Just Where did they Meet?
"When we first met, I never thought that in a million years, Will and I will be together," says Jada Pinkett-Smith of her husband, William Smith.
The pair met when Jada auditioned to act as Will’s girlfriend in the comedy ‘Fresh Prince of Bel Air’.
Incredibly, the directors turned Jada down, considering her too short for the fresh prince. But, two years down the line, Will proved them wrong when he walked her down the aisle.
In this light, City.com went to task to explore what it took for our local stars to exchange their ‘I do’s’ as well as the challenges of keeping them.
Pastor and Mai Charamba’s rendezvous was 13 years ago, when they featured in Pastor Bernard Mukwenyera's crusade team - way before stardom knocked on their doorsteps.
And the woman known as Olivia Maseko then took an instant liking to Charles Charamba’s soulful voice, which many, according to Mai Charamba herself, found “funny.”
Soon they discovered that they were symbiotic more important ways that just singing; they had the same views on life, enjoyed their conversations and “we had the same affection towards our religion,” says pastor Charamba.
By the time Mai Charamba was recruited as a backing vocalist at the formation of the Fishers of Men in 1995, wedding bells between the two were already tolling.
The award-winning pair has sometimes hit the headlines for wrong reasons; at one time the Fishers of Men front-man was forced to make a public statement “to make it categorically clear (that) we have never had any disputes as regards to our marriage. My wife has neither been married before, nor has she had a child before our marriage.”
Asked on how the couple juggled their public and private lives, the pastor said that he and his wife understood their celebrity status and, therefore, surrendered their personalities to the public.
“However, in everything we do, God comes first and he guides us.”
Mbira virtuoso Chiwoniso Maraire’ case is almost the same Mai Charamba’s – she cleft from her childhood musical group, Peace of Ebony before finding refuge – and love – in The Storm, whose leader, Andy Brown was to become Chi’s husband until divorce did them part in 2001.
But for catwalk queen and former Miss Zimbabwe, Oslie Muringai, a cricketer as a dream husband was out of the question. After all, as recently as 2001, the dame of the ramp could not even tell the difference between a brick bat and a cricket bat – life for her meant books, the rostrum and Teen Scene, a Zbc tv programme Mrs Muringai presented.
But her world was to turn up side down the day tv work introduced her to Tatenda Taibu and Hamilton Masakadza, who – at only 19 – had just hit a record-smashing century in a test match against the West Indies.
The two young men were instrumental in Muringai meeting Stuart Matsikenyeri, her future husband.
“We were virtually pen-pals,” chuckled the new mother. “We were just speaking over the phone for almost a year until 2002 when Stuart came to Bulawayo.”
That day “we talked for so many hours on end that my friends found it hard to buy that we were laying eyes on each other for the first time.”
So what was it that drew them to take their pen-friendship, or rather phone-friendship to the next level?
“We just clicked,” Oslie laughed. “We saw each other for a few more months, then we realised that love was the next right thing for us.”
So it is true what they say in Science that opposites attract. Stuart and his love married on fools’ day last year.
But, with her mother knowing more cricket than she did before Stuart happened, Oslie was ill prepared for the elastic lonely nights that punctuated her husband’s tours abroad. Even as City.com interviewed her, she had to make do with only the bawling company of her son, Jayden, as the man of the house was in Mutare “putting food on the table,” as she liked to put it.
Says Oslie of her predicament. “It was hard at first, and it’s still hard now, but at least I got used to it. Because I realised that by travelling, Stuart is really taking care of his family. He is putting the food on the table.”
So in the meantime, a voice on the phone daily would do – just like in the first days.
Abroad, actor Brad Pitt and girlfriend actress Angelina Jolie Voigt – famously known as the Brangelina couple – also encountered at the workplace while making the movie, Mr and Mrs. Smith, a movie many bookmakers argue was specifically created to pair the its two main actors – Pitt and Jolie – in holy matrimony.
The pair met when Jada auditioned to act as Will’s girlfriend in the comedy ‘Fresh Prince of Bel Air’.
Incredibly, the directors turned Jada down, considering her too short for the fresh prince. But, two years down the line, Will proved them wrong when he walked her down the aisle.
In this light, City.com went to task to explore what it took for our local stars to exchange their ‘I do’s’ as well as the challenges of keeping them.
Pastor and Mai Charamba’s rendezvous was 13 years ago, when they featured in Pastor Bernard Mukwenyera's crusade team - way before stardom knocked on their doorsteps.
And the woman known as Olivia Maseko then took an instant liking to Charles Charamba’s soulful voice, which many, according to Mai Charamba herself, found “funny.”
Soon they discovered that they were symbiotic more important ways that just singing; they had the same views on life, enjoyed their conversations and “we had the same affection towards our religion,” says pastor Charamba.
By the time Mai Charamba was recruited as a backing vocalist at the formation of the Fishers of Men in 1995, wedding bells between the two were already tolling.
The award-winning pair has sometimes hit the headlines for wrong reasons; at one time the Fishers of Men front-man was forced to make a public statement “to make it categorically clear (that) we have never had any disputes as regards to our marriage. My wife has neither been married before, nor has she had a child before our marriage.”
Asked on how the couple juggled their public and private lives, the pastor said that he and his wife understood their celebrity status and, therefore, surrendered their personalities to the public.
“However, in everything we do, God comes first and he guides us.”
Mbira virtuoso Chiwoniso Maraire’ case is almost the same Mai Charamba’s – she cleft from her childhood musical group, Peace of Ebony before finding refuge – and love – in The Storm, whose leader, Andy Brown was to become Chi’s husband until divorce did them part in 2001.
But for catwalk queen and former Miss Zimbabwe, Oslie Muringai, a cricketer as a dream husband was out of the question. After all, as recently as 2001, the dame of the ramp could not even tell the difference between a brick bat and a cricket bat – life for her meant books, the rostrum and Teen Scene, a Zbc tv programme Mrs Muringai presented.
But her world was to turn up side down the day tv work introduced her to Tatenda Taibu and Hamilton Masakadza, who – at only 19 – had just hit a record-smashing century in a test match against the West Indies.
The two young men were instrumental in Muringai meeting Stuart Matsikenyeri, her future husband.
“We were virtually pen-pals,” chuckled the new mother. “We were just speaking over the phone for almost a year until 2002 when Stuart came to Bulawayo.”
That day “we talked for so many hours on end that my friends found it hard to buy that we were laying eyes on each other for the first time.”
So what was it that drew them to take their pen-friendship, or rather phone-friendship to the next level?
“We just clicked,” Oslie laughed. “We saw each other for a few more months, then we realised that love was the next right thing for us.”
So it is true what they say in Science that opposites attract. Stuart and his love married on fools’ day last year.
But, with her mother knowing more cricket than she did before Stuart happened, Oslie was ill prepared for the elastic lonely nights that punctuated her husband’s tours abroad. Even as City.com interviewed her, she had to make do with only the bawling company of her son, Jayden, as the man of the house was in Mutare “putting food on the table,” as she liked to put it.
Says Oslie of her predicament. “It was hard at first, and it’s still hard now, but at least I got used to it. Because I realised that by travelling, Stuart is really taking care of his family. He is putting the food on the table.”
So in the meantime, a voice on the phone daily would do – just like in the first days.
Abroad, actor Brad Pitt and girlfriend actress Angelina Jolie Voigt – famously known as the Brangelina couple – also encountered at the workplace while making the movie, Mr and Mrs. Smith, a movie many bookmakers argue was specifically created to pair the its two main actors – Pitt and Jolie – in holy matrimony.
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