Joke Silva, one of Nollywood’s icons and wife of veteran actor Olu Jacobs, explains why she did not bear her husband’s surname after they got married.
During an appearance on Stephen Akintola’s leadership podcast, the 62-year-old actress revealed that it was her husband who advised her to retain her maiden name in order to maintain her professional identity.
When she was asked, “Is there a reason you didn’t change your last name after getting married?”
Silva said, “He [Olu Jacobs] was the one who actually advised that I don’t. Because he understood the importance of branding. He was like, My brand has started building as Joke Silva, and changing brands several years after one has been using that brand, as far as he was concerned, could cause problems for me.
“So, we kept the name Joke Silva as the brand, but within the circles, there was nobody who didn’t know I was Mrs. Jacobs. It really didn’t matter.
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