Angel Smith is not here for the revisionist narrative, and she made that abundantly clear this week.
The former Big Brother Naija housemate, who recently married her female partner Tumininu in a ceremony held in the United States, has hit back at a wave of comments suggesting that her relationship breakdown with fellow BBNaija star Soma was what pushed her away from men and toward women. According to many online, a broken heart was the origin story. Angel has rubbished that theory entirely.
Taking to X, she addressed the confusion directly. “The concept of people being confused that a pansexual woman can love a man and also a woman,” she wrote, in a post that quickly gathered significant engagement from people on both sides of the conversation.
She did not stop there. In a follow-up tweet, she made clear that her queerness predates the show, her relationship with Soma, and any heartbreak anyone wants to pin to her name. “And I have been openly queer before AND after I went for that show, please never attribute my greatness to a man, he could never have made me this cool, thangyaaaaa,” she wrote.
To back up her point, Angel reposted a string of her own tweets from April 2021, well before she appeared on BBNaija, in which she had already identified openly as pansexual and expressed her support for the queer community without apology. One post from April 28, 2021 read simply: “Bitch, I’m pansexual.” Another from April 19 of the same year pushed back at homophobic Christians with the kind of unbothered energy she has become known for online.
She also took a pointed swipe at Nigerian men who she says perform outrage at homosexuality in public while privately requesting threesomes involving another woman with their girlfriends. “I love Nigerian men because you guys are homophobic until it’s time to ask your girlfriends for threesomes. You guys are not real,” she wrote, a line that has since become one of the most shared parts of the entire thread.
Angel also clarified that she had hosted a trans woman on her podcast at some point, suggesting that her allyship and openness have been visible for anyone paying attention. “Okay let me set the record straight, I love lesbians, I love gay men, I love trans women and trans men, non-binary and I have a spine, die if you must,” she added, leaving very little room for ambiguity about where she stands.
The reaction to her posts has been divided, as expected. Many have praised her for speaking plainly and refusing to let a convenient narrative erase her actual history. Others have continued to push back. Angel, for her part, does not appear particularly bothered by either side.
