NMS Winner Star In New Soap

The winner of the  2010 Next Movie Star reality television show, Akio Precious Ilami  is now  warming up to be  an accomplished actress.

For the past four weeks, the 20-year-old University of Jos Linguistic student, and   other housemates in the recently concluded popular television show, have been on the  location of Dormitory 8, a sit-com that centres on student/lecturer lifestyle and a  campus hostel housing eight students from different African countries.

In the serial that would soon grace television stations across the nation, Ilami  plays the role of Akpostina, a compulsive liar and lead character in the girl’s  room. According to Ilami, “It was very challenging fitting into a character that is  totally alien from your real person and getting all the nuances correct was not easy  either but I love being Akpostina on set. I love the challenge that came with it. D8  promises to be exciting when it berths on air because all the actors had been well  prepared in the Next Movie Star house and the only way  to prove ourselves is to  demonstrate what we have learned in the house .”

Ifeanyi Williams, the baritone-voiced model who emerged first runner-up in the NMS  2010, is cast in the role of Kelechi, a rich Igbo boy who believes he can get any  lady he wants without much stress. Others on set are Princess Shyngle (Gambia), Boma  Mac Ake, Uche Nnadi, and Oyindamola Odesola, 2009 winner of the NMS. Shot on  locations in Lagos and Ogun states, D8, produced by Digital Interactive Media, the  brain behind the NMS, Excite TV and Supermom among other exciting television shows,  is an experiential showcase of wits, twists and happenings around a university  campus with focus on a particular hostel.