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Media personality and YouTube sensation Anita Nderu has spoken up after she became the talk of Kenyans on Twitter (KOT), when a teaser of an episode of her cooking show, the ‘Overdressed Cook’ went viral.
Nderu had her friends, who are members of the LGBTQ community, as guests on her show in celebration of Pride Month.
On sharing the teaser on her Instagram page, Nderu warned that the content would be 18+ and that the episode took a tangent.
“I am very pro LGBTQ and this episode has so many WHAT! moments,” she captioned the teaser. “We were so extra!”
KOT came for Nderu with some calling her out for promoting homosexuality while others complained about the oversexualisation and objectification of the LGBTQ community.
Nderu later spoke up, addressing the content that brought out the wrath of KOT.
“I have been told I have to address why I am being fried on Twitter.
“I am pro freedom of expression! Most of you chose to throw me under the bus because of being pro LGBTQ. I remain unapologetic.”
She went on to say that her show is unscripted and that she encourages her guests to be themselves.
Nderu called on netizens to live their lives to the fullest especially now when the pandemic has changed life as we knew it.
“In the past few months the whole world has been shaken to the core. Each one of us in one way or another has been adversely affected by this pandemic.” she wrote. “There’s been no better time to celebrate and live to the fullest. Each one of us owes it to ourselves to live, laugh and love authentically.”
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