October 1st, 2008 saw the birth of GhanaCelebrities.Com which means GC will be 2 years old in just about a week time. It is on this day that the first article was published on GC.
Prior to this day, I remember sitting on the phone with my partner in crime ( Ebenezer Anangfio) for almost 2 hours talking about the concept of starting a celebrity pop culture website in Ghana to provide daily Ghanaian celebrity news, gossips, interviews, videos, articles and photos.
Finally, we settled on the name GhanaCelebrities.Com and the first post captioned “EXPOSED!!! Richard Bezuidenhout’s Affair With Popular Ghanaian Actress Jackie Appiah” was made.
We started with about 10 visitors a day and have moved to over 100,000 monthly unique visitors. The journey has been a hectic one as we battled to gain acceptance and carve for our self the popularity we enjoy today. Various celebrities have blasted us and we have also blasted others…
As if it was just yesterday, I can vividly remember our first celebrity interview with Wanlov Da Kubolor, then Mensa Ansah and then Yvonne Nelson. I can say these 3 celebs gave us a massive root. Though we were young at the time, they still granted us the audience we needed.
I am indebted to the above 3 people for those interviews since it was the foundation upon which GC was built. Over the last 2years, we have interviewed almost all the Ghanaian celebrities-from Adjetey Anang (Pusher ) to Zugah Vicky (A-Z).
The success and the huge readership GC enjoys today is as a result of the help, advice, criticisms and suggestions I received from various personal celebrity friends who thought it wise to point out things that they saw as unnecessary and would not help in our operation.
I cannot list the names of all these celebrities but it is worth expressing my profound thanks to my good friends Confidence Haugen & Ama K Abebrese.
Hey Confidence, I still remember the Nandos and the movie “Hang Over” we watched, Mike Tyson’s kick was the bomb. Ama K, the Japanese restaurant was great, let’s do it sometimes soon. Even when we were supposed to be dinning, these people always chipped in their little advice which I believe has brought GC this far…
Thanks to the other celebrities I talk or chat to once a while about various issues. Leila Djansi, Luckie Lawson, Vicky Zugah, Juliet Ibrahim, Dentaa (Madam Guba), and co, I owe you all a lot and I appreciate your support.
I did not write all that have made GC today and I owe the current and past writers a lot. Ebenezer Anangfio, you are still the man ( I still remember the tea bread and fried eggs you got me the last time I was in Ghana).
Special thanks to Obour Amankwa, Cassie Johnson, Ameyaw Debrah, Yaa Kesiwaa, Almighty Gossip Mama, Perpetual Agyeman, Eric Anokye, Kathyrose Lui & Regina Sackey Addo.
To all the guest writers who send in articles occasionally, GC salutes you all.
Most importantly, GhanaCelebrities.Com is what it is today because of you (the readers). Sometimes, It amazes “myself” how GC has been able to build up such a strong readership.
I thank you all for making GC what it is today especially hilarious commentators like Miss Dior, Shocker, Lily, Dadogfather, Ghallday, That Guy, Akosuaghana, Joseph Midnight, Syn, MEE, Miyagi , Maaka Maaka, TheChuckylee, Mimi & Adjoa Nbaaso)
GC is almost 2 years old, what has been your experience, observation and contribution? What do you think needs to be changed, eradicated or enhanced ? Share your thoughts!
On GC’s actual birthday, we will give out something special to a lucky reader so keep watching this space….
congrat! but you can do wayyyy better!
stop hatin on sarkodie
Chris, good work done, you deserve all the congrats. You have made something out of nothing. How many young people can turn their ideas into a reality.
Long live GC and the sky will be your limit. I see my name there and I am grateful you appreciate my coming here
@akosuaghana, HEAR HEAR !!
Well done! I hope GC stays around for years to come…become bigger and better!
Oh that tea bread and fried eggs? hahahahahaha funny huh?
