Sean Andrew Mwaura Kibaki, the grandson of late President Mwai Kibaki, recently opened up about the challenges he has gone through in the modelling industry being a commercial model.
Speaking during a YouTube interview, Andrew recalled how he had been picked by an advertising agency to feature in an advert only for the gig to be cancelled unceremoniously at the eleventh hour.
The celebrity model remembered that he had successfully gone through auditions for the advert but a day before the shoot he received a call informing him that he had been dropped because he was too cute.
Andrew noted that he could not fathom the reason behind his dismissal, stressing that he struggled to understand how he was too cute for the job.
“What had happened was we did the final audition and I was in. And then the day before the shoot I was like ‘ok I have this money coming in I have made it, you are already spending it in your head’. It was the day before the shoot I am called and now the agency were very hesitant like ‘I don’t know what to tell you but the feedback I have gotten is that you are too cute for the advert’. I was like ‘I am too cute! What does that mean I am too cute?’ Then they are like ‘yeah they wanted someone who looks a bit more mature, you are just too cute you look a bit childish nini nini’. I was like damn ok what do I do about that? I just remember being so upset, I threw my phone into a bush,” Sean Andrew recalled.
He added that some of his friends got the gig after he was dropped for being too cute.
“I just saw these guys, some of them were my friends they don’t know that they replaced me. But I was a bit salty, I didn’t talk to them for like…”
Political background
Sean Andrew comes from a powerful political family in Kenya but he has managed to forge his own path in the world of showbiz.
He gained prominence in Kenya due to his family’s political background and his active presence on social media.
Speaking to vloggers in late July 2023 during the grand opening of Chateau 254 Cellar Gastro Club which is owned by Akothee’s daughter Vesha Okello, Sean Andrew stressed that he would never ever join politics, noting that it was ‘too dirty’ for him to handle.
“I don’t think in Kenya you need to be a politician to serve people publicly. I think you can help a great number of people without being a politician. And that the way it should be. Politics is an ugly business unfortunately they have made it even uglier and I am not interested in that. I can serve people in my own way privately, as a private citizen,” he said.
Sean Andrew also rebuked the government over the police raid at the home of John Jomo Kenyatta – the son of retired President Uhuru Kenyatta.
By K24