Bob (left) and Abishola get a rude surprise this season.
Bob Hearts Abishola
Season 2 Thursdays (from 20 May)
1Magic (*103) 18:00
Love will make you do crazy things but there are one or two hurdles that are a little more daunting than the rest. In romcom series Bob Hearts Abishola (2019-now), that mountain that needs climbing is Abishola’s (Folake Olowofoyeku, Frida in action movie Armed, 2018) marriage. “She is married on paper only,” explains the actress. “She doesn’t care for her husband back in Nigeria. They have a child together and the solution (divorce) is simple to her new fiancé Bob (Billy Gardell, Herschel Sparks in comedy series Young Sheldon, 2017-now).” But legal separation is a whole other story for the hard-working nurse, who wants to marry Bob but the fact that she’s still a Mrs becomes the theme of season 2.
HUSBAND HORROR-SHOW
Bob Hearts Abishola plays on stereotypes and Folake, who was born in Nigeria and goes home every year to visit her family, says that “we go out of our way to make Western things, like divorce, seem outlandish. It’s not something that should ever be taken lightly, and we use the ‘Africa does things her own way’ to make it seem like getting a separation is difficult.”
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