Wow, ghanacelebrities is just a baby. I mean can you even talk at this age, all you do is poop, eat, and sleep huh? heheheheheh
Congratulations Chris and all the “staff” once again. I think you guys a doing a great job so keep it up. I have few suggestions(you know me, always opinionated,can’t help myself) I THINK YOU GUYS SHOULD WORK ON THE COSMETICS OF THE WEBSITE. THE HOMEPAGE IS VERY “MESSY”….TOO MUCH STUFF EVERYWHERE. THERE NEEDS TO BE ORGANIZATION.
ALSO I THINK IT IS ABOUT TIME YOU TAKE THAT ARTICLE CALLED, “Ho Sit Down: This Is A Disgrace, Please Ladies Dont Ever Try This..” I MEAN IT HAS BEEN THERE FOR MONTHS AND I AGREE THAT THIS WILL TEACH OTHERS NOT TO REPEAT THE SAME MISTAKE BUT FRANKLY I THINK IT IS DISRESPECTFUL NOT ONLY TO HER BUT TO A LOT OF WOMAN. WE HAVE ALL DONE THINGS WE ARE NOT PROUD OF SAME FOR THIS GIRL. THE THING IS THAT YOU HAVE TO LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES. SO SHE SHOULDN’T BE PUNISHED BY YOU GUYS STILL HAVING HER NAKED BODY ON YOUR SITE. A WOMAN’S BODY IS A TREASURE, AND I AM SURE IF SHE KNEW THE TAPE WILL BE ALL OVER THE NET SHE WOULDN’T HAVE MADE THE VIDEO FOR HER BOYFRIEND. CHRIS, YOU HAVE MADE YOUR POINT, NOW I THINK IT IS TIME TO RESPECT THE GIRL’S PRIVACY AND THE VIEWERS ON THIS SITE. SOME MIGHT NOT BE OVER 18 YEARS. PLEASE I AM BEGGING YOU,LET US RETIRE THAT ARTICLE PLEASE. THIS IS NOT A PORN SITE, SO LET’S KEEP THINGS CLASSY AND CLEAN PLEASE. PLEASE I AM BEGGING YOU BECAUSE HONESTLY THAT CLIP DISTURBS ME ALOT
@MEE, What is there is a mere picture, the video has been DELETED long time.
@Author: Ebenezer Anangfio Jnr.,
No massa, it is still showing. I just clicked on it to make sure and it was running FOR ME. So I don’t know why u can’t view the clip because I can
@MEE, you are right i just saw it. this their pretence ,propaganda , lies and negativities will never end why must he lie? wish you change for the better in your your celebrations.good luck
ok thanks for de shout out. i think it will be great if u bought each one of us who u appreciate dinner lol. congrats guys.
@syn, foodian hahahahhahaha
Congratulations Chris- Here’s to many more years.
Btw thanks for the shout out.
Thanks sweethrt for da shout out.Congrats Ghana Celebrities.And to Chris y’all should keep up with the good work.I visit this site almost everyday just to read the latest news and make some contributions(Pour down my thoughts).Oh yea and Chris I always enjoy your motivational messages.
Aww, and for the fact that you acknowledged your hilarious readers as you call us means a lot to me.We would try and put in our best and leave the rest to God.The sky is not the limit, look beyond it and achieve all those dreams.
God Bless Gc.We luv u..xoxo
well done GC,you have did a great job by taking ghana far ,you are the best i guess,but i will be glade if you delate that nude video on the site for it is disgracing ghanains as a whole thank …keep the up the good job !
Congratulations. I believe u can do better by posting information daily rather than feeding readers with outdated news. If u are a regular visitor on nigeriafilms.com, u wld realised folks there activate news daily, bt GC would sometimes bombard us with same news heard on radio and TV station for a week. pls improve cos some of us are loosing interest in GC.
good job guy(GCSTAFF) rite now i think u r doing a gr8 job but u can always betta ur best. i know da best is yet 2 come. congratulations!
your page is overcrowded. pls remove all the old articles and create some short links for it so that GC looks more professional. any way more grease to ur elbows
i was going to post the same thing and even add that i hope it gets attention because am posting my comment months after the article. good to know some shares my opinion. unfortunately, this advice has not been yielded since the page is still very over crowded.