The internet never deletes anything. It just waits.
As the very public collapse of Angel Smith’s marriage to her partner Tumininu continues to play out across Snapchat and X, a tweet the BBNaija star posted back in June 2021 has found its way back into circulation, and people are finding the timing very hard to ignore.
In the resurfaced post, Angel wrote simply, “I hate studs.” Three words. No elaboration. Just a flat, unbothered declaration that she apparently felt strongly enough to put on the internet. When someone replied with “NAwa oh :/”, she followed up with “sorry. Y’all annoying,” which did very little to walk anything back.
For context, a stud in queer terminology typically refers to a dominant, often more masculine-presenting lesbian or queer woman. The kind of energy, many online are now pointing out, that Tumininu carries.
And that is where this gets complicated.
Angel has been openly queer for years. She has been clear about her pansexuality, her support for the LGBTQ+ community, and her right to love whoever she chooses without anyone attaching a backstory to it. When she married Tumininu in that all-black ceremony in the US on March 27, 2026, it felt like a full, public embrace of that identity.
But the marriage began unravelling almost immediately. Tumininu took to Snapchat with a series of explosive posts alleging that Angel had been unfaithful, that she had expressed doubts about their connection, that she had questioned her partner’s finances, and that there had been a troubling lack of intimacy between them. Leaked chat screenshots added even more texture to a situation that was already messy enough without them.
Now this old tweet is back in the mix, and people are connecting dots whether Angel wants them to or not. Some are using it to suggest the incompatibility between her and Tumininu was baked in from the start. Others are pointing out that preferences are complicated and a tweet from 2021 does not necessarily define who someone chooses to build a life with five years later.
What is undeniable is that Angel Smith’s personal life is currently one of the most discussed topics on Nigerian social media, and every old post, every resurfaced screenshot, every cryptic Instagram story is being fed into a machine that is running at full speed.
She has not responded to the resurfaced tweet. Given everything else currently on her plate, that is probably the least of her concerns right now.
