee in the Best Actor of the Year category, at the Future Awards
2012 to win the coveted award.

9- In February 2011, she was alleged to be in a steamy relationship with Wizkid
and reportedly bought him a Toyota Camry after he lost his cars to robbers.
Both parties denied the allegations

10- November 2011, she
featured on Kas’ single titled Iyawo Wind.