Nollywood’s tough guy, Hanks Anuku, has dropped a confession that’s got fans and foes alike buzzing. The veteran actor, known for his gritty roles in classics like Broad Daylight and Django, bared his soul in a recent episode of Nollywood Hardcore: The Legend’s Untold Story, declaring he’s done with marrying Nigerian women. Speaking candidly Wednesday, per Daily Post Nigeria, Anuku pinned his reluctance on the scars of a failed marriage to his ex-wife from Asaba, a union that left him wary of tying the knot locally again. For a man who’s dodged bullets on screen, this real-life dodge is hitting Nigerians where it hurts our pride.
Anuku’s story isn’t just gossip it’s raw. “My marriage failed because we were not compatible,” he shared, reflecting on his divorce over a decade ago. That ex-wife, a Nigerian from Asaba, started off as his love match, but things soured fast. “She was always demanding money,” he said, adding that her jealousy over his on-screen chemistry with other women pushed her to ask him to quit acting. It’s a twist that could’ve been ripped from a script except this time, the drama was off-camera, and it broke him. Now, with two kids from another woman he won’t marry either, Anuku’s eyeing a different horizon: Caucasian women. “I found myself a lot more compatible with them overseas,” he mused, recalling blonde friends from his days abroad who never gave him grief.
This isn’t Anuku’s first time spilling tea. He’s been open about life’s lows jobless years in 2023, a stint in Ghana for peace in 2021, even a wild past in Zambia where he admitted to sleeping with over 80 women and infecting his ex with HIV, per a 2015 City FM chat. That confession turned heads, but today’s take feels closer to home. “I’m scared of Nigerian women,” he admitted, a line that’s sparked X chatter at 12:14 WAT with posts like “Hanks Anuku remains single after his first marriage broke down.” Fans are split some nod at his pain, others snap back, “Not all Naija women are like that!” It’s a debate as old as jollof wars, but Anuku’s not budging.
For a Lagos boy like me, it’s a gut punch. Nollywood raised us on heroes like Anuku rugged, unbreakable. Yet here he is, 64, nursing wounds from a love gone wrong and swearing off the women we’d expect him to champion. He’s not wrong to crave peace his ex’s cash demands and acting ban sound like a chokehold but painting all Nigerian women with that brush? That’s where it stings. My sister’s a lawyer, my mum’s a rock neither fits his tale. Still, his hurt’s real, and who hasn’t dodged love after a bad fall?
Anuku’s not rushing down the aisle. “It’s not that I don’t want to get married,” he clarified, hinting a vacation fling might change his mind. For now, he’s single, steering clear of his kids’ mum too another compatibility miss. X at 13:20 WAT wonders if he’ll find that blonde muse abroad, but Nigeria’s watching, half-hoping he’ll reconsider. His story’s a mirror messy, human, ours. Will he heal here, or chase peace elsewhere? Time’s the judge